Cancer metastasis is the primary cause of cancer-related death, yet the forces that drive cancer cells through various steps and different routes to distinct target organs/tissues remain elusive. In this study, we applied a barcoding system based single-cell lineage tracing approach to study the metastasis rate and route of breast cancer cells and their interactions with the tumor microenvironment (TME) during metastasis. The results indicate that only a small fraction of cells, accounting for fewer than 3% of total barcodes, can intravasate from the primary site into the blood circulation, whereas more cells disseminate through the lymphatic system to different organs.
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December 2024
Objective To investigate the effects of rotation stability after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) on subjective outcomes,sport performance,psychological readiness,and return to sport. Methods The patients who underwent ACLR in the Sports Hospital,National Institute of Sports Medicine,General Administration of Sport of China from January 2015 to January 2021 were followed up during the period from November 2022 to December 2023.The patients were grouped according to the results of the pivot shift test (PST) of the affected knee at the last follow-up visit.
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December 2024
Objective To evaluate the effects of knee flexor and extensor strength on the subjective function and motor performance of knees after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Methods A total of 53 patients who underwent anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in the National Institute of Sports Medicine,General Administration of Sport of China from June 2015 to June 2021 and met the inclusion criteria were enrolled in this study.The patients were followed up time for at least 2 years.
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December 2024
Objective To evaluate the effects of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction timing on the motor performance and proprioception by clinical evaluation as well as proprioception and motor performance tests on the patients more than 2 years after ACL reconstruction. Methods The patients who underwent ACL reconstruction in the National Institute of Sports Medicine,General Administration of Sport of China from January 2015 to January 2021 and met the inclusion criteria were followed up,and the postoperative data were collected retrospectively.Fifty-six patients who met the inclusion criteria were included in this study and categorized into two groups:early surgery (=28,who underwent ACL reconstruction ≤3 weeks after injury) and delayed surgery (=28,who underwent ACL reconstruction >3 weeks after injury).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study included 52 Japanese older adults with Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scores > 5 and 52 healthy controls (HCs) with PSQI score ≤ 5. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and 3D T1-weighted imaging were acquired using 3T magnetic resonance imaging. The diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space (DTI-ALPS) index was calculated using preprocessed DWI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA), a versatile central metabolite, plays a critical role in various metabolic processes and protein acetylation. While its impact on tumor cell properties is well established, the connection between acetyl-CoA metabolism and immune evasion in tumors remains unclear. Here, we uncover a mechanism by which nucleo-cytosolic acetyl-CoA contributes to immune evasion through regulation of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1).
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September 2024
Pathological cardiac hypertrophy is the primary cause of heart failure, yet its underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Transmembrane protein 100 (TMEM100) plays a role in various disorders, such as nervous system disease, pain and tumorigenesis, but its function in pathological cardiac hypertrophy is still unknown. In this study, we observed that TMEM100 is upregulated in cardiac hypertrophy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicroplastics negatively impact soil health and productivity. Organic fertilizers constitute significant contributors of microplastics in agricultural soils. Nevertheless, comprehensive data on the diversity of microplastics in long-term fertilized soils remain unavailable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLibosch, Bl. (), Thunb, and Ramat () are known as the '' in China, which are used as materials for functional foods. In this paper, the constituents of were identified by UPLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS, and flavones and aromatic compounds are mainly responsible for these herbs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Acetyl-CoA synthetase 2 (ACSS2), one of the enzymes that catalyze the conversion of acetate to acetyl-CoA, has been proved to be an oncogene in various cancers. However, the function of ACSS2 is still largely a black box in melanoma.
Methods: The ACSS2 expression was detected in melanoma cells and melanocytes at both protein and mRNA levels.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun
August 2024
Melanoma, arising from the malignant transformation of melanocytes, stands as the most lethal type of skin cancer. While significant strides have been made in targeted therapy and immunotherapy, substantially enhancing therapeutic efficacy, the prognosis for melanoma patients remains unoptimistic. SIRT7, a nuclear-localized deacetylase, plays a pivotal role in maintaining cellular homeostasis and adapting to external stressors in melanoma, with its activity closely tied to intracellular nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCholangiocarcinoma (CCA), an exceptionally aggressive malignancy originating from the epithelium of the bile duct, poses a formidable challenge in cancer research and clinical management. Currently, attention is focused on exploring the oncogenic role and prognostic implications associated with Bmi1 in the context of CCA. In our study, we assessed the correlation of Bmi1 and Foxn2 expression across all types of CCA and evaluated their prognostic significance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Actinidia arguta leaves (AAL) are traditionally consumed as a vegetable and as tea in folk China and Korea. Previous studies have reported the anti-diabetic effect of AAL, but its bioactive components and mechanism of action are still unclear.
Aim Of The Study: This study aims to identify the hypoglycemic active components of AAL by combining serum pharmacochemistry and network pharmacology and to elucidate its possible mechanism of action.
Pyrogenic carbon and magnetite (FeO) were mixed together for the activation of hydrogen peroxide (HO), aiming to enhance the oxidation of refractory pollutants in a sustainable way. The experimental results indicated that the straw-derived carbon obtained by pyrolysis at 500-800 °C was efficient on coactivation of HO, and the most efficient one was that prepared at 700 °C (C700) featured with abundant defects. Specifically, the reaction rate constant () for removal of an antibiotic ciprofloxacin in the coactivation system (C700/FeO/HO) is 12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Tumor cells frequently suffer from endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. Previous studies have extensively elucidated the role of tumorous unfolded protein response in melanoma cells, whereas the effect on tumor immunology and the underlying mechanism remain elusive.
Methods: Bioinformatics, biochemical assays and pre-clinical mice model were employed to demonstrate the role of tumorous inositol-requiring transmembrane kinase/endoribonuclease 1α (IRE1α) in anti-tumor immunity and the underlying mechanism.
Calreticulin (CRT), a damage-associated molecular pattern molecule, is reported to translocate from the endoplasmic reticulum to the membrane in melanocytes under oxidative stress. To investigate the potential role of CRT in the pathogenesis of vitiligo, we analyzed the correlation between CRT and ROS in serum and lesions of vitiligo, detected CRT and protein kinase RNA-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase (PERK) expression in vitiligo lesions, and studied the production of CRT and mediators of unfolded protein response (UPR) pathway and then tested the chemotactic migration of CD8 T cells or CD11c CD86 cells. Initially, we verified the overexpression of CRT in perilesional epidermis that was positively correlated with the disease severity of vitiligo.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Sci Pollut Res Int
January 2024
Financial technology provides strong support for the low-carbon transformation of energy through digital technology. There is limited research on the relationship between financial technology and low-carbon transformation of energy, and the information transmission and connection between the two entities are still unclear. Therefore, this paper innovatively conducts in-depth research on the spatial effect between financial technology and low-carbon transformation of energy and further analyzes the intermediary role of green finance in it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding and controlling carrier dynamics in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures through strain are crucial for their flexible applications. Here, femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy is employed to elucidate the interlayer electron transfer and relaxation dynamics under external tensile strains in a WSe/MoS heterostructure. The results show that a modest ∼1% tensile strain can significantly alter the lifetimes of electron transfer and nonradiative electron-hole recombination by >30%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disease, in which epidermal keratinocytes play a vital role in its pathogenesis by acting both as the responder and as the accelerator to the cutaneous psoriatic immune response. Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are a class of proinflammatory metabolites that are commonly accumulating in cardiometabolic disorders. Recent studies have also observed the increased level of AGEs in the serum and skin of psoriasis patients, but the role of AGEs in psoriatic inflammation has not been well investigated.
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December 2023
Clean energy development has played a pivotal role in economic transformation. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2006 to 2021, the spatial Dubin model was used to empirically investigate the impact of clean energy development on green economic growth. Furthermore, this research selected industrial structure optimization as the mediating variable to analyze the mediating effect between clean energy development and green economic growth.
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November 2023
Heart failure (HF) severely impairs human health because of its high incidence and mortality. Cardiac hypertrophy is the main cause of HF, while its underlying mechanism is not fully clear. As an E3 ubiquitin ligase, Ring finger protein 13 (RNF13) plays a crucial role in many disorders, such as liver immune, neurological disease and tumorigenesis, whereas the function of RNF13 in cardiac hypertrophy remains largely unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFleaves (AAL) are an excellent source of bioactive components for the food industry and possess many functional properties. However, the hypoglycemic effect and mechanism of AAL remain unclear. The aim of this work was to investigate the potential hypoglycemic effect of AAL and explore its possible mechanism using 16S rRNA sequencing and serum metabolomics in diabetic mice induced by high-fat feeding in combination with streptozotocin injection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMelanoma is the most lethal skin cancer originating from the malignant transformation of epidermal melanocyte. The dysregulation of cellular metabolism is a hallmark of cancer, including in melanoma. Aberrant branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) metabolism and related enzymes has been greatly implicated in the progression of multiple types of cancer, whereas remains far from understood in melanoma.
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