Role of Cannabinoid Type 2 Receptor Activation in Renal Fibrosis Induced by Unilateral Ureteric Obstruction in Rats.

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) ends mostly with renal fibrosis. The effect of CB2 receptor on renal fibrosis has been unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of CB2 receptor on renal fibrosis and the mechanisms behind it.

Federated Learning via Augmented Knowledge Distillation for Heterogenous Deep Human Activity Recognition Systems.

Deep learning-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems received a lot of interest for health monitoring and activity tracking on wearable devices. The availability of large and representative datasets is often a requirement for training accurate deep learning models. To keep private data on users' devices while utilizing them to train deep learning models on huge datasets, Federated Learning (FL) was introduced as an inherently private distributed training paradigm.

Renoprotection against complete unilateral ureteric obstruction: Is there an ultimate choice?

Objectives: To evaluate and compare the relative contribution of different therapeutic agents for renoprotection against complete unilateral ureteric obstruction (UUO), using a rabbit model sampled at different times.

Materials And Methods: Eighty-four male New Zealand White rabbits were divided into seven groups of 12 rabbits; a sham group, a control (left UUO + no medication) or left UUO and treated with either enalapril, losartan, verapamil, l-arginine or antioxidant (vitamin E and selenium mixture). Rabbits in the control and treated groups were subjected to 3, 10 and 21 days of complete ureteric ligation and then killed humanely.

Highly efficient 1.3-microm second-stokes PbWO4 Raman laser.

A second-Stokes Raman laser based on PbWO4 with a 1.316-microm wavelength pumped by an approximately 120-ps Nd:YAG laser at 1.06415 microm scattered at 901 cm(-1) phonon was developed.