A rational and feasible approach to the co-management of condensates from biomass torrefaction and carbon-rich fly ash from fluidized-bed coal gasification.

This study explored a promising approach to the co-management of torrefaction condensates (TCs) from biomass and carbon-rich fly ash (FA) derived from an industrial fluidized-bed coal gasifier. TC was a low-quality liquid product consisting mostly of water and a small amount of organic acids and other oxygenated organics. FA was the ultra-fine particulates with high carbon content (40-70%) and some extreme characteristics such as ultra-low volatiles, low reactivity, and high ignition temperature.

Disseminated strongyloidiasis in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis: A case report.

Background: Strongyloidiasis is usually a chronic infection but it can develop into a fatal disease in immunosuppressed patients.

Case Summary: A 68-year-old male with rheumatoid arthritis was treated with a variety of immunosuppressants for the past 3 years. Recently, the patient presented with a partial small-bowel obstruction, petechia, coughing and peripheral neuropathy.

Effects of viral infection and microbial diversity on patients with sepsis: A retrospective study based on metagenomic next-generation sequencing.

Background: The study aims to investigate the performance of a metagenomic next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based diagnostic technique for the identification of potential bacterial and viral infections and effects of concomitant viral infection on the survival rate of intensive care unit (ICU) sepsis patients.

Methods: A total of 74 ICU patients with sepsis who were admitted to our institution from February 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019 were enrolled. Separate blood samples were collected from patients for blood cultures and metagenomic NGS when the patients' body temperature was higher than 38 °C.

Hypothermia prevents hippocampal oxidative stress and apoptosis via the GSK-3β/Nrf2/HO-1 signaling pathway in a rat model of cardiac arrest-induced brain damage.

Objectives: The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects and related mechanisms of hypothermia on oxidative stress and apoptosis caused by cardiac arrest (CA)-induced brain damage in rats.

Methods: The CA/CPR model was initiated by asphyxia. Body temperature in the normothermia and hypothermia groups was maintained at 37°C ± 0.

miR-424 promotes cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury by direct targeting of CRISPLD2 and regulating cardiomyocyte pyroptosis.

As a complex pathophysiological event, myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) can cause heart failure, which has been associated with pyroptosis, a pro-inflammatory programmed cell death. Small endogenous non-coding RNAs have been shown to be involved in myocardial IRI. In the present study, we aimed to investigate whether miR-424 modulated pyroptosis in response to myocardial IRI and determine its underlying regulatory mechanism.

NF-κB-Induced MicroRNA-211 Inhibits Interleukin-10 in Macrophages of Rats with Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Background/aims: The present study addressed the potential involvement of microRNAs in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)-related inflammation and elucidates the underlying molecular mechanism.

Methods: ARDS rat model was established by lipopolysaccharide, with compromised gas exchange capacity and lung edema. The inflammatory cells from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) were profiled with automatic blood cell analyzer.

Anatomical Classifications of the Coronary Arteries in Complete Transposition of the Great Arteries and Double Outlet Right Ventricle with Subpulmonary Ventricular Septal Defect.

 To discuss the anatomical morphologies of the coronary arteries and frequencies of unusual coronary arteries in complete transposition of the great arteries and double outlet right ventricle (DORV) associated with a subpulmonic ventricular septal defect (VSD).  Between March 1999 and August 2012, 1,078 patients with complete transposition of the great arteries or DORV with subpulmonary VSD underwent arterial switch operations (ASOs) and were visually evaluated to classify their coronary artery morphology during open heart surgery.  The coronary arteries could be classified into five patterns with several subtypes.

Inhibition of TMEM16A expression suppresses growth and invasion in human colorectal cancer cells.

Metastasis leads to poor prognosis in colorectal cancer patients, and there is a growing need for new therapeutic targets. TMEM16A (ANO1, DOG1 or TAOS2) has recently been identified as a calcium-activated chloride channel (CaCC) and is reported to be overexpressed in several malignancies; however, its expression and function in colorectal cancer (CRC) remains unclear. In this study, we found expression of TMEM16A mRNA and protein in high-metastatic-potential SW620, HCT116 and LS174T cells, but not in primary HCT8 and SW480 cells, using RT-PCR, western blotting and immunofluorescence labeling.

[Application of neurally adjusted ventilatory assist in infants who underwent cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease].

Objective: Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) is a new mode of mechanical ventilation that delivers ventilatory assist in proportion to neural effort. This study aimed to compare the hemodynamic safety, oxygenation and gas exchange effects ventilated with NAVA and with pressure support ventilation (PSV) in infants who underwent open-heart surgery.

Methods: Twenty-one infants who underwent open-heart surgery for congenital heart disease (mean age 2.