Stem Cell Research

Thyroglobulin levels before radioactive iodine therapy and dynamic risk stratification after 1 year in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.

OBJECTIVES: We sought to assess the relationship between stimulated thyroglobulin (sTg) before radio...

Combined treatment of botulinumtoxin and robot-assisted rehabilitation therapy on poststroke, upper limb spasticity: A case report.

RATIONALE: Spasticity is a major complication after stroke, and botulinumtoxin A (BoNT-A) injection ...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation combined with continuous renal replacement therapy in cutaneous burn and inhalation injury caused by hydrofluoric acid and nitric acid.

RATIONALE: Hydrofluoric acid (HF) is a highly corrosive agent and can cause corrosive burns. HF can ...

Deep learning of the splicing (epi)genetic code reveals a novel candidate mechanism linking histone modifications to ESC fate decision.

Alternative splicing (AS) is a genetically and epigenetically regulated pre-mRNA processing to incre...

Mirnovo: genome-free prediction of microRNAs from small RNA sequencing data and single-cells using decision forests.

The discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) remains an important problem, particularly given the growth of h...

Inner Workings: Medical microrobots have potential in surgery, therapy, imaging, and diagnostics.

[Clinical research on perioperative restrictive fluid therapy combined with preoperative urination training in total hip arthroplasty].

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of restrictive fluid therapy combined with preop...

[Cell-Free and Concentrated Ascites Reinfusion Therapy for Malignant Intractable Ascites from Colorectal Cancer].

Malignant intractable ascites worsens not only patient symptoms but also their daily activities. It ...

Effects of treatment with chemotherapy and/or tamoxifen on the biomarkers of cardiac injury and oxidative stress in women with breast cancer.

There has been an increase in deaths from cardiovascular diseases following breast cancer therapy. E...

Recovery of Proprioception in the Upper Extremity by Robotic Mirror Therapy: a Clinical Pilot Study for Proof of Concept.

A novel robotic mirror therapy system was recently developed to provide proprioceptive stimulus to t...

Enhancing Risk Assessment in Patients Receiving Chronic Opioid Analgesic Therapy Using Natural Language Processing.

OBJECTIVES: Clinical guidelines for the use of opioids in chronic noncancer pain recommend assessing...

Robot-assisted Extracranial Stereotactic Radiotherapy of Adrenal Metastases in Oligometastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer.

AIM: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of stereotactic body radiation ...

Identification of microRNA precursors using reduced and hybrid features.

MicroRNAs (also called miRNAs) are a group of short non-coding RNA molecules. They play a vital role...

Automated assessment of symptom severity changes during deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy for Parkinson's disease.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is currently being used as a treatment for symptoms of Parkinson's dise...

Robotic therapy for phantom limb pain in upper limb amputees.

The system described in this paper combines virtual reality with haptic feedback to increase the lev...

Towards quantifying dynamic human-human physical interactions for robot assisted stroke therapy.

Human-Robot Interaction is a prominent field of robotics today. Knowledge of human-human physical in...

The effects of auditory and visual cues on timing synchronicity for robotic rehabilitation.

In this paper, we explore how the integration of auditory and visual cues can help teach the timing ...

Randomized, sham-controlled trial based on transcranial direct current stimulation and wrist robot-assisted integrated treatment on subacute stroke patients: Intermediate results.

The main goal of this study is to analyse the effects of combined transcranial direct current stimul...

Lokomat therapy in Colombia: Current state and cognitive aspects.

Neurological disorders frequently affect walking function which is one of the most fundamental skill...

Biomechanical effects of robot assisted walking on knee joint kinematics and muscle activation pattern.

Since manual rehabilitation therapy can be taxing for both the patient and the physiotherapist, a ga...

Spinal Tissue Loading Created by Different Methods of Spinal Manipulative Therapy Application.

STUDY DESIGN: Comparative study using robotic replication of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) verte...