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Proton-pum** rhodopsin of the coral symbiont Breviolum minutum and its potential role in co** with phosphorus deficiency in future warmer ocean
Global warming can inhibit chlorophyll-based solar energy capturing of phytoplankton by decreasing nutrient supply through upwelling. However, species with proton-pump rhodopsin (PPR) can independently convert...
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Open AccessGlucose competition between endothelial cells in the blood-spinal cord barrier and infiltrating regulatory T cells is linked to sleep restriction-induced hyperalgesia
Sleep loss is a common public health problem that causes hyperalgesia, especially that after surgery, which reduces the quality of life seriously.
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Micromechanics of Thermal Conductive Composites: Review, Developments and Applications
Micromechanics investigations of composites with fiber-shaped reinforcement are extensively applied in the engineering design and theoretical analysis of thermal composites in the aerospace engineering and hig...
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Propelling the widespread adoption of large-scale 3D printing
3D printing can be used to automate the manufacturing of building elements for large-scale structures such as skyscrapers, aircraft, rockets and space bases without human intervention. However, challenges in m...
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Tanshinone IIA protects mouse testes from heat stress injury by inhibiting apoptosis and TGFβ1/Smad2/Smad3 signaling pathway
Heat stress can cause testicular damage and affect male fertility. Tanshinone IIA (TSA) is a monomer substance derived from plants, with antioxidant and anti-apoptotic effects. Whether it can repair testicular...
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A Protocol for Digitalized Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Pulse Information Using Bionic Pulse Diagnosis Equipment
Pulse diagnosis equipment used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has long been developed for collecting pulse information and in TCM research. However, it is still difficult to implement pulse taking autom...
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Open AccessAssociation of neighborhood physical activity facilities with incident cardiovascular disease
The availability of physical activity (PA) facilities in neighborhoods is hypothesized to influence cardiovascular disease (CVD), but evidence from individual-level long-term cohort studies is limited. We aime...
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Environmental adaptability of the genus Carex-A case study of Carex heterostachya and Carex breviculmis in northwest China
Carex heterostachya and Carex breviculmis are easy to develop lawns in a short period while taking on high ornamental significance in northwest China where summer temperatures are high, rainfall is uneven, and so...
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An Automated TW3-RUS Bone Age Assessment Method with Ordinal Regression-Based Determination of Skeletal Maturity
The assessment of bone age is important for evaluating child development, optimizing the treatment for endocrine diseases, etc. And the well-known Tanner-Whitehouse (TW) clinical method improves the quantitati...
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Open AccessEZH2 mediated metabolic rewiring promotes tumor growth independently of histone methyltransferase activity in ovarian cancer
Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2), the key catalytic subunit of polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), is overexpressed and plays an oncogenic role in various cancers through catalysis-dependent or catalysis-i...
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Open AccessXp22.31 copy number variations in 87 fetuses: refined genotype–phenotype correlations by prenatal and postnatal follow-up
Xp22.31 deletion and duplication have been described in various studies, but different laboratories interpret pathogenicity differently.
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Open AccessAssociation between single nucleotide variants and severe chronic pain in older adult patients after lower extremity arthroplasty
Hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the main causes of disability worldwide and occurs mostly in the older adults. Total hip or knee arthroplasty is the most effective method to treat OA. However, severe...
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Open AccessPretreatment of the ROS Inhibitor Phenyl-N-tert-butylnitrone Alleviates Sleep Deprivation-Induced Hyperalgesia by Suppressing Microglia Activation and NLRP3 Inflammasome Activity in the Spinal Dorsal Cord
Sleep deprivation, a common perioperative period health problem, causes ocular discomfort and affects postsurgical pain. However, the mechanism of sleep deprivation-induced increased pain sensitivity is elusiv...
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Open AccessPalpation localization of radial artery based on 3-dimensional convolutional neural networks
Palpation localization is essential for detecting physiological parameters of the radial artery for pulse diagnosis of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Detecting signal or applying pressure at the wrong loc...
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Hippocampal Activated Microglia May Contribute to Blood–Brain Barrier Impairment and Cognitive Dysfunction in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder-Like Rats
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-associated cognitive dysfunction significantly disturbs patients’ quality of life and will to live. However, its underlying mechanism is as yet unknown. Recent researches ...
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Correction to: SOX2 inhibits metastasis in gastric cancer
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Augmented Joint Domain Localized Method for Polarimetric Space–Time Adaptive Processing
An augmented joint domain localized technique for computationally efficient polarimetric space–time adaptive processing (pSTAP) is proposed. In the proposed method, the signal vector to be detected is first es...
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Multi-photon-excited fluorescence resonance energy transfer in an aqueous system from ZnSe:Mn and ZnSe quantum dots to Rhodamine 6G
In this study, we investigated the multi-photon excited fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between ZnSe and ZnSe:Mn quantum dots and Rhodamine 6G in aqueous solution. Two and three photon excited FR...
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Synthesis of 1'-aryl-3''-(1H-benzotriazol-1-yl)-5',5'',6',6'',7',7a'-hexahydro-1'H,8''H-dispiro[indeno[1,2-b]quinoxaline-11,3'-pyrrolizine-2',7''-indolizin]-8''-ones via cycloaddition reaction
The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of (E)-7-arylidene-3-(1H-benzotriazol-1-yl)-6,7-dihydroindolizin-8(5H)-one and azomethine ylide which was generated in situ by the reaction of 11H-indeno[1,2-b]quinoxalin-11...
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Open AccessSpatiotemporal heterogeneity of social contact patterns related to infectious diseases in the Guangdong Province, China
The social contact patterns associated with the infectious disease transmitted by airborne droplets or close contact follow specific rules. Understanding these processes can improve the accuracy of disease tra...
