Effects of the Pituitary-targeted Gland Axes on Hepatic Lipid Homeostasis in Endocrine-associated Fatty Liver Disease-A Concept Worth Revisiting.

Hepatic lipid homeostasis is not only essential for maintaining normal cellular and systemic metabolic function but is also closely related to the steatosis of the liver. The controversy over the nomenclature of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in the past three years has once again sparked in-depth discussions on the pathogenesis of this disease and its impact on systemic metabolism. Pituitary-targeted gland axes (PTGA), an important hormone-regulating system, are indispensable in lipid homeostasis.

The Role of OH Cards in Psychological Interventions for Children With Fractures.

Context: Fractures are traumatic events, with psychological effects that can have a negative impact on children hospitalized with fractures. They can seriously affect children's physical rehabilitation and quality of life and even produce psychological disorders The OH card is a metaphorical card that allows access to an individual's inner world and can have a positive effect in psychotherapy.

Objective: The study intended to investigate the use of OH Cards during psychological interventions with children with fractures and to provide a methodological reference for the use of OH Cards in therapy.

Avoiding "COVID Blindness": Advocating Cognitive Bias Teaching in the Context of COVID-19.

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A glutathione S-transferase GhTT19 determines flower petal pigmentation via regulating anthocyanin accumulation in cotton.

Anthocyanin accumulations in the flowers can improve seed production of hybrid lines, and produce higher commodity value in cotton fibre. However, the genetic mechanism underlying the anthocyanin pigmentation in cotton petals is poorly understood. Here, we showed that the red petal phenotype was introgressed from Gossypium bickii through recombination with the segment containing the R region in the A07 chromosome of Gossypium hirsutum variety LR compared with the near-isogenic line of LW with white flower petals.

Contribution of Subway Expansions to Air Quality Improvement and the Corresponding Health Implications in Nanjing, China.

With China's rapid economic development, particularly its accelerated urbanization, air pollution has been one of the serious environmental issues across China. Most major cities in China expand their subway systems to handle this problem. This study takes both long- and short-term effects of subway expansions on air quality and its corresponding health implications into account based on a network density-based time series analysis and a distance-based difference-in-differences analysis.

Air quality improvement from COVID-19 lockdown: evidence from China.

As we move through 2020, our world has been transformed by the spread of COVID-19 in many aspects. A large number of cities across the world entered "sleep mode" sequentially due to the stay-at-home or lockdown policies. This study exploits the impact of pandemic-induced human mobility restrictions, as the response to COVID-19 pandemic, on the urban air quality across China.

Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on global air quality and health.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put much of the world into lockdown, as one unintended upside to this response, the air quality has been widely reported to have improved worldwide. Existing studies examine the environmental effect of lockdowns at a city- or country-level, few examines it from a global perspective. Using a novel COVID-19 government response tracker dataset, combining the daily air pollution data and weather data across 597 major cities worldwide between January 1, 2020, and July 5, 2020, this study quantifies the causal impacts of 8 types of lockdown measures on changes of a range of individual pollutants based on a difference-in-differences design.

Clinical characteristics of platelets and its possible gender dimorphism in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the characteristics of platelet-associated parameters in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients with varying degrees of disease severity and investigate the sexual dimorphism of platelet features in NAFLD patients.

Methods: A total of 829 NAFLD patients were divided into separate groups based on body mass index (BMI), liver stiffness measurement (LSM), controlled attenuation parameter (CAP), and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels. The platelet count (PC), mean platelet volume (MPV), and platelet distribution width (PDW) parameters were analyzed among different groups, and the sex-based differences were compared.

Diagnostic performance of fibroscan and computed tomography in 322 normal alanine aminotransferase non-obese non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients diagnosed by ultrasound.

Aims Of The Study: To compare the evaluation of various non-invasive examination include ultrasound, fibroscan and computed tomography (CT) in normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) non-obese patients, to analyse the consistency and advantages among these non-invasive examination in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients.

Methods Used To Conduct The Study: About 322 cases of non-obese NAFLD patients (BMI < 25 kg/m ) with normal ALT were enroled. All patients were diagnosed with fatty liver by abdominal ultrasonography.