Introduction: Vaccination is an important way to prevent disease, but vaccine hesitancy will impact vaccine coverage and indirectly affect health. This study aims to survey the status of vaccine hesitancy among adults in Jinan.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using the vaccine hesitancy scale among the parents of children and teenagers at hospitals in Jinan, China.
Background: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) β2-microglobulin (β2M) has been demonstrated as an important factor in β-amyloid (Aβ) neurotoxicity and a potential target for Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, more investigation is required to ascertain the relationship between β2M and glial activities in AD pathogenesis.
Methods: In this study, 211 participants from the Alzheimer's disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) with CSF and Plasma β2M, CSF glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (sTREM2), Aβ, phosphorylated-tau (P-tau) and total tau (T-tau) were divided into four groups, stage 0, 1, 2, and suspected non-AD pathology (SNAP) based on the National Institute on Aging- Alzheimer's Association (NIA-AA) criteria.
Int J Biol Macromol
December 2024
Biocompatible and degradable hydrogels are extensively utilized for the delivery and controlled release of bioactive agents. Chitosan/squid ring teeth protein (SRT) hydrogels (CH/SRTs) cross-linked by genipin were fabricated, and their gel properties and structural characteristics were analyzed across varying SRT contents. Additionally, the curcumin-release behavior of curcumin-loaded CH/SRTs (Cur-CH/SRTs) was evaluated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most lethal malignant tumors that lacks effective treatment, and gemcitabine-based chemoresistance occurs frequently. Therefore, new therapeutic strategies for PC are urgently needed. Tripartite motif containing 59 (TRIM59) plays an important role in breast and lung cancer chemoresistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF() was a gram-positive anaerobic in the gut, exhibiting clinical manifestations ranging from mild diarrhoea to fatal pseudomembranous colitis. infection (CDI) remains a serious public health problem and accounted for an estimated 360,075 cases in the United States in 2021. It has attracted the utmost attention of the world health organization (WHO).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a leading cause of bacteria-associated mortality worldwide. This is largely because infection sites are often difficult to localize and the bacteria forms biofilms which are not effectively cleared using classical antibiotics. Therefore, there is a need for new tools to both image and treat infections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Persistent inflammation in the airways is a hallmark of asthma, and researchers have extensively explored various inflammatory indicators that contribute to the condition. Despite this, there is limited research on the relationship between the systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), a novel marker of inflammation, and overall mortality rates as well as mortality rates due to specific causes in individuals with asthma.
Methods: We analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) covering a 20-year period, from 1999 to 2018.
With the frequent outbreaks of viral diseases globally, accurate and rapid diagnosis of viral infections is of significant importance for disease prevention and control. The CRISPR-Cas combined biosensing strategy, as an emergent nucleic acid detection technology, exhibits notable advantages including high specificity, elevated sensitivity, operational simplicity, and cost-effectiveness, thereby demonstrating significant potential in the domain of rapid viral diagnostics. This paper summarizes the principles of the CRISPR-Cas system, the novel biotechnologies, and the latest research progress in virus detection using the combined biosensing strategy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe carbonylative polymerization of olefin yields aliphatic polyketones, which are used as engineering plastics in the market due to their excellent mechanical strength, chemical resistance, and surface and barrier properties. However, the usage of precious palladium catalysts has restricted their extensive application as commodity materials. Herein, we present a series of phosphine-sulfonate Ni catalysts with a wide spectrum of electronic and steric substituents on the phosphorus moiety for the carbonylative polymerization of ethylene.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To explore the enhanced sensitization effect of peritumoral electroacupuncture (PEA) on doxorubicin (DOX) chemotherapy in mice with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
Methods: Eighteen female Balb/c mice were randomly divided into the model, DOX, and EA+DOX groups, with 6 mice in each group. TNBC cells were injected into the mammary fat pad of mice to establish the breast cancer-bearing mice model.
Geisha coffee is recognized for its unique aromas and flavors and accordingly, has achieved the highest prices in the specialty coffee markets. We report the development of a chromosome-level, well-annotated, genome assembly of Coffea arabica var. Geisha.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The neonatal immune system is uniquely poised to generate broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) and thus infants are ideal for evaluating HIV vaccine candidates. We present the design and safety of a novel glucopyranosyl lipid A (GLA)-stable emulsion (SE) adjuvant admixed with a first-in-infant CH505 transmitter-founder (CH505TF) gp120 immunogen designed to induce precursors for bnAbs against HIV.
Methods: HVTN 135 is a phase I randomized, placebo-controlled trial of CH505TF+GLA-SE or placebo.
Profiling the substrate sequence preferences of proteases is important for understanding both biological functions as well as for designing protease inhibitors. Several methods are available for profiling the sequence specificity of proteases. However, there is currently no rapid and high-throughput method to profile specificity of proteases for noncanonical substrates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFree-standing micro-supercapacitor (MSC) devices without substrate or current collectors are promising for practical applications. However, it is still difficult to prepare high-performance free-standing MSC devices because of the requirement of optimized active sites, conductivity, ion diffusion, controlled patterns, moisture susceptibility, etc. Here, it is proposed that the optimization of oxygen level on graphene is promising to solve these requirements because of the balance of sp and sp hybridization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Atopic dermatitis (AD), psoriasis (PSO), rosacea, and other related immune skin diseases are affected by multiple complex factors such as genetic and microbial components. This research investigates the causal relationships between specific skin microbiota and these diseases by using Mendelian randomization (MR), and Bayesian weighted Mendelian randomization (BWMR).
Methods: We utilized genome-wide association study (GWAS) data to analyze the associations between various skin bacteria and three dermatological diseases.
Background: Higher red blood cell distribution width (RDW) levels are associated with mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, more convincing evidence is still lacking, and the relationship between hemoglobin-to-red blood cell distribution width ratio (HRR) and mortality in patients with COPD remains unclear.
Methods: This study is a prospective cohort study that includes 3,745 adult patients with COPD from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database spanning from 1999 to 2018 in the United States.
Macrocyclic peptides are promising scaffolds for the covalent ligand discovery. However, platforms enabling the direct identification of covalent macrocyclic ligands in a high-throughput manner are limited. In this study, we present an mRNA display platform allowing selection of covalent macrocyclic inhibitors using 1,3-dibromoacetone-vinyl sulfone (DBA-VS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Sci Pollut Res Int
August 2024
Landscape utilization is a green and environment-friendly way of disposing of compost sludge. Garden plants can extract heavy metals from the sludge of land use, but the effect is not enough to be widely used. Chelating agents have been found to facilitate the extraction of heavy metals from plants and are expected to be popularized if they are also environmentally friendly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recent studies increasingly suggest that microbial infections and the immune responses they elicit play significant roles in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory skin diseases. This study uses Mendelian randomization (MR) and Bayesian weighted Mendelian randomization (BWMR) to explore the causal relationships between immune antibody responses and four common skin diseases: psoriasis, atopic dermatitis (AD), rosacea, and vitiligo.
Methods: We utilized summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for antibody responses to 13 infectious pathogens and four skin diseases.
JOURNAL/nrgr/04.03/01300535-202509000-00031/figure1/v/2024-11-05T132919Z/r/image-tiff A reduction in adult neurogenesis is associated with behavioral abnormalities in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Consequently, enhancing adult neurogenesis represents a promising therapeutic approach for mitigating disease symptoms and progression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevious studies have shown that the heterogeneity of tumor-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in the tumor microenvironment may play a critical role in tumorigenesis; however, the biological function of CAFs in pancreatic cancer is still controversial. In this study, we found that CD105-positive (CD105) CAF-derived exosomes significantly promoted the proliferative and invasive metastatic abilities of pancreatic cancer cells. Furthermore, RNA-seq and qRT‒PCR experiments revealed circAMPK1 as a key molecule in exosomes from CD105 CAFs that mediates the malignant progression of pancreatic cancer.
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