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Cancer treatment may relate to appetite reduction and malnutrition. We investigated taste alterations and dish-type preferences during chemo- and/or radiation therapy in breast cancer patients.
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Propylparaben is one of the most commonly used preservatives in pharmaceuticals, food items, and personal care products. However, growing evidence demonstrates that propylparaben has a harmful effect on variou...
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A ketogenic diet is a potential adjuvant cancer therapy that limits glucose availability to tumours while fuelling normal tissues with ketone bodies. We examined the effect of a low carbohydrate ketogenic diet...
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This study evaluates the effect of an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS)-based nutrition support protocol on oral intake and weight change in patients who underwent pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenecto...
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We evaluated the diagnostic performance of fat-suppressed 3D T1-weighted gradient-echo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences for the hepatobiliary phase of gadoxetic-acid-enhanced liver MRI between low an...
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Positive regulation of apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 by dual-specificity phosphatase 13A
Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1), a member of the MAP kinase kinase kinase, is activated by several death stimuli and is tightly regulated by several mechanisms such as interactions with regulatory ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Proposed Movie Recommendation Method Using Emotional Word Selection
Many online movie sites or music sites offering recommendation services employ a collaborative filtering technique archived by analyzing customers’ satisfaction rating, evaluation, search history, download rec...
