Pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome are the major complications of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Transitional care is indispensable in successfully transitioning patients with COVID-19 from hospital to home and preventing adverse events of this disease. The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of transitional care on improvements in inflammation and pulmonary function in patients with COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study aimed to explore the effect of high-quality nursing care (HQNC) on psychological disorder in patients with ovarian cancer (OC) during the perioperative period (PPP).
Methods: A literature search was performed at the Cochrane Library, PUBMED, Excerpt Medica Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and Chinese Biomedical Literature Database from their inception until March 1, 2022. Two authors independently performed study selection, data collection, and methodological quality evaluation.
This work aimed to research the function of MARVEL domain-containing protein 1 (MARVELD1) in glioma as well as its functioning mode. Bioinformatics analysis was utilized to assess the MARVELD1 expression in glioma tissues and its relationship with grade and prognosis, based on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx), and Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas (CGGA) databases. Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8), colony formation, and Transwell assays were carried out to determine the impact of MARVELD1 on malignant biological behavior of glioma, such as proliferation, invasion, and migration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is no satisfactory answer on the specific biomarker that might be used in differentiating heart failure with reduced EF (HFrEF), allowing for inadequacy of N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP).
Objectives: We aim to evaluate the value of microRNA-208a in diagnosing HFrEF patients.
Methods: We included 120 HF patients and 60 healthy volunteers.
Valsa pyri, an ascomycete pathogen that is a member of the Valsaceae family (Sordariomycetes, Diaporthales), which causes pear or apple canker and leads to tree death and massive yield losses. Here, we selected two V. pyri isolates (Vp14 and Vp297) that exhibited different invasion abilities for transcriptomics analyses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) experiments were carried out on three pairs of donor-acceptor dyes in polymer films in which the donor dyes had absorption maxima in the range of 350-450 nm. Two of the donors, a coumarin dye and a naphthalimide dye covalently bound to polystyrene, gave nonexponential decays in the absence of acceptors. The decay profiles could be fitted to a stretched exponential form with a beta value on the order of 0.
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