Risk analysis of depression among adult patients with epilepsy of different sex: a retrospective single-center study from China.

Objective: To determine sex differences in the prevalence of depression and assess the risk factors for depression among adult patients with epilepsy from the Dali area of China.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of adult patients with epilepsy who visited the First Affiliated Hospital of Dali University from January 2017 to January 2022. Patient Health Questionnaire-9 was used to assess depressive symptoms in patients with epilepsy.

Synthesis and bioactivity of new Finasteride conjugate.

Finasteride is a synthetic 4-azasteroid compound that acts by inhibiting type II 5α-reductase, the enzyme that converts the androgen testosterone to 5α-dihydrotestosterone. It was approved by the US FDA for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and male pattern baldness. Here the acylation product of Finasteride C-18 amide N-polimod was synthesized by employing acylation reaction with polimod amide as a pivotal intermediate.

[Recombinant Aspergillus niger glucose oxidase expressed in Trichoderma reesei].

It was expected that recombinant Aspergillus niger glucose oxidase could be expressed in Trichoderma reesei with stable activity. T. reesei CBHI promoter--CBHI ss.

[Determination of cholesteryl palmitate in Oviductus Ranae by HPLC].

Objective: To develop a new method for the determination of cholesteryl palmitate in Oviductus Ranae.

Method: A HPLC method was set up, using Zorbax Silica column and cyclohexane-diethyl ether (40:1) as mobile phase with a flow rate of 1.0 mL x min(-1), and the UV detection wavelength was 203 nm.