Hemothorax caused by injury of musculophrenic artery after ultrasound-guided percutaneous liver biopsy: a case report.

Background: Hemorrhage is the most common major complication after liver biopsy. Hemothorax is one type of bleeding and is very rare and dangerous. Several cases of hemothorax subsequent to liver biopsy have been documented, primarily attributed to injury of the intercostal artery or inferior phrenic artery and a few resulting from lung tissue damage; however, no previous case report of hemothorax caused by injury of musculophrenic artery after liver biopsy has been reported.

Machine learning-based automated sponge cytology for screening of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the oesophagogastric junction: a nationwide, multicohort, prospective study.

Background: Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the oesophagogastric junction have a dismal prognosis, and early detection is key to reduce mortality. However, early detection depends on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, which is not feasible to implement at a population level. We aimed to develop and validate a fully automated machine learning-based prediction tool integrating a minimally invasive sponge cytology test and epidemiological risk factors for screening of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the oesophagogastric junction before endoscopy.

A Retrospectively Study: Diagnosis of Pathological Types of Malignant Lung Tumors by Dual-layer Detector Spectral Computed Tomography.

By retrospectively analyzing the energy spectrum of squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, small cell lung cancer (SCLC), and pulmonary metastases that underwent dual-layer detector spectral computed tomography (DLCT) 3-phase scan of the chest, we explored the value of a multiparameter energy spectrum in the assessment of pathological types of lung tumors. Cases of squamous cell carcinoma ( = 20), adenocarcinoma ( = 24), SCLC ( = 26), and metastases ( = 14) were collected. Then the largest cross-sectional area (LCA) of the lesion, computed tomography (CT) values in the plain scan phase, arterial and venous phases (HU, HUa, and HUv), iodine concentration, and effective atomic number in the arterial and venous phases (ICa, ICv, Zeff[a], and Zeff[v]) were measured and compared among the nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC), SCLC and metastases, and other 3 groups of SCLC, squamous cell carcinoma, and adenocarcinoma.

Dravet syndrome-associated mutations in , and define the genetic landscape of defects of GABA receptors.

Dravet syndrome is a rare, catastrophic epileptic encephalopathy that begins in the first year of life, usually with febrile or afebrile hemiclonic or generalized tonic-clonic seizures followed by status epilepticus. variants in genes that mediate synaptic transmission such as and are often associated with Dravet syndrome. Recently, GABA receptor subunit genes () encoding α1 (), β3 () and γ2 (), but not β2 () or β1 (), subunits are frequently associated with Dravet syndrome or Dravet syndrome-like phenotype.

Longitudinal assessment of rabbit renal fibrosis induced by unilateral ureteral obstruction using two-dimensional susceptibility weighted imaging.

Background: Previous studies indicated that two-dimensional-susceptibility weighted imaging (2D-SWI) could serve as a useful biomarker for differentiating the grade of liver fibrosis.

Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of 2D-SWI in the dynamic quantification of renal fibrosis in a rabbit model.

Study Type: Longitudinal study.

Inaccessible Biodiversity on Limestone Cliffs: Aster tianmenshanensis (Asteraceae), a New Critically Endangered Species from China.

Aster tianmenshanensis G. J. Zhang & T.

Studies of intestinal permeability of 36 flavonoids using Caco-2 cell monolayer model.

To investigate the structure-permeability relationship of dietary/nutriceutic flavonoids, the transepithelial transport and cellular uptake of 36 flavonoids (including flavones, flavonols, dihydroflavones, dihydroflavonols, isoflavones, chalcones, flavanes, flavanols, methylated and glycosidic derivatives) were investigated using the Caco-2 cell monolayer. The apparent permeability coefficients (P(app)) of the flavonoids were calculated from bilateral transport assays in the Transwell system with flavonoid determination using a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with a UV detector. The most flavonoids exhibited concentration-independent P(app) values and a ratio of 0.

Intestinal permeability of antivirus constituents from the fruits of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. in Caco-2 Cell Model.

The uptake and transepithelial transport of the three main constituents macrocarpal A (M-A), macrocarpal B (M-B), and cypellocarpa C (Cy-C) from the fruits of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. were investigated. Monolayers of the human intestinal epithelial cancer cell line Caco-2 were incubated with M-A, M-B, and Cy-C to model its intestinal absorption and transport, respectively.

Effect of extraneous zinc on calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase.

The effect of extraneous zinc on calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase was studied for quick reversible binding and slow irreversible binding of zinc ions at various concentrations. Under the conditions of slow binding of zinc to CIP increasing Zn2+ (less than 1.0 mM, nM/nE 1.