Purpose: The most preferable vascular access for patients with end-stage renal failure
needing hemodialysis is native arteriovenous fistula (AVF) on account of its access longevity, …

The therapeutic potential of a novel, targeted-release formulation of oral budesonide (Nefecon)
for the treatment of IgA nephropathy (IgAN) was first demonstrated by the phase 2b …

Diabetic nephropathy (DN) contributes to end-stage renal disease and kidney dysfunction
with a proverbial feature of podocyte injury. Inflammation and insulin resistance is recently …

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Y)… of the manuscript for important intellectual content: P Li, XM Chen, XF Sun and YZ Chen. …

News events can greatly influence equity markets. In this paper, we are interested in
predicting the short-term movement of stock prices after financial news events using only the …

Objectives A prospective, multi-center, randomized controlled study was conducted to
evaluate the efficacy and safety of a 24-week course low-dose leflunomide combined with …

Financial economics and econometrics literature demonstrate that the limit order book data
is useful in predicting short-term volatility in stock markets. In this paper, we are interested in …

Background: Little is known about the impact of haemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD)
on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We compared HRQoL between conventional …

Increasing amounts of evidence have indicated that noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) have
important regulatory potential in various biological processes. However, the contributions of …

IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is one of the most common primary glomerulonephritis. Previously
identified genome-wide association study (GWAS) loci explain only a fraction of disease risk. …