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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace +6 more
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A critical analysis of purchasing arrangements in Kenya: the case of micro health insurance
BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background Strategic purchasing can ensure that financial resources are used in a way that optimally enhances the attainment of health system goals.
Kenneth Munge +3 more
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Strategic Purchasing and Health System Efficiency: Prospects for Health Sector Reform in Latvia
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS, 2020 Strategic purchasing is a significant part of any health policy and health financing reform, which theoretically may have an impact on optimization of cost-effective provision of health care services while simultaneously maximizing population health. The payment model has a direct impact on the delivery of health services.
Māra Pētersone +3 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Obesity raises blood levels of PAI‐1, a protein linked to metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease in people with obesity. In female mice fed a high‐fat diet, partially lowering PAI‐1 led to smaller subcutaneous fat cells and lower liver cholesterol, without changing body weight or insulin sensitivity.
Claudia E. Ramirez Bustamante +10 more
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Pharmaceutical companies’ views on a health technology assessment (HTA) entity in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2020 Saudi Arabia is undergoing a massive healthcare transformation to fulfill its new, national “Vision 2030.” To align with this objective, Saudi Arabia is establishing a new, independent and evidence-based health technology assessment (HTA) entity to help ...
Hussain Abdulrahman Al-Omar +2 more
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The role of miR‐335‐5p in the redifferentiation of BRAF p.V600E thyroid cancers
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.The BRAF p.V600E mutation promotes thyroid cancer dedifferentiation and radioiodine resistance. Using a network approach, we identified miR‐335‐5p as a key regulator of BRAF‐mutated thyroid tumors. Restoring miR‐335‐5p increased thyroid‐specific gene expression and iodine uptake in cells and organoids.
Valeria Pecce +11 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) reduces growth of HPV‐positive cervical cancer spheroids and induces ferroptosis in cervical cancer cells via blocking SLC7A11/Glutathione (GSH) axis. Combination of subcytotoxic doses of DMF and cisplatin (CDDP) further suppresses spheroid growth and drives cell death in 2D culture models.
Carolina Punziano +6 more
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2021 Background Inappropriate ways of health services purchasing for cancer patients can be challengeable and costly and seriously affect the access to health services and outcomes.
Samereh Yaghoubian +3 more
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What is strategic purchasing for health?
, 2014 Ever since the publication of the 2000 World Health Report, there has been a growing awareness that health financing is not simply about raising money. Instead, there are three key functions of health financing: revenue generation, pooling and purchasing.
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Status of Quality in Strategic Purchasing in the Health System: A Systematic Review
Revista del Cuerpo Médico del HNAAA, 2020 Introducction. Strategic purchasing is an important component of financing in the health system. It can enhance productivity, justice, and accountability in the health care delivery in case of considering the quality. This study, which was conducted as a systematic review, was aimed at investigating the status of quality in five domains of strategic ...
Zarei, Zahra +3 more
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