Particle Swarm Optimization for Positioning the Coil of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.

abstract：:Psoriasis is one of the most prevalent immune mediated skin diseases worldwide. Despite the large prevalence in both men and women, the pathogenesis of this disease has not yet been fully clarified. Nowadays, it is believed that psoriasis is most likely a T helper Th1/Th17 induced inflammatory disease. Stressful life ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ceovic R,Mance M,Bukvic Mokos Z,Svetec M,Kostovic K,Stulhofer Buzina D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess glutamine/glutamate (Glx) and lactate (Lac) metabolism using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (1H-MRS) in order to differentiate between adrenal gland nodules and masses (adenomas, pheochromocytomas, carcinomas, and metastases). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Institutional review board approval...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Goldman SM,Nunes TF,Melo HJ,Dalavia C,Szejnfeld D,Kater C,Andreoni C,Szejnfeld J,Ajzen SA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:Epidemiological studies have shown a correlation between periodontal disease (PD) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). However, the results have been inconsistent, and no relevant meta-analysis has been performed on this topic. Hence, we performed a meta-analysis to evaluate whether the two diseases ar...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Lv X,Li W,Fang Z,Xue X,Pan C

更新日期：2020-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Praeruptorins belonging to the angular-type pyranocoumarins are bioactive constituents that have been isolated from some Peucedanum species such as P. praeruptorum, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine for treatment of cold, cough, upper respiratory infections, and so forth. Many reports have demonstrated tha...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Sarkhail P,Shafiee A,Sarkheil P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The PiCCO transpulmonary thermodilution technique provides two indices of cardiac systolic function, the cardiac function index (CFI) and the global ejection fraction (GEF). Both appear to be correlated with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) measured by echocardiography in patients with circulatory...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Perny J,Kimmoun A,Perez P,Levy B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies have proven an association between consumption of polyphenols and prevention of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia characterized by extracellular deposition of amyloid beta plaques. The aim of this study is pharmacological screening of the aqueous alcohol extract of Markhamia...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Hassaan Y,Handoussa H,El-Khatib AH,Linscheid MW,El Sayed N,Ayoub N

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:Obesity has become a global epidemic due to an increase in the number of obese individuals worldwide. There is little research in the field of obesity genetics in Pakistan. The aim of the current study was to analyze the association of common variants in Fat Mass and Obesity associated (FTO) gene w...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Shabana,Hasnain S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is a human skin malignant tumor with high invasion and poor prognosis. The limited understanding of genomic alterations in melanomas in China impedes the diagnosis and therapeutic strategy selection. We conducted comprehensive genomic profiling of melanomas from 39 primary and metastatic formalin-fixed paraff...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Luo Y,Zhang Z,Liu J,Li L,Xu X,Yao X,Dai Z,Wang X,Yang S,Wu H,Bu J,Wu Y,Xiang T,Li X

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The body's autoimmune process is involved in the development of Graves' disease (GD), which is manifested by an overactive thyroid gland. In some patients, autoreactive inflammatory reactions contribute to the development of symptoms such as thyroid ophthalmopathy, and the subsequent signs and symptoms are derived fro...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Łacheta D,Miśkiewicz P,Głuszko A,Nowicka G,Struga M,Kantor I,Poślednik KB,Mirza S,Szczepański MJ

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is very important for treatment research and patient care purposes. Few biomarkers are currently considered in clinical settings, and their use is still optional. The objective of this work was to determine whether multimodal and nonpr...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Martínez-Torteya A,Treviño V,Tamez-Peña JG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing (AS) is a major engine that drives proteome diversity in mammalian genomes and is a widespread cause of human hereditary diseases. More than 95% of genes in the human genome are alternatively spliced, and the most common type of AS is the cassette exon. Recent discoveries have demonstrated that th...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Cui Y,Cai M,Stanley HE

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compressive sensing (CS) offers compression of data below the Nyquist rate, making it an attractive solution in the field of medical imaging, and has been extensively used for ultrasound (US) compression and sparse recovery. In practice, CS offers a reduction in data sensing, transmission, and storage. Compressive sen...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yousufi M,Amir M,Javed U,Tayyib M,Abdullah S,Ullah H,Qureshi IM,Alimgeer KS,Akram MW,Khan KB

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:With the development of molecular ecology, increasing low-abundance microbial populations were detected in oil reservoirs. However, our knowledge about the oil recovery potential of these populations is lacking. In this study, the oil recovery potential of low-abundance Dietzia that accounts for less than 0.5% in micr...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Gao P,Wang H,Li G,Ma T

更新日期：2019-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Revealing the gene regulation networks governing cancer initiation and development is necessary while it remains uncompleted. In recent years, enhancers have been reported to be widely transcribed, resulting in the generation of enhancer RNAs (eRNAs). Previous studies have reported that eRNAs are a subclass of long no...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Liu Y,Ding M,Gao Q,He A,Liu Y,Mei H

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Preeclampsia (PE) is a unique complication of pregnancy, the pathogenesis of which has been generally accepted to be associated with the dysfunctions of extravillous trophoblast (EVT) including proliferation, apoptosis, and migration and invasion. Decorin (DCN) has been proved to be a decidua-derived TGF-binding prote...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zou Y,Yu X,Lu J,Jiang Z,Zuo Q,Fan M,Huang S,Sun L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric cancer is one of the most common cancers and the efficient therapeutic methods are limited. Further study of the exact molecular mechanism of gastric cancer to develop novel targeted therapies is necessary and urgent. We herein systematically examined that miR-204 suppressed both proliferation and metastasis o...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yuan X,Wang S,Liu M,Lu Z,Zhan Y,Wang W,Xu AM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the female causes of infertility is anovulation which is treatable with gonadotropin hormones. These hormones affect the molecular organization of the uterus such as glycoconjugates that are the first site of contact between the blastocyst and the uterus. The objective of this project was to study the alteratio...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Aliabadi E,Makoolati Z,Talaei-Khozani T,Ardekani FM,Aliabadi A

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Toll-Like receptor 4 (TLR4) plays an important role in immunity, tissue repair, and regeneration. The objective of the present work was to evaluate the association of TLR4 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs4986790, rs4986791, rs11536858 (merged into rs10759931), rs1927911, and rs1927914 with increased diabe...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Singh K,Singh VK,Agrawal NK,Gupta SK,Singh K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Recurrent shoulder dislocations occur much more frequently in adolescents than in the older population but a clear explanation of this incidence does not exist. The aim of the present study was to define the age-related distribution of the elastic fibers (EFs) in the shoulder capsule's extracellular matrix a...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Castagna A,Cesari E,Gigante A,Di Matteo B,Garofalo R,Porcellini G

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The aim of our study was to investigate the impact of abdominal wall reconstruction surgery on tissue anatomy and to explore how flap surgery influences the patient's immune status. Methods:Experimental abdominal wall defects were created in 8 Sus scrofa (swine) animal models. The animals were divided into ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Popa F,Georgescu AV

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of acquired mutations within the JAK2, CALR, and MPL genes in the majority of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) affords the opportunity to utilise these mutations as markers of minimal residual disease (MRD). Reduction of the mutated allele burden has been reported in response to a number o...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Haslam K,Langabeer SE

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome (BHD, OMIM#135150) is a rare disease in clinic; it is characterized by skin fibrofolliculomas, pulmonary cysts with an increased risk of recurrent pneumothorax, renal cysts, and renal neoplasms. Previous studies have demonstrated that variants in folliculin (FLCN, NM_144997) are mainly responsi...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Liu L,Yang K,Wang X,Shi Z,Yang Y,Yuan Y,Guo T,Xiao X,Luo H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole body vibration (WBV) has a marked impact on lipid metabolism and the endocrine system, which is related to the progression of atherosclerosis (AS). To investigate the effects of WBV, we measured the atherosclerotic plaque area of apolipoprotein E-knockout (ApoE-/-) AS mice, which were trained by WBV (15 Hz, 30 m...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Wu H,Zhang Y,Yang X,Li X,Shao Z,Zhou Z,Li Y,Pan S,Liu C

更新日期：2018-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a critical public health and socioeconomic problem worldwide. The herb pair Astragali Radix (AR)-Radix Angelica Sinensis (RAS) is a common prescribed herbal formula or is added to other Chinese medicine prescriptions for traumatic brain injury (TBI) treatment. However, the underlying me...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Xie G,Peng W,Li P,Xia Z,Zhong Y,He F,Tulake Y,Feng D,Wang Y,Xing Z

更新日期：2018-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Gastrointestinal mucositis is a frequent complication of antineoplastic chemotherapy, but the effects of chemotherapy on mucosal defense mechanisms remain poorly understood. We studied the effects of cisplatin on mucin, one of the principal defense factors of the gastrointestinal mucosa, and evaluated the efficacy ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yamamoto H,Ishihara K,Takeda Y,Koizumi W,Ichikawa T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study investigates the safety and efficacy of a multimodality approach combining staged endovascular embolizations with subsequent SRS for the management of larger AVMs. METHODS:Ninety-five patients with larger AVMs were treated with staged endovascular embolization followed by SRS between 1996 and 2011...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Dalyai R,Theofanis T,Starke RM,Chalouhi N,Ghobrial G,Jabbour P,Dumont AS,Fernando Gonzalez L,Gordon DS,Rosenwasser RH,Tjoumakaris SI

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial barrier dysfunction, which is a serious problem that occurs in various inflammatory conditions, permits extravasation of serum components into the surrounding tissues, leading to edema formation and organ failure. Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF), which is a major endogenous antagonist, has been im...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： He T,Zhao L,Zhang D,Zhang Q,Jia J,Hu J,Huang Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:As the important components in polycomb repressive complexes 1 (PRC1) and heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1), Chromobox (CBX) family members are involved in epigenetic regulatory function, transcriptional repression, and other cellular metabolisms. Increasing studies have indicated significant associations betw...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Chen ZY,Sun SX,Zhu SX,Bu J

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Women's relative lack of decision-making power and their unequal access to employment, finances, education, basic health care, and other resources are considered to be the root causes of their ill-health and that of their children. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the interactive relation between women's e...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zaky HH,Armanious DM,Hussein MA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taking into account that there are controversial antioxidative effects of inhalational anesthetics isoflurane and sevoflurane and absence of comparison of genotoxicity of both anesthetics in animal model, the aim of this study was to compare DNA damage and antioxidant status in Wistar rats exposed to a single time to ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Rocha TL,Dias-Junior CA,Possomato-Vieira JS,Gonçalves-Rizzi VH,Nogueira FR,de Souza KM,Braz LG,Braz MG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00