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**-peng Pei
Medicine & Public Health
Internal Medicine
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Dietary fiber intake and risk of renal cell carcinoma: evidence from a meta-analysis
The aim of this study was to investigate the possible relationships between dietary fiber intake and risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Electronic databases including MEDLINE, EMBASE and Web of Science were s...
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Open AccessElectro-acupuncture decreases 5-HT, CGRP and increases NPY in the brain-gut axis in two rat models of Diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome(D-IBS)
To examine whether electro-acupuncture (EA) could decrease 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), and increase neuro-peptide Y (NPY) in the brain-gut axis (BGA) in D-IBS using rat ...
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Autocrine activation of JAK2 by IL-11 promotes platinum drug resistance
Antineoplastic platinum agents are used in first-line treatment of ovarian cancer, but treatment failure frequently results from platinum drug resistance. Emerging observations suggest a role of reactive oxyge...
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Open AccessThe safety of catheter ablation for premature ventricular contractions in patients without structural heart disease
Patients with frequent premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) are often symptomatic. Catheter ablation was usually indicated to eliminate symptoms in patients with PVCs-induced cardiomyopathy. Currently, PV...
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Loss of MAOA in epithelia inhibits adenocarcinoma development, cell proliferation and cancer stem cells in prostate
Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) is a mitochondrial enzyme, which degrades monoamine neurotransmitters and dietary amines and produces H2O2. Recent studies have shown increased MAOA expression in prostate cancer (PCa),...
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Upregulation of the long noncoding RNA FOXD2-AS1 promotes carcinogenesis by epigenetically silencing EphB3 through EZH2 and LSD1, and predicts poor prognosis in gastric cancer
Accumulating data indicate that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) serve as important modulators in biological processes and are dysregulated in diverse tumors. The function of FOXD2-AS1 in gastric cancer (GC) progres...
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Open AccessDysregulation of the miR-148a–GLUT1 axis promotes the progression and chemoresistance of human intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) is a highly fatal malignant cancer worldwide. Elucidating the underlying molecular mechanism of iCCA progression is critical for the identification of new therapeutic tar...
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Harvest of at least 18 lymph nodes is associated with improved survival in patients with pN0 colon cancer: a retrospective cohort study
To investigate the correlation between number of retrieved lymph nodes (rLNs) and prognosis and further ascertain the optimal number of rLNs with a beneficial survival impact in patients with pN0 colon cancer.
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Open AccessUsefulness of preoperative coronary computed tomography angiography in high risk non-cardiovascular surgery old patients with unknown or suspected coronary artery disease
Cumulative evidence has shown that the non-invasive modality of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) has evolved as an alternative to invasive coronary angiography, which can be used to quantify pla...
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High rate of invasive fungal infections after non-T cell depleted haploidentical allo-HSCT even under antifungal prophylaxis
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Open AccessSafety and immunogenicity of a recombinant COVID-19 vaccine (Sf9 cells) in healthy population aged 18 years or older: two single-center, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 1 and phase 2 trials
COVID-19 vaccines from multiple manufacturers are needed to cope with the problem of insufficient supply. We did two single-center, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 1 and phase 2 trials to as...
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Open AccessSocioeconomic disparities and infancy growth trajectory: a population-based and longitudinal study
The association of low socioeconomic status (SES) with childhood and adolescent obesity has been reported. It is unknown whether low SES affects body mass index (BMI) growth trajectory in the first 12 mo of li...
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Open AccessProteomic and phosphoproteomic profiling of COVID-19-associated lung and liver injury: a report based on rhesus macaques
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Open AccessTherapeutic targeting miR130b counteracts diffuse large B-cell lymphoma progression via OX40/OX40L-mediated interaction with Th17 cells
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in lymphoma progression by regulating the tumor microenvironment. Serum miR130b is overexpressed in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), inducing Th17 cell alterations. To fur...
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Lower-extremity muscle wasting in patients with peripheral arterial disease: quantitative measurement and evaluation with CT
Lower-extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD) results in limb ischemia and is strongly associated with sarcopenia. This study aimed to retrospectively evaluate the association between the quantity of muscl...
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Open AccessCore and penumbra estimation using deep learning-based AIF in association with clinical measures in computed tomography perfusion (CTP)
To investigate whether utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based arterial input function (AIF) improves the volumetric estimation of core and penumbra in association with clinical measures in stroke...
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Open AccessTriglyceride glucose-body mass index as a novel predictor of slow coronary flow phenomenon in patients with ischemia and nonobstructive coronary arteries (INOCA)
The triglyceride glucose-body mass index (TyG-BMI index) has been suggested as a novel predictor of insulin resistance. However, its predictive value for slow coronary flow phenomenon (SCFP) in patients with i...
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Plasma trimethylamine N-oxide metabolites in the second trimester predict the risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a nested case-control study
The relationship between gut microbiota products trimethylamine oxide (TMAO) and related metabolites including betaine, choline and L-carnitine and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) is unclear. In orde...
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Open AccessChlamydia psittaci detected at a live poultry wholesale market in central China
We investigated the presence of Chlamydia psittaci in poultry and the environment in live poultry wholesale markets in Changsha during 2021–2022 and conducted a phylogenetic analysis to understand its distributio...
