Lipoprotein glomerulopathy resulting from compound heterogeneous mutations of APOE gene: A case report.

Rationale: Lipoprotein glomerulopathy (LPG) is a rare glomerular disease characterized by the deposition of lipoprotein thrombi in glomerular capillaries. The disease is characterized by proteinuria, progressive renal failure, and characteristic lipoprotein thrombosis in glomerular capillaries. Rare mutations in the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene mainly contribute to disease pathogenesis.

Numerical prediction of ultrasonic attenuation in concentrated emulsions and suspensions using Monte Carlo method.

For the study of predicting ultrasonic attenuation of mixed particles and probing the effect of interaction between neighboring particles, the Monte Carlo method was investigated to establish a submicron particle size characterization model in concentrated particulate two-phase system and serve as a probability and statistics technique to evaluate the underlying ultrasonic events during the ultrasound propagation. The numerical simulation method was proposed to predict the ultrasonic attenuation characteristics in the two-phase system of silica suspensions and corn oil-in-water emulsions with different particle sizes, ultrasonic frequencies and concentrations. Furthermore, an extension of the well-established single-particle theory of Epstein-Carhart and Allegra-Hawley (ECAH) was carried out, by incorporated in the couple phase model from a hydrodynamic point of view and effective hypothesis both accounted for the ultrasonic wave overlapping effect for the close proximity of particles.

Weaker cognitive control abilities of Pi (Spleen) qi-deficient individuals supported Chinese medicine diagnosis.

Objective: To investigate whether Pi (Spleen) qi-deficiency affected psychological and neural responses in relevance to cognitive control.

Methods: Pi qi-deficient and balanced participants were asked to perform the Stroop task, a classical cognitive control paradigm. In this paradigm, participants had to judge the color of the prompted word.