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Open AccessClinico-biological significance of suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 expression in acute myeloid leukemia
Suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 (SOCS1) protein, which encodes a member of signal transducers and activators of transcription-induced inhibitors, takes part in a negative regulation of cytokine signaling. T...
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Integrated Drug Expression Analysis for leukemia: an integrated in silico and in vivo approach to drug discovery
Screening for drug compounds that exhibit therapeutic properties in the treatment of various diseases remains a challenge even after considerable advancements in biomedical research. Here, we introduce an inte...
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The impact of global budgeting on health service utilization, health care expenditures, and quality of care among patients with pneumonia in Taiwan
This study evaluated the effect of global budgeting on health service utilization, health care expenditures, and the quality of care among patients with pneumonia in Taiwan. The National Health Insurance Resea...
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Open AccessRandomised controlled trial on the effectiveness of home-based walking exercise on anxiety, depression and cancer-related symptoms in patients with lung cancer
Although exercise has been addressed as an adjuvant treatment for anxiety, depression and cancer-related symptoms, limited studies have evaluated the effectiveness of exercise in patients with lung cancer.
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Tumor-specific suicide gene therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma by transcriptionally targeted retroviral replicating vectors
Replicating virus vectors are attractive tools for anticancer gene therapy, but the potential for adverse events due to uncontrolled spread of the vectors has been a major concern. To design a tumor-specific r...
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Open AccessIndependent and joint effect of type 2 diabetes and gastric and hepatobiliary diseases on risk of pancreatic cancer risk: 10-year follow-up of population-based cohort
Type 2 diabetes mellitus, gastric and hepatobiliary comorbidities, and cancer share common risk factors: for example, tobacco, obesity, physical inactivity, high calorie intake, and metabolic disorders. Prior ...
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Open AccessA phase I study of two dosing schedules of volasertib (BI 6727), an intravenous polo-like kinase inhibitor, in patients with advanced solid malignancies
Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) has an important role in mitosis. Volasertib (BI 6727), a potent and selective cell cycle kinase inhibitor, induces mitotic arrest and apoptosis by targeting Plk; this phase I study s...
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An HDAC inhibitor enhances cancer therapeutic efficiency of RNA polymerase III promoter-driven IDO shRNA
Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors are used in treating certain human malignancies. Our laboratories demonstrated their capability in enhancing antitumor effect of DNA vaccine driven by an RNA polymerase II...
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Open AccessBasal core promoter mutation is associated with progression to cirrhosis rather than hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic hepatitis B virus infection
As most cases of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have concurrent cirrhosis, viral factors identified to be associated with HCC might be related to cirrhosis rather than HCC.
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RNA interference-mediated silencing of Foxo3 in antigen-presenting cells as a strategy for the enhancement of DNA vaccine potency
The transcription factor Forkhead box O3 (Foxo3) has a critical role in suppressing the expansion of antigen-specific effector T-cell populations; hence, Foxo3 is a potential target for enhancing the antitumor...
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Open AccessA randomised phase II study of pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG 20) in Asian advanced hepatocellular carcinoma patients
Human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells are largely deficient of argininosuccinate synthetase and thus auxotrophic for arginine. This study aims to investigate the efficacy and pharmacodynamics of pegylated...
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An HDAC inhibitor enhances the antitumor activity of a CMV promoter-driven DNA vaccine
The cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter is considered to be one of the strongest promoters for driving the in vivo expression of genes encoded by DNA vaccines. However, the efficacy of DNA vaccines has so far been dis...
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Open AccessAngiotensin-converting enzyme gene insertion/deletion polymorphism is associated with risk of oral precancerous lesion in betel quid chewers
To investigate whether angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism is related to the risk of oral precancerous lesions (OPL) in Taiwanese subjects who chew betel quid, a total o...
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Automatic optimum order selection of parametric modelling for the evaluation of abnormal intra-QRS signals in signal-averaged electrocardiograms
Abnormal intra-QRS potentials (AIQPs) in signal-averaged electrocardiograms have been proposed as a risk evaluation index for ventricular arrhythmias. The purpose of the paper was to develop an automatic algor...
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Human centromeric DNAs
Human centromeres have been extensively studied over the past two decades. Consequently, more is known of centromere structure and organization in humans than in any other higher eukaryote species. Recent adv...
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Conserved Structure and Adjacent Location of the Thrombin Receptor and Protease-Activated Receptor 2 Genes Define a Protease-Activated Receptor Gene Cluster
Thrombin is a serine protease that elicits a variety of cellular responses. Molecular cloning of a thrombin receptor revealed a G protein-coupled receptor that is activated by a novel proteolytic mechanism. Re...
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The skin, tongue, and brain as favorable organs for hog cholera diagnosis by immunofluorescence
Hog cholera virus antigens were found densely distributed in skin and tongue of pigs experimentally infected with hog cholera virus. The finding described here warrants the usage of ear biopsies for hog choler...
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Familial paracentric inversions inv(2)(q31q35) and inv(8)(q22.3q24.13) ascertained through reproductive abnormalities
Two cases of familial paracentric inversion, one in the long arm of chromosome 2 and the other in the long arm of chromosome 8, are described. The first was ascertained in a woman who was studied because of re...
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Fragile sites and structural rearrangements in cancer
We retracted information from a computerized databank which contains the cytogenetic findings of 17,000 patients with leukemia and lymphoma. Cytogenetic data from patients with solid tumors were compiled from ...
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A de novo case of trisomy 10p: Gene dosage studies of hexokinase, inorganic pyrophosphatase and adenosine kinase
A female infant with multiple congenital anomalies is presented. Cytogenetic study revealed the presence of a de novo, supernumerary, small telocentric chromosome exhibiting the banding pattern of the short ar...