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The role of CYP2C19 in amitriptyline N-demethylation in Chinese subjects
Objective. To determine the role of cytochrome P 450 (CYP)2C19 in N-demethylation of amitriptyline (AT) in healthy Chinese subjects.
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Nitroglycerin enhances proliferation and osteoblastic differentiation in human mesenchymal stem cells via nitric oxide pathway
To investigate the effect of nitroglycerin (NTG) on cell proliferation and osteoblastic differentiation of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (HBMSC) and its mechanisms.
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Psoriasis genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility variants within LCE gene cluster at 1q21
Xuejun Zhang and colleagues report a genome-wide association and replication studies for psoriasis, conducted in Chinese populations. They confirm previous associations in MHC and IL12B to psoriasis susceptibilit...
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Genome-wide association study in a Chinese Han population identifies nine new susceptibility loci for systemic lupus erythematosus
Xuejun Zhang and colleagues report results of a genome-wide association study of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a Chinese Han population. Their work identifies nine new SLE susceptibility loci and revea...
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Effects of sympathetic histamine on vasomotor responses of blood vessels in rabbit ear to electrical stimulation
To investigate the effects of histamine receptor antagonists on vasoconstriction induced by electrical stimulation (ES) on posterior auricular nerve, and to explore the pre- and post-synaptic effects of sympat...
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Association analyses identify six new psoriasis susceptibility loci in the Chinese population
Xue-Jun Zhang and colleagues report genome-wide association analyses identifying six new susceptibility loci in the Chinese population.
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Pharmacokinetics and safety of a new bioengineered thrombolytic agent, human tissue urokinase type plasminogen activator in Chinese healthy volunteers
The aim of our study was to investigate the pharmacokinetics and safety of human tissue urokinase type plasminogen activator (HTUPA) in healthy Chinese subjects after intravenous administration. Thirty-two sub...
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Genome-wide association identifies a susceptibility locus for coronary artery disease in the Chinese Han population
Qing Wang and colleagues report a genome-wide association study for coronary artery disease (CAD) in a Chinese Han population. They identify a locus on chromosome 6p24.1 newly associated with CAD.
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Genome-wide association study identifies a susceptibility locus for schizophrenia in Han Chinese at 11p11.2
Dai Zhang and colleagues report a genome-wide association study for schizophrenia in the Han Chinese population. They identify a new susceptibility locus at 11p11.2 and also identify a locus at 6p21-22.1 in th...
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Acid loading stimulates rat glomerular mesangial cells proliferation through Na+–H+ exchanger isoform 1 (NHE1)-dependent pathway
The role of metabolic acidosis in the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains unclear. The aim of the present study was to investigate the direct effects of acid loading on the proliferation of rat...
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Prefrontal Control of Cerebellum-Dependent Associative Motor Learning
Behavioral studies have demonstrated that both medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and cerebellum play critical roles in trace eyeblink conditioning. However, little is known regarding the mechanism by which the t...
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CD24 mediates gastric carcinogenesis and promotes gastric cancer progression via STAT3 activation
The development of gastric cancer (GC) is a complex multistep process, including numerous genetic and epigenetic changes. CD24 is associated with enhanced invasiveness of GC and a poor prognosis. However, the ...
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Codon usage bias of the phosphoprotein gene of spring viraemia of carp virus and high codon adaptation to the host
In this study, we calculated the relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU) value and the effective number of codons (ENC) value to carry out principal component analysis (PCA) and correlation analysis of the codo...
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MicroRNA-195 regulates steroid receptor coactivator-3 protein expression in hepatocellular carcinoma cells
Multiple studies have shown that steroid receptor coactivator-3 (SRC-3) is upregulated and promotes cell proliferation in several human cancers, including breast, lung, and prostate carcinoma. However, its mol...
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Joint analysis of three genome-wide association studies of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Chinese populations
Dongxin Lin, Philip Taylor, Li-Dong Wang and colleagues have now pooled three genome-wide association analyses of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, finding two new risk loci at genome-wide significance and a...
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Open AccessNumber of negative lymph nodes can predict survival of breast cancer patients with four or more positive lymph nodes after postmastectomy radiotherapy
This study was conducted to assess the prognostic value of the number of negative lymph nodes (NLNs) in breast cancer patients with four or more positive lymph nodes after postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT).
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SIRT1 overexpression in skeletal muscle in vivo induces increased insulin sensitivity and enhanced complex I but not complex II–V functions in individual subsarcolemmal and intermyofibrillar mitochondria
SIRT1 is known to improve insulin resistance (IR), but whether this effect is direct or not is still unclear, and this question has not been addressed in vivo in the skeletal muscle. Therefore, we sought to te...
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Exome sequencing identifies somatic mutations of DDX3X in natural killer/T-cell lymphoma
Zhu Chen, Sai-Juan Chen, Wei-Li Zhao and colleagues identify recurrent loss-of-function mutations in the RNA helicase gene DDX3X in 20% of subjects with natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) in their study. The ...
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Open AccessThe impact of the cumulative dose of cisplatin during concurrent chemoradiotherapy on the clinical outcomes of patients with advanced-stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma in an era of intensity-modulated radiotherapy
The impact of cumulative dose of cisplatin on clinical outcomes of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients who received intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) was evaluated.
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Dexamethasone suppresses the growth of human non-small cell lung cancer via inducing estrogen sulfotransferase and inactivating estrogen
Dexamethasone (DEX) is a widely used synthetic glucocorticoid, which has shown anti-cancer efficacy and anti-estrogenic activity. In this study we explored the possibility that DEX might be used as an endocrin...