Dynamic interactions among schizotypal traits, affective and prodromal symptoms, social functioning in a large sample of college students: A cross-lagged panel network analysis.

Objective: Previous studies suggested that schizotypal traits are closely related with affective symptoms and social dysfunction in general population. However, the dynamic interactions among these variables across time remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate this issue using cross-sectional and longitudinal network analysis.

Drug recommendation for optimization on treatment outcome for MDR/RR-TB based on a multi-center, large scale, retrospective cohort study in China.

Objective: With the change in drug-resistant pattern, MDR/RR-TB was faced with underlying changes in regimens. A multi-center, large-scale, retrospective study performed aims to provide a recommendation of drug selection on optimization of outcome for the patients.

Method: The study was conducted in six TB-specialized hospitals in China.

Comparisons of facial emotion recognition in different social contexts among patients with schizophrenia, major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.

Background: Previous studies have found that patients with schizophrenia (SCZ), major depressive disorder (MDD), and bipolar disorder (BD) all have facial emotion recognition deficits, but the differences and similarities of these deficits in the three groups of patients under different social interaction situations are not clear. The present study aims to compare the ability of facial emotion recognition in three different conversation situations from a cross-diagnostic perspective.

Methods: Thirty-three participants with SCZ, 35 participants with MDD, and 30 participants with BD were recruited, along with 31 healthy controls.

The association of glutamate level in pregenual anterior cingulate, anhedonia, and emotion-behavior decoupling in patients with major depressive disorder.

Impairments of translating emotional salience into effortful behavior are core features of anhedonia in cohorts with major depressive disorder. Glutamate metabolism is considered to be involved in this process, but the empirical study is relatively few. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the correlations between glutamate level in pregenual anterior cingulate, anhedonia, and emotion-behavior decoupling in patients with major depressive disorder.

A transdiagnostic comparison of affective decision-making in patients with schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, or bipolar disorder.

Deficit in decision-making has been found in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ), major depressive disorder (MDD), and bipolar disorder (BD), respectively, while the common and distinct characteristics of this deficit among these patients are still unclear. The present study aimed to make a transdiagnostic comparison of the affective decision-making ability in patients with SCZ, MDD, and BD. In this study, 33 patients with SCZ, 23 patients with MDD, 29 patients with BD, and 34 healthy controls (HCs) were recruited and the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) was used to assess the affective decision-making ability.

Emotion-behavior decoupling in individuals with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder.

Failure in translating emotional salience into effortful behavior is thought to be a core feature of anhedonia and avolition in individuals with schizophrenia (SCZ), but little is known about emotion-behavior coupling in individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). In this study, we compared emotion-behavior correspondence in participants with SCZ, BD, and MDD. Forty-two participants with SCZ, 44 participants with MDD, 43 participants with BD, and 43 healthy controls were recruited.

[Transrectal ultrasound conductance-guided administration of traditional Chinese medicine for histological prostatitis in men with small-size BPH and LUTS after TURP].

Objective: To investigate the effects of transrectal ultrasound conductance (TRUSC)-guided administration of traditional Chinese medicine on histological prostatitis in men with small-size BPH and low urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) after transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP).

Methods: This study included 167 BPH patients without surgical contraindications. We randomized the patients into an experimental group (n = 84) and a control group (n = 83), with no statistically significant differences between the two groups in age, prostate volume, International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS), and quality of life (QoL) (P >0.

Endovascular Treatment of Dissecting Aneurysms of the Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery and Predictors of Outcome.

Background: Isolated dissecting aneurysms of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) are rare lesions, which carry high risk of rebleeding and mortality. However, the existing literature concerning predictors of outcome after endovascular treatment is limited and controversial. Our present study retrospectively reviewed and analyzed the clinical outcome of endovascular treatment-ruptured PICA-dissecting aneurysms and explored the predictors of outcome.

Predictors of Favorable Outcome of Intracranial Basilar Dissecting Aneurysm.

Background: Management of intracranial basilar dissecting aneurysms has been controversial and challenging, and surgical and conservative treatments usually have a bad prognosis. Our study aimed at evaluating the outcomes of endovascular treatment for these lesions and exploring the predictors of favorable outcome.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 50 consecutive patients with basilar dissecting aneurysms from January 2006 to January 2013.

Enzymatically active Rho and Rac small-GTPases are involved in the establishment of the vacuolar membrane after Toxoplasma gondii invasion of host cells.

Background: GTPases are the family of hydrolases that bind and hydrolyze guanosine triphosphate. The large Immunity-related GTPases and the small GTPase ADP-ribosylation factor-6 in host cells are known to accumulate on the parasitophorous vacuole membrane (PVM) of Toxoplasma gondii and play critical roles in this parasite infection, but these GTPases cannot explain the full extent of infection.

Results: In this research, RhoA and Rac1 GTPases from the host cell were found to accumulate on the PVM regardless of the virulence of the T.

[The impact of Toxoplasma gondii infection on host cell signal transduction].

In the process of invasion and development in host cells, Toxoplasma gondii causes acute and chronic infection. The parasite manipulates the host cell elaborately and integrated to keep a delicate balance between induction and elimination of the host cell immune reaction. It can then dwell and multiply successfully in the host cell, and hopefully be transmitted to a definitive host The host cell signaling is changed and regulated extensively by the parasite in the process, which plays vital roles in parasite invasion and development.

Determination of trace mercury by solid substrate room temperature phosphorescence quenching method based on lead carboxymethyl cellulose (Pb(CMC)(2)) particles containing luminescent salicyl fluorones molecules.

Luminescent particles of lead carboxymethyl cellulose (Pb(CMC)(2)), which contains salicyl fluorones (THBF), Pb(CMC)(2)-THBF, were synthesized by sol-gel method. Pb(CMC)(2)-THBF can emit intense and stable solid substrate room temperature phosphorescence (SS-RTP) on filter paper. EDTA can chelate the Pb(2+) in Pb(CMC)(2)-THBF, causing it decompose into aqueous soluble components PbY(2-), CMC(-) and THBF, and these components can react with Hg(2+) to form (CMC)(2)Hg-THBF, causing decrease of phosphorescence intensity.

Determination of trace alkaline phosphatase by solid-substrate room-temperature phosphorimetry based on Triticum vulgare lectin labeled with fullerenol.

Fullerenol (F) shows a strong and stable room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) signal on the surface of nitrocellulose membrane (NCM) at lambda ex max/ lambda em max =542.0/709.4 nm.

Determination of trace glucose and forecast of human diseases by affinity adsorption solid substrate-room temperature phosphorimetry based on triticum vulgaris lectin labeled with dendrimers-porphyrin dual luminescence molecule.

In this paper, 3.5-generation polyamidoamine dendrimers (3.5G-D)-porphyrin (P) dual luminescence molecule (3.

Determination of trace alpha-fetoprotein variant by affinity adsorption solid substrate-room temperature phosphorimetry and its application to the forecast of human diseases.

In the presence of ion perturber LiAc, 4-generation polyamidoamine dendrimers (4G-D) could emit strong and stable room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) signal at lambda(max)(ex)/lambda(max)(em) = 511.8/675.3 nm on nitrocellulose membrane (NCM), and Triton X-100 could sharply enhance the RTP signal of 4G-D.

Preparation for nitrocellulose membrane-poly (vinyl alcohol)-ionic imprinting and its application to determine trace copper by room temperature phosphorimetry.

Nitrocellulose membrane-poly (vinyl alcohol)-ionic imprinting (NCM-PVA-I-I) was prepared using Cu2+ as template. The cavity in NCM-PVA-I-I matched Cu2+ very well and the selectivity was high. Cu2+ entered the cavity and then could form ionic association ([Cu2+] x [(Fin-)2]) with the anion of fluorescein (Fin-) outside the cavity by electrostatic effect.

Determination of trace mercury by solid substrate-room temperature phosphorimetry quenching method based on catalytic effect of Hg2+ on formation of the ion association complex [Sn(XO)6]4+.[(Fin)4].

A new method for the determination of trace mercury by solid substrate-room temperature phosphorimetry (SS-RTP) quenching method has been established. In glycine-HCl buffer solution, xylenol orange (XO) can react with Sn4+ to form the complex [Sn(XO)6]4+. [Sn(XO)6]4+ can interact with Fin- (fluorescein anion) to form the ion associate [Sn(XO)6]4+.

Differential expression of proteins in rice leaves cultivated with different forms of nitrogen nutrients.

Nitrate as one of the two main nitrogen source compounds, acts also as a potent signal substance in plant growth and development. It is increasingly interesting to determine whether nitrate itself or the derived metabolites acts as a signal during the regulation. Rice seedlings were treated with different nitrogen forms (NO(-)(3) vs.

Determination of trace lead by solid substrate room temperature phosphorescence enhancing method based on heavy atom effect and dissoluble manganese supramolecule containing rhodamine 6G luminescent particles.

Dissoluble manganese supramolecule containing rhodamine 6G luminescent particles (M2) are synthesized, based on dissoluble manganese supramolecule (M1) doping rhodamine 6G (R.6G), by crystalline method. The particle diameters of M1 and M2 determined by ETM are both of micron degree.

Oxalate accumulation and regulation is independent of glycolate oxidase in rice leaves.

Cellular oxalate, widely distributed in many plants, is implicated to play important roles in various functions and is also known to affect food qualities adversely in fruits and vegetables. How oxalate is regulated in plants is currently not well understood. Glycolate oxidase (GLO) has long been considered as an important player in oxalate accumulation in plants.

[Photoreduction of Se (VI) by marine algae-transitional metals-light system].

Seven marine phytoplankton, including five green algae (Tetraselmis levis, Chlorella autotrophica, Dunaliella salina, Nannochloropsis sp. and Tetraselmis subcordiformis), one diatom (Phaeodactylum tricornutum), one red alga (Porphyridium purpureum), and three usual transitional metals (Fe(III), Cu(II), Mn(II)) were used to make up marine phytoplankton-light or transitional metals-light or marine phytoplankton-transitional metals-light system. In such system, Se(VI) could be transformed into Se(IV) by photoreduction.

Determination of traces of bismuth by quenching of solid-substrate room-temperature phosphorescence from morin-labeled silicon dioxide nano-particles.

Silicon dioxide nano-particles, diameter 50 nm, containing morin (morin-SiO2) have been synthesized by the sol-gel method. They emit strong and stable room-temperature phosphorescence (SS-RTP) on filter paper as substrate, and bismuth can quench the intensity of the SS-RTP. On this basis a new morin-SiO2 solid-substrate room-temperature phosphorescence-quenching method has been established for determination of traces of bismuth.

[The medium effects of fluorescence of eosin-5-isothiocyanate as a luminescent marker].

In this paper, the medium (pH, organic solvent and surfactant) effects on fluorescence of eosin-5-isothiocyanate (eosin-ITC) have been studied in detail. The results show that the pH and polarity of system studied are two great important influence factors on fluorescence of eosin-ITC. The fluorescence intensity of eosin-ITC in weak acidic medium is higher obviously than that of in weak basic medium, but it is sensitive to change of pH, be careful to use.

Isolations of salicylic acid-induction-expressed genes in chilling-stressed banana seedling leaves using mRNA differential display.

The mRNA differential display method was applied to identify banana genes that were regulated by salicylic acid (SA) during chilling stress. Eighteen cDNA fragments induced by SA during chilling stress were retracted. Seven of them were affirmed by reverse Northern hybridization to be significantly induced.