MIRAAgo-Mediated Biosensor for Multiplex Human Enteroviruses Virus Typing Detection on HFMD.

Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD), caused by enteroviruses, mostly including EV71, CVA6, CVA10, and CVA16, is an acute infectious disease commonly found in children. Due to no approved antiviral therapies and available vaccines, except for EV71, developing accurate diagnostic methods of HFMD is essential for controlling its spread and mitigating its impact on public health. Here, we create a MIRA-HEV-PAND multiple nucleic acid typing method that utilizes Ago to identify enterovirus type A pathogens (EV71, CVA6, CVA10, and CVA16) and universal type EVU.

PatchMix Augmentation to Identify Causal Features in Few-Shot Learning.

The task of Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to transfer the knowledge learned from base categories with sufficient labelled data to novel categories with scarce known information. It is currently an important research question and has great practical values in the real-world applications. Despite extensive previous efforts are made on few-shot learning tasks, we emphasize that most existing methods did not take into account the distributional shift caused by sample selection bias in the FSL scenario.

Pre-Implantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy on a Semiconductor Based Next-Generation Sequencing Platform.

Next-generation sequencing has gained increasing importance in the clinical application in the determination of genetic variants. In the pre-implantation genetic test, this technique has its unique advantages in scalability, throughput, and cost. For the pre-implantation genetic test for aneuploidy analysis, the semiconductor-based next-generation sequencing (NGS) system presented here provides a comprehensive approach to determine structural genetic variants at a minimum resolution of 8 Mb.

Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis in the Non-iconic Views.

Generating realistic images with the guidance of reference images and human poses is challenging. Despite the success of previous works on synthesizing person images in the iconic views, no efforts are made towards the task of poseguided image synthesis in the non-iconic views. Particularly, we find that previous models cannot handle such a complex task, where the person images are captured in the non-iconic views by commercially-available digital cameras.

Perinatal outcomes after vitrified-warmed day 5 blastocyst transfers compared to vitrified-warmed day 6 blastocyst transfers: A meta analysis.

Aims: The aim of this meta-analysis was to compare the perinatal outcomes between the vitrified-warmed day 5 blastocyst transfer (BT) and the vitrified-warmed day 6 blastocyst transfer (BT).

Methods: PubMed, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library were searched for the perinatal outcomes after in vitro fertilisation / intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF/ICSI) from inception to October 2018.The perinatal outcomes included birth weight, gestational age, number of males, premature delivery, birth defects, and neonatal deaths.

Efficacy evaluation of personalized coaptation in neurotization for motor deficit after peripheral nerve injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: Peripheral neurotization, recently as a promising approach, has taken effect in recovering motor function after damage to a peripheral nerve root. Neural anastomosis comprised of nerve conduit and neurorrhaphy participates in the nerve reconstruction. Current literature lacks evidence supporting an individualized coaptation for rescue of locomotor loss in rat subjects with paraplegia secondary to peripheral nerve injury (PNI).

Effects of RNA binding protein QKI on pancreatic cancer ductal epithelial cells and surrounding activation fibroblasts.

To determine the correlation between QKI and pancreatic cancer tissues, the QKI expression of pancreatic cancer cells and fibroblasts in the tumor-surrounding microenvironment were detected. Then, QKI overexpression and interference with QKI short hairpin RNA in LX-2 (a fibroblast cell line) were established in vitro. Meanwhile, to observe the cell proliferation, invasion, migration, and other changes, QKI, and related epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) molecules were detected by a polymerase chain reaction and Western blot analysis.

Azoramide, a novel regulator, favors adipogenesis against osteogenesis through inhibiting the GLP-1 receptor-PKA-β-catenin pathway.

Background: The reciprocal fate decision of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to either bone or adipocytes is determined by Wnt-related signaling and the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R). Azoramide, an ER stress alleviator, was reported to have an antidiabetic effect. In this study, we investigated the function of azoramide in regulating the lineage determination of MSCs for either adipogenic or osteogenic differentiation.

Quaking Deficiency Amplifies Inflammation in Experimental Endotoxemia the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor/Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 1-NF-κB Pathway.

Macrophages, characterized by considerable diversity and plasticity, play a crucial role in a broad spectrum of biological processes, including inflammation. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the diverse phenotypes of macrophages are not well defined. Here, we show that the RNA-binding protein, quaking (QKI), dynamically modulates macrophage polarization states.

MOTS-c peptide increases survival and decreases bacterial load in mice infected with MRSA.

Sepsis is a life-threatening disease characterized by uncontrolled inflammatory responses upon pathogen infections, especially for the antibiotic-resistant strains, such as Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). Here we demonstrated that a Mitochondria-derived peptide (MOTS-c) could significantly improve the survival rate and decrease bacteria loads in MRSA-challenged mice, accompanied with declined levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as TNF-α, IL-6 and IL-1β, but with increased level of anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10.

Antibiotics-induced gut microbiota dysbiosis promotes tumor initiation via affecting APC-Th1 development in mice.

Gut microbiota is critical for maintaining body immune homeostasis and thus affects tumor growth and therapeutic efficiency. Here, we investigated the link between microbiota and tumorgenesis in a mice model of subcutaneous melanoma cell transplantation, and explored the underlying mechanism. We found disruption of gut microbiota by pretreating mice with antibiotics promote tumor growth and remodeling the immune compartment within the primary tumor.

Mitochondria related peptide MOTS-c suppresses ovariectomy-induced bone loss via AMPK activation.

Therapeutic targeting bone loss has been the focus of the study in osteoporosis. The present study is intended to evaluate whether MOTS-c, a novel mitochondria related 16 aa peptide, can protect mice from ovariectomy-induced osteoporosis. After ovary removal, the mice were injected with MOTS-c at a dose of 5 mg/kg once a day for 12 weeks.

Curcumin promotes browning of white adipose tissue in a norepinephrine-dependent way.

Brown adipose tissue converts energy from food into heat via the mitochondrial uncoupling protein UCP1, defending against cold. In some conditions, inducible 'brown-like' adipocytes, also known as beige adipocytes, can develop within white adipose tissue (WAT). These beige adipocytes have characteristics similar to classical brown adipocytes and thus can burn lipids to produce heat.

The effects of neuromuscular blockade on operating conditions during general anesthesia for spinal surgery.

Background: Muscle relaxants are prescribed routinely for patients undergoing general anesthesia, but the requirement for paralysis in spinal surgery is unclear. This study compared the operating conditions of general anesthesia with and without a muscle relaxant on spinal surgery patients.

Methods: Eighty-six adults who underwent elective spinal surgery were randomly assigned to a relaxant group (group R) or a no-relaxant group (group NR).

The genetics of recurrent hydatidiform moles in China: correlations between NLRP7 mutations, molar genotypes and reproductive outcomes.

Hydatidiform mole (HM) is a human pregnancy with abnormal embryonic development. NLRP7 is a major autosomal recessive gene responsible for recurrent molar pregnancies and associated reproductive wastage in patients from several populations. Here, we report NLRP7 mutation analysis in 35 unrelated Chinese patients with recurrent reproductive wastage, including at least one HM.