Objective: To investigate the value of the autofluorescence spectrum of dilute gastric juice in the diagnosis of gastric carcinoma.
Methods: The autofluorescence spectrum of dilute gastric juice was scanned with RF-5000 spectrophotofluorometer when the excitation wavelength was set to 288 nm and the emission wavelength ranged from 300 nm to 800 nm.
Results: We enrolled 251 patients with different gastric diseases including 40 cases with gastric carcinoma in our study. There were three characteristic peaks in the autofluorescence spectrum of gastric juice, which appeared in the spectra of both dilute and indilute specimens, but relative fluorescence intensity index (FI) of the peaks changed with concentration. The spectra of dilute gastric juice (1:20) of both benign and malignant gastric diseases had those three peaks. However, the fluorescence intensity index of the first peak (P1FI) at 320-360 nm of patients with gastric carcinoma was higher than that of patients with benign gastric diseases. The diagnosis model for gastric carcinoma was made by CART V2.0 software. The diagnosis standard for gastric carcinoma was P1FI > 38.995. The model's sensitivity and specificity of prior probability were 85.0% and 91.9% respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of posterior probability were 82.5% and 91.9% respectively. When the diagnosis standard was set to P1FI > 24.34, the sensitivity and specificity were 95.0% and 75.8%, respectively.
Conclusion: The autofluorescence spectrum of dilute gastric juice may become an effective means in the diagnosis and screening of gastric carcinoma.
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Pharmaceutics
December 2024
Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva Cesta 7, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Background/objectives: Lactoferrin (Lf), a multifunctional iron-binding protein, has considerable potential for use as an active ingredient in food supplements due to its numerous positive effects on health. As Lf is prone to degradation, we aimed to develop a formulation that would ensure sufficient stability of Lf in the gastrointestinal tract and during product storage.
Methods: A simple, efficient, and well-established technology that has potential for industrial production was used for the double-coating of neutral pellet cores with an Lf layer and a protective enteric coating.
Front Nutr
January 2025
College of Food Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
Introduction: Frozen pork can reduce the quality of the meat and alter the digestibility and bioavailability of meat proteins in the human body. In this study, we investigated the changes in the basic composition during frozen storage and their effects on the structural properties of digestion products after protein digestion.
Methods: The impacts of frozen storage at different temperatures (-8, -18, -25, and -40°C) and for different times (1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months) on the basic components and digestive characteristics of pork were evaluated.
Front Med (Lausanne)
January 2025
Department of Gastroenterology, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Background: Postoperative gastroparesis syndrome (PGS) is a common postoperative complication characterized by epigastralgia, nausea, and vomiting. Acupuncture is widely used to aid recovery, but its efficacy and safety have not been systematically evaluated.
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Nat Commun
January 2025
Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Institute for Medical Research Israel Canada, The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Gastrin is secreted following a rise in gastric pH, leading to gastric acid secretion. Sleeve gastrectomy (SG), a bariatric surgery where 80% of the gastric corpus is excised, presents a challenge for gastric pH homeostasis. Using histology, and single-cell RNA sequencing of the gastric epithelium in 12 women, we observed that SG is associated with an increase in a sub-population of acid-secreting parietal cells that overexpress respiratory enzymes and an increase in histamine-secreting enterochromaffin-like cells (ECLs).
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Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, Moshtohor, Toukh, 13736, Egypt.
Objective: The difficulty of establishing slow release at intestinal infection sites, weak antibacterial effects, as well as the limited broad use of florfenicol oral formulations are the main targets of the current study. Novel hydrogels derived from sodium alginate were developed using a complexation form for florfenicol delivery to achieve slow release at the site of intestinal infection and enhance its antibacterial activity against .
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