Medicine - Table of Contents

November 4, 2020

Prognostic model of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast based on differentially expressed glycolysis-related genes

Xiaoping Li, Qihe Yu, Jishang Chen, Hui Huang, Zhuangsheng Liu, Chengxing Wang, Yaoming He, Xin Zhang, Weiwen Li, Chao Li, Jinglin Zhao, Wansheng Long

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10249 PubMed 33194424

November 27, 2020

Cumulative oxygen deficit is a novel predictor for the timing of invasive mechanical ventilation in COVID-19 patients with respiratory distress

Huiqing Ge, Jian-cang Zhou, FangFang Lv, Junli Zhang, Jun Yi, Changming Yang, Lingwei Zhang, Yuhan Zhou, Binbin Ren, Qing Pan, Zhongheng Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10497 PubMed 33312774

November 3, 2020

Neurocognitive effects of six ketamine infusions and the association with antidepressant effects in treatment-resistant bipolar depression: a preliminary study

Wei Zheng, Yan-Ling Zhou, Cheng-Yu Wang, Xiao-Feng Lan, Bin Zhang, Ming-Zhe Yang, Sha Nie, Yu-Ping Ning

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10208 PubMed 33194410

November 3, 2020

Increased expression of POLR3G predicts poor prognosis in transitional cell carcinoma

Xianhui Liu, Weiyu Zhang, Huanrui Wang, Chin-Hui Lai, Kexin Xu, Hao Hu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10281 PubMed 33194434

November 12, 2020

The rs78378222 prevalence and the copy loss of the protective allele A in the tumor tissue of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Elena N. Voropaeva, Yuriy L. Orlov, Tatiana I. Pospelova, Anna A. Gurageva, Mikhail I. Voevoda, Vladimir N. Maksimov, Olga B. Seregina, Maria I. Churkina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10335 PubMed 33240649

November 30, 2020

Addition of L-cysteine to the N- or C-terminus of the all-D-enantiomer [_D(KLAKLAK)₂] increases antimicrobial activities against multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii and Escherichia coli

Maki K. Ohno, Teruo Kirikae, Eisaku Yoshihara, Fumiko Kirikae, Isao Ishida

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10176 PubMed 33335804

November 3, 2020

A model of population dynamics with complex household structure and mobility: implications for transmission and control of communicable diseases

Rebecca H. Chisholm, Bradley Crammond, Yue Wu, Asha C. Bowen, Patricia T. Campbell, Steven Y.C. Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10203 PubMed 33194407

November 17, 2020

Analysis of genes and underlying mechanisms involved in foam cells formation and atherosclerosis development

Kai Zhang, Xianyu Qin, Xianwu Zhou, Jianrong Zhou, Pengju Wen, Shaoxian Chen, Min Wu, Yueheng Wu, Jian Zhuang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10336 PubMed 33240650

November 3, 2020

Projection of premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases for 2025: a model based study from Hunan Province, China, 1990–2016

Qiaohua Xu, Maigeng Zhou, Donghui Jin, Xinying Zeng, Jinlei Qi, Li Yin, Yuan Liu, Lei Yin, Yuelong Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10298 PubMed 33194444

November 20, 2020

Loss of HOXB3 correlates with the development of hormone receptor negative breast cancer

Lizhe Zhu, Shibo Yu, Siyuan Jiang, Guanqun Ge, Yu Yan, Yuhui Zhou, Ligang Niu, Jianjun He, Yu Ren, Bin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10421 PubMed 33240685

November 6, 2020

Transmissibility of coronavirus disease 2019 in Chinese cities with different dynamics of imported cases

Ka Chun Chong, Wei Cheng, Shi Zhao, Feng Ling, Kirran N. Mohammad, Maggie Wang, Benny CY Zee, Lai Wei, Xi Xiong, Hengyan Liu, Jingxuan Wang, Enfu Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10350 PubMed 33194456

November 3, 2020

Gut microbiota in hospitalized children with acute infective gastroenteritis caused by virus or bacteria in a regional Peruvian hospital

Andre Alonso Taco-Masias, Augusto R. Fernandez-Aristi, Angela Cornejo-Tapia, Miguel Angel Aguilar-Luis, Luis J. del Valle, Wilmer Silva-Caso, Victor Zavaleta-Gavidia, Pablo Weilg, Hernán Cornejo-Pacherres, Jorge Bazán-Mayra, Zully M. Puyen, Juana del Valle-Mendoza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9964 PubMed 33194370

November 12, 2020

Using the FRAIL scale to compare pre-existing demographic lifestyle and medical risk factors between non-frail, pre-frail and frail older adults accessing primary health care: a cross-sectional study

Vanessa Aznar-Tortonda, Antonio Palazón-Bru, Vicente Francisco Gil-Guillén

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10380 PubMed 33240674

November 18, 2020

Processing moving visual scenes during upright stance in elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment

Martin Kucharik, Zuzana Kosutzka, Jozef Pucik, Michal Hajduk, Marian Saling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10363 PubMed 33240666

November 12, 2020

A combination of two ELISA tests for nasopharyngeal carcinoma screening in endemic areas based on a case-control study

Dongping Rao, Meiqin Fu, Yingjie Chen, Qing Liu, Lin Xiao, Xin Zhang, Zhongxiao Li, Haitao Li, Yongyi He, Yongxing Chen, Jieying Chen, Jin Hu, Yanming Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10254 PubMed 33240616

November 17, 2020

MiR-26a-5p inhibits GSK3β expression and promotes cardiac hypertrophy in vitro

Liqun Tang, Jianhong Xie, Xiaoqin Yu, Yangyang Zheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10371 PubMed 33240671

November 19, 2020

Oxytocin weakens self-other distinction in males during empathic responses to sadness: an event-related potentials study

Tong Yue, Ying Xu, Liming Xue, Xiting Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10384 PubMed 33240676

November 24, 2020

HIV-1 promoter is gradually silenced when integrated into BACH2 in Jurkat T-cells

Anne Inderbitzin, Yik Lim Kok, Lisa Jörimann, Audrey Kelley, Kathrin Neumann, Daniel Heinzer, Toni Cathomen, Karin J. Metzner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10321 PubMed 33282555

November 9, 2020

Effects of rhodioloside on the neurological functions of rats with total cerebral ischemia/reperfusion and cone neuron injury in the hippocampal CA1 region

Yue Zhang, Xinqing Guo, Guohua Wang, Jidan Liu, Peiyu Liang, Huan Wang, Chunyan Zhu, Qiong Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10056 PubMed 33240590

November 11, 2020

Deregulation of lysophosphatidic acid metabolism in oral cancer promotes cell migration via the up-regulation of COX-2

Mariati Abdul Rahman, May Leng Tan, Steven P. Johnson, Robert J. Hollows, Wen Lin Chai, Jason P. Mansell, Lee Fah Yap, Ian C. Paterson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10328 PubMed 33240646

November 19, 2020

High cytoplasmic YAP1 expression predicts a poor prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer

Tianqi Dong, Yuncang Yuan, Xudong Xiang, Shuping Sang, Hao Shen, Lei Wang, Chunyan Yang, Fangfang Li, Hongliang Li, Shangyong Zheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10397 PubMed 33240680

November 4, 2020

Identifying myocardial injuries in “normal-appearing” myocardium in pediatric patients with clinically suspected myocarditis using mapping techniques

Haipeng Wang, Bin Zhao, Huan Yang, Tianyi Qian, Bo Han, Haipeng Jia, Jing An, Junyu Zhao, Ximing Wang, Cuiyan Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10252 PubMed 33194425

November 26, 2020

Early abolition of cough reflex predicts mortality in deeply sedated brain-injured patients

Stanislas Kandelman, Jérémy Allary, Raphael Porcher, Cássia Righy, Clarissa Francisca Valdez, Frank Rasulo, Nicholas Heming, Guy Moneger, Eric Azabou, Guillaume Savary, Djillali Annane, Fabrice Chretien, Nicola Latronico, Fernando Augusto Bozza, Benjamin Rohaut, Tarek Sharshar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10326 PubMed 33304651

November 3, 2020

A 22-amino-acid peptide regulates tight junctions through occludin and cell apoptosis

Maoying Zhu, Juan Lu, Jianyun Shen, Lumin Fei, Deyu Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10147 PubMed 33194394

November 10, 2020

Differential effects of cotreatment of the antibiotic rifampin with host-directed therapeutics in reducing intracellular Staphylococcus aureus infection

Melissa D. Evans, Robert Sammelson, Susan McDowell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10330 PubMed 33240647