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A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal
Sponges are the most basal metazoan phylum1 and may have played important roles in modulating the redox architecture of Neoproterozoic oceans2. Although molecular clocks predict that sponges diverged in the Neopr...
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Open AccessA Systematic review of the factors that affect soccer players’ short-passing ability—based on the Loughborough Soccer Passing Test
This study synthesizes evidence from the Loughborough Passing Test to evaluate the short-passing ability of soccer players and summarizes the reported variables that affect this ability to provide support for ...
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Cost-effectiveness of open pancreaticoduodenectomy with or without Heidelberg TRIANGLE operation for pancreatic cancer in China
Pancreatic cancer is a digestive malignancy with dismal prognosis. The advent of Heidelberg TRIANGLE dissection technique brings a turning point to improve the chance of survival. Our study aimed to evaluated ...
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Open AccessDiverging asymmetry of intrinsic functional organization in autism
Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition involving atypical sensory-perceptual functions together with language and socio-cognitive deficits. Previous work has reported subtle alterations in the asymmetry of b...
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Glutamate alterations in the premature infant brain during different gestational ages with glutamate chemical exchange saturation transfer imaging: a pilot study
To elucidate the change in glutamate levels in preterm infants at different gestational ages by glutamate chemical exchange saturated transfer (GluCEST) magnetic resonance imaging and to compare the difference...
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Open AccessGas therapy potentiates aggregation-induced emission luminogen-based photoimmunotherapy of poorly immunogenic tumors through cGAS-STING pathway activation
The immunologically “cold” microenvironment of triple negative breast cancer results in resistance to current immunotherapy. Here, we reveal the immunoadjuvant property of gas therapy with cyclic GMP-AMP synth...
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Open AccessCost-effectiveness of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy for women with subfertility in China: an economic evaluation using evidence from the CESE-PGS trial
There are a large number of infertile couples in China, but its treatment is notoriously expensive and not currently covered by insurance. The utility of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy as an ad...
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Open AccessEarly life climate and adulthood mental health: how birth seasonality influences depressive symptoms in adults
Early life in-utero can have long-term influence on the mental health status of individuals in adulthood, such as depression. Age, gender, socio-economic status, education, and geography are demographic factor...
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LncRNA ITGB2-AS1 promotes the progression of clear cell renal cell carcinoma by modulating miR-328-5p/HMGA1 axis
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common histologic subtype of renal cell carcinoma and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in the progression of ccRCC. In this study, we aim ...
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Open AccessCryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran Period
The colonization of land by fungi had a significant impact on the terrestrial ecosystem and biogeochemical cycles on Earth surface systems. Although fungi may have diverged ~1500–900 million years ago (Ma) or ...
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Characterization of Fracture Process in Sandstone: A Linear Correspondence Between Acoustic Emission Energy Density and Opening Displacement Gradient
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Open AccessForming and implementing community advisory boards in low- and middle-income countries: a sco** review
Community advisory boards (CABs) have expanded beyond high-income countries (HICs) and play an increasing role in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) research. Much research has examined CABs in HICs, but le...
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New insights into mechanism of bisphenol analogue neurotoxicity: implications of inhibition of O-GlcNAcase activity in PC12 cells
Bisphenol analogues including bisphenol A and its derivatives are ubiquitous environmental contaminants and have been linked to adverse neurodevelopment effects on animals and humans. Most toxicological resear...
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Open AccessSpiculogenesis and biomineralization in early sponge animals
Most sponges have biomineralized spicules. Molecular clocks indicate sponge classes diverged in the Cryogenian, but the oldest spicules are Cambrian in age. Therefore, sponges either evolved spiculogenesis lon...
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Subcritical Fracturing of Sandstone Characterized by the Acoustic Emission Energy
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Mid-Cretaceous Rudist Assemblage from the Lhasa Block, Tibet (China)
A total of four rudist taxa had been distinguished from the Sangzugang Formation and the Langshan Formation of the Lhasa block, Tibet by Rao et al. [4, 5]. They are Auroradiolites biconvexus [5], Magallanesia rut...
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Perfluoroalkyl acid exposure induces protective mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum autophagy in lung cells
Wide application of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) has raised great concerns on their side-effects on human health. PFAAs have been shown to accumulate mainly in the liver and cause hepatotoxicity. However, PFAA...
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Carbon-based coating containing ultrafine MoO2 nanoparticles as an integrated anode for high-performance lithium-ion batteries
Copper-supported MoO2-C composite as an integrated anode with excellent battery performance was synthesized by a facile knife coating technique followed by heat treatment in a vacuum. The obtained samples were ch...
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Open AccessLength effects on the dynamic process of cellular uptake and exocytosis of single-walled carbon nanotubes in murine macrophage cells
Cellular uptake and exocytosis of SWCNTs are fundamental processes determining their intracellular concentration and effects. Despite the great potential of acid-oxidized SWCNTs in biomedical field, understand...
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Identification of protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-2 as a new target of perfluoroalkyl acids in HepG2 cells
Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are widespread environmental contaminants which have been detected in humans and linked to adverse health effects. Previous toxicological studies mostly focused on nuclear receptor...
