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Left Ventricular Remodelling Associated with the Transient Elevated [68Ga]Ga-Pentixafor Activity in the Remote Myocardium Following Acute Myocardial Infarction
Previous studies have initially reported accompanying elevated 2-deoxy-2[18F]fluoro-D-glucose ([18F]F-FDG) inflammatory activity in the remote area and its prognostic value after acute myocardial infarction (AMI)...
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Synthetic strategy of biomimetic sea urchin-like Co-NC@PANI modified MXene-based magnetic aerogels with enhanced electromagnetic wave absorption properties
The rational and effective combination of multicomponent materials and ingenious microstructure design for efficient electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorption are still challenging. In this paper, MXene was used a...
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Correction to: Dynamic changes in soil fungal communities and functional groups in response to sugarcane/soybean intercrop** with reduced nitrogen fertilizer application
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Dynamic changes in soil fungal communities and functional groups in response to sugarcane/soybean intercrop** with reduced nitrogen fertilizer application
A field experiment was conducted with sugarcane monoculture under 100% nitrogen fertilization (500 kg N ha−1 year−1, N500) and sugarcane/soybean intercrop** under 100% (SN500), 80% (SN400), 60% (SN300), and 40%...
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Open AccessCharacterization of pectin methylesterase gene family and its possible role in juice sac granulation in navel orange (Citrus sinensis Osbeck)
Citrus is one of the most important fresh fruit crops worldwide. Juice sac granulation is a physiological disorder, which leads to a reduction in soluble solid concentration, total sugar, and titratable acidit...
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Brief introduction of keratin and its biological application, especially in drug delivery
Biopolymers have been extensively studied as biomaterials for clinical applications due to the specific advantages, such as ample natural abundance, outstanding biocompatibility and biodegradability, and non-i...
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Backbone and side-chain chemical shift assignments of a cellular FLICE-inhibitory protein (c-FLIPS)
Cellular FLICE-inhibitory protein (c-FLIP), which is involved in regulating the apoptosis of the extrinsic cell death pathway contains two death effector domains (DED). There are several splicing variants incl...
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Dexamethasone Upregulates the Expression of Aquaporin4 by Increasing SUMOylation in A549 Cells
Dexamethasone can alleviate the severity of bronchial and alveolar edema and therefore is widely applied in the treatment of various exudative diseases including pulmonary edema. However, the effectiveness of ...
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Development history and synthesis of super-absorbent polymers: a review
Super-absorbent polymers (SAPs) refer to a three-dimensional network polymer, water-swellable, water-insoluble, organic or inorganic material that can absorb thousands of times its own weight of distilled wate...
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Site-specific peak intensity ratio (SPIR) from 1D 2H/1H NMR spectra for rapid distinction between natural and synthetic nicotine and detection of possible adulteration
1H and 2H NMR spectra of 4 natural and synthetic nicotine samples were collected in a non-quantitative way and site-specific 2H/1H peak intensity ratio (SPIR) was calculated for 12 distinct sites of nicotine. Exp...
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Open AccessFunctional analysis of apple stem pitting virus coat protein variants
Although the canonical function of viral coat protein (CP) is to encapsidate the viral genome, they have come to be recognized as multifunctional proteins, involved in almost every stage of the viral infection...
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China’s Leverage Ratio and Systemic Financial Risk Prevention
The leverage ratio of non-financial businesses and the government sector in China has been on the rise since the outbreak of the global financial crisis. China’s leverage ratios are not high compared with thos...
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Correction to: Backbone and side-chain chemical shift assignments of the kringle domain of human receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1 (ROR1)
The authors would like to include an additional institution to their affiliation which was initially not included in the original publication of the article
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An adapted isotope dilution 1H–13C heteronuclear single-quantum correlation (ID-HSQC) for rapid and accurate quantification of endogenous and exogenous plasma glucose
A wide variety of methods, such as enzymatic methods, LC-MS, and LC-MS/MS, are currently available for the concentration determination of plasma glucose in studies of diabetes, obesity, exercise, etc. However,...
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Backbone and side-chain chemical shift assignments of MarH, a critical intermediary epimerase for biosynthesis of Maremycins in Streptomyces
MarH is an essential epimerase that catalyzes the isomerization of 3R-β-methyl-indolepyruvate (β-MeInPy) to 3S-β-MeInPy, which is the important precursor for biosynthesis of Maremycins. Biophysical study of th...
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Open AccessDiscrimination of three Ephedra species and their geographical origins based on multi-element fingerprinting by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Discrimination of species and geographical origins of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is essential to prevent adulteration and inferior problems. We studied Ephedra sinica Stapf, Ephedra intermedia Schrenk et ...
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Backbone and side-chain chemical shift assignments of the kringle domain of human receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1 (ROR1)
Receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1 (ROR1) expresses at high level in many cancers and has been suggested as a potential therapeutic target. It was reported that the Kringle (KNG) domain of ROR1 ex...
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Open AccessSingle amino acid in V2 encoded by TYLCV is responsible for its self-interaction, aggregates and pathogenicity
The V2 protein encoded by Begomovirus is essential for virus infection and is involved in multiple functions, such as virus movement and suppression of the host defence response. In this study, we reported that V...
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Open AccessDiscrimination of geographical origin of cultivated Polygala tenuifolia based on multi-element fingerprinting by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Inorganic elements are important components of medicinal herbs, and provide valuable experimental evidence for the quality evaluation and control of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In this study, to invest...
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Nuclease activity of copper(II) complex containing 1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-dione and L-phenylalanine ligands
The interaction between CT-DNA and a ternary copper (II) complex, [Cu(phendio)(L-Phe)(H2O)](ClO4)·H2O (CuPP, phendio = 1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-dione, L-Phe = L-phenylalanine), has been conducted by electronic spe...
