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Biomedicine
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Magnetic Properties of Biological Samples
Magnetic properties of materials determine their response to the externally applied magnetic field. Although most living organisms, including human bodies, are diamagnetic as a whole, they have a very complexe...
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Drug Development in the Field of Sphinogolipid Metabolism
Sphingolipids are the major lipid components on cellular membranes especially on lipid raft regions, intermediating various important biological functions for eukaryotic cells. Sphingolipid metabolism pathways...
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Super-resolution Microscopy for Biological Imaging
Studying the ultra-fine structures and functions of the subcellular organelles and exploring the dynamic biological events in depth are the key issues in contemporary biological research. Fluorescence bio-imag...
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Bridging the Metabolic Parallels Between Neurological Diseases and Cancer
Despite the many recent breakthroughs in cancer research, oncology has traditionally been seen as a distinct field from other diseases. Recently, more attention has been paid to repurposing established therape...
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The Effects of Negative Elements in Environment and Cancer on Female Reproductive System
With the development of human society, factors that contribute to the impairment of female fertility is accumulating. Lifestyle-related risk factors, occupational risk factors, and iatrogenic factors, includin...
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Pharmacogenomics of Antithrombotic Drugs
Antiplatelet drugs and anticoagulant drugs are the two predominant classes of antithrombotic drugs, which are mainly used to prevent and treat arterial thrombosis and venous thromboembolic diseases, respective...
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Revascularization for Coronary Artery Disease: Principle and Challenges
Coronary revascularization is the most important strategy for coronary artery disease. This review summarizes the current most prevalent approaches for coronary revascularization and discusses the evidence on ...
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Acoustic Radiation Force Optical Coherence Elastography
Mechanical properties, such as the elasticity and viscosity, are often major indicators of diseases. Over the years, tissue mechanical properties have been demonstrated to be an early indicator for cardiovascu...
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Role of Cerebral Venous System in Hemorrhagic Stroke
Currently, neuroprotective strategies mainly aim to decrease bleeding from cerebral arteries and protect the insulted neurons in the hemorrhagic stroke. However, the role of cerebral venous system in the patho...
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Role of Cerebral Venous System in Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most prevalent causes of neurological dysfunction, leading to substantial economic and social burdens worldwide. The brain edema, including cytotoxic and vascular bra...
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Role of Cerebral Venous System in Neurodegenerative Disorders
The role of cerebral venous system in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases remains largely unknown and underinvestigated. Recent studies have suggested that several neurodegenerative disorders, such ...
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Development of Highly Efficient, Low-Cost Lignocellulolytic Enzyme Systems in a Penicillium: From Strain Screening to Systems Biology
Some Penicillium species have been reported to produce enzyme systems with good performances in lignocellulose degradation. Penicillium oxalicum (formerly classified as P. decumbens) strains, which produce more b...
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Host Immune Repertoire and Infection
The human immune repertoire is defined as the totality of T and B cells with functional diversity in the human circulatory system at any given time; this repertoire is based on the most diverse portion of T an...
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Plasmon-Enhanced Fluorescence of Rare Earth Nanocrystals
Rare earth (RE) nanocrystals (NCs) exhibit featured fluorescence properties and are widely used in many applications of biomedical labeling, display, sensing, light-emitting devices, etc. Plasmon-enhanced and ...
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Formaldehyde from Environment
Formaldehyde is widely present from the universe to a single cell. It also comes from our daily life, including food, water, clothing and building materials. As a main material or by-product from industrial an...
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An Improved Method of Measuring Multiple Spike Train Synchrony
In both experimental and computational neuroscience, it is a frequent task to estimate the degree of synchrony or reliability between two or multiple spike trains. ISI-distance method is one of the most common...
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Introduction
Biological materials have evolved over millions of years. In the structural studies of biological materials, it is observed that at the mesoscale (~100 nm to few μm), the mineral crystals are preferentially al...
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Spectroscopic Experiments: A Review of Raman Spectroscopy of Biological Systems
Raman spectroscopy is fast emerging as an important characterization tool for biological systems. Raman spectroscopy has proven to be a powerful and versatile characterization tool used for determining chemica...
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Multiscaling for Molecular Models: Investigating Interface Thermomechanics
One of the most important aspects of understanding the influence of interfaces on natural material properties is the knowledge of how stress transfer occurs across the organic–inorganic interfaces. The multico...
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Nanomechanics Experiments: A Microscopic Study of Mechanical Property Scale Dependence and Microstructure of Crustacean Thin Films as Biomimetic Materials
Most recent studies on the natural material include shrimp exoskeleton, crab exoskeletons, lobsters, ganoid scale of an ancient fish, toucan beak, and seashells such as nacre and mollusk. Studies focusing on b...
