Industrial enterprises are one of the largest sources of air pollution. However, the existing means of monitoring air pollutant emissions are narrow in coverage, high in cost, and low in accuracy. To bridge these gaps, this study explored a predicting model for air pollutant emissions from foundry industries based on high-accuracy electricity consumption data and continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedicine (Baltimore)
April 2023
This study was designed to investigate the effects of Tai Chi training on moderate to severe Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the stable phase. This was a 2-arm randomized clinical trial. A total of 226 COPD patients with moderate to severe in the stable phase were allocated to either the control group or the observation group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvidence between air pollution and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is inconsistent and limited in China. In this study, we aim to examine the associations between air pollutants and hospital admissions for COPD, hoping to provide practical advice for prevention and control of COPD. Hospital admissions for COPD were collected from a Grade-A tertiary hospital in Jinan from 2014 to 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolyacrylonitrile (PAN) is a popular material in membrane field because of its excellent mechanical property, thermal stability, and chemical resistance. Unfortunately, PAN nanofibers produced by electrospinning are not suitable for interfacial polymerization process directly due to its hydrophobicity and large average pore size. In this work, the cross-linked chitosan (CS) solution was coated on the nanofiber surface to fabricate a sublayer, based on which thin-film composite (TFC) membranes were prepared using -phenylenediamine and 1,3,5-trimesoyl chloride as the monomers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Asthmatic symptoms usually can be controlled with corticosteroids, but partly asthmatic patients do not respond to corticosteroids, steroid resistance (SR) play a significant role in the poorly responding. However, no approach can accurately predict steroid responsiveness in asthma patients, so prediction of SR with noninvasive means has become a critical issue.
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the difference in serum proteomes between steroid-sensitive asthma (SSA) and steroid-resistant asthma (SRA) patients and identify potential biomarkers for the prediction of SR in asthma patients.
Zhonghua Jie He He Hu Xi Za Zhi
April 2014
Objective: To screen the biomarkers which may play important roles in the pathogenesis and therapy of asthma by using serum comparative proteomics.
Methods: From June 2011 to September 2012, 30 chronic persistent asthmatic patients (asthma group) and 30 healthy controls (control group) were selected for study in our hospital. All the asthmatic patients were given 8 week-treatment with inhaled glucocorticoids (ICS).
Asian Pac J Allergy Immunol
June 2011
Objective: To investigate the inflammatory changes and the airway hyper-responsiveness in the asthma mouse model infected by respiratory syncytial virus and elucidate the relationship between the infection and the effect of glucocorticoid.
Methods: 60 BALB/c mice were randomly divided into 6 groups. One of these is the control group; the others are the OVA/sham group, the OVA/sham +Dex group, the PBS/RSV group, the OVA/RSV group and the OVA/RSV+Dex group.
Background And Aim: Asthma is a very common disease involving genetic and environmental factors. A disintegrin and metalloproteinase 33 (ADAM33) has been one of the most exciting candidate genes for asthma since its first association with the disease in the white population. Recently, studies on the association of ADAM33 gene polymorphisms with the risk of asthma have been controversial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study the relationship between the expression of transforming growth factor-beta(1) (TGF-beta(1)) and platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) and airway remodeling in eosinophilic bronchitis (EB).
Methods: Bronchial biopsy specimens were obtained from 12 patients with EB (A group), 10 asthmatic patients (B group) and 10 patients (C group) with peripheral lung cancer in early stage. The subepithelial basement membrane (SBM) thickness was measured by light microscopy using HE staining.