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Factors Associated with Discharge to a Skilled Nursing Facility after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery
(2018-12-28)
An assumption regarding transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a minimally invasive procedure for treating aortic stenosis, is that patients remain at, or near baseline and soon return to their presurgical home to ...
The state of the science of nurse work environments in the United States: A systematic review
(2018-04-16)
A healthy nurse work environment is a workplace that is safe, empowering, and satisfying. Many research studies were conducted on nurse work environments in the last decade; however, it lacks an overview of these research ...
Glaucomatous optic disc changes despite normal baseline intraocular pressure in a child
(2018-12-14)
Purpose:
We describe a case of normal tension glaucoma in the setting of sickle cell disease in a 9-year-old patient with a five-year follow up.
Observations:
A 9-year-old male patient with a history of sickle cell ...
β-catenin nuclear translocation induced by HIF-1α overexpression leads to the radioresistance of prostate cancer
(2018-03-16)
Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) is known to play crucial roles in tumor radioresistance; however, the molecular mechanisms responsible for the promotion of tumor radioresistance by HIF-1α remain unclear. β-catenin is ...
Therapeutic Targeting of mTOR in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: An Update
(2018-06-26)
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive blood malignancy that arises from the clonal expansion of transformed T-cell precursors. Although T-ALL prognosis has significantly improved due to the development ...
The Mammalian Spermatogenesis Single-Cell Transcriptome, from Spermatogonial Stem Cells to Spermatids
(2018-11-06)
Spermatogenesis is a complex and dynamic cellular differentiation process critical to male reproduc- tion and sustained by spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs). Although patterns of gene expression have been described for ...
Therapeutic targeting of CK2 in acute and chronic leukemias
(2018-01)
Phosphorylation can regulate almost every property of a protein and is involved in all fundamental cellular processes. Thus, proper regulation of phosphorylation events is critical to the homeostatic functions of cell ...
TNM cancer staging: can it help develop a novel staging system for type 2 diabetes?
(2018-11-28)
Abstract: Type 2 diabetes (DM2) constitutes 90%–95% of the diabetes cases and is increasing at an alarming rate in the world. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) esti- mates that more than 29 million people ...
Variation in female aggression in 2 three-spined stickleback populations with female throat and spine coloration
(2018-03-07)
Despite growing interest in female ornament evolution, we still have a rudimentary understanding of female display traits relative to similar traits in males. Under one popular adaptive scenario, fe- male ornaments are ...
The Plight of the Minority Resident Physician— Similar Challenges in a Different World
(2018-09-28)
In the article “Minority Resident Physicians’ Views on the Role of Race/Ethnicity in Their Training Experiences in the Workplace,” Osseo-Asare et al1 report a qualitative approach to teasing out the plight of underrepresented ...