AN UPDATE OF GENETIC BASIS OF PCOS PATHOGENESIS

An update of genetic basis of PCOS pathogenesis

ABSTRACT Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common and complex endocrine disorder that affects 5-20% of reproductive age women.PCOS clinical symptoms include hirsutism, menstrual dysfunction, infertility, obesity and metabolic syndrome.There is a wide heterogeneity in clinical manifestations and metabolic complications.The pathogenesis of PCOS i

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Effect of Carboxylic Functional Group Functionalized on Carbon Nanotubes Surface on the Removal of Lead from Water

The adsorption mechanism of the removal of lead from water by using carboxylic functional group (COOH) functionalized on the surface of carbon nanotubes was investigated.Four independent variables including pH, CNTs dosage, contact time, and agitation speed were carried out to determine the influence of these parameters on the adsorption capacity o

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Similarity measures and attribute selection for case-based reasoning in transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

In a clinical decision support system, the purpose of case-based reasoning is to help clinicians make convenient decisions for diagnoses or interventional gestures.Past experience, which is represented by a case-base of previous patients, is exploited to solve similar current problems using four steps-retrieve, reuse, revise, and retain.The propose

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Pain Disorder, Hysteria or Somatization?

Pain used to be Yoga a simple issue.It was caused by physical injury or disease and the sufferer had to rest and take opium.That was about two hundred years ago.A few scattered commentators from Jeremiah (Lamentations I:12-13) to Montaigne (1) had the idea that emotion could cause pain or influence it.The development of anatomical knowledge, closel

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