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Pathological complete response due to a prolonged time interval between preop...
Abstract Background Preoperative chemoradiotherapy is the recommended standard of care for patients with local advanced rectal cancer. However, it remains unclear, whether a... -
Serum progesterone distribution in normal pregnancies compared to pregnancies...
Abstract Background Progesterone is a critical hormone in early pregnancy. A low level of serum progesterone is associated with threatened miscarriage. We aim to establish the... -
Periostin involved in the activated hepatic stellate cells-induced progressio...
Abstract Background Incomplete thermal ablation may induce invasiveness of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Here, we investigated whether activated hepatic stellate cells (HSCs)... -
Prenatal alcohol exposure and infant gross motor development: a prospective c...
Abstract Background Maternal alcohol consumption in pregnancy may have adverse effects on child gross motor (GM) development. There have been few human studies on this topic,... -
Comparative cardiopulmonary toxicity of exhausts from soy-based biofuels and ...
Increased use of renewable energy sources raise concerns about health effects of new emissions. We analyzed relative cardiopulmonary health effects of exhausts from (1) 100% soy... -
Pancreatic cancer-initiating cell exosome message transfer into noncancer-ini...
Abstract Background Cancer-initiating cell (CIC) exosomes (CIC-TEX) are suggested reprogramming Non-CIC. Mode of message transfer and engagement of CIC-markers being disputed,... -
Micronutrient-rich dietary intake is associated with a reduction in the effec...
Abstract Background Informal recycling of electronic waste (e-waste) releases particulate matter (PM) into the ambient air. Human exposure to PM has been reported to induce... -
Topical application of nebulized human IgG, IgA and IgAM in the lungs of rats...
Abstract Background Recurrent and persistent infections are known to affect airways of patients with Primary Immunodeficiency despite appropriate replacement immunoglobulin... -
Asymmetric liquid-core cylindrical lens used to measure liquid diffusion coef...
We design and fabricate an asymmetric liquid-core cylindrical lens (ALCL), which is used to measure the binary liquid diffusion coefficient (D). Acting as both diffusion cell... -
A Waste Supply-Use Analysis of Australian Waste Flows
Abstract In this paper we apply the Lenzen and Reynolds (2014) Waste Supply Use Table extension of Nakamura and Kondo’s (2002a) Waste Input–Output (WIO) framework to the 2008... -
Use of 55 PET radiotracers under approval of a Radioactive Drug Research Comm...
Abstract Background In the US, EU and elsewhere, basic clinical research studies with positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracers that are generally recognized as safe and... -
Internists‘ career choice towards primary care: a cross-sectional survey
Abstract Background Swiss primary care (PC) is facing workforce shortage. Up to 2011 this workforce was supplied by two board certifications: general medicine and internal... -
Urinary tract infections in pregnancy in a rural population of Bangladesh: po...
Abstract Background Urinary tract infection (UTI) in pregnancy, including asymptomatic bacteriuria, is associated with maternal morbidity and adverse pregnancy outcomes,... -
Epigenetic and non-epigenetic mode of SIRT1 action during oocyte meiosis prog...
Abstract Background SIRT1 histone deacetylase acts on many epigenetic and non-epigenetic targets. It is thought that SIRT1 is involved in oocyte maturation; therefore, the... -
Pharmacovigilance of suspected or confirmed therapeutic ineffectiveness of ar...
Abstract Background Therapeutic ineffectiveness of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) increases the risk of malaria-related morbidity and mortality, and raises... -
Sarcandra glabra (Caoshanhu) protects mesenchymal stem cells from oxidative s...
Abstract Background Sarcandra glabra (Caoshanhu) is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine used for treating various oxidative-stressed diseases. The present work evaluated its... -
Microglia P2X4 receptor contributes to central sensitization following recurr...
Abstract Background The mechanism underlying migraine chronification remains unclear. Central sensitization may account for this progression. The microglia P2X4 receptor (P2X4R)... -
Inequities in maternal health services utilization in Ethiopia 2000–2016: mag...
Abstract Background Inequities in maternal health services utilization constitute a major challenge in maternal mortality reduction in Ethiopia. We sought to assess magnitude,... -
Meta-analysis of human gene expression in response to Mycobacterium tuberculo...
Abstract Background With the global emergence of multi-drug resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, new strategies to treat tuberculosis are urgently needed such as... -
A new set of cluster driven composite development indicators
Abstract Composite development indicators used in policy making often subjectively aggregate a restricted set of indicators. We show, using dimensionality reduction techniques,...
