Scientific Reports Health Sciences Table of Contents e-alert: 24 February 2015

24 February 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Health Sciences               Normal Values of Hertel Exophthalmometry in a Chinese Han Population from Shenyang, Northeast China ▶     Dan Wu, Xin Liu, Di Wu et al.     Aims of this study were to determine the normal range of absolute and relative Hertel exophthalmometric values (EVs) in a Chinese Han population. This population-based …             Comparison of dementia risk between end stage renal disease patients with hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis - a population based study ▶     Yi-Ting Lin, Ping-Hsun Wu, Mei-Chuan Kuo et al.     A higher risk of dementia was reported in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (HD) compared to those undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD). Selection bias and competing …             Efficacy and biological safety of lopinavir/ritonavir based anti-retroviral therapy in HIV-1-infected patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials ▶     Xiaojie Huang, Yuanlong Xu, Qiuying Yang et al.     Lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) is the first ritonavir-boosted protease-inhibitor used in second-line anti-retroviral treatment (ART) in resource-limited regions. To evaluate the …             Maternal Folic Acid Supplementation and the Risk of Congenital Heart Defects in Offspring: A Meta-Analysis of Epidemiological Observational Studies ▶     Yu Feng, Song Wang, Runsen Chen et al.     Epidemiological studies have reported conflicting results regarding the association between maternal folic acid supplementation and the risk of congenital heart defects (CHDs). …             Inflammation-induced endothelial cell-derived extracellular vesicles modulate the cellular status of pericytes ▶     Seiji Yamamoto, Shumpei Niida, Erika Azuma et al.     Emerging lines of evidence have shown that extracellular vesicles (EVs) mediate cell-to-cell communication by exporting encapsulated materials, such as microRNAs (miRNAs), to …             Toll-like receptor-2 deficiency induces schizophrenia-like behaviors in mice ▶     Se Jin Park, Jee Youn Lee, Sang Jeong Kim et al.     Dysregulation of the immune system contributes to the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders including schizophrenia. Here, we demonstrated that toll-like receptor (TLR)-2, a …             Functional variants regulating LGALS1 (Galectin 1) expression affect human susceptibility to influenza A(H7N9) ▶     Yu Chen, Jie Zhou, Zhongshan Cheng et al.     The fatality of avian influenza A(H7N9) infection in humans was over 30%. To identify human genetic susceptibility to A(H7N9) infection, we performed a genome-wide association …             No difference in small bowel microbiota between patients with irritable bowel syndrome and healthy controls ▶     Aldona Dlugosz, Björn Winckler, Elin Lundin et al.     Several studies have indicated that colonic microbiota may exhibit important differences between patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and healthy controls. Less is known …             Application of IL-36 receptor antagonist weakens CCL20 expression and impairs recovery in the late phase of murine acetaminophen-induced liver injury ▶     Patrick Scheiermann, Malte Bachmann, Lorena Härdle et al.     Overdosing of the analgesic acetaminophen (APAP, paracetamol) is a major cause of acute liver injury. 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