Mass Spectrometry Amyloid Typing Is Reproducible across Multiple Organ Sites.

abstract：:Background. Whether additional benefit can be achieved with the use of L-carnitine (L-C) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) remains controversial. We therefore performed a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the effects of L-C treatment in CHF patients. Methods. Pubmed, Ovid Emba...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Song X,Qu H,Yang Z,Rong J,Cai W,Zhou H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of a Bacillus megaterium-coated diet on growth performance, digestive enzymes, and intestinal microbial diversity in Songpu mirror carp (Cyprinus specularis Songpu). The fish were manually fed two diets (a control diet and a B. megaterium-coated diet) three times ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Luo L,Xu Q,Xu W,Li J,Wang C,Wang L,Zhao Z

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial Cl(-) secretion plays important roles in water secretion preventing bacterial/viral infection and regulation of body fluid. We previously suggested that quercetin would be a useful compound for maintaining epithelial Cl(-) secretion at a moderate level irrespective of cAMP-induced stimulation. However, we n...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Sun H,Niisato N,Nishio K,Hamilton KL,Marunaka Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate HIV risk perception and its associated factors among Chinese MSM. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was conducted among MSM with an HIV negative or unknown status in Beijing, China, between 2011 and 2012. A questionnaire interview was conducted and a blood sample was collected for HIV and syphilis ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Fan W,Yin L,Qian HZ,Li D,Shao Y,Vermund SH,Ruan Y,Zhang Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:The use of a biofabrication nerve scaffold, which mimics the nerve microstructure, as an alternative for autologous nerve transplantation is a promising strategy for treating peripheral nerve defects. This study aimed to design a customized biofabrication scaffold model with the characteristics of human perip...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yao Z,Yan LW,Qiu S,He FL,Gu FB,Liu XL,Qi J,Zhu QT

更新日期：2019-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel methylamine-selective amperometric bienzyme biosensor based on recombinant primary amine oxidase isolated from the recombinant yeast strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae and commercial horseradish peroxidase is described. Two amine oxidase preparations were used: free enzyme (AMO) and covalently immobilized on the ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Stasyuk NY,Smutok OV,Zakalskiy AE,Zakalska OM,Gonchar MV

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) detection via a target-capture, C-probe ligation, and RAM assay in a single-blind comparison to clinical samples that had been tested with FDA-cleared tests for up to 4 different vascular disease-related SNPs. In the RAM assay circulizable linear probes (C- or padlock ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Smith JH,Cui M,Zhang DY,Beals TP,Ye F

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in genes encoding isocitrate dehydrogenase isoforms 1 (IDH1) and 2 (IDH2) have been associated with good prognosis for patients with brain neoplasias and have been commonly found together with mutated TP53 gene. To determine the prevalence of IDH1, IDH2, and TP53 mutations and their impact on overall surviva...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Stancheva G,Goranova T,Laleva M,Kamenova M,Mitkova A,Velinov N,Poptodorov G,Mitev V,Kaneva R,Gabrovsky N

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells are biological cells that can self-renew and can differentiate into multiple cell lineages. Stem cell-based therapy is emerging as a promising alternative therapeutic option for various disorders. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent adult stem cells that are isolated from various tissues and can b...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Kang J,Fan W,Deng Q,He H,Huang F

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Fractures are common among all types of paediatric injuries, with differences in incidence over time. Here, we present the epidemiologic features of traumatic fractures in a population of youth ≤ 18 years of age who were admitted to our university-affiliated hospitals from 2002 to 2010. Methods:We retrospectiv...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Wang H,Feng C,Liu H,Liu J,Ou L,Yu H,Xiang L

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of ATP from the urothelium in response to stretch during filling demonstrates the importance of the purinergic system for the physiological functioning of the bladder. This study examined the effect of P2 receptor agonists on ATP release from two urothelial cell lines (RT4 and UROtsa cells). Hypotonic Kreb...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Mansfield KJ,Hughes JR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to evaluate three different biodegradable polylactic acid- (PLA-) based osteosynthesis materials (OM). These OM (BioSorb, LactoSorb, and Delta) were used in 64 patients of whom 55 (85.9%) had fractures of the zygoma, five (7.8%) in the LeFort II level, two of the frontal bone (3.1%), and two of the maxilla...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Kolk A,Köhnke R,Saely CH,Ploder O

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Picobirnavirus (PBV) which has been included in the list of viruses causing enteric infection in animals is highly versatile because of its broad host range and genetic diversity. PBVs are among the most recent and emerging small, nonenveloped viruses with a bisegmented double-stranded RNA genome, classified under a n...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Malik YS,Kumar N,Sharma K,Dhama K,Shabbir MZ,Ganesh B,Kobayashi N,Banyai K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is challenging and inspiring for us to achieve high spatiotemporal resolutions in dynamic cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this paper, we introduce two novel models and algorithms to reconstruct dynamic cardiac MRI data from under-sampled k - t space data. In contrast to classical low-rank and sparse mo...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Xiu X,Kong L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess quality of care of women with severe maternal morbidity and to identify associated factors. METHOD:This is a national multicenter cross-sectional study performing surveillance for severe maternal morbidity, using the World Health Organization criteria. The expected number of maternal deaths was cal...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Haddad SM,Cecatti JG,Souza JP,Sousa MH,Parpinelli MA,Costa ML,Pacagnella RC,Brum IR,Moraes Filho OB,Feitosa FE,Menezes CA,Guanabara EM,Moreira JL,Peret FA,Schmaltz LE,Katz L,Lima AC,Amorim MM,Martins MG,Nascimento D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Antiretroviral therapy transformed HIV infection into a chronic disease but accelerated cardiovascular disease (CVD). Both of epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and pericardial fat (PCF) have close relationships with CVD. The associations between these two cardiac adipose tissue and HIV are unclear. Methods:El...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Song G,Qiao W,Sun L,Yu X

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how prenatal maternal stress (PNMS) influences risks of asthma in humans. In this small study, we sought to determine whether disaster-related PNMS would predict asthma risk in children. In June 1998, we assessed severity of objective hardship and subjective distress in women pregnant during the ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Turcotte-Tremblay AM,Lim R,Laplante DP,Kobzik L,Brunet A,King S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of microparticles based on biocompatible phytolipids [Softisan® 154 (SF) (hydrogenated palm oil) and super-refined sunseed oil (SO)] and polyethylene glycol- (PEG-) 4000 to improve intravaginal delivery of miconazole nitrate (MN) for effective treatment of vulvova...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Kenechukwu FC,Attama AA,Ibezim EC,Nnamani PO,Umeyor CE,Uronnachi EM,Momoh MA,Akpa PA,Ozioko AC

更新日期：2018-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung injury was the common and serious complication of sepsis, a systemic inflammatory response syndrome caused by severe infections. Chinese medicine had unique advantages in attenuating inflammatory response, such as Zuojinfang (ZJF). ZJF was a classical compound herb formula composed of Coptidis Rhizoma and Euodiae...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yin J,Yu Z,Hou C,Peng Y,Xiao J,Jiang J

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The neonatal immune system is still immature, which makes it more susceptible to the infectious agents. Neonatal immune activation is associated with increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier, causing an inflammatory cascade in the CNS and altering behavioral and neurochemical parameters. One of the hypotheses...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Dias P,Freiberger V,Ventura L,Bragagnolo D,Dutra ML,Horewicz VV,Comim CM

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We encapsulated tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), a major proinflammatory cytokine, into cholesteryl pullulan (CHP) to prepare TNF/CHP nanoparticles. In this report, we describe the immune-enhancing capability of the nanoparticles to act as a vaccine adjuvant. TNF/CHP nanoparticles showed excellent storage stability an...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Nagatomo D,Taniai M,Ariyasu H,Taniguchi M,Aga M,Ariyasu T,Ohta T,Fukuda S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adipose-derived stem cells (hASCs) are an attractive cell source for therapeutic applicability in diverse fields for the repair and regeneration of damaged or malfunctioning tissues and organs. There is a growing number of cell therapies using stem cells due to their characteristics of modulation of immune syste...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： de Paula AC,Sáfar GA,Góes AM,Bemquerer MP,Ribeiro MA,Stumpf HO

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) are the primary vectors of trypanosomes, which can cause human and animal African trypanosomiasis in Sub-Saharan African countries. The objective of this study was to explore the genome of Glossina morsitans morsitans for evidence of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from microorganisms. We e...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Nakao R,Abe T,Funayama S,Sugimoto C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reliable in vivo imaging method to localize transplanted cells and monitor their viability would enable a systematic investigation of cell therapy. Most stem cell transplantation studies have used immunohistological staining, which does not provide information about the migration of transplanted cells in vivo in the...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Kim JH,Lee HJ,Song YS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is the most common medical condition in pregnancy. There is an increasing trend to prescribe ondansetron although its safety for use in pregnancy has not been established. METHODS:Exposed pregnancies were all births in Western Australia, 2002-2005, where the mother was dispensed o...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Colvin L,Gill AW,Slack-Smith L,Stanley FJ,Bower C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously found that the greatest salivation response in healthy human subjects is produced by facial vibrotactile stimulation of 89 Hz frequency with 1.9 μ m amplitude (89 Hz-S), as reported by Hiraba et al. (2012, 20011, and 2008). We assessed relationships between the blood flow to brain via functional near-inf...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Hiraba H,Inoue M,Gora K,Sato T,Nishimura S,Yamaoka M,Kumakura A,Ono S,Wakasa H,Nakayama E,Abe K,Ueda K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing studies have revealed that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are not transcriptional noise but play important roles in the regulation of a wide range of biological processes, and the dysregulation of lncRNA genes is associated with disease development. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative dis...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Wan G,Zhou W,Hu Y,Ma R,Jin S,Liu G,Jiang Q

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study showed that oral mushroom beta-glucan treatment significantly increased IFN-γ mRNA expression but significantly reduced COX-2 mRNA expression within the lung. For LLC tumor model, oral Ganoderma lucidum or Antrodia camphorata polysaccharides treatments significantly reduced TGF-β production in serum....

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Wang WJ,Wu YS,Chen S,Liu CF,Chen SN

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By measuring messenger RNA levels for all genes in a sample, RNA-seq provides an attractive option to characterize the global changes in transcription. RNA-seq is becoming the widely used platform for gene expression profiling. However, real transcription signals in the RNA-seq data are confounded with measurement and...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Li L,Xiong M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large-scale production of cardiomyocytes is a key step in the development of cell therapy and tissue engineering to treat cardiovascular diseases, particularly those caused by ischemia. The main objective of this study was to establish a procedure for the efficient production of cardiomyocytes by reprogramming mes...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zanetti BF,Gomes WJ,Han SW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00