BACKGROUND: Patients with organic gastrointestinal (GI) diseases and diabetes mellitus (DM) can have concomitant disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI). OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to compare the global prevalence of DGBI-compatible symptom profiles in adults with and without self-reported organic GI diseases or DM. METHODS: Data were collected ...
The organization and interaction between hepatocytes and other hepatic non-parenchymal cells plays a pivotal role in maintaining normal liver function and structure. Although spatial heterogeneity within the tumor micro-environment has been proven to be a fundamental feature in cancer progression, the role of liver tissue topology and micro-environ...
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Herbivore diets are often generalistic, and communities of herbivores tend to share much of their diets. In the tropical lowlands of Malaysian Borneo, tens of different noncarnivorous land snail species are able to coexist in communities on limestone outcrops. We tried to answer the question whether diet differentiation plays a role in their coexis...
Potassium isotopic analysis is arousing increasing interest, not only in geochemistry, but also in biomedicine. However, real-life applications are still hindered by the lack of robustness of the methods used. In this work, a novel and robust method for high-precision K isotopic analysis of geological and biological samples was developed, based on ...
Published in Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
SSc and localized sclerosis (LoS) are considered clinically distinct entities. We describe herein the coexistence of SSc and LoS by both a systematic literature review and an observational cohort study of unselected SSc patients. Original studies documenting the coexistence of SSc and LoS were identified in three electronic databases by means of a ...
Published in Attention, perception & psychophysics
Prior research has shown that readers may misread words by switching letters across words (e.g., the word sand in sand lane being recognized as land). These so-called letter migration errors have been observed using a divided attention paradigm whereby two words are briefly presented simultaneously, and one is postcued for identification. Letter mi...
Published in Memory & Cognition
One powerfully robust method for the study of human contingency learning is the colour-word contingency learning paradigm. In this task, participants respond to the print colour of neutral words, each of which is presented most often in one colour. The contingencies between words and colours are learned, as indicated by faster and more accurate res...
Published in Climate Dynamics
Convection-permitting climate model are promising tools for improved representation of extremes, but the number of regions for which these models have been evaluated are still rather limited to make robust conclusions. In addition, an integrated interpretation of near-surface characteristics (typically temperature and precipitation) together with c...
