: This retrospective case-controlled study aimed to evaluate the association between the severity of fall-related injuries and fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs) in hospitalized patients. : Data were collected from Changhua Christian Hospital, Taiwan, of all adult inpatients who experienced falls between January 2017 and December 2021, and were divided into two groups based on whether they sustained severe fall-related injuries. Retrospective data that may affect the severity of fall-related injuries and the use of FRIDs were investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe rabbitfish, , is a commercially important table fish in southeastern China. However, there have been few studies on its gonad development and reproduction regulation. Comparative transcriptome analysis was first performed on adult male and female gonads of .
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June 2024
Striving to return to work is of great importance to many cancer survivors. The purpose of the study is to prospectively investigate the factors that hinder and facilitate return to work (RTW) at 3 and 12 months after the end of treatment in head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors and whether these factors influence the ability to continue working after treatment. Participants ( = 227) aged ≤ 65 years at diagnosis with HNC were included.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFalls are a serious public health problem in the aging population because of the associated clinical and socioeconomic impact. Although previous studies have investigated fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs), few studies have focused on dosage among adult inpatients. This study aimed to evaluate associations between fall risk and dosage of different FRIDs classes in hospital inpatients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMolecular dissection of disease resistance against Vibrio harveyi infection in yellow drum at the genome-wide level uncovered a C-type lectin-like receptor cluster of differentiation CD302 (named as YdCD302) in our previous study. Here, the gene expression pattern of YdCD302 and its function in mediating the defense response to V. harveyi attack were investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this study is to investigate the effects of constraint-induced movement therapy on stroke patients who had intact cognition and some voluntary finger extension and to identify optimal protocols to apply this therapy method. We searched PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Embase for randomized controlled trials conducted prior to January 2022. The outcomes included the Motor Activity Log, Fugl-Meyer Assessment, and Wolf Motor Function Test.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHerein, a highly active Z-scheme SnS/ZnSnO photocatalyst is fabricated by a one-step hydrothermal route. The structure, composition, photoelectric and photocatalytic properties of the as-prepared photocatalysts are systematically researched. The results demonstrate that SZS-6 displays a good photocatalytic performance with an efficiency of 94.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effects of dietary chitosan (0, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 g/kg) on the growth, health condition and disease resistance of golden pompano Trachinotus ovatus were evaluated. Dietary chitosan significantly enhanced weight gain, with the highest observed in fish fed the 6 g/kg chitosan diet. This chitosan level significantly promoted gut health by increasing villus length, lipase and protease activities and intestinal barrier-related genes expression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo improve the accuracy of three-dimensional (3D) surface contour measurements of freeform optics, a two-dimensional (2D) tilt measurement sensor for confocal microscopy (CM) systems is proposed based on a double-cylindrical mirror structure. First, the proposed system is accurately modeled. Second, we introduce a modified mean-shift-based peak-extraction algorithm with a novel kernel function (MSN) because the reflectivity of the measured object and fluctuation of the light source affect the measurement accuracy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe identification of novel drug-target interactions (DTI) is critical to drug discovery and drug repurposing to address contemporary medical and public health challenges presented by emergent diseases. Historically, computational methods have framed DTI prediction as a binary classification problem (indicating whether or not a drug physically interacts with a given protein target); however, framing the problem instead as a regression-based prediction of the physiochemical binding affinity is more meaningful. With growing databases of experimentally derived drug-target interactions (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is generally accepted that Astragalus polysaccharides (APS) supplementation can makes beneficial effects to fish. However, the adverse effects of APS to fish remains poorly understood. In the present study, Asian seabass Lates calcarifer were studied to assess the influence of different doses of APS on growth, health and resistance to Vibrio harveyi.
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March 2021
Chaetodontidae species feeding observations showed that they mostly fed on different coral species. Among them, (Cuvier, 1831) is one of most important genera of Chaetodontidae, and appeared to ingest annelid worms during the course of coral feeding, whereas gut contents of and were dominated by crustaceans. However, the systemically classification and taxonomic studies have so far been limited.
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