Common and Rare Hematological Manifestations and Adverse Drug Events during Treatment of Active TB: A State of Art by Maria Letizia Minardi, Ilenia Fato, Francesco Di Gennaro, Silvia Mosti, Annelisa Mastrobattista, Carlotta Cerva, Raffaella Libertone, Annalisa Saracino, Delia Goletti, Enrico Girardi, Massimo Andreoni, Fabrizio Palmieri, Gina Gualano

“…These hematological changes act as a marker for the diagnosis, prognosis and response to therapy. …”
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Combinatorial Treatment of Tinzaparin and Chemotherapy Can Induce a Significant Antitumor Effect in Pancreatic Cancer by Panagiotis Sarantis, Alexandros Bokas, Adriana Papadimitropoulou, Evangelos Koustas, Stamatios Theocharis, Pavlos Papakotoulas, Dimitrios Schizas, Alexandros Papalampros, Evangelos Felekouras, Athanasios G. Papavassiliou, Michalis V. Karamouzis

“…The triple regimen provided an extra 24.3% tumor reduction compared to the double combination (gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel). …”
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BAMLET administration via drinking water inhibits intestinal tumor development and promotes long-term health by Hien Thi Tran, Murphy Lam Yim Wan, Ines Ambite, Michele Cavalera, Mario Grossi, Jaromir Háček, Parisa Esmaeili, António N. B. M. Carneiro, Arunima Chaudhuri, Shahram Ahmadi, Catharina Svanborg

“…Here, we show that the protein-fatty acid complex BAMLET (bovine alpha-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells) can act as a peroral treatment for colorectal cancer. …”
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Rapidly Progressing to ESRD in an Individual with Coexisting ADPKD and Masked Klinefelter and Gitelman Syndromes by Ramón Peces, Carlos Peces, Rocío Mena, Emilio Cuesta, Fe Amalia García-Santiago, Marta Ossorio, Sara Afonso, Pablo Lapunzina, Julián Nevado

“…Klinefelter syndrome (KS) is a consequence of an extra copy of the X chromosome in males. Main symptoms in KS include hypogonadism, tall stature, azoospermia, and a risk of cardiovascular diseases, among others. …”
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Fluoride as a Potential Repressor of Glycogen Metabolism in Skeletal Muscle Cell Line CCL136 by Izabela Gutowska, Agnieszka Maruszewska, Marta Skórka-Majewicz, Agnieszka Kempińska-Podhorodecka, Agnieszka Kolasa, Agata Wszołek, Irena Baranowska-Bosiacka, Wojciech Żwierełło

“…In someone suffering from chronic fluoride poisoning, frequent symptoms are chronic fatigue not relieved by extra sleep or rest, muscular weakness, muscle spasms, involuntary twitching. …”
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Screening of Activated Carbons for the Treatment of Highly Concentrated Phenol Solutions Using Catalytic Wet Peroxide Oxidation: The Effect of Iron Impurities on the Catalytic Acti... by Maria T. Pinho, Rui S. Ribeiro, Helder T. Gomes, Joaquim L. Faria, Adrián M. T. Silva

“…In the present study, CWPO of phenol aqueous solutions was investigated in the presence of five commercial ACs without added metals yet containing different extents of iron impurities resulting from their industrial preparation procedures (ROX 0.8, RX 3-Extra, C-Gran and PK 0.25-1 from Cabot Norit and HYDRAFFIN AS 12/450 from Degussa). …”
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Circulating Tumor Cell Number Is Associated with Primary Tumor Volume in Patients with Lung Adenocarcinoma by Byung Ju Kang, M.D., Ph.D., Seung Won Ra, M.D., Ph.D., Kyusang Lee, Ph.D., Soyeoun Lim, M.D., M.S., So Hee Son, M.S., Jong-Joon Ahn, M.D., Ph.D., Byung Chul Kim, Ph.D.

“…Further subgroup analysis showed a correlation between CTC number and primary tumor volume in patients with distant (p=0.024) and extra-thoracic (p=0.033) metastasis (not in patients with distant metastasis). …”
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Dipyridamole activates adenosine A2B receptor and AMPK/cAMP signaling and promotes myogenic differentiation of myoblastic C2C12 cells by Miguel Marco-Bonilla, Raquel Herencia, María Fresnadillo, Fernando Huete-Toral, Gonzalo Carracedo, Gonzalo Carracedo, Raquel Largo, Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont, Aránzazu Mediero

“…We determined how the purinergic system modulates myogenesis using dipyridamole (blocks adenosine taken up by the cells) and tenofovir (inhibits ATP release) in a myoblast cell line.Methods: C2C12 cells were differentiated in the presence/absence of tenofovir/dipyridamole, with/without the A2B selective inhibitor PSB-603. Extra-/intracellular nucleotides were examined via HPLC. …”
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Design and validation of cyanobacteria-rhizobacteria consortia for tomato seedlings growth promotion by A. J. Toribio, F. Suárez-Estrella, M. M. Jurado, J. A. López-González, M. R. Martínez-Gallardo, M. J. López

“…At the same time, cyanobacteria can photosynthesize, fix nitrogen, synthesize substances that stimulate rhizogenesis, plant aerial growth, or even suppose an extra supply of carbon usable by heterotrophic bacteria, as well as act as biological control agents, give them an enormous value as plant growth promoters. …”
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Using a multi-omic approach to investigate the mechanism of 12-bis-THA activity against Burkholderia thailandensis by Adam Pattinson, Sandeep Bahia, Gwénaëlle Le Gall, Christopher J. Morris, Sarah V. Harding, Sarah V. Harding, Michael McArthur

“…As B. pseudomallei produces a polysaccharide capsule we first examined if this extra barrier influenced the activity of 12-bis-THA which is known to act on the bacterial envelope. …”
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Traditional Clinicopathological Biomarkers Still Determine Disease-Free and Overall Survival in Invasive Breast Cancer Patients: A Pilot Study by Katarzyna Wrzeszcz, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, Piotr Rhone, Dorota Formanowicz, Stefan Kruszewski, Barbara Ruszkowska-Ciastek

“…<b>Background:</b> Molecular classification, tumor diameter, Ki67 expression, and brachytherapy administration still act as the most potent potential predictors of breast cancer recurrence and overall survival. …”
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Hydrogeochemical and Isotopic Constraints on the Pattern of a Deep Circulation Groundwater Flow System by Xiting Long, Keneng Zhang, Ruiqiang Yuan, Liang Zhang, Zhenling Liu

“…Basic mineral dissolutions at thermoneutral conditions, hydrolysis with the aid of carbonic acid produced by the reaction of carbon dioxide with the water, and hydrothermal alteration in the geothermal reservoir add some extra chemical components into the geothermal water. …”
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Actions taken to safeguard the intended health care chain of older people with multiple diagnoses - a critical incident study by Lena-Karin Gustafsson, Viktoria Zander, Anna Bondesson, Tina Pettersson, El-Marie Anbacken, Gunnel Östlund

“…Both types of critical incidents required sole responsibility from the nurse. The RNs acted due to ethics, ‘walking the extra mile’, searching for person-centred information, and finding out own knowledge barriers. …”
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Mobile reporting of vaccine stock-levels in primary health care facilities in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa: perceptions and experiences of health care workers by Chinwe Juliana Iwu, Ntombenhle Ngcobo, Sara Cooper, Lindi Mathebula, Hlokoma Mangqalaza, Abongile Magwaca, Usuf Chikte, Charles S. Wiysonge

“…However, they highlighted a number of factors that demotivated efficient usage of the system: inadequate training, staff shortages and high staff turnover, lack of responses from the managers, the extra workload that comes with the system, amongst others. …”
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The combination of phase angle and age has a good diagnostic value for sarcopenia in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients by Ye Chen, Jinlan Wu, Lei Ran, Dan Yu, Xi Chen, Maodong Liu

“…We applied Receiver-operating characteristics curves to determine the diagnostic accuracy of these risk factors.ResultsAfter adjustments for sex, age, diabetes, BMI, extracellular water ratio, extra water, serum creatinine, total kt/v, and residual kt/v, phase angle correlated to handgrip strength and lowered limb muscle mass but not to skeletal muscle mass, upper arm muscle circumference, upper limb muscle mass and appendicular skeletal muscle mass index. …”
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Reduction of In-Hospital Preoperative Waiting Time of Elective Surgeries in the Amidst of COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from Ethiopia by Teklewold B, Abebe E, Anteneh D, Haileselassie E

“…Box 1271, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Email dagmawianteneh16@gmail.comBackground: The higher demand for surgical services during the advancement of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted from the need for a pre-admission negative result, the need for extra resources, and a shortage of skilled expertise. …”
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Robotic Knee Prosthesis with Cycloidal Gear and Four-Bar Mechanism Optimized Using Particle Swarm Algorithm by Mouaz Al Kouzbary, Hamza Al Kouzbary, Jingjing Liu, Taha Khamis, Zaina Al-Hashimi, Hanie Nadia Shasmin, Nooranida Arifin, Noor Azuan Abu Osman

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Functioning of market economy and rent-seeking: Why it is necessary to diminish the role of government in economic affairs? by Janković Ivan

“…Rent-seeking economy is a result of abandoning the strict market economy with no or little income gained by the extra market redistribution. The social environment where it is permissible and desirable to remove as great as possible economic activities from the free, non-regulated markets to the public sector or to the sector of the highly regulated economy which is cartelised by coercion, leads entrepreneurs to change their orientation. …”
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Value creation through strategic repositioning : a case study of South Bank Tower by Weil, John Endicott Birdseye

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Synthesis, characterization and assembly of the binary ligand protected gold nanoparticles by Kim, Hyewon, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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