Association of body mass and systemic immune-inflammation indices with endocrine therapy resistance in luminal breast cancers.

Objective: To explore correlations between body mass index (BMI), preoperative systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) and endocrine therapy resistance, and evaluate BMI and SII as predictors of resistance, in patients with luminal breast cancer.

Methods: This retrospective study included patients with luminal breast cancer who underwent endocrine therapy at Hebei General Hospital. Relationships between BMI and SII subgroups, and clinicopathological parameters were analysed using χ-tests.

Genome shuffling to improve thermotolerance, ethanol tolerance and ethanol productivity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Genome shuffling is a powerful strategy for rapid engineering of microbial strains for desirable industrial phenotypes. Here we improved the thermotolerance and ethanol tolerance of an industrial yeast strain SM-3 by genome shuffling while simultaneously enhancing the ethanol productivity. The starting population was generated by protoplast ultraviolet irradiation and then subjected for the recursive protoplast fusion.

Environmentally degradable, high-performance thermoplastics from phenolic phytomonomers.

Aliphatic polyesters, such as poly(lactic acid), which degrade by hydrolysis, from naturally occurring molecules form the main components of biodegradable plastics. However, these polyesters have become substitutes for only a small percentage of the currently used plastic materials because of their poor thermal and mechanical properties. Polymers that degrade into natural molecules and have a performance closer to that of engineering plastics would be highly desirable.

[Study on synthesis and photoluminescence of the complexes of rare earth Eu(III) with 4-vinyl pyridine copolymer].

Rare earth (Eu)-polymer ternary complexes were synthesized using copolymer of 4-vinyl pyridine-methyl acrylate as ligand, and using phen and bipy as coordination ligand. The compositions of the complexes were characterized by FTIR and elemental analysis. The photophysical process of photoluminescence of the complexes were characterized by FTIR and elemental analysis.