Solar-driven overall conversion of CO and HO into fuels and chemicals shows an ultimate strategy for carbon neutrality yet remains a huge challenge. Herein, an integrated photocatalytic redox architecture of Zn NPs/GaN Nanowires (NWs)/Si is explored for light-driven overall conversion of CO and HO into CH and HO simultaneously without any external sacrificial agents and additives. The as-designed architecture affords a benchmark CH activity of 189 mmol g h with a high selectivity of 93.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Neoantigen-targeting therapies including personalized vaccines have shown promise in the treatment of cancers, particularly when used in combination with checkpoint blockade therapy. At least 100 clinical trials involving these therapies have been initiated globally. Accurate identification and prioritization of neoantigens is crucial for designing these trials, predicting treatment response, and understanding mechanisms of resistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Carotid siphon calcification (CSC) serves as a marker of atherosclerosis and therefore may influence the outcome after subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). We aimed to analyze the impact of CSC on neurological outcomes, ischemia, and vasospasm.
Methods: A total of 716 patients with aSAH were treated between December 2004 and June 2016 in our central European tertiary neurovascular care center in Essen, Germany.
The relationship between pangolin-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 has been a subject of debate. Further evidence of a special relationship between the two viruses can be found by the fact that all known COVID-19 viruses have an abnormally hard outer shell (low M disorder, i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvidence indicates that combinations of anti-EGFR antibodies and KRAS p.G12C (c.34G>T) inhibitors can be an effective treatment strategy for advanced colorectal cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Murray law-based quantitative flow ratio (μFR) is an emerging technique that requires only 1 projection of coronary angiography with similar accuracy to quantitative flow ratio (QFR). However, it has not been validated for the evaluation of noninfarct-related artery (non-IRA) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) settings. Therefore, our study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of μFR and the safety of deferring non-IRA lesions with μFR >0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground A simplification of the Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) version 2018 (v2018), revised LI-RADS (rLI-RADS), has been proposed for imaging-based diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Single-site data suggest that rLI-RADS category 5 (rLR-5) improves sensitivity while maintaining positive predictive value (PPV) of the LI-RADS v2018 category 5 (LR-5), which indicates definite HCC. Purpose To compare the diagnostic performance of LI-RADS v2018 and rLI-RADS in a multicenter data set of patients at risk for HCC by performing an individual patient data meta-analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI (Randomized Controlled Trial of Intravascular Imaging Guidance Versus Angiography-Guidance on Clinical Outcomes After Complex Percutaneous Coronary Intervention) demonstrated that intravascular imaging-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) improved clinical outcome compared with angiography-guided PCI for patients with complex coronary artery lesions. This study aims to assess whether the prognostic benefit of intravascular imaging-guided procedural optimization persists in patients undergoing PCI for left main coronary artery disease.
Methods: Of 1639 patients enrolled in the RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI, 192 patients with left main coronary artery disease were selected for the current prespecified substudy.
Background: The adult mammalian heart is incapable of regeneration, whereas a transient regenerative capacity is maintained in the neonatal heart, primarily through the proliferation of preexisting cardiomyocytes. Neonatal heart regeneration after myocardial injury is accompanied by an expansion of cardiac fibroblasts and compositional changes in the extracellular matrix. Whether and how these changes influence cardiomyocyte proliferation and heart regeneration remains to be investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Ex vivo lung perfusion has emerged as a platform for organ preservation, evaluation, and restoration. Gene delivery using a clinically relevant adeno-associated vector during ex vivo lung perfusion may be useful in optimizing donor allografts while the graft is maintained physiologically active. We evaluated the feasibility of adeno-associated vector-mediated gene delivery during ex vivo lung perfusion in a rat transplant model.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRoutine tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging of colorectal cancer is imperfect in predicting survival due to tumor pathobiological heterogeneity and imprecise assessment of tumor spread. We leveraged Bayesian additive regression trees (BART), a statistical learning technique, to comprehensively analyze patient-specific tumor characteristics for the improvement of prognostic prediction. Of 75 clinicopathologic, immune, microbial, and genomic variables in 815 stage II-III patients within two U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMetal phthalocyanine (MPc) material with a well-defined MN moiety offers a platform for catalyzing the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), while the practical performance is often limited by the insufficient O adsorption due to the planar MN configuration. Here, a design (called Gr-M -O-M Pc) is proposed, where the metal of MPc (M ) is axially coordinated to a single metal atom in graphene (Gr-M ) through a bridge-bonded oxygen atom (O), introducing effective out-of-plane polarization to promote O adsorption on MPc. Manipulating the out-of-plane polarization charge by varying types of M and M (M = Fe/Co/Ni, M = Ti/V/Cr/Mn/Fe/Co/Ni) in the axial coordination zone of -M -O-M - are examined by density functional theory simulations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Data regarding clinical outcomes after intravascular imaging-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for complex coronary-artery lesions, as compared with outcomes after angiography-guided PCI, are limited.
Methods: In this prospective, multicenter, open-label trial in South Korea, we randomly assigned patients with complex coronary-artery lesions in a 2:1 ratio to undergo either intravascular imaging-guided PCI or angiography-guided PCI. In the intravascular imaging group, the choice between intravascular ultrasonography and optical coherence tomography was at the operators' discretion.
Background: Concerns have been raised about the long-term performance of aortic stent grafts for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms, in particular, unibody stent grafts (eg, Endologix AFX AAA stent grafts). Only limited data sets are available to evaluate the long-term risks related to these devices. The SAFE-AAA Study (Comparison of Unibody and Non-Unibody Endografts for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair in Medicare Beneficiaries Study) was designed with the Food and Drug Administration to provide a longitudinal assessment of the safety of unibody aortic stent grafts among Medicare beneficiaries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInvest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
February 2023
Purpose: To identify genetic alleles associated with differences in choroidal thickness (CT) in a population-based multiethnic Asian cohort.
Methods: A population-based multiethnic Asian cohort without retinal pathology was subjected to spectral-domain OCT (SD-OCT) and genotyping of risk alleles in CFH, VIPR2, ARMS2, and CETP. Subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) values were assessed from SD-OCT, and associations with the risk alleles were determined for each cohort.
Background: Carotid stenosis is thought to be the primary risk factor for central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO); however, it is not known whether atrial fibrillation (AF)-a cardiac arrhythmia that underlies over 25% of cerebral ischemic strokes-predisposes patients to CRAO.
Methods: A retrospective, observational, cohort study was performed using data from the State Inpatient Databases and State Emergency Department Databases from New York (2006-2015), California (2003-2011), and Florida (2005-2015) to determine the association between AF and CRAO. The primary exposure was hospital-documented AF.