Author(s): Guo T; Lok KY; Yu C; Li Z;

Pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive and irreversible disorder with no appropriate cure. A practical and effective experimental model that recapitulates the disease will greatly benefit the research community and, ultimately, patients. In this study, we test ...

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Author(s): Ashouri H; Riyahi Alam N; Khoobi M; Haghgoo S; Rasouli Z; Gholami M;

The use of conventional gadolinium(Gd)-based contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) poses a significant risk of Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF) syndrome in patients with impaired renal function (grades 4 and 5). To address this issue, a new ...

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Author(s): Chen Q; Li Z; Chen Y; Liu M; Yang Q; Zhu B; Mu J; Feng L; Chen Z;

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are typical organic pollutants accumulated in the environment. PAHs' bioremediation in sediments can be promoted by adding electron acceptor (EA) and electron donor (ED). Bicarbonate and sulfate were chosen as two ...

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Author(s): Geng C; Chen Q; Li Z; Liu M; Chen Z; Tao H; Yang Q; Zhu B; Feng L;

In this study, we investigated the doping of Fe-N-C with ZnO (Fe-N-C@ZnO) to enhance its performance in the reduction of biological toxicity and degradation of enrofloxacin (ENR) in seawater. The steady-state/transient fluorescence analysis and free radical ...

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Author(s): Webster RT; Dhaduk R; Gordon ML; Partin RE; Kunin-Batson AS; Brinkman TM; Willard VW; Allen JM; Alberts NM; Lanctot JQ; Ehrhardt MJ; Li Z; H ...

Background: There is limited understanding of associations between a combination of health behaviors (physical activity, sedentary/screen-time, diet) and cardiometabolic health ris ...

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Author(s): Rasouli Z; Riyahi-Alam N; Khoobi M; Haghgoo S; Gholibegloo E; Ebrahimpour A; H A; Hashemi H; ...

Axillary lymph node detection is crucial to staging and prognosis of the lymph node metastatic spread in breast cancer. Currently, lymphoscintigraphy and blue dye, as the conventional methods to lo ...

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Author(s): Li Z; Zhang X; Wang B; Shen G; Zhang Q; Zhu Y;

Indoor exposure to organic flame retardants (FRs) has raised extensive concern due to associated adverse health effects. Indoor-exposure induced daily intakes of six widely used FRs individually ranged 0.002-611 ng/day and 0.02-463 ng/day, respectively, for ...

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Author(s): Li Z; Zhu Y; Wang D; Zhang X; Jones KC; Ma J; Wang P; Yang R; Li Y; Pei Z; Zhang Q; Jiang G; ...

Novel flame retardants (FRs) are of increasing concern, given growing evidence of health effects and use to replace polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). This study modeled combined effects of us ...

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Author(s): Scott BM; Gutiérrez-Vázquez C; Sanmarco LM; da Silva Pereira JA; Li Z; Plasencia A; Hewson P; Cox LM; O' Brien M; Chen SK; Moraes-Vieira ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a complex chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract. Extracellular adenosine triphosphate (eATP) produced by the commensal microbiota and host ...

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Author(s): Huang IC, Alberts NM, Buckley MG, Li Z, Ehrhardt MJ, Brinkman TM, Allen J, Krull KR, Klosky JL, Greene WL, Srivastava DK, Robison LL, Hudson ...

We evaluated pain status change and associations with subsequent opioid/marijuana use among 1208 adult survivors of childhood cancer. Pain status and opioid/marijuana were self-reported at baseline ...

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