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Open AccessImpacting factors and sources of perceived stress by home-quarantined residents in Shanghai during COVID-19 epidemic
Home-quarantine is one of the most common measures implemented to prevent or minimize the transmission of COVID-19 among communities. This study assessed stress levels of the home-quarantined residents in Shan...
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Modeling knowledge diffusion in the disciplinary citation network based on differential dynamics
Knowledge diffusion based on disciplinary citation resembles disease propagation through actual contact. Inspired by the epidemic spread model, the study classifies disciplines from the viewpoint of knowledge ...
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Open AccessPlasma complement C3 and C3a are increased in major depressive disorder independent of childhood trauma
Dysregulated complement system is linked to pathophysiology of major depressive disorder (MDD). Childhood trauma has been associated with an increased incidence of adult depression via a putative mechanism of ...
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Open AccessThe interplay of dopamine metabolism abnormalities and mitochondrial defects in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia
Dopamine (DA) is a major monoamine neurotransmitter in the brain and has essential roles in higher functions of the brain. Malfunctions of dopaminergic signaling have been implicated in various mental disorder...
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DOA tracking using an improved direction lock loop based on a three-element L-shaped array
Direction Lock Loop (DiLL) utilizes the direction of arrival (DOA) error obtained from the spatial correlation characteristics of the array antenna beamforming and dynamically adjusts the estimated DOA value t...
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Open AccessMiR-18a-3p improves cartilage matrix remodeling and inhibits inflammation in osteoarthritis by suppressing PDP1
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease characterized by synovial inflammation. MiR-18a-3p was reported to be downregulated in knee anterior cruciate ligament of OA patients. In the present study, the sp...
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Open AccessFibroblast growth factor 21 associating with serotonin and dopamine in the cerebrospinal fluid predicts impulsivity in healthy subjects
Impulsivity is more commonly reported in subjects with mental disorders compared to healthy subjects, suggesting a potential application of impulsivity in predicting impulsivity-related mental disorders. Howev...
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Open AccessAgitation and apathy increase risk of dementia in psychiatric inpatients with late-onset psychiatric symptoms
A diagnosis of dementia in middle-aged and elder people is often complicated by physical frailty and comorbid neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPSs). Previous studies have identified NPSs as a risk factor for dement...
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Open AccessMaternal separation with early weaning impairs neuron-glia integrity: non-invasive evaluation and substructure demonstration
Astrocytes and oligodendrocytes play essential roles in regulating neural signal transduction along neural circuits in CNS. The perfect coordination of neuron/astrocyte and neuron/oligodendrocyte entities was ...
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Rhizoglomus intraradices and associated Brevibacterium frigoritolerans enhance the competitive growth of Flaveria bidentis
Our aim was to determine whether there is a synergistic interaction between the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus Rhizoglomus intraradices and the bacterium Brevibacterium frigoritolerans, and to understand how
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Adenosine Promotes the Recovery of Mice from the Cuprizone-Induced Behavioral and Morphological Changes while Effecting on Microglia and Inflammatory Cytokines in the Brain
Recent studies have shown that multiple sclerosis (MS) and schizophrenia share similarities in some respects, including white matter damage and neuroinflammation. On the other hand, adenosine was reported to p...
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Complete consistency of estimators for regression models based on extended negatively dependent errors
In this paper, we investigate the consistency of the estimators of nonparametric regression model and multiple linear regression model based on extended negatively dependent errors. The complete convergence ra...
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An integrated method for interdisciplinary topic identification and prediction: a case study on information science and library science
Given that many frontiers and hotspots of science and technology are emerging from interdisciplines, the accurate identification and forecasting of interdisciplinary topics has become increasingly significant....
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Open AccessThe recovery trajectory of adolescent social defeat stress-induced behavioral, 1H-MRS metabolites and myelin changes in Balb/c mice
Adolescent exposure to social stress precipitates emotion-related disorders and affects the development and function of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). However, this adversity-induced behavioral and neurologi...
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Interdisciplinary topics of information science: a study based on the terms interdisciplinarity index series
Interdisciplinarity is increasingly widespread. Many technological frontiers and hotspots are emerging in the intersecting research areas. The existing measurement indexes of interdisciplinarity are mostly bas...
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Brain Metabolite Changes in Subcortical Regions After Exposure to Cuprizone for 6 Weeks: Potential Implications for Schizophrenia
Cuprizone is a copper chelating agent able to selectively damage the white matter in the mouse brain. Recent studies have reported behavioral abnormalities relevant to some of schizophrenia symptoms. While as...
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Differential effects of antipsychotics on the development of rat oligodendrocyte precursor cells exposed to cuprizone
Cuprizone (CPZ) is a copper-chelating agent and has been shown to induce white matter damage in mice and rats. The compromised white matter and oligodendrocytes (OLs) respond to some antipsychotics in vivo. Ho...
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Locomotor activity and anxiety status, but not spatial working memory, are affected in mice after brief exposure to cuprizone
Chronic long-term exposure to cuprizone causes severe brain demyelination in mice, which leads to changes in locomotion, working memory and anxiety. These findings suggest the importance of intact myelin for t...
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Non-isothermal Crystallization Behaviors of Polyvinyl alcohol/Hydroxyethyl Cellulose Blend Films
In this work, polyvinyl alcohol/hydroxyethyl cellulose (PVA/HEC) blend films were fabricated by solution casting and the crystalline morphology as well as non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of the blends ...
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Olanzapine Attenuates the Okadaic Acid-Induced Spatial Memory Impairment and Hippocampal Cell Death in Rats
It is hypothesized that olanzapine, an atypical antipsychotic drug, has beneficial effects on cognitive impairment and neuropathological changes in treating neurodegenerative diseases. In the present study, we...
