Solid oxide cells (SOCs) are promising energy-conversion devices due to their high efficiency under flexible operational modes. Yet, the sluggish kinetics of fuel electrodes remain a major obstacle to their practical applications. Since the electrochemically active region only extends a few micrometers, manipulating surface architecture is vital to endow highly efficient and stable fuel electrodes for SOCs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe perennial herb Nakai (Ranunculaceae) has been utilized as a traditional oriental medicine in China for numerous years. The principal pharmacological constituent of , lappaconitine (LA), exhibits analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-arrhythmic, and anti-epileptic activities. Due to its potent efficacy and non-addictive nature, LA is widely utilized in the management of cancer pain and postoperative analgesia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia worldwide. Due to its uncertain pathogenesis, there is currently no treatment available for AD. Increasing evidences have linked cellular senescence to AD, although the mechanism triggering cellular senescence in AD requires further exploration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is a pressing need to identify pharmaceuticals that are both safe and efficacious, with lower toxicity, for the treatment of stable angina pectoris in individuals suffering from coronary heart disease. The aim of this paper is to explore the therapeutic value of Shexiang Tongxin Dropping Pills in patients with stable angina pectoris of coronary heart disease complicated with cognitive impairment.
Methods: 200 patients with stable angina pectoris combined with cognitive dysfunction and coronary heart disease admitted to our hospital from January 2022 to June 2023 were retrospectively selected as the study objects.
Zinc deficiency is a serious risk to human health and growth, especially in children. The development of zinc supplements can effectively reduce this harm. Here, a series of debranched starch‑zinc complexes (DS-Zn) were prepared, whose zinc complexation was inversely proportional to the amylopectin content in the debranched starch (DS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNitrogen- and fluorine-doped bimetallic carbide composites with graphite matrix (abbreviated as CCrMo/NG and CCrMo/FG) are synthesized through carbonization at 1300 °C. The CCrMo/NG displays an initial half-wave potential (E) of 0.873 V and suffers merely 3 mV decrease in E within 60,000 CV cycles for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in alkaline media.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDrug-induced liver injury (DILI) is one of the serious adverse drug reactions (ADRs), which belongs to immune-mediated adverse drug reactions (IM-ADRs). As an essential health drug, albendazole has rarely been reported to cause serious liver damage. A young man in his 30 s developed severe jaundice, abnormal transaminases, and poor blood coagulation mechanism after taking albendazole, and eventually developed into severe liver failure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSports performance and health monitoring are essential for athletes to maintain peak performance and avoid potential injuries. In this paper, we propose a sports health monitoring system that utilizes wearable devices, cloud computing, and deep learning to monitor the health status of sports persons. The system consists of a wearable device that collects various physiological parameters and a cloud server that contains a deep learning model to predict the sportsperson's health status.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), astonished the world and led to millions of deaths. Due to viral new mutations and immune evasion, SARS-CoV-2 ranked first in transmission and influence. The binding affinity of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) polymorphisms to SARS-CoV-2 might be related to immune escape, but the mechanisms remained unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrobes Infect
January 2024
It has recently been found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) m6A modifications can affect viral replication and function. However, no studies to date have shown a correlation between SARS-CoV-2 m6A modifications and viral pathogenicity. In this study, we analyzed m6A modification in 2,190,667 SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNAs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNanotechnology has been widely applied for pesticide carriers, which is an important way to improve the utilization, stability, and sustained release of pesticides. Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) are a nanomaterial with adjustable particle and pore sizes, with a high specific surface area and good biocompatibility. Rotenone is a non-systemic botanical insecticide that is easily degraded in the environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPesticides inevitably enter aquatic environments, posing potential risks to organisms. The common aquatic model organism, zebrafish (Danio rerio), are widely used to evaluate the toxicity of pesticides. In this review, we searched the Web of Science database for articles published between 2012 and 2022, using the keywords "pesticide", "zebrafish", and "toxicity", retrieving 618 publications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInstruction: Lynch syndrome (LS) is the most common inherited cancer predisposition disorder of colorectal cancer (CRC) which is associated with pathogenic variants in 4 mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Here, we reported a multi-generation Chinese family clinically diagnosed with LS.
Methods: To identify the underlying pathogenic gene variants, 30 whole blood samples and 4 colorectal cancer tissue samples and their clinical data were obtained from this four-generation family.
Prothioconazole (PTC) is a widely used agricultural fungicide. In recent years, studies have confirmed that it exerts adverse effects on various species, including aquatic organisms, mammals, and reptiles. However, the toxicological effects of PTC on soil organisms are poorly understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChlorantraniliprole (CAP), a representative bisamide insecticide, is widely used in rice fields around the world, posing potential toxicity risks to aquatic organisms. In this study, we examined the effects of exposure to CAP on growth and metabolic phenotype of zebrafish (Danio rerio) and oxidative stress and apoptosis in the liver of zebrafish (Danio rerio). First, we identified that CAP had a low bioaccumulation in zebrafish.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSepsis-related acute liver injury (ALI) is a fatal disease associated with many complications. Recent studies indicate that malvidin, an active flavonoid, has multiple bioactivities including anti-oxidant and anti-inflammation. However, the protective roles of malvidin against LPS-induced ALI are unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOver the past few decades, pesticides have been used in large quantities, and they pose potential risks to organisms across various environments. Reducing the use of pesticides and their environmental risks has been an active research focus and difficult issue worldwide. As a class of pesticides with special structures, chiral pesticides generally exhibit enantioselectivity differences in biological activity, ecotoxicity, and environmental behavior.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAutonomic dysfunction can lead to many physical and psychological diseases. The assessment of autonomic regulation plays an important role in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of these diseases. A physiopathological mathematical model for cardiopulmonary autonomic regulation, namely Respiratory-Autonomic-Sinus (RSA) regulation Model, is proposed in this study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe tumor microenvironment (TME) is essential for immune escape by tumor cells. It plays essential roles in tumor development and metastasis. The clinical outcomes of tumors are often closely related to individual differences in the patient TME.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe cyclic alternating pattern is the periodic electroencephalogram activity occurring during non-rapid eye movement sleep. It is a marker of sleep instability and is correlated with several sleep-related pathologies. Considering the connection between the human heart and brain, our study explores the feasibility of using cardiopulmonary features to automatically detect the cyclic alternating pattern of sleep and hence diagnose sleep-related pathologies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To evaluate the potential ability of systemic inflammation response index (SIRI) as a novel biomarker in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and explore the mechanisms.
Method: Patients fulfilling the 2010 ACR/EULAR classification criteria for RA were enrolled in this study. Demographic, clinical, and laboratory characteristics of all subjects were collected.
Front Med (Lausanne)
January 2022
To identify novel immune-related genes expressed in primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS). Gene expression profiles were obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened. The differences in immune cell proportion between normal and diseased tissues were compared, weighted gene co-expression network analysis was conducted to identify key modules, followed by a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network generation and enrichment analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAsia Pac J Clin Nutr
December 2021
Background And Objectives: The differences of dietary iron and zinc intakes between patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and controls remain controversial. The meta-analysis aimed to explore the differences of dietary iron and zinc intakes between NAFLD patients and healthy subjects.
Methods And Study Design: A systematic literature search was performed up to July 2021 in databases of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and Wanfang.