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Chemotherapy, whilst treating tumours, can also lead to numerous adverse reactions such as nausea and vomiting, fatigue and kidney toxicity, threatening the physical and mental health of patients. Simultaneous...
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Prostate Cancer, Oxidative Stress, and Antioxidant Phytochemicals: A Brief Review
This paper aimed to examine the biological mechanism of oxidative stress in prostate cancer (PCa) progression and review the potential of antioxidant phytochemicals as chemoprevention or chemotherapy for PCa.
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Open AccessModular design automation of the morphologies, controllers, and vision systems for intelligent robots: a survey
Design automation is a core technology in industrial design software and an important branch of knowledge-worker automation. For example, electronic design automation (EDA) has played an important role in both...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Cognitive Approach to Sports Data Visualization for Interactive Data Exploration On-Demand
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Enhanced Na+ and Cl− sequestration and secretion selectivity contribute to high salt tolerance in the tetraploid recretohalophyte Plumbago auriculata Lam.
Enhanced secretion of Na+ and Cl− in leaf glands and leaf vacuolar sequestration of Na+ or root retention of Cl−, combined with K+ retention, contribute to the improved salt tolerance of tetraploid recretohalophy...
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Leaf color formation mechanisms in Alternanthera bettzickiana elucidated by metabolite and transcriptome analyses
The difference in leaf color among the three cultivars of A. bettzickiana is due to different chloroplast morphology and chlorophyll-to-anthocyanin ratios.
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Breast cancer-related lymphedema patient and healthcare professional experiences in lymphedema self-management: a qualitative study
Breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) self-management plays an important role in the lymphedema therapy. However, clinical knowledge of BCRL self-management remains minimal. This study aims to explore the ex...
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Intra-arterial chemotherapy combined with intravesical chemotherapy compared with intravesical BCG immunotherapy retrospectively in high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer after transurethral resection of the bladder tumor
To compare the efficacy and safety of intra-arterial chemotherapy (IAC) combined with intravesical chemotherapy (IVC) against intravesical BCG immunotherapy in high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMI...
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Metabolomics Analysis Reveals the Role of Cyanidin Metabolism in Plumbago auriculata Flower Color
Blue flowers, which are rare, have long been a focus for researchers engaged in colored flower breeding. In this study, Plumbago auriculata, a plant with blue flowers, and its white flower forma Plumbago auricula...
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The nonreciprocal heterostyly and heterotypic self-incompatibility of Ceratostigma willmottianum
Ceratostigma willmottianum (Plumbaginaceae) is a perennial herb native to China. Many species of Plumbaginaceae have been reported to exhibit heterostyly. Determining the functional breeding system of C. willmott...
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Calcium signalling mediated the regulation of growth and polysaccharide accumulation by light quality in Dendrobium officinale protocorms
This study selected Dendrobium officinale protocorms as the experimental material and used different light-quality treatments and calcium signalling inhibitors to explore the mechanism of the biological response ...
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Effect of prolonged expressive writing on health outcomes in breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: a multicenter randomized controlled trial
This study aims to evaluate the effects of prolonged expressive writing on health outcomes in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy to help understand how the dosage of an expressive writing intervent...
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Genetic diversity analysis of intraspecific hybridization between Plumbago auriculata and Plumbago auriculata f. alba based on horticultural traits and molecular markers
Plumbago auriculata Lam. is an ornamental plant native to South Africa and widely cultivated in China, but the cultivated plants are dominated by a single variety. The development of new varieties is of great com...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-objective Evaluation Software Algorithm for Timbre
This paper first studies the universal standards of subjective timbre evaluation in vocal music performance, and then discusses how to quantify and code these standards to input into intelligent objective eval...
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An Improved Epsilon Method with M2M for Solving Imbalanced CMOPs with Simultaneous Convergence-Hard and Diversity-Hard Constraints
When tackling imbalanced constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) with simultaneous convergence-hard and diversity-hard constraints, a critical issue is to balance the diversity and convergenc...
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Dissecting the distyly response to pollination using metabolite profiling in heteromorphic incompatibility system interactions of Plumbago auriculata Lam
Heteromorphic self-incompatibility (HetSI) is a strategy used to prevent selfing while favouring outcrossing in angiosperm. Although the genome, proteome and metabolome of homomorphic self-incompatibility (Hom...
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Transcriptome profiling of Plumbago auriculata Lam. in response to cold stress
With its rare and naturally blue corolla, Plumbago auriculata Lam. has received attention and been introduced and planted worldwide. However, it is sensitive to low temperatures. Continuous low temperatures cause...
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Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of three oral formulations of curcumin in rats
Curcumin (CUR) is a major component of turmeric Curcuma longa, which is often used in food or as a dietary supplement. The purpose of this preclinical study is to investigate the acute pharmacokinetic and pharmac...
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Polyploidization of Plumbago auriculata Lam. in vitro and its characterization including cold tolerance
Plumbago auriculata Lam. (Plumbaginaceae) is an ornamental/medicinal flowering shrub. However, it could be stop growing under 5 °C resulting in its poor germplasm resources. Increasing the tolerance of polyploids...
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Mechatronic Design Automation: A Short Review
This paper gives a short review on mechatronic design automation (MDA) whose optimization method is mainly based on evolutionary computation techniques. The recent progress and research results of MDA are summ...
