Analgesic effect of external oblique intercostal block in laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A retrospective study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the external oblique intercostal block (EOIB) on early postoperative pain in patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Methods: 120 patients were divided into two groups: the EOIB group (Group E) and the control group (Group C). The assessed variables were mainly intraoperative remifentanil usage, numerical rating scale (NRS) pain scores at 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 12, and 24 h postoperatively, cumulative fentanyl consumption within 24 h postoperatively and within the first-hour post-anesthesia care unit.

Decipher the Wavelength and Intensity Using Photothermoelectric Detectors.

Broadband photodetectors that can decipher the wavelength (λ) and intensity () of an unknown incident light are urgently demanded. Photothermoelectric (PTE) detectors can achieve ultrabroadband photodetection surpassing the bandgap limitation; however, their practical application is severely hampered by the lack of deciphering strategy. In this work, we report a variable elimination method to decipher λ and of the incident lights based on an integrated AgSe film-based PTE detector.

Pig-Derived Probiotic YB-2 Alleviates Intestinal Inflammation and Intestinal Barrier Damage in Colitis Mice by Suppressing the TLR4/NF-κB Signaling Pathway.

The search for new probiotics has been regarded as an important approach to improving intestinal health in animals. has many advantages, such as strong resistance to harmful external factors, wide distribution, and easy colonization of the intestine. Hence, this study aims to screen for a probiotic strain that improves animal intestinal health and to elucidate its probiotic mechanism so as to provide probiotic resources for the development of feed-using probiotic formulations.

Mesenchymal stem cells and dental implant osseointegration during aging: from mechanisms to therapy.

Dental implants are widely used to replace missing teeth, providing patients with unparalleled levels of effectiveness, convenience, and affordability. The biological basis for the clinical success of dental implants is osseointegration. Bone aging is a high-risk factor for the reduced osseointegration and survival rates of dental implants.

Ultrasound-guided pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block for early analgesia in elderly patients with hip fractures: a single-center prospective randomized controlled study.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of ultrasound-guided PENG (pericapsular nerve group) block and drug therapy with intravenous flurbiprofen for early analgesia in elderly patients with hip fractures after hospitalization.

Methods: This is a single-center, observer-blinded, prospective, randomized, controlled trial. A total of 41 elderly patients (aged 60 or older) with hip fractures were enrolled in the current study.

Oral Complications related to tropical infectious Diseases: an introduction and analysis of survey data.

Backgrounds: The non-indigenous tropical infectious diseases that occur in the non-tropics arise from personnel communication between locals and visitors. Many of these infectious diseases involve oral complications. It is very important for practitioners to manage such cases based on a clear understanding of the association between tropical infectious diseases and oral health.

Erratum: Autophagy Maintains the Function of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Prevent Estrogen Deficiency-Induced Osteoporosis: Erratum.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7150/thno.17949.

Variational Relational Point Completion Network for Robust 3D Classification.

Real-scanned point clouds are often incomplete due to viewpoint, occlusion, and noise, which hampers 3D geometric modeling and perception. Existing point cloud completion methods tend to generate global shape skeletons and hence lack fine local details. Furthermore, they mostly learn a deterministic partial-to-complete mapping, but overlook structural relations in man-made objects.

Identification of key pathways in zirconia/dental pulp stem cell composite scaffold-mediated macrophage polarization through transcriptome sequencing.

Seed cells and scaffold materials are essential components of tissue engineering. In this study, we investigated the key pathway of the zirconia/dental pulp stem cell composite scaffold in regulating macrophage polarization by transcriptome sequencing. We established N-rGO/ZrO2 composite scaffold and confirmed its structure using various analytical techniques, including SEM, TEM, FTIR, Raman spectra, XPS, and XRD.

Constructing an Polymer Electrolyte and a Na-Rich Artificial SEI Layer toward Practical Solid-State Na Metal Batteries.

Sodium is one of the most promising anode candidates for the beyond-lithium-ion batteries. The development of Na metal batteries with a high energy density, high safety, and low cost is desirable to meet the requirements of both portable and stationary electrical energy storage. However, several problems caused by the unstable Na metal anode and the unsafe liquid electrolyte severely hinder their practical applications.

LIM Mineralization Protein-1 Enhances the Committed Differentiation of Dental Pulp Stem Cells through the ERK1/2 and p38 MAPK Pathways and BMP Signaling.

Tissue regeneration is the preferred treatment for dentin and bone tissue defects. Dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) have been extensively studied for their use in tissue regeneration, including the regeneration of dentin and bone tissue. LIM mineralization protein-1 (LMP-1) is an intracellular non-secretory protein that plays a positive regulatory role in the mineralization process.

OSGIN2 regulates osteogenesis of jawbone BMSCs in osteoporotic rats.

Background: Augmentation of oxidative stress after estrogen deficiency leading to functional deficiency of jawbone bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) causes jawbone loss in osteoporosis. OSGIN2, an oxidative stress induced factor, has been found to be associated with skeletal diseases. This study aims to investigate the function of OSGIN2 in jawbone BMSCs of osteoporotic rats.

Erratum: PDLSCs Regulate Angiogenesis of Periodontal Ligaments via VEGF Transferred by Exosomes in Periodontitis: Erratum.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7150/ijms.40918.

Investigation of the understanding on tropical infectious diseases and oral health among dental professionals in China.

Background: With the increasing exchange of domestic and international personnel, local infections of tropical infectious diseases are continuing in tropics and imported infections are emerging in non-tropics, some of which are accompanied by oral manifestations. Therefore, it is essential for dental professionals to identify the related oral manifestations, who are working for domestic medical service, international medical assistance, peace-keeping medical service or medical support of international joint military exercises. This study aims to investigate the attitude and knowledge of Chinese dental professionals on tropical infectious diseases and oral health, and to explore the difference between different genders, education backgrounds, professional identities, professional titles and tropics working experience.

Reconstruction of congenital pseudarthrosis of the clavicle with a barrel-shaped mono-cortical iliac crest autograft: A case report.

Background: Congenital pseudarthrosis of the clavicle (CPC) is a rare congenital entity with unresolved aetiology and pathogenesis. Nearly 250 cases have been reported to date. CPC is characterized by a definite defect in the mid-clavicle at birth and is usually diagnosed when the deformity becomes evident in late childhood or adolescence.

Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine on the Cardiovascular Diseases.

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is the health care system developed with the help of clinical trials that are based ideally on the scientific model of regulation. This systematic health care system relies on some specific unique theories and practical experiences to treat and cure diseases, thus enhancing the public's health. The current review covers the available literature from 2000 to 2021.

CircZDBF2 up-regulates RNF145 by ceRNA model and recruits CEBPB to accelerate oral squamous cell carcinoma progression via NFκB signaling pathway.

Background: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), as one of the commonest malignancies showing poor prognosis, has been increasingly suggested to be modulated by circular RNAs (circRNAs). Through GEO (Gene Expression Omnibus) database, a circRNA derived from ZDBF2 (circZDBF2) was uncovered to be with high expression in OSCC tissues, while how it may function in OSCC remains unclear.

Methods: CircZDBF2 expression was firstly verified in OSCC cells via qRT-PCR.

N, P, O-codoped biochar from phytoremediation residues: a promising cathode material for Li-S batteries.

Environment and energy are two key issues in today's society. In terms of environmental protection, the treatment of phytoremediation residues has become a key problem to be solved urgently, while for energy storage, it tends to utilize low-cost and high specific energy storage materials (i.e.

A Holistically-Guided Decoder for Deep Representation Learning With Applications to Semantic Segmentation and Object Detection.

Both high-level and high-resolution feature representations are of great importance in various visual understanding tasks. To acquire high-resolution feature maps with high-level semantic information, one common strategy is to adopt dilated convolutions in the backbone networks to extract high-resolution feature maps, such as the dilatedFCN-based methods for semantic segmentation. However, due to many convolution operations are conducted on the high-resolution feature maps, such methods have large computational complexity and memory consumption.

A novel antibody targeting TIM-3 resulting in receptor internalization for cancer immunotherapy.

Background: Strategies to reinvigorate exhausted T cells have achieved great efficacy in certain subpopulations of tumor patients. Blocking the antibodies that target programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 induces durable responses in Hodgkin's lymphoma, melanoma, renal and lung cancers. T cell immunoglobulin mucin-3 (TIM-3) is another well-defined inhibitory receptor that is expressed in terminally differentiated Th1/Tc1 cells, which produces interferon gamma and cytotoxic molecules.

Improved Cycle Stability of LiSn Alloy Anode for Different Electrolyte Systems in Lithium Battery.

Lithium metal anode still confronts a series of problems at the way to commercialization though it has advantages in high energy density. The formation of Li dendrite is the major limitation need to be conquered. Here, a facile and simple LiSn alloy anode prepared by a direct metallurgy method is fabricated and evaluated in both liquid electrolyte and solid electrolyte.