Yu S

ORCID: 0000-0001-7220-3278 · 63 papers in corpus
2017
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0170952

BackgroundThough moxibustion is frequently used to treat primary dysmenorrhea in China, relevant evidence supporting its effectiveness is still scanty.MethodsThis study was a pragmatic randomized, conventional drug controlled, open-labeled …

2017
BMC complementary and alternative medicine
2015
Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM ·doi:10.1155/2015/752194

Background. Dysmenorrhea is a common problem for which acupuncture provides effective analgesia. Although acupoint selection affects the effectiveness of acupuncture, the basic rules of acupoint selection are little understood. This study a…

2015
Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E ·doi:10.1186/s12958-015-0115-z

BackgroundPolycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a heterogeneous disorder because of the variable criteria used for diagnosis. Therefore, International Classification of Diseases 9 (ICD-9) codes may not accurately capture the diagnostic criter…

2015
Trials ·doi:10.1186/s13063-015-0552-1

BackgroundDysmenorrhea is a common menstrual complaint among adolescent girls and women of reproductive age. The treatment of dysmenorrhea is typically selected from multidisciplinary options, including complementary and alternative medicin…

2014
Cancer cell ·doi:10.1016/j.ccell.2014.08.017

PIK3R1 (p85α regulatory subunit of PI3K) is frequently mutated across cancer lineages. Herein, we demonstrate that the most common recurrent PIK3R1 mutation PIK3R1(R348∗) and a nearby mutation PIK3R1(L370fs), in contrast to wild-type and mu…

2014
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089520

Quercetin, a plant-derived flavonoid in Chinese herbs, fruits and wine, displays antioxidant properties in many pathological processes associated with oxidative stress. However, the effect of quercetin on the development of preimplantation …

2014
The AAPS journal ·doi:10.1208/s12248-013-9559-2

Mifepristone (RU486) is marketed and used widely by women as an abortifacient, and experimentally for psychotic depression and anticancer treatments. After administration, metapristone is found to be the most predominant metabolite of mifep…

2013
Lancet (London, England) ·doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(13)61097-1

BackgroundChina has undergone rapid demographic and epidemiological changes in the past few decades, including striking declines in fertility and child mortality and increases in life expectancy at birth. Popular discontent with the health …

2010
BMC bioinformatics ·doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-28

BackgroundText mining has become a useful tool for biologists trying to understand the genetics of diseases. In particular, it can help identify the most interesting candidate genes for a disease for further experimental analysis. Many text…

2010
BMC bioinformatics ·doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-309

BackgroundThis paper introduces the notion of optimizing different norms in the dual problem of support vector machines with multiple kernels. The selection of norms yields different extensions of multiple kernel learning (MKL) such as L(in…

2010
Molecular cancer ·doi:10.1186/1476-4598-9-140

BackgroundAlthough the incidence of melanoma in the U.S. is rising faster than any other cancer, the FDA-approved chemotherapies lack efficacy for advanced disease, which results in poor overall survival. Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), autota…

2008
Nucleic acids research ·doi:10.1093/nar/gkn325

Endeavour (http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/endeavourweb; this web site is free and open to all users and there is no login requirement) is a web resource for the prioritization of candidate genes. Using a training set of genes known to be invol…