Enhancing Image Characteristics of Retinal Images of Aggressive Posterior Retinopathy of Prematurity Using a Novel Software, (RetiView).

abstract：BACKGROUND:Noninvasive tools to diagnose nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), including transient elastography (TE) and enhanced liver fibrosis panel (ELF), have only been evaluated in children with biopsy-proven NAFLD. We evaluated the prevalence of ELF and TE abnormalities in obese children without clinical live...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Goldschmidt I,Di Nanni A,Streckenbach C,Schnell K,Danne T,Baumann U

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:A multifactorial decision support system (mDSS) is a tool designed to improve the clinical decision-making process, while using clinical inputs for an individual patient to generate case-specific advice. The study provides an overview of the literature to analyze current available mDSS focused on prostate ca...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： van Wijk Y,Halilaj I,van Limbergen E,Walsh S,Lutgens L,Lambin P,Vanneste BGL

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn disease (CD). Similar symptoms, but different treatment procedures for both diseases require precise diagnosis. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are major posttranscriptional players that regulate the expression of genes during the inflammation and thus co...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Guz M,Dworzański T,Jeleniewicz W,Cybulski M,Kozicka J,Stepulak A,Celiński K

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Gravity is crucial for spatial perception, postural equilibrium, and movement generation. The vestibular apparatus is the main sensory system involved in monitoring gravity. Hair cells in the vestibular maculae respond to gravitoinertial forces, but they cannot distinguish between linear accelerations and changes of h...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Lacquaniti F,Bosco G,Gravano S,Indovina I,La Scaleia B,Maffei V,Zago M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although considerable progress has been made in the management of patients with invasive fungal infections, Candida bloodstream infections are still widespread in hospital settings. Incidence rates vary geographically, often because of different patient populations. The aim of the present study was to describe the epi...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Caggiano G,Coretti C,Bartolomeo N,Lovero G,De Giglio O,Montagna MT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:This study aims to determine the changing in hip anatomy parameters with age and reveals the reason for the extorsion of lower extremity in the aged. Design:Retrospective study. Participants:One hundred and forty patients who had received imaging check of the femur and acetabulum between October 2013 and O...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yin Y,Zhang R,Jin L,Li S,Hou Z,Zhang Y

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Exosomes can reach distant tissues through blood circulation to communicate directly with target cells and rapidly regulate intracellular signals. Exosomes play an important role in cardiovascular pathophysiology. Different exosomes derived from different sources, and their cargos have different mechanisms of action. ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Liang B,He X,Zhao YX,Zhang XX,Gu N

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the role and mechanism of miR-15b in the proliferation and apoptosis of glioma. METHODS:The miR-15b mimics were transfected into human glioma cells to upregulate the miR-15b expression. Cyclin D1 was determined by both western blotting analysis and luciferase reporter assay. Methylthiazol tetrazoliu...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Sun G,Shi L,Yan S,Wan Z,Jiang N,Fu L,Li M,Guo J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women worldwide. The search for novel compounds with antitumor activity, with less adverse effects and higher efficacy, and the development of methods to evaluate their toxicity is an area of intense research. In this study we implemented the preparation and culture of br...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Carranza-Torres IE,Guzmán-Delgado NE,Coronado-Martínez C,Bañuelos-García JI,Viveros-Valdez E,Morán-Martínez J,Carranza-Rosales P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feed efficiency (FE) is an important trait affecting costs in swine industry. Investigation on FE-related genes in different tissues is valuable for molecular breeding. Hypothalamus is a convergent and integrated centre for multiple nutrient-related signals. The present study identified 363 differentially expressed (D...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Hou Y,Hu M,Zhou H,Li C,Li X,Liu X,Zhao Y,Zhao S

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza vaccination for health care personnel (HCP) is recommended particularly because it indirectly protects patients from contracting the disease. Vaccinating can therefore be interpreted as a prosocial act. However, HCP vaccination rates are often far too low to prevent nosocomial infections. Effective intervent...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Böhm R,Betsch C,Korn L,Holtmann C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To identify the Acinetobacter baumannii infection among transfusion dependent thalassemia patients. METHODS:A quantitative approach was employed to assess Acinetobacter baumannii infection in transfusion dependent thalassemia patients. Samples were collected from 916 patients, which have shown bacterial growth...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Abdul Rasheed M,Alzahrani FM,Sattar Shaikh S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was aimed at investigating the changes in the degree of weight support loaded on the cane and paretic-side lower limb muscle activation according to the types of cane and cane-supported gait using a weight-support feedback cane (WSFC). Eleven hemiparetic stroke patients were recruited from a local rehabilit...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Choi EP,Yang SJ,Jung AH,Na HS,Kim YO,Cho KH

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza virus contains two highly variable envelope glycoproteins, hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA). Here we show that, while HA evolution is much more complex than NA evolution, it still shows abrupt punctuation changes linked to punctuation changes of NA. HA exhibits proteinquakes, which resemble earthqua...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Phillips JC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internally symmetric proteins are proteins that have a symmetrical structure in their monomeric single-chain form. Around 10-15% of the protein domains can be regarded as having some sort of internal symmetry. In this regard, we previously published SymD (symmetry detection), an algorithm that determines whether a giv...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Jha A,Flurchick KM,Bikdash M,Kc DB

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Adenocarcinoma, the most commonly diagnosed histologic type of lung cancer, is associated with smoking. Cigarette smoke promotes inflammation on the airways, which might be mediated by Th17 cells. This inflammatory environment may contribute to tumor developm...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Islas-Vazquez L,Prado-Garcia H,Aguilar-Cazares D,Meneses-Flores M,Galicia-Velasco M,Romero-Garcia S,Camacho-Mendoza C,Lopez-Gonzalez JS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than 30 years, heart transplantation has been a successful therapy for patients with terminal heart failure. Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) was developed as a therapy for end-stage heart failure at a time when cardiac transplantation was not yet a useful treatment modality. With the more successful outc...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Anand J,Singh SK,Antoun DG,Cohn WE,Frazier OH,Mallidi HR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of polyglutamine diseases dates back approximately 20 years to the discovery of a polyglutamine repeat in the androgen receptor of SBMA followed by the identification of similar expansion mutations in Huntington's disease, SCA1, DRPLA, and the other spinocerebellar ataxias. This common molecular feature of...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Weber JJ,Sowa AS,Binder T,Hübener J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrasound imaging is one of the most common schemes to detect diseases in the clinical practice. There are many advantages of ultrasound imaging such as safety, convenience, and low cost. However, reading ultrasound imaging is not easy. To support the diagnosis of clinicians and reduce the load of doctors, many u...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Huang Q,Zhang F,Li X

更新日期：2018-03-04 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：:Background. Central systolic blood pressure (CSBP) has prognostic significance and simplified devices for its estimation have been introduced recently. The aim of this study was to assess the achievement of the target CSBP in treated hypertensive patients. Subjects and Methods. One hundred patients with well-controlle...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Bulas J,Potočárová M,Murín J,Kozlíková K,Luha J,Čaprnda M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to assess the value of ecological momentary assessment in evaluating physical activity among children, adolescents, and adults. It also determines whether ecological momentary assessment fulfills the criteria of validity, reliability, objectivity, norms, and standardization appli...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Marszalek J,Morgulec-Adamowicz N,Rutkowska I,Kosmol A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1155/2014/479180.]. ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： BioMed Research International

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is a common problem with potentiality to cause irreversible brain damage. Reduction of serum bilirubin level is essential to minimize such damage. Compact fluorescent tubes, halogen bulbs, fiber optic blankets, and LEDs are commonly used light sources for phototherapy with varying efficacie...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Gutta S,Shenoy J,Kamath SP,Mithra P,Baliga BS,Sarpangala M,Srinivasan M

更新日期：2019-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem II photochemistry and phycobiliprotein (PBP) genes of red algae Kappaphycus alvarezii, raw material of κ -carrageenan used in food and pharmaceutical industries, were analyzed in this study. Minimum saturating irradiance (I k) of this algal species was less than 115 μmol m(-2) s(-1). Its actual PSII effici...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Guan X,Wang J,Zhu J,Yao C,Liu J,Qin S,Jiang P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the joint effects of the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes in the folic acid pathway on homocysteine (Hcy) metabolism. METHODS:Four hundred women with normal pregnancies were enrolled in this study. SNPs were identified by MassARRAY. Serum folic acid and Hcy concentration were me...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Liang S,Zhou Y,Wang H,Qian Y,Ma D,Tian W,Persaud-Sharma V,Yu C,Ren Y,Zhou S,Li X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomal changes accompanying bivalve evolution are an area about which few reports have been published. To improve our understanding on chromosome evolution in Veneridae, ribosomal RNA gene clusters were mapped by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) to chromosomes of five species of venerid clams (Venerup...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Pérez-García C,Hurtado NS,Morán P,Pasantes JJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence reveals that the sirtuin family is involved in the pathology of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the association between the polymorphisms of the sirtuin gene and the risk of PD remains elusive. Here, we investigated the possible association of nine SIRT1 and SIRT2 SNPs with the risk of PD thro...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Chen X,Mai H,Chen X,Cai Y,Cheng Q,Chen X,Li X,Fan W,Tang P,Ou M,Yang J,Chen Y,Cui L

更新日期：2019-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is the most common systemic vasculitis in children, and renal involvement (HSP nephritis, HSPN) is a severe manifestation. HSPN is histologically classified by the International Study of Kidney Disease in Children (ISKDC) based on mesangial hypercellularity and the extent of glomerular c...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Kim J,Choi SE,Lee KH,Jeong HJ,Shin JI,Lim BJ

更新日期：2019-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs play an essential role in bladder cancer progression. The role of long noncoding RNA EGFR-AS1 in bladder cancer needs further study. We used clinical specimens to analyze the relationship between EGFR-AS1 and bladder cancer patients' characteristics. The functional experiments and mechanism studies...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Wang A,Jiang A,Gan X,Wang Z,Huang J,Dong K,Liu B,Wang L,Chen M

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00