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Original research

• Efficacy of patent foramen ovale closure for treating migraine: a prospective follow-up study (14 September, 2020)

  Yi Qi, Yushun Zhang, Xiaohui Luo, Gesheng Cheng, Yajuan Du, Rui Liu, Hui Xie, Yawen Cheng, Yichen Guo, Guogang Luo
• Evaluating the added predictive ability of MMP-9 in serum for Kawasaki disease with coronary artery lesions (1 October, 2020)

  Lixia Wang, Yinan Yang, Quanmiao Cui, Ya Cui, Qiaoe Li, Xinyao Che, Cong Wang, Peiqin Quan, Xiaobin Hu
• Galectin-3 levels and the prediction of atrial high-rate episodes in patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy (29 September, 2020)

  Gokhan Aksan, Ahmet Yanık, Osman Can Yontar, Ömer Gedikli, Ugur Arslan, Korhan Soylu
• Betamethasone induces potent immunosuppression and reduces HIV infection in a PBMC in vitro model (1 October, 2020)

  Ross Cromarty, Alexander Sigal, Lenine Julie Liebenberg, Lyle Robert Mckinnon, Salim Safurdeen Abdool Karim, Jo-Ann Shelly Passmore, Derseree Archary
• Haplotypes of (−794(CATT)_5–8/−173G>C) MIF gene polymorphisms and its soluble levels in basal cell carcinoma in western Mexican population

  (12 October, 2020)

  Elizabeth Guevara-Gutiérrez, María José Castro-Jonguitud, Susana Elizabeth De la Torre-Flores, José Francisco Muñoz-Valle, Alberto Tlacuilo-Parra, Francisco Javier Salazar-Torres, Yeminia Valle, Jorge Ramón Padilla-Gutiérrez, Diana Emilia Martínez-Fernández, Emmanuel Valdés-Alvarado
• Peripheral blood lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio as a screening marker for influenza infection (1 October, 2020)

  Bijal Patel, Monique Oye, Daniel Norez, Carmen Isache
• COVID-19 epidemic outside China: 34 founders and exponential growth (6 October, 2020)

  Yi Li, Meng Liang, Xianhong Yin, Xiaoyu Liu, Meng Hao, Zixin Hu, Yi Wang, Li Jin
• Systemic concentration of apelin, but not resistin or chemerin, is altered in patients with schizophrenia (19 October, 2020)

  Elżbieta Kozłowska, Ewa Brzezińska-Błaszczyk, Adam Wysokiński, Paulina Żelechowska
• MicroRNA-363-3p downregulation in papillary thyroid cancer inhibits tumor progression by targeting NOB1 (19 October, 2020)

  Su Dong, Shuai Xue, Yue Sun, Zhe Han, Lele Sun, Jialu Xu, Jia Liu
• Impact of comorbidities on clinical prognosis in 1280 patients with different types of COVID-19 (13 October, 2020)

  Huilin Fang, Qiaomei Liu, Maomao Xi, Di Xiong, Jing He, Pengcheng Luo, Zhanghua Li