EXOSC10 is a novel hepatocellular carcinoma prognostic biomarker: a comprehensive bioinformatics analysis and experiment verification.

Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignant tumor. There are few studies on EXOSC10 (exosome component 10) in HCC; however, the importance of EXOSC10 for HCC remains unclear.

Methods: In the study, the prognosis value of EXOSC10 and the immune correlation were explored by bioinformatics.

DNAJ heat shock protein family member C1 can regulate proliferation and migration in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Background: DNAJ heat shock protein family (Hsp40) member C1(DNAJC1) is a member of the DNAJ family. Some members of the DNAJ gene family had oncogenic properties in many cancers. However, the role of DNAJC1 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was unclear.

Effect of engagement force on vibration characteristics in sonic IR imaging.

Engagement force between ultrasonic horn and target is one of the primary factors which influence defect detection in sonic infrared imaging method. In this paper, an experimental setup which can quantify the engagement force has been designed. A series of experiments under different engagement forces have been performed, and an interesting phenomenon is found that the increase in engagement force enhances superharmonics and diminishes subharmonics in vibration velocity spectrum of the target.

[Comparison of characteristics of heavy metals in different grain sizes of intertidalite sediment by using grid sampling method].

384 surface sediment samples were collected from mud flat, silt flat and mud-silt flat of Bohai Bay by 1 m and 10 m interval using grid sampling method. Concentrations of Al, Fe, Ti, Mn, Ba, Sr, Zn, Cr, Ni and Cu in each sample were measured by ICP-AES. To figure out the random distribution and concentration characteristics of these heavy metals, concentration of them were compared between districts with different grain size.

Simulating the temporal changes of OCP pollution in Hangzhou, China.

A dynamic fugacity model was applied to simulate the changes of contents and transfer fluxes of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCHs) and dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDTs) from 1950s in the environment of Hangzhou, China. The receptors are composed of air, surface water, soils, sediment and biota compartments. The model provides a method to combine loadings of HCHs and DDTs from various sources with a series of physical-chemical processes to estimate concentrations and transport fluxes of HCHs and DDTs.

Effects of organic ligands on fractionation of rare earth elements (REEs) in hydroponic plants: an application to the determination of binding capacities by humic acid for modeling.

Previous studies have revealed the fractionation processes of rare earth elements (REEs) in hydroponic plants, with a heavy REE (HREE, the elements from Gd to Lu) enrichment in leaves. In this study, effects on the HREE enrichment in soybean leaves with additions of carboxylic acids (acetate, malate, citrate, NTA, EDTA and DTPA) and two soil humic acids (HAs) were investigated. REE speciation in carboxylic acid and HA solutions was simulated using Visual MINTEQ and Model V, respectively.