Novel hemicraniectomy: Preserving temporal structures in severe traumatic brain injury patients.

Objective: This study evaluates the efficacy and safety of Novel Hemicraniectomy Technique (NHT) in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (STBI) patients.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of 79 STBI patients who underwent decompressive hemicraniectomy was conducted. The study compared 25 patients treated with NHT and 54 patients treated with Classic Decompressive Craniectomy (CDC), focusing on therapeutic effects, complications, intracranial pressure, and prognosis.

The potential role of gut microbiota outer membrane vesicles in colorectal cancer.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common malignant digestive tract tumor in colorectal regions. Considerable evidence now shows that the gut microbiota have essential roles in CRC occurrence and development. Most Gram-negative bacteria release outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) outer membrane blistering, which contain specific cargoes which interact with host cells intercellular communications, host immune regulation, and gut microbiota homeostasis.

Bacterial strategies for immune systems - Role of the type VI secretion system.

The process of host infection by bacteria is complicated. Bacterial infections strongly induce the host immune system, which necessitates a robust clearance of the infection. However, bacteria have over time developed strategies that enable their evasion of attacks by the host immune system.

Cascaded convolutional networks for automatic cephalometric landmark detection.

Cephalometric analysis is a fundamental examination which is widely used in orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning. Its key step is to detect the anatomical landmarks in lateral cephalograms, which is time-consuming in traditional manual way. To solve this problem, we propose a novel approach with a cascaded three-stage convolutional neural networks to predict cephalometric landmarks automatically.

Serial Interval and Reproductive Number of COVID-19 Among 116 Infector-infectee Pairs - Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, China, 2020.

What Is Already Known About This Topic?: The key epidemiological parameters including serial interval, basic reproductive number ( ), and effective reproductive number ( ) are crucial for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) control and prevention. Previous studies provided different estimations but were often flawed by some limitations such as insufficient sample size and selection bias.

What Is Added By This Report?: In this study, a total of 116 infector-infectee pairs meeting strict inclusion criteria were selected for analysis.

Progression of cartilage degradation, bone resorption and pain in rat temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis induced by injection of iodoacetate.

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is an important subtype of temporomandibular disorders. A simple and reproducible animal model that mimics the histopathologic changes, both in the cartilage and subchondral bone, and clinical symptoms of temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis (TMJOA) would help in our understanding of its process and underlying mechanism.

Objective: To explore whether injection of monosodium iodoacetate (MIA) into the upper compartment of rat TMJ could induce OA-like lesions.

[Expression of hsa-miR-20a in human glioma tissues and its effect on the proliferation of human glioma cells in vitro].

Objective: To investigate miR-20a expression in human glioma and normal brain tissues and its effect on the proliferation of glioma cells in vitro.

Methods: The expression of miR-20a was detected in human normal brain tissues and glioma tissues by real-time RT-PCR. miR-20a mimics were synthesized and transfected into U251 cells via liposome, and the cell proliferation were detected using MTT assay and flow cytometry.