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Serwer T, Wahid M, Imtiaz F et al. · 2024 · JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Objective To identify the mutation in codon 201 of the deleted in colorectal cancer gene in colorectal cancer, and to correlate that mutation to the histopathological grading of colorectal cancer. Methods The cross-sectional study was…
View details →Dureha R, Navit S, Khan SA et al. · 2024 · International journal of clinical pediatric dentistry
Aim The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial efficacy and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of commercially available pediatric dentifrices containing different compositions against Streptococcus mutans and…
View details →Martinez-Canton M, Gallego-Selles A, Galvan-Alvarez V et al. · 2024 · Free radical biology & medicine
Calcium (Ca 2+ )/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is activated during exercise by reactive oxygen species (ROS) and Ca 2+ transients initiating muscle contraction. CaMKII modulates antioxidant, inflammatory, metabolic and…
View details →O'Leary RM, Zavlun N, Kinney A et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in psychology
Pupil dilation has become a well-established physiological index of cognitive effort. Here we examined the often-cited finding of an inverted U-shaped function of pupil size across the continuum from highly degraded to clear speech. Unlike…
View details →Funaki R, Nomura S, Ushima A et al. · 2024 · Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin
Commercially available so-called sanitizers in Japan are often touted as having remarkable "sanitizing (jokin)" effect, "virus-removal" capabilities, and "99.99%" removal rate of microbes and pathogens. In this study, we investigated the…
View details →Bukhari SS, Saeed F, Tahir I et al. · 2023 · Preprint
Abstract Background: The standard of care for gliomas includes maximum safe resection of the tumor. This may lead to inadvertent damage to tissue directly or vasculature supplying normal brain tissue. This may result in perilesional brain…
View details →Singh S, Jagannathan K, Childress AR et al. · 2026 · European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association
Objective Weight suppression (WS), or the difference between one's highest past and current weights, may help maintain bulimia nervosa (BN) by altering reward response to food cues. This pilot study tested associations among WS, brain…
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The effects of maternal alcohol (ethanol) ingestion during lactation are complex and depend on the pattern of maternal drinking. With casual alcohol use (such as 1 glass of wine or beer) it is best to wait 2 to 2.5 hours per drink before…
View details →Gámez Martínez S, Lovatón Romero G, Alcañiz Raya M et al. · 2026 · Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking
The diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is based on clinical judgment, as there are no clearly identified markers to determine the presence of this condition. Gaze patterns have been proposed as a potential biomarker for autism. This…
View details →Knight KF, Milton F, Zeman A · 2026 · Neuropsychologia
Visual mental imagery and visual working memory are often thought to be closely related. After all, both have been argued to involve the temporary maintenance of visual representations in conscious awareness. We might expect, therefore,…
View details →Randa L, Lee C, Cheng J et al. · 2026 · Journal of electrocardiology
Background The frequency of cardiac ectopy, including premature atrial contractions (PACs), premature ventricular contractions (PVCs), non-sustained supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), and non-sustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT), is…
View details →Koß C, Blanke JH, de la Cuesta-Ferrer L et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Signal detection theory posits that subjects in two-stimulus, two-choice discrimination tasks decide by comparing random samples of an evidence variable to a static decision criterion. While the core assumptions of the theory have received…
View details →Cuspidi C, Facchetti R, Tadic M et al. · 2026 · Journal of hypertension
Background The long-term reproducibility of the nighttime blood pressure (BP) phenotypes, namely, dipping (D) and nondipping (ND) has never been described in population-based studies. We investigated this issue in the participants to the…
View details →Lu S, Efendić E, Feldman G · 2025 · Journal of personality and social psychology
The appraisal-tendency framework proposed that specific emotions predispose individuals to appraise future events corresponding to the core appraisal themes of the emotions. In a registered report with a U.S. American online Amazon…
View details →Kurian C, Kurian E, Orhurhu V et al. · 2026 · Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
Background While many medical specialties have established links between bibliometric indices, academic rank, leadership roles, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, there exists a gap within the field of pain medicine. The…
View details →Mirpour K, Alijanpourotaghsara A, Pouratian N · 2025 · Preprint
Abstract Parkinson’s disease (PD) involves progressive neurodegeneration and distinctive structural and functional alterations in cortico-basal ganglia circuits. This study proposes bridging the gap between structural and functional…
View details →Morgan MM, Hickey CM · 2026 · European journal of pain (London, England)
Background Many people use cannabis to self-medicate for pain. Little is known about the impact of pain on tolerance and spontaneous withdrawal to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinal (THC), the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis. Our…
View details →Parham M, Aghaali M, Adeli SH et al. · 2025 · International journal of endocrinology and metabolism
Background Diabetes is a major global health issue, affecting over 8.5% of adults worldwide and significantly increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). However, the association between diabetes-related macrovascular…
View details →Erb WM, Porter LM, Voyt R et al. · 2025 · American journal of primatology
Among primates, maternal infant care may vary in response to several factors including litter size, reproductive history, and health status. In cooperative breeders, maternal investment may also depend on the amount of help their group…
View details →Corregidor-Castro A, Romano A, Butler M et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Recent climate warming has led to a reduction in bird body size and a relative elongation of their appendages, consistent with Bergmann’s and Allen’s ecogeographical rules. These changes are generally interpreted as thermoregulatory…
View details →Casado-Ruiz J, Castaño-Leon AM, García-Escudero L et al. · 2025 · Journal of neurosurgery
Objective Blunt cerebrovascular injuries (BCVIs) are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. To identify patients with BCVI who were undetected using the classic criteria, researchers designed the expanded Denver screening…
View details →Gladstone JJ, Lehman M, Decker M · 2025 · Journal of experimental psychology. Applied
We investigated the influence of childhood poverty on financial decision making under threat by replicating the findings of Griskevicius et al. (2011b), which found that individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds tend to make riskier…
View details →Servais A, Schomaker J, Bastin C · 2024 · Preprint
Whether exposure to a novel environment in virtual reality improves subsequent verbal memory or not is still debated. The present study aims to replicate previous positive findings. To do so, we assessed whether exploration of a novel…
View details →Zehavi-Dorin T, Kutzscher AE, Badr M et al. · 2026 · Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)
Purpose To compare global peripapillary and perifoveal vessel densities between primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) patients with the same glaucoma severity using optical coherence tomography angiography…
View details →Guo J, Pratt J, Walther DB · 2025 · Attention, perception & psychophysics
The nature of visual processes underlying scene perception remains a hotly debated topic. According to one view, scene and object perception rely on similar neural mechanisms, and their processing pathways are tightly interlinked.…
View details →Sarsangi P, Mohammadi M, Nadjarzadeh A et al. · 2025 · The British journal of nutrition
There is a lack of information from Middle Eastern countries regarding diet-disease associations. We examined dietary glycaemic and insulinemic potential in relation to risk of incident diabetes among a large group of Iranian adults. The…
View details →James KK, Storm BC · 2025 · Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
Pretesting and posttesting have long been implemented in classrooms as methods of testing and improving learning. Prior research has been mixed on the relative benefits of pretesting versus posttesting, with some studies finding pretesting…
View details →Prowten S, Walker E, London B et al. · 2024 · Psychological science
People share information for many reasons. For example, Berger (2011, N = 40) found that undergraduate participants manipulated to have higher physiological arousal were more likely to share a news article with others via email than people…
View details →Ilfeld BM, Finneran JJ, Abdullah B et al. · 2026 · Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
Background A previous clinical trial applied percutaneous cryoneurolysis to lower limb amputees with phantom pain. The primary outcome measure was negative, but a secondary analysis suggested that patients with a below-knee amputation…
View details →Mace JH, Keller SR, Ingle KE · 2024 · Memory (Hove, England)
It is now well established that general information processing causes the activation of memories in the autobiographical memory system, and these memories on occasion emerge as involuntary autobiographical memories. This priming phenomenon…
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