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Association Between Multiple Metal(loid)s Exposure and Blood Lipid Levels: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study of Southeastern China
Exposure to essential and toxic metals occurs simultaneously as a mixture in real-life. However, there is no consensus regarding the effects of co-exposure to multiple metal(loid)s (designated hereafter metals...
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Automated infrared ashing with palladium nitrate as an ashing aid for the determination of selenium in plant foods by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Based on the automatic light wave ashing instrument, palladium nitrate was used as an ashing aid for the first time to collect selenium in the process of food ashing pre-treatment, and a method for the determi...
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Open AccessEfficacy of PE-PLIF with a novel ULBD approach for lumbar degeneration diseases: a large-channel endoscopic retrospective study
This study aims to assess the effectiveness of Percutaneous Endoscopic Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (PE-PLIF) combined with a novel Unilateral Laminotomy for Bilateral Decompression (ULBD) approach using ...
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Open AccessThe dysregulation of biliary tract microflora is closely related to primary choledocholithiasis: a multicenter study
Bile microecology changes play an important role in the occurrence and development of choledocholithiasis. At present, there is no clear report on the difference of bile microecology between asymptomatic patie...
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Open AccessThe efficacy and safety of ultrasonic bone scalpel for removing retrovertebral osteophytes in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: A retrospective study
In this study, we present a novel surgical method that utilizes the ultrasonic bone scalpel (UBS) for the removal of large retrovertebral osteophytes in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and evalu...
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MXene-wrapped zinc hydroxystannate nanocubes toward reducing the heat, smoke and toxicity hazards of ABS resin
Acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene (ABS) composites with less smoke and toxicity hazards (e.g., HCN and NOx) emission are highly demanded. As a common smoke suppressant, zinc hydroxystannate (ZHS) has been used in v...
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Hippocampal LIMK1-mediated Structural Synaptic Plasticity in Neurobehavioral Deficits Induced by a Low-dose Heavy Metal Mixture
Humans are commonly exposed to the representative neurotoxic heavy metals lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and mercury (Hg). These three substances can be detected simultaneously in the blood of the general population...
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Association between multiple metal(loid)s exposure and renal function: a cross-sectional study from southeastern China
In the real world, humans are exposed to multiple metal(loid)s (designated hereafter metals) that contain essential metals as well as toxic metals. Exposure to the metal mixture was assumed to be associated wi...
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Open AccessA natural biological adhesive from snail mucus for wound repair
The discovery of natural adhesion phenomena and mechanisms has advanced the development of a new generation of tissue adhesives in recent decades. In this study, we develop a natural biological adhesive from s...
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Chemomechanical Properties of Electrospun Polyvinyl Acetate (PVAc) Fiber Mat and its Application in Water-Triggered Self-folding
Environmental-stimulus-triggered self-folding mechanisms have found promising applications in many engineering fields. Recently, a water-activated self-folding procedure has been designed by using the electros...
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miR-361-3p mitigates hypoxia-induced cardiomyocyte injury via targeting apoptosis initiators caspase-2/-8/-9
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is an ischemic heart disease with high mortality. AMI-induced hypoxia will trigger serious myocardial injury, such as cardiomyocyte apoptosis. miRNAs have been reported to be ...
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Highly foldable, robust and water-resistant cellulose specialty paper reinforced by aramid nanofibers
Mechanical strength and water resistance are typical issues with cellulose paper due to the nature of cellulose. Specialty papers that are highly foldable, such as banknotes and securities, must be able to wit...
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Open AccessAn on-demand, drop-on-drop method for studying enzyme catalysis by serial crystallography
Serial femtosecond crystallography has opened up many new opportunities in structural biology. In recent years, several approaches employing light-inducible systems have emerged to enable time-resolved experim...
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Factor dimension determination for panel interactive effects models: an orthogonal projection approach
We consider a computationally simple orthogonal projection method to implement the (Bai and Ng in Econometrica 70:191–221, 2002) information criterion to select the factor dimension for panel interactive effec...
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Nanostructured transition metal vanadates as electrodes for pseudo-supercapacitors: a review
Transition metal vanadates (MxVyOz, M = Co, Zn, Ni, Cu, Fe), also called binary metal oxides, are one of the members of the mixed metal oxide (AxByOz) family. This kind of material has become a subject of great i...
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Can a time-varying structure provide a more robust panel construction of counterfactuals-straitjacket or straitjackets?
Measuring treatment effects are a complicated task as the outcomes of receiving and not receiving the treatment cannot be observed simultaneously. Thus, the issue of obtaining accurate measurement is an issue ...
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Calibrating a standard penetration test based method for region-specific liquefaction potential assessment
Youd’s method is a widely adopted standard penetration test based approach for evaluation of liquefaction potential. This method was established by pooling the post-earthquake survey data collected from differ...
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Open AccessIdentification of an immune gene signature for predicting the prognosis of patients with uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma
Uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC) is a frequent gynecological malignancy with a poor prognosis particularly at an advanced stage. Herein, this study aims to construct prognostic markers of UCEC based...
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Open AccessEUS in the diagnosis of pathologically undiagnosed esophageal tuberculosis
Esophageal tuberculosis (ET) is relatively rare, and the diagnosis is challenging. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical features of ET and highlight the role of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) i...
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Open AccessNR1D1 modulates synovial inflammation and bone destruction in rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by synovial hyperplasia, pannus formation, and cartilage and bone destruction. Nuclear receptor subfamily 1 group D member 1 (NR1D1) func...
