We delve into whether the equalization of basic public services can mitigate regional disparities in China's economic resilience. Our analysis reveals that COVID-19 has diminished economic resilience and exacerbated regional differences. Notably, these regional disparities constitute the primary cause of spatial variations in economic resilience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLin Chuang Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi
July 2024
Neosensitizations may be occur during the allergen specific immunotherapy(AIT) due to the differences between allergen vaccine's content and a patient's molecular sensitization profile. This study investigates whether AIT with HDM extract changes the sensitization profile, whether de novo sensitization occurs, and the clinical importance of the neosensitization. Fifty-three patients with HDM allergic rhinitis ,with/without asthma, patients were received one year HDM subcutaneous AIT .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFα-Synuclein (α-syn) can form oligomers, protofibrils, and fibrils, which are associated with the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies. Both the lipid peroxidation product 4-oxo-2-nonenal (ONE) and agitation can induce aggregation of α-syn and phosphorylated α-syn. Thus, clarification of the characteristics of different α-syn species could help to select suitable aggregates for diagnosis and elucidate the pathogenesis of diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLin Chuang Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi
April 2024
To evaluate the expression of eosinophil cationic protein and myeloperoxidase in nasal secretions in different types of rhinitis, and to explore their values in the differential diagnosis of different types of rhinitis. Six hundred and eighty-four subjects were selected, including 62 subjects in the acute rhinitis group, 378 subjects in the allergic rhinitis group, 94 subjects in the vasomotor rhinitis group, 70 subjects in the eosinophilic non-allergic rhinitis group, and 80 subjects in the control group. Nasal secretion samples were collected from the five groups, and the percentages of inflammatory cells were counted by Rachel's staining, and the expression of ECP/MPO was detected by colloidal gold assay.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Y-box binding protein 1 (YBX1) plays a variety of roles in progression of multiple tumors. However, the role of YBX1 in prognostic value and immune regulation for liver hepatocellular carcinoma (LIHC) remains unclear. The present study aimed to examine the effect of YBX1 on the regulation of tumor immunity and survival prediction in LIHC patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Chem Inf Model
February 2024
The quickly increasing size of the Protein Data Bank is challenging biologists to develop a more scalable protein structure alignment tool for fast structure database search. Although many protein structure search algorithms and programs have been designed and implemented for this purpose, most require a large amount of computational time. We propose a novel protein structure search approach, TM-search, which is based on the pairwise structure alignment program TM-align and a new iterative clustering algorithm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Some patients show persistent cognitive decline for weeks, months or even years after surgery, which seriously affects their long-term prognosis and quality of life. However, most previous basic studies have focused mainly on the mechanisms of early postoperative cognitive decline, whereas cognitive decline in the longer term after surgery is less well-understood. The subgranular zone of the dentate gyrus exhibits life-long neurogenesis, supporting hippocampus-dependent learning and memory.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Obesity, a global chronic disease, has been recognized as a severe risk to health. In our study, a novel polysaccharide named ARS was isolated and purified from aerial part of salviae miltiorrhizae radix. Our aim is to investigate the weight-reducing effect of a polysaccharide from salviae miltiorrhizae radix on mice fed a high-fat diet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: BACKGROUND&AIMS: Gut bacteria translocate into the liver through a disrupted gut vascular barrier, which is an early and common event in the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) are directly exposed to translocated gut microbiota in portal vein blood. Escherichia coli, a commensal gut bacterium with flagella, is markedly enriched in the gut microbiota of patients with NAFLD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConsidering that the strip method is simple and convenient for users, a Europium nanosphere-based time-resolved fluorescent immunochromatographic assay (TRFICA) for the rapid screening of 4,4'-dinitrocarbanilide (DNC) was developed to improve the performance of strip assays. After optimization, TRFICA showed IC, the limit of detection, and cut-off values of 0.4, 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the effects of insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) on growth and glycolipid metabolism, as well as the underlying mechanism.
Methods: A mouse model of IGF2 overexpression was constructed to measure weight gain before adulthood, to obtain the values of adult glycolipid metabolism indicators in the peripheral blood and to detect the expression of genes in the IGF2 signaling pathway in different mouse tissues. The present study also explored the independent association between the IGF2 gene and macrosomia by detecting and comparing the expression levels of IGF2 mRNA/H19 RNA in maternal peripheral blood and fetal cord blood of 26 human pregnancies.
Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a common postoperative central nervous system (CNS) complication with a higher occurrence among aged individuals than among young individuals. The aim of this study was to explore the mechanisms by which POCD preferentially affects older individuals. We found here that exploratory laparotomy induced cognitive function decline in aged mice but not in young mice and that this decline was accompanied by inflammatory activation of microglia in the hippocampus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: BALB/c and C57BL/6 mouse strains are commonly used in allergy research. The current study investigated the immunological differences between these two mouse strains with a locally allergic rhinitis model.
Methods: Eighteen BALB/c and eighteen C57BL/6 mice received different doses of ovalbumin (OVA) intranasally for eight weeks (each mouse strain has three subgroups, 25 mg/mL group, 0.
Photoremovable protecting groups are of great importance due to their remote control over the liberation of diverse reactive species temporally and spatially, including biologically active compounds and functional groups. Here, an in-depth investigation on the heterolysis-solvolysis reaction mechanisms of a photoremovable protecting group, 3',5'-dimethoxybenzoin (DMB) chloride, has been accomplished. With the aid of transient absorption and time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopies, the features of the intermediates that emerged from the photolysis process were directly observed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We aimed to explore whether irisin participates in the beneficial effects of exercise in preventing gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in overweight and obese pregnant women.
Study Design: Sixty overweight and obese pregnant women each in the exercise and control groups were randomly selected from our previous randomized controlled trial. Eighteen obese model mice were generated and divided into exercise and control groups in which body weight, abdominal circumference, anal temperature, glucose tolerance test, and insulin tolerance test were recorded.
"Green development" has become the way for countries around the world to strengthen industries, and it is an important part of China's high-quality economic development. The key for China to strike a balance between economic growth and environmental management is to optimize green total factor productivity (GTFP). This paper measures the GTFP of industry in 30 provinces of China from 2003 to 2019, based on the perspective of energy and carbon emission constraints.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLin Chuang Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi
December 2022
To establish a mouse model of local allergic rhinitis tolerance by intranasal infusion of allergen, and study its immunological indexes and characteristics. The mice were given ovalbumin(OVA) and phosphate buffer solution(PBS) daily, and their allergic symptoms were recorded. OVA-specific antibodies(IgE, IgG1, IgG2a) in serum and cytokine(IL-4, IL-10, IFN-γ) in splenic culture supernatant were detected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-throughput sequencing techniques can provide important information for understanding the interaction between exogenous microbial agents and fruit microbial communities, and explain how it controls postharvest fungal diseases. In this study, we found that Wickerhamomyces anomalus could control the postharvest disease of kiwifruit. Meanwhile, high-throughput sequencing technology results showed that the composition and structure changes of the fungal community in microbial flora were significantly greater than those of bacteria after W.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiodiesel is considered a potential substitute for fossil diesel because of its unique environmentally friendly and renewable advantages. The efficient and durable heterogeneous catalysts are vital to greenly and efficiently drive the biodiesel production process. The ionic liquid-functionalized materials, possessing the characteristics of both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, are one of the promising substitutions for conventional homogeneous acid/base catalysts for producing biodiesel.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Endocrinol (Lausanne)
August 2022
Objective: Patients with type 2 diabetes have a high risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and related liver fibrosis. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) have demonstrated efficacy in improving NAFLD, while their effectiveness on liver fibrosis is limited in type 2 diabetic patients.
Materials/methods: A prospective cohort study was performed in type 2 diabetic patients.
Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis
November 2022
Previously, we reported that the nuclear translocation of Y-box binding protein 1 (YB-1) is induced by transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) and promotes hepatic progenitor cells (HPCs) expansion. Here, we explored the mechanisms underlying YB-1 translocation and the impact of YB-1 on the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in HPCs. YB-1cre (YB-1cre) mice and YB-1cre mice were fed with a 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydrocollidine (DDC) or a choline-deficient, ethionine-supplemented (CDE) diet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSimvastatin (SIM) is a diet drug to treat high lipid levels in the blood. It has the drawback of being metabolized in humans' gastrointestinal tract (GIT) when taken in an oral dosage form. To enhance the role of SIM in treating hyperlipidemias and bypassing its metabolism in GIT, a biodegradable nanocarrier as a SIM-loaded lipid emulsion nanoparticle via the solvent injection method was designed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPenicillium expansum is the causative fungus of blue mold decay in postharvest pears resulting in substantial economic losses. Investigating P. expansum-pear fruit interactions is necessary to help develop P.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To characterize the relationship of tet(X4)-positive isolates from different hosts and environments.
Methods: PCR and MALDI-TOF MS were used to identify the tet(X4)-positive isolates. The MICs of 13 antimicrobial agents were determined by broth microdilution.