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Clinical evaluation of integrative Chinese and western medicine in treating SARS
Objective: To evaluate the effective treatment with integrative Chinese and western medicine (ICWM) of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).Methods: The 65 cases of SARS patients were treated...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Bayesian Network Approach to Ontology Map**
This paper presents our ongoing effort on develo** a principled methodology for automatic ontology map** based on BayesOWL, a probabilistic framework we developed for modeling uncertainty in semantic web. In ...
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Establishment of customized mouse stem cell lines by sequential nuclear transfer
Therapeutic cloning, whereby embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are derived from nuclear transfer (NT) embryos, may play a major role in the new era of regenerative medicine. In this study we established forty nuclea...
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Open AccessDocetaxel weekly regimen in conjunction with RF hyperthermia for pretreated locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a preliminary study
To evaluate the feasibility and therapeutic effect of chemotherapy combined with regional radio frequency hyperthermia for pretreated locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
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Open AccessComparison of effectiveness of Halo-femoral traction after anterior spinal release in severe idiopathic and congenital scoliosis: a retrospective study
Halo-femoral traction could gradually improve the coronal and sagittal deformity and restore the trunk balance through the elongation of the spine. The purpose of this retrospective study was to assess the eff...
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Derivation of human embryonic stem cell lines from parthenogenetic blastocysts
Parthenogenesis is one of the main, and most useful, methods to derive embryonic stem cells (ESCs), which may be an important source of histocompatible cells and tissues for cell therapy. Here we describe the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Case Study in Integrating Multiple E-commerce Standards via Semantic Web Technology
Internet business-to-business transactions present great challenges in merging information from different sources. In this paper we describe a project to integrate four representative commercial classification...
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Open AccessOxaliplatin-dacarbazine combination chemotherapy for the treatment of advanced soft tissue sarcoma of the limbs
This study was designed to explore the feasibility, safety, and outcomes of pre-operative oxaliplatin-dacarbazine combination therapy for the treatment of advanced soft tissue sarcoma (STS) of the limb.
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Open AccessGeldanamycin induces production of heat shock protein 70 and partially attenuates ototoxicity caused by gentamicin in the organ of Corti explants
Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) protects inner ear cells from damage and death induced by e.g. heat or toxins. Benzoquinone ansamycin antibiotic geldanamycin (GA) was demonstrated to induce the expression of HSP...
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Open AccessComparison of the inhibitory effects of three transcriptional variants of CDKN2A in human lung cancer cell line A549
The tumor suppressor gene CDKN2A generates at least three different transcriptional variants, each of which is thought to encode a tumor suppressor. However, the inhibitory activities of these variants have not y...
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Open AccessTunable quantum beam splitters for coherent manipulation of a solid-state tripartite qubit system
Coherent control of quantum states is at the heart of implementing solid-state quantum processors and testing quantum mechanics at the macroscopic level. Despite significant progress made in recent years in co...
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A framework for modeling positive class expansion with single snapshot
In many real-world data mining tasks, the connotation of the target concept may change as time goes by. For example, the connotation of “learned knowledge” of a student today may be different from his/her “lea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Extending Functional Dependency to Detect Abnormal Data in RDF Graphs
Data quality issues arise in the Semantic Web because data is created by diverse people and/or automated tools. In particular, erroneous triples may occur due to factual errors in the original data source, the...
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Open AccessSimvastatin reduces atherogenesis and promotes the expression of hepatic genes associated with reverse cholesterol transport in apoE-knockout mice fed high-fat diet
Statins are first-line pharmacotherapeutic agents for hypercholesterolemia treatment in humans. However the effects of statins on atherosclerosis in mouse models are very paradoxical. In this work, we wanted t...
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Frequency of double minute chromosomes and combined cytogenetic abnormalities and their characteristics
Double minute chromosomes (DMs) are the cytogenetic hallmark of extra-chromosomal genomic amplification. The frequency of DMs in primary cancer and the cytogenetic features of DMs-positive primary cancer cases...
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Hyperoxia Impairs Alveolar Formation and Induces Senescence Through Decreased Histone Deacetylase Activity and Up-Regulation of p21 in Neonatal Mouse Lung
Alveolar development comprises the transition of lung architecture from saccules to gas-exchange units during late gestation and early postnatal development. Exposure to hyperoxia disrupts developmental signal...
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Mouse cloning and somatic cell reprogramming using electrofused blastomeres
Mouse cloning from fertilized eggs can assist development of approaches for the production of “genetically tailored” human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines that are not constrained by the limitations of oocyte a...
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Open AccessEfficient induction of CD25- iTreg by co-immunization requires strongly antigenic epitopes for T cells
We previously showed that co-immunization with a protein antigen and a DNA vaccine coding for the same antigen induces CD40low IL-10high tolerogenic DCs, which in turn stimulates the expansion of antigen-specific...
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Open AccessDoes flagship species tourism benefit conservation? A case study of the golden snub-nosed monkey in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve
Tourism has been widely used as a conservation strategy that directly compensates local people or management authorities, thereby contributing to development and creating incentives to preserve the landscape. ...
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Open AccessScoliotic posture as the initial symptom in adolescents with lumbar disc herniation: its curve pattern and natural history after lumbar discectomy
There have been few studies focusing on the curve pattern of scoliosis caused by lumbar disc herniation (LDH) in adolescents and the natural history of scoliosis after discectomy. The current study was carried...
