Phenylketonuria (PKU) due to recessively inherited phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiency results in hyperphenylalaninemia, which is toxic to the central nervous system.Restriction of dietary phenylalanine intake remains the standard of PKU care and prevents the major neurologic manifestations of the disease, yet shortcomings of dietary therapy
"Clicking" with your Audience: Evaluating the Use of Personal Response Systems in Library Instruction
University of the Pacific librarians used personal response systems (PRS) or clickers in first-year mandatory library instructional sessions to assess their effects on student engagement and retention of learning outcomes.Students who utilized Cot Pocket clickers during their library session reported greater enjoyment and encouragement to participa
Crosstalk between thyroid CSCs and immune cells: basic principles and clinical implications
Thyroid cancer has become the most common endocrine malignancy.Although the majority of differentiated thyroid cancers have a favorable prognosis, advanced thyroid cancers, iodine-refractory thyroid cancers, and highly malignant undifferentiated carcinomas wall basket still face a serious challenge of poor prognosis and even death.Cancer stem cells
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