Postprandial Oxidative Stress and Gastrointestinal Hormones: Is There a Link? by Hana Malinska (618835)

“…Evaluating postprandial changes of gastrointestinal hormones together with changes in oxidative stress markers may help to understand the mechanisms behind the postprandial state in diabetes as well as suggest new preventive and therapeutical strategies.</p><p>Methods</p><p>A standard meal test has been used for monitoring the postprandial concentrations of gastrointestinal hormones and oxidative stress markers in patients with T2D (n = 50) compared to healthy controls (n = 50). …”

Implementation of a rapid response team in a large nonprofit Brazilian hospital: improving the quality of emergency care through Plan-Do-Study-Act by Meire Cavalieri Almeida (6826961)

“…Results: Between 2013 and 2014, the rapid response team attended to 2,296 patients. This study showed a nonsignificant reduction in mortality from 8.3% in cycle 1 to 5.0% in cycle 4; however, death rates remained stable in cycles 3 and 4, with frequencies of 5.2% and 5.0%, respectively. …”

Implementation of a rapid response team in a large nonprofit Brazilian hospital: improving the quality of emergency care through Plan-Do-Study-Act by Meire Cavalieri Almeida (6826961)

“…Results: Between 2013 and 2014, the rapid response team attended to 2,296 patients. This study showed a nonsignificant reduction in mortality from 8.3% in cycle 1 to 5.0% in cycle 4; however, death rates remained stable in cycles 3 and 4, with frequencies of 5.2% and 5.0%, respectively. …”

The expected effect of hydrocortisone on sepsis pathophysiology in patients in sub-Saharan Africa. by Phoebe Gruccio (21029968)

Table_1_Potential Influence of Anesthetic Interventions on Breast Cancer Early Recurrence According to Estrogen Receptor Expression: A Sub-Study of a Randomized Trial.docx by Mohan Li (7527596)

“…</p>Methods<p>Based on a multicenter randomized controlled trial (clinicaltrials.gov, NCT00418457), we included all the patients from Peking Union Medical College Hospital research center in this study. …”

Change of SMAD4 after TGFβ inhibitor /activator treatment. by Jingping Ge (636557)

“…<p>The iPSCs were cultured in iPSC medium, and treated with TGFβ inhibitor SB431542 (10μM) for 3 days or treated with TGFβ activator, TGFβ1 (20ng/ml) for 24h. DMSO treatment was used as the control. …”

Effect of a coordinated reduction in multiple enzymes on sterol biosynthesis. by Mathieu Blanc (139647)

“…Intensity values relative to β-actin calculated by densitometry show a decrease of the total amount of protein in the mCMV-infected BMDM compared to the mock-treated samples of 64% for HMGCS1, 50% for HMGCR, and 85% for SQLE. …”

Numerically simulated GRAPPA-accelerated acquisitions of a phantom. by Andrew J. Coristine (3219420)

“…<p>Random coil noise was added to the 50 scan average described in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0163618#pone.0163618.g001" target="_blank">Fig 1C</a>) for the conventional T₂-Prep as well as for 2D-T₂-Prep modules of radius 6.0 and 12.0 cm. …”

R″→T transition for a single subunit of GroEL. by Zheng Yang (264955)

“…The end states refer to subunit A in the PDB structures 1GRU and 1GR5. Results are shown for <i>F_min</i> = 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 and 0.7, corresponding to the allowable angular deviations of up to 50.8°, 45.0°, 39.2° and 33.2°, respectively, between and <i>v</i><i>_A</i>^(<i>k</i>) (or <i>v</i><i>_B</i>^(<i>k</i>)). …”

Splicing assays of wt and mutant pre-mRNA in the absence and presence of wild-type StpA and mutant G126V-StpA by Rupert Grossberger (9105)

“…The reactions were performed in the presence of 5 mM MgCl, 0.5 mM GTP, 50 mM Tris–HCl (pH 7.3) and 0.4 mM spermidine (see Materials and Methods). () Splicing of the wt intron pre-RNA without added protein (full circles), with the addition of 1.4 μM wild-type StpA (full squares) or 1.4 μM G126V-StpA mutant (empty squares). () Splicing of the C865U pre-RNA intron mutant without protein (full circles), with addition of 1.4 μM wild-type StpA (full squares) or 1.4 μM G126V-StpA mutant (empty squares). …”

Temperature: A major climatic determinant of cowpea production by Juliane Rafaele Alves Barros (10398785)

“…Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of water availability and temperature on the performance of cowpea cultivars. A greenhouse experiment was conducted using a 4 × 2 × 5 factorial arrangement, with four replications. …”

Stability of Afsup. by Gabriele Sass (335744)

Image_5_Is Proton Therapy a “Pro” for Breast Cancer? A Comparison of Proton vs. Non-proton Radiotherapy Using the National Cancer Database.pdf by Mudit Chowdhary (6016496)

“…On multivariate logistic analysis, the following factors were found to be significant for receipt of PRT (all p < 0.05): academic facility (odds ratio [OR] = 2.50), South (OR = 2.01) and West location (OR = 12.43), left-sided (OR = 1.21), ER-positive (OR = 1.59), and mastectomy (OR = 1.47); pT2-T4 disease predicted for decrease use (OR = 0.79). …”

Table_1_Is Proton Therapy a “Pro” for Breast Cancer? A Comparison of Proton vs. Non-proton Radiotherapy Using the National Cancer Database.DOCX by Mudit Chowdhary (6016496)

“…On multivariate logistic analysis, the following factors were found to be significant for receipt of PRT (all p < 0.05): academic facility (odds ratio [OR] = 2.50), South (OR = 2.01) and West location (OR = 12.43), left-sided (OR = 1.21), ER-positive (OR = 1.59), and mastectomy (OR = 1.47); pT2-T4 disease predicted for decrease use (OR = 0.79). …”

Image_4_Is Proton Therapy a “Pro” for Breast Cancer? A Comparison of Proton vs. Non-proton Radiotherapy Using the National Cancer Database.pdf by Mudit Chowdhary (6016496)

“…On multivariate logistic analysis, the following factors were found to be significant for receipt of PRT (all p < 0.05): academic facility (odds ratio [OR] = 2.50), South (OR = 2.01) and West location (OR = 12.43), left-sided (OR = 1.21), ER-positive (OR = 1.59), and mastectomy (OR = 1.47); pT2-T4 disease predicted for decrease use (OR = 0.79). …”

Image_3_Is Proton Therapy a “Pro” for Breast Cancer? A Comparison of Proton vs. Non-proton Radiotherapy Using the National Cancer Database.pdf by Mudit Chowdhary (6016496)

“…On multivariate logistic analysis, the following factors were found to be significant for receipt of PRT (all p < 0.05): academic facility (odds ratio [OR] = 2.50), South (OR = 2.01) and West location (OR = 12.43), left-sided (OR = 1.21), ER-positive (OR = 1.59), and mastectomy (OR = 1.47); pT2-T4 disease predicted for decrease use (OR = 0.79). …”

Image_2_Is Proton Therapy a “Pro” for Breast Cancer? A Comparison of Proton vs. Non-proton Radiotherapy Using the National Cancer Database.pdf by Mudit Chowdhary (6016496)

“…On multivariate logistic analysis, the following factors were found to be significant for receipt of PRT (all p < 0.05): academic facility (odds ratio [OR] = 2.50), South (OR = 2.01) and West location (OR = 12.43), left-sided (OR = 1.21), ER-positive (OR = 1.59), and mastectomy (OR = 1.47); pT2-T4 disease predicted for decrease use (OR = 0.79). …”

Image_1_Is Proton Therapy a “Pro” for Breast Cancer? A Comparison of Proton vs. Non-proton Radiotherapy Using the National Cancer Database.pdf by Mudit Chowdhary (6016496)

“…On multivariate logistic analysis, the following factors were found to be significant for receipt of PRT (all p < 0.05): academic facility (odds ratio [OR] = 2.50), South (OR = 2.01) and West location (OR = 12.43), left-sided (OR = 1.21), ER-positive (OR = 1.59), and mastectomy (OR = 1.47); pT2-T4 disease predicted for decrease use (OR = 0.79). …”

Esculetin, a coumarin derivative, exerts in vitro and in vivo antiproliferative activity against hepatocellular carcinoma by initiating a mitochondrial-dependent apoptosis pathway by J. Wang (472325)

“…Esculetin significantly inhibited proliferation of HCC cells in a concentration- and time-dependent manner and with an IC50 value of 2.24 mM. …”

A regulatory gene network of foam-cell formation. by Josefin Skogsberg (88384)

“…CE accumulation (given as average percentage next to each node) was decreased (blue) by siRNA inhibition of 5 genes and increased (red) by inhibition of 2 genes; inhibition of 1 gene had no effect (black) (see also <a href="http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000036#pgen-1000036-t003" target="_blank">Table 3</a>). …”