Coil and n-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate migration into the stomach after TIPS for gastroesophageal variceal bleeding: a case report and literature review.

Background: Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) is a well-established therapeutic option for the management of variceal hemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis. The simultaneous migration of the coil and n-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate (NBCA) is an extremely rare but significant complication after TIPS. Because of its rare presentation, there are currently no definitive recommendations for the management of this condition.

Comparison of Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt in the Treatment of Cirrhosis With or Without Portal Vein Thrombosis: A Retrospective Study.

The purpose of our study was to conduct a retrospective analysis to compare the effectiveness of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS) in the treatment of patients with cirrhosis with or without portal vein thrombosis (PVT). We included a total of 203 cirrhosis patients successfully treated with TIPS between January 2015 and January 2018, including 72 cirrhosis patients with PVT (35.5%) and 131 without PVT (64.

Complete Response of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Macroscopic Vascular Invasion and Pulmonary Metastasis to the Combination of Drug-Eluting Beads Transarterial Chemoembolization and Huaier Granule: A Case Report.

Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) associated with macroscopic vascular invasion and distant metastasis is an advanced-stage disease with an extremely poor prognosis and low survival rate. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop novel therapeutic strategies to extend the lives of patients with advanced HCC.

Case Presentation: We represent a case of HCC with macroscopic vascular invasion and pulmonary metastasis responding dramatically to the combination treatment with drug-eluting beads transarterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) and Huaier granule.

Safety and efficacy of drug-eluting bead transarterial chemoembolization with CalliSpheres® microsphere for hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein tumor thrombus: a preliminary study.

: To prospectively evaluate the safety and therapeutic effectiveness of drug-eluting beads transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) with CalliSpheres® microsphere (CSM) for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with portal vein tumor thrombus (PVTT), and to analyze the prognostic factors. : Between November 2015 and November 2017, consecutive 58 HCC patients with PVTT who received DEB-TACE with CSM treatment were prospectively enrolled in this study. The demographic characteristics, adverse events (AEs) and treatment response were collected.

Adjuvant Transarterial Chemoembolization for Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer Stage A Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Hepatectomy.

Introduction: The care for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is challenging. This study is to evaluate the effect of adjuvant transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage A HCC patients after hepatectomy.

Methods: Consecutive HCC patients with BCLC stage A, treated by hepatectomy alone (HA) or hepatectomy with TACE (HT), were retrospectively enrolled.

Drug-eluting beads transarterial chemoembolization with CalliSpheres microspheres for treatment of unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of doxorubicin-loaded drug-eluting beads transarterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) with CalliSpheres microspheres (CSM) in treating unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). : 88 unresectable ICC patients who received DEB-TACE treatment with CSM were retrospectively enrolled in this study. Information about treatment response, survival and adverse events were collected.

Transcatheter embolization of hepatocellular carcinoma with epirubicin-loaded DC beads in Chinese patients.

Background: This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of transcatheter chemoembolization with drug eluting beads (DEB-TACE) and compared it to the conventional TACE (cTACE) therapy method for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Chinese patients.

Methods: Seventy-four patients were treated with DEB-TACE using the DC bead, and 80 patients were treated with cTACE for HCC. The modified response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (mRECIST) criteria were used to evaluate clinical response, with adverse events assessed according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE).

Efficacy and safety profile of drug-eluting beads transarterial chemoembolization by CalliSpheres® beads in Chinese hepatocellular carcinoma patients.

Background: This study aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of drug eluting beads transarterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) treatment by CalliSpheres® in Chinese patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) as well as the predicting factors for response.

Methods: 99 patients with HCC were consecutively enrolled in this study. All participants were treated by CalliSpheres® DEB-TACE.

Identification, Characteristics and Mechanism of 1-Deoxy-N-acetylglucosamine from Deep-Sea Virgibacillus dokdonensis MCCC 1A00493.

pv. , which causes rice bacterial blight, is one of the most destructive pathogenic bacteria. Biological control against plant pathogens has recently received increasing interest.

Reversibly acetylated lysine residues play important roles in the enzymatic activity of Escherichia coli N-hydroxyarylamine O-acetyltransferase.

CobB is a bacterial NAD(+)-dependent protein deacetylase. Although progress has been made in functional studies of this protein in recent years, its substrates and biological functions are still largely unclear. Using proteome microarray technology, potential substrates of Escherichia coli CobB were screened and nine proteins were identified, including N-hydroxyarylamine O-acetyltransferase (NhoA).

[Analyze and compare metabolic pathways of Bacillus cereus group].

A large number of data and information was obtained from genome sequencing and high-throughput genomic studies, use of the information to study metabolic networks become a new hotspot in biological research. This article compared different methods to reconstruct metabolic networks and analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of each methods, and then introduced some researches about carbohydrate metabolism pathways, amino acid metabolic pathways, and energy metabolism pathways of 9 strains of Bacillus cereus, 6 strains of B. anthracis,,6 strain of B.

Genome-wide screening reveals the genetic determinants of an antibiotic insecticide in Bacillus thuringiensis.

Thuringiensin is a thermostable secondary metabolite in Bacillus thuringiensis and has insecticidal activity against a wide range of insects. Until now, the regulatory mechanisms and genetic determinants involved in thuringiensin production have remained unclear. Here, we successfully used heterologous expression-guided screening in an Escherichia coli-Bacillus thuringiensis shuttle bacterial artificial chromosome library, to clone the intact thuringiensin synthesis (thu) cluster.

Cloning and molecular characterization of a novel rolling-circle replicating plasmid, pK1S-1, from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki K1.

Bacillus thuringiensis, an entomopathogenic bacterium belonging to the B. cereus group, harbors numerous extra-chromosomal DNA molecules whose sizes range from 2 to 250 kb. In this study, we used a plasmid capture system (PCS) to clone three small plasmids from B.

[Isolation of endophytic antagonistic bacterium from Amorphophallus konjac and research on its antibacterial metabolite].

An endophytic antagonistic bacterium was isolated from Amorphophallus konjac calli. In order to identify this bacterium, 16S rDNA was amplified and partially sequenced. Sequence comparison showed that this sequence has the highest similarity to that in Bacillus subtilis, with 99.

[Cloning and expression of nematicidal crystal protein gene cry6Aa of Bacillus thuringiensis].

On the basis of the sequencing of the N-terminal amino acid of the crystal protein, a nucleotide acid fragment harboring a novel nematicidal gene cry6Aa2 was obtained from Bacillus thuringiensis strain YBT-1518. This fragment contains two ORFs: orf1 and orf2, while a "stem-loop" exists between orf1 and orf2. BLAST showed the similarity of orf1 nucleotide acid sequence with cry6Aa1 is 98%, and has been deposited in the Genbank database (Acc.

Identification and molecular characterization of novel cry1-type toxin genes from Bacillus thuringiensis K1 isolated in Korea.

To clone novel cry1-type genes from the Bacillus thuringiensis K1 isolate, about 2.4-kb-long PCR fragments were amplified with two primer sets of ATG1-F/N400-R and 1BeATG1-F/N400-R. Using PCR-RFLP, three novel cry1-type genes, cry1-1, cry1-7, and cry1-44, were obtained from B.

Escherichia coli mismatch repair protein MutL interacts with the clamp loader subunits of DNA polymerase III.

It has been hypothesized that DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is coupled with DNA replication; however, the involvement of DNA polymerase III subunits in bacterial DNA MMR has not been clearly elucidated. In an effort to better understand the relationship between these 2 systems, the potential interactions between the Escherichia coli MMR protein and the clamp loader subunits of E. coli DNA polymerase III were analyzed by far western blotting and then confirmed and characterized by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) imaging.

[The plasmid harboring cry26Aa may contribute to the phenomenon of spore-crystal connection in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. finitimus].

Parasporal crystal in B. thuringiensis subsp. finitimus T02 forms inside the exosporium and remains attached to the spore after mother cell lysis.

Archaeal communities in mangrove soil characterized by 16S rRNA gene clones.

An archaeal 16S rRNA gene library was constructed from mangrove soil. Phylogenetic analysis revealed archaea in mangrove soil including the Crenarchaeota (80.4%) and Euryarchaeota (19.

The key DNA-binding residues in the C-terminal domain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA gyrase A subunit (GyrA).

As only the type II topoisomerase is capable of introducing negative supercoiling, DNA gyrase is involved in crucial cellular processes. Although the other domains of DNA gyrase are better understood, the mechanism of DNA binding by the C-terminal domain of the DNA gyrase A subunit (GyrA-CTD) is less clear. Here, we investigated the DNA-binding sites in the GyrA-CTD of Mycobacterium tuberculosis gyrase through site-directed mutagenesis.

[Co-expression of crystal protein gene cry26Aa and cry28Aa has an ability to form parasporal crystal inside exosporium in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. finitimus].

Parasporal crystal in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. finitimus T02 forms within the exosporium and remains attached to the spore after mother cell lysis, which leads to spore-crystal connection. According to the crystal protein gene sequence in B.

[Cloning and functional analysis of the stable plasmid pBMB175 in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis strains YBT-1765].

A 15.2 kb plasmid pBMB175 from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis strains YBT-1765 was cloned and the restriction map was constructed.

[Effects of carbon sources on the expression of cry1D -lacZ in Bacillus thuringiensis].

In order to investigate the influence of the carbon source on the expression of cry1D -lacZ in Bacillus thuringiensis with different genetic backgrounds, cry1D -lacZ was introduced into different strains and cultured in liquid medium containing different carbon sources. Analysis of activity of beta-galactosidase showed that cry1D -lacZ expressed differently in the same host because of different carbon sources and differently in different hosts utilizing same carbon sources,suggesting that metabolism pathway of carbon source in HD-133-5 was special. Sodium succinate as carbon source could lead to earlier sporulation and earlier expression of cry1D -lacZ.