Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal that accumulates in plants, negatively affecting their physiological processes, growth, and development, and poses a threat to human health through the food chain. 6-phosphogluconolactonase (PGL) is a key enzyme in the Oxidative Pentose Phosphate Pathway(OPPP) in plant cells, essential for cellular metabolism. The OPPP pathway provides energy and raw materials for organisms and is involved in antioxidant reactions, lipid metabolism, and DNA synthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCadmium (Cd), which is a nonessential heavy metal element for organisms, can have a severe impact on the growth and development of organisms that absorb excessive Cd. Studies have shown that Brassica carinata, a semiwild oil crop, has strong tolerance to various abiotic stresses, and RNA-seq has revealed that the B. carinata superoxide dismutase gene (BcaSOD1) likely responds to Cd stress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSoil salinization, an intractable problem, is becoming increasingly serious and threatening fragile natural ecosystems and even the security of human food supplies. Sorghum ( L.) is one of the main crops growing in salinized soil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal that seriously affects metabolism after accumulation in plants, and it also causes adverse effects on humans through the food chain. The HIPP gene family has been shown to be highly tolerant to Cd stress due to its special domain and molecular structure. This study described the Cd-induced gene from the hyperaccumulator .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrisomy harbouring an extra copy of the chromosome generally causes a variety of physical and intellectual disabilities in mammals but is an extremely rare and important genetic stock in plants. In this study, a spontaneous trisomy plant in a Chinese kale accession ( var. , CC, 2 = 18) that showed significantly smaller plant architecture when compared to other normal plants was found and subsequently confirmed by cytological analysis in which the chromosome set of 2 = 19 and abnormal chromosome behaviour were observed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn plants, expansin genes are responsive to heavy metal exposure. To study the bioremediary potential of this important gene family, we discovered a root-expressed expansin gene in sorghum, , which is notably upregulated following cadmium (Cd) exposure. However, the mechanism underlying the Cd detoxification and accumulation mediated by in sorghum remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFβ-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) is one of main component of ketone body, which plays an important protective role in various tissues and organs. Whereas, its exact regulatory roles and mechanisms in Parkinson's disease (PD) have not been full elucidated. In this study, SN4741 cells and C57BL/6 mice were treated with 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion (MPP)/1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) to establish the PD model in vitro and in vivo.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe association between cumulative mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and risks of adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (CCVEs) has not been characterized. This prospective cohort study included 53,813 participants, free of prior myocardial infarction or stroke in or before 2010 (baseline) from a community-based cohort including 101,510 participants. Cumulative MAP was defined as the summed average MAP for each pair of consecutive examinations multiplied by the time interval with the data from previous surveys (2006- 2007, 2008 to 2009, 2010-2011).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this study was to investigate whether clinic, cumulative, and 24h ambulatory systolic blood pressure (SBP) was associated with chronic kidney damage, defind as estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <60 ml/(min·1.73 m2) and/or microalbuminuria ≥30 mg/L, and, if so, which measurement of SBP is more associated with chronic kidney damage in Chinese elderly. A total of 1207 participants older than 60 years old were included in the final analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To identify long-term fasting blood glucose trajectories and to assess the association between the trajectories and the risk of arterial stiffness in individuals without diabetes.
Methods: We enrolled 16,454 non-diabetic participants from Kailuan cohort. Fasting blood glucose concentrations were measured in 2006, 2008, and 2010 survey.
Background And Purpose: It remains unclear whether resting heart rate (RHR), particularly cumulative exposure to resting heart rate (cumRHR), is associated with stroke. The aim of our study was to prospectively explore the relationship between cumRHR and stroke morbidity.
Materials And Methods: The Kailuan study is a prospective longitudinal cohort study on cerebrovascular events and cardiovascular factors.
Objective: This study aims to investigate the correlation between the trajectory of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and new renal damage in a nonhypertensive population.
Patients And Methods: This prospective cohort study included a total of 14 382 nonhypertensive individuals, employees of Kailuan Group of Companies, who took part in five healthy examinations in 2006-2007, 2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2012-2013, and 2014-2015, and had complete data. These individuals were divided into four groups according to the different trajectories of SBP: low-low, low-stable, middle-high, and high-high groups.
The relationship between cumulative exposure to resting heart rate (cumRHR) and mortality remain unclear in the general population. In the Kailuan cohort study, resting heart rate (RHR) was repeatedly measured at baseline and at years 2 and 4 by electrocardiogram among 47,311 adults aged 48.70 ± 11.
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