Trends of Stomach Cancer in Central Serbia.

Somach cancer is the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The objective of the paper was to analyze the incidence and mortality trends of stomach cancer in Central Serbia in the period between 1999-2017. trends and annual percentage change (APC) of the incidence and mortality rate with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated by joinpoint regression analyses.

Four Weeks of Aerobic Training Affects Cardiac Tissue Matrix Metalloproteinase, Lactate Dehydrogenase and Malate Dehydrogenase Enzymes Activities, and Hepatorenal Biomarkers in Experimental Hyperhomocysteinemia in Rats.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the application of homocysteine as well as its effect under the condition of aerobic physical activity on the activities of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and malate dehydrogenase (MDH) in cardiac tissue and on hepato-renal biochemical parameters in sera of rats. Male rats were divided into four groups ( = 10, per group): C: 0.9% NaCl 0.

Burnout Among Private Security Staff in Serbia: A Multicentic Cross-Sectional Study.

Burnout is a special a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity. To evaluate the predictors of burnout among work staff in the seven private agencies for support and defense of persons and their property. We performed a multicentric cross-sectional study that involved representative sample of working staff from Agencies of Private Security in Central Serbia.

Self-Efficacy in Habit Building: How General and Habit-Specific Self-Efficacy Influence Behavioral Automatization and Motivational Interference.

In this article, we investigate the role of self-efficacy (SE) in intentional habit building. We analyzed event sampling data from a habit building app we created that helps define and track habit data. We used hierarchical growth curve modeling and multilevel mediation to test our hypotheses.

Effect and significance of hyperlipoproteinemia on stent thrombosis in patients with implanted drug-eluting stents: The 5-year follow up study.

Background: Elevated blood lipid level, also known as hyperlipoproteinemia (HLP), is the most common metabolic disorder in the general population. According to US National Heart Institute data, about 36% of adults and 10% of children aged 9 to 12 have elevated cholesterol levels. The risk of ischemic heart disease increases by 2-3% with every 1% increase in total cholesterol levels.

Characterization of potential probiotic strain, L. reuteri B2, and its microencapsulation using alginate-based biopolymers.

In this study, Lactobacillus reuteri B2 was isolated from the feces of C57BL/6 mice and assessed on probiotic activity. L. reuteri B2 was identified by 16S rDNA sequencing, which the cell viability in acidic conditions at pH 2.

Assessing the Feasibility of Providing a Family Skills Intervention, "Strong Families", for Refugee Families Residing in Reception Centers in Serbia.

War exposure and forced displacement threatens the wellbeing of caregivers and their children, leaving them at risk of negative outcomes, such as elevated rates of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. The importance of engaged, responsive and stable parenting for positive child wellbeing has been documented across diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. Despite the higher need for caregivers to be nurturing in challenging settings, they struggle to provide adequate support for their children due to lack of resources or their inability to deal with their own emotional challenges.

Do Corticosteroid Injections for the Treatment of Pain Influence the Efficacy of Adenovirus Vector-Based COVID-19 Vaccines?

Myth: Corticosteroid injection for the treatment of pain is known to decrease the efficacy of the adenovirus vector-based vaccines for COVID-19.

Fact: There is currently no direct evidence to suggest that a corticosteroid injection before or after the administration of an adenovirus vector-based COVID-19 vaccine decreases the efficacy of the vaccine. However, based on the known timeline of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis suppression following epidural and intraarticular corticosteroid injections, and the timeline of the reported peak efficacy of the Janssen and AstraZeneca vaccines, physicians should consider timing an elective corticosteroid injection such that it is administered no less than 2 weeks prior to and no less than 2 weeks following a COVID-19 adenovirus vector-based vaccine dose, whenever possible.

Measurements of production cross sections and constraints on anomalous triple gauge couplings at .

The production of Z boson pairs in proton-proton ( ) collisions, , where or , is studied at a center-of-mass energy of 13 with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 137 , collected during 2016-2018. The production cross section, , measured for events with two pairs of opposite-sign, same-flavor leptons produced in the mass region is consistent with standard model predictions.

A molecular photosensitizer achieves a V of 1.24 V enabling highly efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells with copper(II/I)-based electrolyte.

To develop photosensitizers with high open-circuit photovoltage (V) is a crucial strategy to enhance the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of co-sensitized solar cells. Here, we show a judiciously tailored organic photosensitizer, coded MS5, featuring the bulky donor N-(2',4'-bis(dodecyloxy)-[1,1'-biphenyl]-4-yl)-2',4'-bis(dodecyloxy)-N-phenyl-[1,1'-biphenyl]-4-amine and the electron acceptor 4-(benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazol-4-yl)benzoic acid. Employing MS5 with a copper (II/I) electrolyte enables a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) to achieve a strikingly high V of 1.

Certain beta blockers (e.g., bisoprolol) may be reevaluated in hypertension guidelines for patients with left ventricular hypertrophy to diminish the ventricular arrhythmic risk.

Hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy (HTN LVH) is associated with almost threefold increased risk of ventricular tachycardia (VT)/ventricular fibrillation (VF). Furthermore, HTN LVH increases the risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). The reverse LV remodeling due to efficient antihypertensive therapy lowers the incidence rates of cardiovascular events and SCD and the vast majority of available arterial hypertension (HTN) guidelines recommend renin angiotensin system (RAS) blockers and calcium channel blockers (CCBs) for HTN LVH aiming for LVH regression.

By Discontinuing Beta-Blockers Before an Exercise Test, We may Precipitate a Rebound Phenomenon.

Background: There is a need to analyse the current approach to beta-blocker (BB) use in relation to exercise-based stress tests.

Objective: We compared various guidelines regarding recommending abrupt vs. gradual discontinuation of BB prior to exercise tests.

Expression of kisspeptin and KISS1 receptor in pituitary neuroendocrine tumours - an immunohistochemical study.

Introduction: Pituitary neuroendocrine tumours (PitNETs), traditionally designated as pituitary adenomas, show elatively frequent invasive growth with exceptional metastatic potential, the causes of which are not entirely elucidated. Kisspeptins, which perform their activity through KISS1 receptor (KISS1R), are recognised as metastatic suppressors in many malignant tumours. This study aimed to investigate the immunohistochemical expression of kisspeptin and KISS1R in different types of PitNETs and to compare it with the expression in the normal anterior pituitary, using tissue microarray.

Do Corticosteroid Injections for the Treatment of Pain Influence the Efficacy of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines?

Myth: Corticosteroid injection for the treatment of pain and inflammation is known to decrease the efficacy of the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Fact: There is currently no direct evidence to suggest that a corticosteroid injection before or after the administration of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine decreases the efficacy of the vaccine.However, based on the known timeline of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis suppression following epidural and intraarticular corticosteroid injections, and the timeline of the reported peak efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, physicians should consider timing an elective corticosteroid injection such that it is administered no less than 2 weeks prior to a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine dose and no less than 1 week following a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine dose, whenever possible.

Major Aortic Reconstruction with the Replacement of Supra-Aortic Branches: Successful Surgical Treatment of Takayasu Arteritis Initially Presented as Congestive Heart Failure.

Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a rare, large vessel vasculitis that affects aorta, its major branches, and occasionally pulmonary arteries. Patients with TA can present with constitutional features and/or various symptoms and signs caused by morphological changes in the blood vessels affected by the inflammatory process. Corticosteroids (CS) and immunosuppressives (IS) are the first line treatment for active TA.

Infrared radiation from cage bedding moderates rat inflammatory and autoimmune responses in collagen-induced arthritis.

The development of collagen type II (CII)-induced arthritis (CIA), a model of rheumatoid arthritis, in rats housed in cages with bedding composed of Celliant fibres containing ceramic particles, which absorb body heat and re-emit the energy back to the body in the form of infrared radiation (+IRF rats), and those housed in cages with standard wooden shaving bedding (-IRF control rats) was examined. The appearance of the first signs of CIA was postponed, while the disease was milder (judging by the arthritic score, paw volume, and burrowing behaviour) in +IRF compared with -IRF rats. This correlated with a lower magnitude of serum anti-CII IgG antibody levels in +IRF rats, and lower production level of IL-17, the Th17 signature cytokine, in cultures of their paws.

Search for dark matter produced in association with a leptonically decaying boson in proton-proton collisions at .

A search for dark matter particles is performed using events with a Z boson candidate and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 , collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 . The search uses the decay channels and .

Search for top squark pair production using dilepton final states in collision data collected at .

A search is presented for supersymmetric partners of the top quark (top squarks) in final states with two oppositely charged leptons (electrons or muons), jets identified as originating from quarks, and missing transverse momentum. The search uses data from proton-proton collisions at collected with the CMS detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 . Hypothetical signal events are efficiently separated from the dominant top quark pair production background with requirements on the significance of the missing transverse momentum and on transverse mass variables.

Adiponectin resistance parameter as a marker for high normal blood pres-sure and hypertension in patients with metabolic syndrome.

Introduction: The different degrees of adiponectin/insulin sensitivity and dysfunctional adipose tissue lead to the development of hypertension (HT). This study aimed to determine adiponectin (AD) concentration in patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and high-normal blood pressure or hypertension and to investigate the importance of Homeostatic Model Assessment-AD (HOMA-AD) index in assessing adiponectin/insulin resistance in hypertension.

Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 150 subjects divided into two groups: with MetS (and high-normal blood pressure, n =50; and HT, n =50), and controls without MetS (n =50).

Hepcidin Is a Reliable Marker of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Newly Diagnosed Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Results: There was a high statistically significant difference between IBD patients and controls in levels of hepcidin ( < 0.01). Namely, serum hepcidin levels were significantly higher in the control group.

Evidence for Top Quark Production in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions.

Ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions recreate in the laboratory the thermodynamical conditions prevailing in the early universe up to 10^{-6}  sec, thereby allowing the study of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) matter with deconfined partons. The top quark, the heaviest elementary particle known, is accessible in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN LHC, and constitutes a novel probe of the QGP. Here, we report the first evidence for the production of top quarks in nucleus-nucleus collisions, using lead-lead collision data at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.

Cross-Reactive Effects of Vaccines: Heterologous Immunity between Tetanus and Chlamydia.

Vaccines can have heterologous effects on the immune system, i.e., effects other than triggering an immune response against the disease targeted by the vaccine.