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Cellular and Molecular Life SciencesBackground Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a fatal zoonotic parasitic disease with biological characteristics similar to cancer. Although previous studies have reported immune dysfunction of Natural Killer (NK) cells due to other inhibitory receptors in ...
Ayinuer Aierken +8 more
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Phenotype and function of MAIT cells in patients with alveolar echinococcosis
Frontiers in ImmunologyMucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are a subpopulation of unconventional T cells widely involved in chronic liver diseases. However, the potential role and regulating factors of MAIT cells in alveolar echinococcosis (AE), a zoonotic parasitic ...
Jintian Li +11 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is an essential mediator of atherosclerotic plaque progression and instability leading to intracoronary thrombosis, therefore contributing to coronary artery disease (CAD).
Jun-Yi Luo +8 more
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Global Stability of an SIR Epidemic Model with Delay and General Nonlinear Incidence [PDF]
, 2010 An SIR model with distributed delay and a general incidence function is studied. Conditions are given under which the system exhibits threshold behaviour: the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable if R0 \u3c 1 and globally attracting
McCluskey, C. Connell
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
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BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground Chronic infection with Clonorchis sinensis (C.sinensis) has been associated swith the development of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC); however, the relationship between C.sinensis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains uncertain ...
Qing-Li Yang +9 more
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Epidemiological features of COVID-19 in Iran
Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2022 Background: The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Iran was reported in February 2019. The current study aimed to investigate the epidemiological aspects of COVID-19 disease in Isfahan province and evaluate the chances of infection and death in the ...
Negah Tavakolifard +5 more
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Mathematical Model of Vaccine Noncompliance [PDF]
, 2016 Vaccine scares can prevent individuals from complying with a vaccination program. When compliance is high, the critical vaccination proportion is close to being met, and herd immunity occurs, bringing the disease incidence to extremely low levels.
Bauer, Jordan, Capaldi, Alex
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Obesity and kidney stone disease. A systematic review [PDF]
, 2018 INTRODUCTION: Currently, abdominal obesity has reached an epidemic stage and obesity represents an important challenge for worldwide health authorities. Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated that the stone risk incidence increases with Body Mass Index,
AL SALHI, Yazan +8 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song +15 more
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