| Mothers were then randomised to the intervention or control group within two strata. |
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| Collection of the control group was essential for the evaluation of seropositivity among the general female population. |
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| There is no way that the results from this control group could provide a comparison or baseline for simple guessing. |
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| The cancer patients had used their phone for a mean of 2.8 years while the control group averaged 2.7 years. |
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| The researchers studied some 800 start-up business entrepreneurs and compared them with a control group. |
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| Patients with inactive, late emphysematous, or fibrotic sequelae of HP were classified in the control group. |
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| The possibly calming effect of having family present for the control group during the intervention could have played a part in the reaction. |
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| Figure 3a and Figure 3b are micrographs of liver sections of the control group and acetaminophen group. |
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| Using hair assays to measure compliance, pregnant women were compared with a control group of nonpregnant women. |
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| In the control group, all patients received their shocks from the ambulance personnel. |
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| As healthcare providers, we often wonder whether it is ethical to use a control group or not. |
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| This study is a preliminary report of the case series without a control group for comparison. |
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| Table 4 shows the relative mortality of this group of patients compared with the control group. |
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| The failures in the control group were all from subjects with unilateral ankle sprains. |
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| Researchers tested their SARS vaccine on four African green monkeys, with another four in the control group. |
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| Adverse drug effects, which were more common in the rhythm control group, included bradycardia and lung problems. |
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| A further 932 were recruited from the public to act as a control group for comparison. |
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| This compared favourably with the matched control group of whom 27 had been convicted of a violent offence in the post-programme period. |
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| So I get thinking, this is an abnormally high occurrence of cancer in a control group of youths. |
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| The follow-up did not allow for comparison with an untreated control group since the original wait-listed group had gone on to receive therapy. |
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| The results revealed that the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group on gross motor skills and locomotion. |
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| Patients in the control group received standard care delivered by the community mental health teams. |
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| In contrast, only 5 of the children with seizure disorders in the control group regularly took anticonvulsant medication. |
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| As the data indicate, the experimental group outperformed the control group on the extended-response essay. |
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| Further, puppies fed the hyperimmunized egg powder had significantly higher fecal IgA levels than the control group. |
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| The control group was maintained in a similar chamber ventilated with filtered air. |
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| However, the range of motion for cervical rotation and lateral flexion increased more in the training groups than in the control group. |
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| Dr Duncan found that only one of the groups, the third group, showed any apparent effect in comparison with the control group. |
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| Results showed a significant improvement in the iron, iodine and vitamin A status of these children compared to a control group. |
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| Direct evaluation cannot be done because very few ganzfeld studies have included a control group. |
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| Similar to the control group, the large bronchi were lined with simple cuboidal cells and contained discrete glands within the underlying wall. |
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| More often than in the control group, the exchange students reported that their parents encouraged them to meet other cultures. |
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| At each site, 25 young people received the program, while another 25 young people served as the control group. |
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| The vaccine was shown to have an acceptable safety profile when compared to the control group. |
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| One year after surgery, the intervention group demonstrated dramatic reductions in phantom limb pain, stump pain and phantom sensation when compared with the control group. |
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| Some of the patients in the control group who did not achieve resolution of the wart following the placebo injection were unblinded and given Candida antigen injections. |
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| Boys were matched to another of similar age, social background, temperament, and biological somatotype, then randomly assigned either to the program or to the control group. |
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| Also the supplemented group had more rapid normalization of stress than control group. |
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| In fact, they were as good as a control group of their normal, genetically unmodified cousins. |
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| They reported a significant increase in sexual activity, such as kissing and petting, among male participants when compared with the control group. |
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| If such a person in the control group lost her full-time job, she would have the same incentives as before to reacquire a full-time job. |
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| The researchers examined stories in 469 local papers following suicides in both the clustered and the control group. |
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| The experimental group had significantly better knowledge amassment than the control group did. |
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| The control group proved able to respond two to two and a half times faster than usual and with poor aim. |
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| In the Oregon study, 5.1 percent of the people in the control group had elevated GH levels. |
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| For one thing, you'd probably have trouble getting people to stay in the control group once you put them there. |
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| By the end of the study, the experimental group had a mean IQ gain of 30 points higher than the control group. |
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| Scientists injected some of these mice with GFD, and then injected cat allergen into the windpipes of all the mice, including a control group that was not allergic to cats. |
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| After six weeks of therapy, the mean number of incontinent episodes was reduced by one half in the treatment group but by only 15 percent in the control group. |
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| One group drank a lot of carrot juice during the last trimester of pregnancy, the other group drank the carrot juice during lactation, and then we had a control group. |
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| Eighty per cent of the writers she studied suffered at some point from an affective disorder, compared with only thirty per cent in the control group. |
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| The supplement was fed at a rate to supply similar energy as the combination of hay and supplement in the control group, while supplying adequate metabolizable protein. |
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| Underlying conditions were more common among patients than in the control group, particularly AIDS related illness, metastatic cancers, and lymphomas or leukaemia. |
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| Without a simultaneous matched control group, evaluation of the policy would not have been possible due to confounding influences. |
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| The control group did not show activity in these parts of their brains when listening to the psalm. |
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| The control group of participants who performed no exercise gained weight over the period of the trial. |
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| No significant differences were reported in the areas of sensation, distress, anxiety, or narcotic intake between the three intervention groups and the control group. |
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| This sample was split randomly into two groups of 20,000 households each in order to create a control group. |
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| Those who were examined also performed significantly better than the control group in their attempts to remember words for a fifth time. |
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| The elevations seen in treated rats were somewhat larger than those observed in the control group. |
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| An additional group of monkeys received vehicle only and served as a control group. |
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| A clinical trial in which one or more intervention arms are compared with a placebo control group raises specific ethical issues. |
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| The percentages of aneuploid bone marrow leukocytes were higher than those of aneuploid sperm for the two upper THH dose groups and for the positive control group. |
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| Atypical cells were noted in the smears of four monkeys, one from the high dose and three from the control group. |
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| Subjects were classified as flat foot and control group based on data from radiograms. |
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| Forty-seven women were randomly assigned to a saffron group or a control group. |
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| The project used an experimental approach with random distribution of the 1,230 participants in a test group receiving services from the integrated system and a control group receiving the usual services available in Quebec. |
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| The intervention group received 150mg oral levamisole while the control group took a placebo tablet on two consecutive days weekly. |
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| A control group of 452 air-filled tires was also part of the study. |
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| It should be noted that program and control group means for employment, earnings, and reductions in welfare and food stamps benefits were not provided in the report reviewed. |
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| The fourth column shows the difference in means between workers in the program group and workers in the control group, with an estimated standard error in the fifth column. |
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| In another study, Rossello and Bernal compared the effects of CBT and IPT with a control group. |
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| These effects are the difference between each percentile of earnings for the SSP program group and the same percentile of earnings for the control group. |
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| Studies shall be designed to demonstrate the efficacy of the lowest recommended dose of additive by targeting sensitive parameters in comparison to a negative and, optionally, a positive control group. |
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| This research was carried out in Germany among 706 women up to 50 years of age with a freshly diagnosed breast cancer in comparison with a control group of 1,381 women of the same age. |
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| A number of the mice received only phosphate buffer solution as the control group. |
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| Results indicate that immediately following 10 weeks of twice-weekly in-school tutoring, almost half of both the tutored group and the control group made no reading gains. |
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| One small study showed improvement in libido and hot flushes in 15 women given nutrition and lifestyle advice and a tailor-made herbal prescription, compared with a control group. |
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| Patients who received KYTRIL Tablets also experienced significantly fewer emetic episodes during the first day of radiation and over the 4-day treatment period, compared to patients in the historical negative control group. |
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| In all, 2 765 people with gliomas, 2 425 with meningiomas, 1 121 with acoustic neuromas and 400 with cancer of the parotid gland were interviewed using a common protocol, along with a control group of 7 658 people. |
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| When program and control group characteristics differ in a way that might plausibly affect response to an employment-related intervention, impact estimates can be adjusted statistically to compensate for the differences. |
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| Clinically, the study showed that the duration of paralytic ileus was notably shorter in patient treated with trimebutine maleate than in the control group. |
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| For 12 weeks, one group was provided with phonemic awareness training in French, while a control group was engaged in French vocabularybuilding activities. |
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| Reductions in blood glucose in the other groups were negligibly similar to the control group. |
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| Compare the results against a control group. |
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| One control group received no contact whatsoever. |
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| The control group showed almost no improvement. |
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| The third group drank no alcohol and acted as the control group. |
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| Although this study was carried out without a placebo or control group and over a short period, it confirms that omega-3 contained in fish oil has an anti-inflammatory effect and no undesirable side effects. |
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| A comparison group is called a control group in laboratory settings. |
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| Children in the program did improve their understanding, but this made no difference to their adjustment compared to that of children in a control group. |
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| A better approach may be to design an experiment which would include both a treatment group and a control group which would then allow an observed effect to be attributed to a specific cause. |
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| Finally, a placebo was not always administered to the control group. |
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| When all the children were later exposed to a frustrating situation, the first three groups responded with more aggression than the control group. |
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| It was observed that the nerve cells of mutated mice responded more strongly to artificial stimuli than was the case for mice in the control group. |
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| Recent research seems to indicate that women who consume large amounts of phyto-oestrogens have lower blood cholesterol levels than is the case in a control group. |
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| About 10,000 eggs, taken from the control group, were transferred with the reporter gene using PEI as vector. |
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| Children who viewed Barney alone only had a small advantage over the nonviewing control group. |
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| The splenectomized men, the researchers found, were twice as likely to die of cardiovascular disease as were the veterans in the control group. |
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| For the control group, the 39 non-SARS patients were those who had symptoms similar to those for the SARS patients. |
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| The accrescence of tumor volume in treatment groups was reduced compared to that of the control group. |
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| After ethical approvement, ten dental sockets were divided in two groups including test group and control group. |
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| There was a significant reduction in trauma reexperience scores in the hypnotherapy group but not the control group. |
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| The patients in the Reticulose test group also gained weight and experienced an improved clinical condition, compared with the control group. |
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| In the control group only 2 patients were diagnosed to have mental changes, 3 presented with paresis and 3 with meningismus in the first days. |
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| Fifth, two patients in the control group were on low-dose metolazone possibly influencing the results. |
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| The intervention and control group received 110ml of tomato juice or 110ml of water to consume three times daily with meals. |
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| Two patients in the control group were rehospitalized because of pneumonia and coloscopy. |
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| Thus, this study used a quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group design. |
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| In the control group the cord was clamped 2 to 3 cm from the umbilicus and was not milked. |
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| Patients were randomly allocated into the CPAP group or the control group using a computer-generated randomisation list. |
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| At 6 months, foot pain intensity was less in the surgical and orthosis groups than in the control group. |
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| In the control group, a large number of ovarian follicles at different developmental stages in the cortex were visible at low magnification. |
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| As observed, the score of pretest and posttest of the control group does not differ and is relatively the same. |
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| Thirteen previous patients who received filgrastim and chemotherapy for mobilization were used for comparison as the control group. |
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| In addition to a control group in each category, a unique aspect of this registry is that many exposed infants will undergo dysmorphology examinations. |
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| The nonparticipant group consisted of a nonequivalent control group of students currently enrolled in recreation, sports and physical activity program classes. |
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| Compassion training was compared to a control group that learned cognitive reappraisal, a technique where people learn to reframe their thoughts to feel less negative. |
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| In fact, the benefit was significant in all cognitive domains, including memory, executive function, and psychomotor speed, compared with the control group. |
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| The administration of MUL enhanced the hepatosomatic index of MTX treated rats and brought this parameter back to values very similar to that observed in the control group. |
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| The treated lab animals had fewer immune cells in their central nervous systems, less myelin damage, and fewer symptoms compared to a control group not given the antibody. |
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| Two, the comparison group of never-smokers was limited to women without any SHS exposure, producing a truer control group compared to previous studies. |
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| Section of brain showing ischemia induced changes like loss of basophilia due to necrosis of the small neurons of the granular layer of brain in ischemic control group. |
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| To avoid excessive dropouts from the study, we wouldn't employ a single tutored group and a single control group that received no instruction at all. |
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| Within each age group, there was a control group who continued their normal physical education and an intervention group who used the Funky Moves program for 5 weeks. |
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| Microscopically, the tumor cells were arranged in diffuse compact trabeculae, with variable degrees of anaplasia, and increased mitotic activity in the control group. |
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| Again, women who initially viewed the modified images were 13 per cent more likely to rate the modified vulvas as more society's ideal than the control group. |
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| Because infection with HIV appears to result in decreased mitochondrial DNA levels in untreated individuals, levels also were assessed for a control group of uninfected males. |
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| We recently demonstrated that plasma D-lactate concentrations were greatly increased in DKA compared with the concentrations in diabetic patients or a healthy control group. |
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| Notably, the infragenual ACC, which showed the most robust deficit of relative rCMRglc compared with the control group receives a dense dopaminergic innervation. |
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