Vacancy engineering in tungsten oxide nanofluidic membranes for high-efficiency light-driven ion transport.

Bioinspired light-driven ion transport has shown great potential in solar energy harvesting. To achieve efficiencies comparable to biological counterparts, effective coregulation of permselectivity and photoresponsivity is crucial. Herein, vacancy engineering has been proven to be a powerful strategy for considerably increasing the efficiency of light-driven ion transport in tungsten oxide (WO) nanofluidic membranes by enhancing the negative surface charges and narrowing bandgaps.

Soybean isoflavone promotes milk yield and milk fat yield through the ERα-mediated Akt/mTOR pathway in dairy goats.

Soybean isoflavone (SIF) in soybeans are natural phytoestrogens, which is functioned as an estrogen agonistic or antagonistic. SIF regulates the capacity of animals to synthesize triacylglycerols by directly utilizing long-chain fatty acids. However, few studies have focused on its regulatory lipid metabolism in lactating dairy goats.

A new species of genus Hysterothylacium Ward & Magath, 1917 (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea) from the greater amberjack Seriola dumerili (Risso) (Carangiformes: Carangidae) in the Persian Gulf off Iraq.

A new ascaridoid nematode, Hysterothylacium malleocaudatum sp. n., was described using both light and scanning electron microscopy, based on specimens collected from the greater amberjack Seriola dumerili (Risso) (Carangiformes: Carangidae) in the Persian Gulf off Iraq.

Multifunctional Janus particles composed of inorganic nanoparticles through emulsion confined assembly.

Janus particles, consisting of two or more chemically distinct composites within a single structural system, have attracted significant attention for their solid surfactant functionality, as well as their potential applications in micro/nanomotors and functional materials. Here, we present a simple and robust method to prepare plasmonic Janus particles consisting of a polystyrene-tethered gold nanorod (AuNRs@PS) head and a poly(4-vinylpyridine) (P4VP) head through emulsion confined assembly. The balance of the Janus particles can be finely tuned by adjusting the volume ratio of the AuNRs@PS solution and P4VP solution.

Sustainable management of potato tuber moth in storages using entomopathogenic fungi and an ectoparasitic mite.

Background: The potato tuber moth (PTM), Phthorimaea operculella, is an economically important pest of potato crops worldwide. So far, the application of chemical pesticides is the major measure to manage PTM, but it induces serious deleterious impacts on the environment and human health. Here, we screened the entomopathogenic fungi that are lethal to PTM, and tested their sublethal impacts on PTM development, mortality, and reproduction as well as that of ectoparasitic mite Pyemotes zhonghuajia, a natural enemy of PTM.

Not only the top: Type I topoisomerases function in multiple tissues and organs development in plants.

Background: DNA topoisomerases (TOPs) are essential components in a diverse range of biological processes including DNA replication, transcription and genome integrity. Although the functions and mechanisms of TOPs, particularly type I TOP (TOP1s), have been extensively studied in bacteria, yeast and animals, researches on these proteins in plants have only recently commenced.

Aim Of Review: In this review, the function and mechanism studies of TOP1s in plants and the structural biology of plant TOP1 are presented, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the current research status of this essential enzyme.

Crop-Specific Emission Projection Suggests Peaking of Agricultural NO by the Middle Century.

Agriculture is the largest anthropogenic source of NO emissions and plays a crucial role in global greenhouse gas mitigation. In an increasingly populated world with growing food demands, a precise and high-resolution spatial prediction of agricultural NO emissions becomes essential in reducing global emissions. In this study, an integrated assessment model coupled with the land cover downscaling module is employed to predict crop-specific NO emissions at a 0.

Exploring the Pharmacological Mechanisms of P-hydroxylcinnamaldehyde for Treating Gastric Cancer: A Pharmacological Perspective with Experimental Confirmation.

Background: Momordica cochinchinensis is a dried and mature seed of Cucurbitaceae plants, which has the effect of dispersing nodules, detumescence, attacking poison, and treating sores, and is used in the treatment of tumors in the clinic. P-hydroxylcinnamaldehyde (CMSP) is an ethanol extract of cochinchina momordica seed (CMS). Our previous studies have found that CMSP is an effective anti-tumor component with good anti-tumor effects on melanoma and esophageal tumors.

Drought induces opposite changes in organ carbon and soil organic carbon to increase resistance on moso bamboo.

Introduction: The variety of organs carbon concentration may be important for tree survival rate, drought resistance and tree subsequent recovery. However, it remains unclear how drought affect structural carbohydrate (SC) and non-structural carbohydrate (NSC) export and transport on clonal plant, which can be correlated with sustain physiological metabolism and group drought resistance by resource sharing. To better understand the adaption ability of clone plants to drought and the linkage of organ carbon with soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions, we assessed how long-term drought affects organ carbon and its impact on SOC fractions among moso bamboo () ramets.

Establishment of multiple machine learning prognostic model for gene differences between primary tumors and lymph nodes in luminal breast cancer.

Background: This study aimed to explore the correlation between primary tumors (PT) and paired metastatic lymph nodes (LN) and to develop a predictive model to provide evidence for forecasting patient prognoses.

Methods: We obtained single-cell and bulk transcriptome data from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. Furthermore, mRNA transcriptomic data, encompassing 112 normal tissues and 1066 breast cancer samples, along with survival, clinical, and mutation information for breast cancer patients, were acquired from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA).

Influence of Noncovalent Interaction on the Nucleophilicity and Electrophilicity of Metal Centers in [M(SCNEt)] (M = Ni, Pd, Pt).

A systematic theoretical study was performed on the electrophilic and nucleophilic properties of Group 10 square-planar metal compounds [M(SCNEt)] (M = Ni , Pd , and Pt ) and their complexes. The nucleophilic metal center and coordinated sulfur atom in [M(SCNEt)] facilitate the formation of metal-involving and conventional noncovalent bonds. The presence a heavier metal center results in a more negative electrostatic potential and a larger nucleophilicity, which in turn leads to the formation of stronger metal-involving noncovalent bonds than those formed by a lighter metal center.

Tumor microenvironment-regulated nanoplatform for enhanced chemotherapy, cuproptosis and nonferrous ferroptosis combined cancer therapy.

Therapeutic approaches combining various treatments have attracted intensive interests for tumor therapy. Nevertheless, these strategies still face many obstacles, such as overexpressed GSH and hypoxia, owing to the intricate tumor microenvironment (TME). Herein, a versatile nanoplatform, CeO@CuO@DOX-RSL3@HA (CCDRH), was initially constructed for promoting the antitumor efficiency regulation of the TME.

Active Interfacial Perimeter in Pt/CeO Catalysts with Embedding Structure for Water-Tolerant Toluene Combustion.

Supported Pt catalysts are often subjected to severe deactivation under the conditions of high temperature and water vapor in catalytic oxidation; thus, the superior stability and water-resistant ability of catalysts have great significance for the effective degradation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Herein, we constructed a Pt/CeO-N catalyst with an active interfacial perimeter, in which Pt species were partially embedded in the defective CeO-N support to prevent the sintering. A significant charge transfer between Pt species and ceria in the embedding structure occurred via the Pt-CeO interface, which induced the formation of a Pt-O-Ce interfacial structure.

MSR-UNet: enhancing multi-scale and long-range dependencies in medical image segmentation.

Transformer-based technology has attracted widespread attention in medical image segmentation. Due to the diversity of organs, effective modelling of multi-scale information and establishing long-range dependencies between pixels are crucial for successful medical image segmentation. However, most studies rely on a fixed single-scale window for modeling, which ignores the potential impact of window size on performance.

Effects of 5-Wk Repeated Sprint Training in Hypoxia on Global Inspiratory and Core Muscle Functions.

Repeated-sprint training in hypoxia (RSH) has been shown to boost team-sport players' repeated-sprint ability (RSA). Whether players' global inspiratory muscle (IM) and core muscle (CM) functions would be altered concomitantly with RSH was not reported. This study was designed to compare the concomitant alternations in players' RSA and their IM and CM functions during a team-sport-specific intermittent exercise protocol (IEP) before and after the intervention.

Puerarin reduces susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias and inhibits ferroptosis via Sirt1/Nrf2 signaling in high-fat-diet rats.

Obesity is a significant risk factor for cardiac arrhythmias, and the ferroptosis is closely related to cardiac arrhythmias. This study aimed to investigate whether puerarin (Pue), a natural isoflavone, could reduce the susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) associated with obesity and inhibit ferroptosis, with a particular focus on the Sirt1/Nrf2 signaling pathway. Male rats were randomly divided into three groups: normal chow diet (NC), high-fat diet (HFD), and HFD with Pue treatment (100mg/kg, HFD + Pue).

Low-dose IL-2 restores metabolic dysfunction and immune dysregulation in mice with type 2 diabetes induced by a high-fat, high-sugar diet and streptozotocin.

Interleukin-2 (IL-2) is pivotal in immune regulation, particularly in the promotion of regulatory T (Treg) cells and the maintenance of immune tolerance. While its efficacy in autoimmune diseases is well established, its role in type 2 diabetes (T2D) remains largely unexplored. This study investigates the effects of low-dose IL-2 in a KM mouse model of T2D induced by streptozotocin (STZ) and a high-fat, high-sugar (HFHS) diet.

Distribution and sources of modern pollen in a shallow lake, eastern China: Revealing their relationships with land cover and aquatic plants.

Pollen sources and deposition processes in shallow lakes in densely populated plain areas are complicated, more modern studies are needed to establish the relationship between pollen and vegetation, so as to provide accurate indicators for environmental reconstruction. In this study, 23 surface sediments were collected from Changdang Lake in the Taihu Lake basin (covering inlets, outlets, and open water areas) for discussing the indicative significance of pollen on regional land cover and aquatic plants in the lake. The results show that the terrestrial pollen assemblages in surface sediments can reflect the main vegetation types in the watershed.

Oxytelus sishuishanus, a new species of Oxytelus Gravenhorst, 1802 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) from Sishui Mountain, China.

A new species, Oxytelus sishuishanus Lü, is described from Hunan, China. This species closely resembles O. ailaoshanicus Lü & Zhou, 2012, but can be distinguished by the male clypeus, which is not so protruding as in O.

Two new species of the genus Laena Dejean (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Lagriinae) from southern China.

Two new species of the genus Laena Dejean, 1821 from southern China were described and illustrated: Laena nana sp. nov. from Nanling Nature Reserve of Guangdong and L.

A new species of the genus Gomphocerus Thunberg, 1815 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Gomphocerinae) from Ningxia, China.

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