INTRODUCTION Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is featured with the biological properties of strong aggressive behaviors, rapid disease progression, high risk of recurrence and metastasis, and low disease free survival. Patients with this tumor are insensitive to the endocrine therapy and target treatment for HER-2; therefore, chemotherapy is often used as routine treatment in clinical. Beca...

Background To study the effectiveness of exenatide with metformin and sequential treatment with exenatide and glargine added to metformin and their influence on insulin sensitivity and adipose distribution. Methods 20 newly diagnosed obese type 2 diabetic patients were enrolled, and 2-month washout treatment of metformin, 6-month exenatide treatment, and 6-month glargine treatment were admini...

An optical orthogonal signature pattern code (OOSPC) finds application in transmitting 2-dimensional images through multicore fiber in code-division multiple-access (CDMA) communication systems. Observing a one-to-one correspondence between an OOSPC and a certain combinatorial subject, called a packing design, we present a construction of optimal OOSPCs with weight 4 and maximum collision param...

During the 1995 season, large (-275g), medium (175g) and small (125g) ’O’Henry’ peaches were stored in either air, 5% CO, + 2% 0, or 17% CO, + 6% 0, at 38°F (3.3”C). Large ‘O’Henry’ peaches benefited more from the 17% CO, + 6% 0, than from either the 5% CO, + 2% 0, or the air storage treatment. During the 1996 season, large, medium and small ‘Elegant Lady’ and ’O’Henry’ peaches were stored in a...

The opposite orientation of the ester spacers in the rodlike ligands L 4C12 (benzimidazole-OOC-phenyl) and L 5C12 (benzimidazole-COO-phenyl) drastically changes the electronic structure of the aromatic systems, without affecting their meridional tricoordination to trivalent lanthanides, Ln(III), and their thermotropic liquid crystalline (i.e., mesomorphic) behaviors. However, the rich mesomorph...

This paper simulates and analyzes noise of multimedia transmission in a flexible optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) computer network with different quality of service (QoS) requirements. To achieve multimedia transmission in OCDMA, we have proposed strict variable-weight optical orthogonal codes (VW-OOCs), which can guarantee the smallest correlation value of one by the optimal desig...

The isolated rat phrenic nerve/diaphragm preparation has proven to be a useful tool for examining neuromuscular transmission and function in vitro. This preparation allows for the simultaneous examination of direct phrenic nerve stimulation as well as direct muscle stimulation. While the isolated phrenic nerve/diaphragm has been extensively utilized (Bulbring, 1946; Tsai, 1985; Wali et al., 198...

BACKGROUND Asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) overlap (ACO) is characterized by the coexistence of features of both asthma and COPD and is associated with rapid progress and a poor prognosis. Thus, the early recognition of ACO is crucial. OBJECTIVES We sought to explore the plasma levels of biomarkers associated with asthma (periostin, TSLP and YKL-40), COPD (NGAL) and their...

Abstract Background Vitamin D deficiency is a global public health issue in women and children associated with adverse impacts on child growth, such as rickets. However, prior studies have mainly focused measuring vitamin levels singleton pregnant their offspring, very limited revealed the prevalence of twin offspring. The aim this study was to investigate twin-pregnant neonates. We also explor...