Background: The management of acute ischemic stroke due to isolated posterior cerebral artery occlusion (iPCAO) remains a topic of debate. This study investigates the efficacy and safety of endovascular treatment (EVT) versus best medical treatment (BMT) in patients with iPCAO.
Methods: A systematic search was conducted across electronic databases including PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library.
Purpose: This study aimed to compare the efficacy of anlotinib plus whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) with that of WBRT alone in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with multiple brain metastases (BMs).
Methods: The clinical data of patients with NSCLC and multiple BMs who received WBRT between 2019 and 2022 were collected. The patients were assigned to anlotinib plus WBRT group and WBRT group according to the treatment used.
Curr Issues Mol Biol
October 2024
Protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 6 ( is a cytoplasmic phosphatase that acts as a key regulatory protein in cell signaling to control inflammation and cell death. In order to investigate the role of in hematologic tumor myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), this study infected SKM-1 cell line (MDS cell line) with packaged H_-shRNA lentivirus to obtain H_-shRNA SKM-1 stable strain. The effect of knockdown on apoptosis, erythroid differentiation, and inflammations in SKM-1 cell line was examined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: High-voltage workers often experience fatigue due to the physically demanding nature of climbing in dynamic and complex environments, which negatively impacts their motor and mental abilities. Effective monitoring is necessary to ensure safety.
Methods: This study proposed an experimental method to quantify fatigue in climbing operations.
Mitochondrial DNA B Resour
September 2024
(Niethammer, 1975) is one of the commensal rodent species in South China. With the development of transportation and climate change, has gradually migrated north and become the dominant rat species for the past few years. In this study, we assembled a complete mitochondrial genome of , captured from North China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPyrolysis of animal manure at high temperature is necessary to effectively immobilize heavy metals, while the available phosphorus (P) level in biochar is relatively low, rendering it unsuitable for use as fertilizer. In this study, the pretreatment of swine manure with different potassium (K) sources (KOH, KCO, CHCOOK and CHKO) was conducted to produce a biochar with enhanced P availability and heavy metals immobility. The addition of all K compounds lowered the peak temperature of decomposition of cellulose in swine manure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study investigates the efficacy and safety of bridging intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) before endovascular therapy (EVT) compared with EVT alone in patients with large infarction core.
Methods: We conducted a comprehensive search of PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library from January 2015 to June 2024. Included studies involved patients with acute ischemic stroke with an Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score of ≤5 or an ischemic core volume of ≥50 mL.
The synthesis of the accurate composition and morphological/structural design of multielement semiconductor materials is considered an effective strategy for obtaining high-performance hybrid photocatalysts. Herein, sulfur vacancy (Vs)-bearing InS/CuInS microflower heterojunctions (denoted Vs-InS/CuInS) were formed in situ using InS microsphere template-directed synthesis and a metal ion exchange-mediated growth strategy. Photocatalysts with flower-like microspheres can be obtained using hydrothermally synthesized InS microspheres as a template, followed by Ostwald ripening growth during the metal cation exchange of Cu and In.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBenefiting from the unique surface plasmon properties, plasmonic metal nanoparticles can convert light energy into chemical energy, which is considered as a potential technique for enhancing plasmon-induced semiconductor photocatalytic reactions. Due to the shortcomings of large bandgap and high carrier recombination rate of semiconductors, their applications are limited in the field of sustainable and clean energy sources. Different forms of plasmonic nanoparticles have been reported to improve the photocatalytic reactions of adjacent semiconductors, such as water splitting, carbon dioxide reduction, and organic pollutant degradation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with modern healthcare has become increasingly prominent. The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of the novel computer-aided triage system based on artificial intelligence (AI-CTS) on endovascular therapy (EVT) in patients with large vascular occlusions (LVO). This study marks the first comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis on the subject.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEntropy (Basel)
November 2023
Compute-and-Forward (CoF) is an innovative physical layer network coding strategy, designed to enable receivers in wireless communications to effectively utilize interference. The key idea of CoF is to implement integer combinations based on the codewords from multiple transmitters, rather than decoding individual source codewords. Although CoF is widely used in wireless relay networks, there are still some problems to be solved, such as rank failure, single antenna reception, and the shortest vector problem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this study was to investigate the effect of age on long-term mortality and net survival benefit of radiotherapy (RT) for early-stage grade I-II FL. Five thousand three hundred and five patients with early-stage grade I-II FL in the SEER database (2000-2015) were identified. Primary therapy included RT alone (RT, 20.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfect Genet Evol
October 2023
Seoul virus (SEOV) is a major pathogen which causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), and is present all over the world. However, there are currently few long-term systematic studies of SEOV's phylogenetic and evolutionary mechanisms in epidemic areas. Thus, in this study, we used RT-PCR combined with NGS to obtain the genomes of six SEOV viruses from 1993, as well as 56 Hebei province-specific tissue samples from 1999 to 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPoor properties and high concentrations of heavy metals are still major concerns of successful application of animal manure-derived biochar into the environment. This work thus proposed to add chlorine-based additives (Cl-additives, i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCarbon sequestration is the primary function of biochar. Hence, it is necessary to design biochar with high carbon (C) retention and low C loss. In this study, three P compounds, including KHPO, Ca(HPO), and NHHPO, were premixed with corn stalk (1:4, /), aiming to produce biochars (CSB+K, CSB+Ca, and CSB+N) with high C sequestration and slow release of P at three temperatures (300, 500, and 700 °C).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTime-frequency analysis methods can be used to characterize the time-varying characteristics of a signal. The postprocessing algorithm further enhances this ability. The synchroextracting transform is a typical postprocessing algorithm that has the advantage of energy aggregation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an immune disease with a diagnosis of exclusion, since no validated biomarkers have been identified. In this study, we explored biomarkers associated with the development of ITP from an immune perspective to inform the clinical diagnosis.
Patients And Methods: Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between normal and ITP samples were analyzed using limma package.
Sensors (Basel)
August 2022
The electromagnetic (EM) scattering characteristics of the rough sea surface is very important for target surveying and detection in a sea environment. This work proposes a scaled sea surface designing method based on a rough thin-film medium. For the prototype sea surface, the permittivity is calculated with the seawater temperature, salinity, and EM wave frequency according to the Debye model.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is inevitable that reclaimed cotton stalks will contain a certain amount of plastic film due to the wide application of plastic mulching during the process of cotton cultivation, and this makes it inappropriate to return it to the field or for it to be processed into silage. In this study, biochars were prepared by the co-pyrolysis of cotton stalk with low-density polyethylene (LDPE) in the proportions of 1:0, 3:1, 2:1, and 1:1 (/) at 400 °C, 450 °C, and 500 °C and maintaining them for 1 h. The effects of the co-pyrolysis of cotton stalk with LDPE on the properties of biochars (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecently, deep neural network-based image compressed sensing methods have achieved impressive success in reconstruction quality. However, these methods (1) have limitations in sampling pattern and (2) usually have the disadvantage of high computational complexity. To this end, a fast multi-scale generative adversarial network (FMSGAN) is implemented in this paper.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnhancing carrier density and increasing carrier lifetime are critical for the good performance of thin film solar cells. We apply illumination during the growth of kesterite CuZnSnS (CZTS) to enhance hole density and suppress defects of nonradiative electron-hole recombination centers simultaneously. To examine the effect of the injected carriers generated by illumination, we first extend the scheme of detailed balance equations relating free carriers and defects beyond thermal equilibrium conditions by developing an extended Fermi level () to characterize a homogeneous semiconductor with non-equilibrium carriers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransl Lung Cancer Res
December 2021
Background: Lung adenocarcinoma accounts for more than 50% of non-small cell lung cancers. Dysregulated microRNAs (miRNAs) and coding genes play a critical role in lung adenocarcinoma irradiation resistance and might be promising therapeutic targets. In the present study, we demonstrate the effect of the miR-4306/IGF2R axis on malignant behaviors of lung adenocarcinoma cells and the response to irradiation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the expressions of microRNAs in peripheral blood of patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia(ITP) and its correlation with the imbalance of Th1/Th2 cells.
Methods: Thirty patients with ITP (ITP group) and 15 healthy people (control group) were enrolled.Real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was used to detect the expressions of six miRNAs (miR-107,miR-205-5p,miR-138-5p,miR-326,miR-1827,miR-185-5p) and Th1-specific transcription factor T-bet mRNA and Th2-specific transcription factor GATA-3 mRNA in the peripheral blood of the two groups. Th1 and Th2 cells were detected by flow cytometry.