Comprehensive treatment of deep frostbite of multiple fingers after trauma: A case report.

Background: Frostbite is becoming increasingly common in urban environments, and severe cases can lead to tissue loss. The treatment goal is to preserve tissue and function; the sooner appropriate treatment is administered, the more tissue can be saved. However, not every patient with deep frostbite seeks medical care promptly.

ADCK1 is a potential therapeutic target of osteosarcoma.

We here showed that ADCK1 (AarF domain-containing kinase 1), a mitochondrial protein, is upregulated in human osteosarcoma (OS) tissues and OS cells. In primary and established OS cells, ADCK1 shRNA or CRISPR/Cas9-induced ADCK1 knockout (KO) remarkably inhibited cell viability, proliferation and migration, and provoked apoptosis activation. Conversely, ectopic ADCK1 overexpression exerted pro-cancerous activity by promoting OS cell proliferation and migration.

Linking intraspecific trait variability and spatial patterns of subtropical trees.

The importance of intraspecific trait variability (ITV) to the spatial distribution of individual species is unclear. We hypothesized that intraspecific trait dispersions underlying niche processes deviate more from null model expectations, by reducing their spread (range and variance), kurtosis, and standard deviation of near-neighbor distance, for species with aggregated than those with random distributions. The link between species' spatial distributions and ITV patterns was examined using an individual tree-based trait data set, in which specific leaf area, mean leaf area, leaf dry matter content, and diameter at breast height were measured for 18,773 stems of 45 species in a 4.

Detangling the Effects of Environmental Filtering and Dispersal Limitation on Aggregated Distributions of Tree and Shrub Species: Life Stage Matters.

The pervasive pattern of aggregated tree distributions in natural communities is commonly explained by the joint effect of two clustering processes: environmental filtering and dispersal limitation, yet little consensus remains on the relative importance of the two clustering processes on tree aggregations. Different life stages of examined species were thought to be one possible explanation of this disagreement, because the effect of environmental filtering and dispersal limitation are expected to increase and decrease with tree life stages, respectively. However, few studies have explicitly tested these expectations.

Photosynthetic and growth responses of Schima superba seedlings to sulfuric and nitric acid depositions.

A continuing rise in acid deposition can cause forest degradation. In China, acid deposition has converted gradually from sulfuric acid deposition (SAD) to nitric acid deposition (NAD). However, the differing responses of photosynthesis and growth to depositions of sulfuric vs.

[Applicability analysis of spatially explicit model of leaf litter in evergreen broad-leaved forests].

The spatially explicit model of leaf litter can help to understand its dispersal process, which is very important to predict the distribution pattern of leaves on the surface of the earth. In this paper, the spatially explicit model of leaf litter was developed for 20 tree species using litter trap data from the mapped forest plot in an evergreen broad-leaved forest in Tiantong, Zhejiang Pro- vince, eastern China. Applicability of the model was analyzed.

[Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on litterfall production and nutrient dynamics in a Schima superba forest in Zhejiang Province of East China].

In 2011, an investigation was made on the litterfall production and nutrient dynamics in a phosphorus-limited subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest dominated by Schima superba in Tiantong, Zhejiang Province of East China under different levels of nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) fertilization. After the N and P fertilization, the annual litterfall production ranged from 6.82 to 8.

[The value of coexisting pneumonia and British Thoracic Society CURB-65 score in predicting early mortality rate in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

Objective: To investigate the value of coexisting pneumonia and British Thoracic Society CURB-65 score in predicting early mortality in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD).

Methods: In this prospective study, 483 consecutive in-patients with AECOPD were recruited between January 2010 and September 2012, including 295 males and 188 females. The patients were aged 45 to 92 years.

Scaling relationships among twig size, leaf size and leafing intensity in a successional series of subtropical forests.

Scaling relationships among twig size, leaf size and leafing intensity fundamentally influence the twig-leaf deployment pattern, a property that affects the architecture and functioning of plants. However, our understanding of how these relationships change within a species or between species as a function of forest succession is unclear. We determined log-log scaling relationships between twig cross-sectional area (twig size) and each of total and individual leaf area, and leafing intensity (the number of leaves per twig volume) for 78 woody species along a successional series in subtropical evergreen forests in eastern China.

[Topographic distribution patterns of forest gap within an evergreen broad-leaved forest in Tiantong region of Zhejiang Province, Eastern China].

To explore the effects of multi-dimensional topographic factors on forest gap distribution, the forest gaps in a 20 hm2 dynamic monitoring plot of an evergreen broad-leaved forest in Tiantong region of Zhejiang were taken as the objects to study the distribution patterns of the gap fraction, gap density, and gap area under the effects of altitude, slope degree, slope shape, slope aspect, and slope position by using a geographic information system (GIS) software. In the plot, the gap fraction was 13.1% , gap density was 9.

Plant trait-species abundance relationships vary with environmental properties in subtropical forests in eastern china.

Understanding how plant trait-species abundance relationships change with a range of single and multivariate environmental properties is crucial for explaining species abundance and rarity. In this study, the abundance of 94 woody plant species was examined and related to 15 plant leaf and wood traits at both local and landscape scales involving 31 plots in subtropical forests in eastern China. Further, plant trait-species abundance relationships were related to a range of single and multivariate (PCA axes) environmental properties such as air humidity, soil moisture content, soil temperature, soil pH, and soil organic matter, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) contents.

[Spatial heterogeneity of soil properties and its relationships with terrain factors in broad-leaved forest in Tiantong of Zhejiang Province, East China].

By using geostatistical methods, this paper studied the spatial heterogeneity and distribution patterns of soil pH, total carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus in an evergreen broad-leaved forest in Tiantong of Zhejiang Province, and the effects of terrain factors (elevation, convexity, and slope) on the soil properties were quantified based on RDA ordination and partial regression analysis. The coefficient of variation for the soil pH, total carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus was 5.18%, 42.

[The study in immunology after skin transplantation].

Skin grafting has been one of the most important approaches for covering burn wounds, however long-term survival of allogeneic or xenogeneic skin graft is currently not successful. How to induce immune tolerance for life-time survival of allogeneic or xenogeneic skin graft is still remote objective to be solved. However, clinicians and scientists in China have worked very hard and made great contribution to this field during the past 50 years, no matter how difficult it is.

[Effect of ligustrazine on airway remodeling in asthmatic rats].

Objective: To observe the effect and mechanism of ligustrazine on the airway remodeling.

Methods: Thirty-two SD rats were randomly divided into 4 groups: the normal group (A), the model group (B), the ligustrazine low-dose group (C, 40 mg/kg) and the ligustrazine high-dose group (D, 80 mg/kg), with 8 rats in each group. The chronic asthmatic model was established by repeated inhalation of ovalbumin.

[Experimental study on the antibacterial effects of zirconium phosphate gauze loaded with silver on the common bacteria on rat burn wound].

Objective: To investigate the antibacterial effects of zirconium phosphate gauze loaded with silver on rat burn wounds seeded with commonly seen bacteria.

Methods: Wistar rats were employed in the study and were scalded and infected. The minimum inhibition concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) of zirconium phosphate loaded with silver were determined by double dilution in tubes.

[An experimental study on the role of indirect antigen presentation pathway on the immunogenetic of epidermal cells].

Objective: To explore the role of indirect antigen presentation pathway on the immunogenecity of epidermal cells.

Methods: Human epidermal cells (HEC), allogeneic human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) and mononuclear cells (PBM, including monocytes) were isolated and cultured in vitro. HECs were transfected by human-originated CTLA4Ig-adenovirus vector.