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Open AccessMaternal psychological distress in the early postpartum period during COVID-19 pandemic: a pilot study
The coronavirus disease 2019 infection (COVID-19) pandemic is a new global outbreak disease. According to the Taiwan Centers for Diseases Control statement, hospitals had to change their corresponding measures...
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Open AccessEffect of antibiotic use for acute bronchiolitis on new-onset asthma in children
Early-life use of antibiotics is associated with asthma. We examined the effect of antibiotic use for early-life bronchiolitis on the development of new-onset asthma in children from Taiwan between 2005 and 20...
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IFN-α production by human mononuclear cells infected with varicella-zoster virus through TLR9-dependent and -independent pathways
Understanding the defense mechanisms of the host of an organism is important for infection control. In previous studies, we demonstrated that interferon-α (IFN-α), but not IL-12, was produced by human peripher...
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Correlation of Augmented IL-8 Production to Premature Chronic Lung Disease: Implication of Posttranscriptional Regulation
Despite that advances in neonatal medicine have significantly reduced the early mortality of premature infants, a considerable number of them are still prone to develop chronic lung disease (CLD) later. To fin...
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Higher Spontaneous and TNFα-Induced Apoptosis of Neonatal Blood Granulocytes
Granulocytes play an important role in inflammatory diseases. Neonates tend to develop granulocytopenia under sepsis and stress. It remains unclear whether apoptosis of neonatal granulocytes is different from ...
