Association between complementary and alternative medicine use and prolonged time to conventional treatment among Thai cancer patients in a tertiary-care hospital.

abstract：Background:Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) is a highly pleiotropic cytokine with antifibrotic activity in wound healing. During the process of wound healing and fibrosis, fibroblasts are the key players. Although accumulating evidence has suggested the antagonistic effects of FGF2 in the activation process of fibrobl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wu B,Tang X,Zhou Z,Ke H,Tang S,Ke R

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Except for a few studies with contradictory observations, information is lacking on the possibility of association between DNA mismatch repair (MMR) status and the presence of cancer stem cells in colorectal carcinoma (CRC), two important aspects in colorectal carcinogenesis. Methods:Eighty (40 right-sided ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cheah PL,Li J,Looi LM,Teoh KH,Ong DB,Arends MJ

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead (Pb) is a ubiquitous pollutant which poses serious threats to plants, animals and humans once entered into the food chain via contaminated industrial effluents on their discharge into the surface of water bodies and/or geological materials. This study aimed to examine and compare the biosorption potential of natu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Shah GM,Nasir M,Imran M,Bakhat HF,Rabbani F,Sajjad M,Umer Farooq AB,Ahmad S,Song L

更新日期：2018-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of biotic stresses (BS) and abiotic stresses (AS) adversely affect plant growth and productivity worldwide. The study of individual genes cannot be considered as an effective approach for the understanding of tolerance mechanisms, since these stresses are frequent and often in combination with each other,...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ashrafi-Dehkordi E,Alemzadeh A,Tanaka N,Razi H

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid vectors based on bacteriophage integrases are important tools in molecular microbiology for the introduction of foreign DNA, especially into bacterial species where other systems for genetic manipulation are limited. Site specific integrases catalyze recombination between phage and bacterial attachment sites (...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Herisse M,Porter JL,Guerillot R,Tomita T,Goncalves Da Silva A,Seemann T,Howden BP,Stinear TP,Pidot SJ

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new supertree method that enables rapid estimation of a summary tree on the scale of millions of leaves. This supertree method summarizes a collection of input phylogenies and an input taxonomy. We introduce formal goals and criteria for such a supertree to satisfy in order to transparently and justifiabl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Redelings BD,Holder MT

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Caesarean birth rates in North America continue to rise, in the absence of benefit for mothers and babies. One reason may be that hospitalized labouring women spend most of their labours in recumbent or semi-recumbent positions. Although hands-and-knees position has theoretical advantages, efforts to encou...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hodnett ED,Stremler R,Halpern SH,Weston J,Windrim R

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Skeletal muscle wound healing is dependent on complex interactions between fibroblasts, myofibroblasts, myogenic cells, and cytokines, such as TGF-β1. This study sought to clarify the impact of TGF-β1 signaling on skeletal muscle cells and discern between the individual contributions of fibroblasts and myofi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Krieger J,Park BW,Lambert CR,Malcuit C

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoterranovosis is a well-known human disease caused by anisakid larvae belonging to the genus Pseudoterranova. Human infection occurs after consuming infected fish. Hence the presence of Pseudoterranova larvae in the flesh of the fish can cause serious losses and problems for the seafood, fishing and fisheries ind...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Shamsi S,Suthar J

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In 2020, to limit the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), many countries, including Italy, have issued a lengthy quarantine period for the entire population. For this reason lifestyle has changed, bringing inevitable repercussions to the Quality of Life (QoL). The present study aims to identify which psychosoc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lardone A,Sorrentino P,Giancamilli F,Palombi T,Simper T,Mandolesi L,Lucidi F,Chirico A,Galli F

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection of honey bees is of great economic importance because of their role in pollination. Crucial steps towards this goal are epidemiological surveys of pathogens connected with honey bee losses. In this study deformed wing virus (DWV), chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV), acute bee paralysis virus (ABPV) and sacb...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cirkovic D,Stevanovic J,Glavinic U,Aleksic N,Djuric S,Aleksic J,Stanimirovic Z

更新日期：2018-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific are increasingly being assessed for their potential mineral wealth. To anticipate the potential impacts on biodiversity and connectivity among populations at these vents, environmental baselines need to be established. Bathymodiolus manusensis is a deep-sea mussel fou...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Thaler AD,Saleu W,Carlsson J,Schultz TF,Van Dover CL

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxon Beloniformes represents a heterogeneous group of teleost fishes that show an extraordinary diversity of jaw morphology. I present new anatomical descriptions of the jaw musculature in six selected beloniforms and four closely related species. A reduction of the external jaw adductor (A1) and a changed morpho...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Werneburg I

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of females calving (PFC) each year has been employed as an indicator of population reproductive performance in ungulates, especially for species that breed annually, because it requires less detailed population data than inter-birthing intervals and age at first reproduction. For asynchronous breeders w...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Law PR,Fike B

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of herbicide-resistant weeds is a major threat facing modern agriculture. Over 470 weedy-plant populations have developed resistance to herbicides. Traditional evolutionary mechanisms are not always sufficient to explain the rapidity with which certain weed populations adapt in response to herbicide expo...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kim G,Clarke CR,Larose H,Tran HT,Haak DC,Zhang L,Askew S,Barney J,Westwood JH

更新日期：2017-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amoebiasis is the third most common parasitic cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in countries with poor hygienic settings. There exists an ambiguity in the diagnosis of amoebiasis, and hence there arises a necessity for a better diagnostic approach. Serine-rich Entamoeba histolyticaprotein (SREHP...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Manochitra K,Parija SC

更新日期：2017-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The exoskeleton is an important source of characters for the taxonomy of Hydroidolina. It originates as epidermal secretions and, among other functions, protects the coenosarc of the polypoid stage. However, comparative studies on the exoskeletal tissue origin, development, chemical, and structural characteristics, as...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mendoza-Becerril MA,Marian JE,Migotto AE,Marques AC

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Anonymous student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are used by colleges and universities to measure teaching effectiveness and to make decisions about faculty hiring, firing, re-appointment, promotion, tenure, and merit pay. Although numerous studies have found that SETs correlate with various teaching effectiveness irr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Uttl B,Smibert D

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The ε subunit from ATP synthases acts as an ATP sensor in the bacterial cell to prevent ATP hydrolysis and thus the waste of ATP under conditions of low ATP concentration. However, the ATP binding affinities from various bacterial organisms differ markedly, over several orders of magnitude. For example, the ATP syntha...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Krah A,Bond PJ

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Percent of body fat and physiological stress are important correlates to wildlife demographics. We studied winter percent of body fat and physiological stress levels for a declining elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) population in South Dakota, 2011-2013. We obtained percent of winter body fat, pregnancy status, lactatio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lehman CP,Rota CT,Millspaugh JJ

更新日期：2019-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we sequenced the genome of Pandoraea pnomenusa RB38 using Pacific Biosciences RSII (PacBio) Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT) sequencing technology. A pair of cognate luxI/R homologs was identified where the luxI homolog, ppnI, was found adjacent to a luxR homolog, ppnR1. An additional orphan luxR homolo...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lim YL,Ee R,How KY,Lee SK,Yong D,Tee KK,Yin WF,Chan KG

更新日期：2015-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Much of the shape variation found in animals is based on allometry and heterochrony. Horses represent an excellent model to investigate patterns of size-shape variation among breeds that were intentionally bred for extreme small and large sizes. Methods:We tested whether ponies (wither height < 148 cm) have...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Heck L,Sanchez-Villagra MR,Stange M

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of soils to naturally suppress inherent plant pathogens is an important ecosystem function. Usually, pathogen infection assays are used for estimating the suppressive potential of soils. In natural soils, however, co-occurring pathogens might simultaneously infect plants complicating the estimation of a ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rall BC,Latz E

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：Background:A key step in embryo implantation is the adhesion to and invasion of the endometrium by the blastocyst trophectoderm. The envelope proteins of HERV-W and -FRD (human endogenous retrovirus-W and -FRD), syncytin-1 and syncytin-2, are mainly distributed in the placenta, and play important roles in the developme...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guo L,Gu F,Xu Y,Zhou C

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Whole-metagenome sequencing can be a rich source of information about the structure and function of entire metagenomic communities, but getting accurate and reliable results from these datasets can be challenging. Analysis of these datasets is founded on the mapping of sequencing reads onto known genomic r...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Greenfield P,Tran-Dinh N,Midgley D

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Taphonomic deformation, the distortion of fossils as a result of geological processes, poses problems for the use of geometric morphometrics in addressing paleobiological questions. Signal from biological variation, such as ontogenetic trends and sexual dimorphism, may be lost if variation from deformation is too high...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kammerer CF,Deutsch M,Lungmus JK,Angielczyk KD

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent improvements in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies can facilitate the obtainment of mitochondrial genomes. However, it is not clear whether NGS could be effectively used to reconstruct the mitogenome with high gene rearrangement. These high rearrangements would cause amplification failure, and/or ass...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yuan S,Xia Y,Zheng Y,Zeng X

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid development of China's textile industry (TI) has led to severe water environmental stress. Water environmental stress of China's TI mainly comes from large quantities of discharged wastewater and chemical oxygen demand (COD). The sustainable development of the TI is realized to achieve the decoupling between...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li Y,Shen J,Lu L,Luo Y,Wang L,Shen M

更新日期：2018-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Pueraria lobata (willd.) Ohwi is a consumable selenium-enriched plant used for medicinal purposes. The molecular response to selenium (Se) stimuli in P. lobata is currently unknown. We used RNA-Seq to identify potential genes involved in selenite metabolism and analyzed their expression profiles. We obtained a total o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guo K,Yao Y,Yang M,Li Y,Wu B,Lin X

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Hair follicles in cashmere goats are divided into primary and secondary hair follicles (HFs). HF development, which determines the morphological structure, is regulated by a large number of vital genes; however, the key functional genes and their interaction networks are still unclear. Although the vitamin D...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gao Y,Jin M,Niu Y,Yan H,Zhou G,Chen Y

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00