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Open AccessSuccessful treatment of a severe Takotsubo syndrome case complicated by liver abscess
The main manifestations of Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) are a spherical expansion of the left ventricle or near the apex and decreased systolic function. TTS is mostly thought to be induced by emotional stress, an...
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Open AccessThe long-term impact of a chronic total occlusion in a non-infarct-related artery on acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction after primary coronary intervention
To investigate the long-term outcome of patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and a chronic total occlusion (CTO) in a non-infarct-related artery (IRA) and the risk factors for...
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Open AccessEffects of antidiabetic drugs on left ventricular function/dysfunction: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Although a variety of antidiabetic drugs have significant protective action on the cardiovascular system, it is still unclear which antidiabetic drugs can improve ventricular remodeling and fundamentally delay...
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Open AccessCorrelates of HIV infection among transgender women in two Chinese cities
In an era when HIV transmission has been on the rise among men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender women may play a considerable role in China’s current HIV epidemic as a potential “bridge” of HIV transmi...
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Open AccessOverexpression of the transcription factor NF-YC9 confers abscisic acid hypersensitivity in Arabidopsis
Nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) family proteins are involved in many developmental processes and responses to environmental cues in plants, but whether and how they regulate phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) signaling ...
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Open AccessA practical community-based response strategy to interrupt Ebola transmission in sierra Leone, 2014–2015
The Ebola virus disease spread rapidly in West Africa in 2014, leading to the loss of thousands of lives. Community engagement was one of the key strategies to interrupt Ebola transmission, and practical commu...
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Open AccessOverexpression of the MYB37 transcription factor enhances abscisic acid sensitivity, and improves both drought tolerance and seed productivity in Arabidopsis thaliana
Although a lot of genes have been revealed to participate in abscisic acid (ABA) signaling, many of the additional components involved in ABA signaling remain to be discovered. Here we report that overexpressi...
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Open AccessCrucial roles of the pentatricopeptide repeat protein SOAR1 in Arabidopsis response to drought, salt and cold stresses
Whereas several mitochondrial/chloroplast pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins have been reported to regulate plant responses to abiotic stresses, no nucleus-localized PPR protein has been found to play rol...
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Open AccessCochaperonin CPN20 negatively regulates abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis
Previous study showed that the magnesium-protoporphyrin IX chelatase H subunit (CHLH/ABAR) positively regulates abscisic acid (ABA) signaling. Here, we investigated the functions of a CHLH/ABAR interaction pro...
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Open AccessAuto- and Cross-repression of Three Arabidopsis WRKY Transcription Factors WRKY18, WRKY40, and WRKY60 Negatively Involved in ABA Signaling
Some members of the WRKY transcription factor family are known to be involved in ABA signaling. However, it remains unclear how the WRKY transcription factors cooperate to regulate ABA signaling. In the presen...
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Open AccessRoles of the different components of magnesium chelatase in abscisic acid signal transduction
The H subunit of Mg-chelatase (CHLH) was shown to regulate abscisic acid (ABA) signaling and the I subunit (CHLI) was also reported to modulate ABA signaling in guard cells. However, it remains essentially unk...
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Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic study of LFA3Ig fusion protein in healthy volunteers and patients with psoriasis
To evaluate the pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics of the LFA3Ig fusion protein (LFA3IgFP) in healthy volunteers and patients with chronic plaque psoriasis.
