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  • After a stroke, many patients experience dysphagia, leading to serious complications like aspiration pneumonia and malnutrition, necessitating protective interventions.
  • Dietary changes and oral care are essential to lower aspiration risks, while nutritional support like tube feeding can help prevent malnutrition.
  • Emerging treatments include behavioral strategies for improving swallowing, pharmaceutical agents for sensory perception, and neurostimulation techniques aimed at enhancing brain function related to swallowing.
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Background: Osteoclasts are the tissue-specific macrophage population of the bone and unique in their bone-resorbing activity. Hence, they are fundamental for bone physiology in health and disease. However, efficient protocols for the isolation and study of primary human osteoclasts are scarce.

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By analyzing 7.33  fb^{-1} of e^{+}e^{-} annihilation data collected at center-of-mass energies between 4.128 and 4.

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  • Using mismatched unrelated donors for stem cell transplants can lead to higher risks of serious complications like GVHD and death.
  • In Europe, doctors often use a treatment called rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG) to lower these risks, but another method called post-transplantation Cyclophosphamide (PTCy) is becoming more common.
  • A study compared 2123 patients and found that those treated with PTCy had better survival rates and lower risks of death than those who received rATG, but both treatments had similar rates of GVHD.
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Immune alterations in end-stage renal patients receiving hemodialysis are complex and predispose patients to infections. Anticoagulation may also play an immunomodulatory role in addition to the accumulation of uremic toxins and the effects of the dialysis procedure. Accordingly, it has been recently shown that the infection rate increases in patients under regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA) compared with systemic heparin anticoagulation (SHA).

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Purpose: Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) improves outcomes for patients with AML harboring an internal tandem duplication mutation of () AML. These patients are routinely treated with a FLT3 inhibitor after HCT, but there is limited evidence to support this. Accordingly, we conducted a randomized trial of post-HCT maintenance with the FLT3 inhibitor gilteritinib (ClinicalTrials.

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The anteromedial retinaculum in ACL-injured knees: An overlooked injury?

Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc

April 2024

Department of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to retrospectively analyse the pattern of injury to the medial knee structures in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injured patients. It was hypothesised that anteromedial injuries would be more common than posteromedial lesions.

Methods: One hundred and twenty subjects aged 18-25 years with a primary ACL injury were included.

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Determination of the Σ^{+} Timelike Electromagnetic Form Factors.

Phys Rev Lett

February 2024

State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, Beijing 100049, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China.

Based on data samples collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, the process e^{+}e^{-}→Σ^{+}Σ[over ¯]^{-} is studied at center-of-mass energies sqrt[s]=2.3960, 2.6454, and 2.

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Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Advanced Systemic Mastocytosis: A retrospective analysis of the DRST and GREM registries.

Leukemia

April 2024

Department of Oncology, Hematology, Hemostaseology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany & Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Aachen, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf (ABCD), Aachen, Germany.

We identified 71 patients with AdvSM (aggressive SM [ASM], SM with an associated hematologic neoplasm [SM-AHN, e.g., acute myeloid leukemia, SM-AML], mast cell leukemia [MCL]) in two national registries (DRST/GREM) who received an allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) performed in Germany from 1999-2021.

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  • Host targeting antiviral drugs (HTA), like Zapnometinib (ZMN), target essential cellular mechanisms viruses need for replication, potentially making it harder for viruses to develop resistance.
  • In experiments comparing ZMN with direct acting antivirals (DAAs) such as Remdesivir and Paxlovid, it was found that while the DAAs allowed the virus to adapt and develop resistance, ZMN maintained its effectiveness.
  • Notable mutations linked to resistance were discovered in DAAs, but ZMN showed a strong capacity to inhibit viral replication, suggesting it could be effective against viruses that are partially resistant to DAAs.
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There are 3 physiological waves of central hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis activity over the lifetime. The first occurs during fetal life, the second-termed "mini-puberty"-in the first months after birth, and the third at puberty. After adolescence, the axis remains active all through adulthood.

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  • This study investigates how the deep medial collateral ligament (dMCL) and potential anteromedial (AM) reconstructions change in length during knee flexion to improve understanding of anteromedial rotatory instability (AMRI).
  • Using cadaveric knee specimens, researchers measured length changes in the dMCL and simulated AM reconstructions by marking insertion points and testing with a kinematic rig at varying degrees of knee flexion.
  • Results showed that the length changes of the dMCL parts differed during flexion, and the effectiveness of AM reconstructions was primarily affected by the femoral attachment position, suggesting that surgeons should prioritize positioning in the posterior aspect for better control of AMRI.
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The evolution of Earth's surficial Mg cycle over the past 2 billion years.

Sci Adv

March 2024

State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, China.

The surficial cycling of Mg is coupled with the global carbon cycle, a predominant control of Earth's climate. However, how Earth's surficial Mg cycle evolved with time has been elusive. Magnesium isotope signatures of seawater (δMg) track the surficial Mg cycle, which could provide crucial information on the carbon cycle in Earth's history.

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Generation of second-harmonic waves is one of the universal nonlinear phenomena that have found numerous technical applications in many modern technologies, in particular, in photonics. This phenomenon also has great potential in the field of magnonics, which considers the use of spin waves in magnetic nanostructures to implement wave-based signal processing and computing. However, due to the strong frequency dependence of the phase velocity of spin waves, resonant phase-matched generation of second-harmonic spin waves has not yet been achieved in practice.

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Long-Term Follow-Up after Iliosacral Screw Fixation of Unstable Pelvic Ring Fractures.

J Clin Med

February 2024

Department of Trauma-, Hand- and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Building W 1, 48149 Muenster, Germany.

(1) High-energy injuries of the pelvic ring are rare. The wide application of iliosacral screw fixation of the posterior pelvic ring is relatively new. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the long-term quality of life.

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Intermittent exotropia (IXT) is known to relapse after surgery. No factors to predict or prevent recurrence are known with certainty. This study investigated surgical outcome, potential influencing factors, and reoperation rate in patients with IXT.

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True amplification of spin waves in magnonic nano-waveguides.

Nat Commun

February 2024

Institute of Applied Physics, University of Muenster, Corrensstrasse 2-4, 48149, Muenster, Germany.

Magnonic nano-devices exploit magnons - quanta of spin waves - to transmit and process information within a single integrated platform that has the potential to outperform traditional semiconductor-based electronics. The main missing cornerstone of this information nanotechnology is an efficient scheme for the amplification of propagating spin waves. The recent discovery of spin-orbit torque provided an elegant mechanism for propagation losses compensation.

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Clinical practice guideline: Interventions for Developmental Language Delay and Disorders.

Dtsch Arztebl Int

March 2024

Department of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology, University Hospital of Muenster, University of Muenster, Germany; Department of German Linguistics, Clinical Linguistics, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany; Institute of Health Sciences, University of Luebeck, Germany; Special Education and Therapy in Language and Communication Disorders, University of Wuerzburg, Germany; Department of Pedagogy for Speech and Communication Disorders, Halle, Germany.

Background: Approximately 9.9 % of children present with difficulties in language development (DLD), 7.6 % without serious additional impairments and 2.

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  • The blue whale is the largest animal ever known, making its genome a key subject for studying longevity and cancer resistance.
  • Researchers created a detailed genome assembly of the blue whale using advanced sequencing methods and collaborated with databases like NCBI for annotation.
  • Findings revealed significant gene amplifications linked to the blue whale's size and genetic variations between Pacific and Atlantic populations, highlighting the genome's potential for future biological and conservation studies.
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Previous research has identified maladaptive emotion regulation as a key factor in psychopathology. Thus, addressing emotion regulation via scalable, low-threshold digital interventions - such as smartphone-based Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) - holds important therapeutic potential. Using a randomized-controlled crossover trial, we tested the efficacy of an integrated CBM module within the Affect Regulation Training (ART, i.

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Purpose: Despite the multiprofessional concept surrounding palliative care patients (PCPs) and their high prevalence of oral issues, licensed dentists (LDs) are often not included in their treatment team. This study aimed to examine the current state of cooperation and to determine whether and how LDs should be included in the care for PCPs.

Methods: This single-centre cross-sectional study was conducted at the University Hospital Muenster, Germany.

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Evoked Weibel-Palade Body Exocytosis Modifies the Endothelial Cell Surface by Releasing a Substrate-Selective Phosphodiesterase.

Adv Sci (Weinh)

April 2024

Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Center for Molecular Biology of Inflammation, University of Muenster, von-Esmarch-Str. 56, 48149, Muenster, Germany.

Weibel Palade bodies (WPB) are lysosome-related secretory organelles of endothelial cells. Commonly known for their main cargo, the platelet and leukocyte receptors von-Willebrand factor (VWF) and P-selectin, WPB play a crucial role in hemostasis and inflammation. Here, the authors identify the glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase domain-containing protein 5 (GDPD5) as a WPB cargo protein and show that GDPD5 is transported to WPB following uptake from the plasma membrane via an unique endocytic transport route.

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Critical thermal limits (CTLs) gauge the physiological impact of temperature on survival or critical biological function, aiding predictions of species range shifts and climatic resilience. Two recent Drosophila species studies, using similar approaches to determine temperatures that induce sterility (thermal fertility limits [TFLs]), reveal that TFLs are often lower than CTLs and that TFLs better predict both current species distributions and extinction probability. Moreover, many studies show fertility is more sensitive at less extreme temperatures than survival (thermal sensitivity of fertility [TSF]).

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Endothelial cells and macrophages as allies in the healthy and diseased brain.

Acta Neuropathol

February 2024

Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.

Diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) are often associated with vascular disturbances or inflammation and frequently both. Consequently, endothelial cells and macrophages are key cellular players that mediate pathology in many CNS diseases. Macrophages in the brain consist of the CNS-associated macrophages (CAMs) [also referred to as border-associated macrophages (BAMs)] and microglia, both of which are close neighbours or even form direct contacts with endothelial cells in microvessels.

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Efficacy of Emergency Penetrating Keratoplasty with Cryopreserved Human Donor Corneas.

Ophthalmol Ther

April 2024

Department of Ophthalmology, University of Muenster Medical Center, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Building D15, 48149, Münster, Germany.

Introduction: To investigate the long-term outcomes of emergency penetrating keratoplasty using cryopreserved human donor corneas in the management of actual or imminent corneal perforation.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed of the treatment efficacy of emergency penetrating keratoplasty using a cryopreserved human donor cornea, in 14 eyes of 14 patients with corneal ulcers of different etiology. For comparison, the medical histories of 14 patients who had undergone penetrating keratoplasty with the same indication, but received a regularly processed human corneal graft, were retrospectively analyzed.

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