The PDAC Extracellular Matrix: A Review of the ECM Protein Composition, Tumor Cell Interaction, and Therapeutic Strategies

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is notorious for a dense fibrotic stroma that is interlaced with a collagen-based extracellular matrix (ECM) STRAW BENT that plays an important role in tumor biology.Traditionally thought to only provide a physical barrier from host responses and systemic chemotherapy, new studies have demonstrated that the E

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Restoring susceptibility induced MRI signal loss in rat brain at 9.4 T: A step towards whole brain functional connectivity imaging.

The aural cavity magnetic susceptibility artifact leads to significant echo planar Horse Bridle Accessories imaging (EPI) signal dropout in rat deep brain that limits acquisition of functional connectivity fcMRI data.In this study, we provide a method that recovers much of the EPI signal in deep brain.Needle puncture introduction of a liquid-phase

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Evaluation of unique identifiers used for citation linking [version 1; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Unique identifiers (UID) are seen as an effective tool to create links between identical publications in databases or identify duplicates in a database.The purpose of the present study is to investigate how well UIDs work for citation linking.We have two objectives: Explore the coverage, precision, and characteristics of publications matched versus

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