Zuogui-Jiangtang-Yishen decoction prevents diabetic kidney disease: Intervene pyroptosis induced by trimethylamine n-oxide through the mROS-NLRP3 axis.

Background: Nowadays, diabetic kidney disease (DKD) has become one of the most threatening to the end-stage renal diseases, and the early prevention of DKD is inevitable for Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients.

Aims: Pyroptosis, a programmed cell death that mediates renal inflammation induced early renal injury. The trimethylamine n-oxide (TMAO) was also an independent risk factor for renal injury.

Enhanced electron transfer for activation of peroxymonosulfate via MoS modified iron-based perovskite.

The increasing use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics, which are found in various environmental media, is a constant threat to ecological safety and human health. In this paper, SrFeO@MoS heterogeneous catalyst was prepared to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for the degradation of levofloxacin (LVO). The characteristics of SrFeO@MoS samples were studied and the optimum conditions for the removal of LVO by SrFeO@MoS/PMS system were investigated.

The potential mechanism of Liu-Wei-Di-Huang Pills in treatment of type 2 diabetic mellitus: from gut microbiota to short-chain fatty acids metabolism.

Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has already become a global pandemic. Recently, reports showed its pathogenesis was closely related to a disorder of gut microbiota. In China, the Liu-Wei-Di-Huang Pills (LWDH) have treated T2DM for thousands of years.

Green and Efficient Extraction of Polysaccharide and Ginsenoside from American Ginseng ( L.) by Deep Eutectic Solvent Extraction and Aqueous Two-Phase System.

In this study, a green and effective extraction method was proposed to extract two main compounds, ginsenosides and polysaccharides, from American ginseng by combining deep eutectic solvents (DESs) with aqueous two-phase systems. The factors of type of DESs, water content in DESs, the solid-liquid ratio, extraction temperature, and extraction time were studied in the solid-liquid extraction. Then, the aqueous two-phase system (DESs-ethylene oxide-propylene oxide (EOPO)) and salty solution exchange (EOPO-salty solution) was applied for the purification of polysaccharides.

Exposure to nanoplastic induces cell damage and nitrogen inhibition of activated sludge: Evidence from bacterial individuals and groups.

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are almost the only place where plastic fragments are artificially removed, resulting in mass accumulation of nanoplastics (NPs). In this research, four different concentrations (0 mg/L, 0.1 mg/L, 1 mg/L, 10 mg/L) of polystyrene nanoplastics (PS-NPs) were used to investigate the cell damage and nitrogen inhibition of activated sludge, exposed in a self-assembled SBR reactor for 30 days.

Light alters microbiota and electron transport: Evidence for enhanced mesophilic digestion of municipal sludge.

Light as an environmental factor can affect the process of anaerobic digestion, but there is no systematic study in municipal wastewater sludge mesophilic digestion. In this study, the effects of light on the performance of the anaerobic digestion system and photo-anaerobic microbiota (PAM) were evaluated in lighted anaerobic batch digesters (LABRs). The methane yield from the reactor under the dark condition (LABR0) was 179.