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Exploring the latent cognitive structure in schizophrenia: implications for antipsychotic treatment responses
Individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia present diverse degrees and types of cognitive impairment, leading to variations in responses to antipsychotic treatments. Understanding the underlying cognitive struct...
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Open AccessImpact of China’s financial development on the sustainable development goals of the Belt and Road Initiative participating countries
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to strengthen regional economic and policy cooperation and achieve the rapid development among the participating countries. While the impact on the financial develop...
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Open AccessA case of neonatal tsutsugamushi disease diagnosed with the aid of rickettsial macrogenomic detection
Tsutsugamushi, also known as bush typhus, is a naturally occurring disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. We reported a case of vertical mother-to-newborn transmission of Orientia tsutsugamushi infection in a ...
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Open AccessMetformin improves cognitive impairment in patients with schizophrenia: associated with enhanced functional connectivity of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Cognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia, which is aggravated by antipsychotics-induced metabolic disturbance and lacks effective pharmacologic treatments in clinical practice. Our previous stud...
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Open AccessLong noncoding RNA signatures in intrauterine infection/inflammation-induced lung injury: an integrative bioinformatics study
Intrauterine infection/inflammation can result in fetal and neonatal lung injury. However, the biological mechanisms of intrauterine infection/inflammation on fetal and neonatal lung injury and development are...
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Multi-task Learning Based Keywords Weighted Siamese Model for Semantic Retrieval
Embedding-based retrieval has drawn massive attention in online search engines because of its semantic solid feature expression ability. Deep Siamese models leverage the powerful dense embeddings from strong l...
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High-performance FAPbBr3 perovskite solar cells using dual-function bathocuproine interlayer for surface passivation and energy level alignment
Wide-bandgap pure bromide-based hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs), with the advantages of high open-circuit voltage, and superior environmental stability, have potential applications in tandem solar cells a...
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Open AccessThe effects of probiotics plus dietary fiber on antipsychotic-induced weight gain: a randomized clinical trial
Probiotics plus dietary fiber has demonstrated efficacy in improving metabolic abnormalities. However, the efficacy of probiotics and dietary fiber as well as their association with microbiota in attenuating a...
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Open AccessImpact of the COVID-19 pandemic on infectious disease hospitalizations of neonates at a tertiary academic hospital: a cross-sectional study
To investigate the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on hospitalizations for neonatal infectious diseases.
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PCSK9 mediates dyslipidemia induced by olanzapine treatment in schizophrenia patients
It is controversial whether dyslipidemia induced by antipsychotics in schizophrenia patients is due to weight gain or direct effects of drug treatment. However, recent evidence showed that olanzapine can cause...
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Open AccessThe compensatory mechanisms for global sagittal balance in degenerative spinal kyphosis patients: a radiological analysis of muscle-skeletal associations
The position of the head relative to the spine can be used to evaluate the true global balance in patients with degenerative spinal kyphosis (DSK). However, it is still not clear how the position of the head i...
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Open AccessSodium iodate induces ferroptosis in human retinal pigment epithelium ARPE-19 cells
Sodium iodate (SI) is a widely used oxidant for generating retinal degeneration models by inducing the death of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells. However, the mechanism of RPE cell death induced by SI re...
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Open AccessDietary fiber and probiotics for the treatment of atypical antipsychotic-induced metabolic side effects: study protocol for a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Atypical antipsychotic medications, which are effective for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, are associated with features of metabolic syndrome, such as weight gain, hyperglycemia, dyslipid...
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Potential molecular mechanisms underlying the effect of arsenic on angiogenesis
Arsenic is a potent chemotherapeutic drug that is applied as a treatment for cancer; it exerts its functions through multiple pathways, including angiogenesis inhibition. As angiogenesis is a critical componen...
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Double-Sided Personality: Effects of Arsenic Trioxide on Inflammation
In 1992, arsenic trioxide (As2O3, ATO) was demonstrated to be an effective therapeutic agent against acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), rekindling attention to ATO applications in U.S. Food and Drug Administrati...
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Open AccessEffects and molecular mechanisms of intrauterine infection/inflammation on lung development
Intrauterine infection/inflammation plays an important role in the development of lung injury and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in preterm infants, While a multifactorial genesis is likely, mechanisms invol...
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The efficient removal of thallium from sintering flue gas desulfurization wastewater in ferrous metallurgy using emulsion liquid membrane
The removal of thallium ions in flue gas desulfurization wastewater from ferrous metallurgic industry was studied by emulsion liquid membrane (ELM) method using 2-ethylhexyl phosphoric acid-2-ethylhexyl ester ...
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Improved short-circuit current density of a-Si:H thin film solar cells with n-type silicon carbide layer
In this work, the performance of p–i–n hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin film solar cells by adopting n-type silicon carbide (n-SiCx:H) layer was investigated. By varying CH4/SiH4 gas flow ratio, refractive ind...
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High-conductivity SiO2-matrix B-doped Si-NC thin films by following ion-beam treatment
In this work, further ion-beam was performed on SiO2-matrix B-doped Si-NC (SBC) thin films in order to enhance conductivity. The effect of ionbeam type on the electrical properties of SBC thin films was investiga...
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Antifungal activity of Brevibacillus laterosporus JX-5 and characterization of its antifungal components
The establishment of safe and effective methods for controlling fungal disease is an urgent issue in agriculture and forestry. Microbiological control of plant disease is expected to achieve better results tha...
