Ann Clin Lab Sci
November 2024
Objective: Overexposure to zinc can lead to zinc poisoning. Zinc poisoning from zinc powder inhalation has rarely been reported.
Case Report: A 66-year-old male presented with nausea, chest tightness, and shortness of breath.
In this editorial, we have taken an in-depth look at the article published by Wan . The study showed that preconditioning mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) protected them against programmed cell death, and increased their survival rate and therapeutic potential. Autophagy, a type of programmed cell death, is a major intracellular degradation and recycling pathway that is crucial for maintaining cellular homeostasis, self-renewal, and pluripotency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuropsychiatr Dis Treat
November 2024
is a gram-positive anaerobic coccus that can cause infections in immunocompromised individuals. causing empyema has not been reported earlier. Here, we present a novel case of empyema caused by .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMuseum collections are an important source for resolving taxonomic issues and species delimitation. Type specimens as name-bearing specimens, traditionally used in morphology-based taxonomy, are, due to the progress in historical DNA methodology, increasingly used in molecular taxonomic studies. Museum collections are subject to constant deterioration and major disasters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The impact of vitamin D on type 1 diabetes has been a controversial topic in public health. Furthermore, significant differences in the proportion of vitamin D have been noted. The purpose of this systematic review was to determine the overall proportion of vitamin D deficiency in children/adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a perennial, endemic herb of the Taihang Mountains in China. Two species of this genus ( and ) are important wild genetic resources for Asteraceae; however, their reproductive biology has been lacking until now. This study is the first detailed report on the reproductive biology and breeding systems of two species.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAirport pavements are prone to early defects during the construction phase, and their early performance during the construction phase is significantly affected by the external temperature field. This article takes the concrete pavement of Xiamen Xiang'an New Airport as an example and uses a three-dimensional (3D) humidity simulation program for cement concrete pavement to study the evolution behavior of the early stage humidity field of the pavement in a humid and hot climate environment. The results indicate that the evolution law of the humidity field of the concrete pavement slab was consistent with the environmental field, presenting a 24 h periodic variation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study aims to investigate the prevalence and antibiogram of and methicillin-resistance (MRSA) in rabbits, rabbit handlers, and rabbitry environments in Terengganu.
Materials And Methods: Swab samples from 183 rabbits (183 oral and 183 ear swabs), 45 rabbit handlers (45 oral and 45 nasal), and environmental ( = 180) samples from rabbitries were collected from 10 rabbit farms in Terengganu. The associated isolates from the swabs were isolated using phenotypic microbiology tests.
COVID-19 patients with comorbidities such as hypertension or heart failure (HF) are associated with poor clinical outcomes. The cellular distribution of Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), the critical enzyme for SARS-CoV-2 infection, in the human heart is unknown. We explore the underlying mechanism that leads to increased susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with cardiovascular diseases and patients of cardiac dysfunction have increased risk of multi-organ injury compared with patients of normal cardiac function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFShih is an endemic and endangered genus restricted to the Taihang Mountains that has important ornamental and economic value. According to the Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae (FRPS, Chinese version), this genus contains two species ( and ), whereas in the (English version) only one species is present. The interspecific phylogenetic relationship remains unclear and undefined, which might primarily be due to the lack of specific molecular markers for phylogenetic analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBased on the three datasets from 1980s, 2010 and 2015 in Guangdong Province, we analyzed the spatial and temporal variations of soil pH in farmlands in different regions of Guangdong Province and analyzed the driving factors for such variations. The results showed that the spatial distribution of soil pH in Guangdong Province changed significantly in different periods. During 1980s to 2010, soil pH showed an acidification trend with a decline of 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFShih (Asteraceae), an endangered genus endemic to the Taihang Mountains of China, is a high-value ornamental and medicinal plant consisting of two species, shih and (Ling) Shih. However, the evolutionary relationships and the taxonomic characteristics between the two species remain unknown. In this study, high-throughput transcriptome sequencing was used to analyze the differential metabolic activity and gene expression and screened special molecular markers for exploring the genetic variation and species differentiation in Shih.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFYing Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao
November 2017
Iron oxide is the main form of iron element existing in the soil. In subtropical areas, the high-content iron oxide constitutes the soil's important coloring components, or its mineral substances, such as goethite and hematite, making the soil color apparently different from that in other climatic zones. The present paper, with the Pearl River Delta, a typical subtropical area, as illustration, and through analysis of the correlation between different spectral forms and the content of soil iron oxide, created inversion models of soil iron oxide by extracting characteristic spectral bands.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a popular ornamental flower, potted lily is an important object of lily breeding. Paclobutrazol, a chemical growth retardation compound, is often used to dwarf plant in producing potted lilies. However, in recent years, the plants with inherited dwarf traits by using genetic engineer breeding technology are being developed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFYing Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao
February 2011
Based on the 1980s' soil inventory data and the 2002-2007 soil pH data of Guangdong Province, the spatiotemporal variation of soil pH in the Province in past 30 years was studied. In the study period, the spatial distribution pattern of soil pH in the Province had less change (mainly acidic), except that in Pearl River Delta and parts of Qingyuan and Shaoguan (weak alkaline). The overall variation of soil pH was represented as acidification, with the average pH value changed from 5.
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