Lipid peroxidation plays an important role in physiological and pathophysiological conditions; it occurs mainly in the vicinity of the membrane. Glycerophospholipids are indispensable for normal structure of membranes. Lipid mediators are final products of lipid peroxidation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder frequently accompanied by neuroinflammation and oxidative stress. The medicine and food homology (MFH) has shown potential for treating neuroinflammation and oxidative stress. This study aimed to provide a safe and efficient therapy for AD based on MFH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence is highly correlated with increased mortality. Microvascular invasion (MVI) is indicative of aggressive tumor biology in HCC.
Aim: To construct an artificial neural network (ANN) capable of accurately predicting MVI presence in HCC using magnetic resonance imaging.
Background: Complex and high-risk surgical complications pose pressing challenges in the clinical implementation and advancement of endoscopic full-thickness resection (EFTR). Successful perforation repair under endoscopy, thereby avoiding surgical intervention and postoperative complications such as peritonitis, are pivotal for effective EFTR.
Aim: To investigate the effectiveness and safety of EFTR assisted by distal serosal inversion under floss traction in gastric submucosal tumors.
Background: Hemorrhoids are among the most common and frequently encountered chronic anorectal diseases in anorectal surgery. They are venous clusters formed by congestion, expansion, and flexion of the venous plexus in the lower part of the rectum. Mixed hemorrhoids bleed easily and recurrently, and this can result in severe anemia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe investigation of chemical constituents from the rhizomes of resulted in the isolation of two new biphenyl derivatives, aculebiphenyls A and B (), together with two known analogs (). Their chemical structures were elucidated based on extensive spectroscopic interpretation and HR-ESI-MS analysis. Compounds were isolated from the genus for the first time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFlavonoids have always been considered as the chemical basis for the hypoglycemic effect of mulberry leaves. In the course of our search for hypoglycemic effect agents from natural sources, a systematic study was launched to explore prenylated flavonoids from mulberry leaves. Herein, chemical investigation led to the isolation of 10 characteristic prenylated flavonoids, including two new compounds ( and ).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEthnopharmacological Relevance: Ruyi Zhenbao Pill (RZP) is a prescribed Tibetan formulation for the treatment of white-pulse-disease, yellow-water-disease as well as pain-related disease. RZP is composed of 30 medicinal materials including herbal medicine, animal medicine and mineral medicine. They are widely used in the Tibetan area to treat cerebrovascular disease, hemiplegia, rheumatism, and pain diseases for centuries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn order to find potential agents for treating cancer disease in naturally occurring compounds, we conducted a systematic phytochemical investigation on the endemic species of Garcinia nujiangensis. Three new biphenyl derivatives (1-3) and one new polycyclic polyprenylated benzophenone (4), together with four known benzophenone analogues (5-8), have been isolated from the CHCl extract of the twigs and leaves of G. nujiangensis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResearch has connected Parkinson's disease (PD) with impaired intestinal barrier. The activation of G-protein-coupled receptor 109A (GPR109A) protects the intestinal barrier by inhibiting the NF-κB signaling pathway. Sodium butyrate (NaB), which is a GPR109A ligand, may have anti-PD effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDNA data storage is a rapidly developing technology with great potential due to its high density, long-term durability, and low maintenance cost. The major technical challenges include various errors, such as strand breaks, rearrangements, and indels that frequently arise during DNA synthesis, amplification, sequencing, and preservation. In this study, a de novo strand assembly algorithm (DBGPS) is developed using de Bruijn graph and greedy path search to meet these challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite recent advances in diagnosis and therapeutic strategies, treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains unsatisfactory in terms of prognosis. Andrographolide (AD), a principal active component of Andrographis paniculata (Burm.f.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPopulation stratification analyses targeting genetically closely related East Asians have revealed that distinguishable differentiation exists between Han Chinese, Korean, and Japanese individuals, as well as between southern (S-) and northern (N-) Han Chinese. Previous studies offer a number of choices for ancestry informative single nucleotide polymorphisms (AISNPs) to discriminate East-Asian populations. In this study, we collected and examined the efficiency of 1185 AISNPs using frequency and genotype data from various publicly available databases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe studied the relationship of the genera Loxoblemmus Saussure, 1877 and Asonicogryllus He, 2019 by reconstructing the phylogenetic tree based on 2 mitochondrial genes and 2 ribosomal genes. The result shows that Loxoblemmus is paraphyletic. Thus, we place Asonicogryllus as a subgenus of Loxoblemmus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo explore the isotopic distribution and differentiation of water along the hydraulic flow gradients and plant-bed/ditch systems in constructed root-channel wetlands, surface and subsurface water samples were collected from four ecological wetlands, namely Shijiuyang and Guanjinggang in Jiaxing, as well as Changshuitang and Taishangang in Haining. All samples were collected along water flow pathways during the wet and rainy summer season in August 2019, except for those from Taishangang, which were collected within the plant-bed/ditch system during the dry and cold winter season in January 2020. The abundance of deuterium (D) and O was determined in each functional area of the wetlands to assess the influence of wetlands on water differentiation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe reported a new genus Majialandrevus from Western Yunnan, China. The new genus differs from other genera in having the following combination of characters: short forewings, male genitalia with blunt distal parts of posterolateral epiphallic lobes, absence of medial lobes of epiphallus and ectoparamere being membranous. The type specimens are deposited in the Museum of Biology, East China Normal University (ECNU).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNitrification and anaerobic ammonia oxidation (ANAMMOX) sludge was acclimated via SBR and MBR reactors respectively, both of which were embedded with microbial immobilization technology and spliced together to construct a PN/A double-bacteria-layer system. A short-term experiment proved that ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and ANAMMOX bacteria in the system played dominant roles separately in different stages, which maintained the acid-base balance and achieved efficient removal of NH-N (98.8%).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe operations involved in preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) occur during the key stages of gametogenesis and early embryonic development, and the health of progeny following PGT (PGT-born) is worthy of attention. In order to fully assess the potential risk of abnormal glucose metabolism in adult PGT-born offspring and to evaluate possible mechanisms, we compared a mouse model of PGT (in vitro cultured embryos with biopsy, hereafter "PTG-born mice"), an in vitro embryo manipulation mouse model (in vitro cultured embryos without biopsy), and normal mice. PGT-born mice displayed increased fasting glucose, and decreased glycogen synthesis and glucose oxidative utilization in the liver.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: In order to observe the relationship between MTHFR promoter and DN, the determinations on MTHFR promoter methylation level and expression of HCY from DN patients have been carried out.
Methods: According to the Diabetes diagnosis and classification standard from WHO in 1999, 85 patients with DM diagnosed by Endocrinology and 30 healthy participants from our medical examination center were chosen as control specimen to study in this paper. All this specimen were divided into A, B, C and D four groups , which are corresponding simple diabetes mellitus group (SDM), early diabetic nephropathy group (EDN), clinical diabetic nephropathy group (CDN) and normal control group.
Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi
September 2012
Objective: To explore the relationship of the impairment of human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC) with amyloid-β.
Methods: HUVECs were cultured in the serum of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) or serum of healthy control (HC), while fetal bovine serum (FBS) was used as a negative control. The proliferative activity of HUVEC were assessed by thiazolyl blue tetrazolium bromide (MTT) after 72 h.
In the title compound, C(10)H(6)N(4)O(4), the pyridine rings are oriented at a dihedral angle of 67.8 (1)°. The O-atom pairs are trans, each displaced by a similar distance [average = 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInvest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
December 2010
Purpose: To examine the protective effect of green tea polyphenols against ultraviolet B (UVB)-induced damage to retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells.
Methods: Green tea polyphenols (GTP) was used to treat RPE cells before or after exposure to UVB. Viability of RPE cells was tested by 3,(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay.