Background: Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Patient self-management plays a pivotal role in enhancing outcomes and quality of life for individuals affected by this disease. This study employed bibliometric and visual analysis techniques utilizing CiteSpace to elucidate the current status and research hotspots in breast cancer patient self-management from January 1, 2005, to August 31, 2023.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe efficacy of berberine in managing diabetes through modulation of gut microbiome has been established through fecal sample analyses. However, relying solely on fecal materials constrains our comprehension of berberine's effects on diverse gastrointestinal locations. This study specifically explores the ileocecal region, a segment characterized by higher microbial diversity than fecal samples.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Asian Nat Prod Res
October 2024
Propolis is a natural resinous compound produced by bees, mixed with their saliva and wax, and has a range of biological benefits, including antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. This article reviews the in vivo transformation of propolis flavonoids and their potential influence on drug efficacy. Despite propolis is widely used, there is little research on how the active ingredients of propolis change in the body and how they interact with drugs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
April 2024
Frailty syndrome refers to the nonspecific state of increased body vulnerability and decreased antistress and recovery abilities after stress during aging. Sarcopenia is the major component of frailty and is characterized by the gradual loss of muscle mass, strength, and function with age. Inflammaging is the gradual increase in inflammatory status during aging, and it disrupts immune tolerance, causes physiological changes in tissues, organs, and normal cells, and is related to frailty and sarcopenia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe paper summarizes the academic thought and clinical experience of professor in treatment of facial nerve injury after total parotidectomy with blade needle based on (muscle region of meridian, sinew/fascia) theory. This disease is located at muscle regions of hand-/foot-three meridians; and the sinew/fascia adhesion is its basic pathogenesis, manifested by "transversely-distributed collaterals" and "knotted tendons". In treatment, the knotted tendons are taken as the points.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess the clinical efficacy of fucoidan-assisted standard quadruple therapy (SQT) in Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) eradication and the improvement of gut microbiota.
Methods: An open-label randomized controlled trial was conducted at the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University in Shandong Province, China.
Future Microbiol
September 2023
To analyze the alterations in the fecal microbiota of older adults with autoimmune disease and determine the diagnostic capabilities of microbial biomarkers. The raw data of fecal samples from 444 older adults from the publicly available American Gut Project database was analyzed. It was found that there were no significant differences in the microbiota richness and evenness between older adults with autoimmune disease and healthy controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped, motile bacterium with multi-flagella, strain RS, was isolated from bacterial wilt of tobacco in Yuxi city of Yunnan province, China. The strain contains the major fatty acids of C, summed feature 3 (C 7 and/or C 6), and summed feature 8 (C 7 and/or C 6). The polar lipid profile of strain RS consists of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, and unidentified aminophospholipid.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic non-healing wounds have posed a severe threat to patients mentally and physically. Behavior dysregulation of remaining cells at wound sites is recognized as the chief culprit to destroy healing process and hinders wound healing. Therefore, regulating and restoring normal cellular behavior is the core of chronic non-healing wound treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFatty acid biosynthesis is essential for bacterial survival. Of these promising targets, β-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) synthase III (FabH) is the most attractive target. A series of novel 1,3,4-oxadiazole-2(3H)-thione derivatives containing 1,4-benzodioxane skeleton targeting FabH were designed and synthesized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComp Biochem Physiol Part D Genomics Proteomics
September 2022
Hypoxia is a common stressor for aquatic animals, including Epinephelus coioides, with a considerable impact on sustainable aquaculture. E. coioides is a widely consumed fish in China owing to its high nutritious value and taste.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastric cancer (GC) has a high incidence worldwide, and when detected, the majority of patients have already progressed to advanced stages. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have a wide range of biological functions and affect tumor occurrence and development. However, the potential role of lncRNAs in GC diagnosis remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTerpenoids are widely distributed in plants and play important roles in the regulation of plant growth and development and in the interactions between plants and both the environment and other organisms. However, terpene synthase (TPS) genes have not been systematically investigated in the tetraploid Gossypium hirsutum. In this study, whole genome identification and characterization of the TPS family from G.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedicine (Baltimore)
March 2022
Rationale: Esophageal stenosis after chemotherapy in breast cancer patients is rare. Distinguishing esophageal stenosis from esophageal metastasis caused by breast cancer is important.
Patient Concerns And Diagnosis: A 62-year-old woman diagnosed with advanced breast cancer and no distant metastases gradually developed skin changes, oral ulcers and mucosal injures after four cycles of chemotherapy.
Long non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), which do not encode proteins, regulate cell proliferation, tumor angiogenesis, and metastasis and are closely associated with the development, progression, and metastasis of many cancers. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) in the tumor microenvironment play an important role in cancer progression. The Hippo signaling pathway regulates cell proliferation and apoptosis, maintains tissue and organ size, and homeostasis of the internal environment of organisms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer is a major threat to human health and longevity. Chemotherapy is an effective approach to inhibit cancer cell proliferation, but a growing number of cancer patients are prone to develop resistance to various chemotherapeutics, including platinum, paclitaxel, adriamycin, and 5-fluorouracil, among others. Significant progress has been made in the research and development of chemotherapeutic drugs over the last few decades, including targeted therapy drugs and immune checkpoint inhibitors; however, drug resistance still severely limits the application and efficacy of these drugs in cancer treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNon-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)is accompanied by typical inflammatory damage and cell death. As a pro-inflammatory form of cell death, pyroptosis participates in important pathological processes involved in NAFLD. Regulatory roles of both CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) have been reported in NAFLD, but it is still unclear whether the mechanism of action of gardenoside, a potential therapeutic for NAFLD, can be driven these proteins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Colorectal mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma is a rare disease, and only a few cases have been reported to date. It has no specific clinical presentations and shows various endoscopic appearances. There is no uniform consensus on its treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a typical discontinuous distribution species in the eastern part of the subspecies with a high economic and ecological value. In this study, we have obtained the complete chloroplast genome of using high-throughput sequencing. The chloroplast genome length was 159,583 bp, the AT content was 63.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has been advocated by digestive endoscopists because of its comparable therapeutic effect to surgery, reduced trauma, faster recovery, and fewer complications. However, ESD for lesions of the duodenum is more challenging than those occurring at other levels of the gastrointestinal tract due to the thin intestinal wall of the duodenum, narrow intestinal space, rich peripheral blood flow, proximity to vital organs, and high risks of critical adverse events including intraoperative and delayed bleeding and perforation. Because of the low prevalence of the disease and the high risks of severe adverse events, successful ESD for lesions of the duodenum has rarely been reported in recent years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a shrub with high economic values. Here, complete chloroplast (cp) genomes were reported using high-throughput Illumina sequencing. The size of the chloroplast genome is 157,940 bp long, with an average AT content of 63.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL) is a rare invasive lymphoma derived from gastrointestinal epithelial T lymphocytes. EATL involving the whole gastrointestinal tract accompanied with early colon cancer is extremely rare.
Case Summary: We present the case of a 67-year-old man with diarrhea for more than 5 mo whose colonoscopy in another hospital showed multiple colonic polyps, which indicated moderate to severe dysplasia and focal early cancer.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med
July 2020
Special Chinese propolis sourced from the Changbai Mountains (CBMP) in Northeast China is rich in specific flavonoids and phenolic acids and its bioactivity has not been reported. This study aimed to investigate the antiproliferative effect of CBMP on cancer cells and its molecular mechanisms. Different cancer cell lines were treated with the ethanol extracts of CBMP for 24 hours before the cell viability and mechanism measurements.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhongguo Ying Yong Sheng Li Xue Za Zhi
January 2020
Objective: To study the effects of acute and chronic exercise on phosphatidylinositol 3-hydroxy kinase(PI3K)/protein kinase B(AKT)/glucose transporter 4(GLUT4)signaling pathway in adipose tissue of rats with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) induced by high-fat diet and low-dose streptozotocin (STZ).
Methods: A total of 52 SD male rats aged 15 months were randomly divided into normal control group (13) and high-fat group (39), and fed normal and high fat diets. After 8 weeks, the body weight of the high-fat group was higher 20% than that of the normal control group.
is an endangered vulnerable species restricted to Shandong Province. In this study, we report the sequencing of the chloroplast (cp) genome using the Illumina Novaseq platform for the first time. The complete cp genome is 159,883 bp in length and contains two inverted repeats (IRs), separated by a large single-copy region (LSC) and a small single-copy region (SSC).
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