Blended learning in medical physiology improves nursing students' study efficiency.

The rapid development of mobile phones and communication networks is profoundly changing the lives of people in China. With the gradual growth of Wi-Fi on college and university campuses, Chinese schools are setting off a wave of teaching reform combining online material with traditional classroom instruction. We adapted a Chinese University massive open online course physiology course into a private university online course, specifically designed for second-semester bachelor's level nursing students at Taishan Medical University.

KPNA2 promotes metabolic reprogramming in glioblastomas by regulation of c-myc.

Background: Cancer cells maintain energy metabolism mainly by glycolysis, even under sufficient oxygen conditions. It gives cancer cells better growth advantages under complicated internal environment. KPNA2 is a novel oncogene that has received much attention in recent years, but the exact mechanisms of KPNA2 in tumorigenesis and progression are largely unknown.

Age-specific gray and white matter DTI atlas for human brain at 33, 36 and 39 postmenstrual weeks.

During the 3rd trimester, dramatic structural changes take place in the human brain, underlying the neural circuit formation. The survival rate of premature infants has increased significantly in recent years. The large morphological differences of the preterm brain at 33 or 36 postmenstrual weeks (PMW) from the brain at 40PMW (full term) make it necessary to establish age-specific atlases for preterm brains.

Brain structure differences between Chinese and Caucasian cohorts: A comprehensive morphometry study.

Numerous behavioral observations and brain function studies have demonstrated that neurological differences exist between East Asians and Westerners. However, the extent to which these factors relate to differences in brain structure is still not clear. As the basis of brain functions, the anatomical differences in brain structure play a primary and critical role in the origination of functional and behavior differences.

Revealing the Semantic Association between Perception of Scenes and Significant Objects by Representational Similarity Analysis.

'Significant' objects contribute greatly to scene recognition. The lateral occipital complex (LOC), parahippocampal place area (PPA), and retrosplenial cortex (RSC) play a crucial role in the cognitive processing of objects and scenes. However, the associated mechanism between objects and scenes remains unclear.

A probabilistic atlas of human brainstem pathways based on connectome imaging data.

The brainstem is a critical structure that regulates vital autonomic functions, houses the cranial nerves and their nuclei, relays motor and sensory information between the brain and spinal cord, and modulates cognition, mood, and emotions. As a primary relay center, the fiber pathways of the brainstem include efferent and afferent connections among the cerebral cortex, spinal cord, and cerebellum. While diffusion MRI has been successfully applied to map various brain pathways, its application for the in vivo imaging of the brainstem pathways has been limited due to inadequate resolution and large susceptibility-induced distortion artifacts.