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Pleural effusion from intrathoracic migration of a ventriculo-peritoneal shun...
Abstract Background Pleural effusion is a rare complication of ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunting and its diagnosis is difficult in patients with... -
Chronic wide-field imaging of brain hemodynamics in behaving animals
Chronically monitoring cerebral activities in awake and freely moving status is very important in physiological and pathological studies. We present a novel standalone... -
Repetitive element hypermethylation in multiple sclerosis patients
Abstract Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex disorder of the central nervous system whose cause is currently unknown. Evidence is increasing that DNA methylation... -
Co-activator candidate interactions for orphan nuclear receptor NR2E1
Abstract Background NR2E1 (Tlx) is an orphan nuclear receptor that regulates the maintenance and self-renewal of neural stem cells, and promotes tumourigenesis. Nr2e1-null mice... -
Evaluation of acute esophageal radiation-induced damage using magnetic resona...
Abstract Background Thoracic and head and neck cancer radiation therapy (RT) can cause damage to nearby healthy organs such as the esophagus, causing acute radiation-induced... -
Magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography of equine cheek teeth and ...
Abstract Background The use of cadavers for radiology research methodologies involving subjective image quality evaluation of anatomical criteria is well-documented. The purpose... -
Transplantation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells improves cognitive defi...
Abstract Background Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder. Therapeutically, a transplantation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) can play a beneficial... -
Theoretical investigation of polarization-insensitive data format conversion ...
Polarization-insensitive conversion of return-to-zero (RZ) ON-OFF keying (RZ-OOK) to RZ binary phase-shift keying (RZ-BPSK) has been achieved by cross-phase modulation (XPM) in... -
Link of dysfunctional attitudes with the negative self-model
Abstract Background Beck’s cognitive theory postulates that dysfunctional attitudes predisposing to depression are formed by early negative experiences. Meanwhile, Bowlby’s... -
Development of a clickable bimodal fluorescent/PET probe for in vivo imaging
Abstract Background Fluorescent imaging agents are becoming evermore important in preclinical and clinical research. They do, however, suffer from poor tissue penetration, which... -
Long-term prenatal exposure to paracetamol is associated with DNA methylation...
Abstract Background Epidemiological studies have shown that long-term exposure to paracetamol during pregnancy is associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder... -
Characteristics of functional enrichment and gene expression level of human p...
Abstract Background Transcriptional target genes show functional enrichment of genes. However, how many and how significantly transcriptional target genes include functional... -
Early exposure to hyperoxia and mortality in critically ill patients with sev...
Abstract Background Hyperoxia is common early in the course of resuscitation of critically ill patients. It has been associated with mortality in some, but not all, studies of... -
Inverse design of a three-dimensional nanophotonic resonator
The inverse design of a three-dimensional nanophotonic resonator is presented. The design methodology is computationally fast (10 minutes on a standard desktop workstation) and... -
The Gabor superlens as an alternative wafer-level camera approach inspired by...
We present the microoptical adaption of the natural superposition compound eye, which is termed “Gabor superlens”. Enabled by state-of-the-art microoptics technology, this well... -
How do case presentation teaching methods affect learning outcomes?-SNAPPS an...
Abstract Background Various techniques have been developed to enable preceptors to teach residents effectively in outpatient settings to promote active learning, including... -
Childhood traumatization is associated with differences in TRPA1 promoter met...
Abstract Background The construct of multisomatoform disorder (MSD) is a common point of reference for patients in different somatic and psychosomatic specialties and therefore... -
Proteomics analysis identifies new markers associated with capillary cerebral...
Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid beta (Aβ) deposits as plaques in the parenchyma and in the walls of cortical and leptomeningeal blood vessels of... -
Validating self-reporting of hearing-related symptoms against pure-tone audio...
Objective: To validate self-reported hearing-related symptoms among personnel exposed to moderately high occupational noise levels at an obstetrics clinic. Design: Sensitivity,... -
In vivo volumetric imaging of human retinal circulation with phase-variance o...
We present in vivo volumetric images of human retinal micro-circulation using Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (Fd-OCT) with the phase-variance based motion contrast...
