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The cotton GhWIN2 gene activates the cuticle biosynthesis pathway and influen...
Abstract Background Metabolic pathways are interconnected and yet relatively independent. Genes involved in metabolic modules are required for the modules to run. Study of the... -
The use of multi-criteria decision making models in evaluating anesthesia met...
Abstract Background Determining the most suitable anesthesia method for circumcision surgery plays a fundamental role in pediatric surgery. This study is aimed to present... -
Nasal carriage of common bacterial pathogens among healthy kindergarten child...
Abstract Background Nasal colonization with bacterial pathogens is associated with risk of invasive respiratory tract infections, but the related information for Chinese healthy... -
The impact of sex and disease classification on patient-reported outcome meas...
Abstract Background The aim of this study was to explore the impact of sex and disease classification on outcomes in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) patients, including both... -
Pregnancy in GNE myopathy patients: a nationwide repository survey in Japan
Abstract Background GNE myopathy is an autosomal recessive adult-onset distal myopathy. While a few case reports have described the progression of GNE myopathy during pregnancy,... -
Involvement of Hdac3-mediated inhibition of microRNA cluster 17-92 in broncho...
Abstract Background The incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a chronic lung disease of newborns, has been paradoxically rising despite medical advances. Histone... -
Visceral fat reduction is positively associated with blood pressure reduction...
Abstract Background Visceral adiposity has been reported to play a key role in hypertension compared with other measurements of regional or general obesity. The aim of current... -
The antibiotic resistome and microbiota landscape of refugees from Syria, Ira...
Abstract Background Multidrug-resistant bacteria represent a substantial global burden for human health, potentially fuelled by migration waves: in 2015, 476,649 refugees... -
Sensitivity of various adiposity indices in identifying cardiometabolic disea...
Abstract Background Obesity is a recognized risk factor for various cardiometabolic diseases and several indices are used clinically to assess overall cardiometabolic risk. This... -
Secondhand smoke exposure and risk of wheeze in early childhood: a prospectiv...
Abstract Background Evidence regarding the independent and additive effects of both pre- and postnatal smoking exposure on the risk of wheeze in children is limited. The purpose... -
Retinoid acid-induced microRNA-31-5p suppresses myogenic proliferation and di...
Abstract Background We previously reported that Wnt5a/CaMKIIδ (calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II delta) pathway was involved in the embryonic tongue deformity... -
Cross-sectional associations between the neighborhood built environment and p...
Abstract Background Insufficient physical activity (PA) is a common health risk and more prevalent in rural populations. Few studies have assessed relationships between the... -
Does psychological functioning mediate the relationship between bullying invo...
Abstract Background Adolescent bullying is associated with a range of adversities for those who are bullied i.e., victims and bully-victims (e.g., those who bully others and get... -
Exploratory multinomial logit model–based driver injury severity analyses for...
Objective: Teenage drivers are more likely to be involved in severely incapacitating and fatal crashes compared to adult drivers. Moreover, because two thirds of urban vehicle... -
Association of prepregnancy body mass index, rate of gestational weight gain ...
Abstract Background The prevalence of obesity and excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) has been increasing worldwide. The aims of this study were to evaluate associations of... -
The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic...
Abstract Background and purpose The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2016 (J-SSCG 2016), a Japanese-specific set of clinical... -
Prevalence, determinants and association of unawareness of diabetes, hyperten...
Abstract Background To explore the prevalence and determinants of unawareness of diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia and its association with poor disease control in... -
Measuring cortical mean diffusivity to assess early microstructural cortical ...
Abstract Background There is increasing interest in improving understanding of the timing and nature of early neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and developing... -
Association of the lupus low disease activity state (LLDAS) with health-relat...
Abstract Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with significant impairment of health-related quality of life (HR-QoL). Recently, meeting a definition of a... -
Additional file 5: of Analyses of circRNA profiling during the development fr...
Table S4. Differential expressed circRNA between receptive and pre-receptive endometrium. (XLS) (XLS 1658â kb)