Yu Zheng, Huizheng Che, Xiangao Xia, Yaqiang Wang et al.
The aerosol microphysical, optical and radiative properties of the whole column and upper planetary boundary layer (PBL) were investigated during 2013 to 2018 based on long-term sun-photometer observations at a surface site (~106 m a.s.l.) and a mountainous site (~1225 m a.s.l.) in Beijing. Raman-Mi...
Mingwei Wei, Fanyue Meng, Shiyuan Wang, Jingxin Li et al.
BACKGROUND: This study evaluated the 2-year efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety of the Vigoo enterovirus 71 (EV71) vaccine. METHOD: In an initial phase 3 study, we randomly assigned healthy infants and children aged 6-35 months (ratio, 1:1) to receive 2 doses of either EV71 vaccine (5120 participan...
Xiaoman Zheng, Zengyu Zhang, Jiancheng Chen, Huanting Liang et al.
Arsenic (As) contamination in vegetables is a severe threat to human health. However, the evaluation of As relative bioavailability (As-RBA) or bioaccessibility in vegetables is still unexplored. The study sought to evaluate the As-RBA in commonly consumed ten leaf vegetables collected from As-pollu...
Chenxi Xu, Junyi Ge, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Liang Yi et al.
Abstract In this study, we investigated the interannual and intraannual variabilities in the oxygen isotope composition (δ 18 O) preserved in the tree ring cellulose of Pinus taiwanensis in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, southeast China, to explore its potential utility for precipitation re...
Benjia Liang, Muhammad Shahbaz, Yang Wang, Huijie Gao et al.
PURPOSE: Adjuvant chemotherapy is one of the significant treatments for colon cancer in clinic. However, it does not achieve the desired therapeutic efficacy, largely due to chemotherapeutic resistance. Integrinβ6 (ITGB6) is expressed in malignant colonic epithelia, but not in normal epithelia, and ...
George Lau, Shuntaro Obi, Jian Zhou, Ryosuke Tateishi et al.
In Asia-Pacific region, hepatocellular carcinoma is a serious health threat attributing to over 600,000 deaths each year and account for over 70% of global cases. Clinically, the major unmet needs are recurrence after curative-intent surgery, liver transplantation or local ablation and disease progr...
Md Shahid Sarwar, Yi-Xuan Xia, Zheng-Ming Liang, Siu Wai Tsang et al.
Since the first discovery in 1961, more than 1300 ent-kaurane diterpenoids have been isolated and identified from different plant sources, mainly the genus Isodon. Chemically, they consist of a perhydrophenanthrene subunit and a cyclopentane ring. A large number of reports describe the anticancer po...
Yuanxin Liang, Ke Gui, Yu Zheng, Xianyi Yang et al.
Biomass burning (BB) in Southeast Asia is particularly pronounced during the dry season. However, the complex topography and long-range transport inherent to Southeast Asia have limited local research on pollution resulting from BB. In this study, the monthly variation in aerosol optical properties ...
Qing-Qing Zhou, Ming‐Peng Zhuo, Rui Chen, Shaozhen Wang et al.
Barnyardgrass-like CuO/Cu<sub>2</sub>O heterostructure nanowires were rationally constructed <italic>via</italic> a synergistic approach integrating precipitation and microwave process based on porous Cu(OH)<sub>2</sub> nanorods and exhibit commendable glucose detection capacity.
Liu-Feng Ma, Longxing Hu, Jibiao Fan, Erick Amombo et al.
ERF (ethylene-responsive factor) transcription factors play important roles in plant stress signaling transduction pathways. However, their specific roles during diverse abiotic stresses tolerance in Gossypium hirsutum are largely unknown. Here, a novel ERF transcription factor, designated GhERF38, ...
Xu Guan, Zheng Liu, Amjad Parvaiz, Antonio Longo et al.
At present, natural orifice specimen extraction surgery (NOSES) has attracted more and more attention worldwide, because of its great advantages including minimal cutaneous trauma and post-operative pain, fast post-operative recovery, short hospital stay, and positive psychological impact. However, ...
Yudong Zhang, Liang Wu, Bradley S. Peterson, Zhengchao Dong
This paper proposed a novel two-level iterative reconstruction method for compressed sensing magnetic resonance imaging (CS-MRI). For the model of this method, we incorporated the phase correction matrix and region of support (ROS) to guarantee more accurate reconstruction. For the algorithm of the ...
Eric Finkelstein, Anirudh Krishnan, Aliya Naheed, Imtiaz Jehan et al.
BACKGROUND: COBRA-BPS (Control of Blood Pressure and Risk Attenuation-Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), a multi-component hypertension management programme that is led by community health workers, has been shown to be efficacious at reducing systolic blood pressure in rural communities in Bangladesh...
Yangbo Ma, Liang Guo, Liang Chang, Weihua Guo et al.
Tandem catalysis is an effective approach to achieve highly selective and high-rate multi-electron/proton transfer reactions, such as nitrate electroreduction, which are important for various physicochemical and biological processes. However, present tandem catalysts suffer from uncontrollable inter...
Liang Wang, Yiping Jiang, Ting Han, Chengjian Zheng et al.
Paederia foetida and P. scandens are two important and well explored Paederia species (Rubiaceae). P. foetida, which grows mainly in China, Bangladesh, India and Mauritius, has been used in folk medicine for the treatment of inflammation, piles, and diarrhea, while P. scandens is used to treat aches...