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Quality assessment of clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease...
Abstract Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide public health problem. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are being developed and implemented in order to... -
Complementary and alternative medicine use amongst patients with cardiovascul...
Abstract Background Data on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) are lacking. We aim to investigate the prevalence of... -
Relative effects of location relative to the corpus luteum and lactation on t...
Abstract Background Lactation and associated metabolic stresses during the post-partum period have been shown to impair fertility in dairy cows. The oviduct plays key roles in... -
Liver ChIP-seq analysis in FGF19-treated mice reveals SHP as a global transcr...
Abstract Background Fibroblast growth factor-19 (FGF19) is an intestinal hormone that mediates postprandial metabolic responses in the liver. The unusual orphan nuclear... -
Severity in sustained attention impairment and clozapine-resistant schizophre...
Abstract Background Among patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS), some exhibited further clozapine resistance (CR). This study aimed to investigate whether... -
BMP-SMAD signalling output is highly regionalized in cardiovascular and lymph...
Abstract Background Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signalling has emerged as a fundamental pathway in endothelial cell biology and deregulation of this pathway is implicated... -
Nuclear localization of Newcastle disease virus matrix protein promotes virus...
Abstract Nuclear localization of paramyxovirus proteins is crucial for virus life cycle, including the regulation of viral replication and the evasion of host immunity. We... -
STAT3 enhances the constitutive activity of AGC kinases in melanoma by transa...
Abstract Background The PI3K/Akt and the STAT3 pathways are functionally associated in many tumor types. Both in vitro and in vivo studies have revealed that either biochemical... -
BMP4 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma proliferation by autophagy activation ...
Abstract Background Autophagy is a conserved catabolic process with complicated roles in tumor development. Bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4), a member of the transforming... -
Removal of bovine digital dermatitis-associated treponemes from hoof knives a...
Abstract Background Bovine digital dermatitis (BDD) is an infectious foot disease found commonly in dairy herds. Foot-trimming is an important husbandry procedure for reducing...
