Importance Numerous physical distancing measures were implemented to mitigate the
spread of the COVID-19 virus, which could have negatively affected child and adolescent …

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common form of chronic liver disease
worldwide. With no Food and Drug Administration approved drugs, current treatment options …

… The diagnosis of NAFLD (Table 2) requires the exclusion of alcohol abuse; a daily intake
as low as 20 g in female subjects and 30 g in male subjects may be sufficient to cause alcohol-…

OBJECTIVES Metabolic factors may affect the course of chronic hepatitis C (CHC). Insulin
resistance (IR) determines steatosis, but its direct role in affecting progression of hepatic …

In this work, we report the design, fabrication, and preliminary assessment of analytical
performance of a smartphone-based bioluminescence (BL) whole-cell toxicity biosensor. …

Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a rare and aggressive hematologic
malignancy for which there is still no effective therapy. In order to identify genetic alterations …

BACKGROUND/AIMS: We studied the prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and
non-alcoholic-steatohepatitis in patients with metabolic-syndrome but normal liver enzymes. …

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is recognized as the most common type of chronic
liver disease in Western countries. Insulin resistance is a key factor in the pathogenesis of …

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a further expression of metabolic syndrome, strictly
linked to obesity and diabetes mellitus, is characterized by insulin resistance (IR), elevated …

Quadruple wild-type (WT) gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is a genomic subgroup
lacking KIT/PDGFRA/RAS pathway mutations, with an intact succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) …