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Instruments to Assess Cognitive Reserve Among Older Adults: a Systematic Review of Measurement Properties
Cognitive reserve explains the differences in the susceptibility to cognitive impairment related to brain aging, pathology, or insult. Given that cognitive reserve has important implications for the cognitive ...
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Open AccessLncRNA PART1 promotes malignant biological behaviours associated with head and neck cancer cells via synergistic action with FUT6
The aim of this study was to determine the role of lncRNA PART1 and downstream FUT6 in tumorigenesis and progression of head and neck cancer (HNC). Bioinformatics analysis and qRT-PCR revealed that lncRNA PART...
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Open AccessDifferent radius of curvature at the talus trochlea from northern Chinese population measured using 3D model
To analyze the curvature characteristics of the talus trochlea in people from northern China in different sex and age groups.
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Using Mendelian randomization as the cornerstone for causal inference in epidemiology
Mendelian randomization (MR) is attracting considerable critical attention. This paper aimed to explore the characteristics of the publications of MR, to reach an insight in this field and prospect the future ...
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Open AccessA bibliometric analysis of global research output on network meta-analysis
Network meta-analysis (NMA) has been widely used in the field of medicine and health, but the research topics and development trends are still unclear. This study aimed to identify the cooperation of countries...
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Open AccessSjogren’s syndrome in clinical trials of traditional Chinese medicine: protocol for the development of a core outcome set
Sjogren’s syndrome (SS) is a chronic autoimmune rheumatic disease with an incidence of 0.03 to 0.3%. In recent years, there are an increasing number of randomized controlled trials of traditional Chinese medic...
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Open AccessAssociating the risk of three urinary cancers with obesity and overweight: an overview with evidence map** of systematic reviews
The relationship between cancer with overweight and obesity has been extensively reported. However, the association between urinary cancers with these risk factors remains unclear, with existing reports showin...
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Open AccessPrevalence of delirium, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder among COVID-19 patients: protocol for a living systematic review
Previous studies on the impact of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the mental health of the patients has been limited by the lack of relevant data. With the rapid and sustained growth of the publication...
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A simplified quick microbial genomic DNA extraction via freeze–thawing cycles
Effective isolation of high-quality genomic DNA is one of the essential steps in molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetic studies. Here we describe a simplified procedure based on repeated freeze–thawing c...
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Elastic resource provisioning for scientific workflow scheduling in cloud under budget and deadline constraints
With the popularization and development of cloud computing, lots of scientific computing applications are conducted in cloud environments. However, current application scenario of scientific computing is also ...
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Predictive potential of ABCB1, ABCC3, and GSTP1 gene polymorphisms on osteosarcoma survival after chemotherapy
Genetic polymorphisms in drug metabolism and transport genes can influence the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of chemotherapy drugs. We investigated the role of genes involved in metabolic and transport...
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Association between g.19163A>G and g.23298T>C genetic variants of the osteoprotegerin gene and bone mineral density in Chinese women
OBJECTIVE: Osteoporosis is a serious and common health issue of considerable complexity among postmenopausal women. The osteoprotegerin gene (OPG) is considered to play an important role in the pathogenesis of os...
