The presence of fluoroquinolones (FQs) residues in food and the environment has prompted concerns regarding food safety and public health. Consequently, it is of great significance to analyze the types and levels of FQs present. However, the majority of studies have concentrated on the specific detection of individual FQs, with a notable absence of high-throughput and rapid analysis methods for the simultaneous detection of multiple FQs that may coexist in food and the environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although the research reports on locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) are increasing year by year, there are few reports on T1 LABC axillary lymph node metastasis (ALNM). By establishing a prediction model for T1 LABC ALNM, this study provides a reference value for the probability of ALNM of related patients, which helps clinicians to develop a more effective and individualized treatment plan for LABC.
Methods: Cases with pathologically confirmed T1 breast cancer (BC) between 2010 and 2015 in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database were identified.
Comp Biochem Physiol Part D Genomics Proteomics
December 2024
Bombyx mori is an oligophagous economic insect. Cis-Jasmone is one of the main substances in mulberry leaf that attract silkworm for feeding and BmOR56 is its receptor. Potential interaction ways between BmOR56 and cis-Jasmone were explored, which included some crucial amino acids such as Gln172, Val173, Ser176, Lys182, His322, and Arg345.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhile MXene is widely used as an electrode material for supercapacitor, the intrinsic limitation of stacking caused by the interlayer van der Waals forces has yet to be overcome. In this work, a strategy is proposed to fabricate a composite scaffold electrode (MCN) by intercalating MXene with highly nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets (CN). The 2D structured CN, thermally converted and pickling from Zn-hexamine (Zn-HMT), serves as a spacer that effectively prevents the stacking of MXene and contributes to a hierarchically scaffolded structure, which is conducive to ion movement; meanwhile, the high nitrogen-doping of CN tunes the electronic structure of MCN to facilitate charge transfer and providing additional pseudocapacitance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pancreatic cancer is the foremost contributor to cancer-related deaths globally, and its prevalence continues to rise annually. Nevertheless, the underlying mechanisms behind its development remain unclear and necessitate comprehensive investigation.
Methods: In this study, a total of 29 fresh stool samples were collected from patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
The genetic male sterile line () of the silkworm is a recessive mutant that is naturally mutated from the wild-type strain. One of the major characteristics of the mutant is its small larvae. Through positional cloning, candidate genes for the mutant were located in a region approximately 800.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe resistance of silkworms to nuclear polyhedrosis virus (BmNPV) is controlled by a major dominant gene and multiple modifying genes. Given the presence of modified genes, it is difficult to determine the main gene by positional cloning. In this study, the main anti-BmNPV gene of BmNPV-resistant silkworm variety N was introduced into the susceptible variety Su to breed the near-isogenic line SuN with BmNPV resistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt has been an urgent requirement for materials with remarkable performance in the photocatalytic degradation of organic contaminants by photocatalytic technology. Limited surface area and speedy recombination rate of photogenerated charge carriers seriously restrain the application of g-CN. Morphology control is a powerful approach to enhance the photocatalytic efficiency of g-CN.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this work, the graphitic carbon nitride with -C≡N defects and S-defects (N -SCN-4) was constructed. The H O production efficiency of N -SCN-4 was 1423.3 μmol g h under the visible light (λ≥420 nm) irradiation, which was 15.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComp Biochem Physiol Part D Genomics Proteomics
June 2023
The silkworm, Bombyx mori, is an important oligophagous economic insect and feeding habits of different silkworm varieties to artificial diet are different. Research on the mechanisms of feeding habits on artificial diet, and breeding of silkworm varieties adapted on artificial diet, which is a necessary condition for industrial silkworm rearing, is currently lacking. For an artificial diet, Xin was anorexic, whereas Haoyue A showed a strong appetite.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArch Insect Biochem Physiol
July 2023
QiufengN is a silkworm strain. During the feeding process of QiufengN, a mutant of black pupal cuticle QiufengNBP was found. Some silkworm pupae of the mutant were unable to easily molt during pupation, and some silkworm eggs produced by developed normally but larvae were unable to break out of the eggshells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFYun7Ge is a giant egg mutant found in the silkworm variety Yun7. In comparison with the giant mutant Ge, the eggs of Yun7Ge are larger. The number of laid eggs and hatching rate of Yun7Ge are reduced, which is not conducive to reproduction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the mechanism of electroacupuncture (EA) with the involvement of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca-ATPase2a (SERCA2a)/phospholamban (PLB) on the synergistic and attenuated effect of aconitine for heart failure.
Methods: Thirty SPF-ranked SD rats were randomly divided into a control group, a model group, an EA group, an aconitine group and an EA plus aconitine group, with 6 rats in each group. The rat model of acute heart failure was established by infusion of high-dose propranolol hydrochloride solution into the right femoral vein.
Objective: To observe the influence of electroacupuncture(EA) combined with aconitine on the hemodyna-mics, echocardiogram, and arrhythmias in heart failure rats, so as to explore the facilitation and attenuation effects of EA combined with aconitine.
Methods: SD rats were randomly divided into control, model, aconitine and aconitine+EA groups, with 6 rats in each group. Propranolol hydrochloride was used to establish the heart failure model.
Objective: To investigate the effect of acupuncture in different tissue structures on deqi and the electromyography of acupoint area.
Methods: Twenty healthy subjects, respectively accepted 4 kinds of needling stimulation, i.e.
Fuyin-lethal red egg (Fuyin-lre) is a red egg mutant discovered from the germplasm resource Fuyin of Bombyx mori. The embryo of Fuyin-lre stops developing at the late stage of gastrulation due to chromosome structural variation. In this work, precise mutation sites at both ends of the mutated region were determined, and two inserted sequences with lengths of 1232 bp and 1845 bp were obtained at both ends of the mutation region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the effects of different acupuncture manipulations on Deqi sensations and surface myoelectricity, and explore the correlation between Deqi sensations and needling manipulations.
Methods: Forty-five healthy participants accepted twirling, lifting-thrusting, and twirling plus lifting-thrusting manipulanions at right Zusanli (ST 36), respectively. The acupuncturist's and participants' Deqi sensations were collected by MGH Acupuncture Sensation Scale (MASS).
Background & Aims: Collagenous colitis (CC) is an inflammatory bowel disorder with unknown etiopathogenesis involving HLA-related immune-mediated responses and environmental and genetic risk factors. We carried out an array-based genetic association study in a cohort of patients with CC and investigated the common genetic basis between CC and Crohn's disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC), and celiac disease.
Methods: DNA from 804 CC formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples was genotyped with Illumina Immunochip.
Insect Biochem Mol Biol
November 2019
The natural colorful cuticles of insects play important roles in many physiological processes. Pigmentation is a physiological process with a complex regulatory network whose regulatory mechanism remains unclear. Bombyx mori pigmentation mutants are ideal materials for research on pigmentation mechanisms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcupuncture sensation, as one of the essential signs of (arrival of ), is closely associated with curative effect. With systematically reviewing the literature regarding relationship between acupuncture sensations of and different organizational structures of acupoint area (skin, connective tissue, muscles, nerves and blood vessels), it is believed that acupuncture sensation of is the product of various organizational structures in acupoint area, which is closely related to the nervous system. The sensations sensed by the hands of acupuncturists, which is called sense of needle stagnation, maybe caused by the contraction of muscles in the acupoint area during the process of needle manipulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcupuncture therapy has a positive role in the prevention and treatment of some related diseases by regulating autonomic nervous function. But it has been found in experimental researches that the modulatory effects of acupuncture on autonomic nervous system are not always consistent with each other. Because in the animal studies on the mechanism of acupuncture intervention, the anesthetic agent has to be used and definitely affects the activities of the autonomic nervous system while playing its pharmacological effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBombyx mori presents several types of egg color mutations, all of which have been extensively discussed in sericulture. While the red egg mutation has been previously observed, lethal red-egg mutants have not been reported. In the present work, the red egg mutant Fuyin-lre (Fuyin-lethal red egg) was discovered from the Fuyin germplasm resource of B.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo novel body marking mutants were discovered during silkworm (Bombyx mori) breeding. The mutants have no obvious eye-spots compared with normal marking (+) individuals, but their star spots and semilunar markings on dorsal sides are normal, and there are dots and lines with longitudinal wave markings on dorsal sides of the 6th to 7th abdominal segments which consist quail markings in between star spots and semilunar markings. The whole body markings are very similar to that of quail mutant (q); thus these mutants are named as quail-like mutants (q-l).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInsect Biochem Mol Biol
March 2014
Transposable elements constitute a large fraction of the eukaryotic genomes. They have the potential to alter genome structure and play a major role in genome evolution. Here, we report a segmental duplication mediated by a novel long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon as the cause of an egg-shell recessive lethal mutant (l-em mutant) in silkworm (Bombyx mori).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe "Ming" lethal egg mutant (l-em) is a vitelline membrane mutant in silkworm, Bombyx mori. The eggs laid by the l-em mutant lose water, ultimately causing death within an hour. Previous studies have shown that the deletion of BmEP80 is responsible for the l-em mutation in silkworm, B.
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