Liu, Hongqiang Li, Jinqiu Cao, Xiaolong Wang, Yicheng Wen, Dehui Dong, Fengqun Wang, Jing Li, Tian
Published in
PeerJ
The effect of fetal oval foramen restriction and premature contraction of the arterial catheter for the right heart function of fetuses and infants was studied by evaluating the right and left ventricular (RV/LV) ratios, the tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) value, and the Tei index of right heart function parameters. This study wa...
Reezigt, Roland R Slager, Geranda E C Coppieters, Michel W Scholten-Peeters, Gwendolyne G M
Published in
PeerJ
Experienced assessors show good intra-rater reproducibility (within-session and between-session agreement and reliability) when using an algometer to determine pressure pain thresholds (PPT). However, it is unknown whether novice assessors perform equally well. This study aimed to determine within and between-session agreement and reliability of PP...
Zhang, Yang Ding, Li Zheng, Yuxin Wang, Kun Xia, Wentao Wang, Junqi Ge, Peng
Published in
PeerJ
Bone metastasis has been suggested to be a significant impactor on the prognosis of newly diagnosed de novo metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC), and some risk stratification models have been proposed on the basis of this hypothesis. However, the effectiveness of these risk stratification criteria has not been fully evaluated in Chi...
Gazzard, Abigail Baker, Philip J
Published in
PeerJ
Artificial refuges provided by householders and/or conservation practitioners potentially represent one mechanism for mitigating declines in the availability of natural nest sites used for resting, breeding and hibernating in urban areas. The effectiveness of such refuges for different species is, however, not always known. In this study, we conduc...
Tyagi, Neetu Sardar, Rahila Gupta, Dinesh
Published in
PeerJ
The ongoing prevailing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is becoming one of the major global health concerns worldwide. The SARS-CoV-2 genome encodes spike (S) glycoprotein that plays a very crucial role in viral entry into the host cell via binding of its receptor binding domain (RBD) to the host angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) recepto...
Wang, Zhen Pi, Yan-Ling Wu, Yin Wei, Jianing Li, Yuting Zhang, Jian Wang, Zhen
Published in
PeerJ
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have an obvious motor inhibition disorder, which is closely related to their motor symptoms. Although previous studies have shown that exercise can improve their inhibition deficits, the effect of exercise on different types of inhibition (proactive and reactive inhibition) has not been addressed. We used a be...
Tszydel, Mariusz Błońska, Dagmara
Published in
PeerJ
Caddisfly larvae commonly inhabit freshwater ecosystems, where they often create multi-species aggregations. However, while several strategies have been developed to avoid or reduce inter- and intraspecific interactions, most species choose the same time to seek a suitable place for pupation, which can increase competition. The current study assess...
Wang, Wenyang Mu, Min Zou, Yuanjie Li, Bing Cao, Hangbing Hu, Dong Tao, Xinrong
Published in
PeerJ
Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) is an occupational disease that severely damages the life and health of miners. However, little is known about the molecular and cellular mechanisms changes associated with lung inflammation and fibrosis induced by coal dust. As a non-destructive technique for measuring biological tissue, confocal Raman spectrosco...
Combillet, Lisa Fabregat-Malé, Sònia Mena, Sebastián Marín-Moraga, José Andrés Gutierrez, Monica Alvarado, Juan José
Published in
PeerJ
Coral reefs in Culebra Bay (North Pacific of Costa Rica) are threatened by multiple anthropogenic disturbances including global warming, overfishing, eutrophication, and invasive species outbreaks. It is possible to assist their recovery by implementing ecological restoration techniques. This study used artificial hexagonal steel structures, called...
Grodzka-Łukaszewska, Maria Sinicyn, Grzegorz Grygoruk, Mateusz Mirosław-Świątek, Dorota Kardel, Ignacy Okruszko, Tomasz
Published in
PeerJ
The area of interest is the Upper Biebrza Valley, located in NE Poland. We examined water exchange at the river-fen interface in a near-natural wetland system using the combined field research-modeling approach. The authors chose the Biebrza River as the research object: it is a specific case of fen marginal valley rivers, and it flows in the peat ...
