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**-ming Li
Oncology
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Chemiluminescence Analyzers and Reagents
Since 2013, Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd., has released multiple automated chemiluminescence immunoassay analyzers including CL-2000i, CL-1000i, CL-900i, CL-6000i, and the latest CL-8000i....
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Brain and Spinal Tumors Originating from the Germ Line Cells
(CNS GCTs) are part of the GCTs in children and adults. This tumor entity presents with geographic variation, age, and sex predilection. There are two age peaks distribution at the first few months of lif...
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Is There a Role for Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy in Renal Mass Biopsy?
The incidental detection of small renal masses (SRMs) is on the rise. However, not all require aggressive treatments as up to 20% are identified as benign, and the majority of malignant tumors harbor indolent ...
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Molecular Imaging in Oncology: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century
Each improvement of radionuclide imaging modalities (positron emission tomography, PET; single-photon emission computed tomography, SPECT) is dependent upon the development of tumor-specific radiopharmaceutica...
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Optical Coherence Tomography for Prostate Cancer and Beyond
Since it was first used to evaluate human genitourinary tissue in 1997, OCT has emerged as a promising modality to provide real-time, high-resolution imaging of urologic organs. In the bladder, it has demonstr...
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Anticancer Diketopiperazines from the Marine Fungus
Diketopiperazines (DKPs) of marine resources, especially those isolated from marine-derived fungi, have been paid increasing attention for their diversity in chemical structure and bioactivity. In this chapter...
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Bone Marrow Stem Cell Therapies for Diabetes Mellitus and Its Complications
Diabetes mellitus (DM) will affect the lives of 380 million people by 2025. Curative therapies mainly include diet, insulin, and oral hypoglycemic agents. However, these therapies fail to maintain blood glucos...
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Amplification in DNA Copy Numbers as a Mechanism of Acquired Drug Resistance
Resistance to chemotherapeutic agents represents a chief cause of mortality in cancer patients with advanced disease. Gene amplification has been shown to be one of the molecular mechanisms for tumors to escap...
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Characterization of Genetic Polymorphism of Glycine N-Methyltransferase Gene in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Previously, we reported that glycine N-methyltransferase (GNMT) expression levels were diminished in human liver cancer. Herein, the polymorphisms of GNMT in 5 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and 2 hepatoblasto...
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Etiology of Carcinoma of the Esophagus
In recent years considerable progress has been made in research into the etiologic factors of esophageal cancer. The most striking feature of the distribution of this cancer is the existence of high-risk areas...
