Emerging role of exosome-derived non-coding RNAs in tumor-associated angiogenesis of tumor microenvironment.

The tumor microenvironment (TME) is an intricate ecosystem that is actively involved in various stages of cancer occurrence and development. Some characteristics of tumor biological behavior, such as proliferation, migration, invasion, inhibition of apoptosis, immune escape, angiogenesis, and metabolic reprogramming, are affected by TME. Studies have shown that non-coding RNAs, especially long-chain non-coding RNAs and microRNAs in cancer-derived exosomes, facilitate intercellular communication as a mechanism for regulating angiogenesis.

Analysis of risk factors for recurrence and prognosis of adhesive small bowel obstruction.

Objective: The recurrence of adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) limits the effectiveness of clinical treatments, making its significant clinical issues. Clinical features, perioperative parameters, and postoperative outcomes were retrospectively analyzed, to provide basis for screening the high risk factors in patients of recurrent ASBO.

Methods: A review of medical records of patients with ASBO at Chongqing University Central Hospital, from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2019 was conducted.

Effects of autochthonous strains mixture on gut microbiota and metabolic profile in cobia (Rachycentron canadum).

The fish immune system is a topic or subject that offers a unique understanding of defensive system evolution in vertebrate heredity. While gut microbiota plays several roles in fish: well-being, promoting health and growth, resistance to bacterial invasion, regulation of energy absorption, and lipid metabolism. However, studies on fish gut microbiota face practical challenges due to the large number of fish varieties, fluctuating environmental conditions, and differences in feeding habits.

Properties of mesons in a strong magnetic field.

By extending the [Formula: see text]-derivable approach in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model to a finite magnetic field we calculate the properties of pion, [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] mesons in a magnetic field at finite temperature not only in the quark-antiquark bound state scheme but also in the pion-pion scattering resonant state scenario. Our calculation as a result makes manifest that the masses of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] meson can be nearly degenerate at the pseudo-critical temperature which increases with increasing magnetic field strength, and the [Formula: see text] mass ascends suddenly at almost the same critical temperature. Meanwhile the [Formula: see text] mesons' masses decrease with the temperature but increase with the magnetic field strength.

Mechanomyography is more sensitive than EMG in detecting age-related sarcopenia.

The aim of this work was to investigate the effects of age-related sarcopenia on the time and frequency domain properties of lower extremity muscles' electromyographic and mechanomyographic activities. Healthy elderly (n=10, 64.5+/-4.

Distinguishing newly born strange stars from neutron stars with g-mode oscillations.

The gravity-mode (g-mode) eigenfrequencies of newly born strange quark stars (SQSs) and neutron stars (NSs) are studied. It is found that the eigenfrequencies in SQSs are much lower than those in NSs by almost 1 order of magnitude, since the components of a SQS are all extremely relativistic particles while nucleons in a NS are nonrelativistic. We therefore propose that newly born SQSs can be distinguished from the NSs by detecting the eigenfrequencies of the g-mode pulsations of supernovae cores through gravitational radiation by LIGO-class detectors.