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Methods Dead-EndOpen access

Effects of respiratory inhibitors on growth

D. J. West, D. Woodward · 1969

Effects of respiratory inhibitors on growth This response of neurospora to various antibiotics and other toxic chemicals is available in Fungal Genetics Reports: https://newprairiepress.org/fgr/vol15/iss1/19 RESPONSE OF NEUROSPORA TO…

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Replication FailureOpen access

Pengaruh Lokasi Penjualan Dan Kualitas Pelayanan Terhadap Kepuasan Pelanggan Pada Boos Coffe Gayo Roastery Kecamatan Medan Johor Sumatera Utara

Ela Miranda, Iriani Iriani, I. Nasution · 2022 · JRMB (Jurnal Riset Manajemen & Bisnis)

The high income tax expense causes the company to carry out earnings management. Decreased earnings management tends to result in high tax planning. The company's ability to pay off short-term liabilities by using good current assets…

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Replication FailureOpen access

Faktor-faktor penentu korupsi pada pemerintah daerah di Indonesia

· 2021 · Indonesian Treasury Review: Jurnal Perbendaharaan, Keuangan Negara dan Kebijakan Publik

This study examines the effects of fiscal decentralization, internal audit capability, bureaucratic reform, and performance accountability on corruption that occur in local governments. Corruption in this research was measured by the…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering (General). Civil engineering (General)

Innovative polymer-based electrochemical platform for detecting ESAT-6 in human blood for pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis

Xiu-An Ye, Shu-Hong Lin, Liang-Yu Chen et al. · 2025 · Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), necessitates early diagnosis for effective patient care. Despite advancements in TB diagnostics, there remains an urgent need to discover innovative non-sputum-based methods to detect Mtb-specific antigens for TB patient identification. We have developed a polymer-based electrochemical biosensor for detecting an Mtb-specific antigen, the 6-kDa early secreted antigenic target (ESAT-6), in blood. Using a gold electrode (Au), the biosensor is created by electropolymerizing poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene) with carboxyl grou

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEnvironmental sciences

Microbial Contamination of Handwashing Water and Tap Surfaces in Addis Ababa Hospitals: A Threat to Infection Prevention

Abayneh Melaku, Tesfaye Admassu Abate, Argaw Ambelu · 2025 · Environmental Health Insights

Introduction: Hand hygiene is a cornerstone of infection prevention; however, the water and infrastructure used for handwashing can themselves become sources of microbial contamination. This study assessed the water quality and sanitary conditions of hand hygiene facilities in public and private hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods: A laboratory-based cross-sectional study was conducted from May to June 2025 in 10 hospitals. Forty samples were collected, including 20 tap water samples and 20 swab samples from tap handles. A sanitary survey evaluated water supply and hand hygiene station

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Impairment of retrograde neuronal transport in oxaliplatin-induced neuropathy demonstrated by molecular imaging.

Dawid Schellingerhout, Lucia G LeRoux, Brian P Hobbs et al. · 2012 · PLoS ONE

Background and purpose The purpose of our study was to utilize a molecular imaging technology based on the retrograde axonal transport mechanism (neurography), to determine if oxaliplatin-induced neurotoxicity affects retrograde axonal transport in an animal model. Materials and methods Mice (n = 8/group) were injected with a cumulative dose of 30 mg/kg oxaliplatin (sufficient to induce neurotoxicity) or dextrose control injections. Intramuscular injections of Tetanus Toxin C-fragment (TTc) labeled with Alexa 790 fluorescent dye were done (15 ug/20 uL) in the left calf muscles, and in vivo flu

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessAnimal culture

Antioxidative activity and protective effect of probiotics against high-fat diet-induced sperm damage in rats

X.L. Chen, L.Z. Gong, J.X. Xu · 2013 · Animal

In this study, antioxidant capability and protective effect of probiotics on reproductive damage induced by diet oxidative stress were investigated. Thirty male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into three groups with 10 rats in each group. The control group consumed a normal standard diet (5% fat, w/w). The other two treatment groups were fed with a high-fat diet (20% fat, w/w), and a high-fat diet supplemented with 2% probiotics (w/w), respectively. At the end of the experimental period, that is, after 6 weeks, rats were killed. Activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione p

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessInfectious and parasitic diseases

Safety Evaluation of Topical Application of Nano-Liposomal Form of Amphotericin B (SinaAmpholeish) on Healthy Volunteers: Phase I Clinical Trial

Seyed Ebrahim ESKANDARI, Alireza FIROOZ, Mansour NASSIRI-KASHANI et al. · 2019 · Iranian Journal of Parasitology

Background: We aimed to evaluate the safety of SinaAmpholeish in a double-blind, randomized, phase 1 clinical trial in healthy human volunteers. Methods: The study was carried out in DermaLab of Center for Research and Training in Skin Diseases and Leprosy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran in 2012. A topical Nano-liposomal formulation of 0.4% Amphotericin B was developed against Leishmania under trade name of SinaAmpholeish. In this randomized, double-blind, right-left, comparative, phase I clinical trial, in 2 steps; 7 and 20 healthy volunteers were recruited and applied Si

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessSports medicine

Relationship between time under tension of muscle in resistance training with angiogenesis effective factors in inactive girls

Raziyeh Shiri, Mahsa Abdi, Sadegh Amani Shalamzari · 2022 · فیزیولوژی ورزش و فعالیت بدنی

Purpose: One of the changes that occurs in the vascular structure of skeletal muscle during exercise to resolving stress is the process of angiogenesis that has been considered by researchers. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of 6-week resistance training with different Time under Tension (TUT) on some serum vascular growth factors in inactive girls.Methods: 20 female volunteer students (mean age 22.3 yrs) were randomly and equally divided into two groups with different TUT of (1s – 1s) and (2s – 4s). Resistance training was performed for 6-week, three times per week,

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Production location of the gelling agent Phytagel has a significant impact on Arabidopsis thaliana seedling phenotypic analysis.

Caitlin N Jacques, Anna K Hulbert, Shelby Westenskow et al. · 2020 · PLoS ONE

BACKGROUND:Recently, it was found that 1% Phytagel plates used to conduct Arabidopsis thaliana seedling phenotypic analysis no longer reproduced previously published results. This Phytagel, which is produced in China (Phytagel C), has replace American-made Phytagel (Phytagel), which is no longer commercially available. In this study, we present the impact of Phytagel produced in the United States vs. China on seedling phenotypic analysis. As a part of this study, an alternative gelling agent has been identified that is capable of reproducing previously published seedling morphometrics. RESULTS

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry

Evidence for a single rather than a triple dissociation in the medial temporal lobe: An fMRI recognition memory replication study

Julie Van, Sam E. Nielsen, C. Brock Kirwan · 2022 · NeuroImage: Reports

Common research practices in neuroimaging studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging may produce outcomes that are difficult to replicate. Results that cannot be replicated have contributed to a replication crisis in psychology, neuroscience, and other disciplines over the years. Here we replicate two previous papers in which the authors present two analysis paths for a dataset in which participants underwent fMRI while performing a recognition memory test for old and new words. Both studies found activation in the medial temporal lobe including the hippocampus, with the first demonst

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessImmunologic diseases. Allergy

Hematopoietic cell-mediated dissemination of murine cytomegalovirus is regulated by NK cells and immune evasion.

Shunchuan Zhang, Lauren E Springer, Han-Zhi Rao et al. · 2021 · PLoS Pathogens

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) causes clinically important diseases in immune compromised and immune immature individuals. Based largely on work in the mouse model of murine (M)CMV, there is a consensus that myeloid cells are important for disseminating CMV from the site of infection. In theory, such dissemination should expose CMV to cell-mediated immunity and thus necessitate evasion of T cells and NK cells. However, this hypothesis remains untested. We constructed a recombinant MCMV encoding target sites for the hematopoietic specific miRNA miR-142-3p in the essential viral gene IE3. This virus diss

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Failed Experiment ReportOpen accessImmunologic diseases. Allergy

A chimeric vaccine derived from Australian genotype IV Japanese encephalitis virus protects mice from lethal challenge

Jessica J. Harrison, Wilson Nguyen, Mahali S. Morgan et al. · 2024 · npj Vaccines

Abstract In 2022, a genotype IV (GIV) strain of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) caused an unprecedented and widespread outbreak of disease in pigs and humans in Australia. As no veterinary vaccines against JEV are approved in Australia and all current approved human and veterinary vaccines are derived from genotype (G) III JEV strains, we used the recently described insect-specific Binjari virus (BinJV) chimeric flavivirus vaccine technology to produce a JEV GIV vaccine candidate. Herein we describe the production of a chimeric virus displaying the structural prM and E proteins of a JEV GIV

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Failed Experiment ReportOpen accessNeurology. Diseases of the nervous system

Fingolimod modulates microglial activation to augment markers of remyelination

Baker David, Giovannoni Gavin, Jackson Samuel J · 2011 · Journal of Neuroinflammation

Abstract Introduction Microglial activation in multiple sclerosis has been postulated to contribute to long-term neurodegeneration during disease. Fingolimod has been shown to impact on the relapsing remitting phase of disease by modulating autoreactive T-cell egress from lymph organs. In addition, it is brain penetrant and has been shown to exert multiple effects on nervous system cells. Methods In this study, the impact of fingolimod and other sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor active molecules following lysophosphotidyl choline-induced demyelination was examined in the rat telencephalon reagg

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry

Modulating Cortical Instrument Representations During Auditory Stream Segregation and Integration With Polyphonic Music

Lars Hausfeld, Lars Hausfeld, Niels R. Disbergen et al. · 2021 · Frontiers in Neuroscience

Numerous neuroimaging studies demonstrated that the auditory cortex tracks ongoing speech and that, in multi-speaker environments, tracking of the attended speaker is enhanced compared to the other irrelevant speakers. In contrast to speech, multi-instrument music can be appreciated by attending not only on its individual entities (i.e., segregation) but also on multiple instruments simultaneously (i.e., integration). We investigated the neural correlates of these two modes of music listening using electroencephalography (EEG) and sound envelope tracking. To this end, we presented uniquely com

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Word learning in the field: Adapting a laboratory-based task for testing in remote Papua New Guinea.

Karen E Mulak, Hannah S Sarvasy, Alba Tuninetti et al. · 2021 · PLoS ONE

Adapting laboratory psycholinguistic methods to fieldwork contexts can be fraught with difficulties. However, successful implementation of such methods in the field enhances our ability to learn the true extent and limitations of human behavior. This paper reports two attempts to run word learning experiments with the small community of Nungon speakers in Towet village in the Saruwaged Mountains, Papua New Guinea. A first attempt involved running a cross-situational task in which word-object pairings were presented ambiguously in each trial, and an explicit word learning task in which pairings

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Replication FailureOpen accessDiseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology

Ten-day vonoprazan–amoxicillin dual therapy versus 14-day esomeprazole–amoxicillin dual therapy for first-line eradication: a prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial

Ben-Gang Zhou, Ming-Wen Guo, Li-Juan Zhang et al. · 2024 · Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology

Background: The efficacy of the 14-day esomeprazole–amoxicillin (EA) dual therapy in eradicating Helicobacter pylori ( H. pylori ) has been widely discussed previously. Vonoprazan, a novel potassium-competitive acid blocker, presents rapid, potent, and long-lasting acid inhibitory effects compared to esomeprazole. However, there is currently a scarcity of direct comparisons between the 10-day vonoprazan–amoxicillin (VA) and the 14-day EA dual therapy for H. pylori eradication. Objectives: This study aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of the 10-day VA and the 14-day EA dual therapy for H.

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Large language model bias auditing for periodontal diagnosis using an ambiguity-probe methodology: a pilot study

Teerachate Nantakeeratipat · 2026 · Frontiers in Digital Health

BackgroundLarge Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare holds immense promise yet carries the risk of perpetuating social biases. While artificial intelligence (AI) fairness is a growing concern, a gap exists in understanding how these models perform under conditions of clinical ambiguity, a common feature in real-world practice.MethodsWe conducted a study using an ambiguity-probe methodology with a set of 42 sociodemographic personas and 15 clinical vignettes based on the 2018 classification of periodontal diseases. Ten were clear-cut scenarios with established ground truths, while five were int

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessGynecology and obstetrics

Exploring genetic associations between immune cells and hypertensive disorder of pregnancy using Mendelian randomization

Jingting Liu, Yijun Dong, Yawei Zhou et al. · 2024 · BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Abstract Background Observational epidemiological studies suggested that immunological dysregulation and inflammation play a significant role in the placental and renal dysfunction that leads to maternal hypertension. The immunophenotypes' possible causalities with hypertensive disease of pregnancy remain ambiguous. We performed two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses to comprehensively investigate the causal effect of immunophenotypes on hypertensive disorder of pregnancy (HDP). Methods The large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) data on immunological traits was taken fro

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine (General)

The Effect of a 2-Week Pre-clerkship Residency Exploration Program on Specialty Interest and Understanding of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Emily Sheppard, MScPT, Michael Smyth, MSc, Todd Dow, BSc et al. · 2020 · Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation

Objective: To assess the effect the Pre-clerkship Residency Exploration Program (PREP) had on student career interest and improving understanding of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PMR). Design: During a 2-week program, students were exposed to a PMR elective, workshop, career presentation, and panel discussion with PMR residents. Interest and understanding were assessed using pre- and postprogram questionnaires. Setting: PREP was held at a Canadian medical school during the summer between the second and third years of undergraduate medical training. Participants: Second-year medical stu

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEducation (General)

Examination of medical students’ opinions on multimedia learning materials according to social cues: focusing on sound principles

Wonseok Chang, Yura Kim, Hye Jin Park · 2024 · Korean Journal of Medical Education

Purpose Although interest in various forms of learning media is increasing due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic there is relatively little research on influencing student motivation by intervening in cognitive processing. The purpose of this study was to present the optimal form of learning materials provided to medical students. Methods This study provided learning materials in class at a level according to social cues (script, video [artificial intelligence (AI) voice], video [professor voice]) based on the principle of voices among the principles of personalization, voice

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNutrition. Foods and food supply

Association between dietary iron intake from natural food sources and the likelihood of abdominal aortic calcification in US adults: a population-based study

Dan Liang, Chang Liu, Xingyu Zhang · 2026 · Food, Nutrition and Health

Abstract Background This study aimed to investigate the relationship between dietary iron intake and risk of abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) in middle-aged and older US adults. Methods We analyzed data from the 2013-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Multivariate linear and logistic regression models were employed to evaluate the association between dietary iron intake and AAC score, as well as the likelihood of both AAC and severe AAC. To investigate potential non-linear dose-response relationships, we performed restricted cubic spline (RCS) modeling. In addi

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessDiseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system

Platelet indices and the risk of pulmonary arterial hypertension: a two-sample and multivariable Mendelian randomization study

Yinuo Li, Xi Liu, Qian Hong et al. · 2024 · Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

BackgroundRecent epidemiological studies have indicated a correlation between platelet indices and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), yet the causality between them remains unclear. To explore the causal relationship between four platelet indices and PAH, with the aim of providing a theoretical basis for clinical prevention and treatment.MethodsSingle-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with platelet-related traits were selected as exposure factors from published genome-wide association studies (GWAS), including: platelet count (PLT), plateletcrit (PCT), mean platelet volume (MPV),

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Efficacy and safety of azvudine versus nirmatrelvir/ritonavir in cancer patients with COVID-19

Bohan Jia, Junyi Sun, Di Zhu et al. · 2025 · Scientific Reports

Abstract Cancer significantly contributes to the unfavorable prognosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. The efficacy and safety of azvudine and nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) in cancer patients with COVID-19 remain uncertain. Therefore, we designed a comprehensive retrospective study encompassing clinical data of 32,864 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, 691 of whom were cancer patients treated with azvudine and 200 were cancer patients treated with Paxlovid. After 2:1 propensity score matching, 397 patients in the azvudine group and 199 patients in the Paxlovid group were enro

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessDentistry

Morphological and dimensional characteristics of dental arch in children with beta thalassemia major

Disha Kumar, Anant Gopal Nigam, Nikhil Marwah et al. · 2018 · Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry

Background and Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the arch dimensions of beta thalassemia major patients in comparison with normal individuals. Materials and Methods: Dental arch dimensions were compared between thalassemic patients and normal individuals in the age group of 12–16 years in the maxillary and mandibular arch corresponding to each other regarding age, sex and Angle's molar relationship. A total number of sixty cases in each group were taken. Maxillary and mandibular impressions were made with alginate for all the sixty participants in each group and poured with die

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine (General)

Indoor NO2 air pollution and lung function of professional cooks

M.A. Arbex, L.C. Martins, L.A.A. Pereira et al. · 2007 · Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Studies of cooking-generated NO2 effects are rare in occupational epidemiology. In the present study, we evaluated the lung function of professional cooks exposed to NO2 in hospital kitchens. We performed spirometry in 37 cooks working in four hospital kitchens and estimated the predicted FVC, FEV1 and FEF25-75, based on age, sex, race, weight, and height, according to Knudson standards. NO2 measurements were obtained for 4 consecutive days during 4 different periods at 20-day intervals in each kitchen. Measurements were performed inside and outside the kitchens, simultaneously using Palm diff

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