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Jiao-**ang Chen
Medicine & Public Health
Internal Medicine
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Open AccessThe effect of cyclic knee motion on the elongation of four-strand hamstring autograft in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: an in-situ pilot study
Pretension of the viscoelastic graft by cyclic knee motion has been confirmed to decrease the graft creep and improve the outcome of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The purpose of the present ...
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Open AccessWill Chinese external therapy with compound Tripterygium wilfordii hook F gel safely control disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: design of a double-blinded randomized controlled trial
Chinese external therapy (CET) is a topical application with mainly Chinese herb medicine therapy with thousands of years of historical implications and is a clinical routine that is commonly used for relievin...
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Open AccessWorld Congress Integrative Medicine & Health 2017: part two
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Retinal nerve fiber layer thinning: a window into rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorders in Parkinson’s disease
Retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thinning occurs in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative diseases. Idiopathic RBD (iRBD) is a well-established prodromal hallmark of synucleinopathies and occurs...
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Open AccessAberrant functional connectivity of default-mode network in type 2 diabetes patients
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with increased risk for dementia. Patients with impaired cognition often show default-mode network disruption. We aimed to investigate the integrity of a default-mode net...
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Open AccessCD33+/p-STAT1+ double-positive cell as a prognostic factor for stage IIIa gastric cancer
Tumor-infiltrating immune cells are associated with tumor prognosis, although the type of immune cells responsible for local immune escape is still unknown. This study examined the relationship between gastric...
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99mTc-HYNIC-TOC scintigraphy in evaluation of active Graves’ ophthalmopathy (GO)
A promising radiopharmaceutical 99mTc-HYNIC-TOC (99mTc-HYNIC-Octreotide) can be applied for somatostatin receptor scintigraphy with the potential to replace Indium-111 labeled somatostatin analogus. Here we evalu...
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Genomic structure, chromosomal localization and expression profile of a novel melanoma differentiation associated (mda-7) gene with cancer specific growth suppressing and apoptosis inducing properties
Abnormalities in cellular differentiation are frequent occurrences in human cancers. Treatment of human melanoma cells with recombinant fibroblast interferon (IFN-β) and the protein kinase C activator mezerein...
