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Chemosphere 2022 Aug 8:135933. Epub 2022 Aug 8.

IRTA-Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, Marine and Continental Waters Programme, Ctra de Poble Nou Km 5.5, E43540, LaRàpita, Tarragona, Spain. Electronic address:

Two short diatom rbcL barcodes, 331-bp and 263-bp in length, have frequently been used in diatom metabarcoding studies. They overlap in a common 263-bp region but differ in the presence or absence of a 68-bp tail at the 5' end. Though the effectiveness of both has been demonstrated in separate biomonitoring and diversity studies, the impact of the 68-bp non-shared region has not been evaluated. Read More

JCO Precis Oncol 2022 Aug;6:e2200010

Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

Purpose: The recommended duration of adjuvant fluoropyrimidine and oxaliplatin chemotherapy for patients with stage III colon cancer is based on tumor classification into clinically low-risk (T N) and high-risk (T or N) groups. We determined whether Immunoscore can enhance prognostication within these risk groups.

Materials And Methods: Patients with stage III colon carcinomas (N = 600) were randomly selected from the infusional fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin arm of adjuvant trial NCCTG N0147 (Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology). Read More

Eurasian J Med 2022 Aug 11. Epub 2022 Aug 11.

Department of Emergency Medicine, Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine, Erzurum, Turkey.

Objective: While the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic is an ongoing issue across the world, understanding the course of the disease is important for early diagnosis and treatment. We aimed, with this study, to determine the differences between laboratory parameters in different clinical pictures of coronavirus disease 2019.

Materials And Methods: The study included 443 patients who presented to Atatürk University Medical Faculty Hospital between March 15, 2020, and June 15, 2020, and were diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 upon a positive Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) result. Read More

BMC Cancer 2022 Aug 10;22(1):875. Epub 2022 Aug 10.

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

Objective: We studied the prognosis and clinicopathological background of lung adenocarcinoma predominance among patients who underwent lobectomy using data from the Japanese Joint Committee of Lung Cancer Registry.

Methods: Two thousand eight hundred sixty-three cases were extracted. Recurrence free survival (RFS) rates, overall survival (OS) rates and clinicopathological factors and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation status were examined. Read More

BMC Geriatr 2022 Aug 11;22(1):658. Epub 2022 Aug 11.

Department of Physiotherapy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Nigeria.

Background: Systematic reviews demonstrated that gait variables are the most reliable predictors of future falls, yet are rarely included in fall screening tools. Thus, most tools have higher specificity than sensitivity, hence may be misleading/detrimental to care. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the validity, and reliability of the velocity field diagram (VFD -a gait analytical tool), and the Timed-up-and-go test (TUG)-commonly used in Nigeria as fall screening tools, compared to a gold standard (known fallers) among community-dwelling older adults. Read More