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January 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Medicine Articles)

Shedding light on fibroblast growth factors as tissue repair and regeneration therapeutics

FGF-FGFR-heparin complex

January 12, 2016

Shedding light on fibroblast growth factors as tissue repair and regeneration therapeutics

Use of FGFs in clinical settings is still limited. New research now brings together disparite data on FGF applications may serve as an important reference for future studies.

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January 26, 2016

Combined effect of 17β-estradiol and resveratrol against apoptosis induced by interleukin-1β in rat nucleus pulposus cells via PI3K/Akt/caspase-3 pathway

29 citations

758 downloads

2,567 views

Si-Dong Yang, Lei Ma, Da-Long Yang, Wen-Yuan Ding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1640 PubMed 26824000

January 26, 2016

Generating optimal control simulations of musculoskeletal movement using OpenSim and MATLAB

30 citations

2,747 downloads

5,915 views

Leng-Feng Lee, Brian R. Umberger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1638 PubMed 26835184

January 19, 2016

Characterisation of the human uterine microbiome in non-pregnant women through deep sequencing of the V1-2 region of the 16S rRNA gene

108 citations

1,384 downloads

5,844 views

Hans Verstraelen, Ramiro Vilchez-Vargas, Fabian Desimpel, Ruy Jauregui, Nele Vankeirsbilck, Steven Weyers, Rita Verhelst, Petra De Sutter, Dietmar H. Pieper, Tom Van De Wiele

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1602 PubMed 26823997

January 14, 2016

Normal distal pulmonary vein anatomy

10 citations

840 downloads

2,269 views

Wiesława Klimek-Piotrowska, Mateusz K. Hołda, Katarzyna Piątek, Mateusz Koziej, Jakub Hołda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1579 PubMed 26793429

January 12, 2016

Acute hypothalamic suppression significantly affects trabecular bone but not cortical bone following recovery and ovariectomy surgery in a rat model

2 citations

383 downloads