Publications by authors named "Wengang Qin"

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  • Engineering bacteria may serve as a promising treatment option for cardiovascular diseases and associated risk factors.
  • Oral bacteria play a significant role in the development of cardiovascular issues, making their genetic modification a potentially effective strategy.
  • By using protein and genetic engineering, these modified bacteria can produce beneficial substances like cytokines and reactive oxygen species, presenting new treatment possibilities for cardiovascular conditions.
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  • * Unsupervised methods, like clustering and Principal Component Analysis (PCA), revealed patterns in PAH exposure, showing a mild association with chronic diarrhea but no correlation with chronic constipation.
  • * Supervised learning techniques indicated a positive relationship between specific PAHs and chronic diarrhea, highlighting that higher PAH exposure increases the risk of chronic diarrhea, while having no meaningful connection to chronic constipation.
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  • - The study investigates the relationship between exposure to aldehydes and health issues like inflammation and oxidative stress using data from the NHANES 2013-2014 survey with 766 participants.
  • - Results showed significant associations between aldehyde exposure (specifically propanaldehyde and butyraldehyde) and increased serum iron levels and lymphocyte counts, indicating potential links to chronic inflammation and oxidative stress.
  • - The findings highlight the need for further research on how aldehydes and similar environmental factors impact health, suggesting a possible contribution to adverse health outcomes.
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Background: Subanesthetic doses of ketamine as an adjuvant to tramadol in patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for postoperative pain have been shown to improve the quality of analgesia. However, there are no such commercially available drug mixtures, and the stability of the combination has rarely been assessed.

Material And Methods: Admixtures were assessed for periods of up to 14 days at 4°C and 25°C.

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Objective: Although positive association between abortion and breast cancer was frequently reported from case-control studies, results from prospective studies were still unclear. This study aimed to evaluate this association based on prospective studies.

Methods: PubMed, ISI Web of Knowledge and Embase were systematically searched for prospective studies on the association between abortion and breast cancer up to April 2014, supplemented by manual searches on the references.

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