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A patient-like swine model of gastrointestinal fibrotic strictures for advancing therapeutics
Scientific Reports, 2021 Gastrointestinal (GI) strictures are difficult to treat in a variety of disease processes. Currently, there are no Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs for fibrosis in the GI tract.
Ling Li +11 more
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Evolution of cooperation in costly institutes [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 We show that in a situation where individuals have a choice between a costly institute and a free institute to perform a collective action task, the existence of a participation cost promotes cooperation in the costly institute. Despite paying for a participation cost, costly cooperators, who join the costly institute and cooperate, can out-perform ...
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OncoImmunology, 2018 Purpose: Mucosal immunization is suggested to be crucial for controlling tumors in the mucosal region; however, therapeutic DNA vaccination with electroporation in various mucosal sites has yet to become clinically adaptable.
Jin Qiu +8 more
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The Anaconda and the Dragon: institutional collaboration between Latin America and China [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The institutional coauthorships between LAC and China were fertilized through their participation in global leadership related projects. The institutions in each region diverged from their initial position: LAC to the periphery and China to the center.
arxiv
Mapping Academic Institutions According to Their Journal Publication Profile: Spanish Universities as a Case Study [PDF]
Garcia, J. et al. (2012). Mapping Academic Institutions According
to Their Journal Publication Profile: Spanish Universities as a Case Study.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
63(11): 2328-2340, 2013 We introduce a novel methodology for mapping academic institutions based on their journal publication profiles. We believe that journals in which researchers from academic institutions publish their works can be considered as useful identifiers for representing the relationships between these institutions and establishing comparisons.
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Endoscopic through-the-scope suturing
VideoGIE, 2022 Background and Aims: There is growing interest in closure of larger mucosal defects, given the increasing use of endoscopic resection for early GI neoplasia and the advent of submucosal endoscopy, including peroral endoscopic myotomy.
Linda Y. Zhang, MBBS +3 more
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Endoscopy International Open, 2018 Introduction Length of stay (LOS) is an important determinant of the severity of post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP) in the consensus definition. The aim of our study was to evaluate and compare severity of PEP based on the revised Atlanta classification (RAC ...
Mahya Faghih +12 more
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Patient with antiphospholipid syndrome presenting with testicular torsion-like symptoms
Urology Case Reports, 2017 Testicular torsion, a urological emergency, occurs due to absence of testicular blood supply secondary to a mechanical twist of the spermatic cord. The authors describe a 28-year-old male who presented with torsion symptoms, first in the left testicle ...
Arnav Srivastava +5 more
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2020 Background: Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a specific type of air-way fluid. It is a commonly used clinical specimen for the diagnosis of benign diseases and cancers of the lung.
Yangying Zhou +11 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a promising target for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer (PC) and various solid tumors. Although PSMA-targeted radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) has enabled significant imaging and prostate-specific ...
Srikanth Boinapally +8 more
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