Analyses of the Erosive Effect of Dietary Substances and Medications on Deciduous Teeth. by Adrian Lussi, Thiago Saads Carvalho

“…In all specimens, we measured surface hardness (VHN: Vickers hardness numbers) and surface reflection intensity (SRI) at baseline (SH baseline and SRI baseline), after a total of 2 min (SH2 min) and after 4 min (SH4 min and SRI4 min) erosive challenges (60 ml of substance for 6 enamel samples; 30°C, under constant agitation at 95 rpm). …”
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Associations of infection burden with Kawasaki disease in a population-based setting during 30 years by Johannes Mofors, Håkan Eliasson, Gunnar Bergman, Sven-Erik Sonesson, Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Göran Elinder, André Rudolph, Bodil Schiller

“…Objectives The objective of this study was to investigate the role of infections in the pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease.Methods The investigation was a nationwide epidemiological case-control study, comprising all cases of Kawasaki disease diagnosed in Sweden 1987–2018. Controls were randomly sampled from the general population, matched on sex, age, and area of residency. …”
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Comparison of Renal Tubular Damage with Kidney Injury Molecule-1 in Open and Laparoscopic Colorectal Cancer Surgery by Abdullah Gürhan Duyan, Celalettin Vatansev, Rahim Kocabaş, Melek Yalçın Koç, Muhammed Ali Akbulut

“…Urine samples were collected from the patients preoperatively, postoperatively at the 4th hour, and postoperatively on the 14th day, and the urine KIM-1 levels and urine creatinine (Cr) values were measured. …”
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Lipid profile in menopausal women of two ethnic groups by N. V. Semenova, I. M. Madaeva, M. A. Darenskaya, O. A. Gavrilova, R. M. Zhambalova, L. I. Kolesnikova

“…When analyzing the intergroup differences for independent samples, nonparametric criteria were used. Results. …”
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Effect of betaine on growth performance and carcass traits of meat ducks by WANG Yi-zhen

“…Day-old commercial strain Cherry Valley meat ducks (n=690) were randomly allocated into five groups for a six-week feeding trial. …”
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Effects of moderate-protein and high-protein diets, including mealworm meal or poultry by-product meal, on immunological variables in healthy adult dogs by Sophie-Kristin Heinze, Jürgen Zentek, Kathrin Büttner, Andreas Moritz, Nadine Paßlack

“…The diets were offered to 10 healthy adult beagle dogs, using a randomized crossover design. Each diet was fed for 4 weeks. …”
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Influence of suturing material on wound healing: Experimental study in dogs by Gazivoda Dragan, Pelemiš Dejan, Vujašković Goran, Đurđević Slaviša

“…The experiment was terminated by histopathological examination of tissue samples, taken on postoperative day 3, 7, 14 and 21 in order to identify the effect of healing and the degree of local reaction. …”
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Evaluating large language models for drafting emergency department encounter summaries. by Christopher Y K Williams, Jaskaran Bains, Tianyu Tang, Kishan Patel, Alexa N Lucas, Fiona Chen, Brenda Y Miao, Atul J Butte, Aaron E Kornblith

“…In this cross-sectional study of 100 randomly sampled adult Emergency Department (ED) visits from 2012 to 2023 at the University of California, San Francisco ED, we sought to investigate the performance of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5-turbo in generating ED encounter summaries and evaluate the prevalence and type of errors for each section of the encounter summary across three evaluation criteria: 1) Inaccuracy of LLM-summarized information; 2) Hallucination of information; 3) Omission of relevant clinical information. …”
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Development of the Ward Nurses' Perspective-taking of the Staff Receiving Discharged Patients Scale: An observational study of ward nurses. by Shingo Tanaka, Masatoshi Saiki, Yukie Takemura

“…For the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, the samples were randomly split in half and tested. Cronbach's alpha, intraclass correlation coefficients, and correlation coefficients were calculated using both self-developed and pre-existing measures.…”
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Excessive Green Tea Intake Alters Hemoglobin (Hb) Concentration and Histoarchitecture of Liver by Swarup Kumar Kundu, Shonkor Kumar Das

“…A total of thirty (n=30) Swiss albino mice were taken and randomly divided into Control C, Treated T1, and Treated T2 groups. …”
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Determination of the effects of mentha caucasica on histology of small intestine in japanese quail (coturnix coturnix japonica) by Emrah Sur, Tamer Çağlayan, Nariste Kadıralieva, Erdoğan Şeker

“…The duodenum, jejunum and ileum samples were collected. After routine hitological process, the serial sections were stained with Crossmon's trichrome and Periodic Acid Schiff (PAS) reaction. …”
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Risk of celiac disease, type 1 diabetes, and thyroid disease autoimmunity during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in South of Sweden: insights from the TRIAD study by Alexander Lind, Maria Naredi Scherman, Samia Hamdan, Daniel Agardh

“…Between August 2021 and June 2022 self-obtained capillary plasma samples were collected from 1088 children at 6–9 years of age and 1185 adolescents at 13–16 years of age, who were randomly invited from the general population to a screening for CD, T1D, AITD, and SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. …”
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The effect of 8 weeks of Whole-Body High-Intensity Interval Training with the consumption of mango leaf extract on the serum levels of oxidative and antioxidant stress in overweigh... by Fatemeh Omidali, Fatemeh Shabkhiz, Ali Akbarnejad Qaralow

“…The mango leaf extract and placebo groups consumed one 500 mg capsule of mango leaf extract and placebo daily for eight weeks, respectively. Blood samples were taken before and after the eight-week intervention. …”
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Biofunctional Miso-Type Sauce Enhanced with Biocarotenoids: How Does Its Habitual Consumption Affect Lipidemic, Glycemic, and Oxidative Stress Markers? A Pilot Cross-Over Clinical... by Olga I. Papagianni, Charalampia Dimou, Antonios E. Koutelidakis

“…Blood samples were taken at baseline and after intervention. …”
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Comparison of the effect of surgical site skin preparation with povidone-iodine antiseptic at two different temperatures on the microbial load and surgical site infection in laparo... by Diba Dashtizadeh, Fardin Amiri, Sedigheh Hannani, Mojgan Oshaghi, Nemamali Azadi

“…Both groups received the same primary preparation (7.5% povidone-iodine). Culture samples were collected before skin preparation, after the primary preparation and after the secondary preparation. …”
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Dinâmica de íons em solo salino-sódico sob fitorremediação com Atriplex nummularia e aplicação de gesso Dynamics of ions in saline-sodic soil under phytoremediation with Atriplex n... by Monaliza A. dos Santos, Maria B. G. dos S. Freire, Brivaldo G. de Almeida, Cíntia M. T. Lins, Emanuelle M. da Silva

“…<br>The study was conducted in a saline-sodic Inceptisol from the Cachoeira II Irrigation Perimeter, Serra Talhada (PE), with the objective of evaluating the dynamics of basic cations and anions in a saline-sodic soil subjected to phytoremediation with Atriplex nummularia and correction with application of gypsum. Samples were taken every six months, at four times (0, 6, 12 and 18 months). …”
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INTESTINAL HELMINTH INFECTION AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN IN ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA by P. C. Okechukwu, M. O. Iwueze, C. U. Uzochukwu, A. E. Onyido

“…This study was done to investigate the effect of intestinal helminths infection on nutritional status of school children in Enugu State, Nigeria. Stool samples were collected from 2411 pupils of randomly selected primary schools and examined using direct smear and Kato Katz techniques to determine prevalence. …”
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Thermal and Mechanical Characterization of K-Carrageenan/Graphene/Bismuth Oxide Nanocomposites by Cathy B. Escuadro, Gil Nonato C. Santos

“…Morphological analysis confirms the nanofillers were successfully embedded in the matrix, characterized by aggregates of Bi2O3 NP and GNS randomly dispersed at its surface. The inclusion of Bi2O3 NPs and GNS (K-CGBi) further improved the thermal stability of the film samples as demonstrated by its TGA and DSC results, compared to the addition of pure GNS alone (K-CG) and neat k-carrageenan film (K-C). …”
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The Effect of 12 Weeks of Strength Training on Muscular Strength, Body Fat Percentage, Irisin and BDNF in Active Middle-aged Women by Reavan Afshar, Masoud Rahmati, Rahim Mirnasouri

“…The training group performed 12 weeks of strength training, three sessions per week at an intensity of 65 to 80% of maximum strength. Then, blood samples were taken using ELISA to measure irisin and BDNF. …”
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Effects of dietary gluten on body weight and gut microbiota in BALB-C mice using 16 S rRNA-Based analysis by Merve Sayın Dülger, Nihal Zekiye Erdem, Emek Dümen

“…For microbiota analysis, fecal samples were collected weekly from the cages after overnight cage changes. …”
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