Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol
December 2024
To detect and analyze coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels in convalescent plasma from donors who have recovered from COVID-19. Plasma samples from 88 donors aged 20-54 years who were diagnosed with COVID-19 and who were eligible to donate from Zhejiang Province, China, were collected as the experimental group, and 56 samples from healthy blood donors were used as controls. Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, including Ab and IgM, were detected via chemiluminescent immunoassay, and neutralizing antibodies were measured via the microneutralization method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCan J Infect Dis Med Microbiol
October 2024
The potential ecological risk of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFASs) in phytoremediation has raised social concerns, promoting a need to better understand their distribution and risks in the recovery process of aquatic plants. Herein, we aim to fill this knowledge gap by investigating the distribution and ecotoxicological effects of PFASs on the structure and function of water-macrophyte-sediment microcosm systems. Among the entire system, 63.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: 1,2-Dimyristoyl--glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) is a promising emulsifier for bioactive delivery systems, but its industrial applications are limited by the lack of cost-effective and scalable synthetic routes. The purpose of this study was to economically produce high-purity DMPC by replacing commonly used column chromatography methods and to evaluate the emulsifying performance.
Methods: DMPC was synthesized from -glycero-3-phosphocholine using Steglich esterification followed by sequential recrystallization from ethyl acetate and acetone.
The fusion of multi-modal medical images has great significance for comprehensive diagnosis and treatment. However, the large differences between the various modalities of medical images make multi-modal medical image fusion a great challenge. This paper proposes a novel multi-scale fusion network based on multi-dimensional dynamic convolution and residual hybrid transformer, which has better capability for feature extraction and context modeling and improves the fusion performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultimodal medical image fusion fuses images with different modalities and provides more comprehensive and integrated diagnostic information. However, current multimodal image fusion methods cannot effectively model non-local contextual feature relationships, and due to direct aggregation of the extracted features, they introduce unnecessary implicit noise into the fused images. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes a novel dual-branch hybrid fusion network called EMOST for medical image fusion that combines a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a transformer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolymer fibers that combine high toughness and heat resistance are hard to achieve, which, however, hold tremendous promise in demanding applications such as aerospace and military. This prohibitive design task exists due to the opposing property dependencies on chain dynamics because traditional heat-resistant materials with rigid molecular structures typically lack the mechanism of energy dissipation. Aramid nanofibers have received great attention as high-performance nanoscale building units due to their intriguing mechanical and thermal properties, but their distinct structural features are yet to be fully captured.
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September 2024
Distinguishing Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) lesions from ordinary thyroid tissues is difficult with ultrasound images. Challenges in achieving high performance of HT ultrasound image classification include the low resolution, blurred features and large area of irrelevant noise. To address these problems, we propose a Feature-level Boosting Ensemble Network (FBENet) for HT ultrasound image classification.
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May 2024
Determining the impact of air gap errors on the skin dose in postoperative breast cancer radiotherapy under dynamic intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) techniques. This was a retrospective study that involved 55 patients who underwent postoperative radiotherapy following modified radical mastectomy. All plans employed tangential IMRT, with a prescription dose of 50 Gy, and bolus added solely to the chest wall.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReservoir flood control scheduling is a challenging optimization task, particularly due to the complexity of various constraints. This paper proposes an innovative algorithm design approach to address this challenge. Combining the basic walrus optimization algorithm with the adaptive ε-constraint method and introducing the SPM chaotic mapping for population initialization, spiral search strategy, and local enhancement search strategy based on Cauchy mutation and reverse learning significantly enhances the algorithm's optimization performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Identifying treatment targets for sarcopenia is a public health concern. This study aimed to examine the association of nocturnal sleep duration and midday napping with the presence of sarcopenia in middle-aged and older adults, utilizing data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2011 and 2015.
Methods: A sum of 7,926 individuals (≥40 years) took part in this study.
The dose hotspot areas in hypofractionated whole-breast irradiation (WBI) greatly increase the risk of acute skin toxicity because of the anatomical peculiarities of the breast. In this study, we presented several novel planning strategies that integrate multiple sub-planning target volumes (sub-PTVs), field secondary placement, and RapidPlan models for right-sided hypofractionated WBI.A total of 35 cases of WBI with a dose of 42.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSperm-associated antigen 5 (SPAG5), also known as Astrin, was previously demonstrated as a biomarker for cellular resistance to major breast cancer therapies, including chemo-, endocrine- and targeted therapy. However, the contribution of SPAG5 to anthracycline- and taxane-based chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains controversial. In the present study, the knockout cell model was established by using clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) system in MDA-MB-231 and BT549 TNBC cell lines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, the phospholipid species [i.e., phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylcholine (PC), and sphingomyelin (SM)] in human milk (HM) were compared according to their fatty acid (FA) composition.
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May 2024
Objective: To validate the accuracy of four early warning scores for early identification of women at risk.
Methods: This was a retrospective study of pregnant women admitted in obstetrics Critical Care Unit (ICU). Capacity of the Modified Obstetric Early Warning Score (MOEWS), ICNARC Obstetric Early Warning Score (OEWS), Maternal Early Obstetric Warning System (MEOWS chart), and Maternal Early Warning Trigger (MEWT) were compared in predicting severe maternal morbidity.
Objectives: Currently, there is no consensus on the optimal timing for the initiation of peritoneal dialysis (PD) after catheter placement.
Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Exact Date Of Data Collection: From inception till July 31, 2023.