Background: Bariatric surgery is one of the most effective ways to treat morbid obesity, and postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is one of the common complications after bariatric surgery. At present, the mechanism of the high incidence of PONV after weight-loss surgery has not been clearly explained, and this study aims to investigate the effect of surgical position on PONV in patients undergoing bariatric surgery.
Aim: To explore the effect of the operative position during bariatric surgery on PONV.
Objective: This study aims to examine the nutritional status of individuals diagnosed with esophageal cancer and compare the nutritional indicators and intestinal flora between malnourished and non-malnourished patients. The findings aim to contribute to the early prevention of malnutrition and the development of interventions targeting the intestinal flora to treat esophageal cancer.
Methods: An 80-patient sample of hospitalized individuals with esophageal cancer was selected from the radiotherapy department of our hospital between July 2021 and July 2022 to evaluate NRS2002 scores and PG-SGA scores.
An increasing number of elderly individuals are experiencing postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) problems after undergoing hip replacement surgery, with gut microbiota metabolites playing a role in its pathogenesis. Among these, the specific effects of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) on POCD are still unclear. This study aimed to explore the role of TMAO on cognitive dysfunction and underlying mechanisms in mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFN-methyladenosine (mA) is the most prevalent modification in cellular RNA which orchestrates diverse physiological and pathological processes during stress response. However, the differential mA modifications that cope with herbivore stress in resistant and susceptible crop varieties remain unclear. Here, we found that rice stem borer (RSB) larvae grew better on indica rice (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF, a new species of Cyperaceae from Guangdong Province, China, is described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically similar to F. T.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMegalencephaly-polymicrogyria-polydactyly-hydrocephalus syndrome (MPPH), a type of overgrowth syndrome, is characterized by progressive megalencephaly, cortical brain malformations, and distal limb anomalies. Previous studies have revealed that the overactivity of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-Protein kinase B pathway and the increased cyclin D2 (CCND2) expression were the main factors contributing to this disease. Here, we present the case of a patient who exhibited megalencephaly, polymicrogyria, abnormal neuronal migration, and developmental delay.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Congenital cataracts stand as the primary cause of childhood blindness globally, characterized by clouding of the eye's lens at birth or shortly thereafter. Previous investigations have unveiled that a variant in the (MAF) gene can result in Ayme-Gripp syndrome and solitary cataract. Notably, MAF mutations have been infrequently reported in recent years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cockayne syndrome is an inherited heterogeneous defect in transcription-coupled DNA repair (TCR) cause severe clinical syndromes, which may affect the nervous system development of infants and even lead to premature death in some cases. ERCC8 diverse critical roles in the nucleotide excision repair (NER) complex, which is one of the disease-causing genes of Cockayne syndrome.
Methods And Results: The mutation of ERCC8 in the patient was identified and validated using WES and Sanger sequencing.
Insensitivity to external optical feedback is experimentally demonstrated in a self-chaotic deformed square microcavity laser for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. Both the optical and radio frequency (RF) spectra of the microlaser remain unaffected for external optical feedback with feedback strength as high as 9.9 dB.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE Trans Image Process
December 2023
Video object removal aims at erasing a target object in the entire video and filling holes with plausible contents, given an object mask in the first frame as input. Existing solutions mostly break down the task into (supervised) mask tracking and (self-supervised) video completion, and then separately tackle them with tailored designs. In this paper, we introduce a new setup, coined as unified video object removal, where mask tracking and completion are addressed within a unified framework.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFYing Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao
November 2023
Objective: Bioequivalence (BE) studies support the approval and clinical use of both new and generic drug products. Narrow therapeutic index (NTI) drugs have relatively high costs and low success rates of BE evaluation clinical trials as high-risk drugs. A physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model can be used to evaluate the BE of two preparations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlzheimer's disease (AD), also known as senile dementia, is the most common degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Neuroinflammation is currently believed to be a crucial factor in the progression of AD, while its exact mechanism remains unclear. In this study, we demonstrated that AD transgenic mice exhibited cognitive deficits accompanied by the elevated serum and brain inflammation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWild rice ( spp.), an aquatic grass belonging to the subfamily Gramineae, has a high economic value. provides food (such as grains and vegetables), a habitat for wild animals, and paper-making pulps, possesses certain medicinal values, and helps control water eutrophication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study aims to automatically classify color Doppler images into two categories for stroke risk prediction based on the carotid plaque. The first category is high-risk carotid vulnerable plaque, and the second is stable carotid plaque.
Method: In this research study, we used a deep learning framework based on transfer learning to classify color Doppler images into two categories: one is high-risk carotid vulnerable plaque, and the other is stable carotid plaque.
Postharvest chilling injury (CI) of fruit, including peaches, is a huge challenge to horticultural product preservation. Microwave irradiation can be used as a physiological regulator due to the thermal effects; however, its non-thermal effects on the CI of postharvest fruit remain unclear. Thus, the physiological attributes and metabolisms involving phenolics, fatty acids, and sugars were compared between 'Zhongtao No.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlong with the extensive application of radiation in medical, military and other fields, human beings carry a greater risk of exposure to radiation environment that causes a range of physical injure, particularly to the brain in cognition. However, the radiation-associated cognitive disability is poorly understood and there is no effective prevention or long-term treatment. Here, we demonstrate that neurogenesis and neuroinflammation disorder are primarily involved in the pathophysiological basis of irradiation-induced cognitive decline.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough feline coronavirus (FCoV) infection is extremely common in cats, there are currently few effective treatments. A peptide derived from the heptad repeat 2 (HR2) domain of the coronavirus (CoV) spike protein has shown effective for inhibition of various human and animal CoVs , but further use of FCoV-HR2 has been limited by lack of practical delivery vectors and small animal infection model. To overcome these technical challenges, we first constructed a recombinant (rBS) expressing spore coat protein B (CotB) fused to an HR2-derived peptide (HR2P) from a serotype II feline enteric CoV (FECV).
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