6 results for "Lin An"

Variations of pterygium prevalence by age, gender and geographic characteristics in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Peige Song; Xinlei Chang; Manli Wang et al.

PLOS ONE, Vol. 12 No. 3 · 2017 · English · PLOS Scopus

Background: Pterygium is a common chronic ophthalmic condition, which may result in significant visual morbidity or lead to blindness in extreme cases. The prevalence of pterygium in China has not been reported at the sub-national level. Methods: In this study, we conducted a systematic review and…

Assessing Spatial Accessibility to Maternity Units in Shenzhen, China

Peige Song; Yajie Zhu; Xi Mao et al.

PLoS ONE, Vol. 8 No. 7 · 2013 · English · PLOS Scopus

Background: With the rapid development of urbanization, pregnant population is growing rapidly in Shenzhen, and it has been a difficulty to serve more and more pregnant women and reduce spatial access disparities to maternity units (MUs). Understanding of the current status of accessibility to MUs…

Involvement of Autophagy in Cardiac Remodeling in Transgenic Mice with Cardiac Specific Over-Expression of Human Programmed Cell Death 5

Lin An; Xiwen Zhao; Jian Wu et al.

PLoS ONE, Vol. 7 No. 1 · 2012 · English · PLOS Scopus

Programmed cell death 5 (PDCD5) is a cytosolic protein suppressing growth of multiple types of cancer cells through activating p53. We hypothesized that PDCD5 plays an essential role in cardiac remodeling and function. PDCD5 was significantly up-regulated in the hearts from mice subjected to…

Investigation of HLA susceptibility alleles and genotypes with hematological disease among Chinese Han population

Ye-Mo Li; Yu-Xia Li; Dai-Yang Li et al.

PLOS ONE, Vol. 19 No. 4 · 2024 · English · PLOS Scopus

Several genes involved in the pathogenesis have been identified, with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system playing an essential role. However, the relationship between HLA and a cluster of hematological diseases has received little attention in China. Blood samples (n = 123913) from 43568…

Anxiety and depressive symptoms among COVID-19 patients in Jianghan Fangcang Shelter Hospital in Wuhan, China

Ling-Ling Dai; Xi Wang; Tian-Ci Jiang et al.

PLOS ONE, Vol. 15 No. 8 · 2020 · English · PLOS Scopus

…their mental health status and sleep quality. Data were obtained with an online questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of a set of items on demographic characteristics, a set of items on clinical characteristics, the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, Self-Rating Depression Scale, and Pittsburgh Sleep…

Correction: Discovery of Metabolic Biomarkers for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy within a Natural History Study

Simina M. Boca; Maki Nishida; Michael Harris et al.

PLOS ONE, Vol. 11 No. 7 · 2016 · English · PLOS Scopus