Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
October 2024
The challenge of applying chlorophyll(Chl) in aqueous media has been a significant obstacle to the diversified development of Chl a-related industries. This study presents the first report on the true-solution-scale utilization of Chl in aqueous media through the construction of chlorophyll a-phycocyanin (Chls-PC) composite nanoparticles. This study determined the optimal conditions for Chls-PC preparation: a composite ratio of 1:25, a solvent ratio of 1:4, and a stirring time of 1 h.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Fat grafting is widely used in breast reconstruction and aesthetic plastic surgery. However, the success rate and effects of fat grafting, especially in elderly female donors, are observed. This study aimed to explore the difference in the survival rate of donor fat from elderly women and young women in fat grafting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHighly accurate traffic flow prediction is essential for effectively managing traffic congestion, providing real-time travel advice, and reducing travel costs. However, traditional traffic flow prediction models often fail to fully consider the correlation and periodicity among traffic state data and rely on static network topology graphs. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a expressway traffic flow prediction model based on multi-feature spatial-temporal adaptive periodic fused graph convolutional network (MFSTAPFGCN).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
February 2024
Chlorophyll (Chl) is the most abundant pigment in photosynthetic plants, but it is prone to degradation during processing and storage, limiting its usage in the food industry. This study developed a technique for increasing Chl photostability by light-induced Chl/phycocyanin (PC) triple synergistic aggregation. Under continuous illumination settings, the results revealed that the Chl retention increased to 406% compared to the control.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe eggshell color of avian species is an important trait that is predominantly determined by the pigments biliverdin and protoporphyrin. Various factors affect eggshell pigment deposition and coloration; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We analyzed the hepatic transcriptomes and metabolomes of Changshun green-shell hens laying dark green and light green eggs to investigate the potential role of the liver in regulating the intensity of the green eggshell color.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) have been proven to promote healing in diabetic wounds, which are one of the most serious chronic refractory wounds. However, reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by high glucose (HG) lead to oxidative stress and aging in ADSCs, which limits the therapeutic effect of ADSCs. In this study, we investigated the role of GKT137831, a NOX1/4 inhibitor that can reduce ROS production, in protecting ADSCs from hyperglycemia and in diabetic wound healing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: In this study, we aimed to develop and validate nomograms for predicting the survival outcomes in patients with T1-2N1 breast cancer to identify the patients who could not benefit from postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT).
Methods: Data from 10191 patients with T1-2N1 breast cancer were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. Of them, 6542 patients who had not received PMRT formed the training set.
Objective: The same clinicopathological features and prognosis have been reported between single progesterone receptor-positive (sPR-positive) and triple-negative phenotype in early-stage breast cancer, but such similarity has not been studied in metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to estimate the difference between sPR-positive phenotype and other phenotypes in MBC.
Methods: Patients with HER-2-negative MBC were selected from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database.
The investigation of intermolecular interactions has become increasingly important in many studies, mainly by combining different analytical approaches to reveal the molecular mechanisms behind specific experimental phenomena. From spectroscopic analysis to sophisticated molecular simulation techniques like molecular docking, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, and quantum chemical calculations (QCC), the mechanisms of intermolecular interactions are gradually being characterized more clearly and accurately, leading to revolutionary advances. This article aims to review the progression in the main techniques involving intermolecular interactions in food research and the corresponding experimental results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAesthetic Plast Surg
October 2023
Background: Uterine fibroids are most common in women aged 30-50 and are the most common benign gynecological tumors. Relevant data suggest that about 25% of patients with uterine fibroids are at childbearing age. Uterine fibroids not only cause the discomfort symptoms, and affect the pregnancy, but also have certain malignant transformation risk, thus needed to be treated positively and promptly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this research was to investigate the predictive role of texture features in computed tomography (CT) images based on artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for colorectal liver metastases (CRLM). A total of 150 patients with colorectal cancer who were admitted to the hospital were selected as the research objects and randomly divided into three groups with 50 cases in each group. The patients who were found to suffer from the CRLM in the initial examination were included in group A.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of this study was to investigate the status of self-efficacy, resilience, personality traits, and job burnout of grassroots civil servants, and their relationship.
Methods: Grassroots civil servants were randomly selected, and questionnaire survey method was adopted.
Results: Civil servants with characteristics such as age, marital status, education level, and length of service were more prone to job burnout.
Chlorophyll (Chl) has great application potential in food colouring and nutritional supplementation. Since Chl is easily degraded, stability protection is vital to its application. Herein, a dual aggregation mechanism induced by high concentrations to improve Chl stability was proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study we investigate how β-catenin-dependent WNT signalling impacts midbrain dopaminergic neuron (mDA) specification. mDA cultures at day 65 of differentiation responded to 25 days of the tankyrase inhibitor XAV969 (XAV, 100nM) with reduced expression of markers of an A9 mDA phenotype (KCNJ6, ALDH1A1 and TH) but increased expression of the transcriptional repressors NR0B1 and NR0B2. Overexpression of NR0B1 and or NR0B2 promoted a loss of A9 dopaminergic neuron phenotype markers (KCNJ6, ALDH1A1 and TH).
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