Abcg2a is the functional homolog of human ABCG2 expressed at the zebrafish blood–brain barrier by Joanna R. Thomas, William J. E. Frye, Robert W. Robey, Andrew C. Warner, Donna Butcher, Jennifer L. Matta, Tamara C. Morgan, Elijah F. Edmondson, Paula B. Salazar, Suresh V. Ambudkar, Michael M. Gottesman

“…We identified abcg2a as the only homolog expressed at the adult and larval zebrafish BBB, based on its localization to claudin-5 positive brain vasculature. …”
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Sexual behaviour among Kenyan adolescents enrolled in an efficacy trial of a smartphone game to prevent HIV: a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data by Victor Mudhune, Kate Winskell, Robert A. Bednarczyk, Ken Ondenge, Calvin Mbeda, Emily Kerubo, Richard Ndivo, Judith Arego, Marissa Morales, Brianna Halliburton, Gaëlle Sabben

“…Insight into sexual activity among young adolescents has the potential to influence appropriate sexual and reproductive health interventions. …”
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TIMING FOR STEP-DOWN THERAPY OF CANDIDEMIA IN NON-NEUTROPENIC PATIENTS: AN INTERNATIONAL MULTI-CENTER STUDY by Rola Husni, Remie Chrabieh, Rita Wilson Dib, Jose Vazquez, MD, Thaís Guimarães, Ana Fernández, Rita Khoury, Lina Asmar, Georges Khazen, Nadia Lara Samaha, Issam Raad, Ray Hachem

“…Method: We performed a multicenter retrospective study, with 119 non-neutropenic patients enrolled from four different medical institutions in Brazil, Lebanon ,Spain and the United States, to assess the duration of IV therapy and appropriate time to step down to oral therapy in adult patients, 14 years of age and older, with documented candidemia. …”
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Navigating performance measures for ambulatory antimicrobial stewardship: a review of HEDIS® and other metrics the steward should know by Christen J. Arena, Michael P. Veve, Steven T. Fried, Felisa Ware, Patricia Lee, Anita B. Shallal

“…There are four HEDIS® measures related to optimal antibiotic prescribing in upper respiratory tract diseases that ambulatory ASPs can leverage to develop and measure effective interventions while maintaining buy-in from providers: avoidance of antibiotic treatment for acute bronchitis/bronchiolitis, appropriate treatment for upper respiratory infection, appropriate testing for pharyngitis, and antibiotic utilization for respiratory conditions. …”
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Identifying patient characteristics associated with potentially redirectable paramedic transported emergency department visits in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study by Andrew Worster, Ryan P Strum, Walter Tavares, Andrew P Costa, Lauren E Griffith

“…We included all adult patients transported by paramedics and had a main physician intervention recorded. …”
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Increased Mortality from Extrapancreatic Infections in Hospitalized Patients with Acute Pancreatitis by Guido Grajales-Figueroa, Héctor Adrián Díaz Hernández, Martín Alejandro Chacón Portillo, Luis F. Uscanga, Mario Peláez-Luna, Jorge Hernández Calleros

“…Data of interest were collected from the medical records and are presented with appropriate measures of central tendency and dispersion. …”
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Associations between caring activities and perceived health among adolescent young carers by Miriam Svensson, Kevin J. McKee, Francesco Barbabella, Rosita Brolin, Lennart Magnusson, Elizabeth Hanson

“…Caring can negatively affect an adult carer’s health, but there is less evidence on how caring affects AYCs, of whom there is little awareness among professionals. …”
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Diagnostic and Treatment Options to the Patients Presenting with Neurological Symptoms Caused by Celiac Disease by Domantas Jakubauskas, Rūta Mameniškienė

“…Nonetheless, it is essential to provide appropriate treatment to those with CD and neurological symptoms, as prolonged suffering may lead to irreversible disability. …”
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Prediction of Passive Torque on Human Shoulder Joint Based on BPANN by Shuyang Li, Paolo Dario, Zhibin Song

“…The experiments recruiting three adult male subjects were conducted, and the results revealed that the BPANN exhibits high prediction accurate for each direction shoulder passive torque. …”
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Acitretin in dermatology by Rashmi Sarkar, Amit Kumar Meena

“…The drug can be given safely in the pediatric as well as the adult population. Although adverse effects are common usually minor and self-limiting and can be managed easily without stopping the drug. …”
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Assessment of Occlusal Function in a Patient with an Angle Class I Spaced Dental Arch with Periodontal Disease Using a Brux Checker by Ayako Taira, Shiho Odawara, Shuntaro Sugihara, Kenichi Sasaguri

“…Comprehensive and appropriate occlusion reconstruction therapy is necessary for orthodontic treatment of adult patients with malocclusion with periodontal disease associated with occlusal trauma. …”
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Lymph Node Metastasis after a Soft Tissue Sarcoma of the Leg: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by S. D. Nelen, F. J. Vogelaar, F. Gilissen, J. C. Van der Linden, K. Bosscha

“…Soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) represent 1 percent of all adult malignancies and sarcomas only rarely spread to the regional lymph nodes. …”
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Cell Reprogramming, IPS Limitations, and Overcoming Strategies in Dental Bioengineering by Gaskon Ibarretxe, Antonia Alvarez, Maria-Luz Cañavate, Enrique Hilario, Maitane Aurrekoetxea, Fernando Unda

“…The procurement of induced pluripotent stem cells, or IPS cells, from adult differentiated animal cells has the potential to revolutionize future medicine, where reprogrammed IPS cells may be used to repair disease-affected tissues on demand. …”
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Fiziksel aktiviteye katılım motivasyon etkilerinin farklı değişkenlere göre incelenmesi by Döndü Uğurlu, Rafet Ünver, Hakan Yapıcı, Yusuf Bulut

“…However, since the comparison was made based on independent variables, it is more appropriate to discuss associations rather than direct effects. …”
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Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice of Hand Washing with Soap among Mothers and Caregivers of Children under Five years in Ntungamo District, Uganda by Topher, Byamukama

“…It represents a preliminary study designed to collect the information necessary to design appropriate strategies to reduce diarrhea prevalence in under five years of age. …”
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Integrating structured and unstructured data for predicting emergency severity: an association and predictive study using transformer-based natural language processing models by Xingyu Zhang, Yanshan Wang, Yun Jiang, Charissa B. Pacella, Wenbin Zhang

“…Results The study included 8,716 adult patients, of whom 74.6% were classified as urgent. …”
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Lymphoadenopathies caused by Bartonella henselae by V.S. Zhukovskiy, O.V. Prokopiv, I.R. Trutyak, M.V. Pankiv

“…This disease is often encountered in the practical work of doctors, especially with an atypical form of the course, which occurs in 20% of adult patients. Often the disease is undiagnosed, mimicking lymphadenopathies caused by tumors of soft tissues and bones or other bacterial pathogens. …”
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Impact, feasibility, and acceptability of CREATORS: An arts-based pilot intervention to reduce mental-health-related stigma among youth in Hyderabad, India by Shivani Mathur Gaiha, Antonio Gasparrini, Mirja Koschorke, Usha Raman, Mark Petticrew, Tatiana Taylor Salisbury

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Ovine Eimeria infection, OPG and determinants in and around Gondar town, Ethiopia by Senait Belay, Desie Sheferaw

“…The prevalence of Eimeria infection was significant (P <0.05) higher in lambs/young than the adult, in females than males, and in poor body condition than in medium body condition sheep. …”
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The Organotypic Longitudinal Spinal Cord Slice Culture for Stem Cell Study by Joanna Sypecka, Sylwia Koniusz, Maria Kawalec, Anna Sarnowska

“…All the processes occurring during axonal growth, regeneration, synapse formation, and myelination could be visualized while being cultured in vitro for up to 4-5 weeks after the slices had been isolated. Both pups and adult animals can undergo the same, equally efficient procedures when going by the protocol in question. …”
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