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Open AccessAn ethnobotanical survey on the medicinal and edible plants used by the Daur people in China
The Daur people are one of the 55 minority ethnic groups in China and have lived in Northern China for 300 years. In traditional Daur medicine, medicinal and edible plants (MEPs) are utilised for health benefi...
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Celebrating three decades of innovation and improvement: International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials
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Open AccessPeripheral blood circular RNA circ-0008102 may serve as a novel clinical biomarker in beta-thalassemia patients
Circular RNA circ-0008102 has previously been found dysregulated in β-thalassemia (β-thal) in circRNAs microarray (GSE196682 and GSE241141). Our study is aimed at identifying whether circ-0008102 could be a no...
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Open AccessIntrauterine ultrasound phenoty**, molecular characteristics, and postnatal follow-up of fetuses with the 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 microdeletion syndrome: a single-center, retrospective clinical study
The 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 microdeletion is associated with neurodevelopmental diseases. However, most studies on this microdeletion have focused on adults and children. Thus, in this study, we summarized the molecul...
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Interface Passivation of Perovskite Solar Cells by Fmoc-Ala-OH Amino Acids
Carrier recombination at the interfaces of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has always been one of the main limitations of device performance. How to restrain the generation of defect state on the perovskite film...
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Open AccessHOXB3 drives WNT-activation associated progression in castration-resistant prostate cancer
Enabled resistance or innate insensitiveness to antiandrogen are lethal for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Unfortunately, there seems to be little can be done to overcome the antiandrogen resista...
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Open AccessPsychological stress and psychological support of Chinese nurses during severe public health events
The domestic health care system has been facing a difficult task, especially in medical care, and Chinese nurses are under tremendous psychological pressure. Psychological support is a protective factor to rel...
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Open AccessDiagnostic performance and prognostic value of preoperative 18F-FDG PET/CT in renal cell carcinoma patients with venous tumor thrombus
To observe the diagnostic efficacy of preoperative fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) upon venous tumor thrombus (VTT) in patients with renal cell c...
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Open AccessSingle-cell profiling reveals a memory B cell-like subtype of follicular lymphoma with increased transformation risk
Follicular lymphoma (FL) is an indolent cancer of mature B-cells but with ongoing risk of transformation to more aggressive histology over time. Recurrent mutations associated with transformation have been ide...
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Open AccessEvaluating the effectiveness of stepwise swallowing training on dysphagia in patients with Alzheimer’s disease: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
The high prevalence of dysphagia among Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients has become a public health and economic concern. Therefore, effective and accessible dysphagia treatments are needed. As a fundamental r...
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Correction to: Research on Performance and Safety of Composite Inorganic Phase-Change Materials (NaNO3/SiO2/C) under Low-temperature Cold Shock
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Open AccessHistopathological validation of safe margin for nephron-sparing surgery based on individual tumor growth pattern
To evaluate the clinicopathologic value of morphological growth patterns of small renal cell carcinoma (sRCC) and determine the actual demand for taking a rim of healthy parenchyma to avoid positive SM.
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Open AccessRepeated use of SSRIs potentially associated with an increase on serum CK and CK-MB in patients with major depressive disorder: a retrospective study
There is a large amount of evidence that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are related to cardiovascular toxicity, which has aroused concern regarding their safety. However, few studies have eval...
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Open AccessMalonyl-proteome profiles of Staphylococcus aureus reveal lysine malonylation modification in enzymes involved in energy metabolism
Protein lysine malonylation, a novel post-translational modification (PTM), has been recently linked with energy metabolism in bacteria. Staphylococcus aureus is the third most important foodborne pathogen worldw...
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Open AccessEvaluating the effectiveness of a CRSCE-based de-escalation training program among psychiatric nurses: a study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
The high incidence of workplace violence (WPV) in clinical mental health settings has caused a series of negative impacts on nurses, which has subsequently increased public concern. De-escalation (DE) is recom...
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Open AccessIdentification of DNAH6 mutations in infertile men with multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella
Male infertility due to spermatogenesis defects affects millions of men worldwide. However, the genetic etiology of the vast majority remains unclear. Here we describe three men with primary infertility due to...
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Open AccessThe Optimization of Mix Proportions for Cement Paste Backfill Materials via Box–Behnken Experimental Method
Cemented paste backfill (CPB) technology has been applied quite popular around the world. Determining a reliable filling material mix proportions is an important aspect of mine backfilling. To produce effectiv...
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Open AccessAtomic Layer Deposition-Assisted Construction of Binder-Free Ni@N-Doped Carbon Nanospheres Films as Advanced Host for Sulfur Cathode
Construct binder-free Ni@N-doped carbon nanospheres (Ni@N-CNSs) films were prepared and used as sulfur host.
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Open AccessLong non-coding RNA CASC2 upregulates PTEN to suppress pancreatic carcinoma cell metastasis by downregulating miR-21
The mechanism of pancreatic cancer metastasis remains poorly understood. Recently, lncRNA CASC2 has been demonstrated to be a tumor suppressor in various types of cancer. This study aimed to explore the mechan...
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Open AccessGenome-wide discovery of somatic regulatory variants in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is an aggressive cancer originating from mature B-cells. Prognosis is strongly associated with molecular subgroup, although the driver mutations that distinguish the two m...