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Marina Gradiser, Martina Matovinovic Osvatic, Dario Dilber and Ines Bilic-Curcic
The aim of this study was to assess environmental and hereditary influence on development of pituitary tumors using dermatoglyphic traits. The study was performed on 126 patients of both genders with pituitary tumors (60 non-functional and 66 functional ...
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Agnieszka Strzelak, Aleksandra Ratajczak, Aleksander Adamiec and Wojciech Feleszko
Many studies have been undertaken to reveal how tobacco smoke skews immune responses contributing to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other lung diseases. Recently, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has been linked with...
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Nadia Brancati and Maria Frucci
To support pathologists in breast tumor diagnosis, deep learning plays a crucial role in the development of histological whole slide image (WSI) classification methods. However, automatic classification is challenging due to the high-resolution data and ...
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Lefteris Benos, George Ninos, Nickolas D. Polychronopoulos, Maria-Aristea Exomanidou and Ioannis Sarris
Hyperthermia, an alternative medical approach aiming at locally increasing the temperature of a tumor, can cause the ?death? of cancer cells or the sensitization of them to chemotherapeutic drugs and radiation. In contrast with the conventional treatment...
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Deniz Can Guven, Taha Koray Sahin, Alessandro Rizzo, Angela Dalia Ricci, Sercan Aksoy and Kazim Sahin
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized cancer therapy and reshaped medical oncology practice over the past decade. However, despite unprecedented and durable clinical responses, most patients eventually fail to respond to ICI therapy due...
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Yusuke Kawashima, Suemitsu Masaaki, Kayo Kuyama, Takeshi Sakai, Yasushi Hayakawa, Takashi Kaneda and Norihiro Sei
We investigated the transmission characteristics of formalin fixed human liver samples in which normal liver tissue and malignant liver tumor were mixed using terahertz (THz) coherent synchrotron radiation at an infrared free-electron laser (FEL) facilit...
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Chengxi Li and Andrew Zhu
With the accelerated development of medical imaging equipment and techniques, image fusion technology has been effectively applied for diagnosis, biopsy and radiofrequency ablation, especially for liver tumor. Tumor treatment relying on a single medical ...
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Romina Mancinelli, Caterina Loredana Mammola, Roberta Sferra, Simona Pompili, Antonella Vetuschi and Luigi Pannarale
Angiogenesis plays a fundamental role in tumor growth and progression. It is regulated by several growth factors, including vascular endothelial growth factor protein family (VEGF) and its receptors, which are probably the most important factors responsi...
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Chih-Jan Ko, Chia-Jung Li, Meng-Yu Wu and Pei-Yi Chu
Hepatocarcinogenesis and distant metastasis pose major challenges for physicians. They are regulated by several genes, such as AKT, JUK, Wnt, and P53, and their expression activates several important processes such as cell proliferation, migration, motil...
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Rejane Viana, Ana C. Rocha, André P. Sousa, Diogo Ferreira, Rúben Fernandes, Cátia Almeida, Patrick J. Pais, Pilar Baylina and Ana Cláudia Pereira
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer diagnosed today and the third leading cause of death among cancer types. CRC is one of the gastrointestinal tumors with obesity as the main extrinsic risk factor, since, according to authors, the me...
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Cristina Mesas, Beatriz Segura, Gloria Perazzoli, Maria Angeles Chico, Javier Moreno, Kevin Doello, Jose Prados and Consolación Melguizo
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children, constitutes approximately 40% of all recorded soft tissue tumors and is associated with a poor prognosis, with survival rates of less than 20% at 3 years. The development of resista...
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Xinghui Li, Yang Yu, Cheng Zheng, Yue Zhang, Chuandao Shi, Lei Zhang and Hui Qiao
Studies on the prognostic significance of preoperative radiotherapy (PERT) and postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) in patients with advanced gastric cancer (GC) remain elusive. The aim of the study was to evaluate the survival advantage of preoperative and...
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Hui-Yun Tsai, Jia-Fang Yang, Hua-Han Chen, Fu-Nian You, Yu-Jie Zhao, Yi-Hsien Lin, Jue-Liang Hsu, Chi-I Chang and Yu-Kuo Chen
Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) has become one of the main aquatic products of Taiwan. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a hot water extract of tilapia (HWET) in relieving fatigue and enhancing exercise performance in mice in a swim...
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Giuseppe Genchi, Graziantonio Lauria, Alessia Catalano, Alessia Carocci and Maria Stefania Sinicropi
Arsenic intoxication represents a worldwide health problem and occurs mainly through drinking water. Arsenic, a metalloid and naturally occurring element, is one of the most abundant elements in the earth?s crust, whose toxicity depends on the reduction ...
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Kicheol Yoon, Jun-Won Chung and Kwang Gi Kim
In laparoscopic surgery for colorectal and gastric cancer, it is difficult to locate the tumor in the cavity for excision. Tumors in the colon or stomach are blocked by mucous membranes; thus, the view from the cavity is obscured. Therefore, to determine...
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Manar Ahmed Hamza, Hanan Abdullah Mengash, Saud S. Alotaibi, Siwar Ben Haj Hassine, Ayman Yafoz, Fahd Althukair, Mahmoud Othman and Radwa Marzouk
A brain tumor (BT) is an abnormal development of brain cells that causes damage to the nerves and blood vessels. An accurate and early diagnosis of BT is important to prevent future complications. Precise segmentation of the BT provides a basis for surgi...
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Seungmin Yeom, Myung Chul Lee, Shambhavi Pandey, Jaewoon Lim, Sangbae Park, Jae Eun Kim, Kyoung Je Jang, Hoon Seonwoo, Pankaj Garg and Jong Hoon Chung
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are a good medicine source because of their potential to differentiate into various tissues or cells. However, traditionally, iPSCs made by specific transgenes and virus vectors are not appropriate for clinical use ...
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Duc-Ky Ngo, Minh-Trieu Tran, Soo-Hyung Kim, Hyung-Jeong Yang and Guee-Sang Lee
Segmenting brain tumors accurately and reliably is an essential part of cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Brain tumor segmentation of glioma patients is a challenging task because of the wide variety of tumor sizes, shapes, positions, scanning mod...
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Manikandan Muthu, Judy Gopal, Sechul Chun, Anna Jacintha Prameela Devadoss and Jae-Wook Oh
Glycobiology is gaining paramount importance for its influence on diseases as a consequence of a fundamental understanding of the underlying processes involved in them. Cancer is still posing threats to human health and welfare and therapies are perpetua...
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Rui C. Pereira, Raffaella Santagiuliana, Luca Ceseracciu, Daniela P. Boso, Bernhard A. Schrefler and Paolo Decuzzi
The highly infiltrating nature of glioma cells is the major cause for the poor prognosis of brain malignancies. Motility, proliferation, and gene expression of cells in natural and synthetic gels have been analyzed by several authors, yet quantitative st...
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