Publications by authors named "Zhi-Min Feng"

var. nepalensis (D. Don) Nakai is an herbaceous species of Rosaceae distributed in China.

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Objective: To evaluate facial soft tissue 3-deminsion changes of skeletal Class III malocclusion patients after orthognathic surgery using structure light scanning technique.

Methods: Eight patients [3 males and 5 females, aged (27.08 ± 4.

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Objective: To investigate the relationship between the infection rate of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) and age, sex and season.

Methods: Passive agglutination assay was used to detect Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibodies (MP-Ab) in the serum of patients with respiratory tract infection, and MP-Ab test results in 2010 were analyzed.

Results: The positive rates of 5 year test results were 30.

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Background: Melamine-contaminated milk powder was the cause of the 2008 outbreak of urolithiasis in young children and infants in China, but the prognosis of these children remains unknown. We hypothesized that urolithiasis induced by melamine-contaminated milk powder may be associated with secondary renal injury.

Methods: A total of 8335 children (≤6 years old) with a history of consuming melamine-contaminated milk powder were screened.

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Objective: To observe the expression and distribution of matrix mentallproteinase-2 (MMP-2) in the periodontal tissues of diabetes mellitus (DM) rats during tooth movement, and to observe the affection of diabetes mellitus on the collagen metabolism.

Methods: Eighty male Sprague-Dawley rats were used. Mesial force was applied to pull the maxillary first molar.

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