Optogenetics is a valuable tool for studying the mechanisms of neurological diseases and is now being developed for therapeutic applications. In rodents and macaques, improved channelrhodopsins have been applied to achieve transcranial optogenetic stimulation. While transcranial photoexcitation of neurons has been achieved, noninvasive optogenetic inhibition for treating hyperexcitability-induced neurological disorders has remained elusive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdvancements in spatial transcriptomics (ST) technology have enabled the analysis of gene expression while preserving cellular spatial information, greatly enhancing our understanding of cellular interactions within tissues. Accurate identification of spatial domains is crucial for comprehending tissue organization. However, the effective integration of spatial location and gene expression still faces significant challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiochem Biophys Res Commun
December 2024
Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) stands as one of the prevalent malignant tumors worldwide. The effectiveness of immunotherapy frequently depends on the intricate dynamics of immunomodulation within the tumor microenvironment (TME). The current study aims to identify prognostically relevant genes and their functional roles in HCC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: The acute pulmonary infectious disease caused by influenza viruses is known as influenza virus pneumonia (IVP). In recent years, Gegen Qinlian Decoction (GQD) has been widely used to treat pulmonary inflammation; however, the underlying mechanism of action of GQD in IVP remains unclear. This study aimed to elucidate the molecular mechanism through which GQD improved IVP.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute lung injury (ALI) is currently a global health concern. Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComb Chem High Throughput Screen
October 2024
Background: The incidence of depression is increasing year by year, and Zhizichi Decoction(ZZCD)has shown significant efficiency in the clinical treatment of mild depression, but its mechanism of action is still unclear. In this research, network pharmacology and metagenomics combined and metabolomics were used as research methods to explain the scientific connotation of the antidepressant effect of ZZCD from the aspects of the overall effect of organisms and microbial structure and function.
Methods: The rat model of depression was established by chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS), and the improvement of depressive symptoms was evaluated by behavioral and histopathological methods.
Background: Most stroke patients suffer from an imbalance in blood supply, which causes severe brain damage leading to functional deficits in motor, sensory, swallowing, cognitive, emotional, and speech functions. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is thought to restore functions impaired during the stroke process and improve the quality of life of stroke patients. However, the efficacy of rTMS in treating post-stroke function impairment varies significantly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE J Biomed Health Inform
May 2024
Predicting potential drug-disease associations (RDAs) plays a pivotal role in elucidating therapeutic strategies for diseases and facilitating drug repositioning, making it of paramount importance. However, existing methods are constrained and rely heavily on limited domain-specific knowledge, impeding their ability to effectively predict candidate associations between drugs and diseases. Moreover, the simplistic definition of unknown information pertaining to drug-disease relationships as negative samples presents inherent limitations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo address the limitations of computer vision-assisted table tennis ball detection, which heavily relies on vision acquisition equipment and exhibits slow processing speed, we propose a real-time calculation method for determining the landing point of table tennis balls. This novel approach is based on spatial domain information and reduces the dependency on vision acquisition equipment. This method incorporates several steps: employing dynamic color thresholding to determine the centroid coordinates of all objects in the video frames, utilizing target area thresholding and spatial Euclidean distance to eliminate interference balls and noise, optimizing the total number of video frames through keyframe extraction to reduce the number of operations for object recognition and landing point detection, and employing the four-frame difference slope method and polygonal area determination to detect the landing point and area of the target object, thereby obtaining precise coordinates and their corresponding areas.
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July 2023
Circular RNA (circRNA) is a class of noncoding RNA that is highly conserved and exhibit exceptional stability. Due to its function as a microRNA sponge, circRNA has gained significant attention as an essential biomarker and potential drug target in the pathogenesis of several cancers. Although many circRNAs have been identified to play a role in cancer resistance, traditional methods are time-consuming and expensive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Diagnostic models based on gene signatures of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) were constructed by random forest (RF) and artificial neural network (ANN) algorithms. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso)-Cox regression was used to select and build prognostic models based on gene signatures. This study contributes to the early diagnosis and treatment, prognosis, and molecular mechanisms associated with NPC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P), a key regulator of vascular homeostasis and angiogenesis, is enriched in exosomes derived from platelet-rich plasma (PRP-Exos). However, the potential role of PRP-Exos-S1P in diabetic wound healing remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the underlying mechanism of PRP-Exos-S1P in diabetic angiogenesis and wound repair.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Intraoperative hypotension (IOH) is a common side effect of non-cardiac surgery that might induce poor postoperative outcomes. The relationship between the IOH and severe postoperative complications is still unclear. Thus, we summarized the existing literature to evaluate whether IOH contributes to developing severe postoperative complications during non-cardiac surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe search for potential drug-disease associations (DDA) can speed up drug development cycles, reduce costly wasted resources, and accelerate disease treatment by repurposing existing drugs that can control further disease progression. As technologies such as deep learning continue to mature, many researchers tend to use emerging technologies to predict potential DDA. The performance of DDA prediction is still challenging and there is some space for improvement due to issues such as the small number of existing associations and possible noise in the data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndividuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have an increased risk of bone metabolic disorders and bone fracture due to disease progression and clinical treatment. The effect of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, now greatly prescribed for the treatment of T2DM, on bone metabolism is not clear. This study aimed to explore the possible influence of bone metabolic disorder and the underlying mechanism through a comparison of three different SGLT2 inhibitors (canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, and empagliflozin) in the treatment of type 2 diabetic mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform
June 2023
Studies have shown that IncRNA-miRNA interactions can affect cellular expression at the level of gene molecules through a variety of regulatory mechanisms and have important effects on the biological activities of living organisms. Several biomolecular network-based approaches have been proposed to accelerate the identification of lncRNA-miRNA interactions. However, most of the methods cannot fully utilize the structural and topological information of the lncRNA-miRNA interaction network.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Liver cancer is affecting more and more people's health. Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) has become a routine treatment option, but the prognosis of patients is not optimistic. Effectively prediction of prognosis can provide clinicians with an objective basis for patient prognosis and timely adjustment of treatment strategies, thus improving the quality of patient survival.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMotivation: CircularRNA (circRNA) is a class of noncoding RNA with high conservation and stability, which is considered as an important disease biomarker and drug target. Accumulating pieces of evidence have indicated that circRNA plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis and progression of many complex diseases. As the biological experiments are time-consuming and labor-intensive, developing an accurate computational prediction method has become indispensable to identify disease-related circRNAs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this study was to evaluate the short-term and follow-up effectiveness of aquatic training on the health status of lower limb osteoarthritis. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on related topics were systematically searched in PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), the China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Wanfang databases from inception to January 2021. RevMan 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLong non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a regulatory role in many biological cells, and the recognition of lncRNA-protein interactions is helpful to reveal the functional mechanism of lncRNAs. Identification of lncRNA-protein interaction by biological techniques is costly and time-consuming. Here, an ensemble learning framework, RLF-LPI is proposed, to predict lncRNA-protein interactions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSignal Transduct Target Ther
April 2022