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Open AccessWhole-tumoral metabolic heterogeneity in 18F-FDG PET/CT is a novel prognostic marker for neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma (NB) is a highly heterogeneous tumor, and more than half of newly diagnosed NB are associated with extensive metastases. Accurately characterizing the heterogeneity of whole-body tumor lesions re...
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Do sophisticated investors follow fundamental analysis strategies? Evidence from hedge funds and mutual funds
Using fund returns and fund stockholdings, we investigate whether fund managers follow fundamental analysis strategies. We show that hedge fund and mutual fund returns tend to load negatively on the long-short...
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CircZNF609 sponges miR-135b to up-regulate SEMA3A expression to alleviate ox-LDL-induced atherosclerosis
The initiation and progression of atherosclerotic plaque caused by abnormal lipid metabolism is one of the main causes of atherosclerosis (AS). Lipid droplet accumulation has become a novel research pointcut f...
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Open AccessExperimental test and mechanism analysis of soil crust erosion resistance of rammed earth Great Wall in rainy season
Rammed earth is a kind of cleaning material, widely used in all kinds of buildings in the world. The Great Wall of ancient China is a typical world cultural site built from rammed earth. The rammed earth Great...
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Open AccessMulti-disciplinary cooperation for the micro-elimination of hepatitis C in China: a hospital-based experience
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is one of the main causes of liver cancer and imposes an enormous social and economic burden. The blood-borne virus screening policy for preventing iatrogenic infections rende...
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Open Access3D printing titanium grid scaffold facilitates osteogenesis in mandibular segmental defects
Bone fusion of defect broken ends is the basis of the functional reconstruction of critical maxillofacial segmental bone defects. However, the currently available treatments do not easily achieve this goal. Th...
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Prenatal exposure to famine and the development of diabetes later in life: an age-period-cohort analysis of the China health and nutrition survey (CHNS) from 1997 to 2015
Prenatal exposure to famine has been linked to increased diabetes risk in adulthood. However, one fundamental issue to be addressed is that the reported famine-diabetes relation may be confounded by the age di...
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Open AccessThe effect of bone defect size on the 3D accuracy of alveolar bone augmentation performed with additively manufactured patient-specific titanium mesh
Additively manufactured (3D-printed) titanium meshes have been adopted in the dental field as non-resorbable membranes for guided bone regeneration (GBR) surgery. However, according to previous studies, inaccu...
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Synthesis of Fe-doped carbon hybrid composed of CNT/flake-like carbon for catalyzing oxygen reduction
Carbon-based materials with tunable properties have emerged as promising candidates to replace Pt-based catalysts for accelerating oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells or metal-air batteries. In this ...
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Regional cerebral perfusion in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment: effect of cerebral small vessel disease
To explore the effort of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) on regional cerebral perfusion in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) using NeuroGam™ software and evaluate the capability of brain perfu...
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Open AccessGender minority stress and access to health care services among transgender women and transfeminine people: results from a cross-sectional study in China
Transgender and gender diverse individuals often face structural barriers to health care because of their gender minority status. The aim of this study was to examine the association between gender minority st...
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The functional analysis of transiently upregulated miR-101 suggests a “braking” regulatory mechanism during myogenesis
Skeletal muscle differentiation is a highly coordinated process that involves many cellular signaling pathways and microRNAs (miRNAs). A group of muscle-specific miRNAs has been reported to promote myogenesis ...
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Visualization of translocator protein (18 kDa) (TSPO) in the retina of diabetic retinopathy rats using fluorine-18-DPA-714
To investigate the feasibility of a noninvasive method for imaging translocator protein (18 kDa) (TSPO) in the retina of diabetic retinopathy (DR) rats using fluorine-18-DPA-714 ([18F]-DPA-714) micro-positron emi...
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A Novel Compound YS-5-23 Exhibits Neuroprotective Effect by Reducing β-Site Amyloid Precursor Protein Cleaving Enzyme 1’s Expression and H2O2-Induced Cytotoxicity in SH-SY5Y Cells
The abnormally accumulated amyloid-β (Aβ) and oxidative stress contribute to the initiation and progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). β-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) is the rate-l...
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Open AccessPrognostic value of perioperative NT-proBNP after corrective surgery for pediatric congenital heart defects
It is critically important to assess the prognostic value of NT-proBNP in the form of repeated measures among children undergoing surgery for congenital heart defects (CHD). The aim of the present study is to ...
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Strategies of phosphorus utilization in an astaxanthin-producing green alga Haematococcus pluvialis, a comparison with a bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis wesenbergii
Haematococcus pluvialis is a unicellular green alga with great commercial value, due to its synthesis of powerful antioxidant astaxanthin. H. pluvialis was mainly distributed in small water bodies but was also ob...
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A New 2-D Organometallic Framework Constructed with Delocalizing π Electronic Trinuclear Units
A novel Cu(II)–Ag(I) organometallic framework [Ag3(H2O)2(NO3)6{Cu3(OH)(pz)3(Hpz)1.5(H2O)0.5}2](NO3)·1.5 H2O (1) was obtained from the reaction of copper salt, pyrazole and silver salt at mild condition. This comp...
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Open AccessmiR-215 suppresses papillary thyroid cancer proliferation, migration, and invasion through the AKT/GSK-3β/Snail signaling by targeting ARFGEF1
The incidence of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) has been rapidly increasing in recent years. PTC is prone to lymph node metastasization, which further increases the recurrence rate and mortality of thyroid can...
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Physiological sensitivity of Haematococcus pluvialis (Chlorophyta) to environmental pollutants: a comparison with Microcystis wesenbergii (cyanobacteria) and Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata (Chlorophyta)
Haematococcus pluvialis is beneficial to human health and is important for commercial use. However, it seldom prevails in permanent freshwater bodies. Increasing environmental pollutants from anthropogenic activi...
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Research on the Motion Track of Ocean Towing System
In this paper, a method for predicting the position of towline is presented. The location of the finite node is determined by installing fixed spaced attitude sensors in towline arrays, then the appropriate ob...
