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Sophoraflavanone G Inhibits RANKL-Induced Osteoclastogenesis via MAPK/NF-κB Signaling Pathway
Osteoporosis is a common chronic bone metabolism disorder characterized by decreased bone mass and reduced bone density in the bone tissue. Osteoporosis can lead to increased fragility of the skeleton, making ...
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New Demiric–Selçuk meet-in-the-middle attacks on Misty and Feistel schemes
In this paper, we present some new key-recovery attacks on Misty L-KF, Misty R-KF, and generalized Feistel schemes. Firstly, we propose a new 5-round distinguisher on Misty L-KF structure. Based on our new dis...
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Open AccessEffects of sleep-disordered breathing on serum lipid levels in children:a case control study
Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) during childhood is common and includes a range of breathing abnormalities that range from primary snoring (PS) to obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS).Studies have shown th...
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Ethylene may be the Key Factor Leading to the Homologous Transformation of Stamens into Pistils in Three-Pistil Wheat
Previous studies have shown that ethylene levels in flower buds are key to sex determination in plants. However, the roles of ethylene in wheat flower development are poorly understood. In this study, pistillo...
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Open AccessVacuum bell therapy for pectus excavatum: a retrospective study
Pectus excavatum, the most common chest wall deformity, is frequently treated with Nuss procedure. Here we will describe non-invasive procedure and analyze the variables associated vacuum bell therapy for pati...
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Open Accessp53/E2F7 axis promotes temozolomide chemoresistance in glioblastoma multiforme
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive form of brain cancer, and chemoresistance poses a significant challenge to the survival and prognosis of GBM. Although numerous regulatory mechanisms that c...
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Open AccessUnveiling NUSAP1 as a common gene signature linking chronic HBV infection and HBV-related HCC
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a significant contributor to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Chronic HBV infection (CHB) facilitates disease progression through various mechanisms. However, the s...
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Targeting JMJD1C to selectively disrupt tumor Treg cell fitness enhances antitumor immunity
Regulatory T (Treg) cells are critical for immune tolerance but also form a barrier to antitumor immunity. As therapeutic strategies involving Treg cell depletion are limited by concurrent autoimmune disorders, i...
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Open AccessA circuit area optimization of MK-3 S-box
In MILCOM 2015, Kelly et al. proposed the authentication encryption algorithm MK-3, which applied the 16-bit S-box. This paper aims to implement the 16-bit S-box with less circuit area. First, we classified th...
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Does Urban Shrinkage Inhibit Residents' Welfare? From the Perspective of Urban–Rural Development in China
Eliminating poverty and improving welfare are the value pursuit of global development. Based on the panel data of prefecture-level cities in China from 2010 to 2020, the path relationship among urban shrinkage...
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Innate immune sensing of lysosomal dysfunction drives multiple lysosomal storage disorders
Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs), which are characterized by genetic and metabolic lysosomal dysfunctions, constitute over 60 degenerative diseases with considerable health and economic burdens. However, the...
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Experimental Study of Hydraulic Fracturing in Unconsolidated Sandstone
Hydraulic fracturing is widely applied to enhance production in unconsolidated sandstone reservoirs. However, field fracturing does not always provide ideal stimulation for the lack of the understanding of fra...
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Further insights on constructing quantum circuits for Camellia block cipher
The rapid development of quantum technology challenges the security of modern cryptography, which causes concern from the cryptographic community about the quantum implementation of cryptographic algorithms, a...
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CHD-related/specific mortality of 3.17 million people in a transitioning region: trends, risk factors, and prevention
Demographic shifts cause uncertain changes in the burden of coronary heart disease (CHD) in transitioning regions. We aimed to analyze the trends of CHD burden and its risk factors in Pudong, Shanghai, and exp...
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Identification of DNA variants at ultra-low variant allele frequencies via Taq polymerase cleavage of wild-specific blockers
Detecting mutations related to tumors holds immense clinical significance for cancer diagnosis and treatment. However, the presence of highly redundant wild DNA poses a challenge for the advancement of low-cop...
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Further results on the \((-1)\) -differential uniformity of some functions over finite fields with odd characteristic
Functions with low differential uniformity have wide applications in cryptography. In this paper, by using the quadratic character of $${\mathbb {F}}_...
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Quantum attacks on generalized Feistel networks based on the strong–weak separability
Generalized Feistel networks are important components of symmetric ciphers, and detailed security evaluations in the quantum setting remain to be explored. In this paper, based on the strong–weak separability ...
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Open AccessCausal relationships between obesity and pancreatobiliary diseases: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study
Previous observational studies have investigated the relationship between obesity and the biliary tract and pancreas. The causality, however, is still to be confirmed. This study was designed to explore the ca...
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Local and global thermalization in non-Markovian open quantum system
In this paper, we study thermalization of spin chains whose two end spins interact with two independent non-Markovian dephasing baths by the quantum state diffusion (QSD) equation approach. Up to now almost al...
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Copper diffusion related phase change and voltage decay in CuS cathode
Copper sulfide (CuS) is a promising cathode for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to its impeccable theoretical energy density (∼ 1015 Wh·kg−1 and 4743 Wh·L−1). However, it suffers from voltage decay leaded energy...
