SLC4A4 as a novel biomarker involved in immune system response and lung adenocarcinoma progression.

Background: Altered expression and activity of solute carrier family 4 member 4 (SLC4A4) could affect the growth, survival and metastasis of tumor cells. Currently, the role of SLC4A4 in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) immunotherapy and prognosis was not entirely clear.

Methods: We analyzed SLC4A4 expression in LUAD tissues and cell lines using quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, Western blotting, and immunohistochemistry.

Primary glomus tumor of the thymus in a 66-year-old patient.

We report a unique case of a 66-year-old man who was incidentally identified to have a mass in the thymus region by computerized tomography scan. CT revealed a well-defined 1.6 × 1 × 0.

Error analysis and correction of multi-sensor cluster methods for acoustic emission source localization.

The existing multi-sensor cluster acoustic emission (AE) source localization method has good positioning performance, but the parallel assumption in this method could cause positioning error. This paper focused on the analysis of the positioning error of multi-sensor cluster methods with sensor arrangements of isosceles right-angled triangle and triangular pyramid. Meanwhile, two and three-dimensional amendment algorithms for the two sensor arrangements were proposed.

Bioinspired Metal-Intermetallic Laminated Composites for the Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Responsive Wettability.

Hundreds of copper and titanium foils were applied to prepare biomimetic metal-intermetallic laminated composites by diffusion bonding. The cross sections of the obtained diffusion bonded bulks were etched selectively with FeCl solution to get regular microarray structures. This kind of microstructure was controlled accurately and promptly by simple parameter adjustment.

Underwater manipulation of oil droplets and bubbles on superhydrophobic surfaces via switchable adhesion.

An ultraviolet light-responsive superwetting surface was produced by wire electrical discharge machining of a TC4 alloy. The processed surface remained superoleophobic and superaerophobic in water, when it was either superhydrophobic or superhydrophilic in air. The surface exhibited an adhesion switching of oil droplets and bubbles underwater.

Transcriptional profile of SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells transfected by Toxoplasma rhoptry protein 16.

Toxoplasma rhoptry protein 16 (ROP16) is crucial in the host-pathogen interaction by acting as a virulent factor during invasion. To improve understanding of the molecular function underlying the effect of ROP16 on host cells, the present study analyzed the transcriptional profile of genes in the ROP16‑transfected SH‑SY5Y human neuroblastoma cell line. The transcriptional profile of the SH‑SY5Y human neuroblastoma cell line overexpressing ROP16 were determined by microarray analysis in order to determine the host neural cell response to the virulent factor.