%BF, Rather Than BMI, is Associated with an Increased Risk of Sarcopenia in Hospitalized Postmenopausal Chinese Women with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Purpose: To investigate the relationship between obesity indices and sarcopenia in postmenopausal patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) at different body mass index (BMI) levels.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 298 hospitalized postmenopausal women diagnosed with T2DM. We collected demographic, biochemical, and anthropometric data on each subject.

Effect of tea polyphenols as an antioxidant on pork for frying at different temperatures and times.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of frying on the antioxidant properties of tea phenols added to pork. The antioxidant capacity of tea polyphenols with different concentrations was tested using different assays including total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC) (FRAP method), thiobarbituric acid reactive substance, 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) radical scavenging, and 2,2-diphenyl-1-(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl) hydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging. Our results indicated that tea polyphenols have a great antioxidant capacity and that a high frying temperature causes fat oxidation.

Low Skeletal Muscle Area at the T12 Paravertebral Level as a Prognostic Marker for Community-Acquired Pneumonia.

Rationale And Objectives: This study aimed to investigate whether the dorsal skeletal muscle area at 12th thoracic level (T12SMA) could be used as a predictor of in-hospital mortality and long-term survival among patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on 1701 CAP patients who underwent chest computed tomography (CT) examinations at the First Hospital of Qinhuangdao. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality.

Unreduced Male Gamete Formation in and Its Use for Developing Sexual Polyploid Cultivars.

Polyploidy plays an important role in crop improvement. Polyploid plants, particularly those produced through unreduced gametes (2 gametes), show increased organ size, improved buffering capacity for deleterious mutations, and enhanced heterozygosity and heterosis. Induced polyploidy has been widely used for improving floriculture crops, however, there are few reported sexual polyploid plants in the floriculture industry.

miR-21 inhibitor suppresses cell proliferation and colony formation through regulating the PTEN/AKT pathway and improves paclitaxel sensitivity in cervical cancer cells.

The present study aimed to investigate the role and the molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of microRNA-21 (miR-21) on the proliferation, apoptosis and colony formation of cervical cancer cells, and to examine the role of miR-21 in mediating the sensitivity of cervical cancer cells to paclitaxel (PTX). Reverse transcription‑quantitative polymerase chain reaction was employed to determine the level of miR‑21 in various cervical cancer and normal cervical cells. The results revealed that the expression levels of miR-21 in cervical cancer cells were markedly higher when compared with normal cervical cells.