Paper List

Jiacheng Zhong, Zhen Wang, Hanting Li, Kai Yang, Yu Meng, Shanze Chen, Lingwei Wang

Background: Acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) involve poorly characterized airway host responses. Integrating sputum proteomics with radiomics may reveal underlying molecular heterogeneity and iden...

Vikas R. Dharnidharka, Asha Moudgil, Priya S. Verghese, Leyat Tal, Rebecca R. Scobell, Mahmoud Kallash, Amy J. Goodwin Davies, Nicole Marchesani, Mitchell G. Maltenfort, Megan Kelton, Margret Bock, Eliza Blanchette, Hillarey K. Stone, Caroline Gluck, Frank Hullekes, Leonardo V. Riella, William E. Smoyer, Mark Mitsnefes, Bradley P. Dixon, Joseph T. Flynn, Michael J.G. Somers, Christopher B. Forrest, Susan Furth, Michelle R. Denburg

Background Recurrence of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (rFSGS) remains a major complication and a challenge to study treatment efficacy due to lack of granular data in a sufficient sample size. A...

Misaki Akiyama, Kentaro Nishi, Toshihiro Matsui, Kaoru Tsuboi, Satoshi Okada, Tomoya Kaneda, Masao Ogura, Chiba Hirotaka, Norihiko Tsuboi, Kentaro Ide, Shotaro Matsumoto, Koichi Kamei

Background and hypothesis: Pediatric acute kidney diseases and disorders (AKD) are a new concept defined as kidney damage lasting 7–90 days from onset. Data on AKD after bloodstream infection are limi...

Qingkai Wang, Hao Qiu, Liran Shen, Jinxing Dai, Fachen Miao, Qianjin Shi, Yunbiao Zhang, Kang Shen, Weibing Qiu

Objective IgA vasculitis nephritis (IgAVN) plays a decisive role in the long-term prognosis of pediatric IgA vasculitis (IgAV), yet the temporal lag of routine urinalysis frequently hinders early and ...

Meenakshi Shrivastav, Mir Sajad Rabani, Mahendra K. Gupta

Soil contamination by heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) poses a significant threat to food safety, soil fertility and sustainable agricultural productivity. Plant growth-promoti...

Lara Freitas Matos Costa, Heloísa Cristina Barbosa de Santana, Agostinho de Sousa Machado Júnior, Juliana Felipe da Silva Souza, Rúbia Rayanne Souto Braz, Maria das Graças Rodrigues de Araujo, Marcelo Renato Guerino

Background Dyspareunia is characterized by pain occurring before, during, or after sexual intercourse and has a multifactorial etiology involving biological, hormonal, and psychosocial factors. It can...

Vasiliki Kinigopoulou, Christos Mattas, Ioannis Vrouhakis, Evangelos Hatzigiannakis

This study investigates the hydrochemical characteristics and controlling factors of water quality along the Axios River (Northern Greece) using a combination of statistical methods and artificial neu...

Xuan Gao, Robin Lengton, Jenny A. Visser, James McLaren, Naveed Sattar, Dilys J. Freeman, Mariëtte R. Boon, Jason M.R. Gill

Purpose Adipocyte glucocorticoid (GC) signalling influences lipid storage and insulin sensitivity, and South Asians develop insulin resistance at lower BMI than White Europeans. We tested whether earl...

Mauro Difeo, Javier Camargo, Miriam Castro, Leandro Ramajo

Lead-free 0.95Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3–0.05BaTiO3 (BNT–5BT) ceramics were Cu/Zr co-doped to improve the electromechanical properties relevant to low-power energy harvesting. Based on the optimized single-dopant...

Precious Ike Richard, William H Baltosser, Philip H Williams, William Reed Green, Qingfang He

Aetokthonos hydrillicola is an epiphytic cyanobacterium found on the abaxial leaf surfaces of aquatic weeds. This species of cyanobacterium is responsible for aetokthonotoxin (AETX), which is biosynth...