J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open
December 2024
Emergency physicians are well-positioned to take a leadership role in telehealth, particularly in emerging categories such as triage, direct acute unscheduled care, and virtual observation. However, the growth of telehealth has outpaced curricular development in emergency medicine (EM) residency programs. This manuscript presents a model longitudinal telehealth curriculum, developed by the consensus of education experts, including representatives from the telehealth interest groups from EM's two primary specialty societies: the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pediatric anterior teeth complex crown-root fractures has high incidence and pose greater treatment challenges. Dynamic tooth development increases risks for orthodontic, periodontal, and restorative treatments.
Case Description: The authors present a case of a 12-year-old boy with a complex crown-root fracture in the right maxillary central incisor.
Tubular microdiscectomy is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures for lumbar disc herniation (LDH). This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathway for microdiscectomy in improving perioperative clinical outcomes in patients with LDH. This study retrospectively analyzed the prospectively collected perioperative outcomes of patients in pre-ERAS (January 2020 to December 2021) and post-ERAS (January 2022 to September 2023) groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe dosages of colloidal silicon seeds in the seed-induced synthesis of TS-1 zeolites were investigated in detail. The characterization results revealed that the colloidal silicon seeds not only reduced the particle sizes but also promoted the incorporation of titanium atoms into the framework of TS-1 zeolites as prepared. SEM images and particle size distribution (PSD) confirmed that the particle sizes of TS-1 zeolite could be effectively reduced to about 150 nm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe pathogen is responsible for the devastating pokkah boeng disease, which causes significant economic losses in sugarcane production. However, the mechanisms by which it affects plant immunity remain largely unknown. Common in Fungal Extracellular Membrane (CFEM) domain proteins have been implicated in fungal growth, infection processes, and pathogenicity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBlinatumomab has shown to improve survival outcomes in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) patients with measurable residual disease (MRD) detected by multiparametric flow cytometry (MFC). However, data on blinatumomab clearing MRD with high sensitivity remain scarce. This study evaluates the effectiveness of blinatumomab in eradicating low levels of MRD, as detected by droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) but undetectable by MFC, in children with B-ALL.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A proportion of individuals exposed to respiratory viruses avoid contracting detectable infection. We tested the hypothesis that early innate immune responses associate with resistance to detectable infection in close contacts of COVID-19 cases.
Methods: 48 recently-exposed household contacts of symptomatic COVID-19 cases were recruited in London, UK between May 2020 and March 2021 through a prospective, longitudinal observational study.
Buildings, especially installed windows, account for a large proportion of global energy consumption. The research trend of smart windows leans towards multi-functional integration, concurrently achieving solar modulation and thermal management. However, sometimes a one-time performance switch cannot meet demands, making the design of multi-gradient adjustable smart windows particularly important.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Mol Biosci
November 2024
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) offer a groundbreaking approach to selectively degrade disease-related proteins by utilizing the ubiquitin-proteasome system. While this strategy shows great potential in preclinical and clinical settings, off-tissue effects remain a major challenge, leading to toxicity in healthy tissues. This review explores recent advancements aimed at improving PROTAC specificity, including tumor-specific ligand-directed PROTACs, pro-PROTACs activated in tumor environments, and E3 ligase overexpression strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmmonia (NH), as a hydrogen energy carrier, is advantageous for mitigating energy consumption and carbon emission; however, the current Haber process for NH synthesis requires harsh conditions with a low conversion rate. To address these challenges, chemical looping ammonia synthesis (CLAS) has been proposed for utilizing aluminum dross (AD)-a hazardous waste containing sufficient active Al and N as a nitrogen carrier-involving carbon conversion without emissions. AD samples were employed to investigate the performance of CLAS, and the evolution of nitrogen carrier.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGrowth-regulating factors (GRFs) are plant-specific transcription factors involved in the regulation of plant growth, development, and abiotic stress processes. However, the function of Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss GRFs remain largely unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale And Objectives: Metastatic bone tumors significantly reduce patients' quality of life and expedite cancer spread. Traditional diagnostic methods rely on time-consuming manual annotations by radiologists, which are prone to subjectivity. Employing deep learning for rapid, precise segmentation of bone metastases can greatly improve patient outcomes and survival.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Womens Health
November 2024
As adult stem cells with various advantages, Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) are valuable resources for veterinary treatment and animal reproduction. Previous studies have shown that hypoxia can induce epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and improve mesenchymal characteristics of BMSCs in vitro culture. However, the mechanism by which hypoxia improves the interstitial characteristics of buffalo BMSCs (bBMSCs) remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAchieving high attack success rate (ASR) with minimal perturbed distortion has consistently been a prominent and challenging research topic in the field of adversarial examples. In this paper, a novel method to optimize communication signal adversarial examples is proposed by focusing on low-frequency components of perturbations (LFCP). Observations on model attention towards DCT coefficients reveal the crucial role of LFCP within adversarial examples in altering the model's predictions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a significant pathogenic fungus that causes sugarcane Pokkah Boeng. Proteins secreted by pathogenic fungi can be delivered into hosts to suppress plant immunity and establish infection. However, there is still much to be discovered regarding 's secreted effectors in overcoming plant immunity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF3-Deoxyanthocyanidins (3-DAS) are the unique flavonoid compounds in sorghum. The majority of research to date have concentrated on the biological activity and extraction of 3-DAS from sorghum and lacked systematic purification and identification investigations. Herein, a facile method for the purification of sorghum 3-DAS from the acidic methanol solution crude extract using macroporous resins (MARs) was proposed and investigated in this work.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe prevalence of adolescent myopia is remarkably increasing. Previous studies have indicated that an unhealthy diet is a risk factor for myopia. However, the link between diet-related inflammation and myopia is unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProgrammed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is a critical immune checkpoint protein that facilitates tumor immune evasion. While antibody-based PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors have shown promise, their limitations necessitate the development of alternative therapeutic strategies. This work addresses these challenges by developing a hexapeptide, KFM (Lys-Phe-Met-Phe-Met-Lys), capable of both directly downregulating PD-L1 and self-assembling into a ROS-responsive supramolecular hydrogel.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFACS Appl Mater Interfaces
November 2024
High-performance GaO solar-blind photodetectors are critical for applications due to their selective solar-blind ultraviolet sensitivity. The quality of the GaO film has a significant impact on the performance of photodetectors. This study presents an innovative approach to enhancing the quality of GaO films through the introduction of a naturally graded buffer layer, which is formed by the oxidation of a metallic Ga film and significantly improves interface stability by accommodating lattice mismatches and reducing defects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Clinical thinking is an important competency among master of nursing specialist (MNS) postgraduate students. Previous studies have demonstrated that self-directed learning (SDL) positively affects clinical thinking among MNS postgraduates. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying the relationship between SDL and clinical thinking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The connection between peritoneal function and gut microbiota in peritoneal fibrosis (PF) patients remains uncertain.
Methods: Peritoneal equilibration test (PET) was employed to evaluate peritoneal function in patients with peritoneal fibrosis (PF). 16S rRNA sequencing was used to analyze the gut flora in incident peritoneal dialysis (PD) and PF groups, identifying differential microbial communities.
Marek's disease (MD), an immunosuppressive disease induced by the Marek's disease virus (MDV), is regarded as an ideal model for lymphoma research to elucidate oncogenic and anti-oncogene genes. Using this model, we found that circRUNX2.2, derived from exon 6 of RUNX2, was significantly upregulated in MDV-infected tumorous spleens.
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