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Open AccessGenome-wide analysis and expression profiling of the HD-ZIP gene family in kiwifruit
The homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) gene family plays a pivotal role in plant development and stress responses. Nevertheless, a comprehensive characterization of the HD-Zip gene family in kiwifruit has bee...
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Open AccessGenetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a heterogeneous disease that develops through diverse pathophysiological processes1,2 and molecular mechanisms that are often specific to cell type3,4. Here, to characterize the genetic c...
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Quasi-open Cu(i) sites for efficient CO separation with high O2/H2O tolerance
Carbon monoxide (CO) separation relies on chemical adsorption but suffers from the difficulty of desorption and instability of open metal sites against O2, H2O and so on. Here we demonstrate quasi-open metal site...
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Open AccessMetatranscriptome of human lung microbial communities in a cohort of mechanically ventilated COVID-19 Omicron patients
The Omicron variant of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) infected a substantial proportion of Chinese population, and understanding the factors underlying the severity of the dis...
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Open AccessShort term outcomes of extremely low birth weight infants from a multicenter cohort study in Guangdong of China
With the increase in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants, their outcome attracted worldwide attention. However, in China, the related studies are rare. The hospitalized records of ELBW infants discharged...
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Publisher Correction to: Corrections to Hawking radiation and Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of novel four-dimensional black holes in GaussBonnet gravity
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Corrections to Hawking radiation and Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of novel four-dimensional black holes in Gauss- Bonnet gravity
We make use of the Hamilton–Jacobi and Parikh-Wilczek methods to investigate the Hawking radiation from the event horizon of a new charged anti-de Sitter black hole in four-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity spa...
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Design and verification of a structure for isolating stress in sandwich MEMS accelerometer
In this paper, a structure for isolating packaging stress in a sandwich MEMS capacitive accelerometer is proposed and verified. The structure is designed and analyzed by finite element modeling (FEM) using ABA...
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Preliminary report on the improved resistance towards Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae of cultivated kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis) when grafted onto wild Actinidia guilinensis rootstock in vitro
The production of kiwifruit around the world is widely affected by the bacterial canker disease caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa). The use of resistant rootstock is considered to be an effective...
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Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with COVID-19
We report acute antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in 285 patients with COVID-19. Within 19 days after symptom onset, 100% of patients tested positive for antiviral immunoglobulin-G (IgG). Seroconversion for IgG...
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Open AccessPreparation, characterization and in vitro–in vivo evaluation of bortezomib supermolecular aggregation nanovehicles
Intolerable toxicity and unsatisfactory therapeutic effects are still big problems retarding the use of chemotherapy against cancer. Nano-drug delivery system promised a lot in increasing the patients’ complia...
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KRAS4A directly regulates hexokinase 1
The most frequently mutated oncogene in cancer is KRAS, which uses alternative fourth exons to generate two gene products (KRAS4A and KRAS4B) that differ only in their C-terminal membrane-targeting region1. Becau...
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Open AccessATF6 regulates the development of chronic pancreatitis by inducing p53-mediated apoptosis
Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive, recurrent inflammatory disorder of the pancreas. Initiation and progression of CP can result from serine protease 1 (PRSS1) overaccumulation and the ensuing endoplas...
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Intermediate-sized molecular sieving of styrene from larger and smaller analogues
Molecular sieving can lead to ultrahigh selectivity and low regeneration energy because it completely excludes all larger molecules via a size restriction mechanism. However, it allows adsorption of all molecu...
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Open AccessAttractive interaction between vortex and anti-vortex in holographic superfluid
Annihilation of vortex and anti-vortex in two dimensional turbulent superfluid are important phenomena which reduce the topological defects. In this paper, we report new findings on the annihilation process of...
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Open AccessPLOD3 promotes lung metastasis via regulation of STAT3
Procollagen-lysine, 2-oxoglutarate 5-dioxygenase (PLOD3), a membrane-bound homodimeric enzyme, hydroxylates lysyl residues in collagen-like peptides; however, its role in lung cancer is unknown. This study aim...
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Open AccessPhase transition and heat engine efficiency of phantom AdS black holes
Phase transition and heat engine efficiency of phantom AdS black holes are investigated with peculiar properties found. In the non-extended phase space, we probe the possibility of T–S criticality in both the can...
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On the first law of entanglement for Quasi-Topological gravity
The first law of entanglement has been used to obtain the linearized Einstein equations of the holographic dual spacetimes. In the present paper, the first law of entanglement in Quasi-Topological gravity is e...
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Open AccessHolographic heat engine within the framework of massive gravity
Heat engine models are constructed within the framework of massive gravity in this paper. For the four-dimensional charged black holes in massive gravity, it is shown that the existence of graviton mass improv...
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Open AccessLow-molecular-weight organic acids correlate with cultivar variation in ciprofloxacin accumulation in Brassica parachinensis L.
To understand the mechanism controlling cultivar differences in the accumulation of ciprofloxacin (CIP) in Chinese flowering cabbage (Brassica parachinensis L.), low-molecular-weight organic acids (LMWOAs) secret...
