Holder Tan

The objectives of this study are to experimentally investigate the effects of the dielectric material and the package stiffness on the durability and the efficiency of a previously developed triboelectric-based instrumented knee implant prototype. The proposed smart knee implant may provide useful information about prosthesis health and its…[Read more]

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) using methylene blue (MB) plus potassium iodide (KI) has been shown to be effective in killing Candida albicans in many in vitro and in vivo studies, however, there are limited reports of clinical investigations. This study aimed to explore the clinical application of aPDT with MB plus KI for the treatment…[Read more]

846; P = .436; partial η 2 = 0.009). Hemoglobin levels were significantly increased after supplementation in all 3 supplement groups. Increases were not significantly different between groups (factorial repeat-measures ANOVA (F = 0.549; P = .591; partial η 2 = 0.006). CONCLUSIONS Equivalent effects were observed. After 6 months of suppl…[Read more]

ferent functions, including distinguishing ACPs from AMPs and distinguishing ACPs from all peptides. The second SMO-optimized model, which utilizes PSSM as a feature, performs better than all other existing tools.

Representing biological networks as graphs is a powerful approach to reveal underlying patterns, signatures, and critical…[Read more]

The study of the mechanism of the reaction using scavengers confirmed that the created holes (h+) are the most effective species in the process of photocatalytic degradation of MB. Notably, the catalyst was recyclable and could be used for degradation of other dyes.A novel 3-D biopolymer-based adsorption-photocatalytic composite,…[Read more]

were remarkably stable across all measurements.

Serum levels of IL-6 increased during surgery. Intraoperative IL-6 and s-IL-33R values were higher in the RV compared to the periphery, suggesting secretion from the tumor or tumor microenvironment itself. Supportive of this is an almost general expression of IL-6/s-IL-6R in tumor cells and IL-6…[Read more]