Chronic glomerulonephritis of the mixed type in patient with HBV-infection (<i>Clinical case</i>) by V. S. Adonyeva, A. B. Botchkarev, O. S. Saurina

“…Treatment included entecavir 0,5 mg per day for 12 wks with normalization of transaminase levels, virologic response (DNA НВV under 50 МЕ/ML) at the 30th week, НВе seroconversion at the 42nd week of treatment.Conclusions. …”
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Exercise Training Prevents Decrease in Luminal Capillary Diameter of Skeletal Muscles in Rats with Type 2 Diabetes by Takeshi Morifuji, Shinichiro Murakami, Naoto Fujita, Hiroyo Kondo, Hidemi Fujino

“…The DBEx group was trained on a treadmill 5 times a week for 3 weeks. No significant differences in the capillary-to-fibre ratio or the capillary density were observed between the 3 groups. …”
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Acute Putrescine Supplementation with Schwann Cell Implantation Improves Sensory and Serotonergic Axon Growth and Functional Recovery in Spinal Cord Injured Rats by J. Bryan Iorgulescu, Samik P. Patel, Jack Louro, Christian M. Andrade, Andre R. Sanchez, Damien D. Pearse

“…In the current study we investigated whether the concurrent delivery of the polyamine putrescine, started either 30 min or 1 week after SCI, could enhance the efficacy of SCs when implanted subacutely (1 week after injury) into the contused rat spinal cord. …”
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Effects of Endurance Training and Chlorogenic Acid on Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress Markers in Prediabetic Male Mice by Sahar Ghasemi Pour, Sayyed M. Marandi

“…The exercise protocol was performed incrementally (speed 15–23 m/min) for 10 weeks (three sessions per week for 45 min) on a treadmill. …”
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A case of immune checkpoint inhibitor-related conjunctivitis controlled by tacrolimus eye drops by Ayaka Kawaguchi, Hayato Tanaka, Hitoshi Tabuchi, Kei Nakai, Atsuki Fukushima

“…One week later, there was a remarkable improvement in the conjunctival symptoms. …”
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Comparative evaluation of the efficacy of nicotine chewing gum and nicotine patches as nicotine replacement therapy using salivary cotinine levels as a biochemical validation measu... by T Sivasankari, Avudaiappan Sankaran, Senthil Murugappan, Veni Subramanyam, Balanehru Subramanian, RC Jagat Reddy, S Vandana

“…Results: The quit rate was higher in the nicotine patch group compared with the nicotine gum group. On comparison of week one vs week twelve in the nicotine group nicotine gum group showed (CI: 18.10 to 13.83) and in the patch group (CI: 7.754 to 6.56) with P < 0.001. …”
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Assessment of Heavy Metals in Water, Sediment, and Fishes of a Large Tropical Hydroelectric Dam in Sarawak, Malaysia by Siong Fong Sim, Teck Yee Ling, Lee Nyanti, Norliza Gerunsin, Yiew Ee Wong, Liang Ping Kho

“…The amount of fish recommended for adults and children was in the range of 500–775 g/week and 33–135 g/week, respectively.…”
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Changes in Cortical Activation Patterns in Language Areas following an Aerobic Exercise Intervention in Older Adults by Joe Nocera, Bruce Crosson, Kevin Mammino, Keith M. McGregor

“…Thirty-two community-dwelling, sedentary older adults were enrolled to a 12-week aerobic “Spin” exercise group or a 12-week nonaerobic exercise control condition (Balance). …”
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Will things feel better in the morning? A time-of-day analysis of mental health and wellbeing from nearly 1 million observations by Daisy Fancourt, Feifei Bu, Jessica K Bone

“…Background Mood is known to change over seasons of the year, days of the week, and even over the course of the day (diurnally). …”
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Mindfulness-based (non-contact) boxing therapy (MBBT) for depression and anxiety: A feasibility study. by Johny Bozdarov, Brett D M Jones, Madeha Umer, Daniel M Blumberger, Ishrat M Husain

“…MBBT is an instructor-led, manualized, non-contact boxing group-exercise program (delivered in 90 min sessions, twice a week, over 10 weeks) that blends principles of mindfulness, meditation and group therapy. …”
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Swimming Exercise Alleviated Insulin Resistance by Regulating Tripartite Motif Family Protein 72 Expression and AKT Signal Pathway in Sprague-Dawley Rats Fed with High-Fat Diet by Jie Qi, Bo Yang, Cailing Ren, Jian Fu, Jun Zhang

“…After 8 weeks, glucose infusion rate (GIR), markers of oxidative stress, mRNA and protein expression of TRIM72, protein of IRS, p-AKTSer473, and AKT were determined in quadriceps muscles. …”
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Correlates of trail usage for physical activities in rural Appalachia, USA by Louisa A. SUMMERS, Ram LAKHAN, Peter H. HACKBERT

“…Parametric test including t-test was applied to observe differences in physical activities minutes per week for gender and analysis for variance for ethnicity, education, income, and overall health. …”
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Early recovery following new onset anosmia during the COVID-19 pandemic – an observational cohort study by Claire Hopkins, Pavol Surda, Emily Whitehead, B. Nirmal Kumar

“…At follow-up 1 week later, there is already significant improvement in self-rating of severity of olfactory loss. 80.1% report lower severity scores at follow-up, 17.6% are unchanged and 1.9% are worse. 11.5% already report compete resolution at follow up, while 17.3% report persistent complete loss of smell, with reported duration being 1 to over 4 weeks. …”
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Justified Suspicion: Symptomatic Syphilitic Alopecia in a Patient with Well-Controlled HIV by Robert Jame, Yousif Al-Saeigh, Leo L. Wang, Kevin Wang

“…The diagnosis of syphilis was confirmed by microhemagglutination assay, and he was treated for presumed neuro-ocular infection with a two-week course of intravenous Penicillin G. Conclusion. …”
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The Prevalence of Root Sensitivity following Periodontal Therapy: A Systematic Review by Y. H. Lin, D. G. Gillam

“…The results of the present study would indicate that the reported prevalence for DH/RS (following nonsurgical therapy) was between 62.5% and 90% one day after treatment decreasing to approximately 52.6% to 55% after one week. The prevalence of DH/RS following surgical therapy was between 76.8% and 80.4% one day after treatment subsequently decreasing over time to 36.8% after 1 week, 33.4% after 2 weeks, 29.6% after 4 weeks, and 21.7% after 8 weeks. …”
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Synbiotic microcapsule dietary supplementation for prevention against co-infection diseases in Pacific white shrimp: a limited field experiment by Munti Yuhana, Andreas Tambun, Widanarni Widanarni, Usamah Afiff

“…Treatments included the administration of MS at different frequencies i.e, daily (A), twice a week (B), once a week (C), and without MS supplementation (consisted of negative and positive controls) with a feeding rate of 6% of shrimp biomass (5 times a day). …”
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Effectiveness of Contralaterally Controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation versus Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation on Upper Limb Motor Functional Recovery in Subacute Stroke... by Songhua Huang, Peile Liu, Yinglun Chen, Beiyao Gao, Yingying Li, Chan Chen, Yulong Bai

“…Results. After a 3-week intervention, FMA-UE and BI increased in both groups (p<0.05). …”
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Effects of whole-body vibration training on lower limb motor function and neural plasticity in patients with stroke: protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial by Mingkai Zhang, Jianing Wei, Xueping Wu

“…The WBVT and RRT interventions will be implemented as five 25 min sessions weekly for continuous 12 weeks; the CG will remain daily habitual living styles and routine treatments, in community or hospital, and will also receive telephone follow-up and health-related lectures. …”
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Conservative Treatment of Stage IA1 Adenocarcinoma of the Uterine Cervix during Pregnancy: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Francesco Sopracordevole, Diego Rossi, Jacopo Di Giuseppe, Marta Angelini, Pierino Boschian-Bailo, Monica Buttignol, Andrea Ciavattini

“…A conservatively treated case of MIAC in a 13-week-pregnant woman after a diagnosis of atypical glandular cells (AGC) on pap smear at the 6th week of pregnancy is presented. …”
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Enpostil Lowers Elevated Serum Gastrin Concentrations in Patients with Pernicious Anemia by P Kirdeikis, M Mant, L Zuk, D Fisher, L Bynum, ABR Thomson

“…In random order patients received twice daily enprostil 350 μg bid, enprostil 700 μg bid and placebo for one week, with a one week washout between treatment phases. …”
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