BMC Public Health
December 2024
In recent years, females' body esteem has gradually declined, which has seriously affected their physical and mental health. Physical exercise has the positive impact on promoting females' body esteem. Therefore, to better understand the relationship between physical exercise and body esteem, it is necessary to conduct a quantitative analysis of physical exercise to improve females' body esteem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStem nematode (Ditylenchus destructor Thorne) is considered one of the most economically devastating species affecting sweet potato production. Biocontrol offers a sustainable strategy for nematode control. This study conducted a pot experiment to evaluate the biocontrol efficacy of Paecilomyces lilacinus CS-Z and Bacillus pumilus Y-26 against the stem nematode, as well as to examine their influence on the bacterial communities in the sweet potato rhizosphere.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRepeated, long-term (weeks to months) exposure to standard antidepressant medications is required to achieve treatment efficacy. In contrast, acute ketamine quickly improves mood for an extended time. Recent work implicates that hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels are involved in mediating ketamine's antidepressant effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe lignin oil produced by rapid pyrolysis of lignin is considered a promising liquid fuel source. Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) is a kind of efficient method to upgrade the lignin oil, and a high-performance catalyst is key to the hydrodeoxygenation of lignin oil. In this study, a high dispersion and small size Ru nanoparticle loaded N-doped carbon catalyst was derived by the direct pyrolysis of a mixture of ruthenium trichloride and melamine, and it could efficiently convert lignin oil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs bilayer lipid membrane vesicles secreted by neural stem/progenitor cells (NSCs), NSC-derived extracellular vesicles (NSC-EVs) have attracted growing attention for their promising potential to serve as novel therapeutic agents in treatment of neurological diseases due to their unique physicochemical characteristics and biological functions. NSC-EVs exhibit advantages such as stable physical and chemical properties, low immunogenicity, and high penetration capacity to cross blood-brain barrier to avoid predicaments of the clinical applications of NSCs that include autoimmune responses, ethical/religious concerns, and the problematic logistics of acquiring fetal tissues. More importantly, NSC-EVs inherit excellent neuroprotective and neuroregenerative potential and immunomodulatory capabilities from parent cells, and display outstanding therapeutic effects on mitigating behavioral alterations and pathological phenotypes of patients or animals with neurological diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Amid the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, China's vaccination campaign is progressing in an orderly manner. In the process of vaccination, the vaccination rates in different parts of China are different, and the factors affecting people's vaccination are also different, which may be caused by some reasons affecting people's willingness to vaccinate or complex sociodemographic characteristics factors. We found that inconsistent findings on factors associated with willingness to get COVID-19 vaccination in available studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeroxymonosulfate-based advanced oxidation processes (PMS-AOPs) are effective methods for the degradation of highly toxic and refractory nitrogen-containing heteroatomic pollutants such as benzotriazole (BTA). The construction of catalytic materials with multiple active centers is the key to generating abundant reactive oxygen species (ROS) and achieving high mineralization efficiency in PMS-AOPs. Herein, carbon nanotubes-intercalated cobalt copper bimetallic oxide nanosheets catalyst (CoCuNS@CNTs) was obtained by pyrolysis of two-dimensional (2D) MOF precursor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInspired by the working principle of natural spiderweb and long-persistence phosphors, we have synthesized a spiderweb-like nanocomposite in which CoS quantum dots are confined in N-doped carbon frameworks/carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The intimate combination of three-dimensional conductive networks of CoS/CNTs with abundant active sites allows effective capture of sulfate radicals both physical confinement and chemical bonding and accelerates the redox kinetics significantly. Furthermore, in virtue of the light storing and luminescence behaviors of long-persistence phosphors, the all-weather CoS/CNTs produced can realize an optimum degradation efficiency of 64% under dark conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the morphological, histological and ultrastructural changes of acute closed rupture of Achilles tendon, in order to clarify the pathological basis of the injury and to explore the significance.
Methods: From January 2015 to January 2019, 35 patients with acute Achilles tendon rupture who underwent the minimally invasive Achilles tendon suture technique were retrospectively analyzed. Among these patients, 12 cases in acute open Achilles tendon rupture group included 10 males and 2 females, with an average age of (35.
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November 2020
Objective: To summarize the research progress of osteonecrosis of femoral head (ONFH) following femoral intertrochanteric fractures in adults.
Methods: Relevant literature at home and abroad was extensively reviewed to summarize the pathogenesis, high-risk factors, and treatment of ONFH after femoral intertrochanteric fracture in adults.
Results: ONFH after femoral intertrochanteric fracture mostly occurs within 2 years after operation, with a lower incidence.
Efficient production of furfural from cornstalk in 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran/aqueous (MTHF/HO) biphasic system via parameter regulation (e.g., V/V, temperature, time, and HSO concentration) was proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurobiol Dis
February 2019
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that profoundly affects one's motor functions. The disease is characterized pathologically by denervation of dopaminergic (DAergic) nigrostriatal terminal and degeneration of DAergic neurons in the substantia nigra par compacta (SNpc); however, the precise molecular mechanism underlying disease pathogenesis remains poorly understood. Animal studies in both toxin-induced and genetic PD models suggest that presynaptic impairments may underlie the early stage of DA depletion and neurodegeneration (reviewed in Schirinzi, T.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Scott Edwards, which was incorrectly given as Scott Edward. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFShanghai Arch Psychiatry
October 2017
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic, distressing and substantially impairing neuropsychiatric disorder, characterized by obsessions or compulsions. The current case describes a 44-year-old adult female diagnosed with OCD. The patient had an incomplete response to several SSRIs alone during her past treatment, and led a poor-quality life for at least three years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlcohol-use disorder (AUD) is the most prevalent substance-use disorder worldwide. There is substantial individual variability in alcohol drinking behaviors in the population, the neural circuit mechanisms of which remain elusive. Utilizing in vivo electrophysiological techniques, we find that low alcohol drinking (LAD) mice have dramatically higher ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine neuron firing and burst activity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The aim of the study was to compare the clinical outcomes of patients undergoing all-arthroscopic (AA) or mini-open (MO) rotator cuff repair.
Methods: The present study evaluated 50 patients who had undergone AA repair and 50 patients who had undergone MO repair with a minimum 1-year follow-up. Every patient was asked to complete the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) and visual analog scale (VAS) questionnaires.
Background: The quality of meta-analyses (MAs) on depression remains uninvestigated.
Objective: To assess the overall reporting and methodological qualities of MAs on depression and to explore potential factors influencing both qualities.
Methods: MAs investigating epidemiology and interventions for depression published in the most recent year (2014-2015) were selected from PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO and Cochrane Library.
Fungal infections are a common cause of morbidity, mortality and cost in critical care populations. The increasing emergence of antimicrobial resistance necessitates the development of new therapeutic approaches for fungal infections. In the present study, we investigated the effectiveness of an innovative approach, antimicrobial blue light (aBL), for inactivation of Candida albicans in vitro and in infected mouse burns.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Alzheimers Dis
September 2016
Our previous studies have shown that longitudinal reduction in retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness is associated with cognitive deterioration. However, whether the combination of longitudinal reduction in RNFL thickness with baseline episodic memory performance can better predict cognitive deterioration remains unknown. Therefore, we set out to re-analyze the data obtained from our previous studies with 78 elderly adults (mean age 74.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Postoperative delirium is one of the most common postoperative complications in geriatric patients. Mini-mental state examination (MMSE) assesses cognitive function in patients and is associated with postoperative delirium. However, whether there is an age-dependent relationship between preoperative MMSE score and postoperative delirium remains unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Epidemiol
February 2016
Objectives: To assess the overall qualities of published surgical meta-analysis and predictive factors for high qualities.
Study Design And Setting: All meta-analyses pertinent to surgical procedures published in year 2013 were selected from PubMed and EMBASE. The characteristics of the included meta-analyses were collected, and their reporting and methodologic qualities were assessed by the PRISMA (27 items) and AMSTAR (11 items) checklists, respectively.
Objective: Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale (MDAS) assesses severity of delirium. However, whether the MDAS can be used in a Chinese population is unknown. Moreover, the optimal postoperative MDAS cutoff point for describing postoperative delirium in Chinese remains largely to be determined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of this study was to investigate endophytic bacterial diversity of wild soybean varieties with different resistance to soybean cyst nematode(Heterodera glycines) , for deciphering the interactions of soybean cyst nematode with endophytic bacteria.
Methods: After screening wild soybean varieties against race 3 of H. glycines, we investigated endophytic bacterial diversity in root tissues of wild soybean varieties with different resistance to H.