Dissecting the vascular-cognitive nexus: energetic vs. conventional hemodynamic parameters.

Blood pressure or flow measurements have been associated with vascular health and cognitive function. We proposed that energetic hemodynamic parameters may provide a more nuanced understanding and stronger correlation with cognitive function, in comparisons with conventional aortic and carotid pressure and flow parameters. The study comprised 1858 participants, in whom we assessed cognitive function via MoCA method, and measured central aortic and carotid pressure and flow waveforms.

Aortic Characteristic Impedance and Suspected Mild Cognitive Impairment in a Community-Based Healthy Population.

Background: Aging of the proximal aorta can lead to increased pressure and flow pulsatility in the cerebral microcirculation, which may cause cognitive impairment. This study investigated the association between aortic characteristic impedance (Zc), an indicator of regional stiffness of the proximal aorta, and suspected mild cognitive impairment (MCI), compared with carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (CFPWV).

Methods And Results: A total of 1461 healthy community residents (46.

Excess pressure but not pulse wave velocity is associated with cognitive function impairment: a community-based study.

Background: Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV), an index of mainly distal aortic stiffness, has been inconsistently associated with cognitive function. Excess pressure, derived from the arterial reservoir-excess pressure analysis, may integrate the pulsatile load of the proximal aorta. The present study examined whether increased excess pressure is associated with cognitive function impairment in community adults.

Serum exosomal miR-16-5p functions as a tumor inhibitor and a new biomarker for PD-L1 inhibitor-dependent immunotherapy in lung adenocarcinoma by regulating PD-L1 expression.

Objectives: We aimed at investigating whether serum exosomal miR-16-5p could be utilized as an immunotherapy biomarker in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) patients administered by programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) inhibitors, and to evaluate its functions in LUAD progression.

Methods: Sixty LUAD sufferers and 20 healthy controls (HCs) were covered in this work. We applied both IHC and WB to examine PD-L1 level in clinical tissue samples and utilized WB to quantify PD-L1 expression in LUAD cells and LUAD xenograft tissues, respectively.

Social distance towards schizophrenia in health professionals.

Objective: The stigma and prejudice of the public regarding psychiatric disorders are a long-standing social problem. However, health professionals are more likely to have negative attitudes and label people with mental health conditions. This study aimed to investigate how self-rated familiarity and literacy about schizophrenia are related to social distancing towards schizophrenia patients among health professionals in Taiwan.

AQ-4, a deuterium-containing molecule, acts as a microtubule-targeting agent for cancer treatment.

The important physiological function of microtubules makes them an indispensable and clinically effective target of anti-tumor agents. Herein, we sought to design, synthesize, and evaluate a novel 4-anilinoquinazoline derivative and identify its anti-tumor activity in vitro and in vivo. The novel compound, N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-N-methyl-2-(methyl-d)quinazolin-4-amine (AQ-4), was identified as a representative scaffold and potent microtubule-targeting agent.

Vascular Aging and Cognitive Dysfunction: Silent Midlife Crisis in the Brain.

Background: Vascular aging may cause cerebral microvascular damage and cognitive dysfunction. There is incremental evidence that consistently implicates arterial stiffness being involved in the manifestation of cognitive impairment in the elderly. However, few investigations have examined the relationship between arterial stiffness and cognitive impairment in midlife.

Silence of HDAC6 suppressed esophageal squamous cell carcinoma proliferation and migration by disrupting chaperone function of HSP90.

Esophageal carcinoma is aggressive in nature and its prognosis is largely dependent on the degree of invasion. Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6), as the most unique member of HDACs family, has the positive activity to promote initiation and progression of various cancers via targeting multiple non-histone proteins in cytoplasm. In this study, we found that HDAC6 was over-expressed in three esophageal cancer cell lines (KYSE140, KYSE170, KYSE180) when compared to non-carcinoma esophageal epithelial cell HEEC-1.

[Correlation of CD4CD29 regulatory T cells with recurrence and survival time in patients with non-small cell lung cancer].

Objective: To investigate the correlation of CD4CD29 regulatory T cells (Treg) with tumor recurrence and survival time in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Methods: Fifty-nine patients with NSCLC treated with radical surgery were followed up for 5 years. Blood Treg cells were examined during the follow-up using flow cytometry (FCM).

Lactoferrin protects against lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury in mice.

Lactoferrin (LF) plays various anti-inflammatory roles in inflammation experimentally induced by lipopolysaccharides (LPS). But the protective effects of LF on LPS-induced acute lung injury (ALI) have not been elucidated. In this study, we aimed to study the effects of LF on ALI caused by LPS in mice.

[The protective effect of glutamine on endotoxemic intestinal injury and expression of heme oxygenase-1 in rats].

Objective: To investigate the protective effect of glutamine (Glu) pretreatment on intestinal injury induced by endotoxin and expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in rats.

Methods: Thirty-two male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into four groups (n=8 in each group): normal control group, model group, Glu group and Glu+zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP) group. In model group, endotoxemia was produced by intraperitoneal injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS, 10 mg/kg).

Effect of organic fractions on sorption properties of organic pollutants in sediments.

Humic substrates are a major fraction of sediment organic matters, and the sorption of hydrophobic organic chemicals by humic substrates influences their behavior and fate in sediment. In this paper, organic matters were divided into non-humic substrates and humic substrates. Non-humic substrates include acid leaching fraction, acid extracted fraction, and lipid; humic substrates were fractionated into Ca-binding-FA (fulvic acid), Ca-binding-HA (humic acid), oxide-FA, oxide-HA, and humin.

Estimation of apparent rate coefficients for phenanthrene and pentachlorophenol interacting with sediments.

To gain information on organic pollutants in water-sediment systems, a compartment model was applied to study the sorption course of phenanthrene and pentachlorophenol (PCP) in sediments. The model described the time-dependent interaction of phenanthrene and PCP with operationally defined reversible and irreversible (or slowly reversible) sediment fractions. The interactions between these fractions were described using first order differential equations.

Irreversible sorption of pentachlorophenol to sediments: experimental observations.

The partitioning behavior of pentachlorophenol (PCP) in five sediments was studied using equilibrium sorption experiments and multiple cycles of sorption and desorption experiments. The results of the equilibrium sorption experiments showed that the isotherms of PCP on five sediments were linear and the partitioning coefficients (Kd) were proportional to the organic carbon content of the sediments. The average organic carbon content normalized partitioning coefficient (logK oc) of five sediments was 2.

Phosphorus and copper leaching from dredged sediment applied on a sandy loam soil: column study.

In this paper, downward movement of phosphorus and copper as dredged sediment applied on sandy loam soil was studied by column leaching experiments. Three sediment application rate, (i.e.

Peroxynitrite is an important mediator in thermal injury-induced lung damage.

Objective: Intestinal ischemia and reperfusion injury was known to cause postinjury multiple organ failure by neutrophil and unclear nonneutrophil factors. Peroxynitrite formed by the rapid reaction between superoxide and nitric oxide, is a toxic substance that contributes to tissue injury in a number of biological systems. In this study, the role of nitric oxide and neutrophils on lung damage after burn was investigated.

Characterization of phenol biodegradation by Comamonas testosteroni ZD4-1 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ZD4-3.

Objective: To investigate the characteristic and biochemical mechanism about the phenol biodegradation by bacterial strains ZD 4-1 and ZD 4-3.

Methods: Bacterial strains ZD 4-1 and ZD 4-3 were isolated by using phenol as the sole source of carbon and energy, and identified by 16S rDNA sequence analysis. The concentrations of phenol and total organic carbon (TOC) were monitored to explore the degradation mechanism.