Autophagy in Drosophila: from historical studies to current knowledge.

abstract：:Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a steering force for the cardiovascular diseases epidemic in Asia. This study aimed to compare the prevalence of MetS in Malaysian adults using NCEP-ATP III, IDF, and JIS definitions, identify the demographic factors associated with MetS, and determine the level of agreement between these ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ramli AS,Daher AM,Nor-Ashikin MN,Mat-Nasir N,Ng KK,Miskan M,Ambigga KS,Ariffin F,Mazapuspavina MY,Abdul-Razak S,Abdul-Hamid H,Abd-Majid F,Abu-Bakar N,Nawawi H,Yusoff K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Pakistan is a country with one of the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world, and therefore, it is imperative to revisit the design of behaviour change interventions in the program. This study was designed to understand and assess the knowledge, awareness, perceptions, and health-seeking behaviour ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Khan A,Shaikh BT,Baig MA

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the present study were (1) to investigate the pathological characteristics of gastrocnemius muscle (GM) and quantitatively assess GM tissue stiffness in rat models with spinal cord injury (SCI) and (2) to explore the correlation between pathological characteristics changes and Young's modulus value of GM. ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Jiang L,Wang YJ,Wang QY,Wang Q,Wei XM,Li N,Guo WP,Dou ZL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year, hundreds of millions of people travel across international borders or even oceans, and up to 230 million may remain for long periods. Among these, 3-5 million settle permanently in their new homes, with about 1 million migrating permanently to the United States of America. This may result in transport of pa...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Smith Darr J,Conn DB

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External focus of attention (EFA) and internal focus of attention (IFA) represent commonly used strategies to instruct subjects during exercise. Several studies showed EFA to be more effective than IFA to improve motor performance and learning. To date the role of these strategies on motor performance during finger mo...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Rossettini G,Testa M,Vicentini M,Manganotti P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of patulin with human serum albumin (HSA) was studied in vitro under normal physiological conditions. The study was performed using fluorescence, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis), circular dichroism (CD), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and molecular modeling techniques. The quenching mechanism...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yuqin L,Guirong Y,Zhen Y,Caihong L,Baoxiu J,Jiao C,Yurong G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:(1) To determine whether manual (MTB), or electric, tooth brushing (ETB) modulates whole salivary flow rate in older adults who are free of systemic disease. (2) To determine the duration of the brushing-related modulation of salivary flow rate. (3) To compare salivary flow rate modulation associated with MT...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Affoo RH,Trottier K,Garrick R,Mascarenhas T,Jang Y,Martin RE

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aims to investigate the effects of the alcohol extract of Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt (AC) on diabetic nephropathy (DN) mice. A total of 30 db/db (DN) mice were divided into 3 groups, which were treated with AC (300 mg/kg/day), metformin (180 mg/kg/day), or saline by gavage for 10 weeks. Ten db/m mice treated w...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yu S,Zhao H,Yang W,Amat R,Peng J,Li Y,Deng K,Mao X,Jiao Y

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular aging, a specific type of organic aging, is related to age-dependent changes in the vasculature, including atherosclerotic plaques, arterial stiffness, fibrosis, and increased intimal thickening. Vascular aging could influence the threshold, process, and severity of various cardiovascular diseases, thus makin...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Lin X,Zhan JK,Wang YJ,Tan P,Chen YY,Deng HQ,Liu YS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The vasoconstrictor endothelin-1 (ET-1) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cerebral vasospasm following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Previous results showed that CGS 26303, an endothelin converting enzyme (ECE) inhibitor, effectively prevented and reversed arterial narrowing in animal m...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Wang CJ,Lee PY,Wu BN,Wu SC,Loh JK,Tsai HP,Chung CL,Kassell NF,Kwan AL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To investigate the anesthetic management in premature infants with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) treated with intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) injections. METHODS:A retrospective chart review was performed for the patients with ROP who had IVB injection. Clinical characteristics, demographic variables, ane...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Tokgöz O,Sahin A,Tüfek A,Cınar Y,Güzel A,Ciftçi T,Celik F,Yüksel H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic bone disorder is usually caused by abnormalities of minerals and hormones metabolism. Recently, it has been proved by several studies that the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in local bone tissue is directly involved in bone metabolism. Activation of skeletal RAS plays an important role in bone metabolic diso...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Gebru Y,Diao TY,Pan H,Mukwaya E,Zhang Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feature selection has become the essential step in biomarker discovery from high-dimensional genomics data. It is recognized that different feature selection techniques may result in different set of biomarkers, that is, different groups of genes highly correlated to a given pathological condition, but few direct comp...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Dessì N,Pascariello E,Pes B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:According to several studies, the autoimmune response may lead to osteoarthritis and dyslipidemia and may affect the homeostasis of the human body's internal environment and then cause its own immune regulation. Consequently, the risk of osteoarthritis might be increased by dyslipidemia, but this association...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Xiong J,Long J,Chen X,Li Y,Song H

更新日期：2020-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to investigate the reasons of transfers from long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) to emergency departments (EDs) of university hospitals in geriatric patients and to categorize the avoidable causes of these transfers. This retrospective multicenter study involved patients aged 65 years and olde...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Kim K,Lee DH,Yune HY,Wee JH,Kim DH,Kim EC,Lim JY,Choi SP

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3'-end processing (3'P) of each viral long terminal repeat (LTR) during human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) integration is a vital step in the HIV life cycle. Blocking the 3'P using 3'P inhibitor has recently become an attractive strategy for HIV-1 therapeutic intervention. Recently, we have developed a no...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Sakkhachornphop S,Thongkum W,Tayapiwatana C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hosts' innate defense systems are upregulated by antimicrobial peptide elicitors (APEs). Our aim was to investigate the effects of hyperthermia, ultraviolet A rays (UVA), and ultraviolet C rays (UVC) as well as glucose and ascorbic acid (AA) on the regulation of human β-defensin 1 (DEFB1), cathelicidin (CAMP), and int...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Cruz Díaz LA,Flores Miramontes MG,Chávez Hurtado P,Allen K,Gonzalez Ávila M,Prado Montes de Oca E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective. To confirm that physical activity program improves the symptoms of dementia and the most effective physical activity was selected to help establish exercise programs. Methods. Three databases, PubMed, Science Direct, and Willey online, were used to collect articles. The databases were published between Janu...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Lee HS,Park SW,Park YJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Our study aims to determine the prevalence of nicotine dependence and investigate the effect of nicotine dependence on psychopathology among schizophrenia patients. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was carried out in an outpatient psychiatric clinic at a general hospital in Malaysia. 180 recruited subjects...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yee A,Bt Nek Mohamed NN,Binti Hashim AH,Loh HS,Harbajan Singh MK,Ng CG,Jambunathan ST

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1155/2018/2109865.]. ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： You J,Chen W,Chen J,Zheng Q,Dong J,Zhu Y

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Aspergillus niger strain to reduce organic and mineral pollution as well as the toxicity of two tannery wastewaters, the unhairing effluent (UE) and the final effluent (FE), taken from a local Tunisian tannery and under nonsterile conditions, was studied. Raw effluents show alkaline pH ≥11; thus experim...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Boujelben R,Ellouze M,Sayadi S

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:One common negative side effect of orthodontic treatment with fixed appliances is the development of white spot lesions (WSLs) around brackets. This study is aimed at comparing the efficacy of various oral hygiene practices in preventing enamel demineralization around orthodontic brackets under similar in vitro condit...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Lale S,Solak H,Hınçal E,Vahdettin L

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied a metabolomic approach to monitor the modifications occurring in goat vitreous humor (VH) metabolite composition at different times (0, 6, 12, 18, and 24 hours) after death. The (1)H-NMR analysis of the VH samples was performed for the simultaneous determination of several metabolites (i.e., the metabolite ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Rosa MF,Scano P,Noto A,Nioi M,Sanna R,Paribello F,De-Giorgio F,Locci E,d'Aloja E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diethylnitrosamine (DEN) induces hepatocarcinogenesis, increasing mitotic hepatocytes and leading to chronic inflammation. In addition, type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is also characterized by a proinflammatory state and by requiring insulin exogenous treatment. Given the association of diabetes, insulin treatment, an...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Arboatti AS,Lambertucci F,Sedlmeier MG,Pisani G,Monti J,Álvarez ML,Francés DEA,Ronco MT,Carnovale CE

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:So far, there is no report regarding the micro-Raman vibrational fingerprint of the bonds between 10-methacryloyloxy-decyl dihydrogen phosphate (10-MDP) and zirconia ceramics. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify the Raman vibrational peaks related to the bonds of 10-MDP with zirconia, as well as the influence ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： De-Paula DM,Loguercio AD,Reis A,Frota NM,Melo R,Yoshihara K,Feitosa VP

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Atherosclerosis remains the most common cause of deaths worldwide. Endothelial cell apoptosis is an important process in the progress of atherosclerosis, as it can cause the endothelium to lose their capability in regulating the lipid homeostasis, inflammation, and immunity. Endothelial cell injury can disrupt the int...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Song N,Jia L,Cao H,Ma Y,Chen N,Chen S,Lv X,Yang G

更新日期：2020-06-20 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：Objectives:To evaluate the role of short-term low-dose glucocorticoids in mild COVID-19 patients. Methods:We conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional, single-center study in Kunming, China. A total of 33 mild COVID-19 cases were divided into two treatment groups (with and without glucocorticoids, methylprednisolone,...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Fu HY,Luo Y,Gao JP,Wang L,Li HJ,Li X,Xue L,Tang XQ,Li HW,Du YR

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A Multilayered Multidisk Tablet (MLMDT) comprising two drug-loaded disks enveloped by three drug-free barrier layers was developed for use in chronotherapeutic disorders, employing two model drugs, theophylline and diltiazem HCl. The MLMDT was designed to achieve two pulses of drug release separated by a lag phase. Th...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Khan Z,Choonara YE,Kumar P,du Toit LC,Ndesendo VM,Pillay V

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00