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Calycosin promotes axon growth by inhibiting PTPRS and alleviates spinal cord injury
Our former studies have identified the alleviating effect of Calycosin (CA) on spinal cord injury (SCI). In this study, our purpose is to explore the influence of CA on SCI from the perspective of promoting ax...
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Elimination of editing plasmid mediated by theophylline riboswitch in Zymomonas mobilis
Zymomonas mobilis is regarded as a potential chassis for the production of platform chemicals. Genome editing using the CRISPR-Cas system could meet the need for gene modification in metabolic engineering. Howev...
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Deep information-guided feature refinement network for colorectal gland segmentation
Reliable quantification of colorectal histopathological images is based on the precise segmentation of glands but precise segmentation of glands is challenging as glandular morphology varies widely across hist...
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Barrier function-based adaptive antisway control for underactuated overhead cranes
Nonlinear controls that account for constraints on the state variable of overhead cranes can hardly strengthen the effective coupling between trolley movement and load oscillation, thus possessing little capac...
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Multi-scale high and low feature fusion attention network for intestinal image classification
Accurate abnormality classification in intestinal images is critical for the diagnosis and treatment of early-stage intestinal cancers, but remains challenging due to the large intra-lesion variability and hig...
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Open AccessMolecular mechanism of engineered Zymomonas mobilis to furfural and acetic acid stress
Acetic acid and furfural (AF) are two major inhibitors of microorganisms during lignocellulosic ethanol production. In our previous study, we successfully engineered Zymomonas mobilis 532 (ZM532) strain by genome...
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Taraxasterol Inhibits Hyperactivation of Macrophages to Alleviate the Sepsis-induced Inflammatory Response of ARDS Rats
To explore the effect and mechanism of taraxasterol on sepsis-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Twenty-four male SD rats were randomly divided into four groups: the control group, model (lipo...
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Pennisetum hydridum: a Potential Energy Crop with Multiple Functions and the Current Status in China
Pennisetum hydridum has several beneficial characteristics, including the ability to grow quickly, a highly developed root system, the ability to produce high yields, strong resistance to environmental stressors,...
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MSFF-Net: Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Network for Gastrointestinal Vessel Segmentation
The accurate and automatic segmentation of gastrointestinal wall vessels can help to prevent endoscope tip related perforation. Methods based on deep learning and convolution neural network in many different k...
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DFCA-Net: Dual Feature Context Aggregation Network for Bleeding Areas Segmentation in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images
Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is an effective and non-invasive advanced technology for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal (GI) abnormalities. From a clinical perspective, one of the most common and valuable ...
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Open Accessd-Lactic acid production from agricultural residues by membrane integrated continuous fermentation coupled with B vitamin supplementation
d-Lactic acid played an important role in the establishment of PLA as a substitute for petrochemical plastics. But, so far, the d-lactic acid production was limited in only pilot scale, which was definitely unabl...
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GCA-Net: global context attention network for intestinal wall vascular segmentation
Precise segmentation of intestinal wall vessels is vital to colonic perforation prevention. However, there are interferences such as gastric juice in the vessel image of the intestinal wall, especially vessels...
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Finite-time command-filtered approximation-free attitude tracking control of rigid spacecraft
In this paper, a finite-time command-filtered approximation-free attitude tracking control strategy is proposed for rigid spacecraft. A novel finite-time prescribed performance function is first constructed to...
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Open AccessCellulosic ethanol production by consortia of Scheffersomyces stipitis and engineered Zymomonas mobilis
As one of the clean and sustainable energies, lignocellulosic ethanol has achieved much attention around the world. The production of lignocellulosic ethanol does not compete with people for food, while the co...
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Open AccessEndogenous CRISPR-assisted microhomology-mediated end joining enables rapid genome editing in Zymomonas mobilis
Zymomonas mobilis is a natural ethanologen with many desirable characteristics, making it an ideal platform for future biorefineries. Recently, an endogenous CRISPR-based genome editing tool has been developed fo...
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Open AccessOne minute of circulatory arrest for acute type A aortic dissection --------- a simple operation for acute type A aortic dissection (AAAD)
Sun’s procedure is currently recognized as the standard procedure for acute type A aortic dissection (AAAD). But the operation istoo difficult for beginners. We hope to reduce the difficulty and complications ...
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Torque Modelling and Validation for a Spherical Motor with Stepped Permanent Magnets
A spherical motor is an electromagnetic device with multi-degree-of-freedom motion. Three-dimensional (3-D) magnetic field analysis and torque analysis are needed for the design, optimization and control of th...
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Open AccessDevelopment and characterization of acidic-pH-tolerant mutants of Zymomonas mobilis through adaptation and next-generation sequencing-based genome resequencing and RNA-Seq
Acid pretreatment is a common strategy used to break down the hemicellulose component of the lignocellulosic biomass to release pentoses, and a subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis step is usually applied to releas...
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Intestinal Polyp Recognition Based on Salient Codebook Locality-Constrained Linear Coding with Annular Spatial Pyramid Matching
Gastrointestinal endoscopy has become a widely used technique to diagnose intestinal anomalies like polyp. However, the vast quantities of images produced in the detection process greatly increase the burden o...
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WCE polyp detection based on novel feature descriptor with normalized variance locality-constrained linear coding
Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) has become an effective facility to detect digestive tract diseases. To further improve the accuracy and efficiency of computer-aided diagnosis system in the detection of intes...
