Background Recent study of the inflammatory reactions occurring during and after
cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) has improved our understanding of the involvement of the …

Postoperative lung injury is one of the most frequent complications of cardiac surgery that
impacts significantly on health-care expenditures and largely has been believed to result from …

Background. A growing body of evidence relates the release during cardiopulmonary bypass
(CPB) of proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin (IL)-6, and …

An arbitrary unknown quantum state cannot be measured precisely or replicated perfectly 1 .
However, quantum teleportation enables unknown quantum states to be transferred reliably …

The Yorkie homologues YAP (Yes-associated protein) and TAZ (transcriptional coactivator
with PDZ-binding motif, also known as WWTR1), effectors of the Hippo pathway, have been …

Background. Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy for early lung cancer has
been shown to be technically feasible. Comparative studies on laparoscopic versus open …

Background. Proinflammatory cytokines play a key role in the inflammatory cascade after
cardiopulmonary bypass and may induce cardiac dysfunction. We compared the production of …

Proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor–α, interleukin-6, and interleukin-8,
and antiinflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin-10, may play an important role in patient …

To test whether tocopherols (vitamin E) are essential in the protection against oxidative
stress in plants, a series of Arabidopsis thaliana vitamin E (vte) biosynthetic mutants that …

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and tuberculosis (TB) are two major
infectious diseases posing significant public health threats, and their coinfection (aptly …