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Correlation of Gut Microbiota with Children Obesity and Weight Loss
Children obesity is a serious public health problem drawing much attention around the world. Recent research indicated that gut microbiota plays a vital role in children obesity, and disturbed gut microbiota i...
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A New Technology for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Tight Oil Reservoirs: CO2/Low Interfacial Tension Viscoelastic Fluid Co-flooding
Tight reservoirs have poor physical properties, strong heterogeneity and low water flooding natural productivity. CO2 flooding can effectively improve oil recovery and reduce carbon emissions, but CO2 flooding is...
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Open AccessPharmacological inhibition of MALT1 (mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation protein 1) induces ferroptosis in vascular smooth muscle cells
MALT1 (mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation protein 1) is a human paracaspase protein with proteolytic activity via its caspase-like domain. The pharmacological inhibition of MALT1 by MI-2,...
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Biological functions of CRTC2 and its role in metabolism-related diseases
CREB-regulated transcription coactivator2 (CRTC2 or TORC2) is a transcriptional coactivator of CREB(cAMP response element binding protein), which affects human energy metabolism through cyclic adenosine phosph...
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Open AccessLampshade web spider Ectatosticta davidi chromosome-level genome assembly provides evidence for its phylogenetic position
The spider of Ectatosticta davidi, belonging to the lamp-shade web spider family, Hypochilidae, which is closely related to Hypochilidae and Filistatidae and recovered as sister of the rest Araneomorphs spiders. ...
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Study on Imbibition Mode of Reservoir Fracturing
The high production period of oil Wells in tight reservoirs represented by Yingxi area in Qaidam Basin is less than 60 days after fracturing, and the initial decline rate is more than 70%, making it difficult ...
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Open AccessEfficacy of IOTA simple rules, O-RADS, and CA125 to distinguish benign and malignant adnexal masses
Ovarian cancer is the most deadly deadliest gynecological tumor in the female reproductive system. Therefore, the present study sought to determine the diagnostic performance of International Ovarian Tumor Ana...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hybrid Gray Wolf Optimization and Cuckoo Search Algorithm based on the Taguchi Theory
A novel method was proposed which combines gray wolf optimizer (GWO) and cuckoo search algorithm (CS) based on the Taguchi theory in this paper. Generally speaking, the traditional GWO has a powerful ability t...
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Hydrogen sulfide plays a potential alternative for the treatment of metabolic disorders of diabetic cardiomyopathy
Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a cardiovascular complication that tends to occur in patients with diabetes, obesity, or insulin resistance, with a higher late mortality rate. Sustained hyperglycemia, increas...
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Open AccessHigh prevalence of blaCTX-M and blaSHV among ESBL producing E. coli isolates from beef cattle in China’s Sichuan-Chongqing Circle
Enterobacteria that produce extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) are common in our environment and known to cause serious health implications in humans and animals. β-lactam ant...
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Sirtuin 5 deficiency increases disease severity in rats with adjuvant-induced arthritis
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The factors related to failure of Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) in colon cancer surgery
Enhanced Recovery after Surgery has been proven effective for patients with gastrointestinal cancer. But radical enhanced recovery could also lead to adverse clinical outcomes. Compared with reports on the est...
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Comparison of Single-Incision and Conventional Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbid Obesity: a Meta-Analysis
Single-incision laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SILSG) has been proposed as an alternative to conventional laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (CLSG) in obese patients. This study aims to compare the surgical out...
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Hydrogen Sulfide Switch Phenomenon Regulating Autophagy in Cardiovascular Diseases
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a novel gaseous signaling molecule, is a vital physiological signal in mammals. H2S protects the cardiovascular system via modulation of vasodilation, vascular remodeling, and inhibition o...
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Open AccessPerivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) in atherosclerosis: a double-edged sword
Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), the adipose tissue that surrounds most of the vasculature, has emerged as an active component of the blood vessel wall regulating vascular homeostasis and affecting the path...
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Open AccessThe underlying microbial mechanism of epizootic rabbit enteropathy triggered by a low fiber diet
Epizootic rabbit enteropathy (ERE) is reproduced successfully in the present study by feeding rabbits a low-fibre diet, and high-throughput sequencing and quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) analysis were applie...
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Evaluation of interfacial properties in SiC composites using an improved cohesive element method
A two-dimensional axisymmetric finite element model based on an improved cohesive element method was developed to simulate interfacial debonding, sliding friction, and residual thermal stresses in SiC composit...
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Open AccessStudy roadmap for high-throughput development of easy to use and affordable biomarkers as diagnostics for tropical diseases: a focus on malaria and schistosomiasis
Interventions are currently being used against ‘infectious diseases of poverty’, which remain highly debilitating and deadly in most endemic countries, especially malaria, schistosomiasis, echinococcosis and A...
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Lowering serum lipids via PCSK9-targeting drugs: current advances and future perspectives
Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), also known as neural apoptosis regulated convertase (NARC1), is a key modulator of cholesterol metabolism. PCSK9 increases the serum concentration of low-...
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Open AccessCase–control study of diarrheal disease etiology in individuals over 5 years in southwest China
Acute diarrhea is one of the major public health problems worldwide. Most of studies on acute diarrhea have been made on infants aged below 5 years and few efforts have been made to identify the etiological ag...
