Cobweb disease in white button mushroom () is a newly identified disease caused by in China. Currently, there are few highly effective and safe fungicides for controlling this disease in the field. This study assessed the fungicidal effect of prochloraz-manganese chloride complex and seboctylamine acetate against , as well as their ability to control cobweb disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExtensive utilization of pesticides and their persistent residues inadvertently pose threats to the effectiveness and fitness of biocontrol agents in agroecosystems. However, these ecological consequences are generally disregarded when executing integrated pest management strategies (IPM). Cyantraniliprole (CNAP) serves as a wide-spectrum diamide insecticide and its sublethal effects have been well characterized on multiple insect pests, whereas its impacts on beneficial natural enemies remain unfathomed.
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September 2024
Aerial-aquatic unmanned vehicles are a combination of unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned submersibles, capable of conducting patrols in both the air and underwater domains. This article introduces a novel aerial-aquatic unmanned vehicle that integrates fixed-wing configuration and flapping-wing configuration. In order to improve the low efficiency of the classic diagonal motion trajectory, this paper proposed an improved diagonal motion trajectory based on joint optimization of the stroke angle and angle of attack curve.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVarious lipid metabolism-related factors are essential for Zika virus (ZIKV) replication. In this study, we revealed a crucial role of diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 2 (DGAT2) in ZIKV replication using a short hairpin RNA-based gene knockdown technique. The replication of ZIKV was significantly inhibited by DGAT2 depletion in multiple cell lines and restored by trans-complementation with DGAT2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: To construct and compare merged models integrating clinical factors, MRI-based radiomics features and deep learning (DL) models for predicting pathological complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC).
Methods: Totally 197 patients with LARC administered surgical resection after nCRT were assigned to cohort 1 (training and test sets); meanwhile, 52 cases were assigned to cohort 2 as a validation set. Radscore and DL models were established for predicting pCR applying pre- and post-nCRT MRI data, respectively.
Introduction: Chronic calcific pancreatitis (CCP) is a debilitating inflammatory condition characterized by the accumulation of calcific deposits in the pancreatic tissue, leading to chronic abdominal pain and functional insufficiencies. This study aims to systematically review and meta-analyse comparative studies assessing the efficacy of endotherapy versus surgery in managing CCP-related pain.
Methods: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane library (CENTRAL and CDSR), from inception to October 2023, were searched.
Calcium molybdate (CaMoO) has recently garnered considerable attention for supercapacitors due to its stable crystal structure and cost-effective preparation. However, CaMoO prepared by traditional processes still suffered from insufficient electrochemical active sites and poor electrical conductivity so far, thus leading to the performance of CaMoO-based supercapacitors being inferior to the state-of-the-art ones. CaMoO nanofibers with a high specific surface area exhibit great potential for supercapacitors due to their ability to offer increased charge storage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUlcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease characterized by abdominal pain, diarrhea, and rectal bleeding. This study aims to explore the protective effects of a phage cocktail (10 PFU/mL of Clostridium perfringens phage, 10 PFU/mL of Escherichia coli phage, and 10 PFU/mL of Salmonella phage) on a mouse colitis model induced by dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) and its potential toxic effects on normal mice. The results demonstrate that the phage cocktail significantly alleviates clinical symptoms in mice, reduces colon shortening, weight loss, and colonic pathological damage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPublic gene expression databases are a rapidly expanding resource of organism responses to diverse perturbations, presenting both an opportunity and a challenge for bioinformatics workflows to extract actionable knowledge of transcription regulatory network function. Here, we introduce a five-step computational pipeline, called iModulonMiner, to compile, process, curate, analyze, and characterize the totality of RNA-seq data for a given organism or cell type. This workflow is centered around the data-driven computation of co-regulated gene sets using Independent Component Analysis, called iModulons, which have been shown to have broad applications.
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October 2024
Nature often provides invaluable insights into technological innovation and the construction of nanomaterials. Inspired by the pitaya fruit's strategy of wrapping seeds within its pulp to enhance seed survival, a unique nanocomposite based on metal-organic framework (MOF)-encapsulated CuS nanoparticles (NPs) is developed. This design effectively addresses the challenge of short retention time afforded by CuS NPs for therapeutic and imaging purposes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) belongs to a subtype of Chronic rhinosinusitis which is a heterogeneous inflammatory condition. It has been reported that mitophagy may provide a new therapeutic option for CRSwNP.
Methods: The GSE136825 (training dataset) and GSE179265 (validation dataset) were scoured from the Gene Expression Omnibus database.
Developing high-quality wide bandgap (WBG) perovskites with ≈1.7 eV bandgap (E) is critical to couple with silicon and create efficient silicon/perovskite tandem devices. The sufferings of large open-circuit voltage (V) loss and unstable power output under operation continuously highlight the criticality to fully develop high-quality WBG perovskite films.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDriven by emerging research paradigms, the application of artificial intelligence models presents innovative tools for designing materials and optimizing their performance. In the field of materials science, there is a current research emphasis on exploring techniques for characterizing material structures to achieve precise descriptions. This paper proposes a crystal graph convolution neural network model that incorporates a tripartite interaction approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeutrophilic inflammation contributes to multiple chronic inflammatory airway diseases, including asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), and is associated with an unfavorable prognosis. Here, using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to profile human nasal mucosa obtained from the inferior turbinates, middle turbinates, and nasal polyps of CRSwNP patients, we identify two IL-1 signaling-induced cell subsets-LY6D club cells and IDO1 fibroblasts-that promote neutrophil recruitment by respectively releasing S100A8/A9 and CXCL1/2/3/5/6/8 into inflammatory regions. IL-1β, a pro-inflammatory cytokine involved in IL-1 signaling, induces the transdifferentiation of LY6D club cells and IDO1 fibroblasts from primary epithelial cells and fibroblasts, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSocial instability stress (SS) in adolescence in rats leads to long-lasting changes in social behaviour and reward-related behaviour relative to control rats. Given the role of the nucleus accumbens (NAc) in such behaviours, we investigated the morphology of medium spiny neurons (MSNs), which are most neurons in the NAc, in adult female and male rats exposed to SS in adolescence. Irrespective of sex, SS rats had increased number of dendritic spines in both the core and shell regions of the NAc (2.
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