Extracellular Vesicles from Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells Accelerate Migration and Activate AKT Pathway in Human Keratinocytes and Fibroblasts Independently of miR... by Andrea da Fonseca Ferreira, Pricila da Silva Cunha, Virgínia Mendes Carregal, Priscila de Cássia da Silva, Marcelo Coutinho de Miranda, Marianna Kunrath-Lima, Mariane Izabella Abreu de Melo, Camila Cristina Fraga Faraco, Joana Lobato Barbosa, Frédéric Frezard, Vivian Resende, Michele Angela Rodrigues, Alfredo Miranda de Goes, Dawidson Assis Gomes

“…They secrete extracellular vesicles (EVs) that carry different classes of molecules that can promote skin repair, but the mechanisms are poorly understood. …”
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Prevalence and Correlates of Dilated and Non-Dilated Left Ventricular Cardiomyopathy in Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia: Data from a National, Multicenter, Observational Registry by Antonella Meloni, Laura Pistoia, Anna Spasiano, Francesco Sorrentino, Giuseppe Messina, Michele Santodirocco, Zelia Borsellino, Valerio Cecinati, Vincenzo Positano, Gennaro Restaino, Nicolò Schicchi, Emanuele Grassedonio, Antonino Vallone, Michele Emdin, Alberto Clemente, Andrea Barison

“…Demographic and laboratory parameters were comparable among patients with no overt cardiomyopathy (NOCM; <i>n</i> = 294), DCM (<i>n</i> = 12), and NDLVC (<i>n</i> = 109), while cardiac size and systolic function were significantly different. Compared to NOCM patients, DCM and NDLVC patients had a higher prevalence of MIO and replacement myocardial fibrosis. …”
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SYBR GreenⅠReal-Time Fluorescence Quantitative PCR for Parasitic Boveria labialis Identification from the Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus by Wenyue HAO, Jinjin WANG, Jianlong GE, Bin LI, Yingeng WANG, Meijie LIAO, Xiaojun RONG, Hongjing ZHAO, Minqi JIANG, Wenguang ZHAO, Licheng NIU, Jiao PAN

“…The concentration of B. labialis in different culture areas and different culture modes of A. japonicus was detected and analyzed. …”
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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in dizygotic twin ovine fetuses are associated with discordant responses to antenatal steroid therapy by Erin L. Fee, Haruo Usuda, Sean W. D. Carter, Hideyuki Ikeda, Tsukasa Takahashi, Yuki Takahashi, Yusaku Kumagai, Michael W. Clarke, Demelza J. Ireland, John P. Newnham, Masatoshi Saito, Sebastian E. Illanes, Binny Priya Sesurajan, Liang Shen, Mahesh A. Choolani, Gokce Oguz, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Sara Ritchie, Andrew Ritchie, Alan H. Jobe, Matthew W. Kemp

“…Results ANS-exposed female fetuses had lower arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) values than male fetuses (76.5 ± 38.0 vs. 97.2 ± 42.5 mmHg), although the observed difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.1). …”
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Nutrient Fluxes from the Kamchatka and Penzhina Rivers and Their Impact on Coastal Ecosystems on Both Sides of the Kamchatka Peninsula by Pavel Semkin, Galina Pavlova, Vyacheslav Lobanov, Kirill Baigubekov, Yuri Barabanshchikov, Sergey Gorin, Maria Shvetsova, Elena Shkirnikova, Olga Ulanova, Anna Ryumina, Ekaterina Lepskaya, Yuliya Fedorets, Yi Xu, Jing Zhang

“…The Penzhina River has had very low DIP and DIN concentrations of 0.2–0.8 and 0.17–0.35 µM, respectively, near the mouth during different seasons, but high concentrations of DOC, at 5.9 mg/L in spring, which may be due to seasonal thawing of permafrost. …”
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Evaluation of a national digital pre-implantation biopsy service for deceased-donor kidney transplantation in the UK (Pithia trial); a stepped-wedge cluster randomised registry tri... by Dominic M. Summers, John O.O. Ayorinde, Desley A. Neil, Karla Hemming, Laura Smith, Jennifer Mehew, Helen Thomas, Rosie Brown, Suzie Phillips, Emma Laing, Anna Sidders, Alison J. Deary, Rachel J. Johnson, Victoria Bardsley, Sathia Thiru, Meryl H. Griffiths, Ranmith Perera, Owen Cain, Candice Roufosse, Naomi Simmonds, Michael Sheaff, Natalie Brearley, Bindu Vydianath, Anna Paterson, Kishore Gopalakrishnan, Anastasios Chatzitolios, Chris J. Callaghan, Richard Jarvis, Frank J.M.F. Dor, Smarajit Dutta, Atul Bagul, Colin Wilson, Dan Ridgway, Adam Barlow, Richard Baker, Adnan Sharif, James McDaid, John Terrace, Lorna Marson, Debabrata Roy, James Hunter, Laszlo Szabo, Simon Knight, Karen Stevenson, Patrick Mark, Samuel Turner, Zia Moinuddin, Abbas Ghazanfar, Rajesh Sivaprakasam, Reza Motallebzadeh, Nicholas Torpey, Gareth Jones, Catherine Boffa, Paul Gibbs, Andrew Connor, Imran Saif, Badri Shrestha, Harry Hill, James Fotheringham, Gavin J. Pettigrew

“…For the second primary endpoint, the adjusted mean (SE) 1-year eGFR of the transplant kidneys was similar, irrespective of whether the implanting centre had access to the biopsy service or not (43.7 (1.3) ml/min/1.73 m2 vs. 42.2 (1.3) ml/min/1.73 m2; adjusted mean difference (97.5% CI) 1.53 (−2.33 to 5.40); p = 0.37). …”
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Response of photosynthesis to light and CO2 concentration in spring wheat under progressive drought stress by Fei Chen, Kai Zhang, Shuang Yan, Runyuan Wang, Heling Wang, Hong Zhao, Funian Zhao, Yue Qi, Yang Yang, Xingxing Wei, Yurui Tang

“…Conclusions Our results showed that progressive drought stress, combined with different environmental factors, had distinct impacts on the photosynthetic efficiency and carbon assimilation capacity of spring wheat, providing a basis for rational carbon and water resource utilization in spring wheat under climate change.…”
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COVID-19 hospitalization in vaccinated and non-vaccinated patients: Clinical profile and outcomes by Laura Holtman-Ferreira, Elessandra de Souza Bitencourt, Betina Mendez de Alcantara Gabardo, Susanne Edinger Pereira, Francine Teixeira, Diego da Silva Magatão, Vitor Loureiro Dias, Ricardo Petterle, Meri Bordignon Nogueira, Sonia Mara Raboni

“…A total of 218 patients were included; 202 (92 %) had vaccination data, 98 received at least one dose, and 64 completed the vaccination schedule, predominantly with CoronaVac®. …”
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Evaluation of the influence of offshore wind farm noise on the fishes and dolphins in the Pearl River Estuary by Zhongchang Song, Weijie Fu, Hongquan Li, Yingnan Su, Zhanyuan Gao, Wenxin Fan, Jiangang Hui, Wenzhan Ou, Shengyao Sun, Teng Wang, Honghui Huang, Yu Zhang

“…The pile driving pulses, recorded 30 ​m from the construction site, had a mean zero-to-peak sound pressure level of 195.1 ​dB (re 1 ​μPa) (n ​= ​238), exceeding the hearing thresholds of both fishes and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins. …”
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Bats from an area of the Colombian Caribbean reveal the circulation of Alphacoronavirus by Caty Martínez, Daniel Echeverri, Alfonso Calderón, Eliana Hurtado, Bertha Gastelbondo, Yésica López, Jairo Martínez, Yeimy López, Yesica Botero, Camilo Guzmán, Ketty Galeano, Valeria Bertel, Yonairo Herrera, Germán Arrieta, Joao Pessoa Araujo, Salim Mattar

“…RdRp-positive samples were sequenced using Sanger sequencing. Five specimens (2.7%) had antibodies against the coronavirus N protein, and the RdRp gene was detected in 55 specimens (21.0%), all belonging to the family Phyllostomidae. …”
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Only Surgical Treatment to Be Considered for Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: A New Paradigm by Nicolas Tabchouri, David Dussart, Urs Giger-Pabst, Nicolas Michot, Frederic Marques, Meriem Khalfallah, Petru Bucur, Louise Barbier, Aurore Kraemer-Bucur, Mihane Nayeri, Julien Thiery, Celine Bourbao-Tournois, Pascal Bourlier, Ephrem Salamé, Mehdi Ouaïssi

“…The aim of this study was to analyze different SBO evolution patterns in order to further determine when to switch to surgical treatment. …”
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Life course socioeconomic position, alcohol drinking patterns in midlife, and cardiovascular mortality: Analysis of Norwegian population-based health surveys. by Eirik Degerud, Inger Ariansen, Eivind Ystrom, Sidsel Graff-Iversen, Gudrun Høiseth, Jørg Mørland, George Davey Smith, Øyvind Næss

“…We investigated whether the diverging relationships between alcohol drinking patterns and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality differed by life course socioeconomic position (SEP).…”
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Architectural interventions in the Palace of the Admiral of Aragón in Valencia (early 20th century) by Antonio Gómez Gil

“…Because of that, researchers came up with the term “Mediterranean Gothic” to define this style, since there are currently different geographic regions belonging to different countries. …”
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Post‐acute sequelae of COVID‐19 in cancer patients: Two cohorts in UK and Hong Kong by Eric Yuk Fai Wan, Shing Fung Lee, Jiayi Zhou, Vincent Ka Chun Yan, Francisco Tsz Tsun Lai, Celine Sze Ling Chui, Xue Li, Carlos King Ho Wong, Esther Wai Yin Chan, Ian Chi Kei Wong

“…Results Cancer patients with COVID‐19 consistently showed significantly higher risk of major cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) [UKB: hazard ratio [HR] 1.8 (95% CI 1.3, 2.5); HK: HR 1.4 (95% CI 1.1, 1.8)], CVD death [UKB: HR 4.3 (95% CI 2.9, 6.2); HK: HR 1.7 (95% CI 1.3, 2.4)], and all‐cause mortality [UKB: HR 4.7 (95% CI 4.0, 5.5); HK: HR 1.6 (95% CI 1.5, 1.7)] in both cohorts despite the difference in dominant variants. Cancer patients at advanced ages or severely infected had higher all‐cause mortality risk. …”
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Meta-Features Extracted from Use of kNN Regressor to Improve Sugarcane Crop Yield Prediction by Luiz Antonio Falaguasta Barbosa, Ivan Rizzo Guilherme, Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette, Bruno Tisseyre

“…MFs were generated based on the values obtained by different regressors applied to the features collected in the field, allowing for evaluating which approaches offered superior predictive performance within the dataset. …”
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Tae-miR396b regulates TaGRFs in spikes of three wheat spike mutants by Ziping Yao, Qi Wang, Ying Xue, Zhiheng Liang, Yongjing Ni, Yumei Jiang, Peipei Zhang, Ting Wang, Qiaoyun Li, Lei Li, Jishan Niu

“…Complementary sequences of mature tae-miR396b were identified in 23 TaGRFs, indicating they were the target genes of tae-miR396b. Tae-miR396b had different regulatory effects on TaGRFs between Guomai 301 and its mutants. …”
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Molecular epidemiologic characteristics and pretreatment drug resistance of HIV-1 in young and middle-aged first-diagnosed infections, 2019–2021 in Pudong New Area, Shanghai by Yan TANG, Jingjing LANG, Qiuli XU, Huiqin FU, Panpan CHEN, Lipeng HAO

“…A significant variance in the distribution of viral subtypes was observed among individuals infected by different sexual transmission routes (χ2=22.161, P=0.003). …”
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Analysis of the application effect of indocyanine green fluorescence imaging technology in laparoscopic radical resection of colorectal cancer by Chen Zhiliang, Zhang Weifu, Liu Yongfeng, Yang Zifeng, Feng Huolun, Lü Zejian, Wu Deqing, Li Yong

“…[Results] Thirty-four (77.3%) patients had intraoperative good ICG-FI, whereas 10 (22.7%) patients with intraoperative poor or inadequate ICG-FI. …”
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The association between vision impairment and multi-site pain in middle-aged and older adults in China: results from the China health and retirement longitudinal study by Tianyi Luo, Cunzi Li, Lan Zhou, Lan Zhou, Yingrui Liu, Hongyan Sun, Ming Ming Yang

“…Two logistic regression models were constructed to analyze the relationship between VI and the coexistence of pain in different body sites and multi-site pain.ResultsParticipants with VI had a higher probability of experiencing pain across 15 body sites compared to those without VI. …”
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Partial reduplication in Roudbari variety of Tati by Tahereh Dolatpour Lakeh, Mansour Shabani

“…For each type of partial reduplication some examples had been provided, and the semantic functions of each type were explored.  …”
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