Publications by authors named "P A Majewski"

Introduction: are the most common cause of food poisoning, which manifests itself in diarrhoea of varying severity. Additionally, because of the increasing number of people with immune deficiencies, more frequent serious complications of infections are being observed. The main source of infection is the consumption of contaminated poultry meat, which is a consequence of the insufficiency of current hygiene and biosecurity to control or eliminate it from the poultry food chain.

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  • The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a significant scientific study using a dual-phase xenon chamber located underground in South Dakota to search for dark matter interactions.
  • The study extends existing theories to include relativistic effects, providing new constraints on the interactions between weakly interacting massive particles and nucleons based on their electric and magnetic dipole moments.
  • Results include 90% confidence level limits on the coupling strength of five different interactions, analyzed over a specific energy range, which advances our understanding in particle physics beyond previous nonrelativistic effective field theories.
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Objective: To evaluate and compare the survival rates of 3D-printed and chairside milled resin polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) immediate temporary provisional full-arch implant restorations using prosthetic survival as the primary outcome.

Materials And Methods: Records of 335 routine patients receiving 443 temporary six-implant retained maxillary or mandibular prosthetic restorations between January 2019 and January 2022 at a private clinic (Dr Sobczak Clinical Centre, Radosc, Poland) were considered for this retrospective analysis. The analysis compared prosthetic and implant failure rates between printed and milled restorations as primary and secondary outcomes, respectively.

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Relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis is associated with changes in Jak/STAT pathways in immune cells, but the influence of disease-modifying drugs on these pathways is poorly understood. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of first-line disease-modifying drugs used in treatment of RRMS on expression of the STAT pathway and T-cell-related genes in the blood and on serum concentrations of sgp130 and TGF-β1 in women, as well as on the level of phosphorylated STAT3 and STAT5 proteins in T cells of untreated patients and heathy controls. Expression of STAT1, STAT3, STAT5A, STAT5B, SOCS1, SOCS3, FOXP3, IKZF2, RORC and ICOS genes in the blood of untreated RRMS patients, in the blood of patients treated with interferon-β, glatiramer acetate, dimethyl fumarate or teriflunomide and in the blood of healthy controls was evaluated using droplet digital PCR.

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(especially carbapenem-resistant) are considered an urgent threat to public health. The available antibiotic therapy is limited due to the increase of multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains. Tigecycline, a minocycline derivative, has emerged as a potential key agent in the treatment of MDR isolates.

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