Humoral factors may cause idiopathic steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome (ISSNS). In the present study, we analyzed serum proteins using mass spectrometry (MS) to identify proteins associated with the pathophysiology of pediatric ISSNS. We collected serial serum samples from 33 children during each ISSNS phase; Phase A1 is the acute phase prior to steroid treatment (STx), Phase A2 represents t...

conclusions in issns, bone strength recovered one month after terminating stx. in igan, bone strength recovered 10 months after tapering of stx. results in issns, the bmd and s-alp levels were significantly lower in phase 1 than in phase 0; however, scores and levels returned to baseline in phase 2. in igan, bmd was significantly lower in phase 2 than in phase 0 while s-alp levels were signific...

Abstract Predatory publishing represents a major challenge to scholarly communication. This paper maps the infiltration of journals suspected predatory practices into citation database Scopus and examines cross-country differences in propensity scholars publish such journals. Using names “potential, possible, or probable” publishers on Beall’s lists, we derived ISSNs 3,293 from Ulrichsweb searc...

Harvested metadata on research objects can include links between the primary domain such as organizational identifiers associated with dataset, persons identified ORCIDs linked to publications and connected through ISSNs publishing channels. This kind of linkage is bread-and-butter CRIS systems usually comprehensively maintained. When it comes more subjective description a object, keywords, the...