Objective: The hippocampus and amygdala, as important components of the limbic system, play crucial roles in central remodeling in congenital hearing loss. This study aimed to investigate the morphological integrity and network properties of the subfields of hippocampus and amygdala in children with congenital hearing loss.
Methods: A total of 24 children with congenital hearing loss and 17 age- and sex- matched healthy controls (HC) are included in the study.
Background: Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv) is an autosomal dominant inherited systematic disease primarily affecting the peripheral and autonomic nervous system, heart, eyes and kidney. Over 140 variants have been identified worldwide, with the Gly103Arg variant reported exclusively in China. This variant is characterized by early onset eye manifestations, making accurate and timely diagnosis difficult.
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June 2024
Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths, with very limited therapeutic options available. This study aims to comprehensively depict the heterogeneity and identify prognostic targets for PDAC with single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) analysis.
Methods: ScRNA-seq analysis was performed on 16 primary PDAC and three adjacent lesions.
Objectives: Many studies have investigated aberrant functional connectivity (FC) using resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) in subjective tinnitus patients. However, no studies have verified the efficacy of resting-state FC as a diagnostic imaging marker. We established a convolutional neural network (CNN) model based on rs-fMRI FC to distinguish tinnitus patients from healthy controls, providing guidance and fast diagnostic tools for the clinical diagnosis of subjective tinnitus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Propranolol is the first choice for treating infantile hemangioma (IH). How propranolol works in IH remains unclear. Infantile hemangioma endothelial cells (HemECs) express Notch1, Jagged, Hey1, and other molecules in the Notch pathway, suggesting that Notch pathway-related molecules play an important role in affecting vascular endothelial cell proliferation.
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August 2023
Unlabelled: To explore the autoimmune response and outcome in the central nervous system (CNS) at the onset of viral infection and correlation between autoantibodies and viruses.
Methods: A retrospective observational study was conducted in 121 patients (2016-2021) with a CNS viral infection confirmed via cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) next-generation sequencing (cohort A). Their clinical information was analysed and CSF samples were screened for autoantibodies against monkey cerebellum by tissue-based assay.
Many amyloid fibrils associated with neurodegenerative diseases consist of an ordered fibril core (FC) and disordered terminal regions (TRs). The former represents a stable scaffold, while the latter is rather active in binding with various partners. Current structural studies mainly focus on the ordered FC since the high flexibility of TRs hinders structural characterization.
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March 2023
Background: The occurrence and progression of cancer are the results of the dysregulation of genetics and epigenetics. Epigenetic regulation can reversibly affect gene transcription activity without changing DNA structure. Covalent modification of histones is crucial in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) is a highly malignant tumor with limited treatment options that contributes largely to cancer-related deaths worldwide. Compared with traditional transcriptomic analysis, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is emerging as a more advanced and popular tool for the in-depth exploration of cellular diversity and molecular complexity. As a next-generation proteasome inhibitor, MLN2238 presents better pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and therapeutic responses in various cancers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInterest in sustainable food consumption has gradually increased over the previous third decades. Despite substantial studies addressing various topics connected to sustainable food consumption, little research systematically evaluates which factors influence consumers' purchase of sustainable food. We aim to integrate preliminary findings, compare four original and extended models of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in the context of sustainable food consumption, and identify measurement and situational moderators using a meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Greater physical activity (PA) could delay cognitive decline, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. White matter hyperintensity (WMH) burden is one of the key brain pathologies that have been shown to predict faster cognitive decline at a late age. One possible pathway is that PA may help maintain cognition by mitigating the detrimental effects of brain pathologies, like WMH, on cognitive change.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOsteoporoticfractures become increasingly common in postmenopausal women over age 55 years and men after age 65 years, bringing about substantial bone-associated morbidities, and augmented mortality and health-care costs. Advanced researches have led to a more accurate assessment of osteoporosis (OP) and have broadened the range of therapeutic approaches available to prevent osteoporotic fractures. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) analysis is an evolutionary method that quantifies the majority of transcripts in individual cells at isoform resolution, paving the way for more detailed analyses of gene regulation in biology and medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMounting research studies have suggested the indispensable roles of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification in carcinogenesis. Nevertheless, it was little known about the potential function of m6A-related lncRNAs in sample clustering, underlying mechanism, and anticancer immunity of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). PDAC sample data were obtained from TCGA-PAAD project, and a total of 23 m6A regulators were employed based on published articles.
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