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This study aims to identify the change in the health status of women, particularly in cervical cancer treatment through HPV vaccination. Thus, the research aims to measure the reduction in the incidence of cervical cancer in vaccinated women and evaluate the impact of HPV vaccination on the overall health and well-being of women treated for cervical cancer. The paper uses a research approach that involves reviewing the literature, analysing epidemiological data, and assessing the impact of the vaccination program.

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Ophthalmic diseases include a wide array of conditions, each requiring individualized treatment approaches. In ophthalmic research and as therapeutics against potential pharmacological indications, several subtypes of exosomes (EVs) have been reconnoitered, mainly for their regenerative, neuroprotective, and anti-inflammatory characteristics. EVs are recently gaining wider attention as promising vehicles for therapies because of their natural participation in communication between cells and targeted delivery.

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  • CNS disorders, particularly drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), affect millions globally, necessitating new treatment approaches as conventional medications often fail.* -
  • Recent advancements in precision medicine and the use of specific herbs influence brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) pathways, promoting neuroplasticity and enhancing cognitive function.* -
  • Innovative therapies, including novel antiepileptic drugs, repurposed medications, and CBD, combined with genetic testing, offer personalized treatment strategies to improve outcomes for patients with refractory seizures.*
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Multi-resonance thermally-activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) is predominantly observed in organoboron heteroatom-embedded molecules, featuring enhanced performance in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with high color purity, chemical stability, and excellent photoluminescence quantum yields. However, predicting the impact of any chemical change remains a challenge. Computational methods including density functional theory (DFT) still require accurate descriptions of photophysical properties of MR-TADF emitters.

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Unraveling Gagnep. Role in cerebral ischemia: Comprehensive in vivo and studies.

In Silico Pharmacol

July 2024

Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry Division, Gitam School of Pharmacy, Gitam University, Visakhapatnam, 530 045 Andhra Pradesh India.

The present study investigated the neuroprotective properties of whole plants of Gagnep. extract (GBEE) against cerebral ischemia by harnessing both In vivo studies in a rat model and studies focusing on nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibition. High-resolution liquid chromatography‒mass spectrometry (HR LC‒MS) analysis identified 32 phytochemicals in the GBEE, 15 of which adhered to Lipinski's rule of five.

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Regenerative therapy is considered a novel option for treating various diseases, whereas a developing embryo is a prime source of molecules that help repair diseased tissue and organs. Organoid culture studies also confirmed the inherent biological functions of several embryonic factors. However, the in vivo safety and efficacy of embryonic protein fraction (EPF) were not validated.

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  • - The insulin superfamily proteins (ISPs) evolved from a common ancestor, leading to insulin, IGFs, and relaxin, which have different functions but similar structures due to conserved disulphide bridges.
  • - A comprehensive analysis of 427 sequences reveals that IGFs show over 90% sequence conservation, suggesting their interactions with multiple partners limit sequence diversity.
  • - The study also updates the receptor-binding motifs for relaxin, identifies a possible non-canonical C-peptide cleavage site in some insulin sequences, and proposes insulin mutants for therapeutic use based on structural modifications seen in related proteins.
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Stochastic Calculus-guided Reinforcement learning (SCRL) is a new way to make decisions in situations where things are uncertain. It uses mathematical principles to make better choices and improve decision-making in complex situations. SCRL works better than traditional Stochastic Reinforcement Learning (SRL) methods.

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This study presents an effective route to access functionalizable fluorinated enamides characterized by their high regiospecificity around the allenamide. Synthetic applications of the resulting difluorocarbonyl-bearing enamide products were pursued through straightforward synthetic transformations to prepare unknown functionalized valuable halogenated O-heterocycles and C5 skeletons. Experimental mechanistic studies showed that hydrodifluoroalkylation occurs via a hidden Brønsted acid activation, thereby establishing a new electrophilic activation mode for allenamide through a conjugated iminium intermediate.

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Candida albicans is a commensal of the human microbiota that can form biofilms on implanted medical devices. These biofilms are tolerant to antifungals and to the host immune system. To identify novel genes modulating C.

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Advances in Gold Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Functionalization Strategies, and Theranostic Applications in Cancer.

Crit Rev Ther Drug Carrier Syst

May 2024

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, SVKM's Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy, University of Mumbai, Mumbai 400056, India.

Cancer is among the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the world. Metallic nanoparticles, especially gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have emerged to be attractive systems to circumvent the associated adverse effects. By the virtue of their unique properties of tunable size, shape, composition, optical properties, biocompatibility, minimal toxicity, multivalency, fluorescence-luminescence property and surface plasmon resonance; AuNPs have the potential to be used as drug delivery systems.

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Predicting a patient's future health state through the analysis of their clinical records is an emerging area in the field of intelligent medicine. It has the potential to assist healthcare professionals in prescribing treatments safely, making more accurate diagnoses, and improving patient care. However, clinical notes have been underutilized due to their complexity, high dimensionality, and sparsity.

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Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) presents a significant challenge in decision-making processes, aiming to ascertain optimal choice by considering multiple criteria. This paper proposes rank order centroid (ROC) method, MCDM technique, to determine weights for sub-objective functions, specifically, addressing issue of automatic generation control (AGC) within two area interconnected power system (TAIPS). The sub-objective functions include integral time absolute errors (ITAE) for frequency deviations and control errors in both areas, along with ITAE of fluctuation in tie-line power.

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Dietary anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial medicinal plants and its compounds in bovine mastitis associated impact on human life.

Microb Pathog

July 2024

Department of Biotechnology, Sharda School of Engineering & Technology (SSET), Sharda University, Greater Noida, India; School of Bioengineering & Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, 144411, India; Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied & Life Sciences (SALS), Uttaranchal

Bovine mastitis (BM) is the most common bacterial mediated inflammatory disease in the dairy cattle that causes huge economic loss to the dairy industry due to decreased milk quality and quantity. Milk is the essential food in the human diet, and rich in crucial nutrients that helps in lowering the risk of diseases like hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. The main causative agents of the disease include various gram negative, and positive bacteria, along with other risk factors such as udder shape, age, genetic, and environmental factors also contributes much for the disease.

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The rational design of nitrite sensors has attracted significant research interest due to their widespread use and the associated risks of methemoglobinemia and carcinogenicity. The undisclosed nitrite-sensing performance of the spinel cobaltite MnCoO (MCO) prepared by an oxalate-assisted coprecipitation method is reported in this study. Spectroscopy and microscopy investigations revealed the formation of uniform MCO nanorods with a high aspect ratio.

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  • This study aimed to assess how accurately AI algorithms can detect neck of femur fractures using plain X-rays.
  • After reviewing 437 articles, five met the criteria, showing that AI had a sensitivity of 85% and specificity of 87% in identifying these fractures.
  • The findings suggest that AI can be a helpful tool for doctors, enhancing diagnostic efficiency while maintaining a reasonable level of accuracy compared to human diagnoses.
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A key factor in the development of selective nucleophilic addition to allenamides is controlling the reactivity of electrophilic intermediates, which is generally achieved using an electrophilic activator via conjugated iminium intermediates. In this combined experimental and computational study, we show that a general and highly chemoselective hydroamination of allenamides can be accomplished using a combination of 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-propanol (HFIP) and NaOAc. Experimental mechanistic studies revealed that HFIP mediates proton transfer to activate the allenamide, while the acetate additive significantly contributes to N-selective interception.

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Skin cancer is a terrifying disorder that affects all individuals. Due to the significant increase in the rate of melanoma skin cancer, early detection of skin cancer is now more critical than ever before. Malignant melanoma is one of the most serious forms of skin cancer, and it is caused by abnormal melanocyte cell growth.

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Implementation of distributed arithmetic-based symmetrical 2-D block finite impulse response filter architectures.

F1000Res

March 2024

Department of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering, GITAM University, Visakhaptnam, Andhra Pradesh, 530045, India.

This paper presents an efficient two-dimensional (2-D) finite impulse response (FIR) filter using block processing for two different symmetries. Architectures for a general filter (without symmetry) and two symmetrical filters (diagonal and quadrantal symmetry) are implemented. The proposed architectures need fewer multipliers because of the symmetry of the filter coefficients.

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Conventional machine learning approaches have shown limited predictive power when applied to continuous biohydrogen production due to nonlinearity and instability. This study was aimed at forecasting the dynamic membrane reactor performance in terms of the hydrogen production rate (HPR) and hydrogen yield (HY) using laboratory-based daily operation datapoints for twelve input variables. Hybrid algorithms were developed by integrating particle swarm optimized with functional link artificial neural network (PSO-FLN) which outperformed other hybrid algorithms for both HPR and HY, with determination coefficients (R) of 0.

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Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a serious eye complication that results in permanent vision damage. As the number of patients suffering from DR increases, so does the delay in treatment for DR diagnosis. To bridge this gap, an efficient DR screening system that assists clinicians is required.

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The study aims to design and optimize the floating formulations of the aqueous extract of Desmostachya bipinnata (ADB) to treat peptic ulcers. The trial concentrations of HPMC E50, HPMC K4M, and Carbopol 940 were used as factors, and floating lag time, total floating time, and % drug release at 12 h were used as responses. The formulation underwent evaluation for different parameters: aspirin-induced ulcers in rats assessed the antiulcer activity, and X-ray studies in rabbits evaluated the gastroretentive nature.

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Within a tight-binding framework, we examine conformation-dependent charge transport properties of the DNA double-helix, including helical symmetry and the possibility of multiple charge conduction pathways. Using techniques based on the Green's function method, we inspect changes in the localization properties of DNA in the presence of long-range hopping, with varying disorder strength. We study three characteristic DNA sequences, two periodic and one random.

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This study was conducted to test the efficacy of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) as an anticancer drug against the human pyruvate kinase isozyme M2 (PKM2) using spectroscopic, molecular docking and molecular dynamic simulation studies. PKM2 fluorescence quenching studies in the presence of 5-FU performed at three different temperatures indicates dynamic quenching processes with single-set of binding ( ≈ 1) profile. The biomolecular quenching constants () and the effective binding constants () obtained are shown to increase with temperature.

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Background: Cancer is one of the most common reasons for mortality in the world. A continuous effort to develop effective anti-cancer drugs with minimum side effects has become necessary. The use of small-molecule drugs has revolutionized cancer research by inhibiting cancer cell survival and proliferation.

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