Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided Intercostal Nerve Block on Pain Management and Physiological Outcomes in Breast Cancer Mastectomy: A retrospective study.

To evaluate the efficacy of ultrasound-guided intercostal nerve block in managing pain and physiological responses in patients undergoing radical mastectomy for breast cancer. A retrospective study analyzed 120 patients scheduled to undergo radical mastectomy in our hospital between January 2022 and December 2023. Depending on the type of anesthesia received, participants were assigned to the experimental group (60 patients) to receive ultrasound-guided intercostal nerve block and intravenous general anesthesia, or the control group (60 patients) to receive intravenous general anesthesia only.

The competitive advantage of Microcystis aeruginosa over Scenedesmus obliquus weakened by exposure to polylactic acid microplastics.

Aquatic ecosystems are heavily affected by microplastics (MPs), and its impacts on aquatic life have received extensive attention. However, it is still unclear how biodegradable MPs influence the growth and competition of phytoplankton. In this study, the response of growth dynamics, alternation in algal cell morphology and toxin-producing capability, and changes in the extracellular process of Microcystis aeruginosa (M.

The pathway of Edwardsiella piscicida infecting Lateolabrax maculatus via the immersion bath.

Edwardsiella piscicida, an infectious bacterium, causes great economic losses to the aquaculture industry. Immersion bath which is the closest way to how the fish infect bacterial pathogens in the natural environment is an effective route of artificial infection. In this study, the dynamic process of E.

LuxS modulates motility and secretion of extracellular protease in fish pathogen .

can cause infections and diseases in a variety of marine vertebrates and invertebrates, which are harmful to the aquaculture industry. The LuxS quorum-sensing system regulates the expression of virulence factors in a wide variety of pathogenic bacteria. In this study, an in-frame deletion of the gene was constructed to reveal the role of LuxS in the physiology and virulence of .

Functional characterization of VscCD, an important component of the type Ⅲ secretion system of Vibrio harveyi.

Vibrio harveyi is a Gram-negative bacterium that occurs widely in the ocean and a kind of pathogenic bacteria associated with vibriosis in grouper. We investigated whether the VscCD protein of the type Ⅲ secretion system (T3SS) was important for pathogenicity of V. harveyi.

A First Report of Infection of the Sea Bass, in China.

The sea bass, is commercially farmed in Zhuhai, located in the Guangdong Province of China. in aquaculture have suffered acute death, characterized by ulcerations on the body surface, congestion, and hemorrhage in internal organs such as liver, kidney, and spleen. The dominant infecting strain of bacteria isolated from the kidneys of diseased fish was identified as (strain 18BJ181).

Struvite crystallization under a marine/brackish aquaculture condition.

The results in this study show that struvite was formed in the digester at pH 7.7 due to the magnesium naturally present and the released ammonia and phosphate, resulting in low phosphate concentration in the digester. Apparently the digester already provided proper conditions for struvite formation.

Biomethanation and microbial community changes in a digester treating sludge from a brackish aquaculture recirculation system.

Using a high-salinity-adapted inoculum and a moderate stepwise-increased organic loading rate (OLR), a stable digester performance was achieved in treating sludge from a brackish aquaculture recirculation system. The specific methane yield was distinctly enhanced, reaching 0.203LCH4/gCODadded, compared to literature values (0.

[Optimization of enzymatic extraction of polysaccharide from Dendrobium officinale by box-Behnken design and response surface methodology].

Objective: To optimize the processing of enzymatic extraction of polysaccharide from Dendrobium officinale.

Methods: With phenol-sulfuric acid method and the DNS determination polysaccharide, Box-Behnken response surface methodology was used to optimize different enzyme dosage, reaction temperature and reaction time by using Design-Expert 8.05 software for data analysis and processing.

Improving methane production and phosphorus release in anaerobic digestion of particulate saline sludge from a brackish aquaculture recirculation system.

In this study, batch tests were conducted to examine the effects of trehalose and glycine betaine as well as potassium on the specific methanogenic activity (SMA), acid and alkaline phosphatase activity of anaerobic biomass and phosphorus release in anaerobic digestion of saline sludge from a brackish recirculation aquaculture system. The results of ANOVA and Tukey's HSD (honestly significant difference) tests showed that glycine betaine and trehalose enhanced SMA of anaerobic biomass and reactive phosphorus release from the particulate waste. Moreover, SMA tests revealed that methanogenic sludge, which was long-term acclimatized to a salinity level of 17 g/L was severely affected by the increase in salinity to values exceeding 35 g/L.

[Synthesis and bioactivies of salicylic acid-g-chitosan derivatives].

To prepare the derivatives of salicylic acid-g-chitosan and study their synergistic and complementary actions, the synergism of anti-inflammatory action of the derivatives was investigated with the experiments of xylene-induces mice ear edema, the analgesic activities by the tartaric emetic-induced mice twist test and the hot-plate test, and the complementary effects between salicylic acid and chitosan through morphological changes of stomach mucous membrane of rat, separately. The anti-inflammatory activities of salicylic acid-g-chitosan derivatives for anti-inflammatory activities were more potent than that of salicylic acid and chitosan and dexamethasone cream in external use, and more potent than that of aspirin orally. However, immediate analgesic activity of the derivatives was lower than that of aspirin and persistent activity was similar as that of aspirin.