LUNG MITOCHONDRIAL DNA COPY NUMBER, INFLAMMATORY BIOMARKERS, GENE TRANSCRIPTION AND GENE METHYLATION IN VAPERS AND SMOKERS

Lung mitochondrial DNA copy number, inflammatory biomarkers, gene transcription and gene methylation in vapers and smokers

Summary: Background: Mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtCN) maintains cellular function and homeostasis, and is linked to nuclear DNA methylation Pendants and gene expression.Increased mtCN in the blood is associated with smoking and respiratory disease, but has received little attention for target organ effects for smoking or electronic cigarette (E

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Attitudes of pregnant women and mothers of children with orofacial clefts toward prenatal diagnosis of nonsyndromic orofacial clefts in a semiurban set-up in India

Objectives: To assess the attitudes of pregnant women and mothers of children with orofacial clefts toward prenatal diagnosis of clefts and elective termination of pregnancy, and to investigate their Loveseat opinion about who makes reproductive decisions in the family.Design: Two hundred subjects were included in the study prospectively regarding

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Utilizing Artificial Neural Networks and Random Forests to Forecast the Dynamic Amplification Factors of Non-Structural Components

Soft stories in buildings are well-known to present structural vulnerabilities during seismic events, and the failure of non-structural components (NSCs) has been evident in past earthquakes, along with structural damage.This study seeks to investigate how the presence of a soft story in a building affects the criteria for elastic floor acceleratio

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The Spherical Retractable Bubble Space: An Egocentric Graph Visualization throughout a Retractable Visualization Space

In this paper, we present a new egocentric metaphor for graph visualization that consists in positioning a graph between two concentric spheres of different radii.It improves the expansion of nodes in space, contrary to 3D spatialization algorithms.The edge Board Shorts drawing is optimized by pushing all the edges into the area delimited by our tw

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