Urdal, Jarle Engan, Kjersti Eftestøl, Trygve Haaland, Solveig H. Kamala, Benjamin Mdoe, Paschal Kidanto, Hussein Ersdal, Hege
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BackgroundFresh stillbirths (FSB) and very early neonatal deaths (VEND) are important global challenges with 2.6 million deaths annually. The vast majority of these deaths occur in low- and low-middle income countries. Assessment of the fetal well-being during pregnancy, labour, and birth is normally conducted by monitoring the fetal heart rate (FH...
Yuan, Yue Zheng, Lvpiao Feng, Zhouyan Yang, Gangsheng
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BackgroundElectrical pulse stimulations have been applied in brain for treating certain diseases such as movement disorders. High-frequency stimulations (HFS) of biphasic pulses have been used in clinic stimulations, such as deep brain stimulation (DBS), to minimize the risk of tissue damages caused by the electrical stimulations. However, HFS sequ...
Zhao, Xin Wu, Qirui Gong, Xiuqing Liu, Jinfeng Ma, Yujie
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Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common primary bone malignancy that affects children and young adults. OS is characterized by a high degree of malignancy, strong invasiveness, rapid disease progression, and extremely high mortality rate; it is considered as a serious threat to the human health globally. The incidence of OS is common in the metaphysis...
Yang, Jiting Li, Haiyan Wu, Jun Sun, Liang Xu, Dan Wang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yufeng Chen, Yue Chen, Lin
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BackgroundPrecise 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 i...
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...