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Sticking-bacteria gel enhancing anti-multidrug-resistant microbial therapy under ultrasound
The use of antibiotic could cause severe drug-resistance and the increasing spread of pathogenic drug-resistant bacteria has brought a big threat to human health, hence, some innovative methods inspired, such ...
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Angiogenic Exosome-Derived microRNAs: Emerging Roles in Cardiovascular Disease
Angiogenesis is the process of growing endothelial capillary cells. Exosomes are extracellular vesicles that are rich in miRNAs. Studies have shown that exosomes can carry communication between cells and vario...
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Retraction Note: Resveratrol rescues hyperglycemia-induced endothelial dysfunction via activation of Akt
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessRhodanine-based Knoevenagel reaction and ring-opening polymerization for efficiently constructing multicyclic polymers
Cyclic polymers have a number of unique physical properties compared with those of their linear counterparts. However, the methods for the synthesis of cyclic polymers are very limited, and some multicyclic po...
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Open AccessInformation Flow Scheduling in Concurrent Multi-Product Development Based on DSM
Multi-product collaborative development is adopted widely in manufacturing enterprise, while the present multi-project planning models don’t take technical/data interactions of multiple products into account. ...
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Open AccessLong-term (2–5 years) adverse clinical outcomes associated with ZES versus SES, PES and EES: A Meta-Analysis
Several previously published trials comparing Zotarolimus Eluting Stents (ZES) with Sirolimus Eluting Stents (SES), Paclitaxel Eluting Stents (PES) or Everolimus Eluting Stents (EES) at a follow up period of 1...
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Open AccessDoes infection with human immunodeficiency virus have any impact on the cardiovascular outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention?: a systematic review and meta-analysis
A direct link between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients and the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) has been shown in recent scientific research. However, this issue is controversial since...
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Open AccessComparing Stent Thrombosis associated with Zotarolimus Eluting Stents versus Everolimus Eluting Stents at 1 year follow up: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 6 randomized controlled trials
Two thousand fifteen has been a winning year for Drug Eluting Stents (DES). Increase in the number of patients with cardiovascular diseases treated by Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) has resulted to a...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Resveratrol rescues hyperglycemia-induced endothelial dysfunction via activation of Akt
Resveratrol (RSV), a phytoalexin, has shown to prevent endothelial dysfunction and reduce diabetic vascular complications and the risk of cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this study was to investigate the s...
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Open AccessBleeding outcomes associated with rivaroxaban and dabigatran in patients treated for atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Warfarin is commonly used as a secondary prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, limitations have been observed even with the use of this medication. Recently, several newer di...
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Open AccessIs the concomitant use of clopidogrel and Proton Pump Inhibitors still associated with increased adverse cardiovascular outcomes following coronary angioplasty?: a systematic review and meta-analysis of recently published studies (2012 – 2016)
Controversies were previously observed with the concomitant use of clopidogrel and Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs), especially omeprazole, following coronary angioplasty. Even though several studies showed no in...
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Open AccessAdverse Cardiovascular Outcomes associated with Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Everolimus Eluting Stents: A Meta-Analysis
This study aimed to compare the mid-term adverse cardiovascular outcomes associated with Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABG) and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) with Everolimus Eluting Stents (EES)....
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Open AccessAdverse clinical outcomes associated with a low dose and a high dose of aspirin following percutaneous coronary intervention: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Guidelines from the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology recommend a higher dosage of aspirin daily following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), whereas guidelines from the European...
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On Spectral Analysis and a Novel Algorithm for Transmission Eigenvalue Problems
The transmission eigenvalue problem, besides its critical role in inverse scattering problems, deserves special interest of its own due to the fact that the corresponding differential operator is neither ellip...
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A Novel Symmetric Skew-Hamiltonian Isotropic Lanczos Algorithm for Spectral Conformal Parameterizations
In the past decades, many methods for computing conformal mesh parameterizations have been developed in response to demand of numerous applications in the field of geometry processing. Spectral conformal param...
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Application of FNNS for Fracturing Candidate Optimization in Oilfield
Aimed at the puzzle of uncertainty resulted from qualitative selection for fracturing candidate of well and layer in oilfield, the paper proposed a sort of prediction model for fracturing candidate effect base...
