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Pectoral Nerve Blocks Under Direct Vision During Endoscopic-Assisted Transaxillary Breast Augmentation: A Novel, Effective Regional Blocking Approach
Endoscopic-assisted transaxillary breast augmentation allows performing Pecs block under direct visualization. This study aimed to describe this new technique and demonstrat its short-term efficacy and safety ...
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Association Between Body Weight and Removed Weight in Women Undergoing Reduction Mammaplasty—A 17-year Retrospective Study of 1777 Breasts
Breast hypertrophy causes physical and psychological symptoms. Reduction mammaplasty is a surgical procedure to lessen discomfort. However, there is a dispute about whether the weight of breast resection is re...
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3D Analysis of Breast Morphological Changes after Vertical-Scar Reduction Mammoplasty: A Prospective Study
In addition to symptom relief, the crucial objective of reduction mammoplasty is to achieve a stable and esthetically pleasing postoperative breast shape. However, the morphological changes in breasts followin...
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Open AccessMap** the distribution of tension across paxillin upon shear stress with FRET-based biosensor
Paxillin communicates with multiple signalling molecules in focal adhesions (FAs) and participates in the intracellular force transmission upon shear stress. Thus, paxillin is likely to contribute to establish...
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PSR-GAT: Arbitrary point cloud super-resolution using graph attention networks
Point cloud super-resolution plays a central role in the mesh's quality in 3D reconstruction, while the feature extractor is vital for the learning-based point cloud upsampling pipelines. In this paper, we pro...
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O‐GlcNAcylation of CSNK2A1 by OGT is Involved in the Progression of Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) metastasis is challenging for improved clinical outcomes. The casein kinase 2 alpha 1 (CSNK2A1) is an oncogene involved in several cancers. This study aimed to investigate the influence of...
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Open AccessNovel nanoparticle CS-C60-Fe3O4 magnetically induces tissue-specific aggregation and enhances thermal ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma
Metallofullerenes are an important type of metallic nanomaterial with promising applications in several medical fields. Thermal ablation, including radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and microwave ablation (MWA), i...
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Open AccessLarge-scale photovoltaic solar farms in the Sahara affect solar power generation potential globally
Globally, solar projects are being rapidly built or planned, particularly in high solar potential regions with high energy demand. However, their energy generation potential is highly related to the weather co...
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Open AccessAdvancements in engineered mesenchymal stem cell exosomes for chronic lung disease treatment
Chronic lung diseases include an array of conditions that impact airways and lung structures, leading to considerable societal burdens. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and their exosomes (MSC-exos) can be used f...
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Determination of the \(^{232}Th(n,\gamma )\) cross section from 10 to 200 keV at the Back-n facility at CSNS
The neutron capture cross section of \(^{232}Th\) ...
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What Can We Learn from Breast Implant Explantation: a 28-Year, Multicenter Retrospective Study of 1004 Explantation Cases
Implant-based breast augmentation remains popular, but the controversy over the safety and longevity of implants has continued. An event-based analysis of reasons for implant explantation may provide us with s...
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Open AccessA contracting Intertropical Convergence Zone during the Early Heinrich Stadial 1
Despite the fact that the response of tropical hydroclimate to North Atlantic cooling events during the Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1) has been extensively studied in African, South American and Indonesia, the natur...
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Open AccessDetector development at the Back-n white neutron source
Back-n is a white neutron beamline at China spallation neutron source, which was established in the year of 2018. It is a powerful facility for nuclear data measurement, neutron detector calibration, and radia...
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Open AccessThe risk factors of postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and laparoscopic distal gastrectomy: a propensity score matching analysis
Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a common side effect after laparoscopic surgery. The aim of the study is to investigate the variables that could predict PONV in patients who underwent laparoscopic ...
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Sensitive and quantitative in vivo analysis of PD-L1 using magnetic particle imaging and imaging-guided immunotherapy
The programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) and programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression correlate with the immunotherapeutic response rate. The sensitive and non-invasive imaging of immune checkpoint ...
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Radial Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy Combined with Resveratrol Derivative Alleviates Chronic Nonbacterial Prostatitis in Rats
Resveratrol (Res) is a non-flavonoid polyphenol compound with biological pleiotropic properties, but low bioavailability limits its application value. Here, we synthesized a new Res derivative ((E)-5-(dimethylami...
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Analgesic Efficacy of Pectoral Nerve Blocks in Implant-Based Mammoplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
To evaluate the analgesic effect of pectoral nerve block in implant-based mammoplasty.
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Open AccessQuaternary rainfall variability is governed by insolation in northern China and ice-sheet forcing in the South
Quaternary Asian low-latitude hydroclimate cyclicity has long been attributed to insolation forcing, in contrast to the dominant ice-sheet and CO2 controls identified in mid-high-latitude regions. However, debate...
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Multi-path Feature Fusion and Channel Feature Pyramid for Brain Tumor Segmentation in MRI
Automated segmentation of gliomas in MRI images is crucial for timely diagnosis and treatment planning. In this paper, we propose an encoder-decoder network for brain tumor MRI image segmentation that can addr...
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Geometric Encoding-Based Attention Mechanism for Point Cloud Registration Network
We propose a novel point cloud registration network called GEANet, which overcomes the issues of disregarding point cloud geometry information and inadequate utilization of geometric information by utilizing a...
