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We herein present a nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of aryl halides and nitriles with imidazolium salts. A series of 2-arylated imidazoles could be obtained in moderate to good yields through inert C-N bond cleavage. The imidazolium salt in this reaction acts as both a coupling partner and N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligand precursor. Mechanistic studies reveal that consecutive steps of migratory insertion of the NHC into the aryl C-Ni bond and ß-C elimination might be involved in the proposed reaction mechanism.
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INTRODUCTION: The present study aims to assess and compare the clinical outcomes of immediate implant placement in the mandibular molar region with or without the presence of chronic periapical periodontitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Employing a case-control design, this study encompassed a cohort of patients necessitating implant surgery to supplant a single, failed mandibular molar. Participants exhibiting periapical lesions measuring between > 4 mm and < 8 mm were assigned to the test group, while those without periapical lesions to the control group. Subsequent to flap surgery and tooth extraction, extraction sockets were debrided thoroughly, and implants were immediately implanted (baseline). Permanent restorative procedures were carried out three months post-operation, with follow-up conducted one year post-surgery. During the study period, parameters including implant survival rate, Cone Beam Computer Tomography (CBCT) data, implant stability quotient (ISQ), insertional torque values (ITV), and potential complications were closely monitored. RESULTS: Throughout the yearlong observation period subsequent to implant placement, both groups exhibited a 100% implant survival rate. None of the participants experienced any complications. Both groups demonstrated significant decreases in the height and width of the alveolar bone (P < 0.05). However, there were no statistically discernible differences between corresponding areas in the two groups (P > 0.05). The differences in ITV between the test group (37.94 ± 2.12 Nâ¢cm) and the control group (38.55 ± 2.71 Nâ¢cm) were not statistically significant at baseline (P > 0.05). A significant rise in ISQ was noted within the same group between baseline and three months post-operation (P < 0.05), while no significant variations in ISQ changes were noted between the two groups (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: Given the constraints of this investigation, the preliminary clinical outcomes of immediate implant placement in the mandibular molar region with chronic periapical periodontitis do not significantly differ from those observed in instances devoid of chronic periapical periodontitis.
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Periodontite Periapical , Alvéolo Dental , Humanos , Resultado do Tratamento , Alvéolo Dental/cirurgia , Implantação Dentária Endóssea/métodos , Periodontite Periapical/diagnóstico , Periodontite Periapical/cirurgia , Dente Molar/cirurgiaRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between serum serotonin (5-HT) and central nervous system specific protein S100b application value in evaluating the severity of cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury (TBI). MATERIAL AND METHODS: 102 patients with TBI treated in Jilin Neuropsychiatric Hospital from June 2018 to October 2020 were selected. According to Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) scale, patients were tested for cognitive function from multiple levels, such as attention, executive function, memory, and language. Patients with cognitive impairment were included into study group ( n = 64), and those without cognitive impairment were assigned to control group ( n = 58). Serum 5-HT and S100b were compared between the two groups with b level. Serum 5-HT and S100b were analyzed by receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC), b application value judging cognitive impairment. RESULTS: Serum 5-HT and S100b levels in the study group were significantly higher than those in the control group ( p < 0.05). In serum 5-HT and S100b, there was a significant negative correlation with a MoCA score ( r = -0.527, r = -0.436; p < 0.05, p < 0.05). Combined detection of serum 5-HT and S100b's area under ROC curve (AUC) was 0.810 (95% CI: 0.742-0.936, p < 0.05), sensitivity was 0.842, and specificity was 0.813. CONCLUSIONS: Serum 5-HT and S100b levels are closely related to the cognitive function of TBI patients. Combined detection is helpful to improve the accuracy of predicting cognitive impairment.
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Lesões Encefálicas Traumáticas , Disfunção Cognitiva , Humanos , Subunidade beta da Proteína Ligante de Cálcio S100 , Serotonina , Lesões Encefálicas Traumáticas/complicações , Lesões Encefálicas Traumáticas/diagnóstico , Curva ROC , Disfunção Cognitiva/diagnóstico , Disfunção Cognitiva/etiologia , BiomarcadoresRESUMO
The present study aims to compare the volume surface area of the condyle, the horizontal condylar axial angle and the disc-condyle angle between temporomandibular disorder (TMD) and asymptomatic volunteers, explore and analyze the relationship between the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disc position in oblique sagittal plane and the volume surface area of the condyle in young adults with TMD symptoms. 84 young adult volunteers were received TMJ examination by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT). TMD and asymptomatic volunteers were 42 each. MRI was used to assess the position of TMJ disc in the oblique sagittal plane with the condyle apex method. CBCT data were used for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of condyle and the measurements of the horizontal condylar axial angle and the volume surface area of the condyle. The condylar volume surface area of the TMD group was smaller than that of the asymptomatic group (p < 0.05), the disc condyle angle was larger than that of the asymptomatic group (p < 0.05), and no significant difference was found in the horizontal condylar axial angle (p > 0.05). In terms of correlation, the volume surface area of the condyle were negatively correlated with the position of the articular disc in TMD patients (p < 0.05). This significant negative correlation suggests that the possibility of disc displacement can be considered when poor condylar morphology is found.
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PURPOSE: We aimed to compare the efficacy of percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN) versus retrograde ureteric stent (RUS) for acute upper urinary tract obstruction with urosepsis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed a random study, comparing PCN to RUS, for the treatment of patients requiring emergency drainage due to acute upper urinary tract obstruction with urosepsis between January 2019 to March 2020. Data collected included patient characteristics, stone material, microbiological characteristics, and laboratory data. Statistical analysis was performed by the student's t-test or Mann-Whitney U test or chi-squared test and Fisher exact test. RESULTS: At first, a total of 75 patients were eligibly assessed for enrollment. Among them, 3 cases were excluded for declining to participate and 7 cases were failed treated with RUS. At last, 35 PCN (53.85%) and 30 RUS (46.15%) patients were analyzed. There were 24 (36.92%) men and 41 (63.08%) women. The median age was 65 years. Emergency decompression was achieved by PCN in 35 (53.85%) patients and by RUS in 30 (46.15%). Urine culture was positive in 32 (49.23%) patients, of which 17 (53.13%) had E. coli. Postoperative C-reactive protein value and normal temperature recovery time in the PCN group were significantly lower than in the RUS group(P < .05). CONCLUSION: PCN had a better outcome than RUS in emergency drainage with urosepsis, especially for patients with severe inflammation and fever.
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Nefrostomia Percutânea , Obstrução Ureteral , Idoso , Escherichia coli , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Stents , Obstrução Ureteral/cirurgiaRESUMO
: The effects of ultrasound (US), thermosonication (TS), ultrasound combined with nisin (USN), TS combined with nisin (TSN), and conventional thermal sterilization (CTS) treatments on the inactivation of microorganisms in grape juice were evaluated. TS, TSN, and CTS treatments provided the desirable bactericidal and enzyme inactivation, and nisin had a synergistic lethal effect on aerobic bacteria in grape juice while not having any obvious effect on the mold and yeast. Compared with CTS, the sensory characteristics of grape juice treated with TS and TSN are closer to that of fresh juice, its microbial safety is ensured, and the physicochemical properties are basically unchanged. More importantly, the total phenolic content and antioxidant capacity of juice treated with TS and TSN were significantly increased, and the total anthocyanin and flavonoid contents were largely retained. Taken together, these findings suggest that TS and TSN has great potential application value and that it can ensure microbial safety and improve the quality of grape juice.
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OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to compare the performance of radiologicradiomic machine learning (ML) models and expert-level radiologists for differentiation of benign and malignant solid renal masses using contrast-enhanced CT examinations. MATERIALS AND METHODS. This retrospective study included a cohort of 254 renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) (190 clear cell RCCs [ccRCCs], 38 chromophobe RCCs [chrRCCs], and 26 papillary RCCs [pRCCs]), 26 fat-poor angioleiomyolipomas, and 10 oncocytomas with preoperative CT examinations. Lesions identified by four expert-level radiologists (> 3000 genitourinary CT and MRI studies) were manually segmented for radiologicradiomic analysis. Disease-specific support vector machine radiologic-radiomic ML models for classification of renal masses were trained and validated using a 10-fold cross-validation. Performance values for the expert-level radiologists and radiologic-radiomic ML models were compared using the McNemar test. RESULTS. The performance values for the four radiologists were as follows: sensitivity of 73.7-96.8% (median, 84.5%; variance, 122.7%) and specificity of 48.4-71.9% (median, 61.8%; variance, 161.6%) for differentiating ccRCCs from pRCCs and chrRCCs; sensitivity of 73.7-96.8% (median, 84.5%; variance, 122.7%) and specificity of 52.8-88.9% for differentiating ccRCCs from fat-poor angioleiomyolipomas and oncocytomas (median, 80.6%; variance, 269.1%); and sensitivity of 28.1-60.9% (median, 84.5%; variance, 122.7%) and specificity of 75.0-88.9% for differentiating pRCCs and chrRCCs from fat-poor angioleiomyolipomas and oncocytomas (median, 50.0%; variance, 191.1%). After a 10-fold cross-validation, the radiologic-radiomic ML model yielded the following performance values for differentiating ccRCCs from pRCCs and chrRCCs, ccRCCs from fat-poor angioleiomyolipomas and oncocytomas, and pRCCs and chrRCCs from fat-poor angioleiomyolipomas and oncocytomas: a sensitivity of 90.0%, 86.3%, and 73.4% and a specificity of 89.1%, 83.3%, and 91.7%, respectively. CONCLUSION. Expert-level radiologists had obviously large variances in performance for differentiating benign from malignant solid renal masses. Radiologic-radiomic ML can be a potential way to improve interreader concordance and performance.
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Competência Clínica , Nefropatias/diagnóstico por imagem , Neoplasias Renais/diagnóstico por imagem , Aprendizado de Máquina , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Modelos Teóricos , Radiologia , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Retrospectivos , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Cherax quadricarinatus is a large-sized, highly fecund, and fast-growing species of freshwater crayfish, and has become one of the world's most intensely studied crustaceans. Decapod iridescent virus 1 (DIV1), a newly described species in the family Iridoviridae, is known to infect various crustaceans, including C. quadricarinatus, and may pose a new threat in the shrimp-farming industry. The present study performed de novo transcriptome sequencing of C. quadricarinatus hepatopancreas during DIV1 infection. A total of 114,784 transcripts and 56,418 genes were obtained; 1070 genes were upregulated and 775 genes were downregulated when compared with the uninfected samples (controls). Three pattern recognition receptor genes (fibrinogen-related protein, C-type lectin, and beta-1,3-glucan-binding protein) were upregulated during DIV1 infection. Among the top-30 upregulated unigenes, 9 unigenes were identified as vitellogenin (Vg) genes, and the top-3 upregulated unigenes were identified as involved in Vg lipid transport, lipid localization, and lipid transporter activity, which were all significantly over-representative GO terms in the GO enrichment analysis of total and upregulated differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Many genes associated with Jak-STAT signaling pathway, Endocytosis, Phagosome, MAPK signaling pathway, Apoptosis and Lysosome were positively modified after DIV1 infection. The predicted protein-protein interaction (PPI) analysis showed NF1 and TUBA, CRM1 and TUBB were involved in protein interactions. This research showed that DIV1 infection has a significant impact on the transcriptome profile of C. quadricarinatus hepatopancreas, and the results enhance our understanding of virus-host interactions. Furthermore, the high number of transcripts generated in the present study will provide information for identifying novel genes in the absence of a full C. quadricarinatus genome sequence.
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Astacoidea/metabolismo , Astacoidea/virologia , Hepatopâncreas/metabolismo , Iridoviridae/fisiologia , Transcriptoma , AnimaisRESUMO
Crustin is an antimicrobial peptide (AMP) that plays a key role in the innate immunity of crustaceans. This study cloned a new crustin from Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei, which we designated as LvCrustinB, using rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE). The full-length cDNA of LvCrustinB is 751 bp with an open reading frame (ORF) of 591 bp encoding a peptide of 196 amino acids that includes a putative signal sequence. LvCrustinB is a type II crustin that has a glycine-rich region and a single whey acidic protein domain (WAP) domain. The mRNA transcript of LvCrustinB was detected in all examined tissues and was found to be most abundantly expressed in the epithelium and muscle. The expression of LvCrustinB in hemocytes was significantly upregulated after L. vannamei was challenged with LPS, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and white spot syndrome virus (WSSV). When LvCrustinB was knocked down with RNAi, the mortality rate of L. vannamei significantly increased after V. parahaemolyticus or WSSV infection. Recombinant LvCrustinB was produced using Pichia pastoris GS115 and was shown to bind to 2â¯g-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis) and 2â¯g-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli and V. parahaemolyticus) via polysaccharides, which included PGN, LTA, and LPS. In vivo, the recombinant LvCrustinB remarkably protected L. vannamei from V. parahaemolyticus infection. These results suggest that LvCrustinB plays an important role in innate immunity and may be potentially utilized as antibacterial agents in shrimp.
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Peptídeos Catiônicos Antimicrobianos/genética , Peptídeos Catiônicos Antimicrobianos/imunologia , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/imunologia , Imunidade Inata/genética , Penaeidae/genética , Penaeidae/imunologia , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Peptídeos Catiônicos Antimicrobianos/química , Proteínas de Artrópodes/química , Proteínas de Artrópodes/genética , Proteínas de Artrópodes/imunologia , Sequência de Bases , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Hemócitos/metabolismo , Lipopolissacarídeos/farmacologia , Filogenia , Interferência de RNA , Alinhamento de Sequência , Vibrio parahaemolyticus/fisiologia , Vírus da Síndrome da Mancha Branca 1/fisiologiaRESUMO
Allograft interstitial fibrosis was characterized by massive extracellular matrix deposition caused by activated fibroblasts and myofibroblasts. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is recognized as an important source of myofibroblasts contributing to the pathogenesis of allograft interstitial fibrosis. Smad ubiquitination regulatory factor 1 (Smurf1) has been recently reported to be involved in the progression of EMT. Our study was to detect the effect of Bortezomib and Smurf1 in the EMT and allograft interstitial fibrosis. Biomarkers of EMT, as well as Smurf1, were examined in human proximal tubular epithelial cells (HK-2) treated with tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) in various doses or at various time points by Western Blotting or qRT-PCR. We knockdown or overexpressed Smurf1 in HK-2 cells. Furthermore, rat renal transplant model was established and intervened by Bortezomib. Allograft tissues from human and rats were also collected and prepared for HE, Masson's trichrome, immunohistochemical staining and western blotting assays. As a result, we found that TNF-α significantly promoted the development of EMT in a time-dependent and dose-dependent manner through Smurf1/Akt/mTOR/P70S6K signalling pathway. More importantly, Bortezomib alleviated the progression of EMT and allograft interstitial fibrosis in vivo and in vitro by inhibiting the production of TNF-α and expression of Smurf1. In conclusion, Smurf1 plays a critical role in the development of EMT induced by TNF-α. Bortezomib can attenuate the Sumrf1-mediated progression of EMT and renal allograft interstitial fibrosis, which could be suggested as a novel choice for the prevention and treatment of renal allograft interstitial fibrosis.