Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a highly prevalent sleep disorder; however, it remains
underdiagnosed and undertreated. Although screening tools such as the Berlin …

The SLC6 family is a diverse set of transporters that mediate solute translocation across cell
plasma membranes by coupling solute transport to the cotransport of sodium and chloride …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a typical neurodegenerative disease and the pathological
feature of which is the death of dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra region. At present …

The estimation of friction factor for a Newtonian fluid flowing through a pipe has long been
known. Usually it is done by using theMoody (1944) friction factor chart which is made up of …

Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS) is widely used to evaluate degree of somnolence among
Chinese patients with sleep-disordered breathing. Yet no Mandarin–Chinese translation has …

Multimodal generalizations of the normal, gamma, inverse gamma, and beta distributions
are introduced within a unified framework. These multimodal distributions, belonging to the …

Growing evidence has implicated glial anomalies in the pathophysiology of major
depression disorder (MDD). Gap junctional communication is a main determinant of …

(17) and for the first 66 (No. 1 to 66) different binary gaseous systems as listed in Table II
were calculated. Byplotting these two groups of variables on log log coordinate paper, the …

BACKGROUND: Children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),
based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth edition (DSM-IV) …

Resident microglia are the major immune cells in the brain, acting as the first defense of the
central nervous system. Following cerebral ischemia, microglia respond to this injury at first …