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Magnetic soft continuum robots have received interest in diverse fields, because of their active steering and remote control capabilities. However, a more challenging task is the development of ...

Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a chronic autonomic disorder characterized by excessive heart rate elevation upon standing or head-up tilt, in the absence of orthostatic hypotension. This ...

Background: With distal transradial access (dTRA), the postoperative compression time remains significantly longer than the recommended range via in practice. This study investigated whether ...

Prostate cancer (PCa) screening with PSA (prostate-specific antigen) remains controversial. PSA is specific to the organ but not to cancer, and different benign conditions can influence the value, ...

Despite increasing use of minimally invasive techniques, limited literature has described minithoracotomy for removal of left atrial masses, such as myxomas. This study was aimed at addressing this ...

Public-health emergencies may transcend national boundaries and greatly affect the political, economic and social stability of countries worldwide [2]. Globally, vaccines have become a major means of ...

Chemokines are a subclass of cytokines, a large family of small secreted proteins that communicate via G protein-coupled heptahelical chemokine receptors on the cell surface. Atrial fibrillation (AF) ...

The compound 7-ethyl-10-hydroxy-camptothecin (SN38) is a broad-spectrum antitumor agent whose applications are greatly limited by its poor solubility. Therefore, irinotecan, the hydrophilic derived ...

Oral fluid (OF) is a new safe, non-invasive, convenient, and efficient biological sample that can be used for virus nucleic acid and antibody detection. Because few studies have performed surveillance ...

This debate piece offers a global historical materialist critique of decolonial theory, engaging Walter Mignolo’s work. It argues that decolonial literature, by creating abstract universals like ...