Viscosity is a pivotal factor for indicating the dysfunction of the mitochondria. To date, most of the fluorescent probes developed for mitochondrial viscosity have been designed using BODIPY, hemicyanine, or pyridine-based molecular rotors as part of the core structure. Our aim with this research was to extend the range of suitable fluorophores available for the construction of such fluorescent molecular rotors for evaluating the viscosity of mitocondria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Sandblasted/acid-etched titanium (SLA-Ti) implants are widely used for dental implant restoration in edentulous patients. However, the poor osteoinductivity and the large amount of Ti particles/ions released due to friction or corrosion will affect its long-term success rate.
Purpose: Various zirconium hydrogen phosphate (ZrP) coatings were prepared on SLA-Ti surface to enhance its friction/corrosion resistance and osteoinduction.
This article is the 14th in the Fungal Diversity Notes series, wherein we report 98 taxa distributed in two phyla, seven classes, 26 orders and 50 families which are described and illustrated. Taxa in this study were collected from Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, French Guiana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Mexico, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. There are 59 new taxa, 39 new hosts and new geographical distributions with one new combination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: The website fungiofpakistan.com is a collection of all the available data about macro- as well as micro-fungi collected from Pakistan. This website comprises reported fungal species with isolation source or host record, locality and updated classification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFspecies have a global distribution and play various roles in the natural ecosystems, e.g., pathogens, decomposers, and mycorrhizal associates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe chlorophyll ethanol-extracted silkworm excrement was hardly biologically reused or fermented by most microorganisms. However, partial extremely environmental halophiles were reported to be able to utilize a variety of inexpensive carbon sources to accumulate polyhydroxyalkanoates. In this study, by using the nile red staining and gas chromatography assays, two endogenous haloarchaea strains: A85 and A112 of silkworm excrement were shown to accumulate poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) up to 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Bioinformatics
December 2021
Background: Single-cell sequencing technology can address the amount of single-cell library data at the same time and display the heterogeneity of different cells. However, analyzing single-cell data is a computationally challenging problem. Because there are low counts in the gene expression region, it has a high chance of recognizing the non-zero entity as zero, which are called dropout events.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt remains controversial whether long-term logographic-logographic bilingual experience shapes the special brain functional subnetworks underlying different components of executive function (EF). To address this question, this study explored the differences in the functional connections underlying EF between the Cantonese-Mandarin bilinguals and Mandarin monolinguals. 31 Cantonese-Mandarin bilinguals and 31 Mandarin monolinguals were scanned in a 3-T magnetic resonance scanner at rest.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFand , two new species from the karst region of southwestern China, and , a new species from montane region in Yunnan, are described and illustrated. is easily distinguished from its relatives by having abaxially purple leave with purple reticulate veins prominent adaxially, a lip auriculate at base, and falcate-lanceolate pollinia. is closely related to and but differs from them by having an ovate to broadly ovate leaf, purple lip and apex connate along the margins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEctopic calcification is an osteogenic process that leads to the formation of inappropriate bone within intra-articular soft tissues, often in response to injury or surgery. The molecular mechanisms governing this phenotype have yet to be determined. Using a population genetics approach, we identified an association of the kinesin superfamily member 26b (Kif26b) with injury-induced ectopic calcification through quantitative trait locus analysis of recombinant inbred mouse strains, consistent with a genomewide association study that identified KIF26B as a severity locus for ectopic calcification in patients with hip osteoarthritis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSorafenib is a first-line molecular-target drug for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and reducing sorafenib resistance is an important issue to be resolved for the clinical treatment of HCC. In the current study, we identified that ABCC5 is a critical regulator and a promising therapeutic target of acquired sorafenib resistance in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells. The expression of ABCC5 was dramatically induced in sorafenib-resistant HCC cells and was remarkably associated with poor clinical prognoses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComput Intell Neurosci
November 2021
It is difficult for the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to recognize targets similar to the environment in lacking data labels. Moreover, the complex underwater environment and the refraction of light cause the AUV to be unable to extract the complete significant features of the target. In response to the above problems, this paper proposes an underwater distortion target recognition network (UDTRNet) that can enhance image features.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl
November 2021
Hydrogen sulfide (HS) has been as an essential gasotransmitter and a potential therapeutic approach for several biomedical treatments such as cardiovascular disorders, hypertension, and other diseases. The endogenous and exogenous HS also plays a crucial role in the bone anabolic process and a protective mechanism in cell signalling. In this study, we have utilized two types of polymers, polycaprolactone (PCL) and gelatin (Gel), for the fabrication of JK-2 (HS donor) loaded nanofibrous scaffold via electrospinning process for bone healing and bone tissue engineering.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a severe psychiatric disorder that affects approximately 0.75% of the global population. Both genetic and environmental factors contribute to development of SCZ.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The plant microbiome is an integral part of the host and increasingly recognized as playing fundamental roles in plant growth and health. Increasing evidence indicates that plant rhizosphere recruits beneficial microbes to the plant to suppress soil-borne pathogens. However, the ecological processes that govern plant microbiome assembly and functions in the below- and aboveground compartments under pathogen invasion are not fully understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cardiothorac Surg
September 2021
Introduction: Sublobar resection has been widely accepted for treating pure ground-glass opacities (GGOs). As GGOs have good prognosis, preserving postoperative pulmonary function is the major concern in surgery. No studies have yet compared the success rates of pulmonary function reservation between segmentectomy and wedge resection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe gut microbiome influences nutrient processing as well as host physiology. Plasma lipid levels have been associated with the microbiome, although the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown, and the effects of dietary lipids on the gut microbiome in humans are not well-studied. We used a compilation of four studies utilizing non-human primates ( and ) with treatments that manipulated plasma lipid levels using dietary and pharmacological techniques, and characterized the microbiome using 16S rDNA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlcohol consumption increases the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and associated with a high mortality rate and poor prognosis. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methylations play key roles in tumorigenesis and progression. However, our current knowledge about m6A in alcohol-related HCC (A-HCC) remains elucidated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol
November 2021
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFNatural polysaccharide-based hydrogels are promising in food and pharmaceutical applications. In this study, the potential of composite hydrogels prepared by carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and chitosan as glue for cigar wrapping applications was firstly studied. The impacts of degree of carboxymethyl substitution (DS) and the ratio of CMC:chitosan on the adhesive performance and rheological behaviors of composite hydrogels have been investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe method of immobilization of glucose oxidase (GOD) on electrodes is especially important for the fabrication and performance of glucose biosensors. In this study, a carbohydrate binding module family 2 (CBM2) was successfully fused to the C terminal of GOD with a natural linker (NL) in endo-β-xylanase by genetic recombination, and a fusion GOD (GOD-NL-CBM2) was obtained. The CBM2 was used as an affinity adsorption tag for immobilization of the GOD-NL-CBM2 on a cellulose modified electrode.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE Trans Neural Netw Learn Syst
May 2023
Predictive modeling is useful but very challenging in biological image analysis due to the high cost of obtaining and labeling training data. For example, in the study of gene interaction and regulation in Drosophila embryogenesis, the analysis is most biologically meaningful when in situ hybridization (ISH) gene expression pattern images from the same developmental stage are compared. However, labeling training data with precise stages is very time-consuming even for developmental biologists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImplementation of ammonium halides to trigger low-dimensional perovskite formation has been intensively investigated to achieve blue perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs). However, the general roles of the incorporated ammonium cations on the quality of the perovskite films, as well as device performance, are still unclear. It is indispensable to build a guideline to rationalize ammonium halides for decent blue emissive films.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAerobic denitrification, one of the important nitrate metabolic pathways in biological denitrification, has been attracting increasing interest recently due to its functional advantages. In order to evaluate the effect of antibiotics on aerobic denitrification and guide practical engineering application of aerobic denitrification techniques, we evaluated the performance of aerobic denitrification by the strain RAD-17 in the presence of ciprofloxacin (CFX) and oxytetracycline (OTC). No significant negative impact on the performance of aerobic denitrification in the presence of CFX or OTC within the range of 50 to 300 μg L was found.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To establish and validate an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted automatic cataract grading program based on the Lens Opacities Classification System III (LOCS III).
Setting: Eye and Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Design: AI training.