A 60-year-old woman with bilateral lower extremity oedema for several days was admitted to the hospital on 21 November 2023. Previously, after receiving rectal cancer resection in February 2023, she had been receiving drug chemotherapy, during which she had normal urinalysis and renal function. However, 10 days before admission, after the drug regimen was adjusted to tislelizumab + fruquintinib, she developed bilateral lower extremity oedema with foamy urine; this was later extended to facial oedema.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGeographic barriers and Quaternary climate changes are two major forces driving the evolution, speciation, and genetic structuring of extant organisms. In this study, we used Pinus armandii and eleven other Asian white pines (subsection Strobus, subgenus Pinus) to explore the influences of geographic factors and Pleistocene climatic oscillations on species in South China, a region known to be centers of plant endemism and biodiversity hotspots. Range-wide patterns of genetic variation were investigated using chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA markers, with extensive sampling throughout the entire range of P.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThirteen natural populations from throughout the range of the Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.) were examined using inter-simple sequence repeat markers to characterize the genetic structure at the species level and to compare the extent and distribution of genetic variation among central, intermediate, and marginal populations. Although the total genetic variation in the Chinese pine was mainly maintained within populations, the genetic differentiation among populations was significant (P < 0.
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