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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Music and Health Science Research Collaboratory, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
Background: Verbal fluency (VF) is crucial for language processing and cognitive flexibility, involving selective attention, inhibition, set shifting, response generation, and self-monitoring. VF assessment includes two distinct tasks, i.e.
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January 2025
Departmment of Microbiology and Immunology, Kampala International University, Ishaka, Uganda.
Antimicrobial resistance poses a global public health threat, compelling the search for alternative treatments, especially in resource-limited settings. The increasing ineffectiveness of traditional antibiotics has intensified the need to explore medicinal plants as viable therapeutic options. This study sought to compare the efficacy of certain medicinal plants used in Owerri, Nigeria, for treating pathogenic bacteria against traditional commercial antibiotics.
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December 2024
Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia.
is implicated in periodontitis, a chronic inflammatory disease that destroys the periodontal tissue and alveolar bone due to host-microbe dysbiosis. This study focuses on understanding how contributes to bone destruction in periodontitis. The literature search was conducted using PubMed and Scopus databases based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses guidelines by entering preselected keyword combinations of inclusion and exclusion criteria.
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December 2024
Grupo de Lingüística y Neurobiología Experimental del Lenguaje, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Humanas y Ambientales (INCIHUSA), CCT-Mendoza, CONICET. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Económicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (Sede Mendoza), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Unlabelled: Executive functions (EF), including verbal and visuospatial working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility, are associated with academic skills such as copying and producing written texts in school-age children.
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the association between primary school children's executive function skills and their ability to copy and produce written texts.
Methodology: We included 282 children attending primary school (children in fourth to sixth grade; mean age = 10.
J Antimicrob Chemother
December 2024
Division of Mycobacterial and Respiratory Infections, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA.
Background: Mycobacterium abscessus is a highly drug-resistant non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) for which treatment is limited by the lack of active oral antimycobacterials and frequent adverse reactions. Epetraborole is a novel oral, boron-containing antimicrobial that inhibits bacterial leucyl-tRNA synthetase, an essential enzyme in protein synthesis, and has been shown to have anti-M. abscessus activity in preclinical studies.
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