World J Psychiatry
February 2024
The impact of global climate change and air pollution on mental health has become a crucial public health issue. Increased public awareness of health, advancements in medical diagnosis and treatment, the way media outlets report environmental changes and the variation in social resources affect psychological responses and adaptation methods to climate change and air pollution. In the context of climate change, extreme weather events seriously disrupt people's living environments, and unstable educational environments lead to an increase in mental health issues for students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease with high heritability. Compared to autosomes, a higher proportion of disorder-associated genes on X chromosome are expressed in the brain. However, only a few studies focused on the identification of the susceptibility loci for AD on X chromosome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Neuronal surface antibody syndromes (NSAS) encompass a growing set of autoimmune neurological disorders, with their predominant clinical presentation being autoimmune encephalitis (AE). The most extensively documented form within NSAS is anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) autoimmunity. In contrast, other NSAS, such as anti-metabotropic glutamate receptor-5 (mGluR5) autoimmunity, are less common and less comprehensively characterized, particularly in pediatric cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo explore the spatial pattern of zonal tree species in the subtropical subalpine mountain area on Lushan Mountain, a 25 hm forest plot was established in Yangtianping area of Lushan Mountain following the technical specification of CTFS in 2021. We classified these species into evergreen conifer species, deciduous broad-leaved species and evergreen broad-leaved species based on their leaf shape and deciduous or not to analyze the spatial pattern of dominant species of different types by spatial point pattern method. The results showed that , subsp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCoconut husk biomass waste was used as the carbon precursor to develop a simple and economical process for the preparation of hierarchical porous activated carbon, and the electrochemical properties of the electrode material were explored. The important process variables of carbonization, the weight ratios of the coconut shell/KOH, the amount of source dopant, and the carbonization temperature were investigated in order to reveal the influence of the as-obtained microporous/mesoporous/macroporous hierarchical porous carbon materials on the powder properties. Using a BET specific surface area analyzer, Raman analysis, XPS and SEM, surface morphology, pore distribution and specific surface area of the hierarchical porous carbon materials are discussed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study has developed an environmentally friendly, simple, and economical process by utilizing seaweed as a carbon precursor to prepare a hierarchical porous carbon for the application of a supercapacitor. In the carbonization process, the design of experiment (DOE) technology is used to obtain the optimal preparatory conditions with the best electrochemical properties for the electrode materials of supercapacitors. Without using strong acid and alkali solution of the green process, NaCl is used as the pore structure proppant of seaweed (SW) for carbonization to obtain hierarchical porous carbon material to improve the pore size distribution and surface area of the material.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Aluminum (Al) toxicity is a major limitation to crop production in countries where acidic soil is abundant. In China, soybean production is constrained by Al stress-induced toxicity. As such, there is growing interest to develop Al-resistant varieties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients in China, compare their HRQoL with norm population, and examine the associations between the potential influencing factors and HRQoL.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 912 KOA patients from 4 provinces between March and November 2017. All participants were diagnosed according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)'s criterion or the Chinese Medical Association (CMA)'s criterion.
Ethylene-response factor (ERF) proteins are members of a transcription factor family involved in plant growth and environmental stress responses, but the biological functions of ERF members in adzuki bean (Vigna angularis var. angularis) remain unknown. In addition, it is unclear whether these proteins have a role in regulating responses to abiotic stressors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhysiol Mol Biol Plants
March 2019
To produce high quality, glyphosate-resistant soybeans, we crossed Jinda 73 and glyphosate-resistant RR1 (Roundup Ready First Generation) (RR1) resulting in 34 hybrid strains. To determine the effects of glyphosate on soybean metabolism, we grew the two parents upto the seedling stage, and measured chlorophyll, soluble sugar, malondialdehyde (MDA), relative conductivity and proline. Then, we treated the plants with glyphosate and measured the same factors again.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aims to investigate the molecular characteristics of Chinese gastric cancer patients. In our study, the , , and mutation status of 485 GC patients were analyzed by Sanger sequencing. Kaplan-Meier analysis was used to plot survival curves according to different genotypes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To investigate the ocular hemodynamic effects of applying a hot compress to the eye.
Methods: The right eyes of five New Zealand white rabbits, both male and female, were hot-compressed for 18min. An independently designed novel ocular contact-type temperature measuring device was used to measure the ocular surface temperature before and after the heating.
Estrogen-related genes and the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene play a critical role in estrogen metabolism, and those polymorphisms are associated with a poor prognosis in breast cancer. However, little is known about the association between these polymorphisms and the efficacy of anastrozole. The aim was to investigate the impact of the genetic polymorphisms, CYP19A1, 17-β-HSD-1 and FTO, on the response to anastrozole in metastatic breast carcinoma (MBC) and to evaluate the impact of those polymorphisms on various clinicopathologic features.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi
May 2009
Objective: To determine whether mode of delivery is associated with the level of catecholamines in umbilical cord blood of neonates.
Methods: A study was carried out on 150 neonates. Among them 90 were healthy while 60 were diagnosed fetal distress.
Cancer Biother Radiopharm
April 2009
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of combining dacarbazine (DTIC) and granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) with interleukin-2 (IL-2) in patients with advanced malignant melanoma.
Methods: Twenty-seven (27) patients with advanced malignant melanoma received dacarbazine (500 mg/m(2)/days 1-2, intravenously), GM-CSF (175 ug/m(2)/days 3-6, subcutaneously), and interleukin-2 (400 MIU/m(2)/days 7-10, subcutaneously). Each treatment cycle required 21 days to completion.