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Reversible diffusion restriction of the middle cerebellar peduncles and dentate nucleus in acute respiratory syncytial virus cerebellitis: a case report
Acute cerebellitis is a postinfectious or postvaccinal disorder that predominantly affects children. The typical magnetic resonance imaging appearance has been previously described as cerebellar hemispheric co...
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Open AccessAn anti-leishmanial thiadiazine agent induces multiple myeloma cell apoptosis by suppressing the nuclear factor kappaB signalling pathway
Nuclear factor κB (NFκB) has a critical role in the pathophysiology of multiple myeloma. Targeting NFκB is an important strategy for anti-myeloma drug discovery.
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Erratum to: Sustained and differential antibody responses to virulence proteins of Brucella melitensis during acute and chronic infections in human brucellosis
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Sustained and differential antibody responses to virulence proteins of Brucella melitensis during acute and chronic infections in human brucellosis
Brucellosis is an important zoonotic disease caused primarily by the bacterial pathogens Brucella melitensis and B. abortus. The pathogens cause debilitating febrile illness that can progress into a long-lasting ...
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Fate and Transport of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Vadose Zone: Compound-specific Natural Attenuation
Groundwater contamination caused by petroleum hydrocarbon (PHC) spills mostly from oil industry is a major environmental concern worldwide. However, infiltration into groundwater is decreasing due to the natur...
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Erratum: Environmental enrichment rescues female-specific hyperactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in a model of Huntington's disease
Correction to: Translational Psychiatry (2012) 2, e133; doi:10.1038/tp.2012.58; published online 3 July 2012 Following the online publication of this article, the authors noted an error on page 2: EIA should b...
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Open AccessEnvironmental enrichment rescues female-specific hyperactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in a model of Huntington's disease
Huntington's disease (HD) has long been regarded as a disease of the central nervous system, partly due to typical disease symptoms that include loss of motor control, cognitive deficits and neuropsychiatric d...
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The effect of 2,4-D and kinetin on dedifferentiation of petiole cells in Arabidopsis thaliana
Phytohormones are indispensable factors regulating plant cell dedifferentiation. In this paper, different concentrations of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and kinetin (KIN) were incorporated in the cul...
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Manufacture and Mechanical Testing of Collagen Scaffold with Channels
Vascularization is considered as one of the current limitations in thick-tissue engineering. The design of the scaffolds with a network of channels is a promising approach to solve the problem of vascularizati...
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Open AccessNovel genetic environment of the plasmid-mediated KPC-3 gene detected in Escherichia coli and Citrobacter freundii isolates from China
The imipenem and meropenem-resistant strains Citrobacter freundii HS70 and Escherichia coli HS510 were isolated from patients in Shanghai, China. By isoelectric focusing, PCR amplification and sequencing, these s...
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Association of the C47T polymorphism in SOD2 with diabetes mellitus and diabetic microvascular complications: a meta-analysis
A meta-analysis was performed to assess the association of C47T (rs4880) (also called Val16Ala) polymorphism in SOD2 gene with reduced risk of diabetes mellitus, including type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and diabetic...
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Creep of Fully Lamellar Near γ-TiAl Intermetallics
The influence of the fully lamellar morphology and third phase β on the creep properties of near γ-TiAl intermetallics is presented. Specifically, the effect of improved microstructural control obtainableby a ste...
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Multi-holed clay nanotubes and their modification with a polyaniline nanolayer
A facile in situ mechanical–chemical polymerization method for synthesis of polyaniline/halloysite nanocomposites was developed. Electron micrographs of the composites showed novel multi-holed clay nanotubes m...
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Open AccessMesenchymal stem cell as salvage treatment for refractory chronic GVHD
Refractory chronic GVHD (cGVHD) is an important complication after allogeneic hematopoietic SCT and is prognostic of poor outcome. MSCs are involved in tissue repair and modulating immune responses in vitro and i...
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A new green synthesis method of CuInS2 and CuInSe2 nanoparticles and their integration into thin films
A new preparation method for CuInS2 and CuInSe2 nanoparticles synthesis is described without using any organic solvent. Heating Cu, In, and S/Se precursors dissolved in water for 30 min in a microwave oven in the...
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Experimental investigation on the efficiency of the pulley-drive CVT
Because of their outstanding advantages over other transmissions, rubber V-belt pulley drive CVTs have been extensively used in low-power vehicles, such as scooters and snowmobiles. A rubber V-belt CVT install...
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Simulated 18O kinetic isotope effects in enzymatic hydrolysis of guanosine triphosphate
We compare the computed on the base of quantum mechanical-molecular mechanical (QM/MM) modeling kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) for a series of the 18O-labeled substrates in enzymatic hydrolysis of guanosine triph...
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Propagation characteristics of stochastic electromagnetic array beams
A stochastic electromagnetic array beam that is generated by an electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model source is introduced by using tensor method. An analytical expression for the cross-spectral density matrix...
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Oral benfotiamine plus α-lipoic acid normalises complication-causing pathways in type 1 diabetes
We determined whether fixed doses of benfotiamine in combination with slow-release α-lipoic acid normalise markers of reactive oxygen species-induced pathways of complications in humans.
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Propagation of elliptical cosh-Gaussian beams and off-axial elliptical cosh-Gaussian beams in apertured optical systems
Based on the fact that a hard-edged elliptical aperture can be expanded approximately as a finite sum of complex Gaussian functions in tensor form, an analytical propagation expression for an elliptical cosh-G...
