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Wen**g Peng
Internal Medicine
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Open AccessCorrection to: Pharmacodynamics of efavirenz 400 mg in treatment-naïve Chinese HIV-infected patients in a prospective cohort study
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
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Open AccessPharmacodynamics of efavirenz 400 mg in treatment-naïve Chinese HIV-infected patients in a prospective cohort study
The plasma concentration of patients treated with efavirenz (EFV) 600 mg was found to exceed the upper limit of the proposed therapeutic window in most Chinese HIV-infected individuals; thus, dosage reduction ...
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Open AccessThe effect of glucocorticoids on serum cystatin C in identifying acute kidney injury: a propensity-matched cohort study
Glucocorticoids may impact the accuracy of serum cystatin C (sCysC) in reflecting renal function. We aimed to assess the effect of glucocorticoids on the performance of sCysC in detecting acute kidney injury (...
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Open AccessTargeting cancer stem cell pathways for cancer therapy
Since cancer stem cells (CSCs) were first identified in leukemia in 1994, they have been considered promising therapeutic targets for cancer therapy. These cells have self-renewal capacity and differentiation ...
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Prehypertension exercise training attenuates hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy accompanied by temporal changes in the levels of angiotensin II and angiotensin (1-7)
Appropriate exercise training (ExT) has been shown to decrease high blood pressure. Accumulating data have indicated the beneficial effects of ExT on prehypertension. This study tested whether prehypertension ...
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Open AccessCase report: life-threatening coronary artery spasm under transversus abdominis plane block in combination with general anesthesia
Many cases of coronary artery spasm (CAS) during general plus epidural anesthesia have been reported. But transversus abdominis plane(TAP) block in combination with general anesthesia has not been reported to ...
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Open AccessIdentification of high-risk plaque features in intracranial atherosclerosis: initial experience using a radiomic approach
To evaluate a quantitative radiomic approach based on high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (HR-MRI) to differentiate acute/sub-acute symptomatic basilar artery plaque from asymptomatic plaque.
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Open AccessAcute coronary syndrome secondary to allergic coronary vasospasm (Kounis Syndrome): a case series, follow-up and literature review
Kounis syndrome (KS) is the concurrence of acute coronary syndrome associated with mast-cell and platelet activation in the setting of hypersensitivity and allergic or anaphylactic insults. Many drugs and envi...
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Open AccessAssociation of the single nucleotide polymorphism in chromosome 9p21 and chromosome 9q33 with coronary artery disease in Chinese population
Our study aims to explore the association of rs7025486 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in DAB2IP and rs1333049 on chromosome 9p21.3 with the coronary artery disease in Chinese population.
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Open AccessWorld Congress Integrative Medicine & Health 2017: part two
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Open AccessA workforce survey of Australian chiropractic: the profile and practice features of a nationally representative sample of 2,005 chiropractors
This paper reports the profile of the Australian chiropractic workforce and characteristics of chiropractic care from a large nationally-representative sample of practitioners.
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Open AccessSeverity of back pain may influence choice and order of practitioner consultations across conventional, allied and complementary health care: a cross-sectional study of 1851 mid-age Australian women
Back pain is a common, disabling and costly disorder for which patients often consult with a wide range of health practitioners. Unfortunately, no research to date has directly examined the association between...
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Open AccessAn assessment on the incremental value of high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging to identify culprit plaques in atherosclerotic disease of the middle cerebral artery
Although certain morphological features depicted by high resolution, multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (hrMRI) have been shown to be different between culprit and non-culprit middle cerebral artery (MC...
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CXCL10 and CXCL13 Expression were Highly Up-regulated in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in Acute Rejection and Poor Response to Anti-Rejection Therapy
Acute rejection is still one of the main complications which enhances the cost and the risk to renal graft failure. Chemokines, interacting with respective receptors, can recruit leukocytes into grafts and med...
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Gender-specific associations between subclinical hypothyroidism and blood pressure in Chinese adults
Hypothyroidism is often related with increased blood pressure, yet, gender-specific associations between subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) and hypertension have not been previously assessed. We conducted a larg...
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Community-based study of the association of subclinical thyroid dysfunction with blood pressure
The relationship between subclinical thyroid dysfunction and blood pressure has been controversial and received unsufficient attention. Thus, we performed a cross-sectional study conducted among 6,992 inhabita...
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Blockade of STAT3 by antisense oligonucleotide in TNBS-induced murine colitis
The expression of signal transducers and activators of transcription 3 (STAT3) is increased in Crohn’s disease (CD), and nuclear translocated STAT3 is also found in the disease. However, the role of STAT3 prot...
