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Open AccessA cross-sectional survey on the relationship between workplace psychological violence and empathy among Chinese nurses: the mediation role of resilience
Workplace violence is one of the most serious public health issues worldwide in healthcare occupations, nurse is a profession which faces the greatest risk of exposure to workplace violence among healthcare oc...
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Research on Water Alternating Gas (WAG) Flooding Dynamic Adjustment of Water-Gas Ratio and Slug Sizes Method in Low Permeability Reservoir
CO2 flooding is being widely practiced in low permeability reservoirs for Enhanced Oil Recovery, which is of profound significance in reducing greenhouse gas emissions considerably. Water Alternating Gas (WAG)...
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Selenium Reduces Rice Plant Tissues Cadmium and Increases the Yield, Quality, and Edible Safety of Rice Grain, and May Affect the Taste of Cooked Rice
Cadmium (Cd) is toxic to rice seedlings. Studies showed that selenium (Se) could alleviate Cd toxicity in rice seedlings. However, the effect of Se on the accumulation of Cd in mature rice plants and Se accumu...
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Open AccessExploring the predictive value of combined ultrasound parameters for spinal anesthesia-induced hypotension in cesarean section: a prospective observational study
Prophylactic vasopressor infusion can effectively assist with fluid loading to prevent spinal anesthesia-induced hypotension. However, the ideal dose varies widely among individuals. We hypothesized that hypot...
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Open AccessThe RNA-binding protein LRPPRC promotes resistance to CDK4/6 inhibition in lung cancer
Kinase inhibitors against Cyclin Dependent Kinase 4 and 6 (CDK4/6i) are promising cancer therapeutic drugs. However, their effects are limited by primary or acquired resistance in virtually all tumor types. He...
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Open AccessShort-term neonatal outcomes in women with gestational diabetes treated using metformin versus insulin: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
To expand the evidence base for the clinical use of metformin, we conducted a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the efficacy and safety of metformin versus insulin with respect to ...
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Open AccessThe height of the operating table affects the performance of residents in combined spinal and epidural anesthesia training by affecting the vision of the puncture needle: a randomized controlled trial
The present study aimed to evaluate whether the operating table height affected the success rate and incidences of complications of combined spinal-epidural anesthesia administered by residents during training.
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Open AccessMicroinjection of antisense oligonucleotides into living mouse testis enables lncRNA function study
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been the focus of ongoing research in a diversity of cellular processes. LncRNAs are abundant in mammalian testis, but their biological function remains poorly known.
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Open AccessThree functional mutation sites affect the immune response of pigs through altering the expression pattern and IgV domain of the CD4 protein
The CD4 protein is an important surface marker of T lymphocytes, which can mediate the antigen presentation process by interacting with MHC II and TCR molecules in human and mouse.
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Understanding the birth of rupture-prone and irreparable micronuclei
Micronuclei are extra-nuclear bodies mainly derived from ana-telophase lagging chromosomes/chromatins (LCs) that are not incorporated into primary nuclei at mitotic exit. Unlike primary nuclei, most micronucle...
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Open AccessIntegrated proteomics and metabolomics reveals the comprehensive characterization of antitumor mechanism underlying Shikonin on colon cancer patient-derived xenograft model
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common malignancy occurring in the digestive system. Despite progress in surgery and therapy options, CRC is still a considerable cause of cancer mortality worldwide. In this study...
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Mosaic loss of human Y chromosome: what, how and why
Y chromosome (ChrY), the male-specific sex chromosome, has been considered as a genetic wasteland. Aging-related mosaic loss of ChrY (LOY) has been known for more than half a century, but it was constantly con...
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Open AccessEfficacy of premedication with intranasal dexmedetomidine for removal of inhaled foreign bodies in children by flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial
Tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration in children is a life-threatening, emergent situation. Currently, the use of fiberoptic bronchoscopy for removing foreign bodies is attracting increasing attention. Oxy...
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Open AccessEfficacy of radical doses of pelvic radiotherapy for primary tumor treatment in patients with newly diagnosed organ metastatic cervical cancer
The clinical efficacy of definitive pelvic radiotherapy for primary tumors in patients with newly diagnosed organ metastatic cervical cancer is unclear. Therefore, we conducted a retrospective study to evaluat...
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Open AccessQuantification of allelic differential expression using a simple Fluorescence primer PCR-RFLP-based method
Allelic differential expression (ADE) is common in diploid organisms, and is often the key reason for specific phenotype variations. Thus, ADE detection is important for identification of major genes and causa...
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Silencing Filamin A Inhibits the Invasion and Migration of Breast Cancer Cells by Up-regulating 14-3-3σ
Filamin A and 14-3-3-σ are closely associated with the development of breast cancer. However, the exact relationship between them is still unknown. The present study aimed to examine the interaction of filamin...
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A Two-Level Attentive Pooling Based Hybrid Network for Question Answer Matching Task
Attention-based deep learning network models have shown obvious advantages on the sentence representation in many NLP tasks. While in the answer selection domain, applying attention-based deep learning model t...
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Phyllanthus emblica Linn. fruit extract potentiates the anticancer efficacy of mitomycin C and cisplatin and reduces their genotoxicity to normal cells in vitro
Fruit of Phyllanthus emblica Linn. (PE) is widely consumed as a functional food and used as a folk medicine due to its remarkable nutritional and pharmacological effects. Mitomycin C (MMC) and cisplatin (cDDP) ar...
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Anesthesia management of cesarean section in parturient with anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor encephalitis: a case report
A 24-year-old woman at 29 weeks’ gestation, and with psychiatric symptoms, was admitted to hospital and diagnosed as having anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor encephalitis. After 4 weeks of immunotherapy with lit...
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Hyperhomocysteinemia regulated SCF expression in cultured cardiomyocytes via modulation of NF-κB activities
Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is an important, independent risk factor for coronary artery disease, especially for the myocardial infarction. Our previous study has shown that myocardial stem cell factor (SCF) m...
