Preparation and properties of silver-carrying nano-titanium dioxide antimicrobial agents and silicone composite.

The characteristics of dopamine self-polymerization were used to cover the nano-titanium dioxide (TiO) surface and produce nano-titanium dioxide-polydopamine (TiO-PDA). The reducing nature of dopamine was then used to reduce silver nitrate to silver elemental particles on the modified nano-titanium dioxide: The resulting TiO-PDA-Ag nanoparticles were used as antimicrobial agents. Finally, the antibacterial agent was mixed with silicone to obtain an antibacterial silicone composite material.

Predicting gestational diabetes mellitus risk at 11-13 weeks' gestation: the role of extrachromosomal circular DNA.

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) significantly impacts maternal and infant health both immediately and over the long term, yet effective early diagnostic biomarkers are currently lacking. Thus, it is essential to identify early diagnostic biomarkers for GDM risk screening. Extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA), being more stable than linear DNA and involved in disease pathologies, is a viable biomarker candidate for diverse conditions.

Super-tough poly(lactic acid)/silicone rubber thermoplastic vulcanizates: The organic and inorganic synergistic interfacial compatibilization.

Polymer modification using silicone rubber represents a promising avenue for enhancing physico-mechanical properties. However, achieving optimal performance through direct blending is hindered by the poor interface compatibility between silicone rubber and the matrix. In this study, we prepared super-tough thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) of polylactic acid/silicone rubber through dynamic vulcanization with PLA, methyl vinyl silicone rubber (MVQ), glycidyl methacrylate grafted MVQ (MVQ-g-GMA), and fumed silica nanoparticles (SiO).

Topological Atomic Spin Wave Lattices by Dissipative Couplings.

Recent experimental advances in creating dissipative couplings provide a new route for engineering exotic lattice systems and exploring topological dissipation. Using the spatial lattice of atomic spin waves in a vacuum vapor cell, where purely dissipative couplings arise from diffusion of atoms, we experimentally realize a dissipative version of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. We construct the dissipation spectrum of the topological or trivial lattices via electromagnetically induced-transparency spectroscopy.

Organismal response to micro(nano)plastics at environmentally relevant concentrations: Toxicity and the underlying mechanisms.

The toxic effects of micro(nano)plastics are long-standing, flourishing and fadeless as a research topic because of its' underlying threats to the ecology and human health. Nevertheless, in most of the existing studies, some model organisms are exposed to micro(nano)plastics at a high concentration unlikely to occur in the real environment, and there is limited data available on the impact of micro(nano)plastics at environmentally relevant concentrations (ERC) on environmental organisms. To gain a better insight into micro(nano)plastic toxicity to the environmental organisms, here we integrate the related publications of micro(nano)plastic research at ERC in the past 10 years using a bibliometric analysis, and focus on the analysis of publication trends, research focuses, collaborations, and research status.

Mesothelioma Due to Workplace Exposure: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis of Current Situation and Future Trends.

This article provides an overview of the current status and research progress of mesothelioma. A total of 2638 documents published from 1 January 2004 to 30 November 2022 were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection and analyzed via Microsoft Office Excel 2019, VOSviewer 1.6.

Arabidopsis NPF2.13 functions as a critical transporter of bacterial natural compound tunicamycin in plant-microbe interaction.

Metabolites including antibiotics, enzymes, and volatiles produced by plant-associated bacteria are key factors in plant-microbiota interaction that regulates various plant biological processes. There should be crucial mediators responsible for their entry into host plants. However, less is known about the identities of these plant transporters.

Clinical safety and possible efficacy of tirofiban in combination with intravenous thrombolysis by recombinant tissue plasminogen activator for early treatment of capsular warning syndrome (CWS).

The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of the combination of tirofiban with intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) in treating patients with capsular warning syndrome (CWS) who failed to respond to the treatment of intravenous thrombolysis alone. Tirofiban was approved for the treatment of CWS patients with fluctuating symptoms or no substantial improvement after intravenous thrombolysis within 24 h in our hospital from October 2019 to June 2021. Patients were evaluated with the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) at admission, at 72 h post-thrombolysis, at 1-week, and at 3-months with the modified Rankin Scales (MRS) score.

Clinical Characteristics of 254 COVID-19 Inpatients in Yichang, Hubei, China, and Efficacy of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Treatment.

Introduction: There is no effective treatment plan for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We employed a combination of Chinese and Western medicine treatment for some COVID-19 inpatients.

Methods: This study was a prospective cohort study that observed non-critical COVID-19 inpatients.

The RING E3 ligase SDIR1 destabilizes EBF1/EBF2 and modulates the ethylene response to ambient temperature fluctuations in .

The gaseous phytohormone ethylene mediates numerous aspects of plant growth and development as well as stress responses. The F-box proteins EIN3-binding F-box protein 1 (EBF1) and EBF2 are key components that ubiquitinate and degrade the master transcription factors ethylene insensitive 3 (EIN3) and EIN3-like 1 (EIL1) in the ethylene response pathway. Notably, EBF1 and EBF2 themselves undergo the 26S proteasome-mediated proteolysis induced by ethylene and other stress signals.

Antioxidant activities of Clerodendrum cyrtophyllum Turcz leaf extracts and their major components.

This study was designed to investigate the antioxidant properties of the extracts and subfractions of various polarities from Clerodendrum cyrtophyllum Turcz leaves and the related phenolic compound profiles. The ethyl acetate fraction (EAF) showed the most potent radical-scavenging activity for DPPH radicals, ABTS radicals, and superoxide anion (O2·-) radicals as well as the highest reducing power of the fractions tested; the n-butyl alcohol fraction (BAF) was the most effective in scavenging hydroxyl radical (OH·), and the dichloromethane fraction (DMF) exhibited the highest ferrous ion chelating activity. Twelve phenolic components were identified from the EAF of C.

Sequential vessel segmentation via deep channel attention network.

Accurately segmenting contrast-filled vessels from X-ray coronary angiography (XCA) image sequence is an essential step for the diagnosis and therapy of coronary artery disease. However, developing automatic vessel segmentation is particularly challenging due to the overlapping structures, low contrast and the presence of complex and dynamic background artifacts in XCA images. This paper develops a novel encoder-decoder deep network architecture which exploits the several contextual frames of 2D+t sequential images in a sliding window centered at current frame to segment 2D vessel masks from the current frame.

Accurate vessel extraction via tensor completion of background layer in X-ray coronary angiograms.

This paper proposes an effective method for accurately recovering vessel structures and intensity information from the X-ray coronary angiography (XCA) images of moving organs or tissues. Specifically, a global logarithm transformation of XCA images is implemented to fit the X-ray attenuation sum model of vessel/background layers into a low-rank, sparse decomposition model for vessel/background separation. The contrast-filled vessel structures are extracted by distinguishing the vessels from the low-rank backgrounds by using a robust principal component analysis and by constructing a vessel mask via Radon-like feature filtering plus spatially adaptive thresholding.

, a Protein from , Positively Regulates Salinity Tolerance and Enhances Fructan Levels in .

Fructans play vital roles in abiotic stress tolerance in plants. In this study, we isolated the sucrose:6-fructosyltransferase gene, which is involved in the synthesis of fructans, from by rapid amplification of cDNA ends. The gene was introduced into cv.

Low-rank and sparse decomposition with spatially adaptive filtering for sequential segmentation of 2D+t vessels.

This letter proposes to extract contrast-filled vessels from overlapped noisy complex backgrounds in an x-ray coronary angiogram image sequence using low-rank and sparse decomposition. A refined vessel segmentation is finally achieved by implementing a radon-like feature filtering plus local-to-global adaptive thresholding to tackle the spatially varying noisy residuals in the extracted vessels. Based on real and synthetic XCA data, the experiment results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over the state-of-the-art methods.

Jasmonate-activated MYC2 represses ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE3 activity to antagonize ethylene-promoted apical hook formation in Arabidopsis.

The apical hook is an essential structure that enables epigeal plants to protrude through the soil. Arabidopsis thaliana HOOKLESS1 (HLS1) is reported to be a key regulator of hook development and a direct target gene of the ethylene (ET)-activated transcription factors ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE3 (EIN3) and its close homolog EIN3-Like1. Previous research has shown that the phytohormones jasmonate (JA) and ET antagonistically regulate apical hook development, although the underlying molecular mechanism is largely unknown.