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Mild hypothermia for treatment of diffuse axonal injury: a quantitative DTI...

Mild hypothermia has been shown to exert apparent neuroprotective effects in animal models of diffuse axonal injury.

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NTS’s role in the protection of pre-moxibustion on gastric mucosal lesions

NTS’s role in the protection of pre-moxibustion on gastric mucosal lesionsMoxibustion may have protective effects on the stomach mucous membrane against stress gastric ulcer.

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Wen Dan Tang improves insomnia-related anxiety

Ghrelin, a brain-gut peptide that induces anxiety and other abnormal emotions, contributes to the effects of insomnia on emotional behavior.

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Early rehabilitation improves postsurgery neurofunctional outcome in spinal...

In children, primary spinal tumors comprise 4–8% of all tumors from the central nervous system.

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How humans learn grammar

Humans might have an inherent cognitive bias toward using semantic hierarchies rather than superficial word-order rules when learning new languages, a study suggests. How humans learn grammar is a...

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Recognition of complex human facial expressions

According to a study of 21 basic and complex human facial expressions of emotion, individuals may express a broader range of emotions via uniquely identifiable facial expressions than previously...

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Hypoxia in the Baltic Sea

Declining oxygen levels in the Baltic Sea might be primarily due to increased amounts of nutrients entering the sea from the land, according to a study. Deoxygenation of deep sea waters results when...

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Past climate change and marine carbon dioxide release

Changes in ocean circulation may have contributed to the end of the last ice age, a study finds. Researchers investigating the abrupt endings of Pleistocene glaciation hypothesized that glacial...

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Universal syllable preferences in newborns

Newborn brains respond differently to syllables that are frequent across languages than to rare syllables, a study finds, suggesting that linguistic preference for certain syllable types might be a...

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Also of interest from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Muscle tissue grown from rat myogenic cells and engineered to mimic the highly organized structure of native muscle tissue, including a functioning stem cell pool, was transplanted into mice, and...

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Administering blood transfusions to patients with lower levels of hemoglobin...

Restricting red blood cell (RBC) transfusions among hospitalized patients to those with hemoglobin (the iron-containing protein in RBCs) measures below a certain level is associated with a lower risk...

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Medication does not help prevent erectile dysfunction following radiation...

Among men undergoing radiation therapy for prostate cancer, daily use of the erectile dysfunction drug tadalafil, compared with placebo, did not prevent loss of erectile function, according to a study...

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Rescue robot, a good helper for earthquake rescue

Three domestic robots, rotor flying robot, transformable rescue robot and robotized life detector, played important roles in Lushan earthquake rescue in 2013, which have provided essential data and...

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Progress of image registration method based on minimally invasive spinal...

Surgical robot, have gotten fast development. Meanwhile, the accuracy and stability of robot assisted surgery have been widely recognized by medical and industrial circle as well as patients. Shenyang...

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Research progress of the Chinese Polar Rover Robot

Considering the requirements of the Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition, Shenyang Institute of Automation has developed three generations of polar rover robots, focusing on rover mobility,...

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New tree-planting technique for ecological control of desert

Desert drought is generally considered as the major factor that results in the low survival rate and poor growth of seedlings of desert plants. But recent research using desert plant Haloxylon...

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Optimal distance between two electrode tips during recording of compound...

Optimal distance between two electrode tips during recording of compound nerve action potentials

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Promising new treatment for age-related macular degeneration

Injections of IL-18, a protein being tested in clinical trials to treat some cancers, helps control the creation of new blood vessels in the eye, and could be a new treatment for age-related macular...

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Resting-state functional connection during low back pain

The default mode network is a key area in the resting state, involving the posterior cingulate cortex, precuneus, medial prefrontal and lateral temporal cortices, and is characterized by balanced...

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Underground ocean on encedalus captured by cassini

New results from the Cassini spacecraft, which has been among Saturn’s moons for the past 10 years, show that Enceladus -- one of the planet’s smaller moons -- harbors an ocean of water beneath 18 to...

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