Miniaturized spectrometers hold great promise for in situ, in vitro, and even in vivo sensing applications. However, their size reduction imposes vital performance constraints in meeting the rigorous demands of spectroscopy, including fine resolution, high accuracy, and ultra-wide observation window. The prevailing view in the community holds that miniaturized spectrometers are most suitable for coarse identification of signature peaks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe liver is a primary target for distal metastasis of gastric cancer (GC). The hepatic pre-metastatic niche (PMN) facilitates crucial communications between primary tumor and liver, thereby playing an essential role in hepatic metastasis. Identification of the molecular mechanisms driving PMN formation in GC could facilitate development of strategies to prevent and treat liver metastasis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTumour immunity is highly important for the occurrence and development of tumours, and many cancers are resistant to ferroptosis. This study aims to explore the relationship between ferroptosis-related genes (FRGs) and the immunological characteristics of kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC). We obtained RNA-seq profiles and clinical data of KIRC patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases and identified CD44 and GLRX5 as the key FRGs involved in KIRC immune infiltration through Spearman's correlation analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi
September 2024
Phthalic acid esters (PAEs) showed high environmental risk due to the widely existence and toxicity. Microbial-excreted extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) showed potential of degrading organic compounds. In this study, the degradation ability and the mechanisms of EPS from two bacteria (PAEs degrader Gordonia sihwensis; electrochemically active strain Shewanella oneidensis MR-1) were investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFetal membrane providing mechanical support and immune protection for the growing fetus until it ruptures during parturition. The abnormalities of fetal membrane (thickening, separation, etc.) are related to adverse perinatal outcomes such as premature delivery, fetal deformities and fetal death.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeritoneal metastasis (PM) is considered one of the most dreaded forms of cancer metastases for both patients and physicians. Aggressive cytoreductive surgery (CRS) is the primary treatment for peritoneal metastasis. Unfortunately, this intensive treatment frequently causes clinical complications, such as postoperative recurrence, metastasis, and adhesion formation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGreen hydrogen production through electrochemical overall water splitting has suffered from sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) kinetics, inferior conversion efficiency, and high cost. Herein, ultrafine PtIr clusters are synthesized via an electrodeposition method and decorated on the CoO nanoflowers assembled by nanowires (PtIr-CoO). The encouraging performances in electrochemical OER and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) are achieved over the PtIr-CoO catalyst, with the overpotentials as low as 410 and 237 mV at 100 mA cm, respectively, outperforming the commercial IrO and Pt/C catalysts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn recent years, the significant impact of lactate in the tumor microenvironment has been greatly documented. Acting not only as an energy substance in tumor metabolism, lactate is also an imperative signaling molecule. It plays key roles in metabolic remodeling, protein lactylation, immunosuppression, drug resistance, epigenetics and tumor metastasis, which has a tight relation with cancer patients' poor prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA suspension of copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) is a mixture of dissolved and particulate Cu, the relative proportions of which highly depend on the water chemistry. However, the relationship between different proportions of particulate and dissolved Cu and the overall toxicity of CuO NPs is still unknown. This study investigated the response of Chlorella vulgaris to CuO NPs at varying solution pH and at different tannic acid (TA) additions, with a focus on exploring whether and how dissolved and particulate Cu contribute to the overall toxicity of CuO NPs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe critical condition and mechanism of the insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) for the black diamond were studied by the molecular-dynamics-Landauer method. The IMT will occur at sufficiently high contents of vacancies in the diamond. The critical concentration of vacancies for the IMT might be between V:C (0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer-associated fibroblast (CAF) has emerged as a key contributor to the remodeling of tumor microenvironment through the expression and secretion of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, thereby promoting carcinogenesis. However, the precise contribution of ECM proteins from CAFs to gastric carcinogenesis remains poorly understood. In this study, we find that matrilin-3 (MATN3), an upregulated ECM protein associated with poorer prognosis in gastric cancer patients, originates from CAFs in gastric cancer tissues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPetroleum contamination is considered as a major risk to the health of humans and environment. Biochars as low-cost and eco-friendly carbon materials, have been widely used for the removal of petroleum hydrocarbon in the environment. The purpose of this paper is to review the performance, mechanisms, and potential environmental toxicity of biochar, modified biochar and its integration use with other materials in petroleum contaminated soil and water.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis work, using the first-principles theory, uses the Ni-decorated WSe (Ni-WSe) monolayer as a novel gas sensing material upon CO and HCHO in the dry-type transformers in order to evaluate their operation status. Results indicate that the Ni atom can be stably adsorbed on the T site of the pristine WSe monolayer with the binding force of -4.33 eV.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Currently, there is limited research on the specific relationship between N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) exposure and the odds of kidney stones. We aimed to investigate the relationship between DEET exposure and the prevalence of kidney stones.
Methods: We included 7,567 qualified participants in our research from the 2007-2016 NHANES survey.
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in soil show high environmental risk due to their high toxicity and low biodegradability. Studies have demonstrated the degradation function of microbial extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) on POPs in various matrices. However, the degradation mechanisms and the factors that influence the process in soil have not been clearly illustrated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE Trans Med Imaging
December 2023
Benefiting from the massive labeled samples, deep learning-based segmentation methods have achieved great success for two dimensional natural images. However, it is still a challenging task to segment high dimensional medical volumes and sequences, due to the considerable efforts for clinical expertise to make large scale annotations. Self/semi-supervised learning methods have been shown to improve the performance by exploiting unlabeled data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Purpose: Bladder tumors are among the most prevalent malignancies in the urinary system, and RAC3 has been linked to various types of cancer. This article seeks to explore the potential of RAC3 as both an early diagnostic marker for bladder tumors and a novel therapeutic target.
Methods/patients: The expression of RAC3 in bladder tissue was detected using immunohistochemical staining.
Zhejiang Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban
August 2023
Tumor-derived exosomes play an important role in the tumor micro-environment. The exosome-derived non-coding RNAs are transmitted in the tumor microenvironment in three ways, communication between tumor cells, normal cells affecting tumor cells, and tumor cells affecting normal cells. Through these three ways, exosomal non-coding RNAs are involved in the regulation of tumor progression, affecting tumor angiogenesis, tumor invasiveness, drug resistance, stemness, tumor metabolic repro-gramming and immune escape, resulting in dual roles in promoting or inhibiting tumor development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE Trans Neural Netw Learn Syst
October 2024
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successful in a variety of graph-based applications. Recently, it is shown that capturing long-range relationships between nodes helps improve the performance of GNNs. The phenomenon is mostly confirmed in a supervised learning setting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe area of saline land in the world is quite large, and there is broad room for its development and usage. 'Xuxiang' is an variety that is tolerant to salt and can be planted in an area of light-saline land, and has good comprehensive characteristics and high economic value. However, the molecular mechanism of salt tolerance is unknown at present.
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