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China Initiative for Multi-Domain Intervention (CHINA-IN-MUDI) to Prevent Cognitive Decline: Study Design and Progress
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common type of irreversible dementia, is predicted to affect 152 million people by 2050. Evidence from large-scale preventive randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on modifiabl...
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Effect of Dust Charge Fluctuation on Ion Acoustic Waves in a Plasma with Nonextensive Electrons
The linear dispersion for ion acoustic waves (IAWs) including the effects of dust charge fluctuation and electron nonextensivity is derived. It is shown that the presence of nonextensive electrons modifies the...
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Role of Chitosan in the Regulation of the Growth, Antioxidant System and Photosynthetic Characteristics of Maize Seedlings under Cadmium Stress
Cadmium (Cd) pollution was becoming more and more serious; there is an urgent need for an effective solution to inhibit the harm of cadmium stress. Chitosan (CTS) is a biologically active polysaccharide that p...
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Existence and characterization of Salsolinol synthase in neuronal cells and rat brain
Salsolinol (1-methyl-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline), the endogenous dopamine-derived catechol isoquinolines whose structure is similar with MPTP (1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine), m...
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Structure of Cu-Sn Melt at High Temperature
The temperature-dependent viscosity and X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of a Cu65Sn35 melt were investigated at high temperatures. The viscosity of the melt changed discontinuously at about 1283 K (1010 °C). An ...
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Open AccessStudy of the multiple-profile control system to enhance oil recovery after polymer flooding
There is still half oil remaining in the reservoir after polymer flooding. This paper has carried out the laboratory studies on multi-profile control and displacement system to enhance oil recovery after polym...
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VSV-MP gene therapy strategy inhibits tumor growth in nude mice model of human lung adenocarcinoma
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) matrix protein (MP) can induce in vitro apoptosis of tumor cells in the absence of other viral components. Here, the antitumor activity of VSV-MP against lung adenocarcinoma was i...
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Open AccessEvaluation of the XRCC1 gene as a phenotypic modifier in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. Results from the consortium of investigators of modifiers of BRCA1/BRCA2
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes involved in DNA repair are good candidates to be tested as phenotypic modifiers for carriers of mutations in the high-risk susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2. The...
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Suppression of ovarian cancer growth via systemic administration with liposome-encapsulated adenovirus-encoding endostatin
Gene therapy using adenoviral vector containing the endostatin gene is a promising strategy for advanced cancers. However, host immune response to adenovirus and the lack of the requisite coxsackie-adenovirus ...
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Open AccessAnti-angiogenesis therapy based on the bone marrow-derived stromal cells genetically engineered to express sFlt-1 in mouse tumor model
Bone marrow-derived stromal cells (BMSCs) are important for development, tissue cell replenishment, and wound healing in physiological and pathological conditions. BMSCs were found to preferably reach sites un...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The optimal time-window for surgical treatment of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: result of prospective randomized controlled trial of 500 cases
The aim of this clinical study was to determine the optimal time-window for surgical treatment of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). From January 1998 to September 2000, 17 hospitals in Shanghai parti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Leptin plays a role in ruptured human brain arteriovenous malformations
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is one of the most common clinical manifestations of human brain arteriovenous malformation (BAVM). However, the hemorrhagic mechanism of BAVM is still unclear. Leptin, first dis...
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Systemic inhibition of tumor growth by soluble Flk-1 gene therapy combined with cisplatin
Soluble Flk-1, a soluble vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor, is a potent inhibitor of angiogenesis, which could restrain growth and metastasis of some experimental tumors. However, antiangiogen...
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Combination of MIG (CXCL9) chemokine gene therapy with low-dose cisplatin improves therapeutic efficacy against murine carcinoma
MIG (monokine induced by interferon-γ) is a CXC chemokine ligand (CXCL9) that can potently inhibit angiogenesis, and displays thymus-dependent antitumor effects. The effectiveness of a treatment combining gene th...
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Protective effect of ginsenoside Rg1 on MPP+-induced apoptosis in SHSY5Y cells
The neuroprotective mechanism of Rg1 was studied in this paper by means of its obvious anti-apoptotic effect on human SHSY5Y cells. SHSY5Y cells were treated with MPP+ (1-methyl-4-phenyl-pyridinium) for 72 hours...
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CD4 T lymphocytes cause hepatocyte apoptosis by releasing Th1 cytokines in cellular immunological liver injury
Objective and design: To investigate how lymphocytes induce hepatocyte apoptosis.¶Materials and methods: Liver injury was elicited by the trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (TNBS) in picryl chloride (PCl)-sensitized m...
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Eutectic reaction and microstructural characteristics of Al (Li)-Mg2Si alloys
Thermal analysis, directional solidification and metallographic techniques were applied to investigate the pseudobinary eutectic reaction process and the microstructural characteristics of Al(Li)-Mg2Si alloys. It...
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Fabricating TiC particulate reinforced Fe-Cr-Ni matrix composites by a liquid state in-situ synthesis
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Solidification of undercooled Ni-32.5 wt% Sn eutectic alloy
Bulk Ni-32.5 wt % Sn alloy was undercooled by purification. The solidification characteristics at different undercoolings and the various microstructures were studied. It was found that the two eutectic phases...