The role of insula-associated brain network in touch.

abstract：:Brachial plexus injury often involves traumatic root avulsion resulting in permanent paralysis of the innervated muscles. The lack of sufficient regeneration from spinal motoneurons to the peripheral nerve (PN) is considered to be one of the major causes of the unsatisfactory outcome of various surgical interventions ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Su H,Yuan Q,Qin D,Yang X,Wong WM,So KF,Wu W

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1155/2012/853879.]. ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Shirasu N,Yamada H,Shibaguchi H,Kuroki M,Kuroki M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) bone cement is a popular bone void filler for vertebroplasty. However, the use of PMMA has some drawbacks, including the material's excessive stiffness, exothermic polymerization, and short handling time. This study aimed to create an ideal modified bone cement to solve the above-mentione...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Tai CL,Lai PL,Lin WD,Tsai TT,Lee YC,Liu MY,Chen LH

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis, caused by infection with Schistosoma species, remains an important parasitic zoonosis. Thioredoxin glutathione reductase of Schistosoma japonicum (SjTGR) plays an important role in the development of the parasite and for its survival. Here we present a recombinant plasmid DNA vaccine, pVAX1/SjTGR, to ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Cao Y,Zhao B,Han Y,Zhang J,Li X,Qiu C,Wu X,Hong Y,Ai D,Lin J,Fu Z

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to assess the prevalence of hospitalization for endometriosis in the general population in France and in each French region and to describe temporal trends, rehospitalization rates, and prevalence of the different types of endometriosis. The analyses were carried out on French hospital discharge data and cove...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： von Theobald P,Cottenet J,Iacobelli S,Quantin C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are multipotent cells, which can give rise to several cell types including osteoblasts, adipocytes, and chondroblasts. These cells can be found in a variety of adult and fetal tissues, such as bone marrow, adipose tissue, cord blood, and placenta. In recent years, the biological proper...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Haddad R,Saldanha-Araujo F

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to compare the effects of rectal midazolam addition after applying bupivacaine and caudal anesthesia on postoperative analgesia time, the need for additional analgesics, postoperative recovery, and sedation and to find out its adverse effects in children having lower abdominal surgery. METH...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Saylan S,Eroglu A,Dohman D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to analyse the diversity of the Campylobacter jejuni population in broilers and to evaluate the major source of contamination in poultry meat. Eight rearing cycles over one year provided samples from three different broiler farms processed at the same slaughterhouse. A total of 707 C. jejuni were isol...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Marotta F,Garofolo G,Di Donato G,Aprea G,Platone I,Cianciavicchia S,Alessiani A,Di Giannatale E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metals have the potential to interact and induce several stress responses in the plants; thus, effects of heavy metal stress on DNA damages and total antioxidants level in Urtica dioica leaves and stems were investigated. The samples are sampled from areas with different metal exposition. Metal content was analy...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Gjorgieva D,Kadifkova Panovska T,Ruskovska T,Bačeva K,Stafilov T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, much emphasis has been put on the transcriptional activation of HIV-1, which is proposed as a promised strategy for eradicating latent HIV-1 provirus. Two drugs, prostratin and hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA), have shown potent effects as inducers for releasing HIV-1 latency when used alone or in...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Chen D,Wang H,Aweya JJ,Chen Y,Chen M,Wu X,Chen X,Lu J,Chen R,Liu M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissues in the anterior segment of the eye are particular vulnerable to oxidative stress. To minimise oxidative stress, ocular tissues utilise a range of antioxidant defence systems which include nonenzymatic and enzymatic antioxidants in combination with repair and chaperone systems. However, as we age our antioxidan...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Umapathy A,Donaldson P,Lim J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:We evaluated the efficacies of the adaptive steepest descent projection onto convex sets (ASD-POCS), simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART), filtered back projection (FBP), and maximum likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM) total variation minimization iterative algorithms for reducing expos...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Gomi T,Koibuchi Y

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is an unmet need for a specific cardiovascular risk (CV) algorithm for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Lipoprotein data are often not available in RA cohorts but could be obtained from frozen blood samples. The objective of this study was to estimate the storage effect on lipoproteins in long-term (...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Arts EE,Popa CD,Smith JP,Arntz OJ,van de Loo FA,Donders R,Semb AG,Kitas GD,van Riel PL,Fransen J

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：Background:The apolipoprotein E knockout (ApoE -/-) mouse model is well established for the study of terpenoids in the prevention of atherosclerosis. Studies investigating the clinical benefit of terpenoids in humans are scarce. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effects of terpenoid administration ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Liu H,Zhang Y,Sun S,Wang S

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) are an abundant cell source and provide an easy way to harvest mesenchymal stem cells, which are the focus of considerable attention in regenerative medicine. Electric fields (EF) play roles in many biological events and have been reported to promote cell proliferation, migration, an...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Jin M,Zhang Y,Bian Y,Qi R,Gao X

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the authors have developed endoscopic fibre-optic pressure sensor to detect variceal pressure and presented the validation of in vivo and in vitro studies, because the HVPG requires catheterization of hepatic veins, which is invasive and inconvenient. Compared with HVPG, it is better to measure directly...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Sun B,Kong DR,Li SW,Yu DF,Wang GJ,Yu FF,Wu Q,Xu JM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin (SST) receptors (SSTRs) belong to the typical 7-transmembrane domain family of G-protein-coupled receptors. Five distinct subtypes (termed SSTR1-5) have been identified, with SSTR2 showing the highest affinity for natural SST and synthetic SST analogs. Most neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have high expressio...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Xu C,Zhang H

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Aquaporin (AQP) 3 and AQP 5 are involved in tumorigenesis and tumor progression of several tumor types. AIM:To investigate expression patterns and clinical significance of AQP3 and AQP5 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS:Immunohistochemistry was performed to detect the expression of AQP3 and AQP5 i...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Guo X,Sun T,Yang M,Li Z,Li Z,Gao Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among other diseases characterized by the onset of cachexia, congestive heart failure takes a place of relevance, considering the high prevalence of this pathology in most European countries and in the United States, and is undergoing a rapid increase in developing countries. Actually, only few models of cardiac cache...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Sala V,Gatti S,Gallo S,Medico E,Cantarella D,Cimino J,Ponzetto A,Crepaldi T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to explore the effect of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) on radiation-induced endothelial dysfunction and histological changes in the urinary bladder. bFGF was administrated to human umbilical vein cells (HUVEC) or urinary bladder immediately after radiation. Reduced expression of thrombo...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zhang S,Qiu X,Zhang Y,Fu K,Zhao X,Wu J,Hu Y,Zhu W,Guo H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of cilostazol on proangiogenesis functions in human early endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) in vitro and the therapeutic implication of hybrid therapy with cilostazol and human early EPCs in vivo. Cilostazol significantly increased colony-forming units and enhanced differentiation ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Tseng SY,Chao TH,Li YH,Cho CL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new chemokine Prokineticin 2 (PROK2) and its receptors (PKR1 and PKR2) have a role in inflammatory pain and immunomodulation. Here we identified PROK2 as a critical mediator of neuropathic pain in the chronic constriction injury (CCI) of the sciatic nerve in mice and demonstrated that blocking the prokineticin rec...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Lattanzi R,Maftei D,Marconi V,Florenzano F,Franchi S,Borsani E,Rodella LF,Balboni G,Salvadori S,Sacerdote P,Negri L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Advancing age, chronic inflammation, oxidative damage, and disorders of lipid metabolism are positively linked to the late-life cognitive impairment. Serum biomarkers may be associated with the cognitive status in older men. Methods. 440 old male subjects with different cognitive functions were recruited t...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ma C,Li J,Bao Z,Ruan Q,Yu Z

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Severe sepsis and septic shock are the primary causes of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), which is the most frequent cause of death in intensive care unit patients. Many pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators, such as interleukin-6 (IL-6), play a strategic role in septic syndrome. Continuous renal...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Servillo G,Vargas M,Pastore A,Procino A,Iannuzzi M,Capuano A,Memoli A,Riccio E,Memoli B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The future development of shrimp farming needs to improve its ecoefficiency. The purpose of this study was to evaluate water quality, flows, and nitrogen balance and production parameters on a farm with interconnected pond design to improve the efficiency of the semi-intensive culture of Litopenaeus vannamei ponds. Th...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Barraza-Guardado RH,Arreola-Lizárraga JA,Miranda-Baeza A,Juárez-García M,Juvera-Hoyos A,Casillas-Hernández R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative and reproducible analysis of the standard body movement in Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) was performed in this study. We aimed to provide a reference of the upper extremities for standardizing TCC practice. Microsoft Kinect was used to record the motion during the practice of TCC. The preparation form and eight...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ho TJ,Chou KT,Li CH,Kuo BC,Huang TC

更新日期：2018-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal metabolism is another cancer hallmark. The two most characterized altered metabolic pathways are high rates of glycolysis and glutaminolysis, which are natural targets for cancer therapy. Currently, a number of newer compounds to block glycolysis and glutaminolysis are being developed; nevertheless, lonidamin...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Cervantes-Madrid D,Romero Y,Dueñas-González A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertrophic Scars (HTSs) are a complex fibroproliferative disorder, and their exact mechanism is still not fully understood. In this study, we first found that cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) expression was downregulated in human hypertrophic scars at the RNA and protein levels by microarra...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zhou Y,Zhao Y,Du H,Suo Y,Chen H,Li H,Liang X,Li Q,Huang X

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00