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Twelve weeks of protracted venous infusion of fluorouracil (5-FU) is as effective as 6 months of bolus 5-FU and folinic acid as adjuvant treatment in colorectal cancer.
A Saini, AR Norman, D Cunningham, I Chau, M Hill, D Tait, T Hickish, T Iveson, F Lofts, D Jodrell, PJ Ross, J Oates
Sep 02, 2020
We performed a multicentre randomised trial to compare the efficacy and toxicity of 12 weeks of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) delivered by protracted intravenous infusion (PVI 5-FU) against the standard bolus regimen of 5-FU and folinic...
Effectiveness of Virtual Reality on Learning Engagement
With its immersive, interactive, and creative capabilities, virtual reality (VR) has been widely used in educational settings to provide students with challenging real-world experiences. As a result, interest in its...
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Secondary Metabolites of Osmanthus fragrans
Chen-Chen Fu, Fa-Ying Xu, Yu-Chen Qian, Hoi-Lun Koo, Yi-Fan Duan, Geng-Min Weng, Tai-Ping Fan, Mo-Xian Chen, Fu-Yuan Zhu
Aug 01, 2022
Osmanthus fragrans (scientific name: Osmanthus fragrans (Thunb.) Lour.) is a species of the Osmanthus genus in the family Oleaceae, and it has a long history of cultivation in China. O. fragrans is edible and is well known for...
On a new proposed mechanism of 5-fluorouracil-mediated cytotoxicity
Shobbir Hussain
May 01, 2020
The major molecular mode of action of the cytotoxic drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is generally considered to result from thymidylate synthase inhibition. Recent findings relating to the function of the human uracil-5...
Effects of Smart Classroom on Students' Learning Outcomes
This meta-analysis examines the influence of smart classrooms on students' learning outcome, synthesizing findings from 21 empirical studies. The results indicate a significant overall effect size (SMD = 1.10), suggesting that...
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Intensive Imaging-based Follow-up of Surgically Treated Localised Renal Cell Carcinoma Does Not Improve Post-recurrence Survival
Saeed Dabestani, Christian Beisland, Grant D Stewart, Karim Bensalah, Eirikur Gudmundsson, Thomas B Lam, William Gietzmann, Paimaun Zakikhani, Lorenzo Marconi, Sergio Fernandéz-Pello, Serenella Monagas, Samuel Paul Williams, Christian Torbrand, Thomas Powles, Erik Van Werkhoven, Richard Meijer, Alessandro Volpe, Michael Staehler, Börje Ljungberg, Axel Bex
Dec 03, 2018
The optimal follow-up (FU) strategy for patients treated for localised renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remains unclear. Using the RECUR database, we studied imaging intensity utilised in contemporary FU to evaluate its association...
Topical treatment of actinic keratoses in organ transplant recipients
Zeeshaan-Ul Hasan, Ikhlaaq Ahmed, Rubeta N Matin, Victoria Homer, John T Lear, Ferina Ismail, Tristan Whitmarsh, Adele C Green, Jason Thomson, Alan Milligan, Sarah Hogan, Vanessa Van-de-Velde, Liza Mitchell-Worsford, Jonathan Kentley, Claire Gaunt, Yolande Jefferson-Hulme, Sarah J Bowden, Piers Gaunt, Keith Wheatley, Charlotte M Proby, Catherine A Harwood
Jun 14, 2022
BACKGROUND: The risk of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is significantly increased in organ transplant recipients (OTRs). Clearance of actinic keratoses (AKs) is generally regarded as a surrogate biomarker for cSCC...
On a new proposed mechanism of 5-fluorouracil-mediated cytotoxicity
Shobbir Hussain
May 01, 2020
The major molecular mode of action of the cytotoxic drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is generally considered to result from thymidylate synthase inhibition. Recent findings relating to the function of the human uracil-5...
A Corpus-Based Study on the Translation Style of Five English Versions of Fu Sheng Liu Ji, Vol I
Bing Zhang
Oct 31, 2022
Using a corpus approach, this article investigates the translation styles of the first chapter of Fu Sheng Liu Ji at three levels: the statistical parameters, the translation of culture-specific lexis, and readability...
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An IIoT Temporal Data Anomaly Detection Method Combining Transformer and Adversarial Training
The existing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) temporal data analysis methods often suffer from issues such as information loss, difficulty balancing spatial and temporal features, and being affected by training data noise...
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Two Variations of Peer Intermediaries for Key Establishment in Sensor Networks
Recently, the issue pertinent to sensor network security is a popular topic. Especially, due to the restriction of energy supplied by battery power of the sensors, symmetric cryptography is one of the suitable choices for the...
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BACKGROUND: Today it is possible to profile the transcriptome of individual cells, and a key step in the analysis of these datasets is unsupervised clustering. For very large datasets, efficient algorithms are required to ensure...
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BACKGROUND: Today it is possible to profile the transcriptome of individual cells, and a key step in the analysis of these datasets is unsupervised clustering. For very large datasets, efficient algorithms are required to ensure...
Endoplasmic Reticulum Targeting Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe for Carboxylesterase 2 Detection in Drug-Induced Acute Liver Injury
Xiangge Tian, Fei Yan, Jingyuan Zheng, Xiaolin Cui, Lei Feng, Sheng Li, Lingling Jin, Tony D. James, Xiaochi Ma
Dec 17, 2019
Carboxylesterase 2 (CES2), an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) located phase I enzyme, plays a vital role in the metabolism of various endogenous and exogenous substances, and is regarded as an important target for the design of...
Personalized Food Printing for Portrait Images
The recent development of 3D printing techniques enables novel applications in customized food fabrication. Based on a tailor-made 3D food printer, we present a novel personalized food printing framework driven by portrait...
Cationic Rectifier Based on a Graphene Oxide-Covered Microhole
Cation transport through nanochannels in graphene oxide can be rectified to give ionic diode devices for future applications, for example, in desalination. A film of graphene oxide is applied to a 6 μm thick poly(ethylene...
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Heterogeneity Is Linked to the Initiation and Therapeutic Response of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.
Jingyuan Tong, Ting Sun, Shihui Ma, Yanhong Zhao, Mankai Ju, Yuchen Gao, Ping Zhu, Puwen Tan, Rongfeng Fu, Anqi Zhang, Ding Wang, Di Wang, Zhijian Xiao, Jiaxi Zhou, Renchi Yang, Stephen J Loughran, Juan Li, Anthony R Green, Emery H Bresnick, Dong Wang, Tao Cheng, Lei Zhang, Lihong Shi
Feb 24, 2021
The implications of stem cell heterogeneity for disease pathogenesis and therapy are poorly defined. JAK2V617F+ myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), harboring the same mutation in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), display diverse...
Bilateral Habenula deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression
Chencheng Zhang, Yingying Zhang, Huichun Luo, Xinmeng Xu, Ti-Fei Yuan, Dianyou Li, Yi-Yun Cai, Hengfen Gong, Dai-Hui Peng, Yi-Ru Fang, Valerie Voon, Bomin Sun
Mar 07, 2022
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of structures in the brain's reward system is a promising therapeutic option for patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Recently, DBS of the habenula (HB) in the brain's anti-reward...
“Small, yet Beautiful”
We reconsider whether a grand multi-winner contest elicits more equilibrium effort than a collection of sub-contests. Fu and Lu (2009) employ a sequential winner-selection mechanism and find support for running a grand contest....
Personalized Food Printing for Portrait Images
The recent development of 3D printing techniques enables novel applications in customized food fabrication. Based on a tailor-made 3D food printer, we present a novel personalized food printing framework driven by portrait...
Cationic Rectifier Based on a Graphene Oxide-Covered Microhole
Cation transport through nanochannels in graphene oxide can be rectified to give ionic diode devices for future applications, for example, in desalination. A film of graphene oxide is applied to a 6 μm thick poly(ethylene...
Locomotion of Self-Excited Vibrating and Rotating Objects in Granular Environments
Many reptiles, known as ‘sand swimmers’, adapt to their specific environments by vibrating or rotating their body. To understand these type of interactions of active objects with granular media, we study a simplified...
Anti-tumour efficacy of capecitabine in a genetically engineered mouse model of pancreatic cancer.
Aurélie Courtin, Frances M Richards, Tashinga E Bapiro, Jo L Bramhall, Albrecht Neesse, Natalie Cook, Ben-Fillippo Krippendorff, David A Tuveson, Duncan I Jodrell
Feb 12, 2020
Capecitabine (CAP) is a 5-FU pro-drug approved for the treatment of several cancers and it is used in combination with gemcitabine (GEM) in the treatment of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC). However, limited...
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Long-run marginal cost pricing based on network spare capacity
Fu-Rong Li
Jan 01, 0001
This paper proposes a novel approach for providing long-run marginal cost (LRMC) pricing in network charges. The proposed approach makes use of the unused capacity of an exiting network to reflect the cost of advancing or...
Long-run marginal cost pricing based on network spare capacity
Fu-Rong Li
Jan 01, 0001
This paper proposes a novel approach for providing long-run marginal cost (LRMC) pricing in network charges. The proposed approach makes use of the unused capacity of an exiting network to reflect the cost of advancing or...
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