Electricity consumption and anaerobic reactions cause direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within domestic sewage treatment systems (DSTSs). GHG emissions in DSTSs were influenced by the sewage quantity and the efficacy of treatment technologies. To address combined effects of these variables, this study presented an approach for identifying pathways for GHG mitigation within the DSTSs of cities under climate change and socio-economic development, through combining life cycle analysis (LCA) and the Hierarchical Archimedean copula (HAC) methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cell-assisted lipotransfer (CAL), a technique of autologous adipose transplantation enriched with adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs), has the potential to improve cosmetic outcomes at irradiated sites. However, many concerns have been raised about the possibility of ADSCs increasing oncological risk in cancer patients. With the increasing demand for CAL reconstruction, there is an urgent need to determine whether CAL treatment could compromise oncological safety after radiotherapy, as well as to evaluate its efficacy in guiding clinical decisions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gastric cancer (GC) is the third-leading cause of cancer-associated mortalities globally. The deregulation of circular RNAs (circRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) is widely implicated in the pathogenesis and progression of different cancer types.
Methods: The expression profiling of circRNAs in GC is required to identify crucial circRNAs as biomarkers or therapeutic targets.
Background: Linc-ROR is a long non-coding RNA, that is found aberrantly expressed in various human cancers. We aim here to unveil the role of Linc-ROR in gastric cancer (GC) progression.
Methods: qPCR was used to determine gene expression.
A novel copper-catalyzed hydrothioetherification of oxa(aza)bicyclic alkenes with potassium thioacetate and aryl or alkyl iodides to synthesize unsymmetrical thioethers has been developed. Notably, the reaction with complete diastereoselectivity went through a syn-selective addition process to give exo-adducts. In addition, this protocol exhibited high efficiency and good functional group tolerance to afford the target thioethers in moderate to good yields.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA novel palladium-catalyzed ring-opening reaction of oxabicyclic alkenes with arylsulfonyl hydrazides was first developed. In this work, we provide an efficient one-pot reaction to afford the corresponding 2-aryl-1,2-dihydronaphthalen-1-ols and 2-aryl-naphthalenes in moderate to excellent yields (up to 95%) under an open-air condition. Various types of functional groups attached to the substrates were tolerated well in this method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn efficient three-component cycloaddition of oxa(aza)bicyclic alkenes/norbornene in the presence of NaN and arylsulfonyl chlorides was developed, affording the corresponding aziridine products in good yields (up to 82%) with moderate to good / selectivities (up to >99:1 /). Further studies showed that the cycloaddition of oxa(aza)bicyclic alkenes in the presence of NaN and chloroalkanes could afford the -cycloadduct 1,2,3-triazolines in good to excellent yields (up to 95%). Compared with the existing methodologies, the current protocol demands very simple and mild reaction conditions and is a metal-free catalyzed reaction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA novel copper-catalyzed complete diastereoselective 1,2-difunctionalization of oxabicyclic alkenes has been developed. Two C-S bonds were constructed simultaneously on the oxabenzonorbornadienes leading to β-thiocyanato thioethers through the three-component (oxabicyclic alkenes, aryl iodides, and potassium thiocyanate), one-pot reaction. Various functional groups attached to the substrates were tolerated in this protocol to afford the corresponding β-thiocyanato thioether products in moderate yields.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The clinical characteristics of stage III colon cancer and the prognostic significance of tumor deposits were investigated, to construct a prognostic nomogram.
Methods: The data of patients were retrieved from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. Patients were randomized to a training or validation cohort.
Invadopodia are actin-based cortical protrusions of tumour cells, and required for stromal invasion and metastasis. Extracellular matrix protein 1 (ECM1) has long been regarded as a secretory protein, but the mechanism of its precise functions in tumour cells is still obscure. Recently published data suggested a function of ECM1 in remodelling the actin cytoskeleton; however, its role in invadopodia formation remains unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, which is mainly due to relapse and metastasis. Synaptophysin-like 1 (SYPL1), a member of SYP family proteins, exerts complicated functions, which prompted us to wonder whether SYPL1 contributed to HCC progress. Herein, we performed integrative experiments of quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), western blot analysis and immunohistochemistry (IHC), and found that SYPL1 overexpression in HCC tissues was closely correlated with several malignant clinicopathologic features of HCC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThienopyridines and related heterocycles were prepared in a straightforward manner in moderate to good yields and under mild conditions by palladium-catalysed cross-coupling of ortho-fluorinated iodopyridines and terminal alkynes, followed by a reagent-capsule-assisted thiolation cyclization process. By applying paraffin wax capsules to prevent catalyst poisoning and undesired side reactions, the separation and purification processes were reduced.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Decoy receptor 3 (DcR3), a decoy receptor against Fas ligand belonging to the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, is overexpressed in some forms of cancer. It was recently reported that DcR3 could protect endothelial cells from apoptosis, implying a potential role in the development of vessels, whereas its role in the lymphangiogenesis remains unclear. In the present study, we studied the DcR3 expression and its relationship with the lymphatic microvessel density (LMVD) to investigate if it played a role in the lymph metastasis of human breast cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObject: The hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), matrix metallopeptidase-9 (MMP-9) and transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) are important cytokines with modulatory actions in the nervous system. In this study, we attempted to investigate the role and expression of HGF, MMP-9 and TGF-β1 in the cerebral tissue and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of adult rats with hydrocephalus induced via intraventricular kaolin injection.
Methods: Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into two groups: control group (n = 12) and experimental group (n = 20).