Obeticholic acid for the treatment of primary biliary cholangitis in adult patients: clinical utility and patient selection

Christopher L Bowlus Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA Abstract: Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), previously known as primary biliary “cirrhosis”, is a rare autoimmune liver disease characterized by the hallmark autoantibodies to mitochondrial antigens and immune-mediated destr

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Compulsive methamphetamine taking in the presence of punishment is associated with increased oxytocin expression in the nucleus accumbens of rats

Abstract Methamphetamine addiction is mimicked in rats that self-administer the drug.However, these self-administration (SA) models do not include adverse consequences that are necessary to reach a diagnosis of addiction in humans.Herein, we measured genome-wide transcriptional consequences of methamphetamine SA and footshocks in the rat brain.We t

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Recent Progress of Anomaly Detection

Anomaly analysis is of great interest to diverse fields, including data mining and machine learning, and plays a critical role in a wide range of applications, such as medical health, credit card fraud, and intrusion detection.Recently, a significant number of anomaly detection methods with a variety of types have been witnessed.This paper intends

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