Temperature sensitivity and tolerance play a key role in plant survival and production. Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.), widely cultivated in cool-season for forage supply and turfgrass, is extremely susceptible to high temperatures, therefore serving as an excellent grass for dissecting the genomic and genetic basis of high-temperature adaptation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe lack of human-derived in vitro models that recapitulate cervical pre-cancerous lesions has been the bottleneck in researching human papillomavirus (HPV) infection-associated pre-cancerous lesions and cancers for a long time. Here, a long-term 3D organoid culture protocol for high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions and cervical squamous cell carcinoma that stably recapitulates the two tissues of origin is described. Originating from human-derived samples, a small biobank of cervical pre-tumoroids and tumoroids that faithfully retains genomic and transcriptomic characteristics as well as the causative HPV genome is established.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOver the last 20 years, China's infertility rate has risen from 3% to 12.5%-15%. Infertility has become the third largest disease following cancer and cardiovascular disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImmunotherapy showed remarkable efficacy in several cancer types. However, the majority of patients do not benefit from immunotherapy. Evaluating tumor heterogeneity and immune status before treatment is key to identifying patients that are more likely to respond to immunotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFToday, fertility preservation is receiving more attention than ever. Cryopreservation, which preserves ovarian tissue to preserve fertility in young women and reduce the risk of infertility, is currently the most widely practiced. Transplantation, however, is less feasible for women with blood-borne leukemia or cancers with a high risk of ovarian metastasis because of the risk of cancer recurrence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFusarium equiseti is an effective plant growth-promoting fungi that induce systemic disease resistance in plants. However, the role of F. equiseti in regulating salt stress response and the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is sweeping the world, threatening millions of lives and drastically altering our ways of living. According to current studies, failure to either activate or eliminate inflammatory responses timely and properly at certain stages could result in the progression of the disease. In other words, robust immune responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are critical.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 not only poses a huge threat to public health, but also affects people's mental health. Take scientific and effective psychological crisis intervention to prevent large-scale negative emotional contagion is an important task for epidemic prevention and control. This paper established a sentiment classification model to make sentiment annotation (positive and negative) about the 105,536 epidemic comments in 86 days on the official Weibo of People's Daily, the test results showed that the accuracy of the model reached 88%, and the AUC value was greater than 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince December 2019, Wuhan, China, has experienced an outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Pregnant women are deductively considered to be in immunosuppressive condition for the safety of semi-allograft fetuses, which increases the risk of being infected by the virus. In this review, we analyzed the unique immunological characteristics of pregnant women and reviewed their known outcomes at different trimesters from the perspective of underlying mechanisms that have been studied and speculated so far.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Recent studies have shown the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the tissues of clinically recovered patients and persistent immune symptoms in discharged patients for up to several months. Pregnant patients were shown to be a high-risk group for COVID-19. Based on these findings, we assessed SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid and protein retention in the placentas of pregnant women who had fully recovered from COVID-19 and cytokine fluctuations in maternal and foetal tissues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe 2019 novel coronavirus disease is spreading all over the world. Pregnant women and infants require particular concern, owing to the special immune conditions. A case of a pregnant woman who was exposed to SARS-CoV-2 at 34+1 weeks gestation and chose to continue pregnancy is reported.
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June 2021
Background: Different endometrial patterns have an important effect on the relationship between endometrial thickness (EMT) and clinical pregnancy rate. There is a significant difference in age, selection of cycle protocols, and clinical pregnancy rates among four groups with diverse endometrial patterns.
Methods: This retrospective study aimed to assess the association between EMT on human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) administration day and the clinical outcome of fresh in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is affecting 3-5% of the women who are expecting to have babies annually. However, the molecular changes of RPL patients have not been well characterized before. In the current study, we aimed to discover the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in decidua from RPL patients by utilizing RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) technology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdv Exp Med Biol
February 2021
With the development of human society, factors that contribute to the impairment of female fertility is accumulating. Lifestyle-related risk factors, occupational risk factors, and iatrogenic factors, including cancer and anti-cancer treatments, have been recognized with their negative effects on the function of female reproductive system. However, the exact influences and their possible mechanism have not been elucidated yet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: There has been no report regarding the impact on male sexual life or sexual function by changes in lifestyle during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic.
Aim: To investigate the changes in sexual life and sexual function of Chinese men during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Methods: An online questionnaire was created and the survey was administered through social media to Chinese adult men.
Reproductive health is a key aim of the population health strategy, and male reproductive health constitutes an important part of reproductive health. This article systematically analyzes the applications to and grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and some related scientific problems in the field of male reproductive health in the past 30 years. It also discusses the development of the basic researches on male reproductive health in China and the facilitating role of NSFC in this field.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading worldwide. All aspects of pregnancy management from conception to delivery to puerperium as risks facing newborns are herein, reviewed. Maternal home management and prenatal care management protection, delivery timing or mode selection, delivery process management, and subsequent puerperal protection are crucial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Many indicators need to be considered when judging the condition of patients with infertility, which makes diagnosis and treatment complicated.
Objective: To construct a dynamic scoring system for infertility to assist clinicians in efficiently and accurately assessing the condition of patients with infertility.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This prognostic study reviewed 95 868 medical records of couples with infertility in which women had undergone in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer at the Reproductive Center of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan, Hubei, China, from January 2006 to May 2019.
Immune checkpoint inhibition has emerged as an effective treatment for multiple solid tumors, including advanced-stage breast cancer (BC). During the past decade, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved a number of agents for immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). However, the limited data on monotherapy anti-tumor activity in BC underscores the need for robust predictive biomarker development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA successful pregnancy requires sophisticated regulation of uterine microenvironment to guarantee the existence of semi-allogeneic conceptus without immune rejection. T follicular regulatory (Tfr) cells exert a suppressive effect on Tfh-cell expansion, B-cell response, and antibody production. Although accumulating evidence has demonstrated that dysregulations of Tfr cells can bring on various immunological diseases, their immunomodulatory roles during pregnancy still remain unheeded.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInsufficient trophoblast invasion is the key factor for the occurrence of recurrent spontaneous abortions (RSA). Our previous studies identified Yin Yang 1 (YY1) as a transcription factor involved in the regulation of trophoblast invasiveness at the maternal-fetal interface. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) can regulate gene expression and autophagy in many ways.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhongguo Dang Dai Er Ke Za Zhi
December 2019
Objective: To perform a review and data analysis of the pediatric projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China from 2009 to 2018, and to investigate the changes in key support areas, research interest, and research hotspots in pediatrics.
Methods: The database of National Natural Science Foundation of China was searched to screen out pediatric research projects in 2009-2018, and the changes in funding intensity and research direction were analyzed.
Results: From 2009 to 2018, a total of 1 017 pediatric projects were funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, with 485 (47.
Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers threatening women's health, and the persistent infection of high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) is closely related to the pathogenesis of cervical cancer and many other cancers. The carcinogenesis is a complex process from precancerous lesion to cancer, which provides an excellent window for clinical prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. However, despite the various preventions and treatments such as HPV screening, prophylactic HPV vaccines, surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, the disease burden remains heavy worldwide.
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