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Relationship between IL-22 and IL-22BP in diabetic cognitive dysfunction
CD4 + T helper (Th)22 cells play a regulatory role in autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes mellitus. The Th22-related cytokine interleukin (IL)-22, the expression of which is increased in diabetes melli...
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Th22 cells induce Müller cell activation via the Act1/TRAF6 pathway in diabetic retinopathy
T helper 22 (Th22) cells have been implicated in diabetic retinopathy (DR), but it remains unclear whether Th22 cells involve in the pathogenesis of DR. To investigate the role of Th22 cells in DR mice, the an...
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Open AccessSalidroside attenuates HALI via IL-17A-mediated ferroptosis of alveolar epithelial cells by regulating Act1-TRAF6-p38 MAPK pathway
Hyperoxia-induced acute lung injury (HALI) is a critical life-threatening disorder characterized by severe infiltration immune cells and death of type II alveolar epithelial cells (AECII). However, little is k...
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LncRNA-TUG1 Downregulation is Correlated with the Development of Progressive Chronic Kidney Disease Among Patients with Congestive Heart Failure
TUG1 is an lncRNA that plays a critical role in kidney injury. Our preliminary sequencing analysis showed altered TUG1 expression in both congestive heart failure (CHF) patients and CHF patients complicated wi...
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Photodeposition synthesis of CdS QDs-decorated TiO2 for efficient photocatalytic degradation of metronidazole under visible light
Photocatalysis technology has received much attention on the treatment of antibiotics residues. In this paper, CdS quantum dots (QDs)-decorated TiO2 (CDS-T for short) have been prepared successfully through a pho...
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Efficient Core Maintenance of Dynamic Graphs
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Berberine ameliorates diabetic neuropathic pain in a rat model: involvement of oxidative stress, inflammation, and μ-opioid receptors
Berberine, a chemical found in plants, is used as a supplement for diabetes. This study aimed to investigate the effects and the underlying molecular regulations of berberine in diabetic neuropathic pain in a ...
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Sphingosine kinase 2 promotes colorectal cancer cell proliferation and invasion by enhancing MYC expression
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and causes of cancer death in developed countries. SphK2 is overexpressed in a number of aggressive human carcinomas; however, the expressi...
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The Urinary Antigen Tests have High Sensitivity in Diagnosis of Pneumococcus Caused Community-Acquired Pneumonia Posterior to Antimicrobial Therapy
Antibiotic treatment before microbiological test significant reduces the positive rate of culture methods of Streptococcus pneumoniae. The Binax NOW S. pneumoniae immunochromatographic test (ICT) has become a mor...
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Weakening Failure Detectors for k-Set Agreement Via the Partition Approach
In this paper, we propose the partition approach and define several new classes of partitioned failure detectors weaker than existing failure detectors for the k-set agreement problem in both the shared-memory mo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficient PageRank with Same Out-Link Groups
Traditional PageRank algorithm suffers from heavy computation cost due to the huge number of web pages. In this paper, we propose a more efficient algorithm to compute the pagerank value for each web page dire...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Gridmarket: A Practical, Efficient Market Balancing Resource for Grid and P2P Computing
The emergency of computational Grid and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing system is promising to us. It challenges us to build a system to maximize collective utilities through presumed participants’ rational behav...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Scalable Resource Management and Load Assignment for Grid and Peer-to-Peer Services
In this paper we propose DRMI, a fully decentralized, highly scalable and efficient resource management infrastructure, which is built on top of prefix-based DHT. DRMI provides large-scale resource monitoring ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficiently Rationing Resources for Grid and P2P Computing
As Grid and P2P computing become more and more popular, many schedule algorithms based on economics rather than traditional pure computing theory have been proposed. Such algorithms mainly concern balancing re...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficient Search Using Adaptive Metadata Spreading in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Search is until now a difficult problem in peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems. In this paper, we propose to use adaptive metadata spreading to make search in P2P networks efficient and scalable to large-s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Paramecium: Assembling Raw Nodes into Composite Cells
In conventional DHTs, each node is assigned an exclusive slice of identifier space. Simple it is, such arrangement may be rough. In this paper we propose a generic component structure: several independent node...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Latent Semantic Indexing in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Searching in decentralized peer-to-peer networks is a challenging problem. In common applications such as Gnutella, searching is performed by randomly forwarding queries to all peers, which is very inefficient...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Lookup-Ring: Building Efficient Lookups for High Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Overlays
This paper is motivated by the problem of poor searching efficiency in decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. We solve the searching problem by considering and modeling the basic trade-off between fo...
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DSI: distributed service integration for service grid
This paper presents DSI, a distributed service discovery and integration utility for service grid. The goal of DSI is efficiently to improve service publishing, deletion and lookup, decentralized control, scal...