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**bin Wu
Medicine & Public Health
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Effect of acupuncture on immunomodulation in patients with malignant tumors
In order to investigate the role of acupuncture in the regulation of cellular immune function, the changes of T lymphocytes subsets (CD3 +, CD4 +, CD8 +), soluble i...
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Homeostasis in the small intestinal mucosa balanced between cell proliferation and apoptosis is regulated partly by the central nervous system
The aim of this study was to investigate whether the central nervous system regulates mucosal cell growth and apoptosis in the rat small intestine. Ornithine decarboxylase is a key enzyme for polyamine synthes...
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Diagnosis and treatment of gastric stromal tumors: report of 70 cases
To investigate the diagnosis and treatment of gastric stromal tumors (GSTs).
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Venous congestion induces mucosal apoptosis via tumor necrosis factor-α-mediated cell death in the rat small intestine
Tissue and organic venous congestion is a common pathophysiologic phenomenon. However, it is unclear whether venous congestion induces small-intestinal mucosal apoptosis. The aim of this study was to investiga...
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Decreased apoptosis and increased ornithine decarboxylase activity in the intestinal mucosa of rats with bilateral ventromedial hypothalamus lesions
It has not been clearly demonstrated whether the ventromedial hypothalamus regulates intestinal cell growth. Ornithine decarboxylase is a key enzyme in polyamine synthesis, which plays an important role in int...
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Protective effects of (−)-epicatechin-3-gallate on UVA-induced damage in HaCaT keratinocytes
(−)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a constituent of green tea, has been extensively studied and shown to be a powerful antioxidant protecting skin cells against photodamage. In this study, however, we demo...
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Optimal use of fresh and frozen-thawed testicular sperm for intracytoplasmic sperm injection in azoospermic patients
Purpose: To optimize the use of fresh and frozen-thawed testicular biopsy specimens from patients with azoospermia.
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Self-assembled IKVAV peptide nanofibers promote adherence of PC12 cells
Lack of biocompatibility and bioactivity is a big problem for the synthetic materials that have been generated for neural tissue engineering. To get around the problem and generate better scaffold for neural t...
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Genetic determinants of bone mass do not relate with breast cancer risk in US white and African-American women
The association between high bone mass and increased breast cancer risk has been established. Identification of polymorphisms and the resultant variant receptors suggests the possibility of differential effect...
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Open AccessImmediate and short-term pain relief by acute sciatic nerve press: a randomized controlled trial
Despite much research, an immediately available, instantly effective and harmless pain relief technique has not been discovered. This study describes a new manipulation: a "2-minute sciatic nerve press", for r...
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Progress in research on applying Sijunzi Decoction (四君子汤) in treating digestive malignant tumor
Patients with digestive malignant tumor always have their immune function, especially the cellular immunity, suppressed to a certain extent. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) holds that Pi (脾)-Wei (胃) is the ...
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Open AccessA new analgesic method, two-minute sciatic nerve press, for immediate pain relief: a randomized trial
Current analgesics have drawbacks such as delays in acquisition, lag-times for effect, and side effects. We recently presented a preliminary report of a new analgesic method involving a two-minute sciatic nerv...
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Niemann-Pick disease resulting in spontaneous splenic rupture in an adult: Report of a case
Niemann-Pick disease (NPD) is an inherited metabolic disorder, which has been classified into types A, B, C, and D. Niemann-Pick disease rarely causes spontaneous splenic rupture: to our knowledge, only four s...
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Repair of rabbit femoral defects with a novel BMP2-derived oligopeptide P24
In this study, the bioactivity of a novel BMP2-derived oligopeptide P24 was investigated by using the model of rabbit femoral defect after loaded in the biodegradable poly (lactic acid / glycolic acid / aspara...
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The Use of Posterior Trans-Sphincteric Approach in Surgery of the Rectum: A Chinese 16-Year Experience
The posterior trans-sphincteric approach to treat different lesions of the rectum has been known since the last century. Although there are many advantages to this procedure, it has never been widely accepted ...
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Expression of MMP-1 in cartilage and synovium of experimentally induced rabbit ACLT traumatic osteoarthritis: immunohistochemical study
To observe the level and the distribution of MMP-1 in cartilage and synovium over the progression of OA in rabbit ACLT model, and to explore the relationship between the amount of MMP-1 expression and the degr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Combined Effects of Sleep Deprivation, Narrow Space, Social Isolation and High Cognitive Workload on Cognitive Ability of Chinese Operators
This study aims to investigate the effects of sleep deprivation on the cognitive abilities of Chinese subjects under a combined scenario of narrow space, social isolation, and high cognitive workload. Twelve s...
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Surgical Treatment of Lung Cancer Invading the Left Atrium or Base of the Pulmonary Vein
The purpose of the present study was to explore the efficacy of an extended operation for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer invading the left atrium and intrapericardial pulmonary vein.
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Cross-talk between extracellular S1P/S1P2 and P42/44 MAPK in bcr/abl positive chronic myeloid leukemia cells
BCR/ABL oncoprotein-expression is associated with uncontrolled cell growth. Sphingosine kinase 1 (SPK1) regulates the production of sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P), a key lipid signal molecular in cell prolifera...
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The expression of matrix metalloproteinase-13 is increased in vessels with blood–brain barrier impairment in a stroke-prone hypertensive model
We previously reported that the blood–brain barrier (BBB) function was deteriorated in vessels located in the hippocampus, but not the cerebral cortex, in 3-month-old stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive ra...
