Age-wise trends in alkaline phosphatase activity in 167,625 Chinese children aged 0-18 years.

Objective: Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) serves as a biomarker for diagnosing several types of diseases in adults; nonetheless, its use is restricted in children because of changes in ALP activity during different physiological phases. The present study aimed to investigate ALP activity and its dynamics in children of different ages to establish the reference values for ALP activity in children.

Methods: Total 167,625 samples of children aged 0-18 years were enrolled in this study.

Synbiotics for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia: a probiotics strain-specific network meta-analysis.

Objective: Probiotics may be efficacious in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The aim of this network meta-analysis (NMA) was to clarify the efficacy of different types of probiotics for preventing VAP.

Methods: This systematic review and NMA was conducted according to the updated preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis.

[Efficacy of sleep position correction for treating infants with positional plagiocephaly].

Objective: To investigate the efficacy of 2-month course of sleeping position correction in the treatment of positional plagiocephaly in infants aged <8 months.

Methods: A total of 73 infants with positional plagiocephaly between January 2015 and June 2016 were divided into treatment group (n=46) and control group (n=27) according to parents' wishes. The treatment group received sleeping position correction, while the control group received sleep curve mattress.

[Bacteria community in different aged Coptis chinensis planting soil revealed by PCR-DGGE analysis].

In order to reveal the cause of disease occurred in the process of Coptis chinensis growth, this paper studied the bacterial species diversity index of different aged rhizospheric and non-rhizospheric soil planting normal or sick C. chinensis by using PCR-DGGE technique. The representative DGGE bands were chosen to be cloned, and sequenced, the phylogeny were constructed.

Study on human intestinal bacterium Blautia sp. AUH-JLD56 for the conversion of arctigenin to (-)-3'-desmethylarctigenin.

Arctium lappa L. (A. lappa) is a popularly used vegetable as well as herbal medicine.

Cloning of a putative hypersensitive induced reaction gene from wheat infected by stripe rust fungus.

The hypersensitive response (HR) is one of the most efficient forms of plant defense against biotrophic pathogens and results in localized cell death and the formation of necrotic lesions. In this study, a novel putative hypersensitive induced reaction (HIR) gene from wheat leaves infected by incompatible stripe rust pathogen CY23, designated as Ta-hir1, was identified by using rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE). Ta-hir1 encodes 284 amino acids, with a predicted molecular mass of 31.