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Metabolomics signature of blood pressure salt sensitivity and its link to cardiovascular disease: A dietary salt-intervention trial
Individuals with a high degree of salt sensitivity (SS) have a greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), but whether SS fosters CVD by influencing metabolomics homeostasis remains unclear. This study aimed...
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Open AccessIntrarenal pressure detection during flexible ureteroscopy with fiber optic pressure sensor system in porcine model
To validate the feasibility of a fiber-optic pressure sensor-based pressure measurement device for monitoring intrarenal pressure and to analyze the effects of ureteral acess sheath (UAS) type, surgical locati...
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Enhancing the prediction of symptomatic radiation pneumonitis for locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer by combining 3D deep learning-derived imaging features with dose–volume metrics: a two-center study
This study aims to examine the ability of deep learning (DL)-derived imaging features for the prediction of radiation pneumonitis (RP) in locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC) patients.
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Two birds with one stone: SmCl3 modified TiO2/perovskite interface to enhance the performance of carbon-based perovskite solar cell
Carbon-based organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells (C-PSCs) are low-cost photovoltaic cells. However, the carrier recombination caused by interface defects and the mismatched interface energy level limits t...
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Open AccessObesity causes mitochondrial fragmentation and dysfunction in white adipocytes due to RalA activation
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a characteristic trait of human and rodent obesity, insulin resistance and fatty liver disease. Here we show that high-fat diet (HFD) feeding causes mitochondrial fragmentation in ...
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Parametric and Non-parametric Stochastic Damage Detection Based on Bayesian Model Updating Framework with Hybrid Uncertainties
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is the process of detecting, differentiating, and localizing damages of in-service structures and has been regarded as a critical technique for aerospace, civil and mechanica...
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Engineering of a Substrate Affinity Reduced S-Adenosyl-methionine Synthetase as a Novel Biosensor for Growth-Coupling Selection of L-Methionine Overproducers
Biosensors are powerful tools for monitoring specific metabolites or controlling metabolic flux towards the products in a single cell, which play important roles in microbial cell factory construction. Despite...
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Integrating polygenic and clinical risks to improve stroke risk stratification in prospective Chinese cohorts
The utility of the polygenic risk score (PRS) to identify individuals at higher risk of stroke beyond clinical risk remains unclear, and we clarified this using Chinese population-based prospective cohorts. Co...
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Open AccessHis-Purkinje system pacing versus biventricular pacing in clinical efficacy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
His-Purkinje system pacing (HPSP), including his-bundle pacing (HBP) and left bundle branch area pacing (LBBaP), imitates the natural conduction of the heart as an alternative to biventricular pacing (BVP) in ...
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Author Correction: The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids
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A colorimetric and fluorometric dual-mode carbon dots probe derived from phenanthroline precursor for the selective detection of Fe2+ and Fe3+
Iron's metabolism is heavily involved in the regulation of redox balance for cell functions, however, the simultaneous monitoring of Fe2+/3+ concentration is still a great challenge due to their transitional natu...
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Open AccessCorrection: Reference values of impulse oscillometry (IOS) for healthy Chinese children aged 4–17 years
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Biofertilizer made from a mixed microbial community can enhance the suppression of fusarium wilt of banana when combined with acid soil ameliorant
Fusarium wilt of banana is caused by the soil-borne pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (Foc). To increase the suppression activity, an improved mixed microbial community (a mixture of antagonists H-1, H-5,...
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Equal contents of intrinsic defects and oxygen-containing defects promote carbon electrodes to achieve high sulfur loads
High sulfur-loading is the key to achieve high lithium–sulfur battery performance. Defects (such as intrinsic defects and oxygen-containing defects) on biomass carbon surface are benefit for capturing sulfur. ...
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Surface reconstruction, do** and vacancy engineering to improve the overall water splitting of CoP nanoarrays
Development of a general regulatory strategy for efficient overall water splitting remains a challenging task. Herein, a simple, cost-fairness, and general fluorination strategy is developed to realize surface...
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A Simple Route to Synthesize Mixed BiPr Oxide Nanoparticles and Polyaniline Composites with Enhanced l-Cysteine Sensing Properties
BiPr oxide nanoparticles were successfully synthesized via a facile surfactant-free hydrothermal route using sodium bismuthate and praseodymium nitrate, and polyaniline/BiPr oxide nanoparticles were also obtai...
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Open AccessImplicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis
Genetic variants within nearly 1000 loci are known to contribute to modulation of blood lipid levels. However, the biological pathways underlying these associations are frequently unknown, limiting understandi...
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Open AccessCirculating tumor DNA integrating tissue clonality detects minimal residual disease in resectable non-small-cell lung cancer
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) has been proven as a marker for detecting minimal residual diseases following systemic therapies in mid-to-late-stage non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) by multiple studies. How...
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Heterologous expression of the MiHAK14 homologue from Mangifera indica enhances plant tolerance to K+ deficiency and salinity stress in Arabidopsis
As one of the most abundant ions in cells, sufficient amount of potassium (K+) is closely related to plant growth and development and contributes to plant tolerance to various abiotic stresses. However, molecular...
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Uniqueness Result and Iterative Method for Fourth Order p-Laplacian Integral Boundary Value Problems with Different Nonlinear Terms
In this paper, by using the contraction map** principle, we establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the fourth order p-Laplacian beam equations
