Roxadustat Versus Erythropoietin: The Comparison of Efficacy in Reversing Ventricular Remodeling in Dialysis Patients with Anaemia.

Renal anaemia and left ventricular hypertrophy are the main complications of chronic kidney disease and are shared among dialysis patients. This retrospective study aimed to compare the efficacies of the hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor roxadustat and recombinant human erythropoietin in reversing ventricular remodeling in dialysis patients with renal anaemia. A total of 204 participants underwent baseline examinations, including echocardiograms and laboratory tests, before being administered either treatment for at least 24 weeks from January 2018 to October 2021, after which follow-up examinations were conducted at 6 months.

The ratio of neutrophils to lymphocytes effectively predicts clinical outcomes in idiopathic membranous nephropathy.

Background: Systemic inflammatory indicators are important in the prognoses of various diseases. Such indicators, including the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), can be meaningful in predicting the clinical outcome in patients diagnosed with idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN).

Materials And Methods: 112 IMN patients diagnosed by renal biopsy were recruited retrospectively.

Application of cloud server-based machine learning for assisting pathological structure recognition in IgA nephropathy.

Background: Machine learning (ML) models can help assisting diagnosis by rapidly localising and classifying regions of interest (ROIs) within whole slide images (WSIs). Effective ML models for clinical decision support require a substantial dataset of 'real' data, and in reality, it should be robust, user-friendly and universally applicable.

Methods: WSIs of primary IgAN were collected and annotated.

Indole produced during dysbiosis mediates host-microorganism chemical communication.

An imbalance of the gut microbiota, termed dysbiosis, has a substantial impact on host physiology. However, the mechanism by which host deals with gut dysbiosis to maintain fitness remains largely unknown. In , , which is its bacterial diet, proliferates in its intestinal lumen during aging.

Outer membrane vesicles derived from gut microbiota mediate tubulointerstitial inflammation: a potential new mechanism for diabetic kidney disease.

Chronic tubulointerstitial inflammation is a common pathological process in diabetic kidney disease (DKD). However, its underlying mechanism is largely unknown. This study aims at investigating the role of gut microbiota-derived outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) in tubulointerstitial inflammation in DKD.

The EGL-30 pathway regulates experience-dependent aversive behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans to the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Avoidance of harmful substances is survival strategy used cross invertebrates and vertebrates. For example, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans evolves a sufficient avoidance response to pathogenic bacteria. Despite G protein has been found to exert neural plasticity for avoidance behaviours in C.

Intestinal microbiota-derived membrane vesicles and their role in chronic kidney disease.

Intestinal microbiota-derived membrane vesicles (MVs) play essential roles in immunomodulation and maintenance of the intestinal micro-ecosystem. The relationship between MVs and chronic kidney disease (CKD) has remained undefined. This review provides a survey of the structure and biological function of different vesicle types and summarizes the possible pathogenic mechanisms mediated by MVs, which may be of great clinical significance in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic kidney disease.

The main active components of Curcuma zedoaria reduces collagen deposition in human lung fibroblast via autophagy.

Disordered collagen production by fibroblasts in response to tissue injury contributes to pulmonary fibrosis (PF). Therefore, elimination of collagen deposition has becoming a potential target in PF treatment which despite standard anti-fibrosis regiment still remains challenge. Curcumin and curcumol are regarded as the main active components extraction from the rhizomes of Curcuma zedoaria, which is widely used for inhibition the proliferation of multiple cells.

Antioxidant response is a protective mechanism against nutrient deprivation in C. elegans.

Animals often experience periods of nutrient deprivation; however, the molecular mechanisms by which animals survive starvation remain largely unknown. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the nuclear receptor DAF-12 acts as a dietary and environmental sensor to orchestrate diverse aspects of development, metabolism, and reproduction. Recently, we have reported that DAF-12 together with co-repressor DIN-1S is required for starvation tolerance by promoting fat mobilization.

GPH1 is involved in glycerol accumulation in the three-dimensional networks of the nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora.

Turgor is very important for the invasive growth of fungal pathogens. Glycerol, a highly osmotic solvent, is considered to play an important role in turgor generation. The nematophagous fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora mainly lives as a saprophyte.

Systematic analyses reveal uniqueness and origin of the CFEM domain in fungi.

CFEM domain commonly occurs in fungal extracellular membrane proteins. To provide insights for understanding putative functions of CFEM, we investigate the evolutionary dynamics of CFEM domains by systematic comparative genomic analyses among diverse animals, plants, and more than 100 fungal species, which are representative across the entire group of fungi. We here show that CFEM domain is unique to fungi.

Inhibition Effects of Some Bioactive Peroxovanadium Complexes on the Tyrosine Phosphatase.

In order to study the structure-activity relationship and molecular mechanism of insulin-mimetic peroxovanadium complexes, the low-molecular-weight BHPTPase from bovine heart has been purified mainly by chromatography of DEAE-cellulose and Sephadex G-75, which was showed homogenicity on SDS-PAGE. Four bioactive peroxovanadium(pV) complexes bpV(ox), bpV(bipy), bpV(phen) and bpV(pic), [VO(O(2))(2)L](n-), where L = oxalic acid dianion(ox), bipyridine(bipy), 1,10-phenanthroline(phen), pyridine-2-carboxylic acid(pic) have been synthesized the bonding properties of center metal and its ligand were characterized by (51)V NMR, (13)C NMR, IR and elemental analysis. The complexes displayed remarkable inhibitory effects on the bovine heart tyrosine phosphatase.