Assessing the influence of environmental regulation on carbon sequestration in China: Towards a sustainable future.

Carbon sequestration is vital to maintaining carbon neutrality and mitigating climate change's impact on humans and the environment. As the government's role in eco-advocacy is primarily designed to safeguard the environment, this paper discusses the impact of government environmental regulations on carbon sequestration. By analyzing 286 cities from 2000 to 2019 in China, we propose that government environmental regulation can lead to a 0.

Suppression of mir-150-5p attenuates the anti-inflammatory effect of glucocorticoids in mice with ulcerative colitis.

Glucocorticoids have been widely used in the treatment of ulcerative colitis, but not all patients benefit from this therapy due to hormone resistance. Mir-150-5p has been reported to enhance the efficacy of glucocorticoids, and low serum mir-150-5p expression has been linked to glucocorticoid resistance in ulcerative colitis patients. The aim of this study was to elucidate the mechanisms of mir-150-5p regulation on glucocorticoid resistance.

Microbial Community Characterization and Molecular Resistance Monitoring in Geriatric Intensive Care Units in China Using mNGS.

Background: Surface pathogens in the ICU pose a global public health threat, especially to elderly patients who are immunocompromised. To detect these pathogens, unbiased methods such as metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) are increasingly utilized for environmental microbiological surveillance.

Methods: In a six-month study from January to July 2022, we investigated microbial communities in Chinese geriatric ICUs by regularly monitoring multiple surfaces at three-month intervals.

Does agricultural factor misallocation hinder agricultural green production efficiency? Evidence from China.

The sustainable development of agriculture is challenged by two major issues: increasing resource constraints and environmental pollution. Sustainable agricultural development is achievable by improving green total factor productivity from the perspective of resource allocation. To promote the green development of agriculture, this paper utilizes the SBM super-efficiency mode and thus calculates the agricultural resource misallocation index and agricultural green production efficiency index in China between 2001 and 2019.

Urban growth boundary: a revolution for low-carbon development.

A major environmental concern today is the carbon emissions caused by rapid urbanization. As the largest developing country and carbon emitter, China has controlled the urban growth boundary (UGB) as a quasi-experimental policy to achieve carbon neutrality. Therefore, this paper employs the difference in differences (DID) method, for panel data from 2000 to 2019 in China to shed light on the effects on carbon emissions.

How would the carbon tax on energy commodities affect consumer welfare? Evidence from China's household energy consumption system.

Although carbon tax policies can effectively restrain energy consumption and reduce pollution, they will also affect the welfare of residents through a price mechanism. We explore the impact of energy price increases that are caused by possible carbon tax policies on the welfare of residents in China with a quadratic almost ideal demand system (QUAIDS) model. The estimated elasticities show that the income elasticity of coal demand is -0.

Measuring China's agricultural green total factor productivity and its drivers during 1998-2019.

Improving agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP) is essential to China's agricultural sustainable development. Although several studies have focused on China's AGTFP, its measurement and drivers are not fully investigated yet. More specifically, the published research examining the drivers of China's AGTFP at both the production and factor levels is still scarce.

Effect of PM pollution on perinatal mortality in China.

Using ArcGIS to analyze satellite derived PM estimates, this paper obtains the average concentration and maximum concentration of fine particulate matter (PM) in China's 31 provinces from 2002 to 2015. We adopt fixed effects model and spatial Durbin model to investigate the association between PM and perinatal mortality rates. The results indicate that PM has a significantly positive association with perinatal mortality rates.

Baicalin Improves Cardiac Outcome and Survival by Suppressing Drp1-Mediated Mitochondrial Fission after Cardiac Arrest-Induced Myocardial Damage.

Myocardial injury after cardiac arrest (CA) often results in severe myocardial dysfunction and death involving mitochondrial dysfunction. Here, we sought to investigate whether baicalin, a natural flavonoid compound, exerts cardioprotection against CA-induced injury via regulating mitochondrial dysfunction. We subjected the rats to asphyxia CA after a daily baicalin treatment for 4 weeks.

Endovascular hypothermia improves post-resuscitation myocardial dysfunction by increasing mitochondrial biogenesis in a pig model of cardiac arrest.

The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of endovascular hypothermia on mitochondrial biogenesis in a pig model of prolonged cardiac arrest (CA). Ventricular fibrillation was electrically induced, and animals were left untreated for 10 min; then after 6min of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), defibrillation was attempted. 25 animals that were successfully resuscitated were randomized into three groups: Sham group (SG, 5, no CA), normal temperature group (NTG, 5 for 12 h observation and 5 for 24 h observation), and endovascular hypothermia group (EHG, 5 for 12 h observation and 5 for 24 h observation).

Dynamic Changes of Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission in Brain Injury after Cardiac Arrest in Rats.

Mitochondria change their morphology dynamically by continual fusion and fission processes to fulfill their function. However, little is known about the effect of cardiac arrest on mitochondrial dynamics. This study aimed to investigate time-dependent change of the mitochondrial dynamics after brain ischemic injury in rats of cardiac arrest.

Activation of Sigma-1 Receptor by Cutamesine Attenuates Neuronal Apoptosis by Inhibiting Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Rat Model of Asphyxia Cardiac Arrest.

Background: Global cerebral ischemic/reperfusion (I/R) injury after cardiac arrest (CA) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in survivors of resuscitation. We utilized a rat model of asphyxia CA to explore the functional effects and mechanisms of Sigma-1 receptor (Sig-1R) activation in cerebral protection using the Sig-1R agonist cutamesine (SA-4503).

Methods: After resuscitation, the surviving rats were randomly divided into three groups (n = 18 each): the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) group (0.