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Highly Purified versus Filtered Crude Collagenase: Comparable Human Islet Isolation Outcomes

Yong Wang, Daniel Paushter, Shusen Wang, Barbara Barbaro et al. • Cell Transplantation (2011)

This study was designed to retrospectively compare the impact of crude Sigma V collagenase (Sigma V, n = 52) with high-purified Serva NB1 collagenase (Serva NB1, n = 42) on human islet isolation outcomes. A three-step filtration was applied...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3727/096368911X564994

Epigenetic Mechanisms and Nephrotic Syndrome: A Systematic Review

Samantha Hayward, Kevon Parmesar, Gavin I. Welsh, Matthew Suderman et al. • Biomedicines (2023)

A small subset of people with nephrotic syndrome (NS) have genetically driven disease. However, the disease mechanisms for the remaining majority are unknown. Epigenetic marks are reversible but stable regulators of gene expression with uti...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11020514

Association of self-reported dental caries with sex, lifestyle, and problematic Internet use among elementary school children in Japan

Masaaki Yamada, Michikazu Sekine, Takashi Tatsuse, Yukiko Yanai • BMC Oral Health (2025)

Abstract Background Dental caries is the most prevalent disease in elementary schoolchildren in Japan. Problematic Internet use (PIU) has increased among children; however, its association with caries has rarely been studied. We aimed to ex...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12903-025-05475-8

Veterinary Epidemiology

B CHOMEL • Sage eBooks (2008)

The author describes the specifics of veterinary epidemiology, in particular its domain and objectives. The large diversity of data sources are partly limited by the lack of standardized nomenclature and registries in many animal species. E...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412953948.n475

Role of Goats in the Epidemiology of <i>Coxiella burnetii</i>

Sofia Anastácio, Sérgio Ramalho de Sousa, Maria José Saavedra, Gabriela Jorge da Silva • Biology (2022)

Since its first description in the late 1930s, Q fever has raised many questions. Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent, is a zoonotic pathogen affecting a wide range of hosts. This airborne organism leads to an obligate, intracellular lif...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/biology11121703

Impact of early life exposure to heat and cold on linguistic development in two-year-old children: findings from the ELFE cohort study

Guillaume Barbalat, Ariane Guilbert, Lucie Adelaïde, Marie-Aline Charles et al. • Environmental Health (2025)

Abstract Background A number of negative developmental outcomes in response to extreme temperature have been documented. Yet, to our knowledge, environmental research has left the question of the effect of temperature on human neurodevelopm...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12940-025-01173-8

Fascioliasis, revisión clínico-epidemiológica y diagnóstico

Raydel Martínez Sánchez, Ingrid Domenech Cañete, Juan Carlos Millán Marcelo, Adonis Pino Santos • Revista Cubana de Higiene y Epidemiología

La fascioliasis es una infección parasitaria causada por trematodos del género Fasciola, y la especie más frecuente es Fasciola hepatica, la cual se encuentra distribuida en todos los continentes e infecta a gran cantidad de mamíferos, incl...

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Epidemiology in Medicine

Charles H. Hennekens, Julie E. Buring, Sherry L. Mayrent (1987)

Epidemiology is the simplest and most direct method of studying the causes of disease in humans, and many major contributions have been made by studies that have demanded nothing more than the ability to count, to think logically, and to ha...

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Estimates for Lyme borreliosis infections based on models using sentinel canine and human seroprevalence data

Michael J. Cook, Basant K. Puri • Infectious Disease Modelling (2020)

Two models were developed to estimate Lyme borreliosis (LB) cases. One was based on the seroprevalence of Borrelia infections in human samples. This model used corrections for false negative and false positive results from published test se...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2020.10.004

Nanoparticles: Taking a Unique Position in Medicine

Tomy Muringayil Joseph, Debarshi Kar Mahapatra, Amin Esmaeili, Łukasz Piszczyk et al. • Nanomaterials (2023)

The human nature of curiosity, wonder, and ingenuity date back to the age of humankind. In parallel with our history of civilization, interest in scientific approaches to unravel mechanisms underlying natural phenomena has been developing. ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13030574 PMC: 9920911

Narrative Medicine

Rita Charon (2006)

Abstract Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine,...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195166750.001.0001

Narrative Medicine

Rita Charon • JAMA (2001)

The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others. Medicine practiced with narrative competence, called narrative medicine,...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.286.15.1897

Recent advances in autonomous synthesis of materials

Yucen Li, Lingling Xia, Yiming Fan, Qinyue Wang et al. • ChemPhysMater (2022)

The synthesis of materials has been an important task throughout human history, and the ability to perform successful and efficient syntheses has been a factor in industrial revolutions and societal development. Recently, the rapid developm...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.chphma.2021.10.002

Stochastic brain dynamics exhibits differential regional distribution and maturation-related changes

Andrea Scarciglia, Vincenzo Catrambone, Martina Bianco, Claudio Bonanno et al. • NeuroImage (2024)

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful non-invasive method for studying brain function by analyzing blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signals. These signals arise from intricate interplays of deterministic and sto...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120562

Robotics and Control

G. H. Ryder, M. D. Bennett • Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks (1990)

As equipment and systems become more complex and sophisticated, the problems of operation and control by humans have become more difficult. Modern industrial processes and production techniques often require continuous vigilance of machine ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21112-8_16

Legged Robots That Balance

Marc H. Raibert, Ernest R. Tello • IEEE Expert (1986)

This book, by a leading authority on legged locomotion, presents exciting engineering and science, along with fascinating implications for theories of human motor control. It lays fundamental groundwork in legged locomotion, one of the leas...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/mex.1986.4307016

Functional Fibers and Fabrics for Soft Robotics, Wearables, and Human–Robot Interface

Jiaqing Xiong, Jian Chen, Pooi See Lee • Advanced Materials (2020)

Soft robotics inspired by the movement of living organisms, with excellent adaptability and accuracy for accomplishing tasks, are highly desirable for efficient operations and safe interactions with human. With the emerging wearable electro...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202002640 PMC: 11468729