Potential of Mie-Fluorescence-Raman Lidar to Profile Chlorophyll Concentration in Inland Waters.

Vertical distribution of phytoplankton is crucial for assessing the trophic status and primary production in inland waters. However, there is sparse information about phytoplankton vertical distribution due to the lack of sufficient measurements. Here, we report, to the best of our knowledge, the first Mie-fluorescence-Raman lidar (MFRL) measurements of continuous chlorophyll (Chl) profiles as well as their parametrization in inland water.

Presence and sequence of bronchiectasis onset impact on the clinical characteristics in asthmatic patients.

Background: Asthmatic patients with comorbid bronchiectasis (ACB) show significantly severe condition with various inflammatory phenotypes; bronchiectasis is a heterogeneous disease caused by asthma and other multiple etiological factors. We aimed to investigate the inflammatory characteristics and their clinical significance in asthmatic patients according to the presence and onset time of bronchiectasis.

Methods: This prospective cohort study recruited outpatients with stable asthma.

[Research progress on the mechanism of pain related neural pathways above the spinal cord].

Pain is a multi-dimensional emotional experience, and pain sensation and pain emotion are the two main components. As for pain, previous studies only focused on a certain link of the pain transmission pathway or a certain key brain region, and there is a lack of evidence that connectivity of brain regions is involved in pain or pain regulation in the overall state. The establishment of new experimental tools and techniques has brought light to the study of neural pathways of pain sensation and pain emotion.

[Psittacosis Pneumonia with Pleural Effusion:Report of Three Cases and Literature Review].

It was generally believed that psittacosis pneumonia (pneumonia caused by ) was rarely combined with pleural effusion and the characteristics of pleural effusion were rarely reported in the domestic literature.Herein,we reported three cases of pleural effusion due to psittacosis pneumonia,with elevated level of adenosine deaminase and lymphocyte-predominant exudative pleural effusion.Further,we reviewed the psittacosis pneumonia reports with complete clinical and lung imaging data.

Changes in diaphragm contractility in cigarette smoking-exposed and smoking cessation rats are associated with alterations in mitochondrial morphology and homeostasis.

The effects of cigarette smoking (CS) cessation on the diaphragm are unknown, as are the CS-induced diaphragmatic mitochondrial changes. We examined the changes in diaphragm contractility, as well as alterations in mitochondrial morphology, function and homoeostasis during CS exposure and after cessation. Rats were randomly divided into CS exposure and CS cessation groups: 3-month CS (S3), 6-month CS (S6), 6-month CS followed by 3-month cessation (S6N3).

Prevalence and clinical implications of bronchiectasis in patients with overlapping asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis: a single-center prospective study.

Background: As a typical "united airway" disease, asthma-chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) overlap has recently drawn more attention. Bronchiectasis is a heterogeneous disease related to a variety of diseases. Whether bronchiectasis exists and correlates with asthma-CRS patients has not been fully elucidated.

Functional, Ultrastructural, and Transcriptomic Changes in Rat Diaphragms with Different Durations of Cigarette Smoke Exposure.

Aims: The aim of the study was to explore the functional and structural changes of the diaphragm and underlying mechanisms in response to 12 or 24 weeks of cigarette smoke (CS) exposure in rats.

Materials And Methods: Rats were exposed to CS to develop a COPD model and the rats exposed to room air served as a control group. Rats were randomly divided into four groups: CS12W, CON12W, CS24W, and CON24W.

Activation of ventrolateral orbital cortex improves mouse neuropathic pain-induced anxiodepression.

Depression and anxiety are frequently observed in patients suffering from neuropathic pain. The underlying mechanisms remained unclear. The ventrolateral orbital cortex (VLO) has attracted considerable interest in its role in antidepressive effect in rodents.

Dataset of soil bacterial compositions and biochemical properties of a Moso bamboo forest under mulching-intensive management.

Bacterial 16S rRNA dataset of Moso bamboo forest was formed by 20 soil samples in four management modes corresponding to the soil properties data of each soil sample such as concentrations of soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), available phosphorus (AP), NH -N, NO -N, water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC), Water-soluble organic nitrogen (WSON), microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and microbial biomass nitrogen (MBN), and soil water content (SWC) and pH value. Due to the special climate in the northern edge of subtropical zone and the characteristics of non wood and non grass of bamboo plants, our data set is helpful for the further studies of soil management, microhabitats variations responding to global carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycle. The data is related to the research article "" [1].

D2-like but not D1-like dopamine receptors are involved in the ventrolateral orbital cortex-induced antinociception: a GABAergic modulation mechanism.

The ventrolateral orbital cortex (VLO) is part of an endogenous analgesic system consisting of an ascending pathway from the spinal cord to VLO via the thalamic nucleus submedius (Sm) and a descending pathway to the spinal cord relaying in the periaqueductal gray (PAG). This study examines whether activation of D(1)-like and D(2)-like dopamine receptors in VLO produces antinociception and whether GABAergic modulation is involved in the VLO, D(2)-like dopamine receptor activation-evoked antinociception. The radiant heat-evoked tail flick (TF) reflex was used as an index of nociceptive response in lightly anesthetized rats.

[Responses of changium smyrnioides seedlings survival and growth to light intensity].

Changium smyrnioides, a monotypic species in Umbellaceae, can only be found in Yangtze Rive basin in China, and its seedlings are rare in natural habitats. The study on the effects of light intensity on C. smyrnioides seedlings survival and growth showed that the seedlings had the highest survival rate under higher light intensity (65% of direct sun light) but the lowest one under 25% of direct sun light, indicating that medium light intensity was propitious to seedlings establishment.