Treatment of secondary uterine malignancy following radiotherapy for cervical cancer: a study based on the SEER database.

Background: Radiotherapy is one of the main treatments for cervical cancer. Long-term complications of radiation exposure include the emergence of secondary tumors. This is a retrospective study based on an American population.

Incidence and risk factors of in-hospital venous thromboembolism in non-oncological urological inpatients: A single center experience.

Objective: To determine incidence and risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) development of in-hospital VTE in urological inpatients who underwent non-oncological surgery in a tertiary hospital in China.

Methods: Consecutive 1453 inpatients who were admitted to a non-oncological urological ward in the tertiary hospital from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018 were enrolled in the study, and the VTE events were diagnosed by ultrasound or computed tomographic pulmonary angiography. Patients' occurrence of VTE and characteristics which may contribute to the development of VTE were collected and analyzed as incidence and risk factors.

Microbial Community Shifts in Tea Plant Rhizosphere under Seawater Stress: Enrichment of Beneficial Taxa.

Seawater intrusion has a significant impact on the irrigation quality of agricultural water, thereby posing a threat to plant growth and development. We hypothesized that the rhizosphere of tea plants harbors beneficial microorganisms, which may improve the tolerance of tea plants to seawater stress. This study utilized 16s and ITS techniques to analyze microbial community shifts in the tea plant rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere under seawater stress conditions.

Optical chaotic communication system based on time-delayed shift keying and common-signal-induced synchronization.

Aiming at the difficulty of traditional chaotic-shift-keying (CSK) systems in resisting return map attacks, we propose an optical chaotic communication system based on time-delayed shift keying and common-signal-induced synchronization. This scheme combines amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise, phase modulator (PM), and fiber Bragg grating (FBG) to achieve dual masking in both intensity and phase fields, achieving 10Gb/s information transmission. A common-signal-induced method is used to achieve the synchronization of the system.

The Characterization of G-Quadruplexes in Tobacco Genome and Their Function under Abiotic Stress.

Tobacco is an ideal model plant in scientific research. G-quadruplex is a guanine-rich DNA structure, which regulates transcription and translation. In this study, the prevalence and potential function of G-quadruplexes in tobacco were systematically analyzed.

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of NF-Y gene family in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.).

Nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) gene family is an important transcription factor composed of three subfamilies of NF-YA, NF-YB and NF-YC, which is involved in plant growth, development and stress response. In this study, 63 tobacco NF-Y genes (NtNF-Ys) were identified in Nicotiana tabacum L., including 17 NtNF-YAs, 30 NtNF-YBs and 16 NtNF-YCs.

Polyploid Genome Assembly Provides Insights into Morphological Development and Ascorbic Acid Accumulation of .

() (2 = 4 = 52) is one of the most popular functional leafy vegetables in South and Southeast Asia. With its rich nutritional and pharmaceutical values, it has traditionally had widespread use for dietary and herbal purposes. Here, the genome of was sequenced and assembled, revealing a genome size of 1.

Integrated Transcriptomics and Metabolomics Analysis Promotes the Understanding of Adventitious Root Formation in Oliver.

As a primary approach to nutrient propagation for many woody plants, cutting roots is essential for the breeding and production of Oliver. In this study, hormone level, transcriptomics, and metabolomics analyses were performed on two varieties with different adventitious root (AR) formation abilities. The higher JA level on the 0th day and the lower JA level on the 18th day promoted superior AR development.

Bacterial dynamic of flue-cured tobacco leaf surface caused by change of environmental conditions.

Microorganisms present on the surface of tobacco leaves play a significant role in shaping the composition of the tobacco microbial ecosystem, which undergoes continuous changes throughout the curing process. In the present study, a total of four distinct tobacco curing periods were selected for sampling, namely the fresh, yellowing, leaf-drying, and stem-drying stages. The bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences of the collected samples were subsequently analyzed to identify operational taxonomic units (OTUs).

CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Sites Identification and Multi-Elements Association Analysis in .

CRISPR/Cas9 is an efficient genome-editing tool, and the identification of editing sites and potential influences in the genome have not been investigated. In this study, bioinformatics methods were used to characterise the genome including editing sites, simple sequence repeats (SSRs), G-quadruplexes (GQ), gene density, and their relationships. A total of 248,134,838 potential editing sites were identified in the genome, and five PAM types, AGG, TGG, CGG, GGG, and NGG, were observed, of which 66,665,912 were found to be specific, and they were present in all structural elements of the genes.

Numerical Simulation and Experimental Study Regarding the Cross-Sectional Morphology of PEEK Monofilament Deposition During FDM-Based 3D Printing.

Polyether-ether-ketone (PEEK) is widely used in the field of biomedical engineering because of its excellent mechanical properties, chemical stability, and biocompatibility. Fused deposition modeling (FDM), which is a typical 3D printing process, can achieve low-cost and high-efficiency printing of complex PEEK structures. However, poor monofilament deposition quality leads to rough surfaces on macroscopic printed parts, low dimensional accuracy, and weak interlayer bonding, which are urgent problems to be solved.

Application of Multi-Perspectives in Tea Breeding and the Main Directions.

Tea plants are an economically important crop and conducting research on tea breeding contributes to enhancing the yield and quality of tea leaves as well as breeding traits that satisfy the requirements of the public. This study reviews the current status of tea plants germplasm resources and their utilization, which has provided genetic material for the application of multi-omics, including genomics and transcriptomics in breeding. Various molecular markers for breeding were designed based on multi-omics, and available approaches in the direction of high yield, quality and resistance in tea plants breeding are proposed.

Selective and rapid extraction of trace amount of gold from complex liquids with silver(I)-organic frameworks.

The design of adsorbents for rapid, selective extraction of ultra-trace amounts of gold from complex liquids is desirable from both an environmental and economical point of view. However, the development of such materials remains challenging. Herein, we report the fabrication of two vinylene-linked two-dimensional silver(I)-organic frameworks prepared via Knoevenagel condensation.

Pulmonary embolism following urological non-oncological surgery: The clinical features, management, and long-term follow-up outcome from a tertiary hospital of China.

Objective: To evaluate the clinical features, treatment, and outcomes of pulmonary embolism (PE) after urological non-oncological surgery in a tertiary hospital of China.

Methods: A total of eight patients who suffered from PE after urological non-oncological surgery from 2016 to 2019 were recruited to the study. Clinical data such as symptoms, vital signs, electrocardiogram, echocardiography, and computed tomographic pulmonary arteriography (CTPA) were reviewed.

Identifying eating disorders in adolescents and adults with overweight or obesity: A systematic review of screening questionnaires.

Objective: This review aimed to examine the validity of self-report screening questionnaires for identifying eating disorder (ED) risk in adults and adolescents with overweight/obesity.

Method: Five databases were searched from inception to September 2020 for studies assessing validation of self-report ED screening questionnaires against diagnostic interviews in adolescents and adults with overweight/obesity. The review was registered with PROSPERO (https://www.

Establishment of Prediction Models for Venous Thromboembolism in Non-Oncological Urological Inpatients - A Single-Center Experience.

Purpose: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) comprises deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), which can lead to death. VTE is an insidious disease with no specific symptoms and overlooked readily. We aimed to establish prediction models for VTE in non-oncological urological inpatients to aid urologists to better identify VTE patients.

Improvement of nonreciprocal unconventional photon blockade by two asymmetrical arranged atoms embedded in a cavity.

We improve the nonreciprocal unconventional photon blockade (UCPB) in an asymmetrical single-mode cavity with two asymmetrical arranged two-level atoms (TLAs) where cavity and atom spatial symmetry breakings are involved in. In order to get direction-dependent UCPB in asymmetrical system, we deduce two restrictions of frequency and intensity through the steady solution of the cavity QED system analytically. The former restriction is exactly the same as that of a single-atom case, and the latter restriction combined with both spatial asymmetries.

Incidence and Risk Factors of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients After Transurethral Resection of the Prostate (TURP).

Objective: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients following transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) has been overlooked for many years. This research was aimed to investigate the incidence and risk factors of VTE in patients after TURP.

Methods: A total of 451 patients who underwent TURP between January 2017 and December 2020 were retrospectively analyzed.

Ketamine Induced Bladder Fibrosis Through MTDH/P38 MAPK/EMT Pathway.

Ketamine is an anesthetic in clinical, but it has also been used as an abusing drug due to its low price and hallucinogenic effects. It is proved that ketamine abusing would cause multiple system damage including the urinary system, which is called ketamine-induced cystitis (KIC). Bladder fibrosis is late stage in KIC and threaten abusers' life.

Cyclic Trinuclear Copper(I) Complex Exhibiting Aggregation-Induced Emission: A Novel Fluorescent Probe for the Selective Detection of Gold(III) Ions.

Coordination complexes with aggregation-induced-emission (AIE) behavior has drawn much attention because of their promising applications. Conventionally, the AIE-active metal-organic complexes are prepared from an AIE-active organic ligand, and the construction of such coordination complexes from aggregation-caused-quenching (ACQ) ligands is still challenging. Herein, we have synthesized two new cyclic trinuclear complexes (CTCs), namely, and , from copper(I) and silver(I) and a ACQ ligand [4-(3,5-dimethyl-1-pyrazol-4-yl)benzaldehyde, ].