Pulsed Airstream-Driven Hierarchical Micro-Nano Pore Structured Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Wireless Self-Powered Formaldehyde Sensing.

Formaldehyde (HCHO), as a common volatile organic compound, has a serious impact on human health in the daily lives and industrial production scenarios. Given the security issue of HCHO detection and danger warning, a ZIF-8/copper foam based pulsed airstream-driven triboelectric nanogenerator (ZCP-TENG) is designed to develop the self-powered HCHO sensors. By combining contact electrification and electrostatic induction, the ZCP-TENG can be utilized for airflow energy harvesting and HCHO concentration detection. The short-circuit current and output power of the ZCP-TENG can reach 2.0 µA and 81 µW (20 ppm). With the high surface area, abundant micro-nano pores, and excellent permeation flux, the ZCP-TENGs exhibit excellent HCHO sensing response (61.3% at 100 ppm), low detection limit (≈2 ppm), and rapid response/recovery time (14/15 s), which can be served as a highly sensitive and selective HCHO sensor. By connecting an intelligent wireless alarm, the ZCP-TENGs are designed to construct a self-powered warning system to monitor and remind the HCHO of exceedance situations. Moreover, by combining a support vector machine model, the difference concentrations can be quickly identified with an average prediction accuracy of 100%. This study illustrates that ZCP-TENGs have broad application prospects and provide guidance for HCHO monitoring and danger warnings.

The relationship between serum uric acid levels and glomerular ischemic lesions in patients with Immunoglobin A nephropathy-a analytical cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND: To investigate the relationship between serum uric acid levels and glomerular ischemic lesions in patients with immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) and the relevant risk factors. METHODS: A total of 86 patients with IgAN and normal renal functions were divided into a hyperuricemia group and a normal serum uric acid group (control group). These patients were further divided into a glomerular ischemic lesions group and a non-glomerular ischemic lesions group (control group) based on the renal biopsy results. The relationship between serum uric acid levels and glomerular ischemic lesions was analysed. RESULTS: In patients with IgAN, the prevalence or occurrence of glomerular ischemic lesions was significantly higher in the hyperuricemia group compared with the normal serum uric acid group. Elevated serum uric acid levels are independently associated with glomerular ischemic disease. CONCLUSION: Hyperuricemia in patients with IgAN may lead to glomerular ischemic lesions, and lowering serum uric acid levels may delay the progression of IgAN.

Metagenomic insights into the rumen epithelial integrity responses to the vitamin B1 supplement under high-concentrate diets treatments.

Subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) becomes the most common nutritional metabolic disease in high-yielding dairy cows and later fatting beef cattle because of the increasing consumption of high-concentrate diets in modern feeding patterns. Our previous research found a certain piece of evidence that adding 180 mg thiamine/kg DMI could increase the rumen pH and regulate the structure of the rumen microbial community in vivo. However, there is still limited experimental data on the effects of SARA on thiamine status, the damage to the structure of rumen epithelial cells, and the underlying mechanism of the epithelium alterations. For this purpose, a total of 18 Angus bulls (average 22.0-months-old) with an average live weight of 567.6 ± 27.4 kg were randomly allocated into a control treatment (CON), a high-concentrate diet treatment (HC), and a high-concentrate diet with the vitamin B1 supplement treatment (HCB). All bulls were conducted with a 7-day adjustment period followed by a 60-day-long main feeding procedure. Results indicated that ADFI and ADG significantly decreased in the HC treatment compared with CON (P < 0.05), while significantly increased after the VB1 supplement (P < 0.05). Besides, ruminal acetate content was significantly downregulated while propionate was significantly upregulated under the HC treatment compared with CON (P < 0.05); however, these alterations showed a completely inverse regulatory effect on the VB1 supplement compared with HC (P < 0.05). These changes causatively induced a significant decrease in the A/P ratio in the HC treatment compared with CON and HCB treatments (P < 0.05). Bacterial communities in the HC treatment could be separated from those in CON through PCoA axes 1 and 2. Meanwhile, the VB1 supplement significantly altered the bacterial communities compared with the HC treatment, except for HCB-3. Furthermore, the HC treatment significantly upregulated the expression of JNK, Bax, Caspase-8, Caspase-3, Caspase-9, and Cyt-C compared with CON, while significantly downregulated the expression of Bcl-2. The VB1 supplement showed a complete converse gene expression compared with HC. In conclusion, the VB1 supplement could effectively attenuate the alterations that occurred when exposed to high-concentrate diets, and help promote production performance through increased fermentability.