Foot placement and arm position affect the five times sit-to-stand test time of individuals with chronic stroke.

abstract：:The present study deals with the enzymatic synthesis of biodiesel by transesterification of Jatropha oil (Jatropha curcas L.) with ethanol in a solvent-free system. Seven commercial lipase preparations immobilized by covalent attachment on epoxy-polysiloxane-polyvinyl alcohol composite (epoxy-SiO2-PVA) were tested as ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Souza LT,Mendes AA,de Castro HF

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:The purpose of this study was to describe the challenge of cross-cultural care encounters from perspective of imported nurses in Lhasa, Tibet, as well as investigate the relationship of cross-cultural care encounters and its influencing factors. Methods:A cross-sectional survey was designed among 300 imported nur...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Bai M,Sui X,Zhou C,Li Y,Li J,Gao R,Du Z,Xu L,Li F

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Early recovery from muscular injury is crucial for elite athletes. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been reported to be beneficial in terms of accelerating cell recovery and tissue repair, which are considered to be helpful for eliminating fatigue and recovering stamina. This study was performed to evaluate the ef...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Chen CY,Chou WY,Ko JY,Lee MS,Wu RW

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between diabetes mellitus (DM) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) has attracted wide attention. Studies have reported that ginsenoside Rb1 can improve human cognitive ability and glucose tolerance during the development of diabetes. The mechanism behind the improvement in cognitive ability and glucose toler...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yang R,Jiang X,He X,Liang D,Sun S,Zhou G

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:The use of blue light-emitting devices (smartphones, tablets, and laptops) at bedtime has negative effects on sleep due to light stimulation and/or problematic excessive use. We aimed to evaluate, among young medical students, if the perception of sleep disturbances due to bedtime use of these devices is c...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Jniene A,Errguig L,El Hangouche AJ,Rkain H,Aboudrar S,El Ftouh M,Dakka T

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Strongyloidiasis is an intestinal parasitic infection mainly caused by Strongyloides stercoralis. Although it is a predominant parasite in tropics and subtropics where sanitation and hygiene are poorly practiced, the true prevalence of strongyloidiasis is not known due to low-sensitivity diagnostic methods. ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Hailu T,Nibret E,Amor A,Munshea A

更新日期：2020-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is the leading cause of lung cancer-associated death. Downregulated expression of E-cadherin followed by epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is critical for metastasis initiation in lung cancer. BTBD7 plays essential roles in lung cancer metastasis, but the mechanisms remain unknown. This study aimed to...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Shu J,Wang L,Han F,Chen Y,Wang S,Luo F

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:TAL effectors (TALEs) contain a modular DNA-binding domain that is composed of tandem repeats. In all naturally occurring TALEs, the end of tandem repeats is invariantly a truncated half repeat. To investigate the potential role of the last half repeat in TALEs, we performed comparative molecular dynamics simulations ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Wan H,Chang S,Hu JP,Tian XH,Wang MH

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a type of neurodevelopmental disorder with core impairments in the social relationships, communication, imagination, or flexibility of thought and restricted repertoire of activity and interest. In this work, a new computer aided diagnosis (CAD) of autism ‎based on electroencephalogra...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Djemal R,AlSharabi K,Ibrahim S,Alsuwailem A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Parents' birth weight acts as a predictor for the descendant birth weight, with the correlation more strongly transmitted through maternal line. The present research aims to study the correlation between the child's low or increased birth weight, the mother's birth weight, and maternal conditi...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Costa e Silva LI,Gomes FM,Valente MH,Escobar AM,Brentani AV,Grisi SJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioadhesive nasal dosage forms are an attractive method for overcoming rapid mucociliary clearance transport in the nose and for delivering the drug directly to brain. The present study was designed to formulate chondroitin sulphate (CS) and chitosan (CH) nasal inserts employing zolmitriptan, an antimigraine drug. The...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Kaur K,Kaur G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is rapidly becoming the most prevalent cause of liver disease worldwide and afflicts adults and children as currently associated with obesity and insulin resistance. Even though lately some advances have been made to elucidate the mechanism and causes of the disease much remain...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Duarte N,Coelho IC,Patarrão RS,Almeida JI,Penha-Gonçalves C,Macedo MP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus species originating from Greece were examined by morphological and molecular criteria to explore the diversity of this genus. The phylogenetic relationships of these species were determined using sequences from the ITS and IGS region of the nuclear rRNA gene complex, two nuclear genes ( β -tubulin (benA) a...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Krimitzas A,Pyrri I,Kouvelis VN,Kapsanaki-Gotsi E,Typas MA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:We compared the prostate cancer (PCa) detection rates of targeted biopsy (TB) and saturation biopsy (SB) in patients with previous negative biopsy and the accuracy of TB and SB stratified by different serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels. Materials and Methods:Overall 185 patients were enrolled. In t...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Chang CH,Chiu HC,Lin WC,Ho TL,Chang H,Chang YH,Huang CP,Wu HC,Yang CR,Hsieh PF

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental animal models improve our understanding of technical problems in peritoneal dialysis PD, and such studies contribute to solving crucial clinical problems. We established an acute and chronic PD model in nonuremic and uremic rats. We observed that kinetics of PD in rats change as the animals are aging, and...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Pawlaczyk K,Baum E,Schwermer K,Hoppe K,Lindholm B,Breborowicz A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury is experienced by individuals suffering from cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart diseases and subsequently undergoing reperfusion treatments in order to manage the conditions. The occlusion of blood flow to the tissue, termed ischemia, can be especially detriment...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zhou T,Chuang CC,Zuo L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria, the energy-generating organelles, play a role in numerous cellular functions including adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production, cellular homeostasis, and apoptosis. Maternal inheritance of mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is universally observed in humans and most animals. In general, high leve...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Song WH,Ballard JW,Yi YJ,Sutovsky P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) can aid in improving diagnostic level; however, the main problem currently faced by CAD is that it cannot obtain sufficient labeled samples. To solve this problem, in this study, we adopt a generative adversarial network (GAN) approach and design a semisupervised learning algorith...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zheng G,Han G,Soomro NQ,Ma L,Zhang F,Zhao Y,Zhao X,Zhou C

更新日期：2019-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the human central nervous system (CNS). Neurotropic demyelinating strain of MHV (MHV-A59 or its isogenic recombinant strain RSA59) induces MS-like disease in mice mediated by microglia, along with a small population of T cells. The mechanism of demyel...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Kishore A,Kanaujia A,Nag S,Rostami AM,Kenyon LC,Shindler KS,Das Sarma J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our research investigates the serum levels of three angiogenic factors in the AF family, namely, placenta growth factor (PlGF), basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), in 54 patients with SLE (SLE group) and 28 healthy controls (normal control) through ELISA measurement. A...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zhou L,Lu G,Shen L,Wang L,Wang M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver cell culture within three-dimensional structures provides an improved culture system for various applications in basic research, pharmacological screening, and implantable or extracorporeal liver support. Biodegradable calcium-based scaffolds in such systems could enhance liver cell functionality by providing en...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Finoli A,Schmelzer E,Over P,Nettleship I,Gerlach JC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Preeclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy-specific hypertension syndrome and is one of the leading causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been reported to be abnormally expressed in many diseases, including preeclampsia. The present study is aimed at identifying t...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zhang Z,Wang P,Zhang L,Huang C,Gao J,Li Y,Yang B

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor (PPAR) gene family members exhibit distinct patterns of distribution in tissues and differ in functions. The purpose of this study is to investigate the evolutionary impacts on diversity functions of PPAR members and the regulatory differences on gene expression patterns. 63...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zhou T,Yan X,Wang G,Liu H,Gan X,Zhang T,Wang J,Li L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The use of unlicensed food and herbal supplements to enhance sexual functions is drastically increasing. This phenomenon, combined with the availability of these products over the Internet, represents a challenge from a clinical and a public health perspective. METHODS:A comprehensive multilingual assessm...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Corazza O,Martinotti G,Santacroce R,Chillemi E,Di Giannantonio M,Schifano F,Cellek S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to perform a structural characterization and evaluate the in vitro safety profile and in vitro antioxidant activity of liquid crystalline systems (LCS) with and without retinyl palmitate (RP). LCS containing polyether functional siloxane (PFS) as a surfactant, silicon glycol copolymer (...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Oliveira MB,do Prado AH,Bernegossi J,Sato CS,Lourenço Brunetti I,Scarpa MV,Leonardi GR,Friberg SE,Chorilli M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of FDG uptake in the physiologic and malignant nasopharynx were investigated in the paper which was correlated with either pathologic findings or clinical follow-up. Three patients had pathologically established nasopharyngeal malignancy. In the 3 nasopharyngeal malignancies, 2 had diffusely and ex...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ma C,Zou R,Huo Y,Chen S,Wang S,Wu S,Ye Z,Wu Z,Fang F,Wang H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumor patients and patients after traumas are endangered by a reduced immune defense, and a silver coating on their megaprostheses may reduce their risks of infection. The aim of this study was to determine the silver ion concentration directly measured from the periprosthetic tissue and the influence on the...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Hussmann B,Johann I,Kauther MD,Landgraeber S,Jäger M,Lendemans S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are composed of a group of endogenous and noncoding small RNAs which control expression of complementary target mRNAs. The extended functions of miRNAs enhance the complexity of gene-regulatory processes in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Indeed, recent studies have shown that miRNAs ar...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Li M,Zhang J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1155/2017/7268308.]. ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Lin JA,Blanco R,Shibata Y,Nakamoto T,Lin KH

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the application of patient-specific instruments (PSI) for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) increases the cost of the surgical procedure, PSI may reduce operative time and improve implant alignment, which could reduce the number of revision surgeries. We report our experience with TKA using PSI techniques in 120 ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Kwon OR,Kang KT,Son J,Choi YJ,Suh DS,Koh YG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00