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Prenatal Exposure to Gestational Nicotine before Neurulation is Detrimental to Neurodevelopment of Wistar Rats' Offspring.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: This study aimed to determine the effect of gestational nicotine exposure before neurodevelopment on the morphology and histology of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in rats.

Oct 30 2018 30914861

Identifying substance use risk based on deep neural networks and Instagram social media data.

Social media may provide new insight into our understanding of substance use and addiction. In this study, we developed a deep-learning method to automatically classify individuals' risk for alcohol, tobacco, and drug use based on the content from their Instagram profiles. In total, 2287 active Instagram users participated in the study. Deep convolutional neural networks for images and long short-...

Oct 24 2018 30356094
Mining User-Generated Content in an Online Smoking Cessation Community to Identify Smoking Status: A Machine Learning Approach.

Online smoking cessation communities help hundreds of thousands of smokers quit smoking and stay abstinent each year. Content shared by users of such ...

Oct 15 2018 31885411
Support Vector Machine Optimized by Genetic Algorithm for Data Analysis of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Sensors.

Near-infrared (NIR) spectral sensors deliver the spectral response of the light absorbed by materials for quantification, qualification or identificat...

Sep 25 2018 30257420
Association of Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes With Smoking Behaviors and Biomarkers of Exposure Among Slow and Fast Nicotine Metabolizers: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.

IMPORTANCE: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its intention to reduce the nicotine content in combustible cigarettes but must ba...

Aug 24 2018 30627706
A Nasal Brush-based Classifier of Asthma Identified by Machine Learning Analysis of Nasal RNA Sequence Data.

Asthma is a common, under-diagnosed disease affecting all ages. We sought to identify a nasal brush-based classifier of mild/moderate asthma. 190 subj...

Jun 11 2018 29891868
Survey of potential receptivity to robotic-assisted exercise coaching in a diverse sample of smokers and nonsmokers.

A prior project found that an intensive (12 weeks, thrice weekly sessions) in-person, supervised, exercise coaching intervention was effective for smo...

May 10 2018 29746530
Biosignature Discovery for Substance Use Disorders Using Statistical Learning.

There are limited biomarkers for substance use disorders (SUDs). Traditional statistical approaches are identifying simple biomarkers in large samples...

Feb 4 2018 29409736
Nicotine is a risk factor for dental caries: An  study.

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: is an important pathogen in the development of dental caries. Many studies have focused on the relationship between nicotine and ...

Jan 17 2018 30895091
How Confounder Strength Can Affect Allocation of Resources in Electronic Health Records.

When electronic health record (EHR) data are used, multiple approaches may be available for measuring the same variable, introducing potentially confo...

Jan 1 2018 29618960
Differences between Dual Users and Switchers Center around Vaping Behavior and Its Experiences Rather than Beliefs and Attitudes.

(1) Background: Many smokers completely switch to vaping (switchers), whereas others use e-cigarettes (e-cigs) alongside tobacco cigarettes (dual user...

Dec 23 2017 29295483
Antiviral activity of aconite alkaloids from Debx.

Four diterpenoid alkaloids, namely, () hypaconitine, ) songorine, () mesaconitine and () aconitine, were isolated from the ethanol root extract of De...

Dec 22 2017 29271255
Prevalence and Disparities in Tobacco Product Use Among American Indians/Alaska Natives - United States, 2010-2015.

An overarching goal of Healthy People 2020 is to achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve health among all groups.* Although signific...

Dec 22 2017 29267265
E-Cigarette Surveillance With Social Media Data: Social Bots, Emerging Topics, and Trends.

BACKGROUND: As e-cigarette use rapidly increases in popularity, data from online social systems (Twitter, Instagram, Google Web Search) can be used to...

Dec 20 2017 29263018
Construction of a 26‑feature gene support vector machine classifier for smoking and non‑smoking lung adenocarcinoma sample classification.

The present study aimed to identify the feature genes associated with smoking in lung adenocarcinoma (LAC) samples and explore the underlying mechanis...

Dec 7 2017 29257283
An Ultralightweight and Living Legged Robot.

In this study, we describe the most ultralightweight living legged robot to date that makes it a strong candidate for a search and rescue mission. The...

Nov 3 2017 29412086
Evaluation of genotoxic effects in Brazilian agricultural workers exposed to pesticides and cigarette smoke using machine-learning algorithms.

Monitoring exposure to xenobiotics by biomarker analyses, such as a micronucleus assay, is extremely important for the precocious detection and preven...

Oct 30 2017 29086360
Sub-acute administration of lower doses of nicotine caused sex-dependent improvement of renal function in Wistar rats.

The adverse and beneficial health effects of nicotine (NIC), the major alkaloid found in cigarettes and tobacco, are controversial. Most studies on NI...

Oct 10 2017 29657920
Persistent light to moderate alcohol intake and lung function: A longitudinal study.

Alcohol intake has been inconsistently associated with lung function levels in cross-sectional studies. The goal of our study was to determine whether...

Sep 1 2017 29396309
Counterfeit Electronic Cigarette Products with Mislabeled Nicotine Concentrations.

OBJECTIVES: We compared nicotine concentrations in one brand of refill fluids that were purchased in 4 countries and labeled 0 mg of nicotine/mL. We t...

Jul 1 2017 29744375
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