Revised Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TIRADS): imitating the American College of Radiology TIRADS, a single-center retrospective study.

Background: The incidence of thyroid lumps is more and more high in population, and most biopsies of thyroid nodules are benign. To develop a practical risk stratification system based on five ultrasound features to stratify the malignancy risk of thyroid neoplasms.

Methods: This retrospective investigation enrolled 999 consecutive patients with 1,236 thyroid nodules who underwent ultrasound screening.

Different preoperative fluids do not affect the hemodynamic status but gastric volume: results of a randomized crossover pilot study.

Background And Objective: Inferior vena cava (IVC) examination has been reported as a noninvasive method for evaluating the hemodynamic state. We conducted this crossover pilot study to investigate the effects of the administration of water and high-carbohydrate-containing fluids on the hemodynamic status of volunteers through collapsibility index of IVC (IVCCI) measurement.

Methods: Twenty volunteers were randomly assigned to a water or high-carbohydrate group according to computer-generated random numbers in a 1:1 ratio.

Enhanced tolerance to drought stress resulting from Caragana korshinskii CkWRKY33 in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana.

Background: It is well known that WRKY transcription factors play important roles in plant growth and development, defense regulation and stress responses.

Results: In this study, a WRKY transcription factor, WRKY33, was cloned from Caragana korshinskii. A sequence structure analysis showed that it belonged to the Group-I type.

Identification of drought response genes by digital gene expression (DGE) analysis in Caragana korshinskii Kom.

Caragana korshinskii Kom. is a legume shrub that is widely distributed across desert habitats with gravely, sandy, and saline soils in Asia and Africa. C.