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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory lung disease characterized by a persistent limitation in airflow. Gut microbiota is closely correlated with lung inflammation. However, gu...
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Particulate matters (PMs) in ambient air pollution are closely related to the incidence of respiratory diseases and decreased lung function. Our previous report demonstrated that PMs-induced oxidative stress i...
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Open AccessThe association of inflammasome and TLR2 gene polymorphisms with susceptibility to tuberculosis in the Han Taiwanese population
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a global public health concern. Although inflammasome and the toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) genes play an important role in host defense aga...
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Cryptanalysis of an Efficient and Secure Smart Card Based Password Authentication Scheme
The user authentication scheme has been widely applied to verify the users’ legality. In order to enhance the security, the smart card has widely used in an authentication scheme. Recently, Liu et al. shown th...
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Methanol desorption in poly(methyl methacrylate) with stress distributions
Understanding solvent transport in polymers is of practical importance for the applications of polymers in the fields of food packaging, biomedical bandages, materials engineering, etc. We studied one-side des...
