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Background Growing evidence suggests that second-generation cryoballoon ablation (2G-CB) is effective in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (PerAF). The cornerstone... -
Pharmacological characterization of potent and selective NaV1.7 inhibitors en...
Identification of voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.7 inhibitors for chronic pain therapeutic development is an area of vigorous pursuit. In an effort to identify more potent... -
A typology of community and stakeholder engagement based on documented exampl...
Background Despite broad consensus on the importance of community and stakeholder engagement (CSE) for guiding the development, regulation, field testing, and deployment of... -
Systematic review and meta-analysis comparing Adjustable Transobturator Male ...
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Urinary incontinence is one of the most serious complications of prostate cancer treatment. The objective of this study was to assess efficacy and safety... -
False positive results of Bowie and Dick type test used for hospital steam st...
Objective To determine if the standardized B&D type test for hospital steam sterilizer is correctly indicating cycle failures in slower come-up ramps cycles. Methods... -
Identification of molecular determinants that govern distinct STIM2 activatio...
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca2+ sensors stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) and STIM2, which connect ER Ca2+ depletion with extracellular Ca2+ influx, are crucial for the... -
Harvesting prevascularized smooth muscle cell sheets from common polystyrene ...
Cell sheet engineering has recently emerged as a promising strategy for scaffold-free tissue engineering. However, the primary method of harvesting cell sheets using... -
Unilateral versus bilateral pedicle screw fixation in lumbar fusion: A system...
Objectives To carry out a systematic review on the basis of overlapping meta-analyses that compare unilateral with bilateral pedicle screw fixation (PSF) in lumbar fusion to... -
Traction force microscopy of engineered cardiac tissues
Cardiac tissue development and pathology have been shown to depend sensitively on microenvironmental mechanical factors, such as extracellular matrix stiffness, in both in vivo... -
NanoR: a user-friendly R package to analyze and compare nanopore sequencing data
AbstractMinION and GridION X5 from Oxford Nanopore Technologies are devices for real-time DNA and RNA sequencing. On the one hand, MinION is the only real-time, low cost and... -
Foldscope: Origami-Based Paper Microscope
Here we describe an ultra-low-cost origami-based approach for large-scale manufacturing of microscopes, specifically demonstrating brightfield, darkfield, and fluorescence... -
Trial registration, publication rate and characteristics in the research fiel...
OBJECTIVES: To examine 1) the publication rate of registered otology trials in ClinicalTrials.gov, 2) the public availability of the results, 3) the study characteristics... -
Use of three points to determine the accuracy of guided implantation
AIM:'This study aims to establish an open-source algorithm using Python to analyze the accuracy of guided implantation, which simplifies interstudy comparisons. METHODS:Given ≥3... -
Comparison and evaluation of the morphology of crowns generated by biogeneric...
OBJECTIVES: To better guide clinicians to choose the appropriate chairside system, we compared and evaluated the morphology of crowns generated by three different biogeneric... -
Tissue engineering the human auricle by auricular chondrocyte-mesenchymal ste...
Children suffering from microtia have few options for auricular reconstruction. Tissue engineering approaches attempt to replicate the complex anatomy and structure of the ear... -
Mapping the Emergence of Synthetic Biology
International audience; In this paper, we apply an original scientometric analyses to a corpus comprising synthetic biology (SynBio) publications in Thomson Reuters Web of... -
An agent-based approach for the application of nature's forms to product conc...
Given current high market competitiveness, it is necessary to differentiate between products that perform the same function. For this objective, designer can recur to various...
