Yang, Jiting Li, Haiyan Wu, Jun Sun, Liang Xu, Dan Wang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yufeng Chen, Yue Chen, Lin
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Background Precise visualization of meshes and their position would greatly aid in mesh shrinkage evaluation, hernia recurrence risk assessment, and the preoperative planning of salvage repair. Lightweight (LW) meshes are able to preserve abdominal wall compliance by generating less post-implantation fibrosis and rigidity. However, conventional 3D ...
Zhang, Lidan Cen, Ying Huang, Qiaorong Li, Huifang Mo, Xianming Meng, Wentong Chen, Junjie
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Background The detection and dissection of epidermal subgroups could lead to an improved understanding of skin homeostasis and wound healing. Flow cytometric analysis provides an effective method to detect the surface markers of epidermal cells while producing high-dimensional data files. Methods A 9-color flow cytometric panel was optimized to rev...
Galvão-Lima, Leonardo J. Morais, Antonio H. F. Valentim, Ricardo A. M. Barreto, Elio J. S. S.
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Over the last decades, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as important molecules associated with the regulation of gene expression in humans and other organisms, expanding the strategies available to diagnose and handle several diseases. This paper presents a systematic review of literature of miRNAs related to cancer development and explores the main...
Peng, Bo Pang, Gaofeng Saxena, Aditya Liu, Yan Hu, Baohua Wang, Suhong Dai, Yakang
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Background Self-esteem is the individual evaluation of oneself. People with high self-esteem grade have mental health and can bravely cope with the threats from the environment. With the development of neuroimaging techniques, researches on cognitive neural mechanisms of self-esteem are increased. Existing methods based on brain morphometry and sin...
Chen, Ying Xu, Zaipin Deng, Xiaoyan Yang, Shibo Tan, Wenchang Fan, Yubo Han, Yong Xing, Yubin
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BackgroundCone-shaped vena cava filters (VCFs) are widely used to treat venous thromboembolism. However, in the long term, the problem of occlusion persists even after the filter is deployed. A previous study hypothesized that the reverse deployment of a cone-shaped VCFs may prevent filter blockage.MethodsTo explore this hypothesis, a comparative s...
Weng, Jie Chen, Bi Xie, Mengying Wan, Xinlong Wang, Peng Zhou, Xiaoming Zhou, Zhiliang Mei, Jin Wang, Liang Huang, Duping
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BackgroundAdvances in regenerative medicine technologies have been strongly proposed in the management of thyroid diseases. Mechanistically, the adoption of thyroid bioengineering requires a scaffold that shares a similar three-dimensional (3D) space structure, biomechanical properties, protein component, and cytokines to the native extracellular m...
Mat Zin, Syatirah Md Rasib, S. Z. Suhaimi, Fatanah M. Mariatti, M.
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The tongue and hard palate play an essential role in the production of sound during continuous speech. Appropriate tongue and hard palate contacts will ensure proper sound production. Electropalatography, also known as EPG, is a device that can be used to identify the location of the tongue and hard palate contact. It can also be used by a speech t...
Dong, Liang Jiang, Wenbing Lu, Wei Jiang, Jun Zhao, Ya Song, Xiangfen Leng, Xiaochang Zhao, Hang Wang, Jian’an Li, Changling
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BackgroundIntravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is the golden standard in accessing the coronary lesions, stenosis, and atherosclerosis plaques. In this paper, a fully automatic approach by an 8-layer U-Net is developed to segment the coronary artery lumen and the area bounded by external elastic membrane (EEM), i.e., cross-sectional area (EEM-CSA). The ...
Xu, Xu Cheng, Kang-jie Liu, Yun-feng Fan, Ying-ying Wang, Joanne H. Wang, Russell Baur, Dale A. Jiang, Xian-feng Dong, Xing-tao
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BackgroundThe objective of the study was to validate biomechanical characteristics of a 3D-printed, novel-designated fixation plate for treating mandibular angle fracture, and compare it with two commonly used fixation plates by finite element (FE) simulations and experimental testing.MethodsA 3D virtual mandible was created from a patient’s CT ima...
Ren, Weiyan Xu, Liqiang Zheng, Xuan Pu, Fang Li, Deyu Fan, Yubo
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BackgroundThe lower extremities of the body often suffer from impaired microcirculation, particularly in the elderly or people with underlying conditions such as diabetes. Especially for people suffering from peripheral vascular diseases, skin lesions or wearing an external fixator in one side of limbs, direct contact treatments are not suitable fo...
