Background: Mild cognitive impairment is a heterogeneous syndrome. The heterogeneity of the syndrome and the absence of consensus limited the advancement of MCI. The purpose of our research is to create a visual framework of the last decade, highlight the hotspots of current research, and forecast the most fruitful avenues for future MCI research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlmost a third of all fatalities may be attributed to cardiovascular disease (CVD), making it a primary cause of mortalities worldwide. Better diagnostic tools and secure, non-invasive imaging techniques are needed to offer accurate information on CVD progression. Several elements contribute to the success of CVD personalized therapy, and two of the most crucial are accurate diagnosis and early detection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSepsis is a disease with a high morbidity and mortality rate. At present, there is a lack of ideal biomarker prognostic models for sepsis and promising studies using prognostic models to predict and guide the clinical use of medications. In this study, 71 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were obtained by analyzing single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) and transcriptome RNA-seq data, and Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment pathway analyses were performed on these genes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe mechanism of action of excipients eliciting sex differences in drug bioavailability is poorly understood. In this study, the excipients Cremophor RH 40 (PEG 40 hydrogenated castor oil), Poloxamer 188 (2-methyloxirane) and Tween 80 (polyoxyethylene (80) sorbitan monooleate) were screened at 0.07 - 5% concentrations for their effect on ranitidine bioavailability in male and female Wistar rats.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe systemic drug has historically been preferred for the treatment of the majority of pathological conditions, particularly liver cancer. Indeed, this mode of treatment is associated with adverse reactions, toxicity, off-target accumulation, and rapid hepatic and renal clearance. Numerous efforts have been made to design systemic therapeutic carriers to improve retention while decreasing side effects and clearance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPharmaceutical excipients are the basic materials and important components of pharmaceutical preparations, and play an important role in improving the efficacy of drugs and reducing adverse reactions. Therefore, selecting suitable excipients for dosage form is an important step in formulation development. An increasing number of studies have revealed that the traditionally regarded "inert" excipients can, however, influence the bioavailability of drugs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE Trans Neural Netw Learn Syst
May 2022
Bin-packing problem (BPP) is a typical combinatorial optimization problem whose decision-making process is NP-hard. This article examines BPPs in varying environments, where random number and shape of items are to be packed in different instances. The objective is to find a unified model to derive optimal decision process that maximizes the utilization of bins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe topology and dynamics of a complex network shape its functionality. However, the topologies of many large-scale networks are either unavailable or incomplete. Without the explicit knowledge of network topology, we show how the data generated from the network dynamics can be utilised to infer the tempo centrality, which is proposed to quantify the influence of nodes in a consensus network.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The aim of this 1-year prospective study was to evaluate, in patients with severe periodontitis, the clinical performance of implants placed immediately after extraction of remaining teeth or in healed sockets and immediately loaded for prosthetic oral rehabilitation, and to compare the clinical outcomes for implants placed in fresh extraction sockets versus healed sites.
Materials And Methods: All patients in this study had received periodontal treatment; however, the teeth were eventually deemed hopeless. The remaining teeth were extracted, the periodontally compromised sites were debrided, implants were inserted guided by a surgical template, and a provisional restoration was delivered immediately.