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Natural and molecular history of prolactinoma: insights from a mouse model.

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Lactotroph adenoma, also called prolactinoma, is the most common pituitary tumor but little is known about its pathogenesis. Mouse models of prolactinoma can be useful to better understand molecular mechanisms involved in abnormal lactotroph cell pro...

Efficacy of assessing circulating cell-free DNA using a simple fluorescence assay in patients with triple-negative breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy: a prospective observational study.

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This study aims to assess cell-free DNA (CFD) by a fluorescence assay as a biomarker for early prediction of a pathologic complete response (pCR) and relapse in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy. P...

CancerDiscover: an integrative pipeline for cancer biomarker and cancer class prediction from high-throughput sequencing data.

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Accurate identification of cancer biomarkers and classification of cancer type and subtype from High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) data is a challenging problem because it requires manual processing of raw HTS data from various sequencing platforms, qu...

Effect of metformin on kidney function in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and moderate chronic kidney disease.

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BACKGROUND: Impaired renal function can lead to the accumulation of metformin, and elevated concentrations of metformin have been associated with lactic acidosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of continuous metformin treatment in p...

PM2.5 inhalation induces intracranial atherosclerosis which may be ameliorated by omega 3 fatty acids.

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BACKGROUND: Intracranial atherosclerosis (ICA) a major health problem. This study investigated whether inhalation of fine airborne particulate matters (PM2.5) causes ICA and whether omega-3 fatty acids (O3FA) attenuated the development of ICA.

Hydrogen protects against liver injury during CO pneumoperitoneum in rats.

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The aim of the current study was to identify the protective effect of hydrogen gas against liver injury during CO pneumoperitoneum. Rats were randomly divided into three groups: control group (C group), pneumoperitoneum group (P15 group) and hydrogen...

Predictive value of 1H MR spectroscopy and 18F-FDG PET/CT for local control of advanced oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma receiving chemoradiotherapy: a prospective study.

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PURPOSE: To determine whether pretreatment 1H magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy at 3 Tesla (T) and 18F-FDG PET/CT can offer predictive power regarding the local control of oropharyngeal or hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OHSCC) patients.

The serum activity of thioredoxin reductases 1 (TrxR1) is correlated with the poor prognosis in EGFR wild-type and ALK negative non-small cell lung cancer.

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BACKGROUND: The thioredxin reductases 1 (TrxR1) is one of the major antioxidant and redox regulators in mammalian cells. Studies have shown that TrxR1 is over expressed in many malignancy diseases. However, few studies have evaluated the role of TrxR...

Clinical validation of serum endocan (ESM-1) as a potential biomarker in patients with renal cell carcinoma.

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To determine the suitability of serum endocan (ESM-1) levels for diagnosing and monitoring renal cell carcinoma (RCC), we measure serum ESM-1 levels in 56 RCC patients who had undergone radical or partial nephrectomies and 56 age- and sex-matched hea...

DHSpred: support-vector-machine-based human DNase I hypersensitive sites prediction using the optimal features selected by random forest.

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DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs) are genomic regions that provide important information regarding the presence of transcriptional regulatory elements and the state of chromatin. Therefore, identifying DHSs in uncharacterized DNA sequences is cruci...