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Open AccessClinical significance of urinary inflammatory biomarkers in patients with IgA nephropathy
IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common type of primary glomerulonephritis, although the definitive markers are unknown. We aimed to investigate the clinical significance of urinary cytokines in patients wit...
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Open AccessClinical significance of urinary exosomal microRNAs in patients with IgA nephropathy
Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common primary glomerulonephritis worldwide. The clinical relevance of 11 urinary exosomal microRNAs (miRNAs) was evaluated in patients with IgAN. From January 2...
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Open AccessRisk of malignancy in kidney transplant recipients: a nationwide population-based cohort study
Post-transplant malignancy is major morbidity complicated in kidney transplantation (KT). In Korea, a few studies have investigated the sex- and age-dependent risk for post-transplant malignancy among KT recip...
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PPIL4 is essential for brain angiogenesis and implicated in intracranial aneurysms in humans
Intracranial aneurysm (IA) rupture leads to subarachnoid hemorrhage, a sudden-onset disease that often causes death or severe disability. Although genome-wide association studies have identified common genetic...
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Open AccessGait speed and handgrip strength as predictors of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events in hemodialysis patients
Low physical performance in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis is associated with a high mortality rate. We investigated the clinical relevance of gait speed and handgrip strength, the two most commo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Face Detection by Integrating Multiresolution-Based Watersheds and a Skin-Color Model
In this paper, we propose a method to automatically segment out a human’s face from a given image that consists of head-and shoulder views of humans against complex backgrounds in videoconference video sequenc...
