Expression levels of and in peripheral blood of severe acute pancreatitis and their clinical significance.

Purpose: Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) is a life-threatening inflammatory syndrome of the pancreas. This study aimed to analyze the clinical significance of () and () expression alterations in SAP.

Methods: This study included 18 SAP patients in Wuzhong People's Hospital from November 2019 to December 2021 and 18 healthy controls.

Pre-existing Health Conditions and Epicardial Adipose Tissue Volume: Potential Risk Factors for Myocardial Injury in COVID-19 Patients.

Myocardial injury is a life-threatening complication of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Pre-existing health conditions and early morphological alterations may precipitate cardiac injury and dysfunction after contracting the virus. The current study aimed at assessing potential risk factors for COVID-19 cardiac complications in patients with pre-existing conditions and imaging predictors.

Initial CT features and dynamic evolution of early-stage patients with COVID-19.

Objective: To explore the initial CT features and dynamic evolution of early-stage patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Methods: A total of 126 COVID-19 patients in the early stage were enrolled. The initial CT features and dynamic evolution characteristics of the progression and absorption process from the stage of admission to discharge were retrospectively analyzed in this study.

Anomalous plasticity in the cyclic torsion of micron scale metallic wires.

The plasticity of micron scale Cu and Au wires under cyclic torsion is investigated for the first time by using a torsion balance technique. In addition to a size effect, a distinct Bauschinger effect and an anomalous plastic recovery, wherein reverse plasticity even occurs upon unloading, are unambiguously revealed. The Bauschinger effect and plastic recovery have been observed in molecular dynamics and discrete dislocation dynamics simulations of ideal single-crystal wires; the results here are an excellent confirmation that these effects also occur in experiment in nonideal polycrystalline wires.