The Effects of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy on the Occurrence of Recurrent Cardiovascular Events After Myocardial Infarction in Obese Patients by Borovyk K., Rindina N., Kravchun P., Tabachenko O., Yermak O., Romanyuk M.

“…Criteria for exclusion were acute and chronic inflammatory processes, Q­negative AMI, diffuse connective tissue diseases, oncological diseases, concomitant diseases of the thyroid gland, and the presence of symptomatic hypertension. …”
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Exploring the effect of multi-modal intervention against cognitive decline on atrophy and small vessel disease imaging markers in the AgeWell.de imaging study by Frauke Beyer, Lukas Kleine, Andrea Zülke, Melanie Luppa, Toralf Mildner, Jochen Gensichen, Thomas Frese, David Czock, Birgitt Wiese, Hans-Helmut König, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Jochen René Thyrian, Arno Villringer, Steffi Riedel-Heller, A.Veronica Witte

“…Preliminary evidence suggested an association of the intervention, increased cerebral blood flow and systolic blood pressure reductions.Abbreviations: ECT, entorhinal cortex thickness; FW, free water fraction; WHO, world health organization; AD, Alzheimer’s disease; VCI, vascular cognitive impairment; FINGER, Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability; MTL, medial temporal lobe; MIND, Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay diet; cSVD, cerebral small vessel disease; WMH, white matter hyperintensities of presumed vascular origin; PSMD, peak width of the mean diffusivity distribution; WW-FINGERS, world wide FINGER studies; CAIDE, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging, and Incidence of Dementia; GPP, general practitioner praxis; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; MST, Mnemonic Similarity Test; TE, echo time; TR, repetition time; FA, flip angle; FOV, field of view; GRAPPA, GeneRalized Autocalibrating Partial Parallel Acquisition; CMRR, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research; BOLD, blood oxygenation level dependent; pcASL: pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling; EPI, echo-planar imaging; FLAIR, fluid attenuated inversion recovery; CBF, cerebral blood flow; QA, quality assessment; GM, gray matter; HCV, hippocampal volume; eICV, estimated intracranial volume; DWI, diffusion-weighted imaging; MD, mean diffusivity; FA, fractional anisotropy
TBSS: tract-based spatial statistics; CSF, cerebral spinal fluid; ISI, inter-stimulus interval; LDI, lure discrimination index; REC, recognition score; CG, control group; IG, intervention group; MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment; CASMIN, Comparative Analysis of Social Mobility in Industrial Nations; BMI, body mass index; SBP/DBP, systolic/diastolic blood pressure; OSF, open science framework; LMM, linear mixed model; ANOVA, analysis of covariance.…”
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Early intervention anti-Aβ immunotherapy attenuates microglial activation without inducing exhaustion at residual plaques by Lis de Weerd, Selina Hummel, Stephan A. Müller, Iñaki Paris, Thomas Sandmann, Marie Eichholtz, Robin Gröger, Amelie L. Englert, Stephan Wagner, Connie Ha, Sonnet S. Davis, Valerie Warkins, Dan Xia, Brigitte Nuscher, Anna Berghofer, Marvin Reich, Astrid F. Feiten, Kai Schlepckow, Michael Willem, Stefan F. Lichtenthaler, Joseph W. Lewcock, Kathryn M. Monroe, Matthias Brendel, Christian Haass

“…Long-term treatment with anti-Aβ results in a robust and dose-dependent lowering of amyloid plaque pathology, with a higher efficiency for reducing diffuse over dense-core plaque deposition. Analysis of the CSF proteome indicates a reduction of markers for neurodegeneration including Tau and α-Synuclein, as well as immune-cell-related proteins. …”
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Combining the unequal variance signal detection model with the health belief model to optimize shared decision making in tinnitus patients: part 2—patient profiling by Zsófia Zs Lehóczky, Zsófia Zs Lehóczky, Adriana L. Smit, Adriana L. Smit, Sarah Kaldenbach, Arnold Lieftink, Arnold Lieftink, Huib Versnel, Huib Versnel, Robert J. Stokroos, Robert J. Stokroos, Alexander E. Hoetink, Alexander E. Hoetink

“…For age and laterality, the results are more diffuse.…”
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The Modern View on the Problem of Respiratory Lesions in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis. Clinical Case Description by Abrahamovych M., Tolopko S.

“…HPS is an arterial oxygenation defect caused by the dilatation of intrapulmonary vessels or the occurrence of arteriovenous shunts, characterized by the reduction of oxygen partial pressure <70.0 mm Hg and increased alveolar- arterial gradient >20.0 mm Hg. …”
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The safe lowest effective power of subthreshold micropulse laser treatment in Chinese patients with acute or chronic central serous chorioretinopathy by Ting Xie, Ting Xie, Wangting Li, Linli Wang, Jiafeng Ning, Zhi Li, Yulei Chen, Xifeng Lin, Shaolin Du, Qingshan Chen

“…PurposeTo assess the safe, lowest effective laser power of subthreshold micropulse laser (SML) for treating acute and chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) in Chinese patients.MethodsPatients were distinguished with acute or chronic CSC based on focal or diffuse retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) leakage on fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA), with or without widespread RPE decompensation. …”
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Innovative treatment of toxic oily petroleum wastewater with magnetic sludge under UVA light by Saeedeh Rastgar, Habibollah Younesi, Hassan Rezeai, Hajar Abyar

“…Conversely, the increasing value of the standard Gibbs free energy of activation (ΔGo) with temperature signified that the adsorption is a nonspontaneous process, while the negative value of the standard entropy of activation (ΔSo) implied a reduction in the degree of freedom of the reactants as they evolve into the activated complex. …”
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Water–Gas Shift over Pt Nanoparticles Dispersed on CeO₂ and Gadolinium-Doped Ceria (GDC) Supports with Specific Nano-Configurations by Athanasios Androulakis, Ersi Nikolaraki, Catherine Drosou, Kalliopi Maria Papazisi, Stella Balomenou, Dimitrios Tsiplakides, Konstantinos G. Froudas, Pantelis N. Trikalitis, Dimitrios P. Gournis, Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou, Ioannis V. Yentekakis

“…A variety of techniques, namely N₂ physical adsorption–desorption (the BET method), scanning and transmission electron microscopies (SEM and TEM), powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and hydrogen temperature programmed reduction (H₂-TPR), were used to identify the texture, structure, morphology and other physical properties of the materials, which together with the in situ diffuse reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (DRIFTS) and detailed kinetic studies helped to decipher their catalytic behavior. …”
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CLINICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL STATUS OF PATIENTS WITH GENERALIZED PARODONDITIS ASSOCIATIED WITH CHRONIC HEPATITIS B VIRUS (HBV) INFECTION by V.I. Fesenko, S.V. Shvets

“…X-ray - the phenomenon of diffuse osteoporosis interdental membranes, reduced alveolar bone levels from 1/3 to ½. …”
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Metastatic neuroendocrine tumor with extensive bone marrow involvement at diagnosis: Evaluation of response and hematological toxicity profile of PRRT with 177Lu-DOTATATE by Sandip Basu, Rohit Ranade, Pradeep Thapa

“…A retrospective evaluation was undertaken for this purpose: Patients with NET with extensive diffuse bone marrow involvement at diagnosis who had received at least three cycles of PRRT with 177Lu-DOTATATE were considered for the analysis. …”
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Effects of dietary supplementation by modified palygorskite and essential oil/palygorskite complex on growth performance and intestinal flora composition of broilers with diarrhea by Qing-li Yang, Lei Yang, Xiang-yong Qu, Ding-fu Xiao

“…ABSTRACT: With the development trend of the industry, it can be seen that the substitution of antibiotics and reduction of zinc oxiden is still the hot spot of the industry. …”
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Characteristics of the Respiratory System Status in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis and the Dependence of its Syntropic Lesions on the Severity of the Disease due to C. G. Child – R.... by Tolopko S. Ya.

“…Among the diseases of the respiratory system 54.6 % of cirrhotic patients had concomitant lesions. The incidence of diffuse pneumofibrosis syndrome was 45.4 % and was significantly (p < 0.05) raising with the increase of the disease severity according to C. …”
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Content of Some Endothotelium-Dependent Vasoactive Substances in the Blood of Patients, Depending on the Liver Cirrhosis Severity and the Organism’s Redox System State by Abrahamovych M., Abrahamovych O., Fayura O., Tolopko S., Ferko M.

“…It is known that liver cirrhosis (LC) is a chronic diffuse liver disease, the severity of which is manifested by the restructuring of its parenchyma in the form of nodular transformation and fibrosis due to necrosis of hepatocytes, the appearance of shunts between the portal and central veins and liver failure. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Rituximab in Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Disease by Vanja Ivković, Ingeborg Bajema, Annette Bruchfeld, Stephen McAdoo, Asheesh Kumar, Richard Klaus, Nele Kanzelmeyer, Maxime Touzot, Georgina Maalouf, Ajay Jaryal, Sanjay Vikrant, Dieter Haffner, Bärbel Lange-Sperandio, David Saadoun, Mårten Segelmark, Andreas Kronbichler

“…Introduction: Anti–glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease is caused by pathogenic antibodies usually targeting the noncollagenous domain of the α3 chain of type IV collagen and frequently presents as rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH). Rapid reduction of these antibodies is imperative for kidney survival and the mainstay of therapy is the combination of plasma exchange (PLEX), glucocorticoids, and cyclophosphamide. …”
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Corticosteroids modulate biofilm formation and virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Elena Jordana-Lluch, María Escobar-Salom, Gabriel Torrens, Isabel María Barceló, Miguel Ángel Estévez, Alex González-Alsina, Amanda Iglesias, Pere Joan Pont-Antona, María D. Macià, Sebastián Albertí, Paul Williams, Borja G. Cosío, Carlos Juan, Antonio Oliver

“…We found that these corticosteroids attenuated its intrinsic pro-inflammatory properties (reduction of IL-8 release compared to controls ca. 15 % (budesonide) and 50 % (fluticasone propionate)) and cellular invasiveness (25 % and 40 % respectively). …”
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TREATMENT OF BLAST PHASE MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASM WITH THE COMBINATION OF AZACITIDINE, VENETOCLAX AND RUXOLITINIB by Fidan Khalilova, Azer Kerimov, Gulnar Kerimova

“…Hematopoietic cells were diffusely scattered, the cellular composition consisted of granulocytic and megakaryocytic orders. …”
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The role of multi-organ cancer predisposition genes in the risk of inherited and histologically diverse gastric cancerResearch in context by Joana Guerra, Ana P. Estrada-Florez, Paul C. Lott, Carla Pinto, Manuela Pinheiro, Katherine A. Chiu, Dennis J. Montoya, Hongyong Zhang, Guadalupe M. Polanco-Echeverry, Pedro Pinto, Ana Peixoto, Catarina Santos, Ana Barbosa, João Silva, John Suarez-Olaya, Fabian Castro-Valencia, Graciela Molina, Alejandro H. Corvalán, Adriana Della Valle, Jose E. Castelao, Nereida Fernandez-Fernandez, Lucia Cid, Nora Rios-Sarabia, Rafael Medrano, Alejandra Mantilla, Maria M. Echeverry de Polanco, Ana L. Rivera-Herrera, Julián Riaño-Moreno, Rafael Parra-Medina, Luz M. González-Castrillón, Ricardo Dominguez, Ana R. Isidoro, Fernanda Silva, Douglas R. Morgan, Alicia M. Cock-Rada, Maria C. Sanabria-Salas, Mabel H. Bohorquez, Javier Torres, Manuel R. Teixeira, Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona, Hernandez Vicent, Alonso Sara, Galovart Miguel, Rodriguez-D'Jesus Antonio, de Castro Luisa, Rodriguez-Prada José Ignacio, Gago-Domínguez Manuela, Redondo-Marey Carmen, Miranda Ponte Sara, González Patricio, Parra Carol, Torres Osvaldo, Adelsdorfer Cedric, Martínez Jose, Norwood Dalton, Montalvan-Sanchez Eleazar, Nefa Florencia, Sanchez Gloria, Castaño Rodrigo, García Francisco, Buitrago Diego Andrés

“…The P/LP variant prevalence was higher in intestinal (9.8%) than in diffuse (4.3%) or mixed GC (4.5%) (p-value = 0.023), without difference per mutated gene by histological subtypes. …”
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Delving into the Porosity Domain Continuum in Hardwood Growth Rings: What Can We Learn from Computer Vision Wood Identification Models? by Alex Wiedenhoeft, Prabu Ravindran, Adriana Costa, Rubin Shmulsky, Frank Owens

“…Hardwood porosity domains (diffuse-, semi-ring-, and ring-porosity) exist along a spectrum with some taxa embodying only one porosity domain and others spanning more than one. …”
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Native Bacteria Are Effective Biocontrol Agents at a Wide Range of Temperatures of <i>Neofusicoccum parvum</i>, Associated with Botryosphaeria Dieback on Grapevine by Diyanira Castillo-Novales, Paulina Vega-Celedón, Alejandra Larach, Michael Seeger, Ximena Besoain

“…In vitro biocontrol assays screened 15 bacterial strains at 10, 22, and 30 °C, identifying four <i>Pseudomonas</i> strains with >30% mycelial growth inhibition. In diffusible agar and double plate assays, plant growth-promoting bacteria AMCR2b and GcR15a, which were isolated from native flora, achieved significant inhibition of <i>N. parvum</i> growth, with reductions of up to ~50% (diffusible agar) and up to ~46% (double plate). …”
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Shape-Selective Adsorption of Substituted Aniline Pollutants from Wastewater by Talib M. Albayati, Aidan M. Doyle

“…Aniline and 4-NA had maximum adsorption amounts of 161 and 265 mg g −1 , respectively, while the maximum amounts of 3-NA and 2-NA were 94.3 and 37.2 mg g −1 , corresponding to reductions of 64% and 86%, respectively, relative to 4-NA. …”
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