Sánchez-Brito, Miguel Luna-Rosas, Francisco J Mendoza-González, Ricardo Mata-Miranda, Mónica M Martínez-Romo, Julio C Vázquez-Zapién, Gustavo J
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Talanta
The World Health Organization has declared that diabetes is one of the four leading causes of death attributable to non-communicable diseases. Currently, many devices allow monitoring blood glucose levels for diabetes control based mainly on blood tests. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology based on the analysis of the Fourier Transform In...
David, Marcelo Amran, Omer Peretz, Aviad Raviv, Aviad Pracca, Francisco
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Journal of clinical monitoring and computing
This work describes the optimization of electrical bioimpedance measurements for indirect intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) assessment. The experimental run was performed on a female Sus scrofa domesticus (domestic pig). Different values of IAP were induced by inflation of the abdominal cavity, using a trocar placed near the umbilicus over the linea a...
Szabo, Yvette Z Slavish, Danica C
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Psychoneuroendocrinology
There is an increasing interest in using saliva to measure inflammatory biomarkers. Compared to blood, saliva is non-invasive, requires a lower biosafety classification, and requires less specialized personnel to collect. As the assessment of inflammation in saliva becomes more popular in psychoneuroimmunology research, the development of gold-stan...
van den Helder, Rianne Wever, Birgit M. M. van Trommel, Nienke E. van Splunter, Annina P. Mom, Constantijne H. Kasius, Jenneke C. Bleeker, Maaike C. G. Steenbergen, Renske D. M.
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Clinical Epigenetics
BackgroundThe incidence of endometrial cancer is rising, and current diagnostics often require invasive biopsy procedures. Urine may offer an alternative sample type, which is easily accessible and allows repetitive self-sampling at home. Here, we set out to investigate the feasibility of endometrial cancer detection in urine using DNA methylation ...
Cybulska, Nicolas Hackländer, Klaus Palme, Rupert Frey-Roos, Alfred Schai-Braun, Stéphanie C.
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European Journal of Wildlife Research
Anthropogenic disturbances, such as habitat modifications and machines, are associated with increased levels of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites (fGCMs) in mammals, an indicator of a stress response. One human-caused process provoking incisive habitat alterations is harvesting arable crops. We investigated the effect of cereal harvest on fGCM conc...
Muñoz-Ferrer, Aida Cervantes, Miguel-Ángel Garcia-Olivé, Ignasi Vicente, Ignacio Folgado, Carlos Ruiz-Manzano, Juan Rosell, Antoni Abad, Jorge
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Archivos de bronconeumologia
To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a non-invasive technology based on image processing for the identification of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and its severity at patients' home. Observational, prospective, diagnostic accuracy study to evaluate the degree of measure agreement between Sleepwise (SW), in-laboratory attended polysomnography (PSG) ...
Schecklmann, Martin Nejati, Vahid Poeppl, Timm B Peytard, Juliette Rupprecht, Rainer Wetter, Thomas C Langguth, Berthold Kreuzer, Peter M
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Journal of psychiatric research
Depressive disorders are linked to dysfunction in prefrontal cortical areas. Hence, non-invasive neurostimulation of the prefrontal cortex has demonstrated antidepressant efficacy. In the present study, we investigated the efficacy of high frequency transcranial random noise stimulation (hf-tRNS) as an add-on treatment for depression in a sham-cont...
Lou, Shaoke Li, Tianxiao Spakowicz, Daniel Yan, Xiting Chupp, Geoffrey Lowell Gerstein, Mark
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BMC Bioinformatics
BackgroundThe pathogenesis of asthma is a complex process involving multiple genes and pathways. Identifying biomarkers from asthma datasets, especially those that include heterogeneous subpopulations, is challenging. Potentially, autoencoders provide ideal frameworks for such tasks as they can embed complex, noisy high-dimensional gene expression ...
David, Marcelo Raviv, Aviad Guttel, Ariel García Reyes, Valentina Simini, Franco Pracca, Francisco
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Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
Monitoring intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) has become a standard in intensive care units. Correlation between the abdominal wall’s thickness (AWTh) and IAP has been reported previously. The abdominal wall can be modeled as a compound of parallel dielectric slabs; changes in their width have a direct effect on the reflection coefficient of the abdomi...
Becker, Roland
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Medical hypotheses
In recent years numerous reports have highlighted the options of chemical breath analysis with regard to non-invasive cancer detection. Certain volatile organic compounds (VOC) supposedly present in higher amounts or in characteristic patterns have been suggested as potential biomarkers. However, so far no clinical application based on a specific s...