In addition, in the absence of a cholesterol-related genetic disorder, chronological age is likely to correspond to atherosclerotic disease stage because it is a direct measure of lifetime exposure to LDL-C and other CVRFs. Considering that LDL-C plays a role in both the initiation and the ...
MiniGPT-4 is an advanced large language model that enhances vision-language understanding. It uses a novel way to create high-quality image-text pairs by the model itself and ChatGPT together to create a small but high-quality dataset. The second finetuning stage is trained on this dataset t...
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) affects about 40% of diabetes mellitus (DM) patients and is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) all over the world, especially in high- and middle-income countries. Most DN has been present for years before it is...
The article reports on the single-level test portion of the government's Making Good Progress alternative for Great Britain's national key stage testing. U... Mansell,Warwick,Warren,... - 《Times Educational Supplement》 被引量: 0发表: 2007年 English Made Easy Ages 8-9 Key Stage 2 Help ...
Of the 94 patients included in the present study, all had received palliative antineoplastic treatment, and most patients (96.8%) had had stage IV lung cancer. The vast majority of patients (85.1%) had received chemotherapy. The median time from treatment initiation to disease progression was 5.9...
In vivo, the treatment with CXCR7 antagonists was administered to animals (Figure 3A and B) at a stage where the presence of experimental micro metastases had been verified (data not shown). When the lungs were examined at killing, CXCR7 antagonist- treated mice exhibited fewer pulmonary ...
(t-test:p= 0.03). In addition, at age-matched time points, tumors in mice with dense stroma not only displayed more hyperplastic area but also tumor regions that grew out away from the gland (arrows in (c) and (d)).(e)Low (i), (ii) and high (iii), (iv) magnification images ...
“a real princess,” that by the end of the story someone that he is “sure” is “a real princess” will have been found or will have emerged; we might even guess that some test will be involved; but we cannot possibly predict, after the opening sentences, that a sleep-depriving ...
Therefore, accurately predicting the patients who will progress is undoubtedly of great importance because the loss of vision starts only in the advanced stage. The advanced stage of AMD can be further divided into two categories: neovascular AMD (nAMD; also called “exudative” or “wet”) and...
body weight and BMI also in patients without renal pathology or injury, but it is still not fully known whether a decrease in body weight can reverse this condition, regaining normal glomerular size, or if it is an irreversible damage that can easily lead to end-stage renal disease [68]. ...