Meme stocks, driven by viral social media trends, have added new complexities to financial markets.Prior studies have explored meme stock price dynamics and investor sentiment, but the interplay between social media activity and market movements, along with the structural and linguistic features of online discussions, remains understudied.To addres
Hypotussic cough in persons with dysphagia: biobehavioral interventions and pathways to clinical implementation
Cough is a powerful, protective expulsive behavior that assists in maintaining respiratory health by clearing foreign material, pathogens, and mucus from the airways.Therefore, cough is critical to survival in both health and disease.Importantly, cough protects the airways and lungs from both antegrade (e.g., food, liquid, saliva) and retrograde (e
Spontaneous traumatic macular hole closure in a 50-year-old woman: a case report
Abstract Introduction Traumatic macular holes (TMH) are well-known ogee skirt complications of ocular contusion injury.Spontaneous closure occurs in approximately 50% of cases, but rarely after the age of thirty.We report a case of spontaneous closure of a full thickness macular hole due to a blunt trauma and we suggest possible mechanisms for this
Dicer is required for haploid male germ cell differentiation in mice.
BACKGROUND: The RNase III endonuclease Dicer is an important regulator of gene expression that processes microRNAs ford tridon (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs).The best-characterized function of miRNAs is gene repression at the post-transcriptional level through the pairing with mRNAs of protein-encoding genes.Small RNAs can also act at
Efficacy of Bevacizumab-Capecitabine in Combination for the First-Line Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer
There is an ongoing need for development of new chemotherapeutic regimens for metastatic breast cancer [mBC], especially when tumors lack therapeutic targets such as the estrogen or progesterone receptor [ER/PR], or the human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 [HER2].Capecitabine is an orally bioavailable fluoropyrimidine approved for monotherapy i