Neutrophil CD64 index: a novel biomarker for risk stratification in acute pancreatitis by Min Shao, Ling Wu, Xiangping Huang, Qianhui Ouyang, Ya Peng, Sixiang Liu, Xu Xu, Qi Yi, Yi Liu, Guoguang Li, Ding Ning, Jia Wang, Chaochao Tan, Chaochao Tan, Ying Huang

“…Patients with nCD64 > 1.45 had significantly higher risks of complications, including systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), multiple organ failure (MOF), and death. …”
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Ceftolozane/tazobactam use and emergence of resistance: a 4-year analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in a tertiary hospital by Alessandra Imeneo, Laura Campogiani, Laura Campogiani, Pietro Vitale, Andrea Di Lorenzo, Andrea Di Lorenzo, Grazia Alessio, Davide Natale Abate, Maria Grazia Celeste, Anna Altieri, Cartesio D’Agostini, Cartesio D’Agostini, Vincenzo Malagnino, Vincenzo Malagnino, Massimo Andreoni, Massimo Andreoni, Marco Iannetta, Marco Iannetta, Loredana Sarmati, Loredana Sarmati

“…A subgroup of 22 patients presented a C/T-resistant isolate after a previous susceptible one; only 4 patients had received a prior C/T treatment.ConclusionThe unavailability of C/T created the conditions to analyze the practical application of the theory of fitness cost to maintain resistance. …”
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Genetic progress in stem lodging resistance of the dominant wheat cultivars adapted to Yellow-Huai River Valleys Winter Wheat Zone in China since 1964 by Hong-jun ZHANG, Teng LI, Hong-wei LIU, Chun-yan MAI, Guang-jun YU, Hui-li LI, Li-qiang YU, Ling-zhi MENG, Da-wei JIAN, Li YANG, Hong-jie LI, Yang ZHOU

“…By comparison with the wild types, dwarfing genes had significant effects on all lodging-related traits studied except for length of the basal first internode and stem strength. …”
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Soil Fertility and Maize Residue Quality All Effect the Exogenous Carbon Sequestration Only in the Short Term in Macroaggregates, but Not in Microaggregates by Nan Ma, Liangjie Sun, Yingde Xu, Shuangyi Li, Jiayan Li, Pingluo Xue, Hongbo Yang, Ramona Mörchen, Jingkuan Wang

“…These indicated that the microaggregates had a larger C sequestrating capacity than the macroaggregates. …”
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Impact of dietary polyphenols from shredded, steam-exploded pine on growth performance, organ indices, meat quality, and cecal microbiota of broiler chickens by Chris Major Ncho, Vaishali Gupta, Akshat Goel, Chae-Mi Jeong, Ji-Young Jung, Si-Young Ha, Jeong-Uk Eom, Han-Sul Yang, Jae-Kyung Yang, Yang-Ho Choi

“…Overall, this offers compelling evidence that continuous PSPP supplementation may not only alter the composition of intestinal microbes but also have a profound effect on the interactions among different microbial species. Conversely, PSPP had minimal effects on broilers’ performance and meat quality.…”
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Evidence for reduced torsional resistance of rotary files under curved position by Ahmed Jamleh, Raghad Almedlej, Rasha Alomar, Nouf Almayouf, Abdulmohsen Alfadley, Khalid Alfouzan

“…Objectives: The aim of this in vitro study was to investigate the torsional fatigue resistance of different rotary files in straight and curved positions at a simulated intracanal temperature. …”
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Divergent Photosynthetic Strategies of <i>Lupinus polyphyllus</i> and <i>Helleborus viridis</i> During Cold Acclimation and Freezing–Thaw Recovery by Pengyuan Xie, Yining Zhao, Xin Zhao, Linbo Xu, Kai Wang, Ruidong Jia, Yaping Kou, Hong Ge, Wenjun Wang, Shuhua Yang

“…However, <i>Hv</i> exhibited a much better photosynthetic stability to maintain Pn, Fv/Fm, and carboxylation efficiency (CE) than <i>Lp</i> during CA, suggesting that <i>Hv</i> had a greater photosynthetic resilience compared to <i>Lp</i>. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Computational Fluid Dynamics‐Based Fractional Flow Reserve Derived From Coronary Angiography: The ACCURATE Study by Jun Jiang, Yumeng Hu, Changling Li, Liang Dong, Jian Xu, Lijiang Tang, Wenbing Jiang, Changqing Du, Xuejun Jiang, Yongnan Lyu, Xiaochang Leng, Chengguang Li, Bon‐Kwon Koo, Jianping Xiang, Junbo Ge, Jian’an Wang

“…Methods and Results The ACCURATE (Angiography‐Derived Fractional Flow Reserve for Functional Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease) study was a prospective, multicenter study conducted at 5 centers. Patients who had at least 1 lesion with a diameter stenosis of 30% to 90% were eligible. …”
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Imaging and Clinical Outcomes Six Months After Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization with Squid for Chronic Subdural Hematoma: A Prospective Study by Ángela H. Schmolling, Carlos Pérez-García, Isabel Bérmudez, Alfonso López-Frías, Eduardo Fandiño, Carmen Trejo, Santiago Rosati, Daniel Padrón, Lara Guardado, José Carlos Méndez, Juan Arrazola, Manuel Moreu

“…Combined-treatment patients had larger hematomas and more symptoms. Procedures were performed under general anesthesia in 72.3% of patients, with radial and femoral access used equally frequently, and 32.7% underwent bilateral embolization. …”
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Nasal Carriage by Staphylococcus aureus among Healthcare Workers and Students Attending a University Hospital in Southern Brazil: Prevalence, Phenotypic, and Molecular Characterist... by Tiago Danelli, Felipe Crepaldi Duarte, Thilara Alessandra de Oliveira, Raquel Soares da Silva, Daniela Frizon Alfieri, Guilherme Bartolomeu Gonçalves, Caio Ferreira de Oliveira, Eliandro Reis Tavares, Lucy Megumi Yamauchi, Marcia Regina Eches Perugini, Sueli Fumie Yamada-Ogatta

“…Among MRSA isolates, 45% carried the mecA gene but were phenotypically susceptible to oxacillin/cefoxitin; two harbored the tst and none had lukS-PV/lukF-PV genes. All MRSAs were distributed into six SCCmec types and type I (62.5%) was the most frequent. …”
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Long-term alterations in gut microbiota following mild COVID-19 recovery: bacterial and fungal community shifts by Da Li, Da-Ya Zhang, Shi-Ju Chen, Yan-Ting Lv, Shi-Mei Huang, Chen Chen, Fan Zeng, Run-Xiang Chen, Xiao-Dong Zhang, Jian-Xin Xiong, Fa-Di Chen, Yue-Hong Jiang, Zhai Chen, Cui-Yi Mo, Jia-Jia Chen, Xu-Li Zhu, Li-Jun Zhang, Fei-Hu Bai, Fei-Hu Bai

“…ObjectiveCOVID-19 has had a profound impact on public health globally. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Prolonged Adjuvant Temozolomide Treatment in Glioblastoma: Prospective Study of 81 Patients Undergoing up to 101 Cycles of Treatment by Giulio Bonomo, Francesco Certo, Erica Grasso, Giuseppa Fiumanò, Davide Barbagallo, Rosario Caltabiano, Giuseppe Broggi, Gaetano Magro, Andrea Maugeri, Antonella Agodi, Fiorenza Latteri, Hector Sotoparra, Giovanni Buscema, Corrado Spatola, Alessandro Pluchino, Giuseppe M. V. Barbagallo

“…No significant safety difference emerged between extended and standard TMZ treatment.…”
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Prognostic value of global plaque volume calculated from the 3D reconstruction of the coronary tree in patients without significant coronary artery disease. A multicenter study by Carlos Cortés, Julio Ruiz-Ruiz, Fernando Rivero, Ramón López-Palop, Octavio Jiménez, Alfonso Freites, Luis R. Gonçalves-Ramírez, María Rosario Ortas Nadal, Sara Blasco, Mario García-Gómez, Clara Fernández, Luca Scorpiglione, J. Alberto San Román Calvar, Ignacio J. Amat-Santos

“…The 3 coronary territories were assessed using quantitative flow ratio, calculating the GPV by determining the difference between the luminal volume and the vessel theoretical reference volume. …”
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Low-Dose Sirolimus Immunoregulation Therapy in Patients with Active Rheumatoid Arthritis: A 24-Week Follow-Up of the Randomized, Open-Label, Parallel-Controlled Trial by Hong-Yan Wen, Jia Wang, Sheng-Xiao Zhang, Jing Luo, Xiang-Cong Zhao, Chen Zhang, Cai-Hong Wang, Fang-Yuan Hu, Xiao-Juan Zheng, Ting Cheng, Hong-Qing Niu, Guang-Ying Liu, Wen-Xian Yang, Na-Na Yu, Jin-Li Ru, Qi-Xiang Chen, Xue-Chun Lu, Pei-Feng He, Chong Gao, Xiao-Feng Li

“…By 24 weeks, the patients with sirolimus experienced significant reduction in disease activity indicators including DAS28, ESR, and the number of tender joints and swollen joints (p<0.001). Notably, they had a higher level of Tregs as compared with those with conventional therapy alone (p<0.05), indicating that sirolimus could partly restore the reduced Tregs. …”
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Excessive Supraventricular Ectopic Activity in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke Is Associated With Atrial Fibrillation Detection Within 24 Months After Stroke: A Predefined Anal... by Karl Georg Haeusler, Serdar Tütüncü, Cornelia Fiessler, Muhammad Jawad‐Ul‐Qamar, Claudia Kunze, Johannes Schurig, Joanna Dietzel, Michael Krämer, Gabor C. Petzold, Georg Royl, Torsten Helberg, Götz Thomalla, Darius G. Nabavi, Joachim Röther, Ulrich Laufs, Roland Veltkamp, Peter U. Heuschmann, Paulus Kirchhof, Manuel C. Olma, Matthias Endres

“…Overall, 1435 (84.8%) of 1714 patients randomized to the intervention group had analyzable study ECG monitoring of at least 48 hours' duration within the first 72 hours of monitoring. …”
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A band selection method for consumer-grade camera modification for UAV-based rapeseed growth monitoring by Chufeng Wang, Jian Zhang, Hao Wu, Bin Liu, Botao Wang, Yunhao You, Zuojun Tan, Jing Xie, Liangzhi You, Junqiang Zhang, Ping Wen

“…Results showed that a consumer-grade camera (Nikon D7000) modified by the selected filters had performance comparable with a multispectral camera (RedEdge Micasense 3), but slightly worse than a research-grade hyperspectral camera (Nano-Hyperspec®) in terms of SIs for LAI estimation. …”
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Time course and determinants of the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 in Costa Rica: the RESPIRA study by Rolando Herrero, Romain Fantin, Viviana Loría, Amada Aparicio, D. Rebecca Prevots, Michael Zúñiga, Roy Wong, Melvin Morera, Julia Butt, Marco Binder, Arturo Abdelnour, Alejandro Calderón, Roberto Castro, Bernal Cortes, Rebeca Ocampo, Juan Carlos Vanegas, Mitchell H. Gail, Ruth M. Pfeiffer, Julia Flock, Kim Remans, Lukas Eberhardt, Soheil Rastgou, Vladimir Magalhaes, Carolina Porras, Allan Hildesheim, Tim Waterboer, for the RESPIRA study group

“…Antibody levels are higher in men and increase with age and severity of disease. The different immune response patterns by sex warrant further investigation. …”
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Promotion of microfracture-mediated cartilage repair by the intra-articular injection of Mg2+ by Zhian Chen, Tianhua Zhou, Zhengbo Yin, Peiya Duan, Ying Zhang, Yujiao Feng, Rongmao Shi, Yongqing Xu, Rongqing Pang, Hongbo Tan

“…Results: The histological results showed that the 0.5 mol/L Mg2+ group had deeper positive staining in haematoxylin-eosin (H&E), safranin O, Alcian blue, and type II collagen staining. …”
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Implementation of mobile EEG for resting-state and visual evoked potentials in young children in rural Ethiopia by Theresa I. Chin, Theresa I. Chin, Theresa I. Chin, Winko W. An, Winko W. An, Kalkidan Yibeltal, Firehiwot Workneh, Stephen Pihl, Sarah K. G. Jensen, Sarah K. G. Jensen, Gellila Asmamaw, Nebiyou Fasil, Atsede Teklehaimanot, Krysten North, Krysten North, Sonya V. Troller-Renfree, Charles A. Nelson, Charles A. Nelson, Yemane Berhane, Anne CC Lee, Anne CC Lee, Anne CC Lee

“…With community sensitization, we had high consent rates for EEG/VEP (&gt;90%). We completed EEG recordings within an average ± standard deviation of 20 ± 11 minutes. …”
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Embryo Mosaicism Rate in National Referral Hospital of Indonesia Detected Using Next-Generation Sequencing: A Retrospective Study by Achmad Kemal Harzif, Muhammad Ikhsan, Pritta Ameilia Iffanolida, Kresna Mutia, Budi Wiweko, R Muharam, Kanadi Sumapraja, Gita Pratama, Mila Maidarti, Vita Silvana, Amalia Shadrina, Irene Sinta Febriana, Nafi'atul Ummah, Aisyah Retno Puspawardani, Andon Hestiantoro

“…Furthermore, a significant difference in high mosaicism rates was detected inpatients with unexplained infertility (P<0.05).Conclusion: In contrast to the study conducted elsewhere, our center had a higher mosaicism rate. …”
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