A Bioinformatics Analysis Reveals a Group of MocR Bacterial Transcriptional Regulators Linked to a Family of Genes Coding for Membrane Proteins by Teresa Milano, Sebastiana Angelaccio, Angela Tramonti, Martino Luigi Di Salvo, Roberto Contestabile, Stefano Pascarella

“…The results reported represent a framework for rational design of experiments and for bioinformatics analysis of other MocR subgroups.…”
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Sonoclot Signature Analysis in Patients with Liver Disease and Its Correlation with Conventional Coagulation Studies by Priyanka Saxena, Chhagan Bihari, Archana Rastogi, Savita Agarwal, Lovkesh Anand, Shiv Kumar Sarin

“…Clinical and laboratory data from fifty inpatients of four subgroups of liver disease, including decompensated cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis with HCC and acute-on-chronic liver failure were analyzed. …”
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Final-year university students’ mental health and access to support as they prepared to graduate by Megan J. Magier, Madelyn Law, Sarah Pennisi, Tanya Martini, Markus J Duncan, Hussain Chattha, Karen A Patte

“…Challenges may be experienced differently among population subgroups. We examined the mental health and support access of university students approaching graduation and differences by various social positions. …”
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Fibrinogen: A Marker in Predicting Diabetic Foot Ulcer Severity by X. H. Li, L. Y. Guan, H. Y. Lin, S. H. Wang, Y. Q. Cao, X. Y. Jiang, Y. B. Wang

“…Patients with DFU were divided into 2 subgroups based on the Wagner criteria. Mean fibrinogen values were significantly higher in patients with DFU grade ≧ 3 compared to those with DFU grades 1-2 (5.23 ± 1.37 g/L versus 3.61 ± 1.04 g/L). …”
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Deciphering the heterogeneity and plasticity of the tumor microenvironment in liver cancer provides insights for prognosis by Yihao Sun, Yihao Sun, Guojuan Shi, Jian Yang, Chun-Zhong Zhou, Chuhan Peng, Yu-Hong Luo, Ying Pan, Rui-Qi Wang

“…By categorizing patients into different groups based on their immune cell profiles, including immune deficiency, B cells-enriched, T cells-enriched and macrophages-enriched, we better understood how these cells change in various patient subgroups. Our investigation of liver metastases from intestinal cancer uncovered a group of mast cells that might promote metastasis through pathways like inositol phosphate metabolism. …”
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Optic Neuritis in the Older Chinese Population: A 5-Year Follow-Up Study by Junqing Wang, Huanfen Zhou, Limin Qin, Chunxia Peng, Jie Zhao, Da Teng, Dahe Lin, Nanping Ai, Quangang Xu, Shihui Wei

“…Clinical features at onset and last follow-up were analyzed within subgroups (age 45–65 years and age ≥ 65 years). Results. 76 patients (99 eyes) were included, of which 58% were females. …”
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Rearranging the Bird’s Nest Fungi: molecular review of internal clades in Cyathus (Nidulariaceae, Basidiomycota) by Rhudson Henrique Santos Ferreira da Cruz, Jefferson dos Santos Góis, Paulo Marinho, Iuri Goulart Baseia, Kentaro Hosaka

“…The monophyly of Cyathus was confirmed with maximum support in both tests, and the infrageneric groups of the most recent classification were unchanged, but the clade striatum showed segregation into four groups and three subgroups. The phylogenetic organization is supported morphological characters, and diagnoses are presented for each group, as well as a dichotomous key for the infrageneric separation.…”
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Recurrent Thrombotic Events after Discontinuation of Vitamin K Antagonist Treatment for Splanchnic Vein Thrombosis: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study by Nicoletta Riva, Walter Ageno, Daniela Poli, Sophie Testa, Serena Rupoli, Rita Santoro, Teresa Lerede, Antonietta Piana, Monica Carpenedo, Alberto Nicolini, Piera Maria Ferrini, Giuliana Martini, Catello Mangione, Laura Contino, Carlo Bonfanti, Paolo Gresele, Alberto Tosetto

“…In conclusion, the rate of recurrent vascular complications after SVT is not negligible, at least in some patient subgroups.…”
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Identification and expression analysis of the ZF-HD gene family in castor by XU Xingyuan, HUANG Fenglan, ZHANG Chunlan, ZHU Mengyang, CUI Zhiyu, LIU Peng

“…The RcZF-HD genes were clustered into three subgroups, and the number of genes in each group was different. …”
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Reliability and Validity of the Persian Version of the Fatigue Severity Scale in Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease Patients by Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Hasti Hadizadeh, Farzaneh Farhadi, Gholam Ali Shahidi, Ahmad Delbari, Johan Lökk

“…These acceptable psychometric properties were reproducible in subgroups of IPD patients regarding different levels of education, disease severity, sex and age groups.…”
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Genetics of Myasthenia Gravis: A Case-Control Association Study in the Hellenic Population by Zoi Zagoriti, Marianthi Georgitsi, Olga Giannakopoulou, Fotios Ntellos, Socrates J. Tzartos, George P. Patrinos, Konstantinos Poulas

“…A statistical trend of association (P=0.068) between IL-10 promoter single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the subgroups of early and late-onset MG patients was revealed. …”
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Pre-screening of endomysial microvessel density by fast random forest image processing machine learning algorithm accelerates recognition of a modified vascular network in idiopath... by Alessandro Massaro, Gerardo Cazzato, Giuseppe Ingravallo, Nadia Casatta, Carmelo Lupo, Angelo Vacca, Florenzo Iannone, Francesco Girolamo

“…Abstract Biomarkers for discrimination among different subgroups of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are difficult to identify and may involve multiple laboratory tests and time-consuming procedures. …”
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Safety and Effectiveness of Endoscopist-Directed Nurse-Administered Sedation during Gastric Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection by Yong Suk Cho, Sang youn Shin, Changhyeok Hwang, Jeonghun Seo, Jong Won Choi, Byung Kyu Park, Sun Young Won, Chun Kyon Lee, Yong Kang Lee, Han Ho Jeon

“…Sedation method was the only significant risk factor (M versus MP: 2.17 (1.14–4.15), p=0.019). In analysis of MP subgroups, 47 patients suffered an adverse event from sedation, and current smoking was the only significant association factor for adverse event (0.15 (0.03–0.68), p=0.014). …”
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Cardiometabolic Changes in Different Gonadal Female States Caused by Mild Hyperuricemia and Exposure to a High-Fructose Diet by J. Soutelo, Y. A. Samaniego, M. C. Fornari, C. Reyes Toso, O. J. Ponzo

“…These groups were also divided into four subgroups in accordance with the treatment: control with only water (C), fructose (F), oxonic acid (OA), and fructose + oxonic acid (FOA). …”
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Gain-of-Function Mutations in STAT1: A Recently Defined Cause for Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis Disease Mimicking Combined Immunodeficiencies by Sanem Eren Akarcan, Ezgi Ulusoy Severcan, Neslihan Edeer Karaca, Esra Isik, Guzide Aksu, Mélanie Migaud, Ferda Evin Gurkan, Elif Azarsiz, Anne Puel, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Necil Kutukculer

“…She had hypergammaglobulinemia; IgE level, percentages of lymphocyte subgroups, and in vitro T-cell proliferation responses were normal. …”
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Predictors of interferon-gamma release assay results and their association with COVID-19 infection outcomes by S.J.W. Kang, G.W. Eather, F. Qureshi, J.R. Scott

“…No difference in mortality between the two subgroups was found. CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrated that COVID-19 patients on immunosuppression had a high likelihood of an indeterminate IGRA result, which was associated with markers of disease severity and immunosuppression. …”
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What Moves Them? Active Transport among Inhabitants of Dutch Deprived Districts by Carla Saris, Stef Kremers, Patricia Van Assema, Cees Hoefnagels, Mariël Droomers, Nanne De Vries

“…Nevertheless, interaction effects showed differences among subgroups that should be considered in intervention development.…”
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Sex Disparities of Health-related Quality of Life in Moderate to Severe Psoriasis: A Real-world Analysis from the Swiss Psoriasis Registry (SDNTT) by Ramtin Lichtenberger, Lara Valeska Maul, Ion Birkenmaier, Iker Oyanguren, Melike Ak, Kristine Heidemeyer, Christoph Schlapbach, Nikhil Yawalkar, Alexander Egeberg, Simon Francis Thomsen, Jacob P. Thyssen, Christina Sorbe, Wolf-Henning Boehncke, Curdin Conrad, Antonio Cozzio, Georgios Kokolakis, Raphael Micheroli, Jashin J. Wu, Thomas Kündig, Alexander Navarini, Julia-Tatjana Maul

“…Although quality of life improved across all subgroups during the follow-up period, women treated with IL-12/23 inhibitors continued to report worse quality of life compared with men after 2 years (p < 0.05), while no significant differences were observed with other therapies. …”
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Depression after Stroke and Risk of Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Francesco Bartoli, Nicoletta Lillia, Annamaria Lax, Cristina Crocamo, Vittorio Mantero, Giuseppe Carrà, Elio Agostoni, Massimo Clerici

“…The pooled OR for mortality at followup in people suffering from depression after stroke was 1.22 (1.02–1.47). Subgroups analyses highlighted that only studies with medium-term followup (2–5 years) showed a statistically significant association between depression and risk of death. …”
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Coffee and its Biologically Active Components: Is There a Connection to Breast, Endometrial, and Ovarian Cancer? - a Review by Anna Maria Witkowska, Iwona Mirończuk-Chodakowska, Katarzyna Maria Terlikowska, Kamila Kulesza, Małgorzata Elżbieta Zujko

“…In general, most studies and meta-analyses indicated that there was no clear correlation between coffee and breast cancer or ovarian cancer. Some subgroups of women may benefit from coffee consumption. …”
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