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Personalized Nutrition for Depression: Impact on the Unholy Trinity
New Paper by USERN Interest Group
🌀Recent studies indicate that MDD is also associated with changes in the gut microbiota and that the latter is mainly modulated by diet.
🌀Microbiota-based personalized nutrition aims to provide an individual-specific diet that will yield the maximum benefit from a given diet since the gut microbiota is accounted for the variations that individuals present in response to a given food.
🌀This review, presents and discusses 5 possible outcomes of using microbiota-based personalized nutrition. Harnessing this approach is essential to design more accurate therapies to prevent and treat MDD or to even help in drug metabolism, especially in the case of antidepressants.
Source: https://doi.org/10.1159/000514094
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Innate lymphoid cell subsets and their cytokines in autoimmune diseases
New Paper by USERN Interest Group
🌀Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are an important type of innate immune cell, whose role has been highlighted in recent years.
🌀ILCs are responsible for some of the inflammation in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases.
🌀In this review, we discuss the role of ILCs in the immune response, as well as their involvement in various autoimmune diseases.
Source: https://doi.org/10.1684/ecn.2020.0460
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❄️Winter Research Week❄️
🔹Last day, Publishing Books with International Publishers Workshop
🔹Feb 27-Mar 4, 2021
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❄️Winter Research Week❄️
🔹Meta-analysis Workshop, instructed by Dr. Amene Saghazadeh
🔹Mar 3, 2021
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✨The USERN Prize competition 2021 has just begun!
🏆USERN Prize winner will be selected from 5 major fields of science (Formal, Social, Medical, Physical and Chemical, Biological) applicants.
🏆Any young scientist (age less than 40 years) can apply. Create or update your profile on USERN website and submit your research paper by June 1st.
⚜Registration in USERN website:
https://usern.tums.ac.ir/Account/Register
⚜Submit your abstract:
http://usern.tums.ac.ir/Prize/ApplicationForm
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❄️Winter Research Week❄️
🔹Introduction to Basic Statistics Workshop, instructed by Dr. Amene Saghazadeh
🔹Mar 1, 2021
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❄️Winter Research Week❄️
🔹Peer Review, Submission, and Journal Selection Workshop, instructed by Prof. Nima Rezaei
🔹Feb 28, 2021
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❄️Winter Research Week❄️
🔹Scientific Writing Workshop, instructed by Prof. Nima Rezaei
🔹Feb 27, 2021
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📝Have you ever read an interesting scientific article and you wanted to share it?
USERN provides you with the opportunity of sharing your interesting scientific ideas and news with others.
It's quite easy; just write a brief overview of the most updated version of what you have read and upload it in the below link.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KOpd1f1evBPmKs2SnKeJxWyJxfjP8Xro3LDR8jWwEYY/prefill
🏆Note that every month we announce the best UQR too.
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The First TUMS-KhNMU International USERN Spring e-Course
🔻with the contribution of students' International committees of the schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Public Health, Rehabilitation, Nursing and Midwifery.
🔻April 12th to May 12th, 2021
🔻Deadline for registration and abstract submission: March 15th
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Neuronal and glial CSF biomarkers in multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
New Paper by USERN Interest Groups
🌀CHI3L1 was the only marker with higher levels in MS than CIS. GFAP levels were higher in PMS versus RRMS, and NFL, t-tau, and CHI3L1 did not differ between different subtypes.
🌀Only levels of NFL were higher in patients in relapse than remission. Meta-regression showed influence of sex and disease severity on NFL and t-tau levels, respectively and disease duration on both.
Source: https://doi.org/10.1515/revneuro-2020-0145
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❄️USERN Winter Research Week
❄️Kindly thanks for your interest; the deadline for registration is over now.
❄️See you at the workshops!
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🔹Feb 27, Scientific Writing
by Dr. Nima Rezaei
🔹Feb 28, Submission and Journal Selection
by Dr. Nima Rezaei
🔹Mar 1, Introduction to Basic Statistics
by Dr. Amene Saghazadeh
🔹Mar 2, Systematic Review
by Dr. Amene Saghazadeh
🔹Mar 3, Meta-Analysis
by Dr. Amene Saghazadeh
🔹Mar 4, Publishing Books with International Publishers
by Dr. Nima Rezaei
❄️Registration:
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❄️Winter Research Week❄️
❌Only 48 hours left...
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SAM Digital 2021
▫️Skin Allergy Meeting
▫️A leading European meeting in 2021 devoted to skin allergy.
▫️An extensive scientific program will be delivered throughout the 2 days of meeting, featuring the latest research on all aspects of skin allergy.
▫️March 12-13, 2021
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Frontiers in comparative immunology series: T cell biology
Thursday, 18 March, 2021 - 10:00 to 16:45
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Association of PTPN22 single nucleotide polymorphisms with chronic spontaneous urticaria
New Paper by USERN Interest Group
🌀Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is thought to be an autoimmune disease in a subpopulation of patients. Protein tyrosine phosphatase-22 (PTPN22) polymorphisms are considered to be one of the strongest contributing factors to autoimmune diseases.
🌀Polymorphisms of the PTPN22 gene are associated with an increased susceptibility to CSU in the studied Iranian population.
Source: https://doi.org/10.15586/aei.v49i2.53
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Primary immunodeficiency associated with hypopigmentation: A differential diagnosis approach
New Paper by USERN Interest Group
🌀Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) are a group of more than 400 disorders representing aberrant functioning or development of immune system. Hypopigmentation syndromes also characterize a distinguished cluster of diseases.
🌀Hypopigmentation may also signify a feature of genetic diseases associated with immunodeficiency, such as Chediak-Higashi syndrome, Griscelli syndrome type 2, Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type 2 and type 10, Vici syndrome, and P14/LAMTOR2 deficiency, all of which are linked with dysfunction in vesicular/endosomal trafficking.
🌀As an aid to clinician, distinguishing the pathophysiology, clinical phenotype, and diagnosis as well as treatment options of the six mentioned PID disorders associated with hypopigmentation are described and discussed in this review.
Source: https://doi.org/10.15586/aei.v49i2.61
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Comparison of Losartan and Amlodipine Effects on the Outcomes of Patient with COVID-19 and Primary Hypertension: A Randomized Clinical Trial
New Paper on COVID-19 by USERN Interest Group
🌀Controversy exists regarding the drug selection in hypertension (HTN) management in patients with COVID-19.
🌀There was no priority in losartan or amlodipine administration in COVID-19 patients with primary HTN in decreasing mortality rate, hospital and ICU length stay. Further studies need to clarify the first-line anti-HTN medications in COVID-19.
Source: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcp.14124
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❄️Winter Research Week❄️
🔹Systematic Review Workshop, instructed by Dr. Amene Saghazadeh
🔹Mar 2, 2021
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"Biophysics applications in addressing global challenges."
🔹Registration and abstract submission link:
https://forms.gle/ogXmMj3S54xakh6w8
🔻Deadline for registration and abstract submission:
March 9th
🔹For more Information please download the PDF file from this link:
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✨Now we are a family with 15000 members worldwide✨
💫Join the USERN family:
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Novel Product for the Management of Coronary Ruptures Happening during Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
New Paper by USERN Interest Group
🌀Coronary artery perforation during percutaneous coronary interventions is a rare but dreaded complication.
🌀One of the treatment methods for this complication is the injection of an obliterating material into the ruptured vessel.
🌀We will introduce a novel material named "Spongostan" for embolization with significant advantages over available treatment options.
Source: https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6688338
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✨USERN proudly introduces Prof. Moslem Bahadori, renowned Iranian professor and one of the pioneers of modern medicine in Iran, as the honorary member of its advisory board.
🗓Feb 22, 2021
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http://usern.tums.ac.ir/info/board
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Low Vitamin D Status at Admission as a Risk Factor for Poor Survival in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: An Italian Retrospective Study
New Paper on COVID-19 by USERN Interest Group
🌀Preliminary findings suggest a relationship between lower serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels and incidence and severity of COVID-19.
🌀A high prevalence (100%) of hypovitaminosis D in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, suggesting a possible role of low vitamin D status in increasing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent hospitalization.
🌀The inverse association between serum 25(OH)D levels and risk of in-hospital mortality observed in our cohort suggests that a lower vitamin D status upon admission may represent a modifiable and independent risk factor for poor prognosis in COVID-19.
Source: https://doi.org/10.1080/07315724.2021.1877580
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MicroRNAs and Diabetes Mellitus Type 1
New Paper by USERN Interest Group
🌀Alterations in the expression of microRNA coding genes are extensively reported in several diseases such as type 1 diabetes.
🌀Presenting non-invasive biomarkers for early detection of type 1 diabetes by quantifying microRNAs gene expression level can be an influential step in biotechnology and medicine.
Source: https://doi.org/10.2174/1573399817666210215111201
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❄️Srart the new year with new skills!
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Corticosteroids in idiopathic granulomatous mastitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
New paper by USERN Interest Group
🌀Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is an inflammatory disease of the breasts with an unknown etiology. Corticosteroids are one the primary options of treatment.
🌀We assessed the effectiveness of corticosteroids on IGM by conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis.
🌀This meta-analysis showed that managing IGM with only steroids may be less effective than the combination of steroids and surgery. This combination approach may result in a lower rate of recurrence and side effects in these patients.
Source: https://rdcu.be/cfowD
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The Hybrid USERN 2020 Congress: New Standards for Events in Practice
▫️USERN Editorial
🌀USERN activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
🌀Successful experience of the Hybrid International USERN Congress 2020.
▫️Source: https://doi.org/10.18502/acta.v59i1.5395
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❄️Winter Research Week❄️
🏆 with special support from Springer publisher.
🔹Instructors:
Prof. Nima Rezaei
Dr. Amene Saghazadeh
❌Only 72 hours left...
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