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Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery versus open thoracotomy for chronic pain after surgery: a prospective cohort study
The potential of uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (U-VATS) to reduce chronic pain after thoracic surgery (CPTS) compared to open thoracotomy (OT) remains unexplored. This prospective study aims to ass...
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Co-design of Anti-windup Compensator and a Novel Saturation-based Dynamic Event-triggered Mechanism for Asymmetric Saturated System
This paper addresses the co-design of anti-windup compensator and a novel saturation-based dynamic event-triggered condition for asymmetric saturated system. Asymmetric saturation frequently appears in practic...
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Open AccessGut dysbacteriosis induces expression differences in the adult head transcriptome of Spodoptera frugiperda in a sex-specific manner
Mounting evidence indicates that the gut microbiota influences the neurodevelopment and behavior of insects through the gut-brain axis. However, it is currently unclear whether the gut microbiota affect the he...
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Reductive soil disinfestation and Fe amendment improve soil microbial composition and Fritillaria production
The continuous obstacles of crop** cause severe economic loss, which seriously threaten agricultural sustainable development. In addition, managing excess waste, such as potato peel and mineral waste residue...
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Improving Span-Based Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction with Abundant Syntax Knowledge
Aspect sentiment triplet extraction is a subtask of aspect based sentiment analysis, which has attracted considerable attention in recent years. It aims to obtain the aspect term, the associated opinion term a...
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RFM: response-aware feedback mechanism for background based conversation
In general, the existing dialogue systems tend to generate generic responses due to lack of external knowledge. One of the usual solutions is the Background Based Conversations (BBCs), which can help dialogue ...
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Two cGAS-like receptors induce antiviral immunity in Drosophila
In mammals, cyclic GMP–AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS) produces the cyclic dinucleotide 2′3′-cGAMP in response to cytosolic DNA and this triggers an antiviral immune response. cGAS belongs to a large family of cGA...
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Open AccessUltrasound-Guided Continuous Thoracic Paravertebral Infusion of Methylene Blue in the Treatment of Postherpetic Neuralgia: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study
Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is the most common complication of herpes zoster. Methylene blue (MB) is an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthesis with potentially analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. Studies...
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Open Access20E-mediated regulation of BmKr-h1 by BmKRP promotes oocyte maturation
Krüppel homolog 1 (Kr-h1) is a critical transcription factor for juvenile hormone (JH) signaling, known to play a key role in regulating metamorphosis and adult reproduction in insects. Kr-h1 can also be induc...
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Open AccessGenome-wide analysis of DNA G-quadruplex motifs across 37 species provides insights into G4 evolution
G-quadruplex (G4) structures have been predicted in the genomes of many organisms and proven to play regulatory roles in diverse cellular activities. However, there is little information on the evolutionary hi...
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miR-140-3p aggregates osteoporosis by targeting PTEN and activating PTEN/PI3K/AKT signaling pathway
Osteoporosis (OP) is a systemic bone metabolic disorder, which negatively affects the quality of life in the elders and postmenopausal females. Healthy volunteers and postmenopausal females with OP were enroll...
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Open AccessAnti-inflammatory protein TSG-6 secreted by bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells attenuates neuropathic pain by inhibiting the TLR2/MyD88/NF-κB signaling pathway in spinal microglia
Neuroinflammation plays a vital role in the development and maintenance of neuropathic pain. Recent evidence has proved that bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) can inhibit neuropathic pain and possess ...
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Open AccessIn vivo visualization of the i-motif DNA secondary structure in the Bombyx mori testis
A large number of in vitro experiments have confirmed that DNA molecules can form i-motif advanced structure when multiple cytosines exist in the sequence. However, whether these structures are present in vivo...
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Open AccessApplication of LpxC enzyme inhibitor to inhibit some fast-growing bacteria in human gut bacterial culturomics
Culturomics can ascertain traces of microorganisms to be cultivated using different strategies and identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization–time-of-flight mass spectrometry or 16S rDNA sequenc...
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Antimony-doped tin oxide nanoparticles as peroxidase mimics for paper-based colorimetric detection of glucose using smartphone read-out
Antimony-doped tin oxide nanoparticles (ATO NPs) were loaded on a filter paper where they act as a peroxidase mimic without electrochemical or photochemical assistance. The peroxidase mimicking activity is dis...
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Fluorometric determination of zinc(II) by using DNAzyme-modified magnetic microbeads
A fluorometric assay for zinc ion is described that relies (a) on the use of an isothermal cycle to amplify the fluorescence signal, and (b) of magnetic beads (MBs) to completely remove unreacted DNA detection...
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Correction to: Highly sensitive detection of M.SssI DNA methyltransferase activity using a personal glucose meter
We should like to call your attention to the fact that Si Ying Png’s name was misspelled in the original publication: it should be Si Ying Png.
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Highly sensitive detection of M.SssI DNA methyltransferase activity using a personal glucose meter
A simple method for highly sensitive and selective detection of M.SssI CpG methyltransferase (M.SssI MTase) activity is developed, leveraging on the portability and ease of use of a personal glucose meter (PGM...
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Open AccessA novel strain of Bacteroides fragilis enhances phagocytosis and polarises M1 macrophages
Commensal Bacteroides fragilis possesses immune-regulatory characteristics. Consequently, it has been proposed as a potential novel probiotic because of its therapeutic effects on immune imbalance, mental disorde...
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3-Hydroxycoumarin as a new matrix for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry of DNA
3-Hydroxycoumarin (3-HC) was designed, synthesized, and tested as a matrix for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) analyses of a variety of synthetic oli...
