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Risk analysis of air pollutants and types of anemia: a UK Biobank prospective cohort study
Previous studies have suggested that exposure to air pollutants may be associated with specific blood indicators or anemia in certain populations. However, there is insufficient epidemiological data and prospe...
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Open AccessRecent advances in liquid phase transmission electron microscopy of nanoparticle growth and self-assembly
Over the last several decades, colloidal nanoparticles have evolved into a prominent class of building blocks for materials design. Important advances include the synthesis of uniform nanoparticles with tailor...
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Corosolic acid enhances oxidative stress-induced apoptosis and senescence in pancreatic cancer cells by inhibiting the JAK2/STAT3 pathway
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a fatal human malignancy with a poor prognosis. Corosolic acid (CRA) is a triterpenoid, has been reported to have inhibitory effects on tumor growth. However, the role of CRA on PC ha...
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Robust Degradation Representation via Efficient Diffusion Model for Blind Super-Resolution
Blind super-resolution (SR) is a challenging low-level vision task, dedicated to recovering corrupted details in low-resolution (LR) images with complex unknown degradations. The mainstream blind SR methods ma...
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Open AccessArtemisinins inhibit oral candidiasis caused by Candida albicans through the repression on its hyphal development
Candida albicans is the most abundant fungal species in oral cavity. As a smart opportunistic pathogen, it increases the virulence by switching its forms from yeasts to hyphae and becomes the major pathogenic age...
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A new hyper-parameter optimization method for machine learning in fault classification
Accurate bearing fault classification is essential for the safe and stable operation of rotating machinery. The success of Machine Learning (ML) in fault classification is mainly dependent on efficient feature...
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The Berberis vulgaris L. extract berberine exerts its anti-oxidant effects to ameliorate cholesterol overloading–induced cell apoptosis in the primary mice hepatocytes: an in vitro study
Cholesterol overloading stress damages normal cellular functions in hepatocytes and induces metabolic disorders to facilitate the development of multiple diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, which seri...
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Applications of CRISPR/Cas gene-editing technology in yeast and fungi
Genome editing technology has progressed rapidly in recent years. Although traditional gene-editing methods, including homologous recombination, zinc finger endonucleases, and transcription activator-like effe...
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Open AccessSynonymous point mutation of gtfB gene caused by therapeutic X-rays exposure reduced the biofilm formation and cariogenic abilities of Streptococcus mutans
The shift of oral microbiota is a critical factor of radiation caries in head and neck cancer patients after the radiotherapy. However, the direct effects of irradiation on the genome and virulence of cariogen...
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Candida albicans CHK1 gene from two-component system is essential for its pathogenicity in oral candidiasis
The roles of Candida albicans CHK1, a key gene from two-component system, in oral mucosal infection are not clear. This study evaluated the key roles of CHK1 gene in vitro and in vivo. The expression of CHK1 and ...
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Author Correction: Innervation of thermogenic adipose tissue via a calsyntenin 3β–S100b axis
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03161-z.
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Study on an Innovative H-Beam to SHS-Column Joint with Cast Column-Link in Steel Frames
Industrialized Building is introduced in many countries to improve the affordability and quality of housing projects as well as to accelerate the construction. Based on the demand for industrialized Building, ...
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Open AccessImaging the kinetics of anisotropic dissolution of bimetallic core–shell nanocubes using graphene liquid cells
Chemical design of multicomponent nanocrystals requires atomic-level understanding of reaction kinetics. Here, we apply single-particle imaging coupled with atomistic simulation to study reaction pathways and ...
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Down-regulation of miR-200c associates with poor prognosis of oral squamous cell carcinoma
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are considered as promising cancer biomarkers. The aim of the present study is to investigate the prognostic significance of miR-200c in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC).
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Publisher Correction: Innervation of thermogenic adipose tissue via a calsyntenin 3β–S100b axis
In Fig. 6a of this Article, the two dots corresponding to Cidea and S100b were erroneously moved to the top left of the volcano plot; this figure has been corrected online.
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Innervation of thermogenic adipose tissue via a calsyntenin 3β–S100b axis
The sympathetic nervous system drives brown and beige adipocyte thermogenesis through the release of noradrenaline from local axons. However, the molecular basis of higher levels of sympathetic innervation of ...
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Open AccessTuning infrared plasmon resonances in doped metal-oxide nanocrystals through cation-exchange reactions
Metal-oxide nanocrystals doped with aliovalent atoms can exhibit tunable infrared localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs). Yet, the range of dopant types and concentrations remains limited for many metal-...
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Large-size niobium disulfide nanoflakes down to bilayers grown by sulfurization
Atomically thin layers of group VB transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a unique platform for studying two-dimensional (2D) superconductivity and charge density waves. Thus far, the bottom-up synthe...
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Open AccessMicroscopic mechanisms of deformation transfer in high dynamic range branched nanoparticle deformation sensors
Nanoscale stress sensing is of crucial importance to biomechanics and other fields. An ideal stress sensor would have a large dynamic range to function in a variety of materials spanning orders of magnitude of...
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Cooperative interactions among CTA+, Br– and Ag+ during seeded growth of gold nanorods
We have carried out a comprehensive study on the formation mechanism of Au nanorods (AuNRs) in binary surfactant mixtures composed of quaternary ammonium halide and sodium oleate (NaOL). We identify the cetylt...
