Food Sci Biotechnol
December 2020
Effects of tea polyphenols (TP) incorporation on physicochemical and antioxidative properties of whey protein isolate (WPI) coating were studied. Two WPI coating solutions were prepared by heating WPI solutions (pH 8, 90 °C) for 30 min and then TP was incorporated. TP addition could increase the negative zeta potential of 5% solution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransl Lung Cancer Res
October 2020
Background: Kirsten rat sarcoma vial oncogene () is one of the most prevalent oncogenes in multiple cancer types, but the incidence is different between the Asian and non-Asian populations. The recent development of G12C targeting drug has shown great promise. It is thus important to understand the genomic landscape of G12C in a specific population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Nanosci Nanotechnol
February 2021
Due to its high stability and excellent performance, inorganic nanomaterials have attracted much attention in the research of disease diagnosis and treatment. Focusing on inorganic nanomaterials, high-temperature pyrolysis has been used to successfully prepare Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles with different particle sizes. The diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease have advanced, and many new diagnostic methods have been adopted clinically.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To explore how the organizational identity and psychological resilience affect work engagement of the front-line nurses in the prevention and control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to establish the relationship model based on these factors.
Material And Methods: Convenience sampling was applied to collect questionnaire samples from 216 nurses (from 12 cities in 6 provinces). General information questionnaires, organizational identity scale (OIQ), psychological resilience scale (CD-RISC), and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) were used as tools for data collection.
Chronic pain is one of the serious conditions that affect human health and remains cure still remains a serious challenge as the molecular mechanism remains largely unclear. Here, we used label-free proteomics to identify potential target proteins that regulate peripheral inflammatory pain and reveal its mechanism of action. Inflammation in peripheral tissue was induced by injecting complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) into rat hind paw.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale: The anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) fusion has been identified to be a driver gene in lung cancer, and serves as important diagnostic and therapeutic targets. Owing to the advanced sequencing technologies, new partner genes of ALK have been constantly detected.
Patient Concerns: A 55-year-old Chinese woman went to our hospital because of cough and expectoration for 1 year.
Purpose: In CT-guided dorsal root ganglion puncture, especially T1-T3, it is often difficult to reach the target due to obstruction of the lamina, transverse process, and ribs. Therefore, a safe and effective puncture method with high success rate is urgently needed to guide us in our clinical work.
Patients And Methods: A total of 44 patients with dorsal root ganglion underwent pulsed radiofrequency therapy for pain T1-T3 herpes zoster neuralgia at the pain department of Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University from January 2019 to February 2020 were retrospectively reviewed.
As a cis-acting non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocker through a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), cisatracurium (CAC) is widely used in anaesthesia and intensive care units. nAChR may be present on Leydig cells to mediate the action of CAC. Here, by Western blotting, immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence, we identified that CHRNA4 (a subunit of nAChR) exists only on rat adult Leydig cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMotor impairment is common in the elderly population. Disrupted white matter tracts and the resultant loss of connectivity between cortical regions play an essential role in motor control. Using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), we investigated the effect of white matter microstructure on upper-extremity and lower-extremity motor function in a community-based sample.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in high temperature requirement serine peptidase A1 (HTRA1) gene are responsible for cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CARASIL). Recently, increasing evidence has shown that heterozygous HTRA1 mutations are also associated with cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) with an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance. This study was aimed to analyze the genetic and clinical characteristics of HTRA1-related autosomal dominant CSVD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Purpose: To compare the risk factors and risk of stroke between lacune and large perivascular spaces (PVSs) in a community-based sample.
Methods: Large PVSs were assessed using 3.0T MRI in a population-based cohort consisting of 1,204 participants.
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph
February 2021
With machine learning models being increasingly applied to various decision-making scenarios, people have spent growing efforts to make machine learning models more transparent and explainable. Among various explanation techniques, counterfactual explanations have the advantages of being human-friendly and actionable-a counterfactual explanation tells the user how to gain the desired prediction with minimal changes to the input. Besides, counterfactual explanations can also serve as efficient probes to the models' decisions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objective: Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is not rare in women of childbearing age. Chinese couples have been encouraged to have two children by the new family-planning policy. Concerns have been raised about the effect of CVT on subsequent pregnancies, but few studies have focused on the Chinese population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSneddon's syndrome is a rare non-inflammatory arteriopathy affecting small and medium-sized arteries, characterized by a generalized livedo reticularis and recurrent transient ischemic attack or ischemic stroke. Hemorrhagic stroke was reported in limited cases, but microbleeds and superficial siderosis were rarely issued. We aimed to investigate the hemorrhagic imaging features of Sneddon's syndrome and explore the possible mechanism and clinical relevance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To investigate the clinical features, prognostic outcomes of patients with orbital and ocular adnexal lymphoma (OALs) in Taiwanese cohort.
Methods: Total 112 patients with OALs were retrospectively reviewed. Demographic information such as age, gender, lymphoma subtype, tumor location and treatment modalities were recorded.
Background: Communication skill is a core competency in neurology residency training. Specific training in this area at the residency level is often lacking, especially regarding difficult conversations. The aim of this study is to evaluate the current state in teaching residents about difficult conversations in 5 Chinese accredited neurology residency training programs and determine whether there is a perceived need for a formalized curriculum in this field.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpherical and porous nanoparticles are ideal nanostructures for drug delivery. But currently they are mainly composed of non-degradable inorganic materials, which hinder clinical applications. Here, biological porous nanospheres using RNA as the building blocks and cyclodextrin as the adhesive were synthesized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis
September 2020
Background And Objective: Stroke at a young age is a societal challenge with a rising incidence. Our aim was to investigate sex differences in risk factors, etiology, and diagnostic process of ischemic stroke in Chinese young adults.
Methods: We retrospectively recruited 411 consecutive patients with first-ever ischemic stroke who were 18 to 50 years of age (mean age, 38.
Background And Purpose: Although elevated fasting blood glucose (FBG) at admission is associated with poor outcome in patients with ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, it has not been investigated in patients with cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT). We aimed to determine the correlation between elevated FBG and severity and outcome among CVT patients.
Methods: Consecutive CVT patients between 2009 and 2019 were identified for this retrospective study.
Although ring finger protein 2 serves an important role in the occurrence, development and regulation of various types of cancer, RNF2 expression in skin squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) remains unknown. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of RNF2 expression in SCC and adjacent tissues from patients. The protein and gene expression levels of RNF2 in SCC and adjacent tissues were detected by immunohistochemistry (IHC), western blot analysis and semi-quantitative reverse transcription (RT) PCR.
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