Thalidomide-Revisited: Are COVID-19 Patients Going to Be the Latest Victims of Yet Another Theoretical Drug-Repurposing? حسب Athar Khalil (5906330)

"…Herein, we will discuss the theoretical effectiveness of Thalidomide in attenuating inflammatory complications that are encountered in COVID-19 patients while pinpointing the lack of the needed evidences to move forward with this drug.…"

Efficient multi-objective neural architecture search framework via policy gradient algorithm حسب Bo Lyu (16522643)

"…Notably, compared with other multi-objective NAS methods, our NAS framework effectively decreases the computational burden (accounting for just 1/6 of the NSGA-Net). …"

The Effect of Atorvastatin (and Subsequent Metformin) on Adipose Tissue Acylation-Stimulatory-Protein Concentration and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Overweight/Obese Women With Polyc... حسب Thozhukat Sathyapalan (704787)

"…</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">This post-hoc analysis revealed that 12 weeks of atorvastatin treatment significantly decreased the markers of adipose tissue dysfunction and inflammation, namely ASP, IL-6 and MCP-1 in obese women with PCOS. …"

Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations are inversely associated with body adiposity measurements but the association with bone mass is non-linear in postmenopausal women حسب Vijay, Ganji

"…We investigated an association between serum vitamin D [25-hydroxyvitmain D (25(OH)D)] and adiposity measurements in postmenopausal women using Qatar Biobank data (n = 935). …"
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Effectiveness of Positron Emission Tomography for Predicting Chemotherapy Response in Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases حسب Glazer, Evan

"…The impetus for this research was finding viable cancer in patients with clearly negative findings on PET. We hypothesized that PET uptake levels were artificially decreased after chemotherapy. …"
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A Multidecadal Assessment of Haze Development and Fluctuations in Visibility for Arabian Peninsula حسب Luqman Atique (16036586)

"…To comprehend the time-based patterns of visibility across the ME, we utilized the Mann Kendall (MK) and Modified Mann Kendall (MMK) trend estimators in both space and time. …"

Acute intense fatigue does not modify the effect of EVA and TPU custom foot orthoses on running mechanics, running economy and perceived comfort حسب Ken Van Alsenoy (14150559)

"…<p>We determined whether fatigue modifies the effect of custom foot orthoses manufactured from ethyl-vinyl acetate (EVA) and expanded thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) materials, both compared to standardized footwear (CON), on running mechanics, running economy, and perceived comfort. …"

Effect of Mg incorporation on the properties of PCL/Mg composites for potential tissue engineering applications حسب Sumama Nuthana Kalva (19206064)

"…However, the elastic modulus decreased by around 50% for the same composition. The thermal study revealed a significant reduction in the degradation temperature from above 400°C for pure PCL to around 300°C for PCL/Mg composite having 15% Mg. …"

Non-diabetic ketoacidosis secondary to primary hyperthyroidism حسب Abdulrahman F. Al-Mashdali (17148316)

"…This was associated with decreased appetite and weight loss.</p><h3>Diagnosis</h3><p dir="ltr">Laboratory findings were significant for high anion gap metabolic acidosis, positive ketones in the urine, and high serum B-hydroxybutyrate. …"

Divergent Biochemical Properties and Disparate Impact of Arrhythmogenic Calmodulin Mutations on Zebrafish Cardiac Function حسب Sahar I. Da'as (17128747)

"…Many recent clinical and genetic studies have reported a series of CaM mutations in patients with life‐threatening arrhythmogenic syndromes, such as long QT syndrome (LQTS) and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). We recently showed that four arrhythmogenic CaM mutations (N98I, D132E, D134H, and Q136P) significantly reduce the binding of CaM to RyR2. …"

Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of candida albicans Lebanese hospital isolates resistant and sensitive to caspofungin. (c2018) حسب Toutounji, Maggie Nazih

"…Candida albicans is both a commensal and a significant opportunistic fungal human pathogen, present in the digestive tract and the mouth as a part of the normal human microflora. …"
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Mutations in L-type amino acid transporter-2 support SLC7A8 as a novel gene involved in age-related hearing loss حسب Meritxell Espino Guarch (18810097)

"…Thus, a screening of a cohort of ARHL patients and controls was carried out revealing several variants inSLC7A8, whose role was further investigated by in vitro functional studies. Significant decreases in SLC7A8 transport activity was detected for patient’s variants (p.Val302Ile, p.Arg418His, p.Thr402Met and p.Val460Glu) further supporting a causative role for SLC7A8 in ARHL. …"

Cytokine-chemokine network driven metastasis in esophageal cancer; promising avenue for targeted therapy حسب Ajaz A. Bhat (12984701)

"…The tumor microenvironment (TME) contains several cell types, including fibroblasts, immune cells, adipocytes, stromal proteins, and growth factors, which play a significant role in supporting the growth and aggressive behavior of cancer cells. …"

Arginine Deprivation in AML Cells Induces Ferroptosis, a Type of Autophagy-Mediated Cell Death حسب Tohme, Sara

"…Scavenging ROS using NAC significantly decreases cell death but has minimal effect on autophagy activation, suggesting that the accumulation of ROS is downstream of autophagy activation but upstream of cell death. …"
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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study حسب Ahammed Mekkodathil (4578838)

"…<h2>Background</h2> <p>Fall-related injuries are important public health problem worldwide. We aimed to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries in a level 1 trauma center.…"

Ecotoxicological Assessment of Thermally- and Hydrogen-Reduced Graphene Oxide/TiO₂ Photocatalytic Nanocomposites Using the Zebrafish Embryo Model حسب Halema Al-Kandari (6316961)

"…However, both nanocomposites should be used with caution at concentration higher than the NOEC (400 mg/L), in particular RGOTi, which significantly (i) caused pericardial and yolk sac edema; (ii) decreased the hatching rate, locomotion, and hematopoietic activities; and (iii) affected the heart rate. …"

Co-doped zigzag graphene nanoribbon based gas sensor for sensitive detection of H₂S: DFT study حسب Ehab Salih (17075206)

"…<p dir="ltr">In this work, we present a highly sensitive gas sensor for the detection of poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas (H₂S) based on copper and zinc co-doped zigzag graphene nanoribbon (Cu/Zn-ZGNR). …"

Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations are inversely associated with body adiposity measurements but the association with bone mass is non-linear in postmenopausal women حسب Vijay Ganji (8710491)

"…We investigated an association between serum vitamin D [25-hydroxyvitmain D (25(OH)D)] and adiposity measurements in postmenopausal women using Qatar Biobank data (n = 935). …"

Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burd... حسب Katherine R Paulson (8674293)

"…</p><p><br></p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">We completed all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortality analyses from 204 countries and territories for detailed age groups separately, with aggregated mortality probabilities per 1000 livebirths computed for neonatal mortality rate (NMR) and under-5 mortality rate (U5MR). …"

Functional disability of road traffic injury patients admitted to the National Hospital of Sri Lanka on admission and three months after discharge from the hospital حسب Roshan Chaminda Sampath (19774524)

"…Injury severity was measured using Injury Severity Score (ISS) based in Abbreviated Injury Severity Scale (AIS). …"