Effect of Oat Hay as a Substitute for Alfalfa Hay on the Gut Microbiome and Metabolites of Yak Calves.

To evaluate the impact of different roughages on the intestinal microbiota of yak calves, we fed them oat hay in substitution of alfalfa hay, in addition to milk replacer and starter powder. Twenty-one 45-day-old male yak calves were selected and randomly assigned to three groups: the milk replacer + starter + alfalfa hay group (AH), the milk replacer + starter + oat hay group (OH), and the milk replacer + starter + mixed hay group (AO), in which the alfalfa hay and oat hay were administered in a 1:1 ratio. All calves in the three groups were fed the same milk replacer and an equivalent amount of dry matter.

Guidelines for power and time variables for microwave ablation in porcine lung in vitro.

Purpose: Determination of the appropriate ablative parameters is the key to the success and safety of microwave ablation (MWA) of lung tumors. The purpose of this study was to provide guidelines and recommendations for the optimal time and power for lung tumor MWA.

Material And Methods: MWA using a 2450-MHz system was evaluated in a porcine lung.

Computed tomography-guided microwave ablation for right middle lobe pulmonary nodules: a retrospective, single-center, case-control study.

Purpose: This retrospective, single-center, case-control study evaluated the safety and efficacy of Computed tomography (CT)-guided microwave ablation (MWA) for pulmonary nodules located in the right middle lobe (RML), a challenging location associated with a high frequency of complications.

Methods: Between May 2020 and April 2022, 71 patients with 71 RML pulmonary nodules underwent 71 MWA sessions. To comparison, 142 patients with 142 pulmonary nodules in non-RML were selected using propensity score matching.

Changes in the pulmonary function of CT-guided microwave ablation for patients with malignant lung tumors.

Purpose: To investigate the changes in pulmonary function after computed tomography (CT)-guided microwave ablation (MWA) in patients with a malignant lung tumor.

Materials And Methods: From June 2020 to January 2022, 133 patients with a malignant lung tumor who underwent CT-guided percutaneous MWA were included in the study. Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) were performed before (the baseline) and 1 month after the MWA.

Lung microwave ablation: Post-procedure imaging features and evolution of pulmonary ground-glass nodule-like lung cancer.

Purpose: To retrospectively examine the imaging characteristics of chest-computed tomography (CT) following percutaneous microwave ablation (MWA) of the ground-glass nodule (GGN)-like lung cancer and its dynamic evolution over time.

Materials And Methods: From June 2020 to May 2021, 147 patients with 152 GGNs (51 pure GGNs and 101 mixed GGNs, mean size 15.0 ± 6.

Early enlarging cavitation after percutaneous microwave ablation of primary lung cancer.

Purpose: This retrospective study assessed the incidence rate, risk factors, and clinical course of early enlarging cavitation after percutaneous microwave ablation (MWA) of primary lung cancer (PLC).

Methods: This study included 557 lesions of 514 patients with PLC who underwent CT-guided percutaneous MWA between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2021. Of these patients, 29 developed early enlarging cavitation and were enrolled in the cavity group, and 173 were randomly enrolled in the control group.

Synchronous computed tomography-guided percutaneous biopsy and microwave ablation for highly suspicious malignant lung ground-glass opacities adjacent to mediastinum.

Background: This retrospective study aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of synchronous biopsy and microwave ablation (MWA) for highly suspected malignant lung ground-glass opacities (GGOs) adjacent to the mediastinum (distance ≤10 mm).

Materials And Methods: Ninety patients with 98 GGOs (diameter range, 6-30 mm), located within 10 mm of the mediastinum, underwent synchronous biopsy and MWA at a single institution from 1 May 2020, to 31 October 2021 and were enrolled in this study. Synchronous biopsy and MWA involving the completion of the biopsy and MWA in a single procedure was performed.

The safety and feasibility of three-dimensional visualization planning system for CT-guided microwave ablation of stage I NSCLC (diameter ≤2.5 cm): A pilot study.

Background: Microwave ablation (MWA) of lung tumors is a technique that is dependent on the ablationist's level of expertise. The selection of the optimum puncture path and determination of appropriate ablative parameters is the key to the success and safe of the procedure. The objective of this study was to describe the clinical use of a novel three-dimensional visualization ablation planning system (3D-VAPS) for aided MWA of stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

SPACES: Our team's experience in lung tumor microwave ablation.

The standard treatment of stage I nonsmall cell lung cancer is lobectomy with systematic mediastinal lymph node evaluation. Unfortunately, up to 25% of patients with stage I nonsmall cell lung cancer are not candidates for surgery due to severe medical comorbidities (poor cardiopulmonary function). Image-guided thermal ablation is an alternative for those patients, includes radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation (MWA), cryoablation, and laser ablation.

Experimental study on the induction of cytotoxic T lymphocyte killing effects and dendritic-cell-based tumor vaccine prepared by high-intensity focused ultrasound.

Aims: This study was conducted to explore the high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) prepared antigen-sensitized dendritic cells (DC) and the induction of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) killing effects by DC and to observe their anti-tumor immunity effects on BALB/c mice.

Methods And Material: GM-CSF and IL-4 were used to culture the mouse bone marrow-derived DC. HIFU was used to prepare CT-26 tumor cell antigen-sensitive DC vaccines.

Safety and efficacy of microwave ablation to treat pulmonary nodules under conscious analgosedation with sufentanil: A single-center clinical experience.

Purpose: The present study was designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of computed tomography-guided percutaneous microwave ablation (MWA) to treat pulmonary nodules under conscious analgosedation with sufentanil.

Materials And Methods: February to May 2021, 124 patients with 151 pulmonary nodules were enrolled in this study. The patients underwent 124 sessions of MWA.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma misdiagnosed as pituitary tumor with multiple cranial neuropathies.

Multiple cranial neuropathies have been reported in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is an uncommon cause of multiple cranial nerve palsies. However, it is difficult to diagnose at the early stage; furthermore, it can be easily misdiagnosed as inflammation, pituitary tumor, etc.

Computed tomography-guided percutaneous microwave ablation for pulmonary multiple ground-glass opacities.

With the wide application of low-dose computed tomography (CT) and high-resolution CT, the increasing cases of pulmonary nodules are identified through routine thoracic imaging examination, many of which are presented as multiple ground-glass opacities (GGOs). The multiple GGOs could be divided into four pathological types and usually got different combined mutation patterns, suggesting that each GGO is an independent event and should be treated separately. However, there is no established guideline to the treatment of multiple GGOs so far.

Elevated LOXL2 expression by LINC01347/miR-328-5p axis contributes to 5-FU chemotherapy resistance of colorectal cancer.

Chemotherapy resistance after curative surgery is a major contributor to the mortality of colorectal cancer (CRC). Detailed mechanism studies of specific molecular alterations are critical to improving the available therapies for long-term disease administration. We explored the functional role of LINC01347 in chemotherapy resistance of CRC.

Annexin A13 predicts poor prognosis for lung adenocarcinoma patients and accelerates the proliferation and migration of lung adenocarcinoma cells by modulating epithelial-mesenchymal transition.

This study aimed to investigate the role of ANXA13 in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) growth, migration, and the underlying mechanisms. Firstly, in the TCGA dataset for LUAD, ANXA13 is found to be highly expressed in patients with LUAD and high expression of ANXA13 predicted poor outcomes in LUAD patients. Consistently, the data of qRT-PCR showed that the expression of ANXA13 was higher in LUAD cell lines (Calu-3, LTEP-a-2, and NCI-H1395) than that in normal lung cell line BEAS2B.

Superior Thermal Stability of High Energy Density and Power Density in Domain-Engineered BiNaTiO-NaTaO Relaxor Ferroelectrics.

Thermal-stable dielectric capacitors with high energy density and power density have attracted increasing attention in recent years. In this work, (1 - )BiNaTiO-NaTaO [(1 - )BNT-NT, = 0-0.30] lead-free relaxor ferroelectric ceramics are developed for capacitor applications.

Local microwave ablation with continued EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor as a treatment strategy in advanced non-small cell lung cancers that developed extra-central nervous system oligoprogressive disease during EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment: A pilot study.

The non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients that experienced good clinical response to epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKIs) will ultimately develop acquired resistance. This retrospective study was performed to explore the potential survival benefit of microwave ablation (MWA) therapy in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutant NSCLC that developed extra-central nervous system (CNS) oligoprogressive disease during TKI treatment.We retrospectively analyzed 54 NSCLC patients with EGFR mutations who showed a clinical benefit from initial EGFR-TKI therapy and developed extra-CNS oligoprogressive disease at our institutions.

Direct sequencing and amplification refractory mutation system for epidermal growth factor receptor mutations in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Treatment with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) provides encouraging outcomes for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with EGFR mutations. Pleural effusion is a common complication of NSCLC. We compared direct DNA sequencing and ADx Amplification Refractory Mutation System (ADx-ARMS) to detect EGFR mutations in malignant pleural effusion samples.

Cytoplasmic expression of the ELAV-like protein HuR as a potential prognostic marker in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is one of the most frequent cancers and a leading cause of death from cancer in China. The human ELAV-like protein HuR has been found to contribute to cancer development and progression through stabilizing a group of cellular mRNAs of cancer-related genes. In this study, we investigated the expression of HuR in a cohort of ESCC patients using immunohistochemical staining.

Modelling gene functional linkages using yeast microarray data.

Understanding how genes are functionally related requires efficient algorithms to model networks from expression data. We report a heuristic search algorithm called Two-Level Simulated Annealing (TLSA) that is more likely to find the global optimal network structure compared to conventional simulated annealing and other searching schemes. We have applied this method to search for a global optimised network structure from a synthetic data set and an expression data set of S.