Physiological accumulation of lipid droplets in the newborn liver during breastfeeding is driven by TLR4 ligands by Wanderson Ferreira da Silva Júnior, Karen Marques de Oliveira Costa, Hortência Maciel Castro Oliveira, Maísa Mota Antunes, Kassiana Mafra, Brenda Naemi Nakagaki, Pedro Sérgio Corradi da Silva, Júlia Duarte Megale, Sarah Campos de Sales, Douglas Carvalho Caixeta, Mário Machado Martins, Robinson Sabino-Silva, Cristina Maria Pinto de Paula, Luiz Ricardo Goulart, Rafael Machado Rezende, Gustavo Batista Menezes

“…This study demonstrates a unique phenomenon of transient hepatic fat accumulation in newborn mice driven by milk intake and potentially regulated by TLR4 signaling, particularly within hepatocytes.…”
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Desempeño productivo de hembras de tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus, en diferentes métodos de cultivo. by José Antonio Estrada-Godinez, Gustavo Alejandro Rodríguez-Montes de Oca, María del Rosario Pacheco-Marges, María Isaura Bañuelos-Vargas

“…Semanalmente se colectaron los huevos producidos en cada tanque y al final del experimento se estimó el volumen de producción de huevos en todos los tratamientos. …”
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The mediating role of psychological equilibrium in the relationship between dietary variety and self-reported health among older adults in rural China by Zhaoquan Jiang, Zhaoxu Xu, Mingyue Zhou, Huijun Zhang, Shixue Zhou

“…The self-reported health (SRH) of older people living in rural areas has unique classification features; fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, eggs, nuts, and milk have all been found to be important influencing factors. …”
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Social capital and physical activity: a literature review up to March 2024 by Zhendong Gao, Chen Soon Chee, Roxana Dev Omar Dev, Yutong Liu, Jianhong Gao, Rui Li, Fangyi Li, Xiaoxiao Liu, Tao Wang

“…This study aims to systematically review the literature up to 2024 on the relationship between social capital and physical activity, uncover the role of social capital in promoting physical activity, and identify its multidimensional impacts.MethodsWe used a combination of search terms including “social capital” and “physical activity” to search the Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, SportDiscus, and PsychINFO databases for English literature published up to March 1, 2024.ResultsWe identified 2,021 unique articles and reviewed 115 studies that met our inclusion criteria. …”
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TAp63γ is the primary isoform of TP63 for tumor suppression but not development by Xinbin Chen, Wenqiang Sun, Xiangmudong Kong, Xin Ming, Yanhong Zhang, Wensheng Yan, Shakur Mohibi, Mingyi Chen, Keith Mitchell, Jin Zhang

“…By contrast, ΔNp63α, which also contains an N-terminal activation domain but is different from that in TAp63, regulates a unique set of genes and functions as a master regulator for development of epidermis and other stratified epithelial tissues. …”
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Comparing Assisted Reproductive Outcomes in Women with Different Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Phenotypes Undergoing Frozen Embryo Transfer by Anubhuti Patel, Anviti Saraf, Vyshnavi A. Rao, Kamini A. Rao

“…Background: Patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) have unique characteristics depending on its phenotype. …”
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A qualitative investigation of the influences of gender among low-socioeconomic status students’ motivations to study biology by Svetlana Masjutina, Elizabeth Stearns

“…Yet the ways LSES men and women translated their preferences and motivations into biology majors were divergent, which highlights the unique perspectives and challenges of LSES students along their motivational trajectories. …”
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Site-specific immunoglobulin G N-glycosylation is associated with gastric cancer progression by Tingting Xu, Jianmin Huang, Jiajing Lin, Yuanyuan Liu, Yi Wang, Wenkang Shen, Jianjie He, Shuyun Chen, Xi Zhu, Yuqin Que, Mengting Hu, Yu Chen, Liming Cheng, Honghao He, Xin Liu, Si Liu

“…These glycan modifications were represented by unique glycopeptides (IgG1_H5N5, IgG2_H4N3F1, IgG2_H4N4, IgG2_H4N4F1S1, IgG3/4_H4N4F1, IgG3/4_H4N4F1S1), which outperformed CA72-4 for GC diagnosis. …”
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Socio-Demographic Factors Contributing to Teenage Pregnancy in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement Zone Four Yumbe District. by Momone, Evaline

“…Some respondents showed that lower levels of education are often linked to higher rates of teenage pregnancy. Some respondents showed that poverty and limited economic opportunities increase the likelihood of teenage pregnancies. …”
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The Factors Associated with Utilization of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Among Batwa Adolescents in Kisoro District Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study. by Kyambade, Robert, Nwankwo, Chinenye Mercy, Tamu, Munezero J.B., Okafor, Christiana

“…BACKGROUND: Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs are crucial and meeting such needs presents with a unique challenge among minority and marginalized populations, such as the Batwa of southwestern Uganda. …”
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The Factors Associated with Utilization of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Among Batwa Adolescents in Kisoro District Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study. by Kyambade, Robert, Nwankwo, Chinenye Mercy, Tamu, Munezero J.B., Okafor, Christiana

“…Background: Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs are crucial and meeting such needs presents a unique challenge among minority and marginalized populations, such as the Batwa of southwestern Uganda. …”
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Functional and effective EEG connectivity patterns in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review by Elizabeth R. Paitel, Christian B. D. Otteman, Mary C. Polking, Henry J. Licht, Kristy A. Nielson, Kristy A. Nielson

“…BackgroundAlzheimer’s disease (AD) might be best conceptualized as a disconnection syndrome, such that symptoms may be largely attributable to disrupted communication between brain regions, rather than to deterioration within discrete systems. EEG is uniquely capable of directly and non-invasively measuring neural activity with precise temporal resolution; connectivity quantifies the relationships between such signals in different brain regions. …”
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International norms for adult handgrip strength: A systematic review of data on 2.4 million adults aged 20 to 100+ years from 69 countries and regions by Grant R. Tomkinson, Justin J. Lang, Lukáš Rubín, Ryan McGrath, Bethany Gower, Terry Boyle, Marilyn G. Klug, Alexandra J. Mayhew, Henry T. Blake, Francisco B. Ortega, Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez, Costan G. Magnussen, Brooklyn J. Fraser, Tetsuhiro Kidokoro, Yang Liu, Kaare Christensen, Darryl P. Leong, Mette Aadahl, Edimansyah Abdin, Julian Alcazar, Aqeel Alenazi, Bader Alqahtani, Cledir De A. Amaral, Thatiana L.M. Amaral, Alex Andrade Fernandes, Peter Axelsson, Jennifer N. Baldwin, Karin Bammann, Aline R. Barbosa, Ameline Bardo, Inosha Bimali, Peter Bjerregaard, Martin Bobak, Colin A. Boreham, Klaus Bös, João Carlos Bouzas Marins, Joshua Burns, Nadezda Capkova, Lilia Castillo-Martínez, Liang-Kung Chen, Siu Ming Choi, Rebecca K.J. Choong, Susana C. Confortin, Cyrus Cooper, Jorge E. Correa-Bautista, Amandine Cournil, Grace Cruz, Eling D. de Bruin, José Antonio De Paz, Bruno De Souza Moreira, Luiz Antonio Dos Anjos, María Cristina Enríquez Reyna, Eduardo Ferriolli, Gillian Forrester, Elena Frolova, Abadi K. Gebre, Atef M. Ghaleb, Tiffany K. Gill, Yasuyuki Gondo, M. Cristina Gonzalez, Citlali Gonzalez Alvarez, Mary K. Hannah, Nicholas C. Harvey, Jean-Yves Hogrel, Marie-Theres Huemer, Toshiko Iidaka, Lewis A. Ingram, Dmitri A. Jdanov, Victoria L. Keevil, Wolfgang Kemmler, Rose Anne Kenny, Dae-Yeon Kim, Tracy L. Kivell, Ingirid G.H. Kjær, Alexander Kluttig, Rumi Kozakai, Danit Langer, Lisbeth A. Larsen, Wei-Ju Lee, David A. Leon, Eric Lichtenstein, Bertis B. Little, Roberto Alves Lourenço, Rahul Malhotra, Robert M. Malina, Kiyoaki Matsumoto, Tal Mazor-Karsenty, Marnee J. McKay, Sinéad McLoughlin, Abhishek L. Mensegere, Mostafa Mohammadian, Virgilio Garcia Moreira, Hiroshi Murayama, Anne Murray, Anita Liberalesso Neri, Claudia Niessner, Gabriel Núñez Othón, Gabriel Olveira, Suzanne G. Orchard, Andrezj Pajak, Chan Woong Park, Julie A. Pasco, Maria E. Peña Reyes, Leani Souza Máximo Pereira, Annette Peters, Eric Tsz-Chun Poon, Margareth C. Portela, Jedd Pratt, Robinson Ramírez-Vélez, Wendy Rodríguez-García, Joanne Ryan, Mauricio A. San-Martín, Francisco José Sánchez-Torralvo, Mahnaz Saremi, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss, Satoshi Seino, Shamsul Azhar Shah, Marc Sim, Bjørn Heine Strand, Mythily Subramaniam, Charlotte Suetta, Sophia X. Sui, Jonas S. Sundarakumar, Koya Suzuki, Abdonas Tamosiunas, Maw Pin Tan, Yu Taniguchi, Barbara Thorand, Anna Turusheva, Anne Therese Tveter, Jonathan Wagner, Dao Wang, Stuart J. Warden, Julia Wearing, Shiou Liang Wee, Leo D. Westbury, Agnieszka Wiśniowska-Szurlej, Alexander Woll, Noriko Yoshimura, Ruby Yu

“…Results: We included data from 100 unique observational studies representing 2,405,863 adults (51.9% female) aged 20 to 100+ years from 69 countries and regions tested from the year 2000 onward. …”
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Microplastics: A threat to Fetoplacental unit and Reproductive systems by Abass Toba Anifowoshe, Md Noor Akhtar, Abisola Majeed, Asem Sanjit Singh, Toyyibah Funmilayo Ismail, Upendra Nongthomba

“…The placenta has limited detoxifying capabilities and unique immunological regulation, making it especially sensitive to foreign particles. …”
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CHALLENGES FOR UNIVERSITIES TO ONLINE TECHNOLOGIES IMPLEMENTATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF WAR IN UKRAINE by Yuliia Sytnykova, Tаtyana Petrenko, Oksana Bezkorovaina, Anastasiia Ptushka

“… The experience of online education in Ukraine during wartime is unique. After the Russian-Ukrainian war beginning, in a month of so-called "holidays", in spring 2022, from April, 1, by the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the rectors' orders of universities, online education started. …”
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Call to Action: Lead Pharmacy into the Next Decade by Kerry K Fierke, Gardner Lepp, Bridget McGugan, Marta Brooks

“…The future of pharmacy leadership is in our hands and awaits our unique insights. Traditional written manuscripts are valuable but may not fully connect with some people. …”
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Improving NGOs’ participation in implementing HIV preventive interventions: a case of adolescents with high-risk behaviors in Iran by Haniye Sadat Sajadi, Laleh Ghadirian, Azadeh Sayarifard, Fatemeh Rajabi, Maryam Nazari, Narges Rostamigooran, Nina Loori, Haniyeh Haji Abolhasan Memar, Mojgan Farshadi, Parvin Afsar Kazerooni, Maryam Sargolzaeemoghaddam, Reza Majdzadeh

“…Results We identified various challenges faced by NGOs, including those related to the unique features of HIV services, such as difficulty in case finding and constant provision of preventive care. …”
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Are Trends in Economic Modeling of Pediatric Diabetes Mellitus up to Date with the Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Latest Scientific Findings? by Roque Cardona-Hernandez, Alberto de la Cuadra-Grande, Julen Monje, María Echave, Itziar Oyagüez, María Álvarez, Isabel Leiva-Gea

“…**Background:** Modeling techniques in the field of pediatrics present unique challenges beyond traditional model limitations, and sometimes difficulties in faithfully simulating the condition's evolution over time. …”
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CX3CR1+ age-associated CD4+ T cells contribute to synovial inflammation in late-onset rheumatoid arthritis by Mitsuhiro Akiyama, Sohma Wakasugi, Keiko Yoshimoto, Koichi Saito, Sho Ishigaki, Risa Inukai, Yoshiyuki Matsuno, Waleed Alshehri, Yasushi Kondo, Yuko Kaneko

“…Late-onset rheumatoid arthritis (LORA) exhibits unique characteristics compared to other RA forms, suggesting distinct immunological mechanisms. …”
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First detection and molecular characterization of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) in India: evidence of a new variant in Karnataka by Jagadish B. Hiremath, M. Swathi, R. Ramamoorthy, M. Shijili, Damini Sharma, Divakar Hemadri, H. B. Chethankumar, K. P. Suresh, Sharanagouda S. Patil, Shivasharanappa Nayakvadi, S. P. Satheesha, B. R. Shome, Baldev Raj Gulati

“…The Indian PEDV strains clustered with strains of China, with unique amino acid substitutions in the S gene, particularly in the receptor binding region. …”
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