Profiling of innate and adaptive immune cells during influenza virus infection reveals sex bias in invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells by Piotr Humeniuk, Aidan Barrett, Hannes Axelsson, Carmen Corciulo, Christina Drevinge, Alicia Del Carpio Pons, Davide Angeletti, Julia M. Scheffler, Ulrika Islander

“…Immune cell populations and cytokine expression in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, lung, and mediastinal lymph node were determined at three time points after infection using flow cytometry and ELISA. …”
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Urinary Clusterin is a Biomarker of Renal Epithelial Senescence and Predicts Human Kidney Disease Progression by David P. Baird, Maximilian Reck, Ross Campbell, Marie-Helena Docherty, Piotr P. Janas, Tilly Mason, Zenuida Mortuza, Matthieu Vermeren, Andy Nam, Wei Yang, Nathan Schurman, Claire Williams, Jamie P. Traynor, Patrick B. Mark, Katie J. Mylonas, Jeremy Hughes, Laura Denby, Bryan R. Conway, David A. Ferenbach

“…Urinary biomarker concentrations were quantified by ELISA (n = 322) to assess their ability to predict patient outcomes (end-stage kidney disease or > 40% renal functional loss). Results: P21+Ki67- epithelial senescence correlated with age and inversely with renal function. …”
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Bronchial wall T2w MRI signal as a new imaging biomarker of severe asthma by Ilyes Benlala, Gaël Dournes, Pierre-Olivier Girodet, François Laurent, Wadie Ben Hassen, Fabien Baldacci, Baudouin Denis De Senneville, Patrick Berger

“…We assessed the mean T2 intensity MRI signal of the bronchial wall area (BrWall_T2-MIS) in 15 severe and 15 age and sex-matched non-severe asthmatic patients. They also have had pulmonary function tests (PFTs), fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) and blood eosinophils count (Eos). …”
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PDGFRα promoter polymorphisms and expression patterns influence risk of development of imatinib-induced thrombocytopenia in chronic myeloid leukemia: A study from India by Sameer Ahmad Guru, Rashid Mir, Musadiq Bhat, Imtiyaz Najar, Mariyam Zuberi, Mamta Sumi, Mirza Masroor, Naresh Gupta, Alpana Saxena

“…A set of 100 patients of chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase and 100 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were studied. After initiation of imatinib treatment, the hematological response of chronic myeloid leukemia patients was monitored regularly for 2 years, in which the development of thrombocytopenia was the primary end point. …”
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The Impact of Sleep Quality on Mood in Beach Volleyball Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Study by Geovani Messias da Silva, Mário António de Moura Simim, Fábio Yuzo Nakamura, Victor Coswig, Cláudio Oliveira Assumpção, Alexandre Igor Araripe Medeiros

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Cold-water immersion for reducing IL-6 and CK in female footballers by Mahendra Wahyu Dewangga, Anindita Antya Candrika, Tri Novaliano Rechtsi Medistianto, Ribka Vlorentyna Wilger

“…Blood samples were collected at four time points: pre-match, post-match, 24 hours post-match, and 48 hours post-match. …”
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The effect of medical rehabilitation in respiratory syndrome patients with connective tissue dysplasia by Maria V. Vershinina, Galina I. Nechaeva, Anna A. Homenya, Anna S. Isaeva, Inna A. Ratynskaya, Irina D. Anaiko, Olga A. Foronosova

“…After carrying out of rehabilitation programs, the most significant increase of mean values was observed for the parameters of the psychological health component: mental health (+40 points), vitality (+23 points), role of emotional functioning (+25 points) and social functioning (+21 points). …”
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Research on Damping Characteristics of Interconnected Hydropneumatic Suspension considering the Effects of Hose and Check Valve by Hongmin Zhang, Xin Fang

“…Through the equivalent energy method, the equivalent compression damping ratio and the equivalent recovery damping ratio of the ICHPS are established. It is pointed out that when designing the damping characteristics of the ICHPS, it is necessary to select the orifices, check valves, and hose damping reasonably to make the damping characteristics get the best match.…”
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Les États pontificaux face à Philippe II, marge ou centre alternatif de la Monarchie catholique ? Retour sur les fondements juridiques, politiques et pragmatiques d’un empire conjo... by Boris Jeanne

“…By returning on the legal, political and pragmatic foundations of this empire which cannot be called Empire (because this name belongs to the Holy Roman Empire of the cousins of Vienna), the article tries to seize better the internal functioning of this heterogeneous political set, by adopting two points of view: that of America (how the notion of Catholic Monarchy is understood in the reynos, far from Madrid and Lisbon) and that of Rome (how Holy See reaches - or not - to exist in the heart of this space). …”
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Neurovascular coupling alterations in type 2 diabetes: a 5-year longitudinal MRI study by Wen Qin, Xiaolu Zhang, Guangyang Ma, Jiayang Yang, Jiahui Lin, Quan Zhang

“…However, their coupling alteration in T2DM remains largely unknown.Research design and methods Twenty-seven patients with T2DM aged 40–67 years and 36 well-matched healthy controls (HCs) underwent resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) and arterial spin labeling (ASL) scans at two time points with a 5-year interval. …”
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Impaired decisional impulsivity in pathological videogamers. by Michael A Irvine, Yulia Worbe, Sorcha Bolton, Neil A Harrison, Edward T Bullmore, Valerie Voon

“…We used stringent diagnostic criteria highlighting functional impairment.<h4>Results</h4>In the Information Sampling Task, pathological gaming participants sampled less evidence prior to making a decision and scored fewer points compared with healthy volunteers. …”
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Spatial resources in pre-service teachers’ instructional practices in VR tandems: co-constructing shared spaces and embodied spatial scaffolding by Milica Lazovic

“…Over time, synchronized co-referencing practices involving joint and matched pointing become central to negotiating a blended origo. …”
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From chemoproteomic‐detected amino acids to genomic coordinates: insights into precise multi‐omic data integration by Maria F Palafox, Heta S Desai, Valerie A Arboleda, Keriann M Backus

“…Here, we evaluated mapping approaches to match chemoproteomic‐detected cysteine and lysine residues with their genetic coordinates. …”
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Vascular Calcification in Chronic Kidney Disease: The Role of Inflammation by Kerstin Benz, Karl-Friedrich Hilgers, Christoph Daniel, Kerstin Amann

“…Cardiovascular disease is approximately 3 times more frequent in patients with CKD than in other known cardiovascular risk groups and cardiovascular mortality is approximately 10-fold more frequent in patients on dialysis compared to the age- and sex-matched segments of the nonrenal population. Among other structural and functional factors advanced calcification of atherosclerotic plaques as well as of the arterial and venous media has been described as potentially relevant for this high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. …”
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Association of Mobile Stroke Unit Care and Spending, Utilization, and Death in New York City by Dhruv Khullar, Babak B. Navi, Saad Mir, Matthew E. Fink, Luisa Tinapay, Glenn Asaeda, Rainu Kaushal, Eshani Pareek, Amelia M. Bond

“…Compared with propensity score–matched control patients, MSU patients were significantly more likely to receive tissue‐type plasminogen activator (49.9% versus 9.4%; difference, 37.5 percentage points [95% CI, 30.2–45.6]; P<0.001) but experienced similar lengths of stay (5.9 versus 6.7 days, P=0.13) and were similarly likely to be discharged to a skilled nursing facility (15.6% versus 15.1%, P=0.86). …”
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Alleviating Local Optima in Bridge Bidding via Diverse PPO Ensembling by Yi Zhang, Fengyi Song, Chaohui Zhang, Tao Zhang, Weiguo Deng

“…Our model outperformed WBridge5 by 0.73 IMPs (International Match Points) during the deep reinforcement learning phase, further improving to a 0.99 IMP advantage after incorporating search methods.…”
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Development Performance and Pressure Field Evolution of ASP Flooding by Junjian Li, Hao Wang, Jinchuan Hu, Hanqiao Jiang, Rongda Zhang, Lihui Tang

“…Also, response surface methodology (RSM) is adopted to obtain the formula between pressure functions and influencing factors.…”
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Assessment of return to play after an acute shoulder injury: protocol for an explorative prospective observational German multicentre study by Leonard Achenbach, Hendrik Bloch, Eduard Kurz, Ines Buchholz, Dirk Maier, Arthur Praetorius, Sebastian Seyler, Susanne Standtke

“…Maximum comparability will be ensured via uninjured matched pair teammates. To assess the subjective assessment of shoulder functioning and the athlete’s readiness to RTP, patient-reported outcome measures (Western Ontario Shoulder Instability Index, Quick-Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand, Psychological Readiness of Injured Athlete to Return to Sport and Shoulder Instability-Return to Sport after Injury) will be completed. …”
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Shadi Park Renovation with Social Development Emphasis: A Case Study Halabja City, Iraq by Mihraban Othman Mustafa, Masoumeh Faraji, Zaniar Jamal Salih, Muhammed Saeed Rasheed

“…Among urban green spaces, parks are important because they have leisure and recreational functions, and the favorable physical and mental effects on humans have been proven today. …”
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Compass Fundus-Guided Perimetry in Geographic Atrophy by Roberta Farci, Arturo Carta, Paolo Fogagnolo, Luca Mario Rossetti, Maurizio Fossarello

“…The correlation between AF GSS and B/W variables was significant (p value = 0,002), the correlation between hyperautofluorescent points and B/W was not significant (p value = 0,40), and the correlation between IR GSS and B/W was significant (p=0,00). …”
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