Impaired Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neuron GDNF Signaling Contributes to Perioperative Sleep Deprivation-Induced Chronicity of Postsurgical Pain in Mice Through Regulating Cholinergic Neuronal Activity, Apoptosis, and Autophagy.

Aims: This study investigated the roles of lateral basal forebrain glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) signaling and cholinergic neuron activity, apoptosis, and autophagy dysfunction in sleep deprivation-induced increased risk of chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) in mice.

Methods: Sleep deprivation (6 h per day from -1 to 3 days postoperatively) was administered to mice receiving skin/muscle incision and retraction (SMIR) to determine whether perioperative sleep deprivation induces mechanical and thermal pain hypersensitivity, increases the risk of chronic pain, and causes changes of basal forebrain neurons activity (c-Fos immunostaining), apoptosis (cleaved Caspase-3 expression), autophagy (LC3 and p62 expression) and GDNF expression. Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-GDNF was microinjected into the basal forebrain to see whether increased GDNF expression could reverse sleep deprivation-induced changes in pain duration and cholinergic neuron apoptosis and autophagy.

Microglial voltage-dependent anion channel 1 signaling modulates sleep deprivation-induced transition to chronic postsurgical pain.

Study Objectives: This study verified that sleep deprivation before and after skin/muscle incision and retraction (SMIR) surgery increased the risk of chronic pain and investigated the underlying roles of microglial voltage-dependent anion channel 1 (VDAC1) signaling.

Methods: Adult mice received 6 hours of total sleep deprivation from 1 day prior to SMIR until the third day after surgery. Mechanical and heat-evoked pain was assessed before and within 21 days after surgery.

Mechanically Activated Calcium Channel PIEZO1 Modulates Radiation-Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition by Forming a Positive Feedback With TGF-β1.

TGF-β-centered epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a key process involved in radiation-induced pulmonary injury (RIPI) and pulmonary fibrosis. PIEZO1, a mechanosensitive calcium channel, is expressed in myeloid cell and has been found to play an important role in bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. Whether PIEZO1 is related with radiation-induced EMT remains elusive.

PIEZO1 Ion Channel Mediates Ionizing Radiation-Induced Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Ferroptosis Ca/Calpain/VE-Cadherin Signaling.

Pulmonary endothelial cell dysfunction plays an important role in ionizing radiation (IR)-induced lung injury. Whether pulmonary endothelial cell ferroptosis occurs after IR and what are the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we demonstrate that 15-Gy IR induced ferroptosis characterized by lethal accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), lipid peroxidation, mitochondria shrinkage, and decreased glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) and SLC7A11 expression in pulmonary endothelial cells.

[Study on tanshinones regulating root-associated microbiomes of Salvia miltiorrhiza].

The plant root-associated microbiomes include root microbiome and rhizosphere microbiome, which are closely related to plant life activities. Nearly 30% of photosynthesis products of plants are used to synthesize root compounds, there is evidence that root compounds regulate and significantly affect the root microbiome Tanshinones are the main hydrophobic components in Salvia miltiorrhiza. In order to study whether these compounds can regulate the root-associated microbiomes of S.

Repeated Whole-Body Exposure to Low-Dose Radiation Combined With Topical Application of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor and Zinc Accelerates Wound Healing in Diabetic Rats.

We reported the acceleration of skin wound healing in diabetic rats by repeated exposure to low-dose radiation (LDR). Here, we explored whether the wound healing could be further improved when LDR was combined with a topical application of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) or zinc. Wounds were established on the backs of type 1 diabetic rats induced by a single injection of streptozotocin.

[Effect of the Cultivation Pattern on Photosynthesis and Yield of Salvia miltiorrhiza].

Objective: To investigate the effect of cultivation pattern on photosynthesis and yield of Salvia miltiorrhiza.

Methods: The covering plastic mulch, the uncorering plastic mulch, and the traditional cultivation pattern were used to analysed. LI-6400 XT photosynthesis was used to determine the photosynthetic parameter of Salvia miltiorrhiza, and some growth indexes of Salvia militiorrhiza were measured,and the accumulation was measured.

[Biological and Phenological Properties of Salvia miltiorrhiza f. alba for Anti-continuous Cropping].

Objective: Morphological characteristics and phenological phase of Salvia miltiorrhiza f. alba for anti-continuous cropping was studied in the field.

Methods: The data of fixed plants of different stages were collected and analyzed.

High expression of CD39/ENTPD1 in malignant epithelial cells of human rectal adenocarcinoma.

The ectonucleotidase CD39 is pivotal in the conversion of immunostimulatory adenosine triphosphate (ATP) into immunosuppressive adenosine which potently inhibits host immune responses against cancer. This study investigated the expression level and prognostic significance of CD39 in human rectal adenocarcinoma. Our data demonstrated that CD39 staining strongly marked malignant epithelial cells where the protein and messenger RNA (mRNA) expression levels of CD39 were significantly increased compared with paracancerous controls.

Radiation induces phosphorylation of STAT3 in a dose- and time-dependent manner.

Background: We have reported the radiation could activate STAT3, which subsequently promotes the invasion of A549 cells. We here explored the dose- and time-response of STAT3 to radiation and the effect of radiation on upstream signaling molecules.

Materials And Methods: A549 cells were irradiated with different doses of γ-rays.

[Influence of continuous cropping years on yield and active compounds in Salvia miltiorrhiza f. alba].

Biological characteristic of Salvia miltiorrhiza f. alba in field was studied. HPLC method was used to determine the lipophilic constituents (dihydrotanshinone, cryptotanshinone, tanshinone, tanshinone II (A) and miltione) and hydrophilic constituents (salvianolic acid, rosemarinic acid).

Fabrication of fluorescent magnetic Fe3O4@ZnS nanocomposites.

A novel Fe3O4@ZnS nanomaterial with fluorescent and superparamagnetic properties has been successfully fabricated via TOPO-TOP synthesis with an additional coordinating component (OAm). The adsorption of OAm on the preformed magnetite nanoparticles, which were prepared in phenyl ether with oleic acid and oleyl amine, played an essential role in directing the structure of the Fe3O4@ZnS composites. The obtained materials were characterized by FTIR, TEM, XRD, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), UV-vis, fluorescence spectrophotometer and VSM.

S100A4 siRNA inhibits human pancreatic cancer cell invasion in vitro.

Objective: Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly cancers, which is characterized by its high metastatic potential. S100A4 is a major prometastatic protein involved in tumor invasion and metastasis which precise role in pancreatic cancer has not been fully investigated. We knocked down the S100A4 gene in the Bxpc-3 pancreatic cancer cell line via RNA interference to study the changes in cell behavior.

Toll-like receptor 5 agonist inhibition of growth of A549 lung cancer cells in vivo in a Myd88 dependent manner.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) agonist, CBLB502, on the growth and radiosensitivity of A549 lung cancer cells in vivo. Expression of myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88) or TLR5 was stably knocked down in human lung cancer cells (A549) using lentivirus expressing short hairpin RNA targeting human MyD88 or TLR5. Lack of MyD88 or TLR5 expression enhanced tumor growth in mouse xenografts of A549 lung cancer cells.

[Study on thermal decompositon properties of hexafluoropropane clean gaseous fire-extinguishing agent].

The thermal decomposition properties of hexafluoropropane clean gaseous fire-extinguishing agent were studied in tubular reactor from 500 to 750 degrees C and the decomposed gas was characterized by gas chromatography(GC), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Hydrogen fluoride was detected after the decomposed gas was analyzed by pH testing, while pentafluoropropylene was found by GC-MS. The results showed that hydrogen fluoride eliminated from hexafluoropropane was the main reaction, while pentafluoropropylene was the primary product during hexafluoropropane decomposition under high temperature.

[Effects of drip irrigation under mulching on cotton root and shoot biomass and yield].

By using bidirectional sampling method with soil drill, the effects of different amounts of drip irrigation (2618, 2947, 3600 and 4265 m3 x hm(-2)) under mulching on the root distribution, aboveground growth, and yield of cotton was studied in field. The results indicated that irrigation amount affected the root and shoot growth significantly. In all irrigation treatments, cotton root was mainly distributed in mulched area, occupying 60.

[Primary research of anti-influenza virus activity of "Benovoair Concentrate"].

Objective: Anti-influenza virus activity of "Benovoair Concentrate".

Methods: The different dilution of samples were mixed with the same quantity of 100 TCID50 virus at 37 degrees C for 30 minutes. Add suitable quantity mixture in wells containing cells.

[Simulation model for the development stages of processing tomato based on physiological development time].

After the comprehensive consideration of the effects of temperature and light on the development physiology of processing tomato, the intrinsic development factor (IDF) was introduced, and, through the analysis of the dynamic relationships between the development stages of different type processing tomato and related environmental factors, the simulation model for the development stages of processing tomato was constructed, based on the concept of physiological development time (PDTv). Different years' experimental data about ecological zones, varieties, and planting modes were used to validate the model. The simulated results about the number of days from sowing to seedling emergence, flowering, fruit-setting, maturing, and ending accorded well with the observed ones, the root mean squared error (RMSE) being 1.

[Biological effect of gamma-rays and LPS on the murine macrophage cell line RAW264.7 in mice].

Aim: To explore the effect of activating the murine macrophage cell line RAW264.7 by both gamma-rays and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and to study the expression of calcium-binding protein S100A8 induced by gamma-rays and LPS.

Methods: The RAW264.