Combined application of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and selenium fertilizer increased wheat biomass under cadmium stress and shapes rhizosphere soil microbial communities.

Background: Selenium (Se) fertilizer and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are known to modulate cadmium (Cd) toxicity in plants. However, the effects of their co-application on wheat growth and soil microbial communities in Cd-contaminated soil are unclear.

Results: A pot experiment inoculation with two types of AMF and the application of Se fertilizer under Cd stress in wheat showed that inoculation AMF alone or combined with Se fertilizer significantly increased wheat biomass.

Impact of dietary sucralose and sucrose-sweetened water intake on lipid and glucose metabolism in male mice.

Aims: Overconsumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is associated with an increased risk of metabolic disorders, including obesity and diabetes. However, accumulating evidence also suggests the potential negative impact of consuming nonnutritive sweeteners (NNSs) on weight and glycaemic control. The metabolic effects of sucralose, the most widely used NNS, remain controversial.

Smooth Muscle Overexpression of PGC1α Attenuates Atherosclerosis in Rabbits.

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The PGC-1α/NRF1/miR-378a axis protects vascular smooth muscle cells from FFA-induced proliferation, migration and inflammation in atherosclerosis.

Background And Aims: Atherosclerosis (AS) is the leading cause of cardiovascular diseases. PGC-1α is a key regulator of cellular energy homeostasis, but its role in AS remains debatable.

Methods And Results: In our study, PGC-1α was shown to be significantly decreased in the media of human atherosclerotic vessels.

The endocannabinoid system regulates the moderate exercise-induced enhancement of learning and memory in mice.

Background: Exercise has been reported to enhance cognitive functions via mechanism(s) yet to be fully understood. The endogenous cannabinoid system (ECS) is involved in regulating cognitive function, including learning and memory. This system may also be involved in enhancing learning and memory after exercise.

Cannabinoid-Elicited Conditioned Place Preference in a Modified Behavioral Paradigm.

Cannabinoids are the active ingredients in marijuana, which is among the most widely used addictive drugs despite the well-documented harmfulness related to its abuse. The mechanism underlying cannabinoid addiction remains unclear, which is attributed partially to the difficulty in behavioral testing of high-dose cannabinoids using the conditioned place preference (CPP) model. Here, we optimized conditions for establishing CPP with the synthetic cannabinoid HU210 intraperitoneally administered at a high dose.

[Laser speckle suppression due to dynamic multiple scattering scheme introduced by oblique incidence].

Speckle suppression has been the research focus in laser display technology. In the present paper, the relation between multiple scattering and the size of speckle grains is established by analyzing the properties of speckle generated by the laser beam through SiO2 suspension. Combined with dynamic light scattering theory, laser speckle suppression due to dynamic multiple scattering scheme introduced by oblique incidence is proposed.

[Improvement of the recognition probability about camouflage target based on BP neural network].

Using static Michelson interferometer to get the spectrum information of measurement targets for spectrum identification, under the condition that the interference length is constant, the system can be optimized by BP neural network algorithm for the mixed spectral separation process. Thereby it can realize improving the recognition probability of camouflage target. Collecting the spectrum information in field of view (FOV) by the interferometer and linear array CCD detector, composing the set of mixed spectrum data, with known absorption spectrum of the material as a hidden layer of rules, it used BP neural network to separate the mixed spectrum data.