Online tracking mechanisms employed by internet companies for user profiling and targeted advertising raise major privacy concerns. Despite efforts to defend against these mechanisms, they continue to evolve, renderin...
Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)is a disease that caused a global pandemic and is caused by infection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus.It has affected over 768 million people worldwide,result...
Background:Erosive esophagitis(EE)is a gastroesophageal reflux disease characterized by mucosal breaks in the esophagus.Proton pump inhibitors are widely used as maintenance therapy for EE,but many patients still rela...
BACKGROUND Helicobacter pylori(H.pylori)infects over half the global population,causing gastrointestinal diseases like dyspepsia,gastritis,duodenitis,peptic ulcers,GMALT lymphoma,and gastric adenocarcinoma.Eradicating...
Tumors survive by creating a tumor microenvironment(TME)that suppresses antitumor immunity.The TME suppresses the immune system by limiting antigen presentation,inhibiting lymphocyte and natural killer(NK)cell activat...
the National Institute of Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre for their funding support in the SKS(NIHR203308).
BACKGROUND Hypertension is commonly observed in patients living with chronic kidney disease(CKD).Finding an optimal treatment regime remains challenging due to the complex bidirectional cause-and-effect relationship b...
Proton pump inhibitors(PPIs),the most commonly used antisecretory medications in the management of reflux illness,virtually eliminate elective surgery for ulcer disease,and relegate anti-reflux surgery to patients wit...
Several pharmacological agents to prevent the progression of diabetic kidney disease(DKD)have been tested in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM)in the past two decades.With the exception of renin-angiotensin ...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82070574).
To the Editor:Liver cirrhosis(LC),the end‐stage condition of chronic liver disease,results in>1,300,000 annual deaths worldwide.Meanwhile,the global incidence of decompensated cirrhosis is rising yearly.1 Following c...
This work was supported by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality grants(Grant IDs:20431900102,20431900100,20430780300,21920102003 and 2043190012);the National Science and Technology Major Project“Key New Drug Creation and Manufacturing Program”,China(Grant ID:2018ZX09711002);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21920102003);Shanghai Science and Technology Development Funds(Grant ID:20QA1406400);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(grants 2018367 to LKZ);as well as the startup package from ShanghaiTech University.
An epidemic of pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is spreading worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 relies on its spike protein to invade host cells by interacting with the human recepto...