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Open AccessB cell lymphoma 6 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma progression by inhibiting tumor infiltrating CD4+T cell cytotoxicity through ESM1
Immunotherapy exhibited potential effects for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, unfortunately, the clinical benefits are often countered by cancer adaptive immune suppressive response. Uncovering the mechanis...
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Elastic Solutions of Circular Foundations Under Combined Loading
The design of shallow foundations for wind turbines is typically governed by serviceability and fatigue limit states. To estimate the deformations of shallow foundations under working loads, existing design st...
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Open AccessClinical characteristics analysis of pediatric spinal cord injury without radiological abnormality in China: a retrospective study
This study aims to analyze the clinical characteristics of Chinese children with spinal cord injury (SCI) without radiographic abnormality (SCIWORA) and explore their contributing factors and mechanisms of occ...
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Open AccessGlutamine addiction in tumor cell: oncogene regulation and clinical treatment
After undergoing metabolic reprogramming, tumor cells consume additional glutamine to produce amino acids, nucleotides, fatty acids, and other substances to facilitate their unlimited proliferation. As such, ...
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Strategies in the preparation of conductive polyvinyl alcohol hydrogels for applications in flexible strain sensors, flexible supercapacitors, and triboelectric nanogenerator sensors: an overview
Elastic conductors play a crucial role in the fabrication of wearable electronic devices and human–computer interaction devices. Among the various candidates for elastic conductors, hydrogels, featuring 3-D sw...
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Influences and mechanisms of mixing process on properties of the fresh and hardened Type II cement asphalt (CA) mortar
CA mortar, as a cushion layer widely used in ballastless slab track, is a complex composite material. Apart from the mix proportions, mixing process is also a very important factor affecting the properties. In...
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LimosiLactobacillus pentosus Isolated from Mustard Relieves Drug-induced Constipation in Mice Fed a High-fat Diet by Modulating Enteric Neurotransmitter Function
Functional constipation is one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders. Oxidative stress can aggravate organ dysfunction. Enteric neurotransmitters have significant effects on the regulation of the enter...
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Open AccessExtracellular vesicle-cell adhesion molecules in tumours: biofunctions and clinical applications
Cell adhesion molecule (CAM) is an umbrella term for several families of molecules, including the cadherin family, integrin family, selectin family, immunoglobulin superfamily, and some currently unclassified ...
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Correction: Effective three-dimensional thermal conductivity networks in polystyrene/multi-walled carbon nanotubes/aluminum oxide@hexagonal boron nitride composites based on synergistic effects and isolated structures
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Open AccessCrosstalk between autophagy and CSCs: molecular mechanisms and translational implications
Cancer stem cells(CSCs) play a key role in regulating tumorigenesis, progression, as well as recurrence, and possess typical metabolic characteristics. Autophagy is a catabolic process that can aid cells to su...
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Effective three-dimensional thermal conductivity networks in polystyrene/multi-walled carbon nanotubes/aluminum oxide@hexagonal boron nitride composites based on synergistic effects and isolated structures
Enhancing the thermal conductivity (λ) of composites by establishing an effective thermally conductive path is the key to prepare thermally conductive composites. In this study, a new preparation method was used ...
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Open AccessDeclining incidence rate of tuberculosis among close contacts in five years post-exposure: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Individuals in close contact with active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients showed a high risk of recent infection and, once infected, higher risk of develo** active TB in the following years post-exposure...
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Lacticaseibacillus casei LH23 Suppressed HPV Gene Expression and Inhibited Cervical Cancer Cells
Microbiota of lower female reproductive tract is special in its microorganism composition with Lactobacillus as the predominant bacteria. A few of Lactobacillus species have been identified to benefit the inhibit...
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Two-Step Fabrication of Carbon-Supported Cu@Pd Nanoparticles for Electro-Oxidation of Formic Acid
Core–shell structure Cu@Pd/C catalysts were prepared in two steps combining microwave-assisted glycol reduction and chemical impregnation method for the first time. Compared with the traditional one-step synth...
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Undrained Capacity of Shallow Octagonal Foundations Under Combined VHM Loading
The foundations of many large onshore and offshore structures are designed to be symmetrical polygons (e.g. octagons). However, the available analytical approaches for the ultimate limit state design of shallo...
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Open AccessTargeting tumor-associated macrophages in hepatocellular carcinoma: biology, strategy, and immunotherapy
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), one of the most malignant tumors, is characterized by its stubborn immunosuppressive microenvironment. As one of the main members of the tumor microenvironment (TME) of HCC, tum...
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Study on the Effect of Nanoparticles on the Performance of Epoxy Resin
With the continuous increase of rated capacity and rated voltage of generator sets, the corona discharge of air-cooled motor stator windings represented by hydro generators has become a recognized technical pr...
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UWYOLOX: An Underwater Object Detection Framework Based on Image Enhancement and Semi-supervised Learning
Deep learning-based underwater optical object detection is of great significance to underwater environment exploration and underwater scientific research. However, the quality of underwater images obtained by ...
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Unsupervised Deep Transfer Learning Model for Tool Wear States Recognition
Heavy worn tools can cause severe cutting vibrations, leading to a decrease in the surface quality of the workpiece. It is important to monitor tool states and replace the worn tool in time. The traditional to...
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Wavelet Knowledge Distillation via Decoupled Target for Scene Text Detection
In this paper, we investigate the knowledge distillation strategy for training a compact student model for scene text detection, using a cumbersome teacher model that is too computational to apply on resource-...
