To summarise the therapeutic effects of symptomatic nursing during DS-8201 (Enhertu) treatment in a patient with advanced breast cancer with metastases to the ribs, lungs and liver. The patient, diagnosed with breast cancer with multiple metastases, was admitted to the hospital on 4 January 2021, 2 months after the discovery of a right breast mass. DS-8201 was administered during this period, and nursing care was tailored to address the patient's symptoms while on the medication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study aims to explore glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity in diabetic retinopathy (DR) and its correlation with inflammatory factors, elucidating the regulatory role of G6PD in DR pathology.
Methods: A total of 151 T2DM patients were divided into three groups: diabetes without retinopathy (DNR, n = 59), non-proliferative retinopathy (NPDR, n = 46) and proliferative retinopathy (PDR, n = 49). Plasma G6PD activity was measured by a Randox G6PD kit and compared between these groups.
Enteral nutrition is an important clinical nutritional supplementation method, especially for adult patients who are unable to eat normally or require additional nutritional support. However, many patients experience intolerance to enteral nutrition, such as delayed gastric emptying, bloating, and diarrhea, which not only affect the patient's nutritional status but also increase the risk of medical complications. In recent years, medical researchers have been dedicated to identifying and analyzing various factors that contribute to enteral nutrition intolerance, including the patient's disease status, nutritional formula, feeding method, and rate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a major cause of cancer deaths globally. Unlike traditional molecularly targeted drugs, magnetically controlled drug delivery to micro/nanorobots enhances precision in targeting tumors, improving drug efficiency and minimizing side effects. This study develops a dual-responsive, magnetically controlled drug delivery system using PEGylated paramagnetic nanoparticles conjugated with decoy receptor 3 (DCR3) antibodies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, a chromosome-level genome of the tropical sea cucumber Stichopus monotuberculatus was generated by a combination of Nanopore long-read, Illumina short-read, and Hi-C sequencing technologies. The final assembly was 810.54 Mb in length, with contig N50 and scaffold N50 values of 10.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) is a reflex constriction of vascular smooth muscle. This study aims to investigate the role of Salidroside (Sal) in pulmonary arterial dilatation and the potential mechanism of Sal regulating hypoxic pulmonary hypertension in vitro and in vivo.
Methods: A rat model of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (HPH) was constructed using hypoxic chamber.
Objectives: Chicken (Gallus gallus), as the most economically important poultry, is a classical and ideal model for studying the mechanism of vertebrate developmental biology and embryology. However, the sex determination and differentiation in chicken is still elusive, which limited the application and slowed down many basic studies in chicken.
Data Description: We applied PacBio Iso-seq to multiple spatiotemporal embryo-gonad tissues in the male and female chicken, which contain the blastoderm (E0, un-differentiation stage), genital ridge (E3.
Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR), the principal cause of acquired blindness among the working-age population, is the most frequent microvascular complication of diabetes. Although metabolic disorders are hypothesized to play a role in its pathogenesis, the underlying mechanism remains largely elusive.
Methods: To elucidate the mechanism, we initially compared metabolite profiles of vitreous fluid between 23 patients with DR and 12 non-diabetic controls using liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry, identifying the distinct metabolite indoxyl sulfate (IS).
Heat shock protein 40 belonging to heat shock protein family plays an important role in the immune responses of organisms. In this study, the full length cDNA of Hsp40 was 2426 bp including a 1368 bp open reading frame (ORF) encoding 455 amino acids with a molecular weight of 49.16 kDa and a theoretical isoelectric point of 9.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAvian pathogenic (APEC), a widespread bacterium, results in serious economic losses to the poultry industry annually, and it poses a threat to human health due to the contaminated retail poultry meat and eggs. Recently, it has been demonstrated that long non-coding RNAs played important roles in regulating gene expression and the animal immune response. This study aimed to systematically explore the function of the novel long intergenic non-coding transcript, lincRNA-73240, upon APEC infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFColibacillosis, a bacterial disease caused by avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC), is a prevalent condition in the poultry industry, resulting in substantial economic losses annually. Previously, we identified PTEN as a crucial candidate gene that may play a significant role in chicken's immune response to APEC infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAvian pathogenic (APEC) causes localized and systemic infections and are a threat to human health. microRNAs (miRNAs) play critical roles in inflammation and immune regulation following pathogen invasion. However, the related regulatory mechanism remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this work, β-NiS nanoparticles (NPs) were efficiently prepared by a straightforward hydrothermal process. The difference in morphology between these NiS NPs was produced by adding different amounts of thiourea, and the corresponding products were denoted as NiS-15 and NiS-5. Through electrochemical tests, the specific capacity () of NiS-15 was determined to be 638.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: To determine the relationship between effort-reward imbalance (ERI) and quality of working life (QWL) among medical caregivers and the mediating role of job burnout.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey. A total of 787 medical caregivers at seven hospitals from Sichuan and Chongqing, China, between May to September 2023 were included in this observational study.
As an upright tree with multifunctional economic application, is an excellent choice in modern forestry from Lauraceae. The growth characteristics is of great significance for its molecular breeding and improvement. However, there still lack the information of WUSCHEL-related homeobox () and Auxin response factor () gene family, which were reported as specific transcription factors in plant growth as well as auxin signaling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chronic ankle instability (CAI) is a common and highly disabling condition. Although several studies have evaluated and analyzed prevention and treatment strategies for CAI, an unbiased and systematic synthesis of evidence is required to provide the most powerful and comprehensive evidence-based measures for the its prevention and treatment of CAI. This study aimed to synthesize evidence from the existing literature addressing the treatment and prevention of CAI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExocyst, a protein complex, plays a crucial role in various cellular functions, including cell polarization, migration, invasion, cytokinesis, and autophagy. Sec3, known as Exoc1, is a key subunit of the Exocyst complex and can be involved in cell survival and apoptosis. In this study, two subtypes of Sec3 were isolated from Epinephelus coioides, an important marine fish in China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe aimed to evaluate the potential causal relationship between brain imaging-derived phenotypes and cognitive functions via Mendelian randomization analyses. Genetic instruments for 470 brain imaging-derived phenotypes were selected from a genome-wide association study based on the UK Biobank (n = 33,224). Statistics for cognitive functions were obtained from the genome-wide association study based on the UK Biobank.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmmonia acts as a detrimental atmospheric pollutant, posing a sever threat to respiratory tract health and causing lung injury in humans and animals. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a distinctive class of non-coding RNA generated by back-splicing of linear RNA, implicated in various biological processes. However, their role in the immune response of chicken lungs to ammonia exposure remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer accounts for two-thirds of all breast cancers, and its early and late recurrences still threaten patients' long-term survival and quality of life. Finding candidate tumor antigens and potential therapeutic targets is critical to addressing these unmet needs.
Method: The isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) proteomic analysis was employed to identify the differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) between ER + breast cancer and corresponding adjacent normal tissue.
The low nutrient content of soil in desert ecosystems results in unique physiological and ecological characteristics of plants under long-term water and nutrient stress, which is the basis for the productivity and stability maintenance of the desert ecosystem. However, the relationship between the soil and the plant nutrient elements in the desert ecosystem and its mechanism for maintaining ecosystem stability is still unclear. In this study, 35 sampling sites were established in an area with typical desert vegetation in the Qaidam Basin, based on a drought gradient.
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