The oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) is an invasive pest threatening global fruit industries. Field populations of B. dorsalis exhibit complex insecticide resistance, hindering pest control efforts and exacerbating damage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedicine (Baltimore)
October 2024
Exosomes, which are extracellular vesicles with a diameter ranging from 40 to 160 nm, are abundantly present in various body fluids. Exosomal microRNA (ex-miR), due to its exceptional sensitivity and specificity, has garnered significant attention. Notably, ex-miR is consistently detected in almost all bodily fluids, highlighting its potential as a reliable biomarker.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion (DCIS-MI) is a special type of breast cancer. It is an invasive lesion less than 1.0 mm in size related to simple ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThyroid dysfunction is associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease; however, whether plasma thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels in subjects with euthyroidism affect the risk of cardiovascular disease remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the causal association between plasma TSH levels and cardiovascular diseases, particularly ischemic heart disease and heart failure (HF). Summary statistics from the Integrative Epidemiology Unit Open genome-wide association studies Project and FinnGen consortium were used to investigate the causal relationship between plasma TSH levels and the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBreast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women, contributing to high rates of morbidity and mortality owing to the ability of these tumors to metastasize via the vascular system even in the early stages of progression. While ultrasonography and mammography have enabled the more reliable detection of early-stage breast cancer, these approaches entail high rates of false positive and false negative results Mammograms also expose patients to radiation, raising clinical concerns. As such, there is substantial interest in the development of more accurate and efficacious approaches to diagnosing breast cancer in its early stages when patients are more likely to benefit from curative treatment efforts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The continuously developing pesticide resistance is a great threat to agriculture and human health. Understanding the mechanisms of insecticide resistance is a key step in dealing with the phenomenon. Insect cuticle is recently documented to delay xenobiotic penetration which breaks the previous stereotype that cuticle is useless in insecticide resistance, while the underlying mechanism remains scarce.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are one of the three detoxification enzyme families. The constitutive and inducible overexpression of GSTs genes plays an important role in insecticide resistance. Previous study showed that malathion resistance was polygenic, and elevated GSTs activity was one of the important factor participating in malathion resistance of Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), a serious economic pest worldwide.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCatalytic oxidation has been extensively studied as a promising technology for the removal of toluene from industrial waste gases and indoor air. However, the debate regarding the oxidation mechanism is far from resolved. CeMnO catalysts with different mixing ratios are prepared by the sol-gel method and found to exhibit better catalytic activities for toluene oxidation than a single oxide.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCarboxylesterases (CarEs) are a multifunctional superfamily of enzymes and play an important role in detoxification of various insecticides in insects. The oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis, is one of the most destructive agricultural pests and has developed different degrees of resistance to organophosphates in field. However, the involvement of BdCarEs in tolerance or resistance to other alternative insecticides are still unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe oriental fruit fly, , is a damaging insect pest for many vegetable and fruit crops that has evolved severe chemical insecticide resistance, including organophosphorus, neonicotinoid, pyrethroid, and macrolides. Hence, it is important to elucidate its detoxification mechanism to improve its management and mitigate resource destruction. Glutathione -transferase (GST) is a critical secondary phase enzyme that plays multiple detoxification functions against xenobiotics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Bohai Sea is facing multidirectional pressure from economic development and pollutant emissions. Magnetic minerals and heavy metal concentrations in the sediments of core M5 from the Bohai Sea were performed. The results of concentration-related magnetic parameters, heavy metal contents, and PLI (Tomlinson pollution load index) illustrate there are essential linkages of the sources, migration, and deposition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are ligand-gated ion channels that mediate the fast action of acetylcholine in synaptic cholinergic transmissions. Insect nAChRs are the target of several classes of insecticides. Here, the full-length cDNA encoding a nAChR beta1 subunit () was identified and characterized from a destructive pest, .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Environ Sci (China)
February 2023
PdAg/AlO were pretreated by CO and H reduction pretreatments, respectively. The reduced catalysts were tested for HCHO and CO oxidation and characterized by Brunner Emmet Teller (BET), X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and oxygen temperature programmed desorption (O-TPD). These results indicate that the pretreatments have effect on PdAg reconstruction, PdAg particle size and active oxygen species, which are responsible for the catalytic performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the effect of bicalutamide combined with docetaxel on the levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in serum and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in patients with advanced prostate carcinoma (PCa).
Methods: The clinical data of 103 patients with advanced PCa at our hospital between Feb. 2020 and Feb.
Background: Ectopic adrenal tissue is rare in adults, with an incidence of only about 1%. We report a rare case of ectopic adrenocortical adenoma in the left renal sinus.
Case Preentation: A 57-year-old woman was admitted to the Department of Urology due to "a left kidney tumor" on physical examination.
The oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) is expanding its distribution to higher latitudes. Our goal in this study was to understand how B. dorsalis adapts to higher latitude environments that are more arid than tropical regions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMetastasis is the most lethal form of prostate cancer, and finding new therapeutic targets remains a major clinical challenge. TP53 mutation has been identified to be involved in tumor progression and metastasis. Nevertheless, direct evidence of the role of TP53 mutation in prostate cancer metastasis and its underlying mechanism remain obscure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAxillary lymph node dissection (ALND) can be omitted in the part of the breast-conserving patients with positive sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) since Z0011 trial has presented. Nevertheless, to date, no studies revealed the influence of different tracing modalities (single tracer versus dual tracers) for sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) on axillary management referring to Z0011 trial criteria. This study aimed to assess whether different tracing modalities of SLNB have impact on axillary management referring to Z0011 trial criteria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSome Aberrant expression of miRNAs plays an important role in the occurrence and distant metastasis of breast cancer. This study aimed to identify crucial miRNA signatures for breast cancer using microarray data from the Gene Expression Omnibus database, including ductal carcinoma and invasive duct carcinoma. In this study, we founded that miR-205 was significantly down-regulated in breast cancer, and the low expression of miR-205 was significantly associated with the TNM stage of breast cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFibroblasts are a highly heterogeneous population in tumor microenvironment. PDGFR-β fibroblasts, a subpopulation of activated fibroblasts, have proven to correlate with cancer progression through multiple of mechanisms including inducing angiogenesis and immune evasion. However, the prognostic role of these cells in solid tumors is still not conclusive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe neuropeptide adipokinetic hormone (AKH) binds to the AKH receptor (AKHR) to regulate carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. It also participates in the insect anti-stress response. We used RT-qPCR to detect the expression levels of 39 neuropeptides in malathion-susceptible (MS) and malathion-resistant (MR) strains of Bactrocera dorsalis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRenal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a form of cancer arising from the renal epithelium, with high mortality rates that have reached stable levels over the past decade. The tumor microenvironment is an essential regulator of tumor progression and survival, and extracellular vesicles (EVs) are an important facet of this microenvironment. Herein, we explored the impact of hypoxia-induced miR-155 expression in EVs on expression in RCC cells and their associated oncogenic activity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) in insects contribute to the sensitivity of the olfactory system and connect external odorants to olfactory receptor neurons. Determination of the chemosensory functions in Diaphorina citri, a vector of the citrus Huanglongbing pathogen, may help in developing a potential target for pest management.
Results: Diaphorina citri showed dose-dependent electroantennogram recording (EAG) responses to 12 host plant volatiles.