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The Morphological Transformation of the Thorax during the Eclosion of Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Insects, 2023
The model organism Drosophila melanogaster, as a species of Holometabola, undergoes a series of transformations during metamorphosis. To deeply understand its development, it is crucial to study its anatomy during the key developmental stages.
Si-Pei Liu, Hao-Dong Yin, Wen-Jie Li, Zhuang-Hui Qin, Yi Yang, Zheng-Zhong Huang, Le Zong, Xiao-Kun Liu, Zhong Du, Wei-Li Fan, Ya-Qiong Zhang, Dan Zhang, Yong E. Zhang, Xing-Yue Liu, Ding Yang, Si-Qin Ge   +15 more
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The Brugada syndrome: a rare arrhythmia disorder with complex inheritance

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2016
For the last ten years, applying new sequencing technologies to thousands of whole exomes has revealed the high variability of the human genome. Extreme caution should thus be taken to avoid misinterpretation when associating rare genetic variants to ...
Jean-Baptiste eGourraud, Jean-Baptiste eGourraud, Jean-Baptiste eGourraud, Jean-Baptiste eGourraud, Julien eBarc, Julien eBarc, Julien eBarc, Aurélie eThollet, Solena eLe Scouarnec, Solena eLe Scouarnec, Solena eLe Scouarnec, Hervé eLe Marec, Hervé eLe Marec, Hervé eLe Marec, Hervé eLe Marec, Jean-Jacques eSchott, Jean-Jacques eSchott, Jean-Jacques eSchott, Richard eRedon, Richard eRedon, Richard eRedon, Vincent eProbst, Vincent eProbst, Vincent eProbst, Vincent eProbst   +24 more
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Mid-regional pro-atrial natriuretic peptide and copeptin as indicators of disease severity and therapy response in CTEPH

ERJ Open Research, 2020
Background Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) leads to right heart failure. Pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) or balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) restore pulmonary haemodynamics and allow cardiac recovery.
Steffen D. Kriechbaum, Lillith Scherwitz, Christoph B. Wiedenroth, Felix Rudolph, Jan-Sebastian Wolter, Moritz Haas, Ulrich Fischer-Rasokat, Andreas Rolf, Christian W. Hamm, Eckhard Mayer, Stefan Guth, Till Keller, Stavros V. Konstantinides, Mareike Lankeit, Christoph Liebetrau   +14 more
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Implementation of a quality improvement project on smoking cessation reduces smoking in a high risk trauma patient population. [PDF]

, 2016
BackgroundCigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the U.S. each year. In 2013 the prevalence of smoking in our institution's trauma population was 26.7 %, well above the national adult average of 18.1 % according to the CDC website. As
Carrens, Karen, Doben, Andrew, Gross, Ronald, Korntner, Samuel, Nahmias, Jeffry, Poola, Shiva   +5 more
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Statin Use and Risk of Vascular Events Among Cancer Patients After Radiotherapy to the Thorax, Head, and Neck

Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background This study aimed to explore whether statins reduce radiation‐induced vascular complications in cancer patients postradiotherapy to the thorax, head, and neck.
J. Boulet, J. Peña, E. Hulten, T. Neilan, A. Dragomir, C. Freeman, C. Lambert, T. Hijal, L. Nadeau, J. Brophy, Negareh Mousavi   +10 more
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Flight performance of pollen starved honey bees and incomplete compensation through ingestion after early life pollen deprivation

Frontiers in Physiology, 2022
We investigated the effect of adult honey bee pollen nutrition on the flight performance of honey bees. Therefore, caged bees were allowed to perform 30 min of defecation/training flights every second day before flight performance of pollen-fed bees and ...
Robert Brodschneider, Eslam Omar, Eslam Omar, Karl Crailsheim   +3 more
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Evaluation of Pediatric Manual Wheelchair Mobility Using Advanced Biomechanical Methods [PDF]

, 2015
There is minimal research of upper extremity joint dynamics during pediatric wheelchair mobility despite the large number of children using manual wheelchairs.
Aurit, Christine M., Graf, Adam, Harris, Gerald F., Krzak, Joseph J., Reiners, Kathryn, Schnorenberg, Alyssa J., Slavens, Brooke A., Vogel, Lawrence C.   +7 more
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Evolutionary trade-offs between reproduction and dispersal in populations at expanding range boundaries [PDF]

, 2003
During recent climate warming, some species have expanded their ranges northwards to keep track of climate changes. Evolutionary changes in dispersal have been demonstrated in these expanding populations and here we show that increased dispersal is ...
Fedotov, Vassili A., Papasimakis, Nikitas, Prosvirnin, Sergey L., Zheludev, Nikolay I.   +3 more
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FLASH radiotherapy for the treatment of symptomatic bone metastases in the thorax (FAST-02): protocol for a prospective study of a novel radiotherapy approach

Radiation Oncology
FLASH therapy is a treatment technique in which radiation is delivered at ultra-high dose rates (≥ 40 Gy/s). The first-in-human FAST-01 clinical trial demonstrated the clinical feasibility of proton FLASH in the treatment of extremity bone metastases ...
EC Daugherty, Y. Zhang, Z. Xiao, A. Mascia, M. Sertorio, J. Woo, C. McCann, Kj Russell, RA Sharma, D. Khuntia, J. Bradley, CB Simone, JC Breneman, JP Perentesis   +13 more
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Diagnostic Performance of 6-Point Lung Ultrasound in ICU Patients: A Comparison with Chest X-Ray and CT Thorax.

Turkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, 2019
Objective To evaluate the diagnostic performance of a rapid bedside 6-point lung ultrasonography (LUS) performed by an intensive care unit (ICU) physician for detection of four common pathological conditions of the lung, such as alveolar consolidation ...
M. Danish, A. Agarwal, P. Goyal, D. Gupta, H. Lal, R. Prasad, S. Dhiraaj, A. Agarwal, Prabhaker Mishra   +8 more
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