Follow-up study of gallbladder stones in 44 children.

Background: Cholesterol stones affect a certain subpopulation of children. Concerns have been raised on the impact of gallbladder surgery on the growth of children and adolescents.

Aim: To study the population characteristics, clinical features, treatment, and prognosis of gallstones in children.

Repair effect of photobiomodulation combined with human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells on rats with acute lung injury.

Acute lung injury (ALI) impaired the function of blood oxygen exchange function, resulting in tissue hypoxia and patient death. Recently, human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSCs) are thought to mitigate the effects of ALI, which boosts researchers' interest in employing stem cell-based therapies to manage ALI. However, as a novel therapy, hUCMSCs still face various limitations such as migrating weakly and insufficient proliferation in vivo.

RFormer: Transformer-Based Generative Adversarial Network for Real Fundus Image Restoration on a New Clinical Benchmark.

Ophthalmologists have used fundus images to screen and diagnose eye diseases. However, different equipments and ophthalmologists pose large variations to the quality of fundus images. Low-quality (LQ) degraded fundus images easily lead to uncertainty in clinical screening and generally increase the risk of misdiagnosis.

Effective Capture of Carbon Dioxide Using Hydrated Sodium Carbonate Powders.

The emission of CO₂ has been considered a major cause of greenhouse effects and global warming. The current CO₂ capture approaches have their own advantages and weaknesses. We found that free-flowing hydrated sodium carbonate (Na₂CO₃) powders with 30 wt % water can achieve a very high CO₂ sorption capacity of 282 mg/g within 60 min and fast CO₂ uptake (90% saturation uptake within 16 min).