Background & Aims: HBV-related acute-on-chronic liver failure (HBV-ACLF) is a severe acute liver injury secondary to HBV-related chronic liver disease (with or without cirrhosis) and is characterized by a high short-term mortality rate. Presently, there is a paucity of experimental models that specifically focus on HBV-ACLF based on chronic hepatitis B. Therefore, this study aimed to establish an experimental mouse model of HBV-ACLF using chronic hepatitis B (CHB) as a basis and investigate the impact of STING activation on the disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPancreatic cancer ranks fourth among cancer-related deaths with a low 5-year overall survival rate of less than 13%. At present, treatment of pancreatic cancer is still based on chemotherapy, but the efficacy is limited. Thus, a novel therapeutic agent for pancreatic cancer therapy is urgently needed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Older patients are prone to postoperative cognitive decline after laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery, which may be associated with increased intraoperative intracranial pressure (ICP). This study investigated the correlation between intraoperative ICP changes, as indicated by measurements of the optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) using ultrasonography, and subsequent cognitive function to provide better patient care.
Aim: To evaluate changes in ICP and associated postoperative neurocognition in older adults after laparoscopic radical resection for rectal cancer.
Circular RNA (circRNA)-microRNA (miRNA) interaction (CMI) plays crucial roles in cellular regulation, offering promising perspectives for disease diagnosis and therapy. Therefore, it is necessary to employ computational methods for the rapid and cost-effective prediction of potential circRNA-miRNA interactions. However, the existing methods are limited by incomplete data; therefore, it is difficult to model molecules with different attributes on a large scale, which greatly hinders the efficiency and performance of prediction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDopamine axons are the only axons known to grow during adolescence. Here, using rodent models, we examined how two proteins, Netrin-1 and its receptor, UNC5C, guide dopamine axons toward the prefrontal cortex and shape behaviour. We demonstrate in mice () that dopamine axons reach the cortex through a transient gradient of Netrin-1-expressing cells - disrupting this gradient reroutes axons away from their target.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Intestinal colic is a common complication in patients who have undergone radical surgery for colorectal cancer. Traditional Chinese medicine has advantages, including safety and stability, for the treatment of intestinal colic. Lamp irradiation for abdominal ironing has been applied in the treatment of many gastrointestinal diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIncreasing research findings suggest that circular RNA (circRNA) exerts a crucial function in the pathogenesis of complex human diseases by binding to miRNA. Identifying their potential interactions is of paramount importance for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. However, long cycles, small scales, and time-consuming processes characterize previous biological wet experiments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent advances have revealed that the role of the immune system is prominent in the antitumor response. In the present study, it is aimed to provide an expression profile of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), including mature B cells, plasma cells, and their clinical relevance in neuroblastoma. The expression of CD20 and CD138 was analyzed in the Cangelosi786 dataset (n = 769) as a training dataset and in our cohort (n = 120) as a validation cohort.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTriple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype with poor prognosis of breast cancer. Thiostrepton exerts anti-tumor activities against several cancers including TNBC. Herein we discussed the new molecular mechanisms of thiostrepton in TNBC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Conventional diagnosis of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) needs a combination of ophthalmic examinations. An efficient assay is urgently needed for a timely POAG diagnosis. We aim to explore differential expressions of circulating microRNAs (miRNA) and provide novel miRNA biomarkers for POAG diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) represents a subtype of ovarian epithelial carcinoma (OEC) known for its limited responsiveness to chemotherapy, and the onset of distant metastasis significantly impacts patient prognoses. This study aimed to identify potential risk factors contributing to the occurrence of distant metastasis in OCCC.
Methods: Utilizing the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database, we identified patients diagnosed with OCCC between 2004 and 2015.
Background: Cesarean hemorrhage is one of the serious complications, and short-term massive blood transfusion can easily cause postoperative infection and physical stress response. However, predictive nursing intervention has important clinical significance for it.
Aim: To explore the effect of predictive nursing intervention on the stress response and complications of women undergoing short-term mass blood transfusion during cesarean section (CS).
According to the expression of miRNA in pathological processes, miRNAs can be divided into oncogenes or tumor suppressors. Prediction of the regulation relations between miRNAs and small molecules (SMs) becomes a vital goal for miRNA-target therapy. But traditional biological approaches are laborious and expensive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDrug repositioning plays a key role in disease treatment. With the large-scale chemical data increasing, many computational methods are utilized for drug-disease association prediction. However, most of the existing models neglect the positive influence of non-Euclidean data and multisource information, and there is still a critical issue for graph neural networks regarding how to set the feature diffuse distance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Complement Med Ther
November 2023
Background: Endometriosis is a common and complex syndrome characterized by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus. Chinese medicine has been recently found to show good efficacy in treating endometriosis. Our previous results revealed that Maqian fruit essential oil (MQEO) could inhibit the proliferation and induce apoptosis of ectopic endometrial stromal cells (EESCs), but the mechanisms remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMore and more evidence suggests that circRNA plays a vital role in generating and treating diseases by interacting with miRNA. Therefore, accurate prediction of potential circRNA-miRNA interaction (CMI) has become urgent. However, traditional wet experiments are time-consuming and costly, and the results will be affected by objective factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActa Pharmacol Sin
November 2023
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) are mediators of intestinal immunity and barrier function. Recent studies have investigated the role of the mammalian target of rapamycin complex (mTOR) in ILC3s, whereas the mTORC1-related mechanisms and crosstalk between mTORC1 and mTORC2 involved in regulating ILC3 homeostasis remain unknown. In this study, we found that mTORC1 but not mTORC2 was critical in ILC3 development, IL-22 production, and ILC3-mediated intestinal homeostasis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEcotoxicol Environ Saf
June 2023
Triclosan (TCS) is omnipresent in the environment and has drawn increasing attention due to its potential adverse effects on human health. Direct photolysis of TCS readily occurs, especially in the surface layers of waters that receive abundant ultraviolet radiation during the daytime. However, biological concerns and the identification of toxic products during TCS photolysis have been explored limitedly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this study was to explore the impact on hospital-family integrated continuation care based on information technology on the negative emotions, family function, and sexual function of patients after cervical cancer surgery. The clinical case data onto 114 postoperative cervical cancer patients who were nursing in our hospital from July 2019 to July 2021 were selected and were divided into a control group and an observation group. The control group used routine nursing care, and on this basis, the observation group used information technology as the basis for hospital-family integrated continuation care, and we observed and compared the differences in the 2 groups of patients bad mood, family function, and sexual function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMotivation: A large number of studies have shown that circular RNA (circRNA) affects biological processes by competitively binding miRNA, providing a new perspective for the diagnosis, and treatment of human diseases. Therefore, exploring the potential circRNA-miRNA interactions (CMIs) is an important and urgent task at present. Although some computational methods have been tried, their performance is limited by the incompleteness of feature extraction in sparse networks and the low computational efficiency of lengthy data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Using maximum length sequence brainstem auditory evoked response (MLS BAER) to study brainstem neural conduction and maturation in fetal growth restriction (FGR) babies born very prematurely and assess the effect of FGR on brainstem neural maturation.
Methods: MLS BAER was recorded and analyzed at a mean 40 week postmenstrual age in babies born at 27-32 week gestation without other major perinatal conditions or problems. The data were compared between babies with FGR (n = 30) and age-matched babies without FGR (n = 34) to define any differences.