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Transjugular Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Implantation of LuX-Valve Bioprosthesis in a Preclinical Model
The purpose of this preclinical study in a sheep model was to confirm the feasibility and safety of the LuX-Valve transjugular tricuspid valve (TV) replacement apparatus and to optimize the implantation proced...
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PLQ: An Efficient Approach to Processing Pattern-Based Log Queries
As software systems grow more and more complex, extensive techniques have been proposed to analyze log data to obtain the insight of the system status. However, during log data analysis, tedious manual efforts...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Interpretable Time Series Classification Approach Based on Feature Clustering
The time series classification problem has been an important mining task and applied in many real-life applications. A large number of approaches have been proposed, including shape-based approaches, dictionar...
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Optimization of clam** for thin-walled rotational conical aluminum alloy with large diameter: modal simulation and experimental verification
Aluminum alloy is applied in aerospace widely and prominently due to its advantages in physical and mechanical properties. The clamp method for thin-walled aluminum alloy workpiece remains an important challen...
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NBS-LRR gene family in banana (Musa acuminata): genome-wide identification and responses to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense race 1 and tropical race 4
As the largest family among the plant resistance (R) proteins, the nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) proteins play significant roles in the defense of pathogens. The completion and improvem...
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Interleukin-6 downregulated vascular smooth muscle cell contractile proteins via ATG4B-mediated autophagy in thoracic aortic dissection
Interleukin-6 (IL-6) overexpression played an important role in the pathogenesis of thoracic aortic dissection (TAD). Our previous study found enhanced autophagy accompanying with contractile proteins α smooth...
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Protein arginine methyltransferase 1 interacts with Gli1 and regulates its transcriptional activity
Protein arginine methylation, which is mediated by the protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs), is associated with numerous fundamental cellular processes. Our previous studies have shown that PRMT1 activa...
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Open AccessUpregulated expression of DIXDC1 in intestinal-type gastric carcinoma: co-localization with β-catenin and correlation with poor prognosis
DIXDC1 (Dishevelled-Axin domain containing 1) is a positive regulator of the Wnt pathway. In the field of cancer research, the role of DIXDC1 is unclear. Our previous in vitro study showed that DIXDC1 enhances...
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Identification of myopia-associated WNT7B polymorphisms provides insights into the mechanism underlying the development of myopia
Myopia can cause severe visual impairment. Here, we report a two-stage genome-wide association study for three myopia-related traits in 9,804 Japanese individuals, which was extended with trans-ethnic replicat...
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The lipid-regulating effects of atorvastatin on type 2 elder diabetes patients with hyperlipidemia
To investigate the effect of atorvastatin on lipid metabolism in type 2 elder diabetes patients with hyperlipidemia, 26 patients with type 2 elder diabetes complicated with hyperlipidemia were treated with ato...
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Source localization of the re-build up phenomenon in pediatric moyamoya disease—a dipole distribution analysis using MEG and SPECT
The “re-build up” phenomenon is a pathognomonic finding induced after hyperventilation in pediatric moyamoya disease, and is closely related to ischemic attacks. However, its precise mechanism remains unknown.
