Interaction analysis of lipid accumulation product and family history of diabetes on impaired fasting glucose and diabetes risk in population with normotension in Eastern China: a community-based cross-sectional survey.

Background: Lipid accumulation product (LAP) is considered to be a new convenient useful indicator to assess the visceral fat. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the risk factors of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and diabetes, and explore the possible interacting influences of LAP with other factors on the risk of IFG and diabetes among Chinese normotension adults.

Methods: A multistage stratified cluster sampling method was conducted to select urban residents in Bengbu, China.

The dietary inflammatory index and metabolic health of population-based Chinese elderly.

Background And Objectives: This study evaluated the relationship between dietary inflammatory index (DII) and metabolic health in the Chinese elderly.

Methods And Study Design: A total of 6,730 participants from the "Community-based Cardiovascular and Health Promotion Study" (CoCHPS) cohort were included in this study. The DII scores were acquired using a validated 125-item food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) (ranged -5.

QTL Mapping of Fusarium Ear Rot Resistance in Maize.

Ear rot is a globally prevalent class of disease in maize, of which Fusarium ear rot (FER), caused by the fungal pathogen , is the most commonly reported. In this study, three F populations, namely F-C, F-D, and F-J, and their corresponding F families were produced by crossing three highly FER-resistant inbred lines, Cheng351, Dan598, and JiV203, with the same susceptible line, ZW18, for quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping of FER resistance. The individual crop plants were inoculated with a spore suspension of the pathogen injected into the kernels of the maize ears.

Effects of hydrothermal pretreatment on the mono- and co-digestion of waste activated sludge and wheat straw.

The refractory properties of waste activated sludge and wheat straw inhibit their bioenergy recovery by anaerobic digestion. This paper attempted to estimate the digestive performance, energy conversion efficiency and economic feasibility of wheat straw mono-digestion and its co-digestion with sludge by hydrothermal pretreatment at different temperature gradients (125, 150 and 175 °C). The results illustrated that the hydrolysis of both wheat straw and sludge were improved with the temperature increasing.

A Novel Vav3 Homolog Identified in Lamprey, Lampetra japonica, with Roles in Lipopolysaccharide-Mediated Immune Response.

Vav guanine nucleotide exchange factor 3 (Vav3), a Rho family GTPase, regulates multiple cell signaling pathways including those of T- and B-cell receptors in vertebrates through mediating the activities of the Rho family members. Whether the lamprey possesses Vav3 homolog and what role it plays in immune response remain unknown. Gene cloning, recombinant expression, antibody production and expression pattern analyses were performed to characterize the lamprey Vav3 in the current study.