Palladium (Pd), a rare and precious metal, is highly valued due to its non-renewable nature and significant cost. Therefore, recovering palladium from industrial wastewater is of great importance but remains a challenge. Herein, a composite aerogel adsorbent has been developed by linking a bipyridine covalent organic framework, termed TpBpy, with chitosan (CS) through robust covalent bonds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, we investigated the F1 antibody against in the sera of mother-neonate shepherd dog pairs in the plague focus of the Altun-Qilian Mountains, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Seropositive shepherd dogs lived in plague-endemic regions, where marmots were infected with , whereas seronegative dogs lived in non-endemic regions. The neonatal F1 antibody titers positively correlated with the maternal titers within 3 months after birth, and the neonatal titers were similar to or slightly lower than the maternal titers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhat Is Already Known About This Topic?: Scrub typhus is an acute infectious disease caused by that is transmitted primarily through the bite of infected chigger mite larvae. The disease prevalence is closely associated with environments characterized by high moisture levels and abundant vegetation.
What Is Added By This Report?: This study documents the first confirmed case of scrub typhus in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China.
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs), when utilized as solid-phase microextraction (SPME) coating materials, exhibit remarkable abilities to concentrate phenols by thousands-fold owing to their vast surface area and exceptional stability. However, the prevalent micropores inherent in COFs can impede rapid mass transfer of target molecules, prolonging SPME extraction times. To addresses this limitation, this work introduces a novel approach by integrating hierarchical porous structures into COFs, leveraging polystyrene microspheres as hard templates during the in situ growth process of the SPME coating.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFControlling crop diseases and pests is essential for intelligent agriculture (IA) due to the significant reduction in crop yield and quality caused by these problems. In recent years, the remote sensing (RS) areas has been prevailed over by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based applications. Herein, by using methods such as keyword co-contribution analysis and author co-occurrence analysis in bibliometrics, we found out the hot-spots of this field.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Abdominal surgery is a common surgical procedure that is frequently associated with substantial postoperative pain. However, rescue analgesia using opioids is associated with several adverse effects. The transversus abdominis plane block (TAPB) has been demonstrated to be effective as part of multimodal analgesia.
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September 2024
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August 2024
Surveillance for animal plague was conducted in the plague focus of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 2020 to 2023. A 22.89% positive rate of serum F1 antibody was detected in live-caught marmots, alongside a 43.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAu@Ag core-shell composites were successfully fabricated on urchin-like covalent organic frameworks (COFs), providing a platform with numerous hot spots for the detection of two categories of emerging contaminants: sulfonamide antibiotics and nanoplastics, using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Au seeds (∼10 nm) were generated on the COFs, leveraging the reducing properties of the vinyl and imino groups within the framework. This ensured the growth of dense and uniformly distributed Ag nanoparticles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe recovery of precious metals (PMs) from secondary resources has garnered significant attention due to environmental and economic considerations. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as promising adsorbents for this purpose, owing to their tunable pore size, facile functionalization, exceptional chemical stability, and large specific surface area. This review provides an overview of the latest research progress in utilizing COFs to recover PMs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease that can lead to the loss of cognitive function. The progression of AD is regulated by multiple signaling pathways and their associated targets. Therefore, multitarget strategies theoretically have greater potential for treating AD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe extraction performance of materials is highly related to their physical structure. However, the precise impact of ordered pore structure in covalent organic frameworks (COFs) on extraction performance are still puzzling. To look insight into this, a series of COFs with varying degrees of ordered pore structures were prepared at room temperature by adjusting reaction time and their extraction efficiencies toward phenolic compounds were investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Plague is a zoonotic disease that occurs naturally in specific geographic areas. Climate change can influence the populations of the plague host or vector, leading to variations in the occurrence and epidemiology of plague in animals.
Methods: In this study, we collected meteorological and plague epidemiological data from the plague focus in the Altun Mountains of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.
Pasteurella multocida is a zoonotic pathogen causing serious diseases in humans and animals. Here, we report P. multocida from wildlife on China's Qinghai-Tibet plateau with a novel capsular serotype, forming a single branch on the core-genome phylogenetic tree: four strains isolated from dead Himalayan marmot (Marmota himalayana) and one genome assembled from metagenomic sequencing of a dead Woolly hare (Lepus oiostolus).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSolid-phase microextraction (SPME) is a green, environmentally friendly, and efficient technique for sample pre-treatment. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs), a class of porous materials formed by covalent bonds, have gained prominence owing to their remarkable attributes, including large specific surface area, tunable pore size, and robust thermal/chemical stability. These characteristics have made COFs highly appealing as potential coatings for SPME fiber over the past decades.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFApatinib has been widely applied for the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer since its development; however, available conclusive data regarding its use in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are lacking. Thus, the present meta-analysis aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of the use of apatinib plus chemotherapy vs. chemotherapy alone for the treatment of patients with advanced-stage NSCLC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAromatic organoarsenic feed additives have been extensively used in poultry and livestock farming; however, a risk of releasing toxic inorganic arsenic exists when they are exposed to the environment. An in-depth understanding of the adsorption -migration behavior of aromatic organoarsenicals on environmental media is limited. In this study, p-arsanilic acid (p-ASA) and roxarsone (ROX) were considered as examples to systematically study their adsorption behaviors on the surface of hematite, a representative iron oxide in soil.
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September 2023
Brucellosis is an important zoonosis and a multisystem disease. The signs and symptoms of brucellosis are not specific. In the clinical, brucellosis is often ignored and misdiagnosed.
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October 2023
Lysinibacillus sphaericus, as an insect pathogen, is a ubiquitous Gram-positive bacterium present in the environment. It is often considered to be contaminating bacteria. L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlague is a typical natural focus disease that circulates in different ecology of vectors and reservoir hosts. We conducted genomic population and phylogenetic analyses of the collected from the 12 natural plague foci in China with more than 20 kinds of hosts and vectors. Different ecological landscapes with specific hosts, vectors, and habitat which shape various niches for .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConverting hydrogen chemical energy into electrical energy by fuel cells offers high efficiencies and environmental advantages, but ultrapure hydrogen (over 99.97%) is required; otherwise, the electrode catalysts, typically platinum on carbon (Pt/C), will be poisoned by impurity gases such as ammonia (NH). Here we demonstrate remarkable NH resistivity over a nickel-molybdenum alloy (MoNi) modulated by chromium (Cr) dopants.
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August 2023
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the most serious chronic microvascular abnormalities of diabetes mellitus and the major cause of uremia. Accumulating evidence has confirmed that fibrosis is a significant pathological feature that contributes to the development of chronic kidney disease in DN. However, the exact mechanism of renal fibrosis in DN is still unclear, which greatly hinders the treatment of DN.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhat Is Already Known About This Topic?: The hospital-acquired infections caused by New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM)-producing strains are typically attributed to a single clonal lineage.
What Is Added By This Report?: In this study, we encountered a unique case of community-acquired NDM-5 urinary tract infection (UTI) following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The UTI persisted for a duration of at least 45 days.
Nowadays, one of the most effective methods of tumor immunotherapy is blocking programmed cell death protein 1/programmed cell death protein ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1) immune checkpoints. However, there is still a significant challenge in selecting patients to benefit from immune checkpoint therapies. Positron emission tomography (PET), a noninvasive molecular imaging technique, offers a new approach to accurately detect PD-L1 expression and allows for a better prediction of response to PD-1/PD-L1 target immunotherapy.
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