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The WNT/β-catenin system in chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder syndrome
The WNT/β-catenin system is an evolutionarily conserved signaling pathway that plays a crucial role in morphogenesis and cell tissue formation during embryogenesis. Although usually suppressed in adulthood, it...
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Prediction of thermal expansion coefficient of fiber-reinforced cement concrete based on micromechanics method
As a building material with economic potential and various beneficial properties, glass fiber reinforced concrete (GRC) has been rapidly promoted and applied in the field of civil construction. The coefficient...
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Open AccessDevelopment and validation of a [18F]FDG PET/CT-based radiomics nomogram to predict the prognostic risk of pretreatment diffuse large B cell lymphoma patients
In this study, based on PET/CT radiomics features, we developed and validated a nomogram to predict progression-free survival (PFS) for cases with diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with immunochemo...
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Social dominance orientation, social contact, and attitudes toward international students
This study examined the relations among social dominance orientation (SDO), social contact, and attitudes toward international students. SDO was positively associated with prejudice against international stude...
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A design method of Voronoi porous structures with graded relative elasticity distribution for functionally gradient porous materials
FGPMs (functionally gradient porous materials) can satisfy multifold functional constraints with minimizing weights as they are advanced composite materials showing hierarchical mechanical properties. However,...
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Advanced myocardial characterization in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: feasibility of CMR-based feature tracking strain analysis in a case-control study
This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and reproducibility of using cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking (CMR-FT) for analysis of bi-ventricular strain and strain rate (SR) in hypertrophic ...
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LILRB4 signalling in leukaemia cells mediates T cell suppression and tumour infiltration
Immune checkpoint blockade therapy has been successful in treating some types of cancer but has not shown clinical benefits for treating leukaemia1. This result suggests that leukaemia uses unique mechanisms to e...
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Schistosoma japonicum protein SjP40 inhibits TGF-β1-induced activation of hepatic stellate cells
SjP40 is a major egg antigen of Schistosoma japonicum. In the present study, the authors investigated the effect of SjP40 in vitro on transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1)- stimulated hepatic stellate cells (HSC...
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Open AccessExpression of Septin4 in Schistosoma japonicum-infected mouse livers after praziquantel treatment
Septin4 (SEPT4) exists widely in human tissues and is related to mechanical stability, actin dynamics, membrane trafficking, viral replication and apoptosis. Data from many studies have suggested that SEPT4 pl...
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Open AccessExpression of microRNA-454 in TGF-β1-stimulated hepatic stellate cells and in mouse livers infected with Schistosoma japonicum
In the process of hepatic fibrosis, hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) can be activated by many inflammatory cytokines. The transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) is one of the main profibrogenic mediators. Recentl...
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ZFP36L2 is required for self-renewal of early burst-forming unit erythroid progenitors
Under stress conditions such as acute blood loss or chronic anaemia, glucocorticoids trigger self-renewal of early burst-forming unit–erythroid (BFU–E) progenitors in the spleen, however, the mechanism of gluc...
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A multi-population cultural algorithm with adaptive diversity preservation and its application in ammonia synthesis process
A multi-population cultural differential evolution (MCDE) algorithm is proposed. Each of the populations is managed by its private cultural differential evolution algorithm, in which a center individual is int...
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A Novel Cultural Algorithm and Its Application to the Constrained Optimization in Ammonia Synthesis
A novel cultural differential evolution algorithm with multiple populations (MCDE) is proposed. The single individual in each population is affected by the situational and normative knowledge from belief space...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Co-Evolutionary Cultural Based Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm
Particle swarm optimization (PSO), cultural algorithm (CA) and co-evolutionary algorithm (CEA) are all research hotspots in the field of intelligent computing. In order to apply their advantages, a hybrid algo...
