The increased prevalence of methicillin-resistant (MRSA) and its biofilms poses a great threat to human health. Especially, -related osteomyelitis was hardly cured even by conventional antibiotics combined with surgical treatment. The development of novel structural antibiotics is urgently needed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Most epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) eventually develops recurrence. Identification of high-risk patients can prompt earlier intervention and improve long-term outcomes. We used laboratory and clinical data to create models based on machine learning for EOC platinum resistance recurrence identification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Severe burns can lead to systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) due to inflammation-immunity dysregulation. This study aimed to identify key immune-related molecules and potential drugs for immune regulation in severe burn treatment.
Method: Microarray datasets GSE77791 and GSE37069 were analyzed to identify immune-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs), enriched pathways and prognosis-related genes.
Objective: This systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of moxibustion as a complementary or alternative treatment for asthma.
Methods: Seven databases were searched up to June 23, 2024, to identify RCTs assessing moxibustion for bronchial asthma. The outcomes of interest included response to treatment, asthma control, quality of life, lung function, immunological indicators, and incidence of adverse events (AEs).
Background: Burn injuries with ≥70% total body surface area (TBSA) are especially acute and life-threatening, leading to severe complications and terrible prognosis, while a powerful model for prediction of overall survival (OS) is lacked. The objective of this study is to identify prognostic factors for the OS of patients with burn injury ≥70% TBSA, construct and validate a feasible predictive model.
Materials And Methods: Patients diagnosed with burns ≥70% TBSA admitted and treated between 2010 and 2020 in our hospital were included.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) possesses the potential of providing good curative effects with no side effects for the effective management of slow transit constipation (STC), an intestinal disease characterized by colonic dyskinesia. Mulberry leaves L.) and black sesame ( L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDue to the widespread abuse of antibiotics, drug resistance in Enterococcus has been increasing. However, the speed of antibiotic discovery cannot keep pace with the acquisition of bacterial resistance. Thus, drug repurposing is a proposed strategy to solve the crises.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHypertrophic scar development is a complication associated with wound healing, impacting local appearance and function. The type I/III collagen ratio affects the extent of hypertrophic scarring; a reduced ratio can ameliorate this. In this study, recombinant human collagen type III was developed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Breast cancer (BC) is a heterogeneous tumor with a variety of etiology and clinical features. Antibody-dependent cell phagocytosis (ADCP) is the last step of immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI), and macrophages detect and recognize tumor cells, then destroy and engulf tumor cells. Despite the large number, negative regulators that inhibit phagocytic activity are still a key obstacle to the full efficacy of ICI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study represents the first investigation into the antimicrobial effect of TAF against and its potential mechanisms. Our data highlighted the effects of TAF against MRSA planktonic cells, biofilms, and persister cells, which is conducive to broadening the application of TAF. Through mechanistic studies, we revealed that TAF targets bacterial cell membranes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiosgenin, an essential dietary steroidal sapogenin, possess multiple pharmacological activities. This study aimed to assess the effects of diosgenin on periodontitis and elucidate the mechanisms. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated human periodontal ligament stem cells (hPDLCs) and a Porphyromonas gingivalis (P.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMorel (Morchella sextelata) is a valuable medicinal and edible mushroom, but the wild yield is seriously insufficient, so several artificial varieties have been developed to alleviate the shortage of wild yield. However, in 2020-2022, apothecium wither symptoms were observed in Nanchong, Sichuan. A total of 30.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis work evaluated the cardioprotective effects of sonlicromanol, a new mitochondrial-directed drug, on cardiac ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury and explored the involvement of inflammatory and oxidative responses via activation of AMPK-eNOS-mitochondrial pathway. Male Sprague-Dawley rats underwent regional I/R injury through in vivo left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery ligation for 40 minutes followed by 24 hours of reperfusion. Pretreatment of rats with sonlicromanol considerably reduced cardiac I/R injury in a dose-dependent manner, as indicated by lower infarct size and serum creatine-kinase levels, and improved cardiac function after reperfusion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is the driver gene with the highest frequency of mutations in lung adenocarcinoma and can guide the development of targeted therapies. The detection of routine gene mutations must be performed after the preparation of paraffin samples in a standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR) laboratory, which is time-consuming. The Idylla™ EGFR fully automatic PCR system for rapid detection requires no special detection environment and completes the process in only 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Myo-inositol (or inositol) and its derivatives not only function as important metabolites for multiple cellular processes but also act as co-factors and second messengers in signaling pathways. Although inositol supplementation has been widely studied in various clinical trials, little is known about its effect on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Recent studies have demonstrated that IPF lung fibroblasts display arginine dependency due to loss of argininosuccinate synthase 1 (ASS1).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe increasing occurrence of extensively drug-resistant and pan-drug-resistant K. pneumoniae has posed a serious threat to global public health. Therefore, new antimicrobial strategies are urgently needed to combat these resistant K.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere has been an explosion in the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) because of the indiscriminate use of antibiotics. In this study, we repurposed hexestrol (HXS) as an antibacterial agent to fight planktonic and biofilm-related MRSA infections. HXS is a nonsteroidal synthetic estrogen that targets estrogen receptors (ERα and ERβ) and has been used as a hormonal antineoplastic agent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Genet Genomics
October 2023
The settlement of the Tibetan Plateau epitomizes human adaptation to a high-altitude environment that poses great challenges to human activity. Here, we reconstruct a 4000-year maternal genetic history of Tibetans using 128 ancient mitochondrial genome data from 37 sites in Tibet. The phylogeny of haplotypes M9a1a, M9a1b, D4g2, G2a'c, and D4i show that ancient Tibetans share the most recent common ancestor with ancient Middle and Upper Yellow River populations around the Early and Middle Holocene.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Skin and soft tissue infections are common because of exposure to aquatic environment, while severe infections caused by Aeromonas veronii are rare.
Case Presentation: We report a case of severe skin and soft tissue infection of the left upper limb caused by Aeromonas veronii. A 50-year-old Chinese woman, who had a history of cardiac disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus, accidentally injured her left thumb while cutting a fish.
Front Plant Sci
January 2023
Crop type mapping is an indispensable topic in the agricultural field and plays an important role in agricultural intelligence. In crop type mapping, most studies focus on time series models. However, in our experimental area, the images of the crop harvest stage can be obtained from single temporal remote sensing images.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Acinetobacter baumannii poses a severe threat to public health due to its ability to form biofilms and persister cells, which contributes to critical drug resistance and refractory device-associated infections. A novel strategy to alleviate such an emergency is to identify promising compounds that restore the antimicrobial susceptibility of existing antibiotics against refractory infections.
Methods And Results: Here, we found a significant synergy among three combinations of SPR741, clarithromycin and erythromycin with a potent antimicrobial activity against XDR A.
Introduction: Antibiotic resistance has posed a serious challenge to global public health. With the increasing resistance emergence of E. coli and mortality caused by drug-resistant E.
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