Publications by authors named "Cheng Yen Chiang"
Background: After the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, international medical services have continued to flourish and reconfigure, leading to the current intense competition among medical institutions. Understanding loyalty in international patients and its related factors may be referenced and used to enhance loyalty among patients visiting a hospital, thereby enhancing the competitiveness of that medical institution.
Purpose: This study was designed to explore the significant factors that influence the loyalty of international patients.
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- Androgen-independent prostate cancer is a significant cause of mortality worldwide, leading researchers to explore treatments using extracts from the medical fungus Ganoderma.
- In this study, extracts (hexane and butanol) from Ganoderma showed a dose-dependent inhibition of DU145 cells, a type of prostate cancer cell that doesn't rely on androgens.
- The extracts not only caused cell-cycle arrest but also promoted programmed cell death in cancer cells while showing lower toxicity to normal cells, suggesting their potential as treatments for androgen-independent prostate cancer.
In this study, three carriers (glass microsphere, cellulose beads and AlgNa/PVA beads) were evaluated as phytase solid carriers for reduction of phytic acid within soymilk. Phytase was covalently immobilized onto or entrapped within carriers for repeated use. Glass microsphere was chosen due to its high catalytic efficiency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between chronic periodontitis (CP) and upper urinary tract stone (UUTS) in Taiwan by using a population-based data set.
Methods: A total of 16,292 CP patients and 48,876 randomly-selected controls without chronic periodontitis were selected from the National research database and studied retrospectively. Subjects selected have not been diagnosed with UUTS previously.