Recently, the investigations on the hydrodynamic performance of floating breakwaters have great interest toresearchers because of its high advantages in protecting marinas and small craft harbors.For the purpose of improvingthe hydrodynamic performance of the stepped-slope floating breakwater type, this research had been carried out as anapproach t
Background: ACVIM developed and published guidelines for staging myxomatous mitral valve degeneration in dogs in 2009.An updated version was published in 2019.The present study aimed to investigate whether these guidelines are actually used by the intended public more than a decade after their first publication.Methods: An online survey was distrib
Named Data Networking (NDN) is one of the future envisioned networking paradigm used to provide fast and efficient content dissemination with interest-based content retrieval, name-based routing and in-network content caching.On the one hand, this new breed of future Internet architecture is becoming a key technology for data dissemination in the I
Zaina Ait Bachir,1,* YuKun Huang,1,* MuYe He,1 Lei Huang,1 XinYu Hou,1 RongJun Chen,2 Feng Gao1,3,4 1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK
The pathogenetic role of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in long-term retinal and kidney complications of diabetes has been demonstrated.Conversely, little is known in diabetic neuropathy.We examined the modulation of VEGF pathway at mRNA and protein level on dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons and Schwann cells (SC) induced by hyperglycae