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Open AccessCoevolution of acoustical communication between obligate avian brood parasites and their hosts
The mutually antagonistic processes producing adaptations and counter-adaptations in avian brood parasites and their hosts provide a model system for the study of coevolution; this topic has long been an area ...
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Open AccessAloe-emodin induces apoptosis in human oral squamous cell carcinoma SCC15 cells
Oral and pharyngeal cancer is the most common malignant human cancers. Chemotherapy is an effective approach for anti-oral cancer therapy, while the drug tolerance and resistance remain a problem for oral canc...
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Complete genomic sequence of a duck enteritis virus attenuated via serial passage in chick embryos
Here, we present the complete genomic sequence of an attenuated duck enteritis virus (DEV). The Chinese standard challenge strain of DEV (DEV CSC) was serially passaged 20 times in chick embryo fibroblasts and...
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Construction of a recombinant duck enteritis virus vaccine expressing hemagglutinin of H9N2 avian influenza virus and evaluation of its efficacy in ducks
H9 subtype avian influenza viruses (AIVs) remain a significant burden in the poultry industry and are considered to be one of the most likely causes of any new influenza pandemic in humans. As ducks play an im...
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Open AccessCharacterization of rickettsiae in ticks in northeastern China
Tick-borne rickettsioses are considered important emerging zoonoses worldwide, but their etiological agents, rickettsiae, remain poorly characterized in northeastern China, where many human cases have been rep...
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Occurrence of oral Candida colonization and its risk factors among patients with malignancies in China
Oral colonization of Candida could lead to later development of oropharyngeal candidiasis or candidemia among the immunocompromised patients. This study aims to describe the occurrence and risk factors of oral Ca...
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Regulation of OPG and RANKL expressed by human dental follicle cells in osteoclastogenesis
We investigate whether the expression of the receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand (RANKL) and osteoprotegerin (OPG) in human dental follicle cells (HDFCs) regulated by colony stimulating factor ...
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Open AccessFluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting Analysis of Heterotypic Cell-in-Cell Structures
Cell-in-cell structures (CICs), characterized by the presence of one or more viable cells inside another one, were recently found important player in development, immune homeostasis and tumorigenesis etc. Inco...
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Biological properties of a duck enteritis virus attenuated via serial passaging in chick embryo fibroblasts
To gain a better understanding of the genetic changes required for attenuation of duck enteritis virus (DEV), the Chinese standard challenge strain of DEV (DEV CSC) was serially passaged 80 times in chick embr...
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Open AccessEffect of jaw opening on the stress pattern in a normal human articular disc: finite element analysis based on MRI images
Excessive compressive and shear stresses are likely related to condylar resorption and disc perforation. Few studies have reported the disc displacement and deformation during jaw opening. The aim of this stud...
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Comparative genomic sequence analysis between a standard challenge strain and a vaccine strain of duck enteritis virus in China
Here, we present the complete genomic sequence of the Chinese standard challenge strain (CSC) of duck enteritis virus (DEV), which was isolated in China in 1962. The DEV CSC genome is 162,131 bp long and conta...
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Modeling and Simulation of the Neural Control on OSAS with Fluid-Structural Interaction Method
Numerical simulation is an effective tool to study the biomechanical mechanism of the upper airway collapse, but few previous studies have considered the effect of the neural control. Based on a finite element...
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Finite Element Analysis of Asymptomatic TMJ Disc during Mouth Opening
In the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), overloading induced by big mouth opening appears to be important in the casade of events leading to temporomandibular disorders (TMD). In this study, the stress distributi...
