Publications by authors named "Tran Thi Ngoc Anh"

Rationale: Orthognathic surgery cases are inherently challenging to treat with lingual appliances due to the complexities of orthodontic management and difficulties in achieving intermaxillary fixation during surgery. This challenge is further amplified in cases involving asymmetric space closure, such as those with a missing molar on one side and a premolar on the other, a scenario not yet documented in the literature. This case report presents the orthodontic-orthognathic management of an adult patient requiring space closure of asymmetric missing lower teeth.

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  • Minor ginsenosides produced by β-glucosidase have significant biological and pharmaceutical potential, leading to the cloning and expression of a ginsenoside-hydrolyzing enzyme from Furfurilactobacillus rossiae DCYL3 in E. coli.
  • The enzyme successfully converted ginsenosides Rb1 and Gyp XVII into Rd and compound K under optimal conditions, demonstrating its effectiveness in bioconversion.
  • The bioconverted Gynostemma extract (BGE) showed increased cytotoxicity against lung cancer cells compared to the non-converted extract, while also reducing inflammation through the downregulation of pro-inflammatory genes in macrophage cells.
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The use of in vitro tissue culture for herbal medicines has been recognized as a valuable source of botanical secondary metabolites. The tissue culture of ginseng species is used in the production of bioactive compounds such as phenolics, polysaccharides, and especially ginsenosides, which are utilized in the food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. This review paper focuses on the in vitro culture of and accumulation of ginsenosides.

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  • Bacterial plant pathogens face environmental challenges and host defenses, and Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) are crucial for their survival and infection processes.
  • The study investigates the role of the HSP40 family protein, DnaJ, in the virulence of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas cichorii JBC1 by creating a mutant lacking the DnaJ protein using CRISPR-CAS9.
  • Results show that the absence of DnaJ leads to reduced disease severity, lower biofilm formation, and increased sensitivity to stress, indicating DnaJ's importance in the bacteria's ability to thrive on plant hosts and respond to environmental stresses.
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Forests, comprising 31% of the Earth's surface, play pivotal roles in regulating the carbon, water, and energy cycles. Despite being far less diverse than angiosperms, gymnosperms account for over 50% of the global woody biomass production. To sustain growth and development, gymnosperms have evolved the capacity to sense and respond to cyclical environmental signals, such as changes in photoperiod and seasonal temperature, which initiate growth (spring and summer) and dormancy (fall and winter).

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Ginsenosides are a group of bioactive compounds isolated from . Conventional major ginsenosides have a long history of use in traditional medicine for both illness prevention and therapy. Bioconversion processes have the potential to create new and valuable products in pharmaceutical and biological activities, making them both critical for research and highly economic to implement.

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Tracheary elements (i.e. vessel elements and tracheids) are highly specialized, non-living cells present in the water-conducting xylem tissue.

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  • * Researchers collected and analyzed urine samples from 25 patients suspected of having 5ARD2 and 104 male controls over four years, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to measure steroid metabolites.
  • * The findings indicated that patients with 5ARD2 had a distinctively low ratio of certain steroid metabolites, confirming the diagnosis and suggesting that urine steroid analysis should be considered a first-line test for diagnosing this condition.
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The evolution of influenza viruses is fundamentally shaped by within-host processes. However, the within-host evolutionary dynamics of influenza viruses remain incompletely understood, in part because most studies have focused on infections in healthy adults based on single timepoint data. Here, we analyzed the within-host evolution of 82 longitudinally sampled individuals, mostly young children, infected with A/H1N1pdm09 or A/H3N2 viruses between 2007 and 2009.

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Although conifers have significant ecological and economic value, information on transcriptional regulation of wood formation in conifers is still limited. Here, to gain insight into secondary cell wall (SCW) biosynthesis and tracheid formation in conifers, we performed wood tissue-specific transcriptome analyses of Pinus densiflora (Korean red pine) using RNA sequencing. In addition, to obtain full-length transcriptome information, PacBio single molecule real-time iso-sequencing was carried out using RNAs from 28 tissues of P.

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The purpose of this article is to systematically collate effort-reward imbalance (ERI) rates among health workers internationally and to assess gender differences. The effort-reward (ER) ratio ranges quite widely from 0.47 up to 1.

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Point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests for influenza can considerably shorten the time to clinical decision making. An investigational POC test based on a multiplexed immunoassay was developed by Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC (MSD), with the objective to make a more sensitive rapid test that can also subtype influenza A viruses (1977 H1, H3, and H5). Between February and November 2010, we conducted a prospective multicenter study at four hospitals in Vietnam and compared the performance of this test to that of the WHO/CDC real-time reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) on nasal and throat swab specimens from patients presenting with influenza-like illness.

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