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Self-expandable metal stents (SEMSs) can be used for palliation of combined malignant biliary and duodenal obstructions. However, the results of the concomitant stent placement for the duration of the patients...
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Chris Jones, Jacques Grill and colleagues report the identification of recurrent activating mutations in ACVR1 in diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas.
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Open AccessThe prognostic role of intragenic copy number breakpoints and identification of novel fusion genes in paediatric high grade glioma
Paediatric high grade glioma (pHGG) is a distinct biological entity to histologically similar tumours arising in older adults, and has differing copy number profiles and driver genetic alterations. As function...
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Open AccessThe mirror neuron system in post-stroke rehabilitation
Different treatments for stroke patients have been proposed; among them the mirror therapy and motion imagery lead to functional recovery by providing a cortical reorganization. Up today the basic concepts of ...
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An Agent-Based Wireless Sensor Network for Water Quality Data Collection
Future generation intelligent systems will harvest embedded intelligence as a means of delivering new and innovative services in diverse domains. Amongst the most challenging scenarios are those that consist o...
