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Analysis of survival after initiation of continuous renal replacement therapy...
Abstract Background No study has specifically investigated the duration of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in patients who experienced acute kidney injury during... -
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... -
Long-term changes in renal function after treatment initiation and the import...
Abstract Background The present study aimed to investigate associations between long-term renal function, whether IgG4-related tubulointerstitial nephritis (TIN) was diagnosed... -
A multimodal intervention to improve hand hygiene compliance in peripheral wa...
Abstract Background Interventions to improve hand hygiene (HH) compliance are a key element in the practice infection prevention and control. It was our objective to assess the... -
Effect of dose and dose rate on temporal γ-H2AX kinetics in mouse blood and s...
Abstract Background Cesium-137 (137Cs) is one of the major and most clinically relevant radionuclides of concern in a radiological dispersal device, “dirty bomb” scenario as... -
Efficacy and safety of Ding-Kun-Dan for female infertility patients with pred...
Abstract Background Women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) who have a predicted poor ovarian response (POR) present a challenge... -
Comparison of the effects of Crataegus oxyacantha extract, aerobic exercise a...
Abstract Background Adhesion molecules play an important role in the development and progression of coronary atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was comparing the effect of... -
Polygenic risk for coronary heart disease acts through atherosclerosis in typ...
Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes increases the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), yet the mechanisms involved remain poorly described. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) provide... -
Identification and validation of a Schistosoma japonicum U6 promoter
Abstract Background RNA polymerase III promoters have been widely used to express short hairpin-RNA (shRNA), microRNA (miRNA), and small guide RNA (sgRNA) in gene functional... -
Association between factors related to the pregnancy, neonatal period, and la...
Abstract Background Studies about the majority of the factors that may potentially influence the pubertal timing and menarche were controversial. The objective was to evaluate... -
Development of a high-throughput screen to identify small molecule enhancers ...
Abstract Background Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by loss of sarcolemma connection to the extracellular matrix. Transgenic overexpression of the transmembrane... -
[18F]tetrafluoroborate as a PET tracer for the sodium/iodide symporter: the i...
Abstract Background [18F]BF4 −, the first 18F-labelled PET imaging agent for the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS), was produced by isotopic exchange yielding a product with limited... -
The Reproductive Agency Scale (RAS-17): development and validation in a cross...
Abstract Background Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 prioritizes women’s empowerment and gender equality, alone and as drivers of other SDGs. Efforts to validate universal... -
Survival after heart transplantation for non-metastatic primary cardiac sarcoma
Abstract Background Heart transplantation is an uncommon treatment for unresectable and non-metastatic primary cardiac sarcomas, and the role of it is unclear. This study aims... -
Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells attenuate silica-induced pulmonary fibr...
Abstract Background Pulmonary fibrosis induced by silica dust is an irreversible, chronic, and fibroproliferative lung disease with no effective treatment at present. Previous... -
Effect of maternal sleep, physical activity and screen time during pregnancy ...
Abstract Background Early life exposure in the uterus had a long-term effect on children’s health. As the prevalence of allergies is increasing with a remarkable sex difference,... -
Multi-organ protection of ulinastatin in traumatic cardiac arrest model
Abstract Background Post-cardiac arrest syndrome, which has no specific curative treatment, contributes to the high mortality rate of victims who suffer traumatic cardiac arrest... -
Sexual dimorphism in the incidence of human cancers
Abstract Background Sex differences in the incidences of cancers become a critical issue in both cancer research and the development of precision medicine. However, details in... -
A randomised controlled feasibility trial to evaluate local heat precondition...
Abstract Objective preHEAT was a randomised controlled feasibility trial to determine how best to measure skin necrosis in breast reconstruction to inform the design of a larger... -
Cytokine pre-activation of cryopreserved xenogeneic-free human mesenchymal st...
Abstract Background Human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (hMSCs) represent a promising therapeutic strategy for ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) and acute respiratory...
