Urinary haloacetic acid concentrations and thyroid function among women: Results from the TREE study.

Background: Disinfection byproducts (DBPs) have been shown to impair thyroid function in experimental models. However, epidemiological evidence is scarce.

Methods: This study included 1190 women undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment from the Tongji Reproductive and Environmental (TREE) cohort from December 2018 to August 2021.

Exposures to drinking water disinfection byproducts and kidney function in Chinese women.

Background: Disinfection byproducts (DBPs), the ubiquitous contaminants in drinking water, have been shown to impair renal function in experimental studies. However, epidemiological evidence is sparse.

Objective: To investigate exposures to DBPs in associations with renal function among women.

Urinary biomarkers of drinking-water disinfection byproducts in relation to diminished ovarian reserve risk: A case-control study from the TREE cohort.

Background: Disinfection byproducts (DBPs) as ovarian toxicants have been documented in toxicological studies. However, no human studies have explored the effects of exposure to DBPs on diminished ovarian reserve (DOR).

Objective: To assess whether urinary biomarkers of exposure to drinking-water DBPs were associated with DOR risk.

Associations between urinary biomarkers of exposure to disinfection byproducts and semen parameters: A repeated measures analysis.

Toxicological studies have demonstrated that disinfection byproducts (DBPs), particularly haloacetic acids, cause testicular toxicity. However, evidence from human studies is sparse and inconclusive. This study included 1230 reproductive-aged men from the Tongji Reproductive and Environmental (TREE) cohort to investigate the associations between repeated measures of DBP exposures and semen parameters.

Combined analysis of C-reactive protein in pleural fluid and serum is effective in the differential diagnosis of exudative pleural effusions.

Background: Exudative pleural effusion (EPE) is one of the common pleural manifestations of various diseases. Differential diagnosis of EPE is imperative clinically as it identifies different causes of EPE, thereby, enabling effective treatments. Thoracoscopy is a useful tool for differential diagnosis of EPE; however, some patients refuse thoracoscopic examination due to its invasive nature.

Long non-coding RNA small nucleolar RNA host gene 6 aggravates pancreatic cancer through upregulation of far upstream element binding protein 1 by sponging microRNA-26a-5p.

Background: Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a highly deadly malignancy with few effective therapies. We aimed to unmask the role that long non-coding RNA small nucleolar RNA host gene 6 (SNHG6) plays in PC cells by targeting far upstream element binding protein 1 (FUBP1) via microRNA-26a-5p (miR-26a-5p).

Methods: SNHG6 expression was predicted by bioinformatics, followed by verification via reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction.

Effect of overexpression of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α induced by hyperoxia in vivo in LNCaP tumors on tumor growth rate.

Objective: To study effect of overexpression of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α induced by hyperoxia in vivo in LNCaP tumors on tumor growth rate.

Methods: The prostate cancer LNCaP cells were inoculated in the abdomen of mice. All the mice were randomly placed in the gas chamber with different oxygen content.

Preliminary comparison of diffusion-weighted MRI and PET/CT in predicting histological type and malignancy of lung cancer.

Introduction: Emerging evidence shows that diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW MRI) and fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography ( F-FDG PET/CT) might be useful in predicting histological type and malignancy of lung cancer, and even in specifically detecting the types of gene mutation.

Objective: We assessed whether DW MRI is equivalent to PET/CT in lung cancer diagnosis and evaluation.

Methods: The institutional review board approved this study, and written informed consent was obtained from all patients.

Methanol triggered ligand flip isomerization in a binuclear copper(I) complex and the luminescence response.

Methanol drives the blue emissive complex, [Cu(2)(dppy)(3)(MeCN)](BF(4))(2) (dppy = diphenylphosphino-pyridine), with a head-to-tail arrangement of the three bridging phosphine ligands to convert to its linkage isomer (head-to-head, green emissive) in the solid state, and the transformation could be reversibly realized through recrystallization in different solvents.