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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Masoud Khalili Sabet, Abdorreza Tahriri, Parastou Gholami Pasand · 2013 · Theory and Practice in Language Studies
This paper aimed to examine the impact of peer scaffolding through process approach on writing fluency of EFL learners. To this end, a Nelson Proficiency Test was administered to 49 EFL learners studying at University of Guilan, based on…
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Kate M. Quigley, Magena R. Marzonie, Blake D. Ramsby et al. · 2021 · Frontiers in Marine Science
Novel restoration methods are currently under consideration worldwide to help coral reefs recover or become more resilient to higher temperature stress. Critical field-based information concerning the paradigm of “local is best” is lacking for many methods; information which is essential to determine the risk and feasibility associated with restoration. One method involves breeding corals from different reef regions with expected variation in heat tolerance and moving those offspring to new locations to enhance offspring survival; thereby augmenting local stock to enhance survival for anticipa
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Boris Blechacz, Gregory J. Gores · 2010 · Hepatology
A 66-year-old male patient who is hepatitis C RNA–positive without cirrhosis has been found to have a mass on ultrasound examination of the liver. The physical examination is unremarkable. The hemoglobin, white cell count, and platelet…
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Jaeseok Bae, Jungjae Park, Heulbi Ahn et al. · 2021 · Optics Express
In this study, an optical method that allows simultaneous thickness measurements of two different layers distributed over a broad thickness range from several tens of nanometers to a few millimeters based on the integration of a…
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Frenette Southwood · 2012 · Journal of Child Language
The aims of the study were to establish whether there is a correlation between the socioeconomic background of Afrikaans-speaking children and their performance on a dialect-neutral language test, and to ascertain whether the allowance the…
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Kang‐Hsi Wu, Chung-Hsing Wang, Yung‐Li Yang et al. · 2010 · PubMed
BACKGROUND: The DNA repair gene XRCC4, a member of the protein family involved in non-homologous end-joining repair pathway, plays a major role in repairing DNA double-strand breaks. XRCC4 is important in maintaining the overall genome…
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Phyllis Chan, Xiaofei Zhou, Nina Wang et al. · 2020 · CPT Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology
Machine learning (ML) was used to leverage tumor growth inhibition (TGI) metrics to characterize the relationship with overall survival (OS) as a novel approach and to compare with traditional TGI-OS modeling methods. Historical dataset…
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Elise Boele-Schutte, Ron T. Gansevoort · 2016 · Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
Because of the circadian rhythm in kidney function the true glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is historically considered to be the average GFR measured by urinary inulin clearance over a 24-h period [1]. In clinical practice, it is…
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Mulundu Mwila, Blessing Mhlanga, Christian Thierfelder · 2021 · Scientific Reports
Abstract Declining soil fertility and negative impacts of climate effects threaten the food security of millions in Africa. Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a promising strategy to address these challenges. However, lack of viable economic entry points and short-term benefits for smallholders limit its adoption. Legume intensification can possibly increase the output per unit area, thus making the system more attractive. Rotations of maize with intensified legume systems were tested for three consecutive years under ridge and furrow (RF) tillage and CA to investigate: (a) increases in producti
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Michael R. McCart, Jason E. Chapman, Kristyn Zajac et al. · 2020 · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
OBJECTIVE: The first randomized controlled trial of psychological first aid (PFA) was conducted, using crime victims as participants. For study Aim 1, investigators tested whether paraprofessional victim advocates could be trained to…
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Matthias Diebold, Hannes Vietzen, Andreas Heinzel et al. · 2023 · American Journal of Transplantation
Antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) is a leading cause of graft failure. Emerging evidence suggests a significant contribution of natural killer (NK) cells to microvascular inflammation (MVI). We investigated the influence of genetically determined NK cell functionality on ABMR development and activity. The study included 86 kidney transplant recipients subjected to systematic biopsies triggered by donor-specific antibody detection. We performed killer immunoglobulin-like receptor typing to predict missing self and genotyped polymorphisms determining NK cell functionality (FCGR3AV/F158 [rs39699
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Yangmu Li, J. Terzic, P. G. Baity et al. · 2019 · Science Advances
The superconductivity in a stripe-ordered cuprate appears to change from 3- to 2- to 1-dimensional with increasing magnetic field.
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Kotaro Matsumoto, Katsuya Suzuki, Keiko Yoshimoto et al. · 2019 · Lara D. Veeken
OBJECTIVES: To elucidate the association between clinical characteristics and immuno-phenotypes in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV). METHODS: Peripheral blood from 36 patients with active AAV and 18 healthy controls was…
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Gardênia Marinho Cordeiro, M.F. Figueirêdo, Wagner Brandão Ramos et al. · 2017 · Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Currently, process intensification using dividing-wall columns (DWCs) is one of the most promising alternatives for reducing the costs of the distillation process. However, for extractive distillation, there are still questions regarding…
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Rodrigo Lasa, Laura Navarro-de-la-Fuente, Anne Gschaedler et al. · 2019 · Insects
Specific ecological interactions between insects and microbes have potential in the development of targeted pest monitoring or control techniques for the spotted wing drosophilid, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura), an exotic invasive pest of soft fruit. To evaluate D. suzukii attraction to yeast species from preferred types of fruit, three yeasts were isolated from blackberry fruit and two yeasts from raspberry fruit and used to bait simple plastic bottle traps. Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Hanseniaspora uvarum were identified from blackberries, whereas a different H. uvarum strain was identified
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Anthony Laybros, Daniel Schläpfer, Jean‐Baptiste Féret et al. · 2019 · Remote Sensing
Imaging spectroscopy is a promising tool for airborne tree species recognition in hyper-diverse tropical canopies. However, its widespread application is limited by the signal sensitivity to acquisition parameters, which may require new training data in every new area of application. This study explores how various pre-processing steps may improve species discrimination and species recognition under different operational settings. In the first experiment, a classifier was trained and applied on imaging spectroscopy data acquired on a single date, while in a second experiment, the classifier wa
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Sang Jun Song, Se Gu Kang, Yeon Je Lee et al. · 2018 · Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
Abstract Purpose In the present study, the early results of sensor‐assisted versus manually balanced posterior‐stabilized total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for osteoarthritis with varus deformities were prospectively compared. Methods Fifty…
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Mélusine Boon-Falleur, Adrien Bouguen, Axelle Charpentier et al. · 2022 · Scientific Reports
Abstract Recent empirical research has shown that improving socio-emotional skills such as grit, conscientiousness and self-control leads to higher academic achievement and better life outcomes. However, both theoretical and empirical…
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Rafael Stern, Jonathan D Muller, Eyal Rotenberg et al. · 2023 · PNAS Nexus
Abstract Suppression of carbon emissions through photovoltaic (PV) energy and carbon sequestration through afforestation provides complementary climate change mitigation (CCM) strategies. However, a quantification of the “break-even time”…
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