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Effects of interfacial roughness on the GMR of Ta/Co/Ta multilayers studied by neutron reflectometer
To study the effects of the roughness of magnetic nano-multilayer films on the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) performance, we used magnetron sputtering to prepare Ta/Co/Ta films with different Co thicknesses on...
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MicroRNA-24-3p Inhibits Microglia Inflammation by Regulating MK2 Following Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a functional impairment of the spinal cord caused by external forces, accompanied by limb movement disorders and permanent paralysis, which seriously lowers the life quality of SCI ...
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Open AccessAstragaloside IV protects human cardiomyocytes from hypoxia/reoxygenation injury by regulating miR-101a
Astragaloside IV (AS/IV) is one of the extracted components from the traditional Chinese medicine Astragalus which has been demonstrated to have potential capacity for anti-inflammation activity and for treati...
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Open AccessA Survey of the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System Database Concerning Urogenital Tract Infections and Sodium Glucose Cotransporter‐2 Inhibitor Use
We tested the possible association between sodium glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor (SGLT-2i) use and urogenital tract infection (UTI) occurrences by assessing the publicly available US Food and Drug Administr...
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A New Nonglycosidic Iridoid from Aerial Parts of Gelsemium elegans
A new nonglycosidic iridoid, geleganoid G (1), together with six previously reported analogues (2–7), were isolated from the aqueous ethanol extract of the aerial parts of Gelsemium elegans. Their structures were...
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The impedance, dielectric and piezoelectric properties of Tb4O7 and Tm2O3 doped KNN ceramics
Rare earth (RE) elements (Tb, Tm) doped K0.5Na0.5NbO3 (KNN) lead-free ceramics were fabricated using conventional solid-state reaction method. All samples with dominating orthorhombic phase are well developed. Th...
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Photoluminescence and impedance properties of rare-earth doped (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 lead-free ceramics
Rare earth (RE) elements (Pr, Sm) doped K0.5Na0.5NbO3 (KNN) lead-free ceramics were fabricated using conventional solid-state reaction method and their properties were investigated. The X-ray methods indicate tha...
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Biomimetic mineralization and cytocompatibility of nanorod hydroxyapatite/graphene oxide composites
Nanorod hydroxyapatite (NRHA)/graphene oxide (GO) composites with weight ratios of 0.4, 1.5, and 5 have been fabricated by a facile ultrasonic-assisted method at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. The ...
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Antifungal activity of 3-acetylbenzamide produced by actinomycete WA23-4-4 from the intestinal tract of Periplaneta americana
Actinomycetes are well-known for producing numerous bioactive secondary metabolites. In this study, primary screening by antifungal activity assay found one actinomycete strain WA23-4-4 isolated from the intes...
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Male Populus cathayana than female shows higher photosynthesis and less cellular injury through ABA-induced manganese transporting inhibition under high manganese condition
High Mn poisoned male and female Populus cathayana. The toxicity could be alleviated by exogenous ABA application. Intriguingly, ABA granted higher resistance to males than to females under h...
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Open AccessAdvances in bio-active constituents, pharmacology and clinical applications of rhubarb
Rhubarb is one of the most ancient, commonly used and important herbs in Chinese medicine. The modern researches of rhubarb clarified the efficacies, ingredients and mechanisms in a more scientific and rigorou...
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Open AccessNMI and IFP35 serve as proinflammatory DAMPs during cellular infection and injury
Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMP) trigger innate immune response and exacerbate inflammation to combat infection and cellular damage. Identifying DAMPs and revealing their functions are thus of cruci...
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Open AccessDetection of IL-9 producing T cells in the PBMCs of allergic asthmatic patients
Interleukin-9 (IL-9) was reported as an active participant in the pathogenesis of allergic asthma. This study aimed to investigate the major source ofIL-9 and its effect on interferon γ (IFN-γ) and immunoglobu...
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A New Ceramide from the Florets of Carthamus tinctorius
A new ceramide, rel-(3S,4S,5S)-3-[(2S)-2-hydroxyheneicosanoylamino]-4-hydroxy-5-[(4Z)-tetradecan-4-ene]-2,3,4,5-tetrahydrofuran (1), was isolated from the florets of Carthamus tinctorius along with two compounds,...
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Design and preparation of easily recycled Ag2WO4@ZnO@Fe3O4 ternary nanocomposites and their highly efficient degradation of antibiotics
The Ag2WO4@ZnO@Fe3O4 ternary nanocomposites with high photodegradation activity were synthesized. Compared with Ag2WO4 and ZnO crystals, the ternary nanocomposites could improve the rate of degrading antibiotics ...
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Deep sequencing of the MHC region in the Chinese population contributes to studies of complex disease
Xuejun Zhang, Jun Wang, Liangdan Sun, Lennart Hammarström and colleagues sequence the MHC region in 20,635 Han Chinese individuals. Their Han-MHC database allows identification of new susceptibility loci for p...
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Hierarchical porous hydroxyapatite microspheres: synthesis and application in water treatment
Hydroxyapatite (HA) microspheres with hierarchical porous structure were synthesized using a facile gas diffusion method. The morphology and structure of the as-synthesized products were characterized by X-ray...
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Microarray CGH analysis of hematological patients with del(20q)
Deletion of the long arm of chromosome 20 is a common abnormality underlying hematological malignancy. We analyzed 21 patients with hematologic diseases confirmed to carry the del(20q) by conventional cytogene...
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Open AccessPerformance of genetic risk factors in prediction of trichloroethylene induced hypersensitivity syndrome
Trichloroethylene induced hypersensitivity syndrome is dose-independent and potentially life threatening disease, which has become one of the serious occupational health issues and requires intensive treatment...
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Construction and characterization of a thermostable whole-cell chitinolytic enzyme using yeast surface display
To develop a novel yeast whole-cell biocatalyst by yeast surface display technology that can hydrolyze chitin, the chitinaseC gene from Serratia marcescens AS1.1652 strain was cloned and subcloned into the yeast ...
