mPEG-PCL modified Caffeic acid eye drops for endotoxin-induced uveitis treatment.

The modulation of inflammatory mediators has emerged as a critical therapeutic strategy in uveitis management. Current nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory therapies face limitations due to systemic side effects. Caffeic acid (CA), a natural polyphenol with anti-inflammatory properties, holds therapeutic potential but suffers from poor solubility and ocular irritation.

Efficacy and safety of perioperative sintilimab plus platinum-based chemotherapy for potentially resectable stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer (periSCOPE): an open-label, single-arm, phase II trial.

Background: The absolute overall survival (OS) improvement with preoperative chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients is controversial and unsatisfactory. We designed this trial to explore the efficacy and safety of perioperative sintilimab plus platinum-based chemotherapy for potentially resectable stage IIIB NSCLC to facilitate further optimization of this therapeutic strategy.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with stage IIIB NSCLC through invasive staging approaches and/or PET/CT scans and evaluated as having a high probability of radical resection of the primary lesion and metastatic lymph nodes with clear pathological margins by a multidisciplinary team were enrolled in this open-label, single-arm, phase II trial at a single centre in China.

Engineering Triple-Phase Interfaces around the Anode toward Practical Alkali Metal-Air Batteries.

Alkali metal-air batteries (AMABs) promise ultrahigh gravimetric energy densities, while the inherent poor cycle stability hinders their practical application. To address this challenge, most previous efforts are devoted to advancing the air cathodes with high electrocatalytic activity. Recent studies have underlined the solid-liquid-gas triple-phase interface around the anode can play far more significant roles than previously acknowledged by the scientific community.

CTRP6 protects against ferroptosis to drive lung cancer progression and metastasis by destabilizing SOCS2 and augmenting the xCT/GPX4 pathway.

Lung cancer is a highly heterogeneous malignancy, and despite the rapid development of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, acquired drug resistance and tumor progression still occur. Thus, it is urgent to identify novel therapeutic targets. Our research aims to screen novel biomarkers associated with the prognosis of lung carcinoma patients and explore the potential regulatory mechanisms.

Development and clinical validation of a microfluidic-based platform for CTC enrichment and downstream molecular analysis.

Background: Although many CTC isolation and detection methods can provide information on cancer cell counts, downstream gene and protein analysis remain incomplete. Therefore, it is crucial to develop a technology that can provide comprehensive information on both the number and profile of CTC.

Methods: In this study, we developed a novel microfluidics-based CTC separation and enrichment platform that provided detailed information about CTC.

Development and validation of web-based dynamic nomograms predictive of disease-free and overall survival in patients who underwent pneumonectomy for primary lung cancer.

Background: The tumour-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system is insufficient to precisely distinguish the long-term survival of patients who underwent pneumonectomy for primary lung cancer. Therefore, this study sought to identify determinants of disease-free (DFS) and overall survival (OS) for incorporation into web-based dynamic nomograms.

Methods: The clinicopathological variables, surgical methods and follow-up information of 1,261 consecutive patients who underwent pneumonectomy for primary lung cancer between January 2008 and December 2018 at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center were collected.

A Decision-Making System for Low Carbon Manufacturing.

Based on the stochastic market demand of products, this paper studies the low-carbon manufacturing decisions making of manufacturing enterprises considering downward substitution and green technology input under the carbon cap-and-trade policy. The results show that the government's carbon trade policy will have a great impact on the production of manufacturing enterprises. Therefore, manufacturing enterprises must attach importance to the constraints of the government's carbon emission reduction policies.

InOR-Net: Incremental 3-D Object Recognition Network for Point Cloud Representation.

3-D object recognition has successfully become an appealing research topic in the real world. However, most existing recognition models unreasonably assume that the categories of 3-D objects cannot change over time in the real world. This unrealistic assumption may result in significant performance degradation for them to learn new classes of 3-D objects consecutively due to the catastrophic forgetting on old learned classes.

Anatomical variation analysis of left upper pulmonary blood vessels and bronchi based on three-dimensional reconstruction of chest CT.

Background: With its growing popularity and potential outcome, preoperative three-dimensional reconstruction of chest computed tomography (CT) has been widely used in video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) segmentectomy for treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This study aimed to summarize the experience of anatomical variation analysis of left upper pulmonary blood vessels and bronchi based on the three-dimensional reconstruction of chest CT.

Materials And Methods: A total of 103 patients with early-stage NSCLC were chosen to undergo VATS segmentectomy based on preoperative three-dimensional reconstruction of chest CT in our institute from September 2019 to July 2022.

Survival After Lobectomy vs. Sublobar Resection for Stage IA Large-Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Lung: A Population-Based Study.

Objective: Due to the low incidence of pulmonary large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC), the survival analysis for comparing lobectomy and sublobar resection (SLR) for stage IA LCNEC remains scarce.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with pathological stage IA LCNEC between 1998 and 2016 were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. The oncological outcomes were cancer-specific survival (CSS) and overall survival (OS).

Integrative analysis and experiments to explore angiogenesis regulators correlated with poor prognosis, immune infiltration and cancer progression in lung adenocarcinoma.

Angiogenesis is the process of capillary sprouting from pre-existing vessels and it plays a critical role in the carcinogenic process of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). However, the association of angiogenesis regulators with the prognosis and progression of LUAD needs to be further elucidated. In this study, we adopted differential expression analysis, Cox proportional hazards (PH) regression analysis and experimental validation to identify angiogenesis regulators correlated with a poor prognosis, immune infiltration and cancer progression in LUAD.

Simultaneous Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery of bilateral pulmonary nodules.

Background: Surgical resection is an appropriate treatment option for synchronous bilateral pulmonary nodules with ground-glass opacities. The applicability of simultaneous uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery is not fully understood. We evaluated the feasibility and safety of performing such surgeries at our hospital.

Surgery of primary non-small cell lung cancer with oligometastasis: analysis of 172 cases.

Background: Previous studies have demonstrated that survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with oligometastasis may benefit from local treatment. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of local surgical treatment with systematic chemoradiotherapy in NSCLC with oligometastasis.

Methods: Data from a total of 172 patients with NSCLC with oligometastasis were collected at our Cancer Hospital from January 2006 to December 2016.

Sensitive detection of telomerase activity in cancer cells using portable pH meter as readout.

This study developed a portable and sensitive biosensor for the detection of telomerase activity extracted from HeLa cells by monitoring urease regulated pH change. In the presence of telomerase, the telomerase substrate (TS) primer was elongated by adding telomeric repeats (TTAGGG) firstly. The TS primer was then immobilized onto streptavidin magnesphere paramagnetic particles (PMPs).

Detection of aflatoxin B in food samples based on target-responsive aptamer-cross-linked hydrogel using a handheld pH meter as readout.

Aflatoxin B (AFB) can cause great threat to human health, so the development of convenient and portable device for sensitive detection of AFB is highly desired. The portable pH meter has the characters of facile operation, low cost, and easy availability. Therefore, in this study, we investigate the applicability of utilizing a pH meter as the readout to develop a portable sensor for AFB.

An electrochemiluminescence biosensor for Kras mutations based on locked nucleic acid functionalized DNA walkers and hyperbranched rolling circle amplification.

Herein, an electrochemiluminescence (ECL) biosensor for ultrasensitive and specific detection of Kras mutant genes has been developed on the basis of the high discrimination capability of locked nucleic acid (LNA) and dual signal amplification techniques including DNA walkers and hyperbranched rolling circle amplification (HRCA).

A sensitive fluorescence biosensor for alkaline phosphatase activity based on the Cu(II)-dependent DNAzyme.

Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) plays an important role in phosphate metabolism processes; deviation from its normal level may indicate different kinds of diseases, so it is highly necessary to develop some simple and sensitive methods to monitor the ALP level. In this study, a simple, high selective, and sensitive fluorescent biosensor has been proposed for ALP activity determination. The Cu(II)-dependent DNAzyme (Cu-Enzyme) are divided into two parts: Cu-Enzyme 1 and Cu-Enzyme 2, and labelled with alkyne and azido groups, respectively.