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Circulating lymphocyte subsets and regulatory T cells in patients with postpartum thyroiditis during the first postpartum year
The lymphocyte subsets and the percentages of activated T cells or regulatory T cells were observed during the course of postpartum thyroiditis (PPT). Heparin anticoagulant vein bloods were collected at 3, 6, ...
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Midkine expression is associated with clinicopathological features and BRAF mutation in papillary thyroid cancer
The objective of this study is to detect the expression of midkine (MK) in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and to evaluate whether MK expression is associated with clinicopathological features and BRAF mutation in...
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Sustained high levels of serum leptin rather than IL-6 observed in patients with postpartum thyroiditis during their first postpartum year
The purpose of the study is to explore the roles of leptin and interleukin-6 (IL-6) during the first postpartum year in the occurrence and development of postpartum thyroiditis (PPT). We retrospectively collec...
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Continuous effect with long-term safety in zoledronic acid therapy for polyostotic fibrous dysplasia with severe bone destruction
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia (PFD) is a rare non-inherited genetic disorder characterized by osteolytic lesions in multiple bones causing bone pain, deformity, and pathological fracture. As an anti-osteolyti...
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Twist1 regulates the epithelial–mesenchymal transition via the NF-κB pathway in papillary thyroid carcinoma
Expression of the oncogene Twist1 is correlated with tumor development and metastasis. Recent studies have suggested that the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is necessary for tumor progression and m...
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Is bad living better than good death? Impact of demographic and cultural factors on health state preference
The aim of this study was to examine the impact of demographic and cultural factors on health preferences among Chinese general population.
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Proteasome inhibitor MG132 induces thyroid cancer cell apoptosis by modulating the activity of transcription factor FOXO3a
Proteasome inhibitors are promising antitumor drugs with preferable cytotoxicity in malignant cells and have exhibited clinical efficiency in several hematologic malignancies. P53-dependent apoptosis has been ...
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Open AccessItem reduction and validation of the Chinese version of diabetes quality-of-life measure (DQOL)
The Diabetes Quality-of-Life (DQOL) Measure is a 46-item diabetes-specific quality of life instrument. The original English version of the DQOL has been translated into Chinese after cultural adaption, and the...
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NUDT21 negatively regulates PSMB2 and CXXC5 by alternative polyadenylation and contributes to hepatocellular carcinoma suppression
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is an important post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism and involved in many diseases, including cancer. CFIm25, a subunit of the cleavage factor I encoded by NUDT21, is requir...
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Prophylactic selective arterial embolization for renal angiomyolipomas: efficacy and evaluation of predictive factors of significant shrinkage
To evaluate the efficacy of prophylactic selective arterial embolization (SAE) of angiomyolipomas (AMLs) and to find out predictive factors of significant shrinkage of AMLs after SAE.
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Open AccessThe quality of life in Chinese population with chronic non-communicable diseases according to EQ-5D-3L: a systematic review
Over the past decade, a changing spectrum of disease has turned chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) into the leading cause of death worldwide. During the 2015 in China, there were more than 6.6 million d...
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Open AccessResistance to thyroid hormone β in autoimmune thyroid disease: a case report and review of literature
Resistance to thyroid hormone beta (RTHβ) results in symptoms of both increased and decreased thyroid hormone action. The effect of thyroid hormone changes in different types of autoimmune thyroid disease (AIT...
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SIRT7 promotes thyroid tumorigenesis through phosphorylation and activation of Akt and p70S6K1 via DBC1/SIRT1 axis
SIRT7 is an NAD+-dependent histone/non-histone deacetylase, which is highly expressed in different types of cancer including thyroid cancer; however, its biological function in thyroid cancer is still undiscovere...
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Cost-Effectiveness of Alectinib for Patients with Untreated ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in China
To assess the cost-effectiveness of alectinib versus crizotinib as first-line treatments for advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients from the perspective ...
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Open AccessThe 2018 new definition of periprosthetic joint infection improves the diagnostic efficiency in the Chinese population
Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a devastating complication following total joint arthroplasty (TJA). Now, the definition of PJI traditionally used in clinical practice was set out by the International ...
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Multiscale Time-Sharing Elastography Algorithms and Transfer Learning of Clinicopathological Features of Uterine Cervical Cancer for Medical Intelligent Computing System
Intelligent medical diagnosis and computing system faces many challenges in complex object recognition, large-scale data imaging and real-time diagnosis, such as poor real-time computing, low efficiency of dat...
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Open AccessCorrection to: The 2018 new definition of periprosthetic joint infection improves the diagnostic efficiency in the Chinese population
In the original publication of this article, [1] the affiliation of the first author Haitao Guan needs to be revised:
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Open AccessDiagnostic criteria of periprosthetic joint infection: a prospective study protocol to validate the feasibility of the 2018 new definition for Chinese patients
Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a challenging complication following total joint arthroplasty (TJA), and the diagnostic criteria remains controversial. The 2018 new definition proposed in May 2018 cons...
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Open AccessResponse Letter to “Letter: Cost-Effectiveness of Alectinib for Patients with Untreated ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in China”
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Effect of type 2 diabetes and antihyperglycemic drug therapy on signs of tumor invasion in papillary thyroid cancer
This retrospective study investigated the association between worrisome pathological features of papillary thyroid cancer indicative of invasion and type 2 diabetes, as well as antihyperglycemic drug therapy f...
