Endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy (EBUS) and needle confocal laser endomicroscopy (nCLE) are techniques for screening benign and malignant lesions of the hilar and mediastinal lymph node (HMLN). This study investigated the diagnostic potential of EBUS, nCLE, and combined EBUS and nCLE in HMLN lesions. We recruited 107 patients with HMLN lesions who were examined by EBUS and nCLE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatitis C Virus (HCV) encodes two envelope glycoproteins, E1 and E2. Our previous work selected a specific aptamer ZE2, which could bind to E2 with high affinity, with a great potential for developing new molecular probes as an early diagnostic reagents or therapeutic drugs targeting HCV. In this study, the binding sites between E2 and aptamer ZE2 were further explored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA population of F8 recombinant inbred lines (RILs), derived from a cross between IR26 (Oryza sativa L. spp. indica) and Jiucaiqing (japonica), were used to identify the quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for Cd2+ content in brown rice under 5 mg/kg Cd2+ stress.
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