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Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, is most frequently detected through imaging tests. In this study, we investigated serum microRNAs (miRNAs) as a possible early screening tool for resec...
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Open AccessPhysiological roles of dietary glutamate signaling via gut–brain axis due to efficient digestion and absorption
Dietary glutamate (Glu) stimulates to evoke the umami taste, one of the five basic tastes, enhancing food palatability. But it is also the main gut energy source for the absorption and metabolism for each nutr...
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Open AccessSNP HiTLink: a high-throughput linkage analysis system employing dense SNP data
During this recent decade, microarray-based single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data are becoming more widely used as markers for linkage analysis in the identification of loci for disease-associated genes. A...
