Background: This study investigates the effects of open and closed exercise interventions on the physical and mental health of individuals undergoing substance use disorder (SUD). We examined changes in tendency of recurrence of use, vital capacity (VC), resting heart rate (RHR), sleep quality, and choice reaction time.
Methods: Conducted over six months at the drug rehabilitation center, 95 participants were randomly assigned to closed exercise, open exercise, or control group.
The concern of COVID-19 persists due to the continuous emergence of variants and the potential spillover of animal coronaviruses. The broad-spectrum neutralizing antibodies play a pivotal role in the prevention and treatment of coronavirus (CoV) infections. Here, we constructed 18 bi-specific antibodies (bsAbs) using 9 antibodies isolated from COVID-19 convalescents and vaccinated individuals, designed as dual variable domain immunoglobulin (DVD-Ig).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: (AO, (Sam). Juzep) has been widely employed for the treatment of macular edema (ME) in traditional Chinese medicine due to its renowned water-relief properties. Nonetheless, the comprehensive investigation of AO in alleviating ME remained unexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCarbonate bound arsenic act as an important reservoir for arsenic (As) in nature aquifers. Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), one of the dominant bacterial species in reductive groundwater, profoundly affects the biogeochemical cycling of As. However, whether and how SRB act on the migration and transformation of carbonate bound arsenic remains to be elucidated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a globally public health threat. There are currently no medications available to treat CHIKV infection. High-throughput screening of 419 kinase inhibitors was performed based on the cytopathic effect method, and six kinase inhibitors with reduced cytopathic effects, including tyrphostin AG879 (AG879), tyrphostin 9 (A9), sorafenib, sorafenib tosylate, regorafenib, and TAK-632, were identified.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLayer-by-layer self-assembly MoS/C nanomaterials are constructed through the electrostatic adsorption between MoS nuclei with positive charge and C nuclei with negative charge using a facile one-step hydrothermal method. The layer-by-layer self-assembly MoS/C catalysts with high exposure of catalytic hydrogenation active sites exhibit enhanced catalytic performance in phenanthrene hydrogenation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Endometriosis (EM) is an aggressive, pleomorphic, and common gynecological disease. Its clinical presentation includes abnormal menstruation, dysmenorrhea, and infertility, which seriously affect the patient's quality of life. However, the pathogenesis underlying EM and associated regulatory genes are unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-affinity K transporters (HKTs) are known as transmembrane cation transporters and are involved in Na or Na-K transport in plants. In this study, a novel HKT gene was isolated and characterized from the halophyte, . It belongs to subfamily I of HKT and shows high homology with other halophyte HKT proteins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndometriosis is a hormone-dependent disease in women of reproductive age and seriously affects women's health. To analyze the involvement of sex hormone receptors in endometriosis development, we performed bioinformatics analysis using four datasets derived from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, which may help us understand the mechanisms by which the sex hormones act in vivo in endometriosis patients. The enrichment analysis and protein-protein interaction (PPI) analysis of the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) revealed that there are different key genes and pathways involved in eutopic endometrium aberrations of endometriosis patients and endometriotic lesions, and sex hormone receptors, including androgen receptor (AR), progesterone receptor (PGR) and estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1), may play important roles in endometriosis development.
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September 2022
The support of MgO/γ-AlO was initially prepared by a multiple impregnation method and Pd was placed on the surface of the MgO/γ-AlO support via incipient wetness impregnation. Pd/MgO/γ-AlO (Pd/MAO) catalysts were systematically characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), CO-temperature-programmed desorption (TPD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), CO-Fourier transform infrared (CO-FTIR), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and tested in the CO oxidative coupling to dimethyl oxalate (DMO) reaction. Compared to Pd/γ-AlO, the catalytic activities of the Pd/MAO catalysts improved significantly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA novel feeding strategy was adopted in this study and the effect of reduction in hydraulic retention time (HRT) on the anaerobic digestion of chicken manure (CM) with a constant organic loading rate of 6.0gVS/L/d was investigated. The lab-scale CSTR was operated at 38°C and HRT was reduced from 52days to 5days.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this work was to compare the effect of temperature and relative humidity (RH) on the physical stability and dissolution of solid dispersions. Cinnarizine-Soluplus(®) solid dispersions (SDs) at three different drug loadings (10, 20 and 35 wt%) were prepared by hot melt extrusion and exposed to stress conditions: high temperatures (40 and 60 °C), high relative humidities (75% and 94% RH) and accelerated conditions (40 °C/75% RH) for 30 days, or stored at 25 °C for up to 5 months. Changes in solid state and dissolution of SDs were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and dissolution testing.
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