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[Mental health survey of 230 medical staff in a tertiary infectious disease hospital for COVID-19].

Mar 05, 2020

To investigate the mental health of clinical first-line medical staff in COVID-19 epidemic and provide theoretical basis for psychological intervention. The mental health status of the first-line me...

Opioid growth factor and its derivatives as potential non-toxic multifunctional anticancer and analgesic compounds.

Mar 05, 2020

Despite significant research progress on the pathogenesis, molecular biology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer its morbidity and mortality is still high around the world. The emerging re...

Promoting Reproducible Research for Characterizing Nonmedical Use of Medications Through Data Annotation: Description of a Twitter Corpus and Guidelines.

Mar 05, 2020

Social media data are being increasingly used for population-level health research because it provides near real-time access to large volumes of consumer-generated data. Recently, a number of studies ...

Functional Diversity of Glycinergic Commissural Inhibitory Neurons in Larval Zebrafish.

Mar 05, 2020

Commissural inhibitory neurons in the spinal cord of aquatic vertebrates coordinate left-right body alternation during swimming. Their developmental origin, however, has been elusive. We investigate t...

Opioid Naive Surgeons and Opioid-Tolerant Patients: Can Education Alter Prescribing Patterns to Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients?

Mar 05, 2020

Patterns of opioid overprescribing following arthroplasty likely developed given that poor pain control can diminish patient satisfaction, delay disposition, and lead to complications. Recently, inter...

Pretransplant Genetic Susceptibility: Clinical Relevance in Transplant-Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy.

Mar 05, 2020

Transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA-TMA) is a life-threatening complication of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). We hypothesized that pretransplant genetic suscepti...

Proteomic and Transcriptomic Approaches for Studying Bone Regeneration in Health and Systemically Compromised Conditions.

Mar 05, 2020

Bone regeneration is a complex biological process, where the molecular mechanisms are only partially understood. In an ageing population, where the prevalence of chronic diseases with an impact on bon...

Employing an ICT-FRET Integration Platform for the Real-Time Tracking of SO2 Metabolism in Cancer Cells and Tumor Models.

Mar 05, 2020

Glutathione (GSH) mediates a wide variety of biological events and human diseases. Although it has been the subject of intense study in recent years, a further understanding of its molecular mechanism...

[Applying Extended Theory of Planned Behavior for Lung Cancer Patients Undergone Pulmonary Resection: Effects on Self-Efficacy for Exercise, Physical Activities, Physical Function, and Quality of Life].

Mar 05, 2020

This study aims to examine the effects of nursing interventions based on the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior (ETPB) regarding self-efficacy for exercise (SEE), physical activity (PA), physical fun...

Challenges of LC-MS/MS ethyl glucuronide analysis in abstinence monitoring of liver transplant candidates.

Mar 02, 2020

Background Urinary ethyl glucuronide (EtG) has emerged as the biomarker of choice for alcohol abstinence monitoring in forensic toxicology and is now used in the listing decision process for liver tra...

Clinical and Procedural Characteristics Predicting Need for Chronotropic Support and Permanent Pacing Post-Heart Transplantation.

Mar 02, 2020

Post-operative bradycardia can complicate orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT). Previous studies suggested donor age, surgical technique as possible risk factors. However, risk factors in the era of...

IMPACT OF TREATMENT PRIOR TO ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME: RESULTS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT REGISTRY.

Mar 02, 2020

It has been suggested that bridging therapy with intensive chemotherapy and/or hypomethylating agents followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be valuable in the treatment of pat...

Biodegradable versus multiple plastic stent implantation in benign biliary strictures: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Mar 02, 2020

Benign biliary strictures arise mostly from iatrogenic injuries during surgical procedures and various inflammatory causes. Endoscopic placement of multiple plastic stents (MPS) is often regarded as t...

Regional Wait Times for Patients With Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in Southwestern Ontario.

Mar 02, 2020

Nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) affects many Canadians. Although morbidity and mortality are rare, the burden to patients and the health-care system is significant. This study aims to evaluate current ...

High-Risk Plastic Surgery: An Analysis of 108,303 Cases From the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP).

Mar 02, 2020

There is a lack of large-scale data that examine complications in plastic surgery. A description of baseline rates and patient outcomes allows better understanding of ways to improve patient care and ...

Three-dimensional surface imaging in breast cancer: a new tool for clinical studies?

Mar 02, 2020

Three-dimensional Surface Imaging (3DSI) is a well-established method to objectively monitor morphological changes in the female breast in the field of plastic surgery. In contrast, in radiation oncol...

The applications of machine learning in plastic and reconstructive surgery: protocol of a systematic review.

Mar 02, 2020

Machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence, is a set of models and methods that can automatically detect patterns in vast amounts of data, extract information and use it to perform various ...

Structure and ingredient-based biomimetic scaffolds combining with autologous bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell sheets for bone-tendon healing.

Mar 02, 2020

Tendon attaches to bone across a robust fibrocartilaginous tissue termed the bone-tendon interface (BTI), commonly injured in the field of sports medicine and orthopedics with poor prognosis. So far, ...

Biology-inspired microphysiological systems to advance medicines for patient benefit and animal welfare.

Mar 02, 2020

The first microfluidic microphysiological systems (MPS) entered the academic scene more than 15 years ago and were considered an enabling technology to human (patho)biology in vitro and, therefore, pr...

Patient knowledge, experiences and preferences regarding retinoblastoma and research: A qualitative study.

Mar 02, 2020

We launched a patient engagement strategy to facilitate research involvement of the retinoblastoma (childhood eye cancer) community in Canada. To inform our strategy, we aimed to uncover the experienc...

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