Association of flap transfer versus excision with secondary healing on patient satisfaction in nasal mass surgery: A cohort study.

Background: Nasal cutaneous tumors impact appearance and function, affecting the patients' well-being. This study compares the outcomes of second intention healing, where wounds heal naturally, with flap transfer in nasal defect repair after tumor resection to evaluate its viability as an alternative.

Methods: In this multi-center study, 80 patients who underwent second intention healing and 70 patients who received flap transfer after nasal tumor resection between July 2018 and June 2023 were included.

Transumbilical single-trocar laparoscopic-assisted cholangiography with a single intraoperative bile duct lavage procedure for inspissated bile syndrome in infants.

Background: To evaluate the feasibility, safety, and efficiency of a novel technique for the diagnosis and treatment of inspissated bile syndrome (IBS) in infants: transumbilical single-trocar laparoscopic-assisted cholangiography with a single intraoperative procedure bile duct lavage (TUSLC).

Methods: This was a prospective cohort study. All infants with IBS admitted to West China Hospital between January 2015 and January 2023 were included in this study.

Characteristics of volatile flavor development in aged longissimus lumborum post-ultrasound treatment: 4D proteomics combined with phosphoproteomics analysis.

The present study aimed to evaluate the impact of ultrasonic treatment on the development of volatile flavor compounds in beef during postmortem aging and its potential mechanism. Results showed that ultrasound treatment may cause an increase in the total content of unsaturated fatty acids, which could lead to lipid oxidation and potentially result in changes in the flavor development. Additionally, it was also found that ultrasound exacerbated protein oxidation.

Pilot-scale testing on catalytic hydrolysis of carbonyl sulfur combined with absorption-oxidation of HS for blast furnace gas purification.

About 70% of the flue gas in the iron-steel industry has achieved multi-pollutant ultra-low emissions in China until 2023, and then the blast furnace gas purification has become the control step and bottleneck. Our research group has designed and constructed the world's first blast furnace gas desulfurization pilot plant with the scale of 2000 Nm/h in October 2021. The pilot plant is a two-step combined desulfurization device including catalytic hydrolysis of carbonyl sulfur (COS) and absorption-oxidation of HS, continuously running for 120 days.

The diagnostic utility of CT attenuation values in detecting calcification within costal cartilage.

Background: To establish and verify diagnostic criteria for the identification of costal cartilage calcification based on computed tomography (CT) attenuation value.

Methods: 360 chest CT slices of 120 patients were reviewed and annotated retrospectively and receiver operating characteristic curve was used to evaluate the diagnostic ability of CT attenuation value. Another 20 slices containing calcification were randomly selected and annotated by 4 doctors for further validation.

Techno-economic assessment of industrial food waste composting facility: Evaluating bulking agents, processing strategies, and market dynamics.

Techno-economic assessment (TEA) of a valorization of bulking agent (BA) ratios on the food waste compost value chain is made to assess economic feasibility. TEA was performed with two plans (Plan A: existing composting facilities; Plan B: new composting facilities) and each plan was under four scenarios. The BA (i.

The effect of aromatic side chains on the dilational rheological properties of -acyltaurate amphiphiles at water-decane interfaces.

To elucidate the effect of aromatic side chains on dilational rheological properties of -acyltaurate amphiphiles at the decane-water interface, the interfacial rheological properties of sodium -2-(2-naphthoxy)-tetradecanoyltaurinate (12+N-T) and sodium -2-(-butylphenoxy)-tetradecanoyltaurinate (12+4B-T) were investigated utilizing the drop shape analysis method. The effects of adsorption time, interfacial pressure, oscillating frequency, and bulk concentration on the interfacial dilational modulus and phase angle were explored. The results show that the 12+4B-T molecule with a longer hydrophobic chain shows a higher ability for reducing the interfacial tension (IFT).

Microbial Sources and Sinks of Nitrous Oxide during Organic Waste Composting.

Composting is widely used for organic waste management and is also a major source of nitrous oxide (NO) emission. New insight into microbial sources and sinks is essential for process regulation to reduce NO emission from composting. This study used genome-resolved metagenomics to decipher the genomic structures and physiological behaviors of individual bacteria for NO sources and sinks during composting.

Multi-stage aeration regime to regulate organic conversion toward gas alleviation and humification in food waste digestate composting.

Aerobic composting has been considered as a pragmatic technique to convert food waste digestate into high-quality biofertiliser. Nevertheless, massive gaseous emission and immature product remain the primary challenges in food waste digestate composting. Thus, the performance of multi-stage aeration regimes to improve gaseous emissions and organic humification during food waste digestate composting was investigated in this study.

WITHDRAWN: TWIST2 inhibits EMT and induces oxidative stress in lung cancer cells by regulating the FGF21-mediated AMPK/mTOR pathway.

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New Strategies for Remnant Ear Treatment in Microtia Reconstruction Based on Morphometric Studies.

Objective: Given the lack of specific evaluation indices, it is difficult to determine whether to transpose or abandon remnant ears in lobule-type microtia reconstruction. The authors illuminate referable parameters beneficial for proper treatment of remnant ear in an efficient manner.

Methods: A series of 359 lobule-type microtia patients underwent autogenous costal cartilage auricular reconstruction between 2016 and 2021.

How do lateral septum projections to the ventral CA1 influence sociability?

JOURNAL/nrgr/04.03/01300535-202408000-00033/figure1/v/2023-12-16T180322Z/r/image-tiff Social dysfunction is a risk factor for several neuropsychiatric illnesses. Previous studies have shown that the lateral septum (LS)-related pathway plays a critical role in mediating social behaviors.

JinJiang ablation catheter is no inferior than Johnson ablation catheter in radiofrequency ablation of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.

Background: Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) is characterized by episodes of rapid tachycardia with sudden onset and sudden termination. PSVT treatment has evolved considerably over the past 30 years. Currently, radiofrequency catheter ablation is the first-line treatment.

Efficacy and Safety of Disitamab Vedotin Combined with Programmed Death-1 Inhibitor for Advanced Urothelial Cancer: A Case-Series Study.

Introduction: Antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) and programmed death-1 (PD-1) inhibitors play crucial roles in the treatment of advanced urothelial cancer (aUC). Increasingly, combination treatment modalities are used in patients with aUC intolerant to platinum-based chemotherapy (PBC). However, clinical evidence on the efficacy and safety of disitamab vedotin plus PD-1 inhibitors for aUC is limited.

Reoperation after surgical treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia: a systematic review.

Context: Surgical treatment is important for male lower urinary tract symptom (LUTS) management, but there are few reviews of the risks of reoperation.

Objective: To systematically evaluate the current evidence regarding the reoperation rates of surgical treatment for LUTS in accordance with current recommendations and guidelines.

Evidence Acquisition: Eligible studies published up to July 2023, were searched for in the PubMed (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA), Embase (Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), and Web of Science™ (Clarivate™, Philadelphia, PA, USA) databases.

Laparoscopic Ladd's procedure for intestinal malrotation in small infants with midterm follow-up.

Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic Ladd's procedure (LL) for intestinal malrotation (IM) in small infants.

Methods: All patients aged < 6 months with IM who underwent Ladd's procedures between January 2012 and December 2019 were enrolled. The perioperative demographics and midterm follow-up results were retrospectively reviewed and compared between patients who underwent LL and open Ladd's operation (OL).

STOmicsDB: a comprehensive database for spatial transcriptomics data sharing, analysis and visualization.

Recent technological developments in spatial transcriptomics allow researchers to measure gene expression of cells and their spatial locations at the single-cell level, generating detailed biological insight into biological processes. A comprehensive database could facilitate the sharing of spatial transcriptomic data and streamline the data acquisition process for researchers. Here, we present the Spatial TranscriptOmics DataBase (STOmicsDB), a database that serves as a one-stop hub for spatial transcriptomics.

The prognostic biological markers of immunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer: current landscape and future perspective.

The emergence of immunotherapy, particularly programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) and programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) produced profound transformations for treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Nevertheless, not all NSCLC patients can benefit from immunotherapy in clinical practice. In addition to limited response rates, exorbitant treatment costs, and the substantial threats involved with immune-related adverse events, the intricate interplay between long-term survival outcomes and early disease progression, including early immune hyperprogression, remains unclear.

Optimization of free air space to regulate bacterial succession and functions for alleviating gaseous emissions during kitchen waste composting.

This study investigated the effects of free air space (FAS) (45%, 55%, 65%) on bacterial dynamics for gaseous emissions during kitchen waste composting. Results show that FAS increase from 45% to 65% elevated oxygen diffusivity to inhibit bacteria for fermentation (e.g.

Microbes from mature compost to promote bacterial chemotactic motility via tricarboxylic acid cycle-regulated biochemical metabolisms for enhanced composting performance.

This study aims to reveal the underlying mechanisms of mature compost addition for improving organic waste composting. Composting experiments and metagenomic analysis were conducted to elucidate the role of mature compost addition to regulate microbial metabolisms and physiological behaviors for composting amelioration. Mature compost with or without inactivation pretreatment was added to the composting of kitchen and garden wastes at 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% (by wet weight) for comparison.

Chronic unpredictable stress induces depression/anxiety-related behaviors and alterations of hippocampal monoamine receptor mRNA expression in female mice at different ages.

Depression and anxiety are the most common mental health disorders. Though they affect people at any age and occur more often in females, the pathophysiological changes under these conditions are less investigated. In the present study, we examined the effects of age and stress on depression- and anxiety-related behaviors in female mice.