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    Three components of glucose dynamics – mean, variance, and autocorrelation – are independently associated with coronary plaque vulnerability

    Hikaru Sugimoto, Ken-ichi Hironaka ... Shinya Kuroda
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Medicine

    Direct MRI of Collagen

    Jason Daniel van Schoor, Markus Weiger ... Klaas Paul Pruessmann
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    • Fundamental
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Medicine

    Translational reading frame determines the pathogenicity of C-terminal frameshift deletions in MeCP2: an alternative therapeutic approach

    Jacky Guy, Elena Hein ... Adrian Bird
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    • Important
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    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Dual-modal metabolic analysis reveals hypothermia-reversible uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation in neonatal brain hypoxia-ischemia

    Naidi Sun, Yu-Yo Sun ... Song Hu
    Post‑HI oxidative‑phosphorylation uncoupling drives secondary energy failure in neonatal brains, and preventing the post‑HI CMRO2 surge is a key mechanism underlying hypothermia’s neuroprotection.
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    GPR30 in spinal cholecystokinin-positive neurons modulates neuropathic pain

    Qing Chen, Hui Wu ... Xinzhong Chen
    A combination of viral strategies, electrophysiological methods, and behavioral tests reveals how GPR30 in spinal CCK+ neurons modulates neuropathic pain.
    1. Medicine

    Are peer reviewers influenced by their work being cited?

    Adrian Barnett
    Some requests by reviewers to cite their own publications are coercive and can unnecessarily delay indexation and publication.
    1. Medicine
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Global molecular landscape of early MASLD progression in obesity

    Qing Zhao, William De Nardo ... Philipp Kaldis
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    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Medicine

    Addressing cultural and knowledge barriers to enable preclinical sex inclusive research

    Brianna N Gaskill, Benjamin Phillips ... Natasha A Karp
    Targeted education corrects key misconceptions and identifies methods to influence intent to use sex-inclusive designs in in vivo studies.
    1. Medicine
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Determining fragility and robustness to missing data in binary outcome meta-analyses, illustrated with conflicting associations between vitamin D and cancer mortality

    David Robert Grimes
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Medicine
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Hyperactivated Glycolysis Drives Spatially-Patterned Kupffer Cell Depletion in MASLD

    Jia He, Ran Li ... Zhao Shan
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
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