Introduction: Virtual reality (VR) has been shown to have a certain influence on the psychological health of intensive care unit (ICU) patients. However, its specific effects-particularly on psychological health problems, such as psychological well-being, quality of life (QOL) and patient satisfaction-remain unclear.
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The study of screening active constituents from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is important for explicating the mechanism of action of TCM and further evaluating the safety and efficacy effectively. However, detecting and identifying the active constituents from complicated biological samples still remain a challenge. Here, a practical, quick, and novel integrated strategy from , , to for rapidly screening the active constituents was developed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe aimed to develop a physiological-based pharmacokinetic and dipepidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) occupancy model (PBPK-DO) characterized by two simultaneous simulations to predict pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic changes of saxagliptin and metabolite M2 in humans when coadministered with CYP3A4 inhibitors or inducers. Ketoconazole, delavirdine, and rifampicin were selected as a CYP3A4 competitive inhibitor, a time-dependent inhibitor, and an inducer, respectively. Here, we have successfully simulated PK profiles and DPP-4 occupancy profiles of saxagliptin in humans using the PBPK-DO model.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScreening functional food ingredients (FFI) from medicinal and edible plants (MEP) has still remained a great challenge due to the complexity of MEP and its obscure function mechanisms. Herein, an integrated strategy based on sequential metabolites identification approach, network pharmacology, molecular docking, and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analysis was proposed for quickly identifying the active constituents in MEP. First, the sequential biotransformation process of MEP, including intestinal absorption and metabolism, and hepatic metabolism, was investigated by oral gavage, and intestinal perfusion with venous sampling method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe accurate quantitative determination of affinity and binding kinetics (BK) for tight binding inhibition is extraordinary important from both the continuous optimization of compounds, particularly in developing structure-activity relationships (SAR), and the prediction of in vivo target occupancy (TO). Due to the unique properties for tight binding inhibition that the inhibitors are characterized by the ultrahigh-affinity, relatively fast association to the target enzyme combined with extremely slow dissociation of the inhibitor-enzyme binary complex, the classical steady state equilibrium methods are no longer valid. Here, we made several recommendations of how to design the optimal experiments and apply special mathematical calculation approaches to quantitatively evaluate the accurate affinity and BK as the examples of two tight binding inhibitors against the xanthine oxidase (XO), as well as compared the differences in the results calculated from the different data analytical methods and analyzed the influence of these differences on the XO engagement in human.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince the word2vec model was proposed, many researchers have vectorized the data in the research field based on it. In the field of social network, the Node2Vec model improved on the basis of word2vec can vectorize nodes and edges in social networks, so as to carry out relevant research on social networks, such as link prediction, and community division. However, social network is a network with homogeneous structure.
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