In vivo imaging of alkaline phosphatase in lipid metabolic diseases with a photoacoustic probe.

Lipid metabolic diseases have become an important challenge to global public health. Along with lifestyle changes, the incidence of obesity, diabetes and other metabolic syndromes is on the rise, and the number of patients with fatty liver disease is also increasing. Therefore, it is particularly important to develop effective lipid imaging strategies to monitor and manage fatty liver disease.

Study on the recovery of bladder function in patients with cervical cancer after operation by portable ultrasound combined.

Background: Postoperative urination dysfunction is a common complication after surgery in patients with cervical cancer. Portable bladder ultrasound are commonly utilized in clinical practice for measuring residual urine volume. This study aimed to the effect of bladder function training combined with portable ultrasound monitoring on bladder function recovery in patients with cervical cancer after training.

Landform and lithospheric development contribute to the assembly of mountain floras in China.

Although it is well documented that mountains tend to exhibit high biodiversity, how geological processes affect the assemblage of montane floras is a matter of ongoing research. Here, we explore landform-specific differences among montane floras based on a dataset comprising 17,576 angiosperm species representing 140 Chinese mountain floras, which we define as the collection of all angiosperm species growing on a specific mountain. Our results show that igneous bedrock (granitic and karst-granitic landforms) is correlated with higher species richness and phylogenetic overdispersion, while the opposite is true for sedimentary bedrock (karst, Danxia, and desert landforms), which is correlated with phylogenetic clustering.

Structurally Preserved Infructescences, Associated Pollen, and Leaves from the Late Oligocene of the Nanning Basin, South China.

L. is a significant constituent of the Cenozoic flora in the Northern Hemisphere. Currently, this genus exhibits a discontinuous distribution across Asia and North America, with the center of diversity being in southeastern Asia.

Effect of bladder filling status on positioning errors in post-hysterectomy cervical cancer radiotherapy.

To investigate the effect of different bladder filling states on positioning errors in radiotherapy for cervical cancer and obtain the reference range of bladder filling consistency during radiotherapy. Patients who underwent postoperative radiotherapy for cervical cancer in Nantong Tumor Hospital from October 2018 to December 2019 were selected. According to the bladder filling deviation, they were divided into group A1 (deviation < 20%) and group B1 (deviation ≥ 20%).

Late Oligocene fossil acorns and nuts of section from the Nanning Basin, Guangxi, South China.

is the largest genus within the Fagaceae and has a rich fossil record. Most of the fossil material is attributed to the subgenus based on leaves, pollen or rarely acorns and nuts. Fossil records of section characterized by ring-cupped acorns are relatively few and especially those described based on nuts are scant.

from the Upper Pleistocene of South China and its biogeographic and paleoecological implications.

Anatomical structure of mummified wood of (Lauraceae) from the Upper Pleistocene of Maoming, South China and the woods of 15 extant species of from China and Malaysia were examined. The fossil wood has been convincingly attributed to extant species (Hance) Hemsl. This is the first reliable fossil record of in Asia.

Exosomal hsa_circ_000200 as a potential biomarker and metastasis enhancer of gastric cancer via miR-4659a/b-3p/HBEGF axis.

Background: Exosome, a component of liquid biopsy, loaded protein, DNA, RNA and lipid gradually emerges as biomarker in tumors. However, exosomal circRNAs as biomarker and function mechanism in gastric cancer (GC) are not well understood.

Methods: Differentially expressed circRNAs in GC and healthy people were screened by database.

 (Rosaceae), a new species from Yunnan Province, China.

The new species , collected from Yunnan Province, China, is characterised and illustrated. A phylogeny based on chloroplast genomes supported its closest affinity with , while a phylogeny based on 197 single-copy nuclear genes supported its closest affinity with and . Morphologically, however, it resembles .

Fertile from the middle Eocene of South China and its implications for palaeogeography and palaeoclimate.

The genus , which together with the genera and comprise the subfamily Woodwardioideae of Blechnaceae, has a disjunct distribution across Central and North America, Europe and the temperate to tropical areas of Asia. Fossil records of occur throughout the Paleogene and Neogene of North America, Europe and Asia. However, well-preserved fertile pinna fossils of this genus have not yet been reported in South China.

Variations in morphological and epidermal features of shade and sun leaves of two species: Quercus bambusifolia and Q. myrsinifolia.

Premise: Microclimatic differences between the periphery and the interior of tree crowns result in a variety of adaptive leaf macromorphological and anatomical features. Our research was designed to reveal criteria for sun/shade leaf identification in two species of evergreen oaks, applicable to both modern and fossil leaves. We compared our results with those in other species similarly studied.

A Middle Eocene lowland humid subtropical "Shangri-La" ecosystem in central Tibet.

Tibet's ancient topography and its role in climatic and biotic evolution remain speculative due to a paucity of quantitative surface-height measurements through time and space, and sparse fossil records. However, newly discovered fossils from a present elevation of ∼4,850 m in central Tibet improve substantially our knowledge of the ancient Tibetan environment. The 70 plant fossil taxa so far recovered include the first occurrences of several modern Asian lineages and represent a Middle Eocene (∼47 Mya) humid subtropical ecosystem.

New combinations and synonyms in (Styracaceae).

We demonstrate with morphological characters that the species W.W.Sm.

( sect. , Saxifragaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China.

(Saxifragaceae), a new species from Damingshan Nature Reserve in Guangxi Province, is described and illustrated. A morphological comparison between the new species and its putative relatives, and , is presented. The new species is morphologically similar to , but it can be easily distinguished by its non-peltate leaf, both surfaces of mature leaf blade covered with white glandular trichome, petals 3-veined and margin entire.

Long non-coding RNA XLOC_008466 acts as an oncogenic molecular in cervical cancer tumorigenesis.

Cervical cancer is one of the most common malignant carcinomas in the female reproductive system. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been verified to participate in the tumorigenesis of cervical cancer. In present study, we investigate the role of lncRNA XLOC_008466 in the occurrence and progression of cervical cancer.

Mummified Oligocene fruits of Schima (Theaceae) and their systematic and biogeographic implications.

The genus Schima includes about 20 species and is distributed only in southern China and adjacent areas of Asia. The previous molecular phylogenetic analysis suggested Schima is in the tribe Gordoniae, along with Gordonia and Franklinia. However, because few fossils have been reported, the biogeographic origin of Schima is still poorly known.

Physiological responses of two moss species to the combined stress of water deficit and elevated N deposition (II): Carbon and nitrogen metabolism.

Nitrogen (N) deposition levels and frequencies of extreme drought events are increasing globally. In efforts to improve understanding of plants' responses to associated stresses, we have investigated responses of mosses to drought under elevated nitrogen conditions. More specifically, we exposed subsp.

First record of Podocarpoid fossil wood in South China.

A new species of fossil conifer wood, Podocarpoxylon donghuaiense sp. nov., is described from the late Eocene of Nadu Formation in Baise Basin of the Guangxi Province, South China.

Camellia nanningensis sp. nov.: the earliest fossil wood record of the genus Camellia (Theaceae) from East Asia.

A new species Camellia nanningensis was described on the basis of well-preserved mummified wood from the upper Oligocene Yongning Formation of Nanning Basin in Guangxi Province, South China. This represents the most ancient fossil wood assigned to Camellia, and the earliest fossil record of the family Theaceae in China. This fossil material shows that Camellia occurred in China as early as the late Oligocene, suggesting more ancient radiation of this genus than estimated by molecular dating.

The algebraic characterizations for a formal power series over complete strong bimonoids.

On the basis of run semantics and breadth-first algebraic semantics, the algebraic characterizations for a classes of formal power series over complete strong bimonoids are investigated in this paper. As recognizers, weighted pushdown automata with final states (WPDAs for short) and empty stack (WPDAs[Formula: see text]) are shown to be equivalent based on run semantics. Moreover, it is demonstrated that for every WPDA there is an equivalent crisp-simple weighted pushdown automaton with final states by run semantics if the underlying complete strong bimonoid satisfies multiplicatively local finiteness condition.

A new find of the fossil Cyclosorus from the Eocene of South China and its paleoclimatic implication.

The thelypteroid ferns are widely distributed across tropical regions around the world, but information about their fossil representatives is scarce. A new species, Cyclosorus scutum Naugolnykh, Wang, Han et Jin was discovered from the Eocene Changchang Formation of Hainan Island, South China, and is described on the basis of sterile and fertile leaves, sori, sporangia and spores preserved in situ. Discovery of this new species clearly shows that climatic conditions of that time in this area were humid, i.

Isoflurane preconditioning confers cardioprotection by activation of ALDH2.

The volatile anesthetic, isoflurane, protects the heart from ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) is thought to be an endogenous mechanism against ischemia-reperfusion injury possibly through detoxification of toxic aldehydes. We investigated whether cardioprotection by isoflurane depends on activation of ALDH2.

Mechanisms of cardioprotection by isoflurane against I/R injury.

Myocardial infarction is responsible for most cardiovascular mortality as well as the pathogenesis of myocardial damage during and after infarction. Efforts are underway to modulate the development of ischemia-reperfusion (I-R) injury. Recently, the protective effect of isoflurane against myocardial I-R injury emerged as a possibility.

[Radioiodine-131 therapy improves sex hormones and sexual function in male patients with Graves' disease].

Objective: To observe the changes of sex hormones and sexual function in male patients with Graves' disease (GD) after Radioiodine-131 (I-131) therapy.

Methods: Thirty-four male GD patients, aged 21 -40 (32.3 +/- 6.