is a traditional Chinese medicine that has shown promise for the management of chronic bronchitis (CB). We aim to assess the efficacy and safety of a preparation of named Bailing capsule (, Cs-C-Q80) compared with a placebo in patients with CB. This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group clinical trial (Chinese Clinical Trial Registry; registration number: ChiCTR1900025707) recruited patients with CB from eight hospitals in China between May 2019 and December 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF^{134}Xe is a candidate isotope for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) search. In addition, the two-neutrino case (2νββ) allowed by the standard model of particle physics has not yet been observed. With the 656-kg natural xenon in the fiducial volume of the PandaX-4T detector, which contains 10.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a search for light dark matter produced through the cascading decay of η mesons, which are created as a result of inelastic collisions between cosmic rays and Earth's atmosphere. We introduce a new and general framework, publicly accessible, designed to address boosted dark matter specifically, with which a full and dedicated simulation including both elastic and quasielastic processes of Earth attenuation effect on the dark matter particles arriving at the detector is performed. In the PandaX-4T commissioning data of 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis retrospective study aimed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with severe acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The study analyzed data from 945 AMI patients hospitalized between January 2016 and December 2017, out of which 21 patients underwent perioperative CRRT for PCI. We assessed the baseline characteristics of severe AMI patients before and after CRRT and examined the effect of CRRT on cardiac, renal, and liver function, as well as other indicators.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA search for interactions from solar ^{8}B neutrinos elastically scattering off xenon nuclei using PandaX-4T commissioning data is reported. The energy threshold of this search is further lowered compared with the previous search for dark matter, with various techniques utilized to suppress the background that emerges from data with the lowered threshold. A blind analysis is performed on the data with an effective exposure of 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a search on sub-MeV fermionic dark matter absorbed by electrons with an outgoing active neutrino using the 0.63 tonne year exposure collected by the PandaX-4T liquid xenon experiment. No significant signals are observed over the expected background.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRust fungi secrete various specialized effectors into host cells to manipulate the plant defense response. Conserved motifs, including RXLR, LFLAK-HVLVxxP (CRN), Y/F/WxC, CFEM, LysM, EAR, [SG]-P-C-[KR]-P, DPBB_1 (PNPi), and ToxA, have been identified in various oomycete and fungal effectors and are reported to be crucial for effector translocation or function. However, little is known about potential effectors containing any of these conserved motifs in the wheat leaf rust fungus (, ).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUltrasonic vibratory stress relief (UVSR) is a novel method for residual stress relieving of metal parts. In this paper, the UVSR method was applied to treat a random-sized plate, which is not designed to match with the resonant frequency of the ultrasonic transducer. The UVSR system includes an ultrasonic generator, a 20 kHz ultrasonic transducer and specially designed fixtures to exert ultrasonic vibration to the treated parts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn , both pathogen invasion and benzothiadiazole (BTH) treatment activate the ()-mediated systemic acquired resistance, which provides broad-spectrum disease resistance to secondary pathogen infection. However, the BTH-induced resistance in Triticeae crops of wheat and barley seems to be accomplished through an -independent pathway. In the current investigation, we applied transcriptome analysis on barley transgenic lines overexpressing wheat () and knocking down barley () to reveal the role of during the BTH-induced resistance.
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January 2020
Clopidogrel, a clinically used antiplatelet agent, can be readily hydrolyzed by human carboxylesterase 1A (CES1A) to release an inactive metabolite clopidogrel carboxylic acid (CCA). In this study, clopidogrel was used as a tool substrate to investigate the interspecies variation of clopidogrel hydrolysis in hepatic microsomes from various mammals including human and six laboratory animals (such as mouse, rat, rabbit, beagle dog, minipig and cynomolgus monkey). The results demonstrated that clopidogrel could be hydrolyzed into CCA by all tested hepatic microsomes from human or other mammals, but the hydrolytic rates greatly varied among species.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic treatment with caffeine, the most widely consumed psychoactive drug and a non-selective antagonist of adenosine receptors, can protection against myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG)-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS). In this study, we investigated the mechanism underlying caffeine-mediated neuroprotection against EAE by determining the effective therapeutic time-window of caffeine and the involvement of adenosine A2A and A1 receptor. We found that administration of caffeine during the effector phase (10 → 20 days post-immunization, d.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFXi Bao Yu Fen Zi Mian Yi Xue Za Zhi
August 2010
Aim: To observe the change of periphery and centra CD4(+); CD25(+); Treg, CD8(+); CD28(-); Treg of MOG₃₅₋₅₅; induced EAE disease in mouse, and to explore the potential mechanism of cellular immunity in the process of EAE.
Methods: MOG₃₅₋₅₅; were used to establish EAE model on femina C57BL/6 mice.The behavioral changes and the histological scores were recorded.
Early-life exposure to bacterial endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) affects the susceptibility to a variety of systemic organic inflammation in adulthood. To determine the long-term effects of neonatal LPS exposure on inflammatory responses in the central nervous system (CNS) in adulthood, we examined the effects on the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in adult rats as well as the potential regulatory immune mechanisms involved. The results showed that neonatal LPS exposure significantly reduced the morbidity (p<0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIdazoxan, an imidazoline 2 receptor (I(2)R) ligand, has been shown to protect against brain injury in several animal models of neurological disorders. In the present study we investigated the effect of idazoxan on experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model of multiple sclerosis. EAE was induced by immunizing Wistar rats with guinea pig spinal cord homogenates emulsified in CFA, followed by daily treatment of idazoxan (0, 0.
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