Cellular and molecular mechanisms of oroxylin A in cancer therapy: Recent advances.

Seeking an effective and safe scheme is the common goal of clinical treatment of tumor patients. In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine has attracted more and more attention in order to discover new drugs with good anti-tumor effects. Oroxylin A (OA) is a compound found in natural Oroxylum indicum and Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi plants and has been used in the treatment of various cancers.

Semirigid Ureteroscopy Therapy against Childhood Kidney Stones.

Objective: The purpose of the current study was to assess the effectiveness of semirigid ureterorenoscopy (URS) as first-line therapy for early childhood patients with <20 mm stones in the pelvic, middle, or upper calices.

Methods: In all, 61 pediatric kidney stone patients who had flexible ureteroscopy (fURS) between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2019, were included in this study. Before fURS, semirigid URS employed the UreTron or holmium: YAG (Ho : YAG) laser was conducted.

[Study of building quantitative analysis model for chlorophyll in winter wheat with reflective spectrum using MSC-ANN algorithm].

Preprocess method of multiplicative scatter correction (MSC) was used to reject noises in the original spectra produced by the environmental physical factor effectively, then the principal components of near-infrared spectroscopy were calculated by nonlinear iterative partial least squares (NIPALS) before building the back propagation artificial neural networks method (BP-ANN), and the numbers of principal components were calculated by the method of cross validation. The calculated principal components were used as the inputs of the artificial neural networks model, and the artificial neural networks model was used to find the relation between chlorophyll in winter wheat and reflective spectrum, which can predict the content of chlorophyll in winter wheat. The correlation coefficient (r) of calibration set was 0.

[Estimations of chlorophyll and water contents in live leaf of winter wheat with reflectance spectroscopy].

For estimating the yield of wheat, and for crop growth monitoring by using hyperspectral remote sensing, it is very important to quantitatively determine the chlorophyll and water contents in live leaf of winter wheat. In the range of 350-1650 nm, the reflectance spectrum of winter wheat's leaf in different growth periods were scanned by ASD FieldSpec Pro FR portable spectrometer and LI-COR 1800 integrating spheres. Partial least squares method was used to develop the quantitative analysis models for chlorophyll and water contents with reflectance spectroscopy.