Medicine - Table of Contents

August 19, 2020

Tingting Hu, Ying Liu, Mingyi Zhao, Quan Zhuang, Linyong Xu, Qingnan He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9725 PubMed 32879801

August 12, 2020

Global expansion of COVID-19 pandemic is driven by population size and airport connections

Marco Tulio Pacheco Coelho, João Fabrício Mota Rodrigues, Anderson Matos Medina, Paulo Scalco, Levi Carina Terribile, Bruno Vilela, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Ricardo Dobrovolski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9708

August 25, 2020

The role of textiles as fomites in the healthcare environment: a review of the infection control risk

Lucy Owen, Katie Laird

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9790 PubMed 32904371

August 11, 2020

A validation of Emotiv EPOC Flex saline for EEG and ERP research

Nikolas S. Williams, Genevieve M. McArthur, Bianca de Wit, George Ibrahim, Nicholas A. Badcock

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9713 PubMed 32864218

August 4, 2020

Regional distribution of Christensenellaceae and its associations with metabolic syndrome based on a population-level analysis

Xiang Li, Zewen Li, Yan He, Pan Li, Hongwei Zhou, Nianyi Zeng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9591 PubMed 32832265

August 11, 2020

Antibacterial activity and mechanism of sanguinarine against Providencia rettgeri in vitro

Qian Zhang, Yansi Lyu, Jingkai Huang, Xiaodong Zhang, Na Yu, Ziping Wen, Si Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9543 PubMed 32864203

August 19, 2020

Transcriptomic analysis highlights cochlear inflammation associated with age-related hearing loss in C57BL/6 mice using next generation sequencing

Zhongwu Su, Hao Xiong, Yi Liu, Jiaqi Pang, Hanqing Lin, Weijian Zhang, Yiqing Zheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9737 PubMed 32879802

August 4, 2020

Convolutional neural networks to automate the screening of malaria in low-resource countries

Oliver S. Zhao, Nikhil Kolluri, Anagata Anand, Nicholas Chu, Ravali Bhavaraju, Aditya Ojha, Sandhya Tiku, Dat Nguyen, Ryan Chen, Adriane Morales, Deepti Valliappan, Juhi P. Patel, Kevin Nguyen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9674 PubMed 32832279

August 11, 2020

Validity and reliability of inertial sensors for elbow and wrist range of motion assessment

Vanina Costa, Óscar Ramírez, Abraham Otero, Daniel Muñoz-García, Sandra Uribarri, Rafael Raya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9687 PubMed 32864213

August 17, 2020

CMTM6 significantly relates to PD-L1 and predicts the prognosis of gastric cancer patients

Xin Li, Ling Chen, Chuan Gu, Qiaoli Sun, Jia Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9536 PubMed 32874775

August 19, 2020

Dynamic visual attention characteristics and their relationship to match performance in skilled basketball players

Peng Jin, Xiawen Li, Bin Ma, Hongbo Guo, Zhongxi Zhang, Lijuan Mao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9803 PubMed 32879809

August 25, 2020

CircHIPK3 regulates cardiac fibroblast proliferation, migration and phenotypic switching through the miR-152-3p/TGF-β2 axis under hypoxia

Weiwei Liu, Yan Wang, Zhimei Qiu, Ranzun Zhao, Zhijiang Liu, Wenming Chen, Junbo Ge, Bei Shi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9796 PubMed 32904464

August 25, 2020

Mitochondrial destiny in type 2 diabetes: the effects of oxidative stress on the dynamics and biogenesis of mitochondria

Daria Skuratovskaia, Alexandra Komar, Maria Vulf, Larisa Litvinova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9741 PubMed 32904391

August 3, 2020

Anti-COVID-19 multi-epitope vaccine designs employing global viral genome sequences

Tahreem Zaheer, Maaz Waseem, Walifa Waqar, Hamza Arshad Dar, Muhammad Shehroz, Kanwal Naz, Zaara Ishaq, Tahir Ahmad, Nimat Ullah, Syeda Marriam Bakhtiar, Syed Aun Muhammad, Amjad Ali

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9541 PubMed 32832263

August 20, 2020

Further evaluation of differential expression of keratoconus candidate genes in human corneas

Justyna A. Karolak, Barbara Ginter-Matuszewska, Katarzyna Tomela, Michal Kabza, Dorota M. Nowak-Malczewska, Malgorzata Rydzanicz, Piotr Polakowski, Jacek P. Szaflik, Marzena Gajecka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9793 PubMed 32879808

August 11, 2020

Magnitude of non-adherence to antiretroviral therapy and associated factors among adult people living with HIV/AIDS in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia

Fikadu Tadesse Nigusso, Azwihangwisi Helen Mavhandu-Mudzusi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8558 PubMed 32864199

August 24, 2020

Effects of 12-week cadence retraining on impact peak, load rates and lower extremity biomechanics in running

Junqing Wang, Zhen Luo, Boyi Dai, Weijie Fu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9813 PubMed 32904121

August 14, 2020

Methylene blue inhibits nucleation and elongation of SOD1 amyloid fibrils

Greta Musteikyte, Mantas Ziaunys, Vytautas Smirnovas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9719 PubMed 32864220

August 21, 2020

Chemotype classification and biomarker screening of male Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. flower core collections using UPLC-QTOF/MS-based non-targeted metabolomics

Panfeng Liu, Lu Wang, Qingxin Du, Hongyan Du

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9786 PubMed 32884862

August 12, 2020

A new balaenopterid species from the Southern North Sea Basin informs about phylogeny and taxonomy of Burtinopsis and Protororqualus (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae)

Michelangelo Bisconti, Mark E.J. Bosselaers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9570

August 31, 2020

Contributions of burning incense on indoor air pollution levels and on the health status of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Su-Er Guo, Miao-Ching Chi, Chieh-Mo Lin, Tsung-Ming Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9768 PubMed 32944420

August 5, 2020

Medial knee cartilage is unlikely to withstand a lifetime of running without positive adaptation: a theoretical biomechanical model of failure phenomena

Ross H. Miller, Rebecca L. Krupenevich

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9676 PubMed 32844066

August 12, 2020

Whole-genome characterisation of multidrug resistant monophasic variants of Salmonella Typhimurium from pig production in Thailand

Prapas Patchanee, Prawitchaya Tanamai, Phacharaporn Tadee, Matthew D. Hitchings, Jessica K. Calland, Samuel K. Sheppard, Dethaloun Meunsene, Ben Pascoe, Pakpoom Tadee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9700

August 6, 2020

Effects of changes on gut microbiota in children with acute Kawasaki disease

Jie Shen, Yinghe Ding, Zuocheng Yang, Xueyan Zhang, Mingyi Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9698 PubMed 33005487

August 18, 2020

Significance of hub genes and immune cell infiltration identified by bioinformatics analysis in pelvic organ prolapse

Ying Zhao, Zhijun Xia, Te Lin, Yitong Yin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9773 PubMed 32874785