Differential Infiltration of Key Immune T-Cell Populations Across Malignancies Varying by Immunogenic Potential and the Likelihood of Response to Immunotherapy by Islam Eljilany, Sam Coleman, Aik Choon Tan, Martin D. McCarter, John Carpten, Howard Colman, Abdul Rafeh Naqash, Igor Puzanov, Susanne M. Arnold, Michelle L. Churchman, Daniel Spakowicz, Bodour Salhia, Julian Marin, Shridar Ganesan, Aakrosh Ratan, Craig Shriver, Patrick Hwu, William S. Dalton, George J. Weiner, Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, Paulo Rodriguez, Ahmad A. Tarhini

“…Ovarian cancer had lower TRM T-cell infiltration than melanoma, bladder, and pancreatic (<i>p</i> = 2.23 × 10⁻⁸, 3.86 × 10⁻²⁸, and 7.85 × 10⁻⁹, respectively). …”
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The impact of immune checkpoint inhibitors on prognosis in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma treated with TACE and lenvatinib: a meta-analysis by Wei Zhang, Zirong Liu, Hongjin Liu, Zhangkan Huang, Xiaozhun Huang, Lin Xu, Xu Che, Zhengyin Zhan

“…The TACE+L+I group was significantly higher than the TACE+L group in overall survival (HR = 2.32, 95%CI:1.95, 3.15, p&lt;0.05) and progression-free survival (HR = 2.30, 95%CI:1.80, 2.93, p&lt;0.05). The TACE+L+I group had a significantly higher incidence of hypothyroidism compared to the TACE+L group (RR = 1.81, 95%CI:1.20, 2.71, p&lt;0.05), but there was no significant difference in other adverse events, such as hypertension, diarrhea, hand-foot syndrome, fatigue, elevated AST, elevated ALT, decreased appetite, hypothyroidism, abdominal pain, thrombocytopenia, rash, and nausea.ConclusionICIs significantly improved the survival outcome of uHCC treated with TACE+L, and increased the incidence of hypothyroidism. …”
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Title not available by Hassan Saleh, Mohsen Kazemi, Mohammad Taher Mirakzehi

“…There was no statistically significant difference in drip loss, cooking loss, and meat pH (45 minutes and 24 hours later) between experimental treatments (p>0.05). …”
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Outcomes of donation after brain death heart transplantation from older donors: A contemporary analysis of the UNOS database by Selena S. Li, MD, Adham Makarem, MD, MPH, Masaki Funamoto, MD, PhD, Eriberto Michel, MD, Antonia Kreso, MD, Alireza S. Rabi, MD, PhD, Van-Khue Ton, MD, PhD, Daniel Zlotoff, MD, PhD, Bin Quan Yang, MD, Gregory Lewis, MD, David D’Alessandro, MD, Asishana A. Osho, MD, MPH

“…The majority of older organs were received by recipients at waitlist status 4 (31.2%), while younger hearts were primarily transplanted into status 2 recipients (51.9%, p < 0.001).On unadjusted analysis, recipients of older hearts had worse overall survival (p = 0.0062, Figure 1A), but after propensity-matching, this difference was no longer significant (p = 0.32). …”
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“THE RACKED PIANOFORTE” AND “THE GREAT SILENT CINEMA” / «ЗАТРАВЛЕННОЕ ФОРТЕПИАНО» И «ВЕЛИКИЙ НЕМОЙ» by BORODIN BORIS B. / БОРОДИН Б.Б.

“…By contrast, compiled collections including works from different eras composed by different authors, systematized by themes, are stylistically diverse. …”
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Quinoa in Peru: Andean Pseudocereal, a food for present and future generations by Jesús De La Cruz-Arango

“…However, this change also had negative consequences, as now all production is destined for the market and poor families, especially those living in rural areas, can no longer include quinoa in their daily diet3. …”
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Explaining the Effects of Geotourism on the Development of Entrepreneurship in City- Village Ghori-Ghalhe with Structural Equation Approach by Davood Jamini, Mmnad Salari, Himan Shahabi

“…As today entrepreneurship is regarded as the economic development engine, development planners and policy makers are going to improve entrepreneurship through different ways among the members of various communities. …”
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Vaimse heaolu komponendid muusikuks kujunemise teel. Toimetulek esinemisärevuse ja vaimsete blokkidega Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia viiuli-, vioola- ja klaveritudengite hulgas... by Jelizaveta Bukina, Janika Mesi, Marju Raju

“…Mesi (2023) found that all violin and viola students who participated had experienced excessive performance anxiety to some extent. …”
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Economic Analysis of Strip and Pit Cultivation Methods in Desertification Projects by Reza Barzegar Ardakani, Saeideh Kalantari, Mohamadreza Fazelpour, Mahdi Tazeh

“…The estimated cost for strip cultivation was around 220 million Rials per hectare. The second method had a cost of approximately 40 million Rials less. …”
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Feasibility of Developing Reed Stems as a Checkerboard Barrier to Stabilize Shifting Sands by Maryam Bagherpour, Salman Zare, Mohammadreza Ekhtesasi, Aliakbar Nazari Samani, Masoumeh Salehi morkani, Ghasem Ghoohestani, Majid Akhshi

“…Depending on the purpose, sand barriers can be used in different heights, dimensions, and arrangements. One of these barriers is a straw checkerboard barrier. …”
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Influence of statin therapy on 24-hour blood pressure monitoring indices in patients with arterial hypertension combined with subclinical hypothyroidism by V. V. Syvolap, Ye. V. Novikov, M. S. Potapenko

“…Parameters with a normal distribution were presented as an arithmetic mean and standard deviation (M ± SD). For indices that had a different from normal distribution, descriptive statistics data were provided as medians and lower and upper quartiles, Me (Q25; Q75). …”
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Genetic mixed diversity landscape in the paternal lineages of 11 populations inhabiting Southwest China according to the analysis of 25 Y-STRs by Yunyan Luo, Anmin Chi, Xuehong Guo, Juhui Song, Xiuxiu Zhang, Yangting Dong, Chanjuan Wang, Ting Zhang, Jie Deng, Jinhao Ma, Xueshuang Li, Keren Shan, Zhizhong Guan, Yan He

“…The results revealed that the kit had high gene diversity (GD: 0.0878 ~ 0.9581; HD: 0.9781 ~ 0.9987). …”
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The effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure on biomarkers of oxidative stress in vivo and in vitro: A systematic review of experimental studies by Felix Meyer, Annette Bitsch, Henry Jay Forman, Athanassios Fragoulis, Pietro Ghezzi, Bernd Henschenmacher, Rupert Kellner, Jens Kuhne, Tonia Ludwig, Dmitrij Sachno, Gernot Schmid, Katya Tsaioun, Jos Verbeek, Robert Wright

“…In vivo studies: Brain: The effect on biomarkers for oxidized DNA bases in the rodent brain (five studies, n = 98) had an inconsistent effect, varying from a large decrease with a standardized mean difference (SMD) of −3.40 (95 % CI [−5.15, −1.64]) to a large increase with an SMD of 2.2 (95 % CI [0.78, 3.62]). …”
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A hybrid construct with tailored 3D structure for directing pre-vascularization in engineered tissues by Sara C. Neves, Aureliana Sousa, Diana S. Nascimento, Iasmim D. Orge, Sílvia A. Ferreira, Carlos Mota, Lorenzo Moroni, Cristina C. Barrias, Pedro L. Granja

“…Hybrid 3D constructs combining different structural components afford unique opportunities to engineer functional tissues. …”
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Body burden and health risk of pharmaceuticals in elderly population: A multi-site biomonitoring study in China by Fangting Hu, Yi Liu, Xiaoting Liu, Sheng Wang, Liang Ruan, Xuechun Liu, Qi Zhong, Xinsheng Qin, Panzhu Qin, Hanyu Xuan, Fangbiao Tao, Kaiyong Liu

“…Overall, this study sheds light on PhAC exposure in older adults across different regions and provides valuable insights that can help with safeguarding their health.…”
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Application of cellular microstructural diffusion MRI (cell size imaging) in rectal lesions: a preliminary study by Peisi Kou, Liangjie Lin, Ying Li, Hui Qin, Kun Zhang, Wenhua Zhang, Juan Li, Yong Zhang, Jingliang Cheng

“…In AC group, the dmean had significant difference between negative and positive tumor budding (TB) ([13.2590 ± 1.3255 μm] vs. [14.3014 ± 1.1830 μm], P&lt;0.05). …”
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菜籽油加工过程中香兰素含量的变化研究 Change of vanillin content during rapeseed oil processing by 王澍1,2，杨永1,2，高盼2,3，陈哲1,2，王公辉4，李海梅4，汪雄军4，何东平2,3，于雷4 WANG Shu1,2, YANG Yong1,2, GAO Pan2,3, CHEN Zhe1,2, WANG Gonghui4, LI Haimei4, WANG Xiongjun4, HE Dongping2,3, YU Lei4

“…Finally, the vanillin content in rapeseed oil produced by different processes was determined. The results showed that the contents of vanillin in rape straw, rape fruit pods and rapeseed varied greatly from different planting areas, and from the viewpoint of different parts of rape growth, vanillin content in rape straw was the highest, followed by rape fruit pods, rapeseed had the lowest vanillin content. …”
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Abnormal Hot Blank of Oxygen-free Copper Sample Holder and Implications for Laser 40Ar/39 Ar Dating by Wenbei SHI, Zhiyu HAN, Liekun YANG, Fei WANG

“…These two points make it very difficult to accurately deduct the blank signal of laser 40Ar/39Ar dating.OBJECTIVESTo testify to the effectiveness of the traditional degassing procedure on the sample holder and evaluate the effect of hot blank on age calculation of laser 40Ar/39Ar dating.METHODSTo confirm the effectiveness of the degassing procedure, the hot blank of OFC trays, which had been exposed to atmosphere for different time intervals were measured by mass spectrometry, after degassing the laser chamber to 150℃ for four days. …”
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Long-term outcomes of light chain amyloidosis patients receiving heart transplant: A single-center experience by Khush Patel, MD, Zoe H. Tu, PharmD, Carrie Yuen, MD, Siddhartha Ganguly, MD, Allison N. Yun, PharmD, BCTXP, Janardhana R. Gorthi, MD, MBBS, Barry H. Trachtenberg, MD, Ashrith Guha, MD, MPH, Mahwash Kassi, MD, Ju Kim, MD, Rayan Yousefzai, MD, Kelty Baker, MD, Lawrence Rice, MD, Rammurti T. Kamble, MD, Horacio E. Adrogue, MD, Erik E. Suarez, MD, Mark Ghobrial, MD PhD, Ashish Saharia, MD, Constance M. Mobley, MD PhD, David W. Victor, MD, Jill C. Krisl, PharmD, BCPS, BCTXP, Richard Knight, MD, A. Osama Gaber, MD, Arvind Bhimaraj, MD, MPH, FACC, FHFSA

“…Patients who received OHT after 2016 were active in our electronic medical record and hence AL-OHT patients after 2016 had granular details regarding immunosuppression, chemotherapy regimens, amyloidosis, and post-transplant-related outcomes within their first-year post-OHT. …”
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Neutrophil extracellular traps and macrophage activation contibute to thrombosis and post-covid syndrome in SARS-CoV-2 infection by Irene Serrano-Gonzalo, Irene Serrano-Gonzalo, Irene Serrano-Gonzalo, Irene Serrano-Gonzalo, Bárbara Menéndez-Jandula, Esther Franco-García, Esther Franco-García, Esther Franco-García, Isidro Arévalo-Vargas, Isidro Arévalo-Vargas, Isidro Arévalo-Vargas, Calos Lahoz-Gil, Paz Latre, Paz Latre, Sonia Roca-Esteve, Ralf Köhler, Ralf Köhler, Ralf Köhler, Laura López de Frutos, Laura López de Frutos, Pilar Giraldo, Pilar Giraldo, Pilar Giraldo, Pilar Giraldo, Pilar Giraldo

“…NETs markers (myeloperoxidase (MPO), neutrophil elastase (NE), p-selectin (P-SEL) and S100A8/S100A9 heterodimer (MRP)) and macrophage activation markers (Chitotriosidase activity (ChT), CCL18/PARC and YKL-40) were measured.ResultsThe first wave had higher incidences of post-COVID syndrome, ICU admissions, and mortality. …”
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