Clinical significance of serum Helicobacter pylori antibody cytotoxin-associated gene A levels in patients with unstable angina.

Objectives: We investigated the clinical significance of serum Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin-associated gene A (CagA) antibody levels in 768 patients with unstable angina (UA).

Methods: Serum CagA levels were measured using ELISA. Demographic data, serum biomarkers, and SYNTAX scores were collected.

A New Coronavirus Estimation Global Score for Predicting Mortality During Hospitalization in Patients with COVID-19.

Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) exists as a pandemic. Mortality during hospitalization is multifactorial, and there is urgent need for a risk stratification model to predict in-hospital death among COVID-19 patients. Here we aimed to construct a risk score system for early identification of COVID-19 patients at high probability of dying during in-hospital treatment.

Antiviral Abidol is Associated with the Reduction of In-Hospital Mortality in COVID-19 Patients.

Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global public health crisis. There are no specific antiviral agents for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2. Information regarding the effect of Abidol on in-hospital mortality is scarce.

Efficacy and safety of colchicine in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: There are no meta-analyses evaluating the efficacy and safety of colchicine in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Our protocol is conceived to evaluate the efficacy and safety of colchicine in comparison of placebo and test the hypothesis that a short course of treatment with colchicine could lead to reduced infarct size in patients presenting with AMI.

Methods: We will follow the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) reporting guidelines and the recommendations of the Cochrane Collaboration to conduct this meta-analysis.

Strong piezocatalysis in barium titanate/carbon hybrid nanocomposites for dye wastewater decomposition.

In this work, the strong piezocatalysis is found in the two-step hydrothermally-synthesized barium titanate/carbon hybrid nanocomposites and is used for rhodamine B dye decomposition. As the carbon content increases from 0 to 5 wt%, the catalytic performance of hybrid nanocomposites first increases and then slightly decreases. When the carbon content increases to 2 wt%, the barium titanate/carbon hybrid nanocomposites exhibit the optimal piezocatalytic performance, which have the ~75.

Leukocyte Rho kinase activity and serum cystatin C affect cardiovascular events in acute coronary syndrome.

Objective: This study was designed to investigate the effects of leukocyte Rho kinase activity and serum Cystatin C (Cys C) on cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Methods: A total of 48 patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), 23 patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), 25 patients with unstable angina (UA) and 20 patients with no-acute coronary syndrome as control from January 2017 to June 2018 in Tianyou Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology were selected in this study. Western blot was used to detect the leukocyte Rho kinase activity and Elisa kit was used to measure serum Cys C.

Removal of Lead(II) Ions from Aqueous Solution Using L. Seed Husk Ash as a Biosorbent.

The removal of heavy metals, especially from wastewater, has attracted significant interest because of their toxicity, tendency to bioaccumulate, and the threat they pose to human life and the environment. Many low-cost sorbents have been investigated for their biosorption capacity toward heavy metals. However, there are no reports available on the removal of Pb(II) from aqueous solution by of L.

VEGF-A promotes cardiac stem cell engraftment and myocardial repair in the infarcted heart.

Background: The objective of this study was to determine whether vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A subtypes improve cardiac stem cell (CSC) engraftment and promote CSC-mediated myocardial repair in the infarcted heart.

Methods: CSCs were treated with VEGF receptor (VEGFR) inhibitors, VCAM-1 antibody (VCAM-1-Ab), or PKC-α inhibitor followed by the treatment with VEGF-A. CSC adhesion assays were performed in vitro.

[μ-2,2'-(1,4-Phenyl-ene)diacetato-κ(2)O(1):O(4)]bis-[aqua-(2,2'-bipyridine-κ(2)N,N')chloridocopper(II)] dihydrate.

In the centrosymmetric title compound, [Cu(2)(C(10)H(8)O(4))Cl(2)(C(10)H(8)N(2))(2)(H(2)O)(2)]·2H(2)O, the Cu(II) atom is five-coordinated in a distorted square-pyramidal geometry by two N atoms from a chelating 2,2'-bipyridine ligand, one O atom from a 1,4-phenyl-enediacetate ligand, one Cl atom and one water mol-ecule. The 1,4-phenyl-enediacetate ligand, lying on an inversion center, bridges two Cu(II) atoms. In the crystal, O-H⋯O and O-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds and π-π inter-actions between the pyridine rings [centroid-centroid distance = 3.

catena-Poly[[[tetra-aqua-lanthanum(III)]-di-μ-isonicotinato-κ(4)O:O'] chloride].

In the title compound, {[La(C(6)H(4)NO(2))(2)(H(2)O)(4)]Cl}(n), the La(III) atom lies on a twofold rotation axis and is eight-coordinated by four O atoms from four isonicotinate ligands and four water mol-ecules in a distorted square-anti-prismatic coodination environment. Adjacent La(III) atoms are bridged by two carboxyl-ate groups from two isonicotinate ligands, forming an extended chain along [001]. These chains are linked through O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional network with channels in which the chloride anions form O-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds.