This study evaluated the impact of pulsed electric fields (PEFs) combined with three-phase partitioning (TPP) extraction methods on the physicochemical properties, functional properties, and structural characterization of the soluble dietary fiber (SDF) derived from peanut shells (PS). The findings of this study indicated that the application of a PEF-TPP treatment leads to a notable improvement in both the extraction yield and purity of SDF. Consequently, the PEF-TPP treatment resulted in the formation of more intricate and permeable structures, a decrease in molecular weight, and an increase in thermal stability compared to SDFs without TPP treatment.
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September 2023
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks its own tissues and organs. However, the causes of SLE remain unknown. Dyslipidemia is a common symptom observed in SLE patients and animal models and is closely correlated to disease activity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new species of nemourid stonefly, Amphinemura daloushana sp. nov. and A.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To propose a possible solution for a peanut by-product, peanut shell (PS), this study evaluated the effects of different methods, including enzymatic extraction (E-SDF), microwave extraction (M-SDF), and pulsed electric field extraction (PEF-SDF), on the characterization of soluble dietary fibers (SDFs) from PS.
Methods: We determined the physicochemical properties, including water- and oil-holding capacities (WHC and OHC), emulsifying properties, rheological properties, functional properties, including pancreatic lipase activity inhibition (PRAI), glucose and cholesterol adsorption capacities (GAC and CAC), and the structural properties of SDFs.
Results: The results showed that PEF-SDF possessed the highest WHC, OHC, and emulsifying properties.
Background: As the prognosis of early gastric cancer (EGC) is significantly better than that of advanced gastric cancer (AGC), the development of biomarkers to monitor the progression of chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG) to gastric cancer (GC) is essential.
Methods: Stomach tissue miRNA and mRNA sequences from patients with chronic non-atrophic gastritis (CNAG), CAG, precancerous lesions of gastric cancer (PLGC), and GC were analyzed. A publicly available GC-related miRNA microarray dataset was obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus database.
Two species of the genus Chinoperla Zwick, 1980 are reported with color images from Yunnan Province of southwestern China, including one described as new to science: C. longispina Yan Li, sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo species of the genus Furcaperla Sivec 1988 (in: Sivec et al. 1988), F. bifurcata (Wu, 1948) and F.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this study was to investigate the role of 13 mC-related regulators in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) and determine their prognostic value. Gene expression and clinicopathological data were obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) datasets. The expression of mC-related regulators was analyzed with clinicopathological characteristics and alterations within mC-related regulators.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gelsolin (GSN) is the most widely expressed actin-severing protein in humans, which could regulate cell morphology, differentiation, movement and apoptosis. This study aims to explore the GSN as a prognostic biomarker of stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD).
Methods: In this study, we used several online databases to comprehensively analyze the role of GSN in STAD.
Recent approval of mRNA vaccines for emergency use against COVID-19 is likely to promote rapid development of mRNA-based vaccines targeting a wide range of infectious diseases. Compared to conventional approaches, this vaccine modality promises comparable potency while substantially accelerating the pace of development and deployment of vaccine doses. Already demonstrated successfully for single antigen vaccines such as for COVID-19, this technology could be optimized for complex multi-antigen vaccines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new species of the stonefly genus Neoperla, N. jiangae sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs early gastric cancer (EGC) has a far better prognosis than advanced gastric cancer (GC), early diagnosis and treatment are essential. However, understanding the mechanism of the process from gastric precancerous lesion (GPL) becoming EGC has made little advances. Besides, biomarkers that can monitor the progression of GPL-to-GC are still much insufficient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We aimed to build a ferroptosis-based classifier to characterize the molecular features of gastric cancers (GC) and investigate the relationship between different ferroptosis patterns and GC tumor microenvironment (TME).
Methods: Based on the genomic and clinical information from TCGA portal and GEO database, non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) was used to identify ferroptosis subtypes in GC patients. In order to estimate the ferroptosis levels, we established ferroptosis subtype score (FSS) to quantify ferroptosis patterns and ferroptosis potential index (FPI) by principal component analysis (PCA).
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of mA-related lncRNAs in gastric adenocarcinoma (STAD) and to determine their prognostic value.
Methods: Gene expression and clinicopathological data were obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Correlation analysis and univariate Cox regression analysis were conducted to identify mA-related prognostic lncRNAs.
Background: Stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD) is the most common gastrointestinal cancer and is associated with high mortality worldwide. Endothelin receptor type A (EDNRA) is associated with guanine-nucleotide-binding (G) proteins and plays important roles in cellular processes and various diseases.
Purpose: To investigate the prognosis value of EDNRA expression and its correlation with immune infiltrates in patients with STAD.
A new species of the Amphinemurinae genus Amphinemura, A. similibimaculata sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRaw milk is a nature media of microbiota that access milk from various sources, which constitutes a challenge in dairy production. This study characterizes the relationship between the raw milk quality and the bacteria diversity at different sampling sites in dairy farms, aiming to provide a strong scientific basis for good hygienic practices and optimized procedure in milk production. High-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA V3-V4 region was used to analyze the components, abundance and diversity of 48 bacterial population sampled from 8 different sites in dairy farm: pre-sterilized cow's teats (C1), post-sterilized cow's teats (C2), milking cluster (E), milk in storage tank (M1), transport vehicle (M2), storage equipment (E2), cow's dung samples (F) and drinking water (W).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKamimuria dabieshana sp. n. from Dabie Mountains in Hubei Province, central China, is described as new to science.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gastric cancer (GC), an extremely aggressive tumor with a very different prognosis, is the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality. We aimed to construct a ferroptosis-related prognostic model that can be distinguished prognostically.
Methods: The gene expression and the clinical data of GC patients were downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus database (GEO).
A poorly known perlid species, Flavoperla ovalolobata (Wu, 1948) is redescribed based on an adult male and four females newly collected at the type locality, Wuyishan located in Fujian Province of southeastern coastal China. Illustrations and color photographs are provided for this species. The taxonomic relationship of this taxon is discussed with related taxa.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIncreasing evidence indicates that TP53 mutation impacts the patients' prognosis by regulating the gastric cancer (GC) immunophenotype. An immune prognostic signature (IPS) was constructed based on TP53 status. The effects of the IPS on the immune microenvironment of GC were analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Increasing evidence suggests that the lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA regulatory network is highly correlated with gastric cancer (GC) development. However, a prognosis-associated lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA network remains to be identified in GC.
Methods: Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened by integrating 6 microarray datasets using the RRA method.
Increasing evidence suggests that aberrant long noncoding (lnc) RNA expression plays a vital role in gastric cancer (GC) initiation and progression. Thus, we aimed to develop a lncRNA-based risk signature and nomogram to predict overall survival (OS) for patients with GC. Our primary cohort was composed of 341 patients with clinical and lncRNA expression data in The Cancer Genome Atlas stomach adenocarcinoma (TCGA STAD), the internal validation cohort was composed of 172 randomly assigned patients, and the external validation cohort was composed of 300 patients from GSE62254 dataset.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignancy associated with a poor prognosis due to difficulties in reliably estimating overall survival (OS). MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play critical roles in HCC initiation, progression, and metastasis and are highly correlated with patient prognosis. Thus, miRNA-based risk signatures and nomograms are urgently required for predicting OS in patients with HCC.
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