Publications by authors named "R Sikora"

: Periodontitis is marked by the destruction of alveolar bone. Sclerostin (SOST) and dickkopf-1 (DKK-1) act as inhibitors of the Wingless-type (Wnt) signaling pathway, a key regulator of bone metabolism. Recent studies have suggested that statins play a role in bone resorption and formation by influencing Wnt signaling.

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  • The study uses an unsupervised anomaly-detection technique to search for new resonances in particle collision data from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, focusing on events with electrons or muons.
  • An autoencoder is trained on the data to identify unusual patterns by analyzing the reconstruction loss, with the research examining nine invariant mass spectra involving pairs of jets and leptons or photons.
  • No significant anomalies were found, leading to the establishment of limits on potential Gaussian signals of various widths for the analyzed invariant masses in the anomalous regions.
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Background: Closing base wedge osteotomy (CBWO) is a common procedure to correct severe bunion deformities with high intermetatarsal angles. There are few data demonstrating the radiographic success of CBWOs.

Methods: We evaluated the radiographic outcomes of a CBWO.

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  • The study assessed the impact of variability and stability on the effectiveness and side effects of CD19 CAR T-cell therapy in 12 patients with B-cell malignancies treated with Tisagenlecleucel.
  • Researchers used advanced flow cytometry to evaluate CAR T-cell characteristics before and after treatment, finding that most activation markers remained stable and didn’t correlate with therapeutic response or toxicity.
  • An immune signature linked to neurotoxicity was identified, suggesting that detailed profiling and ongoing monitoring of CAR T-cells could improve the safety and efficacy of this therapy, pending further validation.
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This Letter reports the observation of WZγ production and a measurement of its cross section using 140.1±1.2  fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

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