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Open AccessInadequate linear catch-up growth in children born small for gestational age: Influencing factors and underlying mechanisms
A minority of children born small for gestational age (SGA) may experience catch-up growth failure and remain short in adulthood. However, the underlying causes and mechanisms of this phenomenon are not yet fu...
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Open AccessFGD1-related Aarskog–Scott syndrome: Identification of four novel variations and a literature review of clinical and molecular aspects
Patients with Aarskog–Scott syndrome (AAS) have short stature, facial anomalies, skeletal deformities, and genitourinary malformations. FYVE, RhoGEF, and PH domain-containing 1 (FGD1) is the only known causative ...
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How to achieve carbon neutrality and low-carbon economic development—evidence from provincial data in China
“Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality” is a major strategy for China to cope with climate change at present. We define the carbon neutrality capability (CNC) to reflect the current situation of regional carbon...
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A three-dimensional evaluation model for green development: evidence from Chinese provinces along the belt and road
The establishment of the green belt and road is an inevitable choice to conform to and lead the green and low-carbon cycle development and an inherent requirement for sustainable development. Therefore, we est...
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A systematic review of cost‑effectiveness analyses of sequential treatment for osteoporosis
Sequential treatment of osteoporosis has been increasingly mentioned in recent years. However, the corresponding systematic review has not been reported. This study aims to systematically review and assess all...
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NDR1/HIN1-like genes may regulate Glycine max seed germination under chilling stress through the ABA pathway
NDR1/HIN1-like (NHL) genes play essential roles in triggering plant defenses in response to environmental stimuli. In the present study, we performed comprehensive identification, characterization, and transcript...
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China’s logistics green competitiveness promotion path: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis approach
Increasingly serious environmental problems are forcing many industries to gradually turn to green development, and green competitiveness has become the vision of policymakers and industry practitioners. The i...
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SMXLs regulate seed germination under salinity and drought stress in soybean
Soybeans are one of the most important crops worldwide, but yield and quality can be severely affected by abiotic stresses. Genes in the Suppressor of MAX2 1-Like (SMXL) family are known downstream elements of th...
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Molecular evolution and genome-wide analysis of the SBP-box family in cucumber (Cucumis sativas)
SQUAMOSA promoter binding protein (SBP)-box gene family encodes a group of transcription factors that play essential roles in plant development and stress responses. However, the SBP-box gene family has not been ...
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Open AccessA novel simple risk model to predict the prognosis of patients with paraquat poisoning
To identify risk factors and develop a simple model to predict early prognosis of acute paraquat (PQ) poisoning patients, we performed a retrospective cohort study of acute PQ poisoning patients (n = 1199). Pa...
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Polyamines are involved in chilling tolerance in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) seedlings
To better understand the role of polyamines (PAs) and their metabolism in responses to chilling stress in tobacco plants, this study investigated changes of endogenous PA contents, PA synthetase and oxidase ac...
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Effects of Fluoride on SOD and CAT in Testis and Epididymis of Mice
Oxidative damage has been implicated to be one of main mechanisms by which fluoride (F) induces toxic effects. Previous studies reported that F destroyed the epididymal structure of mouse and rabbit. Epididymi...
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Quercetin Prevents In Vivo and In Vitro Myocardial Hypertrophy Through the Proteasome-GSK-3 Pathway
Quercetin, a flavonoid, has been reported to ameliorate cardiovascular diseases, such as cardiac hypertrophy. However, the mechanism is not completely understood. In this study, a mechanism related to proteaso...
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Alterations in epididymal proteomics and antioxidant activity of mice exposed to fluoride
It is well known that high fluoride results in low fertility. Epididymis is the important place for spermatozoa maturation, which is essential for successful fertilization. In the previous studies, fluoride wa...
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Young Leaf Chlorosis 2 encodes the stroma-localized heme oxygenase 2 which is required for normal tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in rice
Rice heme oxygenase 2 (OsHO2) mutants are chlorophyll deficient with distinct tetrapyrrole metabolite and transcript profiles, suggesting a potential regulatory role of the stromal-localized Os...
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Open AccessMicrowave-assisted synthesis of NiS2 nanostructures for supercapacitors and cocatalytic enhancing photocatalytic H2 production
Uniform NiS2 nanocubes are successfully synthesized with a microwave-assisted method. Interestingly, NiS2 nanocubes, nanospheres and nanoparticles are obtained by controlling microwave reaction time. NiS2 nanomat...
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Efficient leakage-resilient public key encryption from DDH assumption
For an encryption scheme to be applied in practical applications, it should withstand various leakage attacks. In this paper, we present a new leakage-resilient public key encryption scheme whose security is b...
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Photoluminescence-enhanced CdTe quantum dots by hyperbranched poly(amidoamine)s functionalization
A new strategy using hyperbranched poly(amidoamine)s to functionalize CdTe quantum dots (QDs) has been described. Hyperbranched poly(amidoamine)s with amine terminals (HP-EDAMA1) were synthesized by one-pot po...
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Cobalt pyrophosphate nano/microstructures as promising electrode materials of supercapacitor
Cobalt pyrophosphate (Co2P2O7) nano/microstructures (oblong plate, microplate, microflower, and hierarchical architectures) have been successfully synthesized through calcination of NH4CoPO4·H2O nano/microstructu...
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Open AccessThe effects of hepatitis C virus core protein on the expression of miR-122 in vitro
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the major pathogens of liver diseases. Some studies have previously reported that miR-122 can stimulate replication or translation of HCV. However, the effects of HCV infectio...
