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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

ALOX12 polymorphisms are associated with fat mass but not peak bone mineral density in Chinese nuclear families

W-J Xiao, J-W He, H Zhang et al. · 2010 · International Journal of Obesity

OBJECTIVE: Arachidonate 12-lipoxygenase (ALOX12) is a member of the lipoxygenase superfamily, which catalyzes the incorporation of molecular oxygen into polyunsaturated fatty acids. The products of ALOX12 reactions serve as endogenous…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEnvironmental Science

Characterization of Osmotically Induced Filaments of Salmonella enterica

Zachary L. Pratt, Bingming Chen, Charles J. Czuprynski et al. · 2012 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Salmonella enterica forms aseptate filaments with multiple nucleoids when cultured in hyperosmotic conditions. These osmotic-induced filaments are viable and form single colonies on agar plates even though they contain multiple genomes and…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Genetic variant in CACNA1C is associated with PTSD in traumatized police officers

I. Krzyzewska, Judith Ensink, Laura Nawijn et al. · 2018 · European Journal of Human Genetics

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder that may develop after a traumatic event. Here we aimed to identify epigenetic and genetic loci associated with PTSD. We included 73 traumatized police officers…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

A Genome-Wide Association Study of Renal Cell Carcinoma among African Americans

Mark P. Purdue, Yuanqing Ye, Zhaoming Wang et al. · 2013 · Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in populations of European ancestry have identified four susceptibility loci. No GWAS has been conducted among African Americans (AA), who experience a higher incidence…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Convergent probabilistic cues do not trigger syntactic adaptation: Evidence from self-paced reading.

Jack Dempsey, Qiawen Liu, Kiel Christianson · 2020 · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Previous work has ostensibly shown that readers rapidly adapt to less predictable ambiguity resolutions after repeated exposure to unbalanced statistical input (e.g., a high number of reduced relative-clause garden-path sentences), and…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

To interact or not to interact: The pros and cons of including interactions in linear regression models

Aljoscha Rimpler, Henk A. L. Kiers, Don van Ravenzwaaij · 2025 · Behavior Research Methods

Interaction effects are very common in the psychological literature. However, interaction effects are typically very small and often fail to replicate. In this study, we conducted a simulation comparing the generalizability and estimability of two linear regression models: one correctly specified to account for interaction effects and one misspecified including simple effects only. We manipulated noise levels, predictor variable correlations, and different sets of regression weights, resulting in 9216 different conditions. From each dataset, we drew 1000 samples of N = 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, a

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Mobile Money Use and Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Rural Uganda

Hiroyuki Egami, Tomoya Matsumoto · 2020 · Sustainability

Lack of cash on hand is a significant obstacle in accessing healthcare services in developing countries. Many expectant mothers in the least developed countries do not receive sufficient care during pregnancy due to financial constraints. If such hurdles in accessing healthcare can be overcome, it will contribute to reduction in maternal and newborn mortality, which is a key target of Sustainable Development Goal 3. This study reports the first assessment of the impact of mobile money services on maternal care utilization. We hypothesize that mobile money adoption would motivate rural Ugandan

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Investigating the DNA methylation profile of e-cigarette use

Rebecca C. Richmond, Carlos Sillero‐Rejon, Jasmine Khouja et al. · 2021 · Clinical Epigenetics

Abstract Background Little evidence exists on the health effects of e-cigarette use. DNA methylation may serve as a biomarker for exposure and could be predictive of future health risk. We aimed to investigate the DNA methylation profile of e-cigarette use. Results Among 117 smokers, 117 non-smokers and 116 non-smoking vapers, we evaluated associations between e-cigarette use and epigenome-wide methylation from saliva. DNA methylation at 7 cytosine-phosphate-guanine sites (CpGs) was associated with e-cigarette use at p < 1 × 10 –5 and none at p < 5.91 × 10 –8 . 13 CpGs were associated wi

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEconomics, Econometrics and Finance

Testing Efficiency of the London Metal Exchange: New Evidence

Jaehwan Park, Byungkwon Lim · 2018 · International Journal of Financial Studies

This paper explores the market efficiency of the six base metals traded on the LME (London Metal Exchange) using daily data from January 2000 to June 2016. The hypothesis that futures prices 3M (3-month) are unbiased predictors of spot prices (cash) in the LME is rejected based on the false premise that the financialization of commodities has been growing. For the robustness check, monthly data is analyzed using ordinary least squares (OLS) and GARCH (1,1) models. We reject the null hypothesis for all metals except for zinc.

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

A validation study of the psychometric properties of the Groningen Reflection Ability Scale

Nina Bjerre Andersen, Lotte Dyhrberg O’Neill, Lise Kirstine Gormsen et al. · 2014 · BMC Medical Education

BACKGROUND: Reflection, the ability to examine critically one's own learning and functioning, is considered important for 'the good doctor'. The Groningen Reflection Ability Scale (GRAS) is an instrument measuring student reflection, which has not yet been validated beyond the original Dutch study. The aim of this study was to adapt GRAS for use in a Danish setting and to investigate the psychometric properties of GRAS-DK. METHODS: We performed a cross-cultural adaptation of GRAS from Dutch to Danish. Next, we collected primary data online, performed a retest, analysed data descriptively, esti

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

Perinatal and psychosocial circumstances associated with risk of attempted suicide, non-suicidal self-injury and psychiatric service use. A longitudinal study of young people

Robert Young, Daniel Vincent Riordan, Cameron Stark · 2011 · BMC Public Health

BACKGROUND: Past studies using large population based datasets link certain perinatal circumstances (birth weight, parity, etc) with mental health outcomes such as suicide, self-harm and psychiatric problems. Problematically, population datasets omit a number of social confounds. The aim of this study is to replicate past research linking perinatal circumstances and mental health (suicidality and use of psychiatric services) and to determine if such associations remain after adjusting for social circumstances. METHODS: A longitudinal school-based survey of 2157 young people (surveyed at age 11

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessDecision Sciences

A randomized trial of an editorial intervention to reduce spin in the abstract’s conclusion of manuscripts showed no significant effect

Mona Ghannad, Bada Yang, Mariska Leeflang et al. · 2020 · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effect of an intervention compared to the usual peer-review process on reducing spin in the abstract's conclusion of biomedical study reports. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We conducted a two-arm, parallel-group RCT in a sample of primary research manuscripts submitted to BMJ Open. The authors received short instructions alongside the peer reviewers' comments in the intervention group. We assessed the presence of spin (primary outcome), types of spin, and wording change in the revised abstract's conclusion. Outcome assessors were blinded to the intervention assignment. R

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Experimental infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses, Clade 2.3.4.4 H5N6 and H5N8, in Mandarin ducks from South Korea

Kyung‐No Son, Yong-kwan Kim, Jae‐Ku Oem et al. · 2017 · Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have been reported worldwide. Wild waterfowl play a major role in the maintenance and transmission of HPAI. Highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype H5N6 and H5N8 viruses simultaneously emerged in South Korea. In this study, the comparative pathogenicity and infectivity of Clade 2.3.4.4 Group B H5N8 and Group C H5N6 viruses were evaluated in Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata). None of the ducks infected with H5N6 or H5N8 viruses showed clinical signs or mortality. Serological assays revealed that the HA antigenicity of H5N8 and H5N6 viruses

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Collagenase-mediated extracellular matrix targeting for enhanced drug penetration and therapeutic efficacy in nanoscale delivery systems for cancer therapy

Pengyu Gong, Fei Wang, Yixin Hua et al. · 2025 · Journal of Nanobiotechnology

The highly fibrotic extracellular matrix (ECM) constitutes a major barrier that restricts the penetration and delivery efficiency of anticancer drugs, particularly in fibrotic tumors such as pancreatic cancer, in which cancer-associated…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Immunomodulatory Mechanisms of Chronic Wound Healing: Translational and Clinical Relevance

Mahrukh Riaz, Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal, Agnes S. Klar et al. · 2025 · MedComm

Chronic wounds-such as diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), pressure ulcers (PUs), and venous leg ulcers (VLUs)-pose a serious clinical challenge due to their prolonged inflammatory phase and impaired healing. Increasing evidence reveals that dysregulated immune responses are central to the pathogenesis of chronic wounds. A complex interplay between innate and adaptive immune cells, including macrophages, neutrophils, and T cells, contributes to chronic inflammation, extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation, and tissue repair failure. While current treatments target symptoms, they often overlook the und

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Inflammatory bowel diseases: pathological mechanisms and therapeutic perspectives

Xiaona Yang, Hong Guo, Min Zou · 2026 · Molecular Biomedicine

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized primarily by chronic relapsing intestinal inflammation, encompassing Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), affecting individuals across age groups with variable clinical manifestations. With the advancement of global industrialization, its incidence continues to rise, particularly in newly industrialized regions, which not only severely impairs patients' quality of life but also emerges as a major public health concern threatening digestive system health, accompanied by a substantial healthcare bur

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Progressive multiple sclerosis: Evaluating current therapies and exploring future treatment strategies

Marelisa Albelo-Martínez, Syed Rizvi · 2025 · Neurotherapeutics

Progressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) include primary progressive MS (PPMS) and secondary progressive MS (SPMS). Unlike relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), progressive MS is recognized by relentless progression with accumulating disability, rare to no relapses nor new activity on MRIs. Clinically, neurologic worsening in MS can occur in the relapsing-remitting (RRMS) phase of disease due to incomplete recovery from neuroinflammatory relapses. However, a progressive disease course is the dominant factor related to accumulating disability. There is persistent central nervous system (CNS) compa

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Resolving data bias improves generalization in binding affinity prediction

David Graber, Peter Stockinger, Fabian Meyer et al. · 2025 · Nature Machine Intelligence

The field of computational drug design requires accurate scoring functions to predict binding affinities for protein-ligand interactions. However, train-test data leakage between the PDBbind database and the Comparative Assessment of Scoring Function benchmark datasets has severely inflated the performance metrics of currently available deep-learning-based binding affinity prediction models, leading to overestimation of their generalization capabilities. Here we address this issue by proposing PDBbind CleanSplit, a training dataset curated by a new structure-based filtering algorithm that elim

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Six-Year Outcomes After Transcatheter vs Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients With Aortic Stenosis

John K. Forrest, Steven J. Yakubov, G. Michael Deeb et al. · 2026 · Journal of the American College of Cardiology

BACKGROUND: The Evolut Low Risk trial enrolled patients with severe aortic stenosis at low surgical risk. Annual follow-up is planned for 10 years, evaluating the composite of all-cause mortality or disabling stroke and key secondary…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics and Astronomy

How to interpret a discovery or null result of the $$0\nu 2\beta $$ 0 ν 2 β decay

Zhi-zhong Xing, Zhen-hua Zhao, Ye-Ling Zhou · 2015 · The European Physical Journal C

The Majorana nature of massive neutrinos will be crucially probed in the next-generation experiments of the neutrinoless double-beta ( $$0\nu 2\beta $$ ) decay. The effective mass term of this process, $$\langle m\rangle _{ee}$$ , may be contaminated by new physics. So how to interpret a discovery or null result of the $$0\nu 2\beta $$ decay in the foreseeable future is highly nontrivial. In this paper we introduce a novel three-dimensional description of $$|\langle m\rangle _{ee}|$$ , which allows us to see its sensitivity to the lightest neutrino mass and two Majorana phases in a transparent

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

Limited generalisation of changes in attentional bias following attentional bias modification with the visual probe task

Bram Van Bockstaele, Elske Salemink, Susan M. Bögels et al. · 2015 · Cognition & Emotion

Although attentional bias modification (ABM) can change anxiety, recent studies failed to replicate such effects, possibly because the visual probe ABM failed to induce changes in attentional bias (AB). We investigated whether visual probe…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Acute minocycline administration reduces brain injury and improves long-term functional outcomes after delayed hypoxemia following traumatic brain injury

Marta Celorrio, Kirill Shumilov, Camryn Payne et al. · 2022 · Acta Neuropathologica Communications

Clinical trials of therapeutics for traumatic brain injury (TBI) demonstrating preclinical efficacy for TBI have failed to replicate these results in humans, in part due to the absence of clinically feasible therapeutic windows for administration. Minocycline, an inhibitor of microglial activation, has been shown to be neuroprotective when administered early after experimental TBI but detrimental when administered chronically to human TBI survivors. Rather than focusing on the rescue of primary injury with early administration of therapeutics which may not be clinically feasible, we hypothesiz

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Metabolic crossroads in insulin resistance: exploring lipid dysregulation and inflammation

Saeede Saadati, Rasoul Godini, Anjana Reddy et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in Immunology

Insulin resistance is a central pathological feature of several chronic metabolic disorders, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, and cardiovascular disease. While its pathogenesis is multifactorial, lipid dysregulation and chronic low-grade inflammation are recognised as two major, interconnected processes that impair insulin action across multiple tissues. This review summarises core mechanistic themes linking these processes, with a focus on three key signalling pathways that are particularly relevant to metabolic regulation and to the interplay between lipid metab

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessAgricultural and Biological Sciences

Unmanned Ground Vehicles for Continuous Crop Monitoring in Agriculture: Assessing the Readiness of Current ICT Technology

Maurizio Agelli, Nicola Corona, Fabio Maggio et al. · 2024 · Machines

Continuous crop monitoring enables the early detection of field emergencies such as pests, diseases, and nutritional deficits, allowing for less invasive interventions and yielding economic, environmental, and health benefits. The work organization of modern agriculture, however, is not compatible with continuous human monitoring. ICT can facilitate this process using autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) to navigate crops, detect issues, georeference them, and report to human experts in real time. This review evaluates the current state of ICT technology to determine if it supports auton

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Diagnostic performance of plasma Aβ42/40 ratio, p‐tau181, GFAP, and NfL along the continuum of Alzheimer's disease and non‐AD dementias: An international multi‐center study

James D. Doecke, Giovanni Bellomo, Lisa Vermunt et al. · 2025 · Alzheimer s & Dementia

INTRODUCTION: Plasma phosphorylated tau (p-tau)181, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurofilament light chain (NfL), and amyloid beta ratio (Aβ42/40) may have diagnostic and prognostic value in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we assess which markers can best identify AD from controls and other non-AD dementias in a large international multi-center study. METHODS: Plasma samples (n = 1298) were collected from six international centers. Aβ40, Aβ42, GFAP, NfL, and p-tau181 were measured using single molecule array. In each group, AD diagnosis/co-pathology was defined according to cerebrosp

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Type 2 Diabetes and the Multifaceted Gut-X Axes

Hezixian Guo, L.-T. Pan, Qiuyi Wu et al. · 2025 · Nutrients

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a complex metabolic disease characterized by chronic hyperglycemia due to insulin resistance and inadequate insulin secretion. Beyond the classically implicated organs, emerging evidence highlights the gut as a central player in T2D pathophysiology through its interactions with metabolic organs. The gut hosts trillions of microbes and enteroendocrine cells that influence inflammation, energy homeostasis, and hormone regulation. Disruptions in gut homeostasis (dysbiosis and increased permeability) have been linked to obesity, insulin resistance, and β-cell dysfunction,

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Inflammation and Huntington’s disease – a neglected therapeutic target?

Sophie E. Field, Annabel J. Curle, Roger A. Barker · 2024 · Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs

INTRODUCTION: Huntington's Disease (HD) is a genetic neurodegenerative disease for which there is currently no disease-modifying treatment. One of several underlying mechanisms proposed to be involved in HD pathogenesis is inflammation;…

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EFFECT OF DIFFERENT BALANCE TRAINING PROGRAMS ON POSTURAL CONTROL IN CHRONIC ANKLE INSTABILITY: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

Noha Mahmoud Youssef, Azza Mohammed Abdelmohsen, Ahmed Atteya Ashour et al. · 2026 · PubMed

BACKGROUND: Chronic ankle instability (CAI) is a common sequence of ankle sprain. Conservative treatment of CAI is currently accepted as a primary mean of managing the condition and preventing of recurrence. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the…

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