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iScience
January 2025
Laboratory of Functional Molecules and Materials, School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, 266 Xincun Xi road, Zibo 255000, P.R. China.
In recent years, photocatalytic materials with a nanofiber-like morphology have garnered a surge of academic attention due to their distinctive properties, including an expansive specific surface area, a considerable high aspect ratio, a pronounced resistance to agglomeration, superior electron survivability, and robust surface activity. Consequently, the synthesis of photocatalytic nanofiber materials through various methodologies has drawn considerable attention. The electrospinning technique has been established as a prevalent method for fabricating nanofiber-structured materials, owing to its advantageous properties, including the ability for mass production and the assurance of high continuity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe strong correlation between reproductive life cycle type and chromosome numbers in green plants has been a long-standing mystery in evolutionary biology. Within green plants, the derived condition of heterosporous reproduction has emerged from the ancestral condition of homospory in disparate locations on the phylogenetic tree at least 11 times, of which three lineages are extant. In all green plant lineages where heterospory has emerged, there has been a significant downsizing in chromosome numbers.
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March 2025
Department of Public Health Science, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG), Gandhinagar, India.
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by , remains a global health challenge, despite being preventable and curable. The global goal to end TB by 2030, with India targeting a 90% reduction in TB incidence by 2025, demands comprehensive interventions in prevention, early detection, treatment, and capacity building. This study analyzes the 2023 Global TB Reports, published articles, guidelines, and data to explore India's current TB landscape.
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December 2024
Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India.
Hosts often encounter and must respond to novel pathogens in the wild, that is pathogens that they have not encountered in recent evolutionary history, and therefore are not adapted to. How hosts respond to these novel pathogens and the outcome of such infections can be shaped by the host's evolutionary history, especially by how well adapted the host is to its native pathogens, that is pathogens they have evolved with. Host adaptation to one pathogen can either increase its susceptibility to a novel pathogen, due to specialization of immune defenses and trade-offs between different arms of the immune system, or can decrease susceptibility to novel pathogens by virtue of cross-resistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCatheter Cardiovasc Interv
January 2025
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Background And Objectives: Currently, there remains a paucity of research on the deformation and valve function of transcatheter heart valves (THV) in patients with aortic regurgitation (AR) following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). This study aimed to thoroughly explore the correlation between THV deformation and postoperative hemodynamics in these patients.
Methods: In this study, we assessed 39 AR patients treated with the J-Valve THV system during TAVR.
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