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Global Burden of Hypertension and Systolic Blood Pressure of at Least 110 to 115 mm Hg, 1990-2015
In international surveys, although there is uncertainty in some estimates, the rate of elevated SBP (≥110-115 and ≥140 mm Hg) increased substantially between 1990 and 2015, and ...
IgG marker of optic-spinal multiple sclerosis binds to the aquaporin-4 water channel
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease that selectively affects optic nerves and spinal cord. It is considered a severe variant of multiple sclerosi...
Clinical findings in a group of patients infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) outside of Wuhan, China: retrospective case series
Abstract Objective To study the clinical characteristics of patients in Zhejiang province, China, infected with the 2019 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Co...
Focal Adhesions: Transmembrane Junctions Between the Extracellular Matrix and the Cytoskeleton
Many cells grown in tissue culture adhere tightly to the underlying substrate through discrete regions of the plasma membrane, referred to as adhesion plaques, focal contacts, o...
Multiclass cancer diagnosis using tumor gene expression signatures
The optimal treatment of patients with cancer depends on establishing accurate diagnoses by using a complex combination of clinical and histopathological data. In some instances...
The epithelial–mesenchymal transition: new insights in signaling, development, and disease
The conversion of an epithelial cell to a mesenchymal cell is critical to metazoan embryogenesis and a defining structural feature of organ development. Current interest in this...
Trust and suspicion
Whenever philosophers, poets, statesmen, or theologians have written about man's relationship to his fellow man, to nature, or to animals, the phenomena of and faith and resp...