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Patient-collected tongue, nasal, and mid-turbinate swabs compared to health care worker-collected nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 testing

New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
Patient-Collected Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 Testing Tongue, nasal, and mid-turbinate swabs to detect SARS-CoV-2 were collected by 530 outpatients before a health care worker collected nasopharyngeal swa...
Y. Tu, R. Jennings, B. Hart, G. Cangelosi, R. Wood, K. Wehber, P. Verma, D. Vojta, E. Berke   +8 more
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Effect of Weight Loss on Upper Airway Anatomy and the Apnea Hypopnea Index: The Importance of Tongue Fat.

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2020
RATIONALE Obesity is the primary risk factor for sleep apnea (OSA). Tongue fat is increased in obese persons with OSA, and may explain the relationship between obesity and OSA. Weight loss improves OSA, but the mechanism is unknown.
Stephen H Wang, B. Keenan, A. Wiemken, Y. Zang, B. Staley, D. Sarwer, D. Torigian, N. Williams, A. Pack, R. Schwab   +9 more
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Soft and ion-conducting hydrogel artificial tongue for astringency perception

Science Advances, 2020
Artificial tongue for astringency perception is demonstrated with a saliva-like chemiresistive ionic hydrogel. Artificial tongues have been receiving increasing attention for the perception of five basic tastes.
Jeonghee Yeom, Ayoung Choe, Seongdong Lim, Youngsu Lee, S. Na, Hyunhyub Ko   +5 more
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Experimental and clinical evaluation of a new intra-lingual suture pattern for management of lingual wounds in farm animals

SVU-International Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2021
A pre-clinical experimental study is used to evaluate a new intralingual suture pattern, for treating farm animal’s tongue-wounds. Experimental section was performed on 36 fresh goat’s tongue-samples, to compare the new suture pattern with the ...
Aiman M. Seddek, Mohammed H. Elrashidy, Sayed F. El-Hawari   +2 more
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Automated detection of oral pre-cancerous tongue lesions using deep learning for early diagnosis of oral cavity cancer [PDF]

Computer/law journal, 2019
Discovering oral cavity cancer (OCC) at an early stage is an effective way to increase patient survival rate. However, current initial screening process is done manually and is expensive for the average individual, especially in developing countries ...
M. Z. Shamim, Sadatullah Syed, Mohammad Shiblee, Mohammed Usman, S. Ali   +4 more
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Tongue image quality assessment based on a deep convolutional neural network

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2020
Background Tongue diagnosis is an important research field of TCM diagnostic technology modernization. The quality of tongue images is the basis for constructing a standard dataset in the field of tongue diagnosis.
Tao Jiang, Xiao-Juan Hu, Xinghua Yao, Liping Tu, Jingbin Huang, Xuxiang Ma, Ji Cui, Qing-feng Wu, Jia-tuo Xu   +8 more
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3D Biomimetic Tongue-Emulating Surfaces for Tribological Applications

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2020
Oral friction on the tongue surface plays a pivotal role in mechanics of food transport, speech, sensing, and hedonic responses. The highly specialized biophysical features of the human tongue such as micropapillae-dense topology, optimum wettability ...
Efrén Andablo-Reyes, M. Bryant, A. Neville, P. Hyde, Rik Sarkar, M. Francis, A. Sarkar   +6 more
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A Good Practice (based on ELINET criteria) of Non-formal Education Involving a Library to Improve Literacy Skills (on the example of Hungarian project)

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Librorum, 2018
Started in February 2014, ELINET project run for 2 years including 28 European countries. It aimed to analyse and consult on literacy policies at a local, regional, national, and trans-national level, raising awareness of literacy issues and coordinating
Ildikó Szabó
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Explorative study on Lactobacillus species and their acid‐producing capacity and anti‐microbial activity in head and neck cancer patients

Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, 2021
Objective To determine acid‐producing capacity and anti‐microbial activity of Lactobacillus species collected pretreatment and post treatment in head and neck cancer patients.
Matilda Rahne, Amina Basic, Annica Almståhl   +2 more
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Significance of cervical node necrosis in preoperative MRI as a prognostic indicator: retrospective study of patients with SCC of tongue

Journal of Oral Medicine and Oral Surgery, 2021
Aim: To ascertain the prognostic value of cervical nodal necrosis (CNN) observed in patients of tongue squamous cell carcinoma with magnetic resonance imaging.
Dhara Vasantha, Hoda Nadimul, Rajini BC, Sabitha KS, Vinitha A, Nathani Jayesh   +5 more
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