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**ao-feng Tang
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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Open AccessDifferential cytokine expression in gastric tissues highlights helicobacter pylori’s role in gastritis
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), known for causing gastric inflammation, gastritis and gastric cancer, prompted our study to investigate the differential expression of cytokines in gastric tissues, which is cruci...
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Open AccessTopological minibands and interaction driven quantum anomalous Hall state in topological insulator based moiré heterostructures
The presence of topological flat minibands in moiré materials provides an opportunity to explore the interplay between topology and correlation. In this work, we study moiré minibands in topological insulator ...
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Open AccessA contact-electro-catalysis process for producing reactive oxygen species by ball milling of triboelectric materials
Ball milling is a representative mechanochemical strategy that uses the mechanical agitation-induced effects, defects, or extreme conditions to activate substrates. Here, we demonstrate that ball grinding coul...
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Open AccessCamrelizumab combined with apatinib in patients with first-line platinum-resistant or PD-1 inhibitor resistant recurrent/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a single-arm, phase 2 trial
Immunotherapy combined with antiangiogenic targeted therapy has improved the treatment of certain solid tumors, but effective regimens remain elusive for refractory recurrent/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinom...
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Open AccessThe pre-surgical role of halo-traction in patients with cervical infection associated with refractory kyphosis: a retrospective study
To minimize surgical complications and staged procedures halo-traction is often used during deformity corrections. But the use of halo-traction in the treatment of refractory cervical kyphosis secondary to inf...
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Open AccessCoherent dynamics of multi-spin V \({}_{{{{{{{{\rm{B}}}}}}}}}^{-}\) center in hexagonal boron nitride
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has recently been demonstrated to contain optically polarized and detected electron spins that can be utilized for implementing qubits and quantum sensors in nanolayered-devices. ...
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Open AccessGenomic analyses of 10,376 individuals in the Westlake BioBank for Chinese (WBBC) pilot project
We initiate the Westlake BioBank for Chinese (WBBC) pilot project with 4,535 whole-genome sequencing (WGS) individuals and 5,841 high-density genoty** individuals, and identify 81.5 million SNPs and INDELs, ...
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Open AccessThe lipid components of high-density lipoproteins (HDL) are essential for the binding and transportation of antimicrobial peptides in human serum
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been developed for the treatment of bacterial infections, but their applications are limited to topical infections since they are sequestered and inhibited in serum. Here we ...
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Open AccessGrowth differentiation factor 1-induced tumour plasticity provides a therapeutic window for immunotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma
Tumour lineage plasticity is an emerging hallmark of aggressive tumours. Tumour cells usually hijack developmental signalling pathways to gain cellular plasticity and evade therapeutic targeting. In the presen...
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Open AccessLong noncoding RNA BS-DRL1 modulates the DNA damage response and genome stability by interacting with HMGB1 in neurons
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are known to regulate DNA damage response (DDR) and genome stability in proliferative cells. However, it remains unknown whether lncRNAs are involved in these vital biological pro...
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Open AccessFUT8-mediated aberrant N-glycosylation of B7H3 suppresses the immune response in triple-negative breast cancer
Most patients with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) do not respond to anti-PD1/PDL1 immunotherapy, indicating the necessity to explore immune checkpoint targets. B7H3 is a highly glycosylated protein. Howe...
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Open Access1/f-noise-free optical sensing with an integrated heterodyne interferometer
Optical evanescent sensors can non-invasively detect unlabeled nanoscale objects in real time with unprecedented sensitivity, enabling a variety of advances in fundamental physics and biological applications. ...
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Open AccessAutophagy deficiency promotes triple-negative breast cancer resistance to T cell-mediated cytotoxicity by blocking tenascin-C degradation
Most triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients fail to respond to T cell-mediated immunotherapies. Unfortunately, the molecular determinants are still poorly understood. Breast cancer is the disease geneti...
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Open AccessInvestigation of Cavity Enhanced XEOL of a Single ZnO Microrod by Using Multifunctional Hard X-ray Nanoprobe
The multifunctional hard X-ray nanoprobe at Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) exhibits the excellent ability to simultaneously characterize the X-ray absorption, X-ray excited optical luminescence (XEOL) as well as t...
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Open AccessIL-13 may be involved in the development of CAD via different mechanisms under different conditions in a Chinese Han population
Interleukin-13 (IL-13) has important functions in atherosclerosis, but its role in coronary artery disease (CAD) is unclear. Here, we studied the genetic role of IL-13 in CAD in a Chinese Han population using ...
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Open AccessEffectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicineas as an Adjunct Therapy for Refractory Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis
Although recent studies focused on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for the treatment of refractory schizophrenia have reported that it may be beneficial, there is still lack of convincing evidence and criti...
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Open AccessFunctional genomics study of acute heat stress response in the small yellow follicles of layer-type chickens
This study investigated global gene and protein expression in the small yellow follicle (SYF; 6–8 mm in diameter) tissues of chickens in response to acute heat stress. Twelve 30-week-old layer-type hens were d...
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Open AccessCaMKII-mediated Beclin 1 phosphorylation regulates autophagy that promotes degradation of Id and neuroblastoma cell differentiation
Autophagy is a degradative pathway that delivers cellular components to the lysosome for degradation. The role of autophagy in cell differentiation is poorly understood. Here we show that CaMKII can directly p...
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Open AccessBacterial diversity among four healthcare-associated institutes in Taiwan
Indoor microbial communities have important implications for human health, especially in health-care institutes (HCIs). The factors that determine the diversity and composition of microbiomes in a built enviro...
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Open AccessAntidepressant effect of taurine in chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced depressive rats
Depression, a psychiatric and dysthymic disorder, severely affects the learning, work and life quality. The main pathogenesis of depression is associated with central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction. Taurine ...
