Prognostic value of the platelet, neutrophil, monocyte, basophil, and eosinophil to lymphocyte ratios in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP).

Severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) is a serious respiratory inflammation disease with high morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR), basophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (BLR) and eosinophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (ELR) in patients with SCAP. The study retrospectively included 554 patients with SCAP, and the clinical data were obtained from the electronic patient record (EMR) system.

Four new phenolic constituents from root barks of .

The , also known as "Feng Dan" have a crucial role in folk medicine to treat lumbar muscles strain, knee osteoarthritis and cervical spondylosis. In this study, four new phenolic compounds, specifically Paeoniaostiph A-E (-) phenolic compounds were characterised through spectroscopic techniques, including 1D and 2D NMR, HRESIMS, UV, IR, and electronic circular dichroism computations to explore their structures. Cytotoxicity and NO production inhibition of the new phenolic compounds were also studied.

[Effects of acupotomy on partial movement gait and serum tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-1β in patients with knee osteoarthritis].

Objective: To explore effects of acupotomy on pain, function, gait and serum inflammatory factors in patients with knee osteoarthritis(KOA).

Methods: From December 2017 to June 2019, 110 patients with KOA were collected and divided into acupotomy group(56 cases) and western medicine group(54 cases) by using random number table method. In acupotomy group, there were 16 males and 40 females, aged from 46 to 74 years old with an average of (62.

[Ammonia volatilization under different nitrogen and water treatments of tomato-watermelon rotation system in solar greenhouse in Losses Plateau, China].

To understand the characteristics of ammonia volatilization in Losses Plateau, an experiment was conducted in a typical solar greenhouse involving four treatments. Intermittent ventilation chamber method was used to measure NH volatilization over the period of tomato-watermelon rotation. The results showed that nitrogen transformation was rapid in solar greenhouse system.

Association of Parenteral Anticoagulation Therapy With Outcomes in Chinese Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome.

Importance: The association of parenteral anticoagulation therapy with improved outcomes in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome was previously established. This benefit has not been evaluated in the era of dual antiplatelet therapy and percutaneous coronary intervention.

Objective: To evaluate the association between parenteral anticoagulation therapy and clinical outcomes in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

[Experimental study on improvement of blood supply timeliness of rabbits with vertebral artery type of cervical spondylosis by massage].

Objective: Establishing a rabbit model of vertebral artery type of cervical spondylosis(CSA) and to observe the characteristics of timeliness in improving the blood flow of vertebral artery by massage, and discusse the material basis of this timeliness based on NPY and ET-1.

Methods: Fifty New Zealand healthy and white rabbits, 6-month-old, the body mass of (2.0±0.

[Effects of nitrogen fertilizer application on carbon dioxide emissions from soils with different inorganic carbon contents.].

The application of nitrogen (N) fertilizer results in decreases of soil pH, but its effects on CO emission from soils with different inorganic carbon contents remain unclear. An closed-jar incubation experiment was conducted to examine the effects of N fertilizer and nitrification inhibitor (DCD) on soil pH and CO emissions from three soil types with different contents of soil inorganic carbon (SIC), including paddy soil (PS), lime concretion black soil (CS), and eum-orthic anthrosols (AS). There were three treatments for each soil type, including control (N), 0.

Clinical Implications of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy in Patients Without Baseline Renal Dysfunction Undergoing Coronary Angiography.

Background: The clinical implications of different definitions of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients without baseline renal dysfunction are not well defined.

Methods: Consecutive patients at a single centre without baseline renal dysfunction (estimated glomerular filtration rate, eGFR≥60ml/min/1.73m) undergoing coronary angiography or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), were systematically evaluated for long-term risk of mortality following CIN using two broad definitions: an absolute increase from baseline in serum creatinine (SCr) ≥0.

Blood pH in coronary artery microthrombosis of rats.

Objective: To study the mechanism and significance of pH change in the coronary artery microthrombosis of rats.

Methods: After the sodium laurate-induced model of coronary artery microthrombosis of rats was constructed, the vascular endothelial cells were separated and then cultured in the mediums with different pH values for 24 h. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay was used to detect the content of von Willebrand factor (vWF) in the medium; while the real-time PCR and western blot assay were used to detect the expression of fibrinogen-like protein 2 (FGL2) at the mRNA and protein level.

Safe limits of contrast vary with hydration volume for prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy after coronary angiography among patients with a relatively low risk of contrast-induced nephropathy.

Background: Few studies have investigated the safe limits of contrast to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) based on hydration data. We aimed to investigate the relative safe maximum contrast volume adjusted for hydration volume in a population with a relatively low risk of CIN.

Methods And Results: The ratios of contrast volume-to-creatinine clearance (V/CrCl) and hydration volume to body weight (HV/W) were determined in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization.

LDL cholesterol as a novel risk factor for contrast-induced acute kidney injury in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

Background: Low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is associated with endothelial dysfunction, inflammation and increased vasoconstriction, which are involved in the development of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI). However, whether LDL-C is an independent risk factor of CI-AKI in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is unknown.

Methods: We prospectively enrolled 3236 consecutive patients undergoing PCI between January 2010 and September 2012.

Association of β-adrenergic receptor genes polymorphisms with incidence of subsequent cardiovascular events in Han Chinese patients with coronary artery disease.

Background: Sequence variants in the β-adrenergic receptor (ADRB) genes have a close relationship with the development of coronary artery disease (CAD) and the patient's prognosis. However, there is a lack of data on the role of the variants in ADRBs genes in Han Chinese patients with CAD. We aimed to investigate the association of genetic variants in the ADRB1 and ADRB2 genes with the incidence of major adverse cardiac event (MACE) in Han Chinese patients with CAD.

TinII intron, an enhancer to affect the function of the cytoplasmic male sterility related gene T in Brassica juncea.

The T gene, which was cloned from the mitochondria of tumorous stem mustard (Brassica juncea var. tumida), is a cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS)-related gene that can produce two transcripts, T1170 and T1243. The latter is transcribed with the uncleaved intron TinII.

Lack of association between lipoprotein(a) genetic variants and subsequent cardiovascular events in Chinese Han patients with coronary artery disease after percutaneous coronary intervention.

Background: Elevated lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] levels predict cardiovascular events incidence in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Genetic variants in the rs3798220, rs10455872 and rs6415084 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the Lp(a) gene (LPA) correlate with elevated Lp(a) levels, but whether these SNPs have prognostic value for CAD patients is unknown. The present study evaluated the association of LPA SNPs with incidence of subsequent cardiovascular events in CAD patients after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Use of the contrast volume or grams of iodine-to-creatinine clearance ratio to predict mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention.

Background: Few studies have assessed the predictive value of the ratio of the contrast media volume or grams of iodine to the creatinine clearance (V/CrCl or g-I/CrCl, respectively) for the risk of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) and mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Methods: The association between V/CrCl and mortality was prospectively evaluated in 1,135 consecutive patients undergoing PCI. Cox regression models were used to adjust for the V/CrCl ratio and other confounding factors for risk of death within 1 year.

Bis{2,4-dibromo-6-[(E)-(4-fluoro-benz-yl)imino-meth-yl]phenolato-κ(2)N,O}cobalt(II).

The complete mol-ecule of the title complex, [Co(C(14)H(9)Br(2)FNO)(2)], is generated by crystallographic twofold symmetry, with the Co(II) atom lying on the rotation axis. The coordination of the metal atom by the two N,O-bidentate ligands results in a squashed CoN(2)O(2) tetra-hedron. The six-membered chelate ring is an envelope, with the metal atom as the flap.

[Influences of different aspiration results by aspiration thrombectomy catheter in emergent percutaneous coronary intervention for patents with acute myocardial infarction].

Objective: To evaluate the influences of different aspiration results by Diver C.E. aspiration thrombectomy catheter on myocardium perfusion and clinical outcomes during emergency PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention) for the patients with acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

[Adsorption characteristics of soluble organic carbon and nitrogen in two cultivated soils].

In this paper, soluble organic carbon (SOC) and nitrogen (SON) were extracted from manure, and their adsorption characteristics in Argosols and Anthrosols in Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province were investigated. The results showed that the adsorption of SON and SOC in the two soils could be fitted by initial mass isotherm model, and the adsorbed amounts of SON and SOC had a significant linear relationship with the initial concentrations of SON and SOC added into soils. The partition coefficient, m of the initial mass isotherm model, indicated that Argosols had a higher adsorbility than Anthrosols.

4,4',6,6'-Tetra-bromo-2,2'-(2,8-diazonia-5-azanona-1,8-diene-1,9-diyl)diphenolate.

In the zwitterionic title compound, C(18)H(17)Br(4)N(3)O(2), the two salicylaldimine groups form a dihedral angle of 51.94 (2)° and the dihedral angle between the aromatic ring planes is 51.14 (2)°.

[Glucoamylase enhancement regulated by blue light in Aspergillus niger].

Regulation of glucoamylase production in photoinduced A. niger under blue light were investigated. The results showed that continuous illumination of blue light was effective in promotion of conidiation, leading to more glucoamylase production due to the need of sporulation in A.

[Study on the asexual sporulation of Aspergillus niger under blue light induction and analysis of its subtractive library].

The effect of blue light (BL) on the morphological development of Aspergillus niger was studied by the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observation. Comparing with the darkness, BL was able to stimulate development of sporangiophore and conidiosphore, promote grownth of mycelium. Suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) was conducted with tester cDNA which was from 39 to approximately 40h-old mycelium cultured under darkness and driver cDNA which was from mycelium illuminated for 3 to approximately 4h under BL after dark growth.

[Molecular identification of cytoplasmic male sterility associated gene orf 220 in leaf mustard (Brassica juncea var. multiceps Tsen et Lee)].

The cytoplasmic male-sterility (CMS) was transferred into leaf mustard by inter-varietal hybridization and subsequent backcrosses cms donor as using tuber mustard. Using specially designed primers, one specific band at 600-700 bp was distinctively amplified by PCR from cms plants of different backcrossed generations. It was genetically stable and cytoplasmically inheritable in the various backcrossed progenies.

[Effect of blue light on conidiation development and glucoamylase enhancement in Aspergillus niger].

Pure blue (BL) or red light (RL) were obtained by filtering blue or red fluorescent lamp light through plastic filters. With the dark condition as control, the effect of BL and RL on the Aspergillus niger were studied including soluble protein content of mycelium, glucoamylase activity, the biomass as well as sporangiophore photomorphogenesis and vegetative spore development. Irradiation with BL and RL wholly promoted glucoamylase activity together with the rise of the soluble protein content and the mycelium growth.