A new polymer-based laccase for decolorization of AO7: long-term storage and mediator reuse.

To address the bottlenecks of laccase-based catalysis, i.e., poor long-term stability and potential secondary pollution caused by synthetic mediator, we fabricated a new biocatalyst (N-PS-Lac) through adsorption of laccase onto polystyrene anion exchangers (N-PS) binding quaternary ammonium groups.

Posterior short-segment instrumentation and limited segmental decompression supplemented with vertebroplasty with calcium sulphate and intermediate screws for thoracolumbar burst fractures.

Purpose: Thoracolumbar burst fractures treated with short-segment posterior instrumentation without anterior column support is associated with a high incidence of implant failure and correction loss. This study was designed to evaluate the clinical and radiographic results following posterior short-segment instrumentation and limited segmental decompression supplemented with vertebroplasty with calcium sulphate and intermediate screws for patients with severe thoracolumbar burst fractures.

Methods: Twenty-eight patients with thoracolumbar burst fractures of LSC point 7 or more underwent this procedure.

Differential effects of Rifampin and Ketoconazole on the blood and liver concentration of atorvastatin in wild-type and Cyp3a and Oatp1a/b knockout mice.

Atorvastatin is eliminated by CYP3A4 which follows carrier-mediated uptake into hepatocytes by OATP1B1, OATP1B3, and OATP2B1. Multiple clinical studies demonstrated that OATP inhibition by rifampin had a greater impact on atorvastatin systemic concentration than itraconazole-mediated CYP3A4 inhibition. If it is assumed that the blood and hepatocyte compartments are differentiated by the concentration gradient that is established by OATPs, and if the rate of uptake into the hepatocyte is rate-determining to the elimination of atorvastatin from the body, then it is hypothesized that blood concentrations may not necessarily reflect liver concentrations.

Integrative computational and experimental approaches to establish a post-myocardial infarction knowledge map.

Vast research efforts have been devoted to providing clinical diagnostic markers of myocardial infarction (MI), leading to over one million abstracts associated with "MI" and "Cardiovascular Diseases" in PubMed. Accumulation of the research results imposed a challenge to integrate and interpret these results. To address this problem and better understand how the left ventricle (LV) remodels post-MI at both the molecular and cellular levels, we propose here an integrative framework that couples computational methods and experimental data.

Cathepsin S-mediated autophagic flux in tumor-associated macrophages accelerate tumor development by promoting M2 polarization.

Background: Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are the major component of tumor-infiltrating leukocytes. TAMs are heterogeneous, with distinct phenotypes influenced by the microenvironment surrounding tumor tissues, but relatively little is known about the key molecular in these cells that contribute to malignant phenotypes. Autophagic activity is a critical factor in tumor development that contributes to enhancing cellular fitness and survival in the hostile tumor microenvironment.

Effect of different drying methods on the quality of Angelicae Sinensis Radix evaluated through simultaneously determining four types of major bioactive components by high performance liquid chromatography photodiode array detector and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry.

In the present study, the effect of drying methods on the quality of Angelicae Sinensis Radix (DG), was evaluated by newly developed high performance liquid chromatography photodiode array detector (HPLC-DAD) and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC-QTOF-MS/MS). Ten major bioactive components including two phenolic acids, two hydroxyl phthalides, four alkyl phthalides and two phthalide dimers were selected as evaluation chemical markers and the newly-established method was qualitatively and quantitatively validated. DG slices and whole roots dried in shade, sun light, hot air, vacuum, microwave, far infrared ray and combination of microwave and far infrared ray as well as the fresh DG samples were determined by the established methods.

[Investigation of compound, compatibility of Rhodiola crenulata, Cordyceps militaris, and Rhum palmatum, on metabolic syndrome treatment VI--improving hyperglycemia-mediated renal damage].

This study is to investigate the effects of a Chinese prescription (FF), compatibility of Rhodiola crenulata, Cordyceps militaris and Rheum palmatum, on nephropathy in type 1 diabetic rats induced by streptozocin. According to fasting blood glucose level, diabetic rats were divided into three groups: model group, insulin-treated group and FF-treated group. Parameters for evaluating the glucose & lipid metabolism and the renal function were monitored dynamically.

An analysis of 1256 cases of sporadic ruptured cerebral aneurysm in a single Chinese institution.

Background: To review the epidemiology of sporadic ruptured cerebral aneurysm.

Methods: This is a retrospective study of consecutive 1256 Chinese patients between January 2006 and January 2013, who were admitted to the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, China, for spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage due to a rupture of cerebral artery aneurysm. In 288 males and 478 females, the size of aneurysms was measured by a neuroradiologist on DSA.

[Clinical and pathological analysis of 41 cases of acute leukemia combined with intracranial hemorrhage].

This study was aimed to summarize the clinical and pathological features of patients with acute leukemia combined with intracranial hemorrhage. The clinical and pathological data of 41 adult patients diagnosed as acute leukemia in our hospital from 1953 to 1990 year were analyzed retrospectively. The results showed that there were 35 cases of AML, 6 cases of ALL; 9 cases in clinical hematologic remission, 32 cases in non-remission, 3 cases of AL with hypertension, 2 cases of AL with diabetes, 4 cases of AL with sepsis, 19 cases with WBC ≥ 100×10(9)/L; the pathologic examination showed 4 cases of AL accompanied with disseminated intravascular coagulation, 10 cases with prothrombin time INR ≥ 1.

Discovery of highly potent, selective, and brain-penetrant aminopyrazole leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) small molecule inhibitors.

Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) has drawn significant interest in the neuroscience research community because it is one of the most compelling targets for a potential disease-modifying Parkinson's disease therapy. Herein, we disclose structurally diverse small molecule inhibitors suitable for assessing the implications of sustained in vivo LRRK2 inhibition. Using previously reported aminopyrazole 2 as a lead molecule, we were able to engineer structural modifications in the solvent-exposed region of the ATP-binding site that significantly improve human hepatocyte stability, rat free brain exposure, and CYP inhibition and induction liabilities.

Linking carbon and nitrogen metabolism to depth distribution of submersed macrophytes using high ammonium dosing tests and a lake survey.

Strategies of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) utilisation are among the factors determining plant distribution. It has been argued that submersed macrophytes adapted to lower light environments are more efficient in maintaining C metabolic homeostasis due to their conservative C strategy and ability to balance C shortage. We studied how depth distributions of 12 submersed macrophytes in Lake Erhai, China, were linked to their C-N metabolic strategies when facing acute [Formula: see text] dosing.

Naphthyridine-based lanthanide complexes worked as magnetic resonance imaging contrast for guanosine 5'-monophosphate in vivo.

New lanthanide complex Gd-ANAMD containing 2-amino-7-methyl-1,8-naphthyridine was achieved for selective magnetic resonance imaging towards guanosine 5'-monophosphate over other ribonucleotide polyphosphates in aqueous media and in vivo. The formation of strong multi-hydrogen bonds between naphthyridine and guanosine made the phosphate in guanosine 5'-monophosphate positioned on a suitable site to coordinate with the lanthanide ion. The substitution of the coordination naphthyridine by the phosphate oxygen atoms caused obvious relaxivity decrease.

A high performance liquid chromatography fingerprinting and ultra high performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry chemical profiling approach to rapidly find characteristic chemical markers for quality evaluation of dispensing granules, a case study on Chuanxiong Rhizoma.

A high performance liquid chromatography-photodiode array detector (HPLC-PDA) fingerprinting and ultra high performance liquid chromatography-photodiode array detector coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC-PDA-QTOF-MS/MS) based chemical profiling approach was developed to rapidly find characteristic chemical markers for quality control of dispensing granules, taking Chuanxiong Rhizoma (CR) as a model herb. Firstly, CR crude drugs, their traditional decoctions and CR dispensing granules were analyzed by HPLC-PDA to rapidly establish the fingerprints and thereby generate the simulative median chromatograms of CR crude drugs, decoctions and dispensing granules, and by comparing the simulative median chromatograms, major characteristic peaks of CR decoctions and dispensing granules could be determined. Secondary, UHPLC-PDA-QTOF-MS/MS was used to identify the major characteristic peaks of CR decoctions and dispensing granules.

Association between the - 786T>C 1polymorphism in the promoter region of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and risk of coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: A variety of studies have evaluated the association between the -786T>C polymorphism in the promoter region of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, the results remain conflicting. To better understand the role of eNOS -786T>C polymorphism in CAD risk, we conducted a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis.

[Investigation of a compound, compatibility of Rhodiola crenulata, Cordyceps militaris, and Rheum palmatum, on metabolic syndrome treatment. V--Mechanisms on improving glucose metabolic disorders].

To investigate the mechanisms of a compound (FF16), compatibility of Rhodiola crenulata, Cordyceps militaris, and Rheum palmatum, on glucose metabolic disorders, the IRF mice charactered with insulin resistance and glucose metabolic disorders induced by high-fat diet in C57BL/6J mice were randomly divided into 3 groups; IRF, rosiglitazone (Rosi) and FF16. The glucose metabolism was evaluated by fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels and intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test (IPGTT). The insulin sensitivity was estimated by insulin tolerance test (ITT), fasting serum insulin levels and the index of HOMA-IR.

[Degradation of nicosulfuron by combination effects of microorganisms and chemical hydrolysis].

A strain which was capable of degrading nicosulfuron in the presence of glucose was isolated from nicosulfuron contaminated wetland soil, and it was identified as Klebsiella sp. based on 16S rDNA gene sequencing analysis. The strain could grow using nicosulfuron as the sole nitrogen source.

[Investigation of a compound, compatibility of Rhodiola crenulata, Cordyceps militaris, and Rhum palmatum, on metabolic syndrome treatment. IV--Improving liver lipid accumulation].

To investigate the effects of a compound (FF16), compatibility of Rhodiola crenulata, Cordyceps militaris, and Rhum palmatum, on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in IRF mice induced by high fat diet H&E stain was processed to evaluate the lipid accumulation in liver, and the dynamic microcirculation observation system was applied to determine hepatic microcirculation of IRF mice. Western blot was performed to evaluate IRS-2, HSL and ppar-alpha expression in liver. The results demonstrate that FF16 significantly decreased the liver lipid index and improved liver steatosis in IRF mice.

A multi-core-shell structured composite cathode material with a conductive polymer network for Li-S batteries.

A multi-core-shell with a conductive network structured C-PANI-S@PANI composite with high sulfur content up to 87% was synthesized. The composite cathode delivers higher specific capacity and excellent cycle stability, retaining a reversible discharge capacity of 835 mA h g(-1) after 100 cycles when the sulfur loading of the cathode was above 6 mg cm(-2).

[Investigation of a compound, compatibility of Rhodiola crenulata, Cordyceps militaris, and Rheum palmatum on metabolic syndrome treatment III--controlling blood glucose].

Base on the improvement of compound FF16, compatibility of Rhodiola crenulata, Cordyceps militaris, and Rheum palmatum, on both insulin resistance and obesity, its effects on type 2 diabetes (T2DM ) was investigated here. The results showed that the levels of fasting and no-fasting blood glucose were controlled in the spontaneous type 2 diabetes KKAy mice; the impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)was improved by decreasing significantly the values of the glucose peaks and the area under the blood glucose-time curve (AUC ) after glucose-loading in glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in both high-fat-diet-induced pre-diabetes IRF mice and KKAy mice, respectively. The pancreatic histopathological analysis showed that the increased islet amount, the enlarged islet area, and the lipid accumulation in the pancreas were reversed by FF16 treatment in both IRF mice and KKAy mice.

[Investigation of a compound, compatibility of Rhodiola crenulata, Cordyceps militaris, and Rheum palmatum, on metabolic syndrome treatment II - improving obesity].

To investigate the effect of compound FF16, compatibility of Rhodiola crenulata, Cordyceps militaris, and Rheum palmatum, on obesity, both the insulin resistant obese IRF mouse model induced by high fat diet and the spontaneous type 2 diabetes KKAy obese mouse model were used. The results showed that the body weights and the energy uptake were markedly reduced by compound FF16 in both IRF mice in dose-dependent manner and KKAy mice, respectively. Meanwhile, with the administration of FF16, the hypercholesterolemia and the hypertriglyceridemia were improved significantly in KKAy mice; and the levels of serum cholesterol and fatty index were decreased obviously, and the value of serum HDL-C was increased significantly in IRF mice, respectively.

Retrieval of effective complex refractive index from intensive measurements of characteristics of ambient aerosols in the boundary layer.

Aerosol complex refractive index (ACRI) has attracted intensive attentions due to its significance in modeling aerosol radiative effects. Determinations of ACRI from surface measurements of aerosol scattering and absorption coefficients as well as number size distributions during June, 2008 based on an iterative Mie algorithm were performed. The aim of our study was to introduce an inversion approach with the merits of high time-resolutions to retrieve the optically effective ACRI, especially its imaginary part.

Parthenolide is neuroprotective in rat experimental stroke model: downregulating NF-κB, phospho-p38MAPK, and caspase-1 and ameliorating BBB permeability.

Unlabelled: Inflammatory damage plays an important role in cerebral ischemic pathogenesis and may represent a target for treatment. Parthenolide (PN) has been proved to elicit a wide range of biological activities through its anti-inflammatory action in the treatment of migraine, arthritis, and atherosclerosis. To decide whether this effect applies to ischemic injury in brain, we therefore investigate the potential neuroprotective role of PN and the underlying mechanisms.

Association of smoking and other risk factors with Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy severity and corneal thickness.

Purpose: We investigated effects of smoking and other risk factors on the development of advanced Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD) and on central corneal thickness (CCT).

Methods: Eyes from Caucasian probands, affected and unaffected family members, and unrelated controls matched for age from the FECD Genetics Multi-Center Study (n = 2044 subjects) were examined. Univariate and multivariate models, adjusted for family correlations, were used to determine the effect of smoking, sex, diabetes, and age on FECD case/control status and CCT.

Regulation of iNOS expression by NF-κB in human lens epithelial cells treated with high levels of glucose.

Purpose: To explore the regulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression by nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) in human lens epithelial cells (LECs) treated with high levels of glucose, and to elucidate the impact of this in the pathogenesis of cataracts associated with diabetes.

Methods: LECs (SRA01/04) were cultured in vitro. NF-κB nuclear translocation and iNOS expression were measured at different glucose concentrations and at various time points, and the optimal concentration for detecting changes in the patterns of NF-κB nuclear translocation and iNOS expression was chosen.