In this study, samples were collected from different types of artificial fish reefs and prevention and control areas in the sea areas of the northern part of Da Changshan Island and the northeastern part of Xiao Changshan Island in the North Yellow Sea. The purpose is to compare the differences in the bacterial communities among different regions, determine the impacts of environmental factors on the bacterial communities, and evaluate the ecological effects of artificial fish reefs on the marine bacterial communities. We obtained a total of 2,128,186 effective sequences and 4321 bacterial operational taxonomic units (OTUs), which were classified into 14 phyla and 76 genera.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith the rapid development of social media, astrology-related virtual communities have gained significant popularity in China. However, the mechanisms behind the formation of astrological addiction behaviors within virtual communities remain largely unexplored. This study, based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) theory, investigates how community environmental characteristics and user traits influence astrological addiction through the mediation of blogger trust.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Reducing the incidence of breast cancer and improving its prognosis have become significant challenges for the global public health sector. We aimed to investigate the role of circulating triglycerides in the occurrence and survival of patients with breast cancer, while focusing on the possible differential effects by molecular subtypes of breast cancer.
Methods: We used a Mendelian randomization approach to analyze publicly accessible genome-wide association study data, including triglyceride levels, breast cancer risk, and survival prognosis.
Type O8 is the most prevalent serotype of APEC isolated from Wenchang chicken embryos (Hainan, China).The isolates were more than 90% resistant to erythromycin, amoxicillin, ampicillin, and tetracycline.19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The difference in prognosis between invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) and invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) is still controversial in the academic community. Resolving this controversy can help to more accurately determine patients' prognosis, provide further personalized treatment, alleviate unnecessary psychological burden for some patients, and provide direction for further fundamental research.
Patients And Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted using the SEER Research Plus Data 8 Registries, Nov 2021 sub (1978-2019), including female breast cancer patients diagnosed with ILC or IDC between 2010 and 2015.
Background: Abnormalities in mitochondrial structure or function are closely related to the development of malignant tumors. Mitochondrial metabolic reprogramming provides precursor substances and energy for the vital activities of tumor cells, so that cancer cells can rapidly adapt to the unfavorable environment of hypoxia and nutrient deficiency. Mitochondria can enable tumor cells to gain the ability to proliferate, escape immune responses, and develop drug resistance by altering constitutive junctions, oxidative phosphorylation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial subcellular relocalization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEthnopharmacological Relevance: Cattle bile Arisaema (CBA) and Pig bile Arisaema (PBA) are both processed products fermented from Arisaema erubescens (Wall.) Schott and animal bile, which are recorded in China Pharmacopoeia. Traditionally, bile Arisaema was often used for clearing heat and eliminating phlegm, calming wind and calming panic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTargeted nanodrug delivery systems are highly anticipated for the treatment of malaria. It is known that can induce new permeability pathways (NPPs) on the membrane of infected red blood cells (iRBCs) for their nutrient uptake. The NPPs also enable the uptake of nanoparticles (NPs) smaller than 80 nm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA precise quantification of energy gap for a molecular semiconductor is crucial. However, there has always been a lack of a suitable method which results in an inaccurate measurement. In this research, a three-terminal vertical structure (Al/AlO/Au/ molecular semiconductor/Al), named hot electron transistor has been designed to be the most powerful method for energy gap determination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: is one of the major anaerobic pathogen causing food poisoning and animal enteritis. With the rise of antibiotic resistance and the restrictions of the use of antibiotic growth promoting agents (AGPs) in farming, enteritis and food contamination have become more common. It is time-consuming and labor-intensive to confirm the detection by standard culture methods, and it is necessary to develop on-site rapid detection tools.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks-8 (ZIF-8) is commonly used as an ideal precursor for non-noble metal catalysts because of its high specific surface area, ultra-high porosity, and N-rich content. Upon pyrolyzing ZIF-8 at 900 °C in Ar, the resulting material, referred to as Z8, displayed good activity toward the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Then the ZIF-8 was mixed with various conductive carbon materials, such as multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), Acetylene black (ACET), Vulcan XC-72R (XC-72R), and Ketjenblack EC-600JD (EC-600JD), to form Z8 composites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Ischemic stroke (IS) is a major cause of mortality and disability worldwide. Inflammatory response is crucial in the pathogenesis of tissue injury in cerebral infarction. Arctium lappa leaves are traditionally used to treat IS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe rapid development of mobile communication devices has brought challenges to wireless networks, where data packets are able to organize and maintain local area networks more freely without the constraints of wired devices. Scholars have developed diverse network protocols on how to ensure data transmission while maintaining its self-organizational nature. However, it is difficult for traditional network protocols to meet the needs of increasingly complex networks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Sansha Yongle Blue Hole (SYBH) is the world's deepest marine blue hole with unique physicochemical characteristics. However, our knowledge of the biodiversity and community structure in SYBH sediments remains limited, as past studies have mostly focused on microbial communities in the water column. Here, we collected sediment samples from the aerobic zone (3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEthnopharmacological Relevance: Atherosclerosis (AS), a lipid-induced inflammatory condition of the arteries, is a primary contributor to atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases including stroke. Arctium lappa L. leaf (ALL), an edible and medicinal herb in China, has been documented and commonly used for treating stroke since the ancient times.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlong with the miniaturization and versatility of organic optoelectronic devices, it is desired to achieve a profound comprehension of the charge transport mechanism and even the basic device physics. The basis of these studies is the acquisition of relevant information about energy levels. This review provides a comprehensive analysis of five commonly-used techniques, including cyclic voltammetry, ultraviolet electron spectroscopy, inverse photoemission electron spectroscopy, low energy inverse photoemission spectroscopy and hot electron spectroscopy.
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November 2023
Deoiling of food waste (FW) after hydrothermal pretreatment occurs at high temperatures, and more energy is required for substrate cooling before the anaerobic digestion (AD) process. AD at the transition temperature (for example 45 °C) is good for energy saving and carbon emission reducing when treating deoiling FW. However, the metabolic activity of methanogens must increase at the transition temperatures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this study was for the first time to explore the feasibility of terahertz (THz) spectral imaging for the detection of gluten contents in food samples. Based on the obtained 80 THz spectrum data, Gaussian process regression (GPR) and support vector machine (SVM) models were established to predict wheat gluten concentrations in 40 potato starch mixture samples. The prediction performances of GPR and SVM obtained were R = 0.
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September 2023
Objective: To identify copper-induced death-associated hub genes in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and understand their functional and biological significance using machine learning and Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis (WGCNA).
Methods: OSCC transcriptomic data from GEO and TCGA databases were subjected to data integration, batch effect removal, background correction, and quantile normalization to select cuproptosis-associated genes using Spearman's correlation analysis. The 'limma' R package was used to filter differentially expressed genes (DEGs).
Introduction: To identify proteins and corresponding genes that share sequential and structural similarity with programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) via bioinformatics analysis.
Research Design And Methods: All proteins with immunoglobulin V-set domain were screened in the human protein sequence database, and the corresponding genes were obtained in the gene sequence database. GSE154609 was downloaded from the GEO database, which contained peripheral blood CD14+ monocyte samples from patients with T1DM and healthy controls.
Dosing zero valent iron (ZVI) or sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is the common method of addressing acidification in anaerobic digestion (AD) systems; however, few studies have discussed and compared their effects on microbial metabolism. In the present study, microbial syntrophy and metabolic pathways under ZVI and NaOH regulation are comparatively analyzed through microbial network analysis and metagenomic/metaproteomic analyses. CH yield in the ZVI reactor was 414 mL/gVS, an increase of 23% when compared with that in the reactor with NaOH dosing (336 mL/gVS).
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