Chronic kidney disease(CKD) is an insidious disease that has become a significant global public health issue due to its high incidence rate, low awareness, low diagnostic rate, poor prognosis, and high medical costs. Recent studies have shown that CKD development is associated with varying degrees of ferroptosis features. Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) can regulate iron metabolism, lipid peroxidation, antioxidant systems to inhibit ferroptosis and delay the progression of CKD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe application of novel bioorganic fertilizer (BIO) has been established as a weed biocontrol strategy, and reduce herbicides pollution and negatively effects on agricultural ecosystems. However, its long-term influences on soil bacterial communities are unknown. Here, 16 S rRNA sequencing to identify the changes that occur in soil bacterial community and enzyme under BIO treatments after five years in a field experiment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Nowadays, diabetic kidney disease (DKD) has become one of the most threatening to the end-stage renal diseases, and the early prevention of DKD is inevitable for Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients.
Aims: Pyroptosis, a programmed cell death that mediates renal inflammation induced early renal injury. The trimethylamine n-oxide (TMAO) was also an independent risk factor for renal injury.
Rats with streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes were studied in order to identify abnormal microRNA (miRNA) expression profiles in diabetic retinopathy (DR) and to ascertain miRNAs associated with DR. Histopathologically, we observed characteristic features of DR in rats at 10 weeks after STZ injection. Investigation of miRNA expression profiles in the retinas of control and diabetic rats using miRNA microarrays revealed that many miRNAs were abnormally expressed in DR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhejiang Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban
July 2008
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of phacoemulsification with foldable posterior chamber intraocular lens(PC-IOL) implantation in the management of acute or chronic primary angle-closure glaucoma(APACG or CPACG) with cataract.
Methods: Twenty-six cases(28 eyes) with simple cataract and 60 cases(70 eyes)of PACG with cataract, including 14 eyes of preclinical APACG, 29 eyes of paroxysmal APACG, 27 eyes of CPACG. Visual acuity distributed from hand movement to 0.
Objective: To study the therapeutic effect of the calcium channel antagonist nimodipine on the proliferative retinopathy and it's interaction with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).
Methods: A proliferative retinopathy model (OIR) of newborn Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats was induced by hyperoxia. Different dosages of nimodipine were injected to the rats through retrobulbar or intraperitoneal routes.