Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Improves the Quality of Life for Patients with Mild to Moderate Depression due to Glaucoma or Cataracts: A Retrospective Study.

Background: Individuals affected with glaucoma and cataracts are more likely to experience depressive symptoms, which can affect their overall quality of life (QOL) and functioning. Therefore, this retrospective cohort study aimed to evaluate the impact of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on glaucoma or cataracts patients with mild to moderate depression.

Methods: This study included patients with mild to moderate depression resulting from glaucoma or cataracts in our hospital from January 2023 to December 2023.

Electrochemically Driven Optical Dynamics of Reflectin Protein Films.

Neuronally triggered phosphorylation drives the dynamic condensation of reflectin proteins, enabling squid to fine tune the colors reflected from specialized skin cells (iridocytes) for camouflage and communication. Reflectin, the primary component of iridocyte lamellae, forms alternating layers of protein and low refractive index extracellular space within membrane-encapsulated structures, acting as a biologically tunable distributed Bragg reflector. In vivo, reflectin condensation induces osmotic dehydration of these lamellae, reducing their thickness and shifting the wavelength of reflected light.

Voltage-calibrated, finely tunable protein assembly.

Neuronally triggered phosphorylation drives the calibrated and cyclable assembly of the reflectin signal transducing proteins, resulting in their fine tuning of colours reflected from specialized skin cells in squid for camouflage and communication. In close parallel to this physiological behaviour, we demonstrate for the first time that electrochemical reduction of reflectin A1, used as a surrogate for charge neutralization by phosphorylation, triggers voltage-calibrated, proportional and cyclable control of the size of the protein's assembly. Electrochemically triggered condensation, folding and assembly were simultaneously analysed using dynamic light scattering, circular dichroism and UV absorbance spectroscopies.

Characterization of the Survival Influential Genes in Carcinogenesis.

The genes influencing cancer patient mortality have been studied by survival analysis for many years. However, most studies utilized them only to support their findings associated with patient prognosis: their roles in carcinogenesis have not yet been revealed. Herein, we applied an in silico approach, integrating the Cox regression model with effect size estimated by the Monte Carlo algorithm, to screen survival-influential genes in more than 6000 tumor samples across 16 cancer types.

Oxygen Plasma Activation of Carbon Nanotubes-Interconnected Prussian Blue Analogue for Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

To obtain renewable and clean fuels, exploration of effective electrocatalysts is highly desirable due to the sluggish kinetics of water splitting. In this study, the oxygen plasma-activated hybrid structure of Ni-Fe Prussian blue analogue (PBA) interconnected by carbon nanotubes (O-CNT/NiFe) is reported as a highly effective electrocatalytic material for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The electrocatalytic performance is significantly influenced by different mass ratios of CNTs to Ni-Fe PBA.

Biodegradable Polymeric Micelle-Mediated Delivery of a pH-Activatable Prodrug of 7-Ethyl-10-Hydroxy-Camptothecin (SN-38) to Enhance Anti-Angiogenesis and Anti-Tumor Activity.

7-Ethyl-10-hydroxy-camptothecin (SN-38), an efficient topoisomerase inhibitor, is the biological metabolite of irinotecan used as the first-line chemotherapy drug for colon cancer. However, the hydrophobicity and instability of SN-38 limit its further clinical application. In this study, to improve water dispersity and the anti-tumor efficiency of SN-38, a prodrug, SN-38-BOC, that could efficiently transform to active SN-38 in the acidic tumor microenvironment was synthesized and encapsulated into MPEG-P(CL--TMC) micelles (SN-38-BOC micelles).