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Bartosz Sobczyk, Paweł Dobrowolski, Maciek Skorko et al. · 2015 · Frontiers in Psychology
The impact of video game playing on cognitive abilities has been the focus of numerous studies over the last 10 years. Some cross-sectional comparisons indicate the cognitive advantages of video game players (VGPs) over non-players (NVGPs) and the benefits of video game trainings, while others fail to replicate these findings. Though there is an ongoing discussion over methodological practices and their impact on observable effects, some elementary issues, such as the representativeness of recruited VGP groups and lack of genre differentiation have not yet been widely addressed. In this articl
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Amber White, Michelle Nault, Katherine D. McMahon et al. · 2022 · Environmental Science & Technology
Laboratory studies used to assess the environmental fate of organic chemicals such as pesticides fail to replicate environmental conditions, resulting in large errors in predicted transformation rates. We combine laboratory and field data…
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Nori Jacoby, Merav Ahissar · 2015 · Journal of Vision
In the 1980s to 1990s, studies of perceptual learning focused on the specificity of training to basic visual attributes such as retinal position and orientation. These studies were considered scientifically innovative since they suggested…
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Ryan G. Overmayer, Matthew Driller · 2017 · International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance
PURPOSE: To examine the efficacy of intermittent sequential pneumatic compression (ISPC) on exercise recovery and subsequent performance, when implemented between a 20-min cycling bout (simulated scratch race) and a 4-min cycling test…
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Kana Yoshioka, Akira Miyauchi, Mitsuhiro Fukushima et al. · 2016 · World Journal of Surgery
BACKGROUND: We reported phonatory recovery in the majority of 88 patients after recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) reconstruction. Here we analyzed factors that might influence the recovery, in a larger patient series. METHODS: At Kuma Hospital, 449 patients (354 females and 95 males) underwent RLN reconstruction with direct anastomosis, ansa cervicalis-to-RLN anastomosis, free nerve grafting, or vagus-to-RLN anastomosis; 47.4 % had vocal cord paralysis (VCP) preoperatively. Maximum phonation time (MPT) and mean airflow rate during phonation (MFR) were measured 1 year post surgery. Forty patients
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Meghan A. Baker, Bethany Baer, Martin Kulldorff et al. · 2019 · PLoS Medicine
BACKGROUND: Kawasaki disease is an acute vasculitis that primarily affects children younger than 5 years of age. Its etiology is unknown. The United States Vaccine Safety Datalink conducted postlicensure safety surveillance for 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13), comparing the risk of Kawasaki disease within 28 days of PCV13 vaccination with the historical risk after 7-valent PCV (PCV7) vaccination and using chart-validation. A relative risk (RR) of 2.38 (95% CI 0.92-6.38) was found. Concurrently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted a postlicensure safety review that
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Jin‐Yi Wan, Chong‐Zhi Wang, Qi‐Hui Zhang et al. · 2016 · Biomedical Chromatography
Abstract After ingestion of ginseng, the bioavailability of its parent compounds is low and enteric microbiota plays an important role in parent compound biotransformation to their metabolites. Diet type can influence the enteric…
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Makoto Miyara, Driss Chader, Aude Burlion et al. · 2016 · Oncotarget
// Makoto Miyara 1,2 , Driss Chader 1,2 , Aude Burlion 2 , Jérémie Goldstein 2 , Delphine Sterlin 1,2 , Françoise Norol 3 , Hélène Trebeden-Nègre 3 , Laetitia Claër 1,2 , Shimon Sakaguchi 4,* , Gilles Marodon 2,* , Zahir Amoura 1,2,5,6,* and Guy Gorochov 1,2,6 1 Department of immunology, AP-HP Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France 2 Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, CNRS, Centre d’Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses (CIMI-Paris), Paris, France 3 Cell Therapy, AP-HP Pitié Salpêtriè
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James D. Chalmers · 2017 · COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Bronchiectasis is a long-neglected disease currently experiencing a surge in interest. It is a highly complex condition with numerous aetiologies, co-morbidities and a heterogeneous disease presentation and clinical course. The past few…
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Fortunato Giustra, Francesco Bosco, Giorgio Cacciola et al. · 2022 · Journal of Clinical Medicine
In the last decades, several surgical techniques, such as medial pivot (MP) philosophy and kinematic alignment (KA), have been introduced in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) to improve patients’ outcomes. This retrospective study aims to evaluate the clinical, radiographic, and functional results of PCL preservation or sacrifice in KA MP-TKA. A consecutive series of 147 patients older than 60, with a minimum follow-up of two years, were treated with TKA for severe primary knee osteoarthritis (OA) at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology between 1 January 2019, and 1 July 2020. After excl
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Hyun Woo Jeon, Young‐Du Kim, Sung Bo Sim et al. · 2021 · Thoracic Cancer
BACKGROUND: Patients with early lung cancer are the best candidates for surgical resection. However, those patients with high grade patterns (micropapillary or solid) do not have a good prognosis, even if they have been diagnosed with…
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Laura Blackmore, William Bernal · 2015 · Clinical Medicine
Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare critical illness with high mortality whose successful management requires early recognition and effective initial management. Though it may result from a wide variety of causes, in the UK and much of the…
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Alba Di Pardo, Elena Ciaglia, Monica Cattaneo et al. · 2020 · Cell Death and Disease
Abstract The longevity-associated variant (LAV) of the bactericidal/permeability-increasing fold-containing family B member 4 (BPIFB4) has been found significantly enriched in long-living individuals. Neuroinflammation is a key player in Huntington’s disease (HD), a neurodegenerative disorder caused by neural death due to expanded CAG repeats encoding a long polyglutamine tract in the huntingtin protein (Htt). Herein, we showed that striatal-derived cell lines with expanded Htt (STHdh Q 111/111 ) expressed and secreted lower levels of BPIFB4, when compared with Htt expressing cells (STHdh Q 7/
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Ronnie Detrich, Teri Lewis · 2012 · Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions
It has been 10 years since No Child Left Behind (NCLB), with its emphasis on scientifically based instruction as a means for improving the educational outcomes of students, was signed into law. In this article, we review the basic tenets…
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Cynthia Ciwei Lim, Chieh Suai Tan, Manish Kaushik et al. · 2014 · Nephrology
AIM: Optimal timing for acute renal replacement therapy (ARRT) initiation in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) is unclear. We aimed to evaluate outcomes in patients who initiated ARRT for traditional indications versus…
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Matilde Negrini, Giuseppe Tomasello, Marcus Davidsson et al. · 2022 · Journal of Parkinson s Disease
BACKGROUND: Preclinical rodent models for Parkinson's disease (PD) based on viral human alpha-synuclein (h-αSyn) overexpression recapitulate some of the pathological hallmarks as it presents in humans, such as progressive cell loss and additional synucleinopathy in cortical and subcortical structures. Recent studies have combined viral vector-based overexpression of human wild-type αSyn with the sequential or simultaneous inoculation of preformed fibrils (PFFs) derived from human αSyn. OBJECTIVE: The goal of the study was to investigate whether sequential or combined delivery of the AAV vector
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Mario Musella, Giovanna Berardi, Nunzio Velotti et al. · 2021 · Obesity Surgery
BACKGROUND: The laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is the most common bariatric procedure performed worldwide while the laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) has been almost abandoned. Aim of this study was to retrospectively assess 10-year outcomes of LSG through a matched comparison with LAGB. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective search of prospectively maintained database of our university was carried out to find all patients that underwent LSG before December 2010. Each subject with LSG was matched one-to-one with a patient that had undergone LAGB in the same period with corres
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Chao Yang, Jianqing Zhao, Lan Lin et al. · 2015 · Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Streptococcus suis (S.suis), a major swine pathogen, is also a severe threat to human health. Infection with highly virulent strains of S. suis can cause human Streptococcal toxic-shock-like syndrome (STSLS), which is associated with high serum pro-inflammatory cytokine levels and a high mortality rate. Our previous study indicated that highly virulent S. suis infection could activate the TREM-1 signaling pathway, which promotes host clearance of S. suis during early infection. However, it remained to be elicited whether TREM-1 signaling could be a target against STSLS in the presence of antib
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Taro Oshikiri, 押切, 太郎, オシキリ, タロウ et al. · 2023 · Kobe University Repository Kernel (Kobe University)
Objective: To clarify whether routine thoracic duct (TD) resection improves the prognosis of patients with esophageal cancer after radical esophagectomy. Summary Background Data: Although TD resection can cause nutritional disadvantage and…
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Carlos Farkas, Andy Mella, Maxime Turgeon et al. · 2021 · Frontiers in Microbiology
An unprecedented amount of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing has been performed, however, novel bioinformatic tools to cope with and process these large datasets is needed. Here, we have devised a bioinformatic pipeline that inputs SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing in FASTA/FASTQ format and outputs a single Variant Calling Format file that can be processed to obtain variant annotations and perform downstream population genetic testing. As proof of concept, we have analyzed over 229,000 SARS-CoV-2 viral sequences up until November 30, 2020. We have identified over 39,000 variants worldwide with increased polymo
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José Marı́a Tolosana, Emilce Trucco, Malek Khatib et al. · 2013 · European Journal of Heart Failure
AIMS: A maximum percentage of ventricular pacing is mandatory to obtain a good response to CRT. Atrioventricular junction (AVJ) ablation has been recommended to attain this objective in patients with AF. THE AIMS OF OUR STUDY WERE: (i) to…
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Sunita Padman, Robert Padbury, Carol Beeke et al. · 2013 · Acta Oncologica
BACKGROUND: Metastatectomy in colorectal cancer (CRC) is now a standard of care with improved survival reported. Conversion chemotherapy has increased the population who are suitable for surgery. Here we assess patterns of care and…
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Eleni Frangou, Panagiotis Garantziotis, Maria Grigoriou et al. · 2022 · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
OBJECTIVES: Patients with lupus nephritis (LN) are in urgent need for early diagnosis and therapeutic interventions targeting aberrant molecular pathways enriched in affected kidneys. METHODS: We used mRNA-sequencing in effector (spleen) and target (kidneys, brain) tissues from lupus and control mice at sequential time points, and in the blood from 367 individuals (261 systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients and 106 healthy individuals). Comparative cross-tissue and cross-species analyses were performed. The human dataset was split into training and validation sets and machine learning was
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Matthew R. Quigley, Nicholas R. Bello, Diana H. Jho et al. · 2015 · Neurosurgery
BACKGROUND: There are limited data on the benefits of surgical tumor resection plus stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in comparison with SRS alone for patients with oligometastatic brain disease. OBJECTIVE: To determine the benefit of adding…
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Matthew S. Freiberg, Debbie M. Cheng, Natalia Gnatienko et al. · 2020 · JAMA Network Open
Importance: Zinc supplementation can reduce alcohol-related microbial translocation and inflammation. Objective: To assess whether zinc supplementation reduces markers of mortality and risk of cardiovascular disease, reduces levels of inflammation and microbial translocation, and slows HIV disease progression in people with heavy alcohol use who are living with HIV/AIDS. Design, Setting, and Participants: This study is a double-blinded placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial of zinc supplementation among participants recruited from 2013 to 2015. Participants were recruited from HIV and ad
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Xiaozhun Huang, Lin Xu, Teng Ma et al. · 2021 · Frontiers in Oncology
BACKGROUND: Nivolumab and pembrolizumab disrupt the programmed cell death-1 immune checkpoint and display promising efficacy and safety results in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the benefits remain limited. The preliminary results of lenvatinib (LEN) combined with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) reveal that the combinations were well-tolerated and encouraging. This study aimed to analyze the safety and efficacy of LEN plus ICIs in a real-world cohort of patients with advanced HCC. METHOD: Between June 4, 2017, and June 30, 2019, 16 patients received LEN plus nivolumab, a
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Bingwen Zou, Tao Li, Qiang Zhou et al. · 2016 · Medicine
To evaluate the treatment pattern and survival of patients receiving radical resection for primary small cell carcinoma of the esophagus (PSCCE).This retrospective study included 150 patients who received radical resection of PSCCE. Data were retrieved from 4 centers in Western China. Thirty-nine of 150 patients received postoperative chemo-radiotherapy, 62 received postoperative chemotherapy, and 49 received radical resection only. The median radiation dosage was 50 Gy. The chemotherapeutic regimen was platinum-based and lasted for 2 to 6 cycles (median, 3).Median disease-free survival (mDFS)
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Joshua A. Beckman, Allison B. Goldfine, Alison Goldin et al. · 2010 · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
CONTEXT: Antagonism of protein kinase Cbeta (PKCbeta) restores endothelial function in experimental models of diabetes and prevents vascular dysfunction in response to hyperglycemia in healthy humans. OBJECTIVE: We tested the hypothesis…
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Shaida Andrabi, Justin H. Hwang, Jennifer Kean Choe et al. · 2011 · Journal of Virology
Although members of a virus family produce similar gene products, those products may have quite different functions. Simian virus 40 (SV40) large T antigen (LT), for example, targets p53 directly, but murine polyomavirus LT does not. SV40…
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Tom Stafford · 2018 · Psychological Science
Stereotype threat has been offered as a potential explanation of differential performance between men and women in some cognitive domains. Questions remain about the reliability and generality of the phenomenon. Previous studies have found…
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