Effect of music-based interventions on anxiety and stress-related vital signs in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: This work aimed to evaluate the effect of music-based intervention (MBI) on anxiety and stress-related vital signs (heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure) in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization.

Design: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Methods: This systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted according to PRISMA guidelines.

Unveiling the Potential of Y246 for Enhanced Suppression of .

is a significant pathogen affecting various crops, including tobacco. In this study, a bacterial strain, namely Y246, was isolated from the soil of healthy plants and exhibited high antifungal activity. Based on morphological identification and DNA sequencing, this bacterial strain was identified as The aim of this investigation was to explore the antifungal potential of strain Y246, to test the antifungal stability of Y246 by adjusting different cultivation conditions, and to utilize gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to predict the volatile compounds related to antifungal activity in Y246.

Biogenic Solution Map Based on the Definition of the Metabolic Correlation Distance between 4-Dimensional Fingerprints.

Accurate discrimination and classification of unknown species are the basis to predict its characteristics or applications to make correct decisions. However, for biogenic solutions that are ubiquitous in nature and our daily lives, direct determination of their similarities and disparities by their molecular compositions remains a scientific challenge. Here, we explore a standard and visualizable ontology, termed "biogenic solution map", that organizes multifarious classes of biogenic solutions into a map of hierarchical structures.

Luteolin ameliorates palmitate-induced lipotoxicity in hepatocytes by mediating endoplasmic reticulum stress and autophagy.

Abnormal accumulation of lipids in liver leads to uncontrolled endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and autophagy. Luteolin is known to have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer properties, but whether it protects against lipotoxicity in liver remains unclear. In this study, we challenged AML12 liver cells and mouse primary hepatocytes with palmitic acid (PA) with or without luteolin pretreatment.

Amelioration of 5-fluorouracil-induced intestinal mucositis by Streptococcus thermophilus ST4 in a mouse model.

Intestinal mucositis is a commonly encountered toxic side effect in patients undergoing 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-based chemotherapy. Numerous studies have shown that probiotics enable improving chemotherapy-induced intestinal mucositis, but the beneficial effects of probiotics differ depending on the strain. Therefore, in the present studies we suggest that S.

Defective minor spliceosomes induce SMA-associated phenotypes through sensitive intron-containing neural genes in Drosophila.

The minor spliceosome is evolutionarily conserved in higher eukaryotes, but its biological significance remains poorly understood. Here, by precise CRISPR/Cas9-mediated disruption of the U12 and U6atac snRNAs, we report that a defective minor spliceosome is responsible for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) associated phenotypes in Drosophila. Using a newly developed bioinformatic approach, we identified a large set of minor spliceosome-sensitive splicing events and demonstrate that three sensitive intron-containing neural genes, Pcyt2, Zmynd10, and Fas3, directly contribute to disease development as evidenced by the ability of their cDNAs to rescue the SMA-associated phenotypes in muscle development, neuromuscular junctions, and locomotion.

Numerous long single-stranded DNAs produced by dual amplification reactions for electrochemical detection of exosomal microRNAs.

Exosomal microRNAs (miRNAs) have been explored as an extremely promising biomarker of liquid biopsy for the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of diseases such as cancer, in which sensitive and selective detection is significant. Herein, we describe the construction and testing of an electrochemical biosensor for the sensitive detection of exosomal miRNAs. It is based on synthetizing numerous long single-stranded DNAs (ssDNAs), which are produced by dual amplification reactions of target-triggered cyclic strand displacement reaction (TCSDR) and primer exchange DNA amplification reaction (PEDAR).

Rubiparvus bistigma, a new genus and species of Empoascini (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae), with a checklist of the Alebroides group in Chinese fauna.

A new leafhopper genus of the tribe Empoascini, Rubiparvus gen. nov., is described based on Rubiparvus bistigma sp.

[Clinical analysis of 91 cases of imported falciparum malaria from Africa].

Objective: To explore the clinical characteristics, early diagnosis, and treatment of patients with imported falciparum malaria from Africa.

Methods: The clinical data of 91 imported falciparum malaria cases were analyzed by retrospective study.

Results: All the 91 cases had the history of mosquito bites.

[Soil respiration in subtropical forests and model simulation of its relationships with soil temperature and moisture content].

By using Li-6400-09 system, an in situ measurement on the soil respiration, soil temperature, and soil moisture content in three main forest types (evergreen broadleaved forest, Cunninghamia lanceolata plantation, and Phyllostachys pubescens forest) in subtropical area of China was conducted, with the relationships between soil respiration and soil temperature and moisture content simulated by several models. The C flux of soil respiration in P. pubescens forest, evergreen broadleaved forest, and C.

Fangchinoline inhibits glutamate release from rat cerebral cortex nerve terminals (synaptosomes).

Fangchinoline, an active component of radix stephaniae tetrandrinea, has been shown to possess neuroprotective properties. It has been reported that excessive glutamate release has been proposed to be involved in the pathogenesis of several neurological diseases. The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of fangchinoline on glutamate release in rat cerebral cortex nerve terminals and to explore the possible mechanism.

[Study on thermogravimetric characteristics of simulated medical waste by using TG-DTA-FTIR analysis].

Thermogravimetric behavior of simulated medical waste was studied in the atmosphere of nitrogen and air at different heating rates by thermogravimetric analysis and differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA), and the influence on the thermogravimetric behavior of simulated medical waste by the atmosphere and heating rate was also discussed. The results indicate that the initial separating temperature of the volatile organic matter ( T(s)) moves toward higher temperature and the peak value of the weight loss velocity (DTGmax) has a remarkable increase with the increasing heating rate when simulated medical waste is heated at these two atmospheres. There are two weight loss peaks when the experimental material is pyrolyzed at the atmosphere of nitrogen and the corresponding weight loss rate is about 31% and 59% .