This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91956121,21877106,21807098,and 21850410455);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)Pioneer Hundred Talents Program,the Young Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,and the Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province(20180101021JC);Computing time was supported by the Network and Computing Center,Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry,CAS,the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou,and the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen.M.R.H.is the recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship(FT180100565);Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics(CE140100003).
Nicotine is the principal alkaloid of tobacco often manufactured into cigarettes and belongs to a highly addictive class of drugs.Nicotine attenuates the neuroinflammation induced by microglial activation.However,the ...
supported by grants from the NationalScience & Technology Pillar Program of China duringthe Twelfth Five-year Plan Period (No. 2014BAI05B05);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81873843);the Foundation at Research Funds forthe Central Universities (No. 2017kfyXJJ102 and No.2019kfyXKJC053).
Placenta accreta spectrum disorder (PASD) and placenta previa (PP) are two of the mosthideous obstetric complications which are usually associated with a history of cesarean section(CS). Moreover, women with PASD, PP ...
supported by a research grant from Inha University Hospital.
This study investigated the association of a tobacco-specific nitrosamine carcinogen,4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridy1)-I-butanol(NNAL)with urinary cotinine(uCot),urinary sodium(uNa)excretion,systolic blood pressure(...
Japan Tobacco International for financial support and assistance in obtaining some of the references
BACKGROUND Misclassification of smoking habits leads to underestimation of true relationships between diseases and active smoking, and overestimation of true relationships with passive smoking. Information on misclass...
supported by Major Science and Technology Projects and Special Priority Themes of Zhejiang Province of China(2010C13030)
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