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PURPOSE: To develop a novel low-rank tensor reconstruction approach leveraging the complete acquired data set to improve precision and repeatability of multiparametric mapping within the cardiovascular MR Multitasking framework. METHODS: A novel approach that alternated between estimation of temporal components and spatial components using the entire data set acquired (i.e., including navigator data and imaging data) was developed to improve reconstruction. The precision and repeatability of the proposed approach were evaluated on numerical simulations, 10 healthy subjects, and 10 cardiomyopathy patients at multiple scan times for 2D myocardial T1/T2 mapping with MR Multitasking and were compared with those of the previous navigator-derived fixed-basis approach. RESULTS: In numerical simulations, the proposed approach outperformed the previous fixed-basis approach with lower T1 and T2 error against the ground truth at all scan times studied and showed better motion fidelity. In human subjects, the proposed approach showed no significantly different sharpness or T1/T2 measurement and significantly improved T1 precision by 20%-25%, T2 precision by 10%-15%, T1 repeatability by about 30%, and T2 repeatability by 25%-35% at 90-s and 50-s scan times The proposed approach at the 50-s scan time also showed comparable results with that of the previous fixed-basis approach at the 90-s scan time. CONCLUSION: The proposed approach improved precision and repeatability for quantitative imaging with MR Multitasking while maintaining comparable motion fidelity, T1/T2 measurement, and septum sharpness and had the potential for further reducing scan time from 90 s to 50 s.
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Algoritmos , Humanos , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Masculino , Femenino , Interpretación de Imagen Asistida por Computador/métodos , Adulto , Aumento de la Imagen/métodos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Sensibilidad y Especificidad , Procesamiento de Imagen Asistido por Computador/métodos , Cardiomiopatías/diagnóstico por imagen , Imágenes de Resonancia Magnética Multiparamétrica/métodos , Corazón/diagnóstico por imagenRESUMEN
Depression is a debilitating mental illness that severely threatens millions of individuals and public health. Because of the multifactorial etiologies, there is currently no cure for depression; thus, it is urgently imperative to find alternative antidepressants and strategies. Growing evidence underscores the prominent role of oxidative stress as key pathological hallmarks of depression, making oxidative stress a potential therapeutic target. In this study, we report a N-doped carbon dot nanozyme (CDzyme) with excellent antioxidant capacity for treating depression by remodeling redox homeostasis and gut microbiota. The CDzymes prepared via microwave-assisted fast polymerization of histidine and glucose exhibit superior biocompatibility. Benefiting from the unique structure, CDzymes can provide abundant electrons, hydrogen atoms, and protons for reducing reactions, as well as catalytic sites to mimic redox enzymes. These mechanisms collaborating endow CDzymes with broad-spectrum antioxidant capacity to scavenge reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (â¢OH, O2-â¢, H2O2, ONOO-), and oxygen/nitrogen centered free radicals. A depression animal model was established by chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of CDzymes from the behavioral, physiological, and biochemical index and intestinal flora assessments. CDzymes can remarkably improve depression-like behaviors and key neurotransmitters produced in hippocampus tissues and restore the gut microbiota compositions and the amino acid metabolic functions, proving the potential in treating depression through the intestinal-brain axis system. This study will facilitate the development of intestinal flora dysbiosis nanomedicines and treatment strategies for depression and other oxidative stress related multifactorial diseases.
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BACKGROUND: The transaxillary approach of breast augmentation is the most popular method in Asia, but longer period of recovery was observed in spite of the assistance of endoscope. OBJECTIVES: Introducing the ultrasonic dissection devices might be a solution to minimizing tisue damage thus relieving pain and shortening the period of recovery. METHOD: Between March 2020 and September 2022, we retrospectively reviewed the cases of 122 patients underwent endoscopic augmentation mammoplasty via the transaxillary approach using either the monopolar electrotome (ME) alone or assisted with Harmonic Scalpel (HS) in defining the retropectoral pocket and severing the pectoralis major muscle. RESULT: The total drainage volume was significantly lower in the HS group than ME group (74.33 ± 48.81 vs. 180.30 ± 125.10 mL; p < 0.0001). VAS score of the first 24 hour after surgery of the ME group was significantly higher than that of the HS group (6.10 ± 1.27 vs. 2.88 ± 1.29, p < 0.0001). Operation time in HS group was reduced compared to ME group (113.1 ± 14.46 mins vs. 131.3 ± 35.51 mins, p < 0.001). The duration of drainage placement (1.08 ± 0.27 vs. 2.72 ± 1.18 days) and hospital stay after surgery (3.08 ± 0.42 vs. 5.64 ± 2.78 days; p < 0.0001) were largely reduced in HS group. CONCLUSION: The assistance of Harmonic Scalpel significantly reduced total postoperative drainage, relieved pain and shortened operation time, length of drainage placement and hospital stay compared to using monopolar electrotome alone in endoscopic-assisted transaxillary dual-plane augmentation mammaplasty. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE IV: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
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Implantación de Mama , Implantes de Mama , Mamoplastia , Femenino , Humanos , Estudios Retrospectivos , Mamoplastia/métodos , Endoscopía/métodos , Disección , Dolor , Resultado del Tratamiento , Estética , Implantación de Mama/métodosRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: The number of publications on blepharoplasty is increasing rapidly. Bibliometric analysis can help surgeons quickly and systematically understand the current state of development. To our knowledge, there are no bibliometric studies on blepharoplasty, and therefore, we conducted this study to reveal research trends and perspectives of blepharoplasty. METHODS: Relevant publications from 2002 to 2021 were extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection database. After manual screening, VOSviewer software and CiteSpace software were used to collect and analyze the acquired data. RESULTS: A total of 1125 publications were included and the publications per year increased annually. Contributions from the USA led both quantity and quality. The University of California System was one of the most influential academic institutions. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery had the most publications, and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery was the most frequently cited or co-cited journal. Massry GG and Hamra ST were the most prolific and co-cited authors, respectively. Additionally, Rohrich RJ had the highest number of citations per publication. References co-cited analysis identified that lower eyelid research was a hotspot. Keywords were mainly divided into 6 clusters, namely "lower lid blepharoplasty," "complications," "facial rejuvenation," "blepharoptosis," "upper blepharoplasty," and "Asian blepharoplasty and epicanthoplasty." CONCLUSIONS: Blepharoplasty research is flourishing, and three clusters may be the hotspots: "Lower blepharoplasty and mid-face rejuvenation," "overall facial outcome and quality-of-life," and "Asian blepharoplasty and epicanthoplasty." LEVEL OF EVIDENCE III: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
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Blefaroplastia , Humanos , Resultado del Tratamiento , Estudios Retrospectivos , Pueblo Asiatico , Párpados/cirugía , BibliometríaRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Liposuction is one of the most commonly performed aesthetic procedures. Toxic shock syndrome(TSS) is a rare, life-threatening complication. The incidence rate of TSS is very low in the plastic surgery field, especially after liposuction and fat transfer. CASE PRESENTATION: A 23-year-old female patient was transferred to our emergency department from an aesthetic clinic with sepsis shock features after received liposuction and fat transfer. The patient underwent TSS, disseminated intravascular coagulation(DIC), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), symmetrical peripheral gangrene (SPG), and necrotizing soft tissue infection of the buttocks in the next 10 days. Authors used a series of debridement and reconstructive surgery including vacuum sealing drainage (VSD) treatment, artificial dermis grafts,split-thickness skin grafts, amputation surgeries when her vital signs were stable. The patient experienced desquamation of the hand on the 26th day. The skin grafts survived and the function of both fingers and toes recovered. She was discharged 2 months after admission and was in good health. CONCLUSION: TSS is extremely rare in the field of liposuction and autologous fat transfer. The mortality rate of TSS is very high. Early diagnosis and operative treatment, as well as correction of systemic abnormalities, are the important keys to save a patient's life.
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Coagulación Intravascular Diseminada , Lipectomía , Choque Séptico , Adulto , Femenino , Gangrena/etiología , Mano , Humanos , Lipectomía/efectos adversos , Choque Séptico/etiología , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
The curse-of-dimensionality taxes computational resources heavily with exponentially increasing computational cost as the dimension increases. This poses great challenges in solving high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs), as Richard E. Bellman first pointed out over 60 years ago. While there has been some recent success in solving numerical PDEs in high dimensions, such computations are prohibitively expensive, and true scaling of general nonlinear PDEs to high dimensions has never been achieved. We develop a new method of scaling up physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to solve arbitrary high-dimensional PDEs. The new method, called Stochastic Dimension Gradient Descent (SDGD), decomposes a gradient of PDEs' and PINNs' residual into pieces corresponding to different dimensions and randomly samples a subset of these dimensional pieces in each iteration of training PINNs. We prove theoretically the convergence and other desired properties of the proposed method. We demonstrate in various diverse tests that the proposed method can solve many notoriously hard high-dimensional PDEs, including the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) and the Schrödinger equations in tens of thousands of dimensions very fast on a single GPU using the PINNs mesh-free approach. Notably, we solve nonlinear PDEs with nontrivial, anisotropic, and inseparable solutions in less than one hour for 1000 dimensions and in 12 h for 100,000 dimensions on a single GPU using SDGD with PINNs. Since SDGD is a general training methodology of PINNs, it can be applied to any current and future variants of PINNs to scale them up for arbitrary high-dimensional PDEs.
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Redes Neurales de la Computación , Dinámicas no Lineales , Algoritmos , Procesos Estocásticos , Física , Simulación por ComputadorRESUMEN
High Fischer ratio oligopeptides (HFOs) exhibit diverse biological activities, including anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. HFOs from gluten origin were prepared through fermentation and enzymatic hydrolysis and then characterized using free amino acid analysis and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Following intervention, the levels of serum total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and hepatic malondialdehyde (MDA) in the rats significantly decreased (p < 0.05). Simultaneously, there was an increasing trend in superoxide dismutase (SOD) levels, and glutathione (GSH) levels were significantly elevated (p < 0.05). The mRNA expression levels of alcohol metabolism-related genes (ADH4, ALDH2, and CYP2E1) exhibited a significant increase (p < 0.05). Histological examination revealed a reduction in liver damage. The findings indicate that high Fischer ratio oligopeptides, prepared through enzymatic and fermentation methods, significantly improve lipid levels, ameliorate lipid metabolism disorders, and mitigate oxidative stress, and exhibit a discernible alleviating effect on alcoholic liver injury in rats.
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OBJECTIVE: Given the limited repeatability and reproducibility of radiomic features derived from weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), there may be significant advantages to using radiomics in conjunction with quantitative MRI. This study introduces a novel physics-informed discretization (PID) method for reproducible radiomic feature extraction and evaluates its performance using quantitative MRI sequences including magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) mapping. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A multiscanner, scan-rescan dataset comprising whole-brain 3D quantitative (MRF T1, MRF T2, and ADC) and weighted MRI (T1w MPRAGE, T2w SPACE, and T2w FLAIR) from 5 healthy subjects was prospectively acquired. Subjects underwent 2 repeated acquisitions on 3 distinct 3 T scanners each, for a total of 6 scans per subject (30 total scans). First-order statistical (n = 23) and second-order texture (n = 74) radiomic features were extracted from 56 brain tissue regions of interest using the proposed PID method (for quantitative MRI) and conventional fixed bin number (FBN) discretization (for quantitative MRI and weighted MRI). Interscanner radiomic feature reproducibility was measured using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), and the effect of image sequence (eg, MRF T1 vs T1w MPRAGE), as well as image discretization method (ie, PID vs FBN), on radiomic feature reproducibility was assessed using repeated measures analysis of variance. The robustness of PID and FBN discretization to segmentation error was evaluated by simulating segmentation differences in brainstem regions of interest. Radiomic features with ICCs greater than 0.75 following simulated segmentation were determined to be robust to segmentation. RESULTS: First-order features demonstrated higher reproducibility in quantitative MRI than weighted MRI sequences, with 30% (n = 7/23) features being more reproducible in MRF T1 and MRF T2 than weighted MRI. Gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) texture features extracted from MRF T1 and MRF T2 were significantly more reproducible using PID compared with FBN discretization; for all quantitative MRI sequences, PID yielded the highest number of texture features with excellent reproducibility (ICC > 0.9). Comparing texture reproducibility of quantitative and weighted MRI, a greater proportion of MRF T1 (n = 225/370, 61%) and MRF T2 (n = 150/370, 41%) texture features had excellent reproducibility (ICC > 0.9) compared with T1w MPRAGE (n = 148/370, 40%), ADC (n = 115/370, 32%), T2w SPACE (n = 98/370, 27%), and FLAIR (n = 102/370, 28%). Physics-informed discretization was also more robust than FBN discretization to segmentation error, as 46% (n = 103/222, 46%) of texture features extracted from quantitative MRI using PID were robust to simulated 6 mm segmentation shift compared with 19% (n = 42/222, 19%) of weighted MRI texture features extracted using FBN discretization. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed PID method yields radiomic features extracted from quantitative MRI sequences that are more reproducible and robust than radiomic features extracted from weighted MRI using conventional (FBN) discretization approaches. Quantitative MRI sequences also demonstrated greater scan-rescan robustness and first-order feature reproducibility than weighted MRI.
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Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Radiómica , Humanos , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética/métodos , Imagen de Difusión por Resonancia Magnética , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Procesamiento de Imagen Asistido por Computador/métodosRESUMEN
Depression is a chronic mental illness with devastating effects on a person's physical and mental health. Studies have reported that food fermentation with probiotics can enrich the nutritional values of food and produce functional microorganisms that can alleviate depression and anxiety. Wheat germ is an inexpensive raw material that is rich in bioactive ingredients. For example, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is reported to have antidepressant effects. Several studies concluded that Lactobacillus plantarum is a GABA-producing bacteria and can alleviate depression. Herein, fermented wheat germs (FWGs) were used to treat stress-induced depression. FWG was prepared by fermenting wheat germs with Lactobacillus plantarum. The chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) model was established in rats, and these rats were treated with FWG for four weeks to evaluate the effects of FWG in relieving depression. In addition, the study also analyzed the potential anti-depressive mechanism of FWG based on behavioral changes, physiological and biochemical index changes, and intestinal flora changes in depressed rats. The results demonstrated that FWG improved depression-like behaviors and increased neurotransmitter levels in the hippocampus of CUMS model rats. In addition, FWG effectively altered the gut microbiota structure and remodeled the gut microbiota in CUMS rats, restored neurotransmitter levels in depressed rats through the brain-gut axis, and restored amino acid metabolic functions. In conclusion, we suggest that FWG has antidepressant effects, and its potential mechanism may act by restoring the disordered brain-gut axis.
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Bacillus subtilis has been extensively studied for its ability to inhibit the growth of harmful microorganisms and its high protease activity. In this study, Bacillus subtilis was used to ferment gluten and assess the effects of the fermentation process on the physicochemical, microstructure and antioxidant properties of gluten. The results of Fourier infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and circular chromatography (CD) showed a significant decrease in the content of α-helix structures and a significant increase in the content of ß-sheet structures in gluten after fermentation (p < 0.05). Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) showed that glutenin was degraded into small molecular peptides with a molecular weight of less than 26 kDa after 24 h of fermentation; meanwhile, the fermentation process significantly increased the free amino acid content of the samples (p < 0.05), reaching 1923.38 µg/mL at 120 h of fermentation, which was 39.46 times higher than that at 24 h of fermentation (p < 0.05). In addition, the fermented back gluten has higher free radical scavenging activity and iron reduction capacity. Therefore, fermented gluten may be used as a functional food to alleviate oxidative stress. This study provides a reference for the high-value application of gluten.
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INTRODUCTION: Urethral lengthening in phalloplasty could bring many postoperative complications, such as urethra fistula and stricture, which greatly affects the patient's mental health and quality of life. AIM: To describe a novel technique of vaginal mucosal graft for prelamination urethra (VMGPU) combined with modified urethral anastomosis (MUA) for the reconstruction of a neourethra. METHODS: A retrospective study of transgender men between January 2006 and March 2021 was conducted. Patients were divided into three groups according to the surgical methods : traditional groupï¼TGï¼VMGPU groupï¼VGï¼ and VMGPU+MUA group (VMG). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: The main outcomes measures were demographics, surgical characteristics, complications, International Prostate Symptom Scoreï¼IPSSï¼Quality of Lifeï¼QOLï¼ scoreï¼and voiding frequency conditions. RESULTS: Of 80 eligible transgender menï¼TG:n = 39ï¼VG:n = 31, VMG:n = 10), the urethral fistula developed in 19/39 (49%) patients in TG, 8/31 (26%) in VG, and 1/10 (10%) in VMG (P = 0.034). The urethral stricture formed in 15/39 (38%) patients in TG, 4/31 (13%) in VG, and 1/10 (10%) in VMG (P = 0.028). Compared with TG, the VG got more favorable IPSS. The QOL scores showed that patients in VG or VMG were more satisfied with their postoperative status. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: VMGPU combined with MUA may help reduce urethral complications for transgender men who wish to undergo phalloplasty with urethral lengthening. STRENGTH & LIMITATIONS: VMGPU combined with MUA focuses on reducing the urethra-related complications in the anastomotic stoma between the fixed and the penile urethra, which has not been noticed in the past. The limitations of this study are that the retrospective study design is prone to bias; the study using VMGPU+MUA technique is only in the preliminary stage, and more cases are needed to prove its effectiveness; the median follow-up in VMG was only 2 years, and longer-term follow-up results are inconclusive; the IPSS, QOL, and the voiding frequency chart were not validated in transgender men. CONCLUSION: Our pilot study suggests that VMGPU combined with MUA may reduce the urethra-related complications, especially the urethral fistula in the anastomosis stoma between the fixed and the penile urethra. Gao H, Wu D, Kong X, et al. A Novel Technique of Urethroplasty Could Reduce Urethra-Related Complications in Phalloplasty With Urethral Lengthening. Sex Med 2022;10:100571.
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Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP), a pathogen that causes severe nosocomial infections and yields a high mortality rate, poses a serious threat to global public health due to its high antimicrobial resistance. Bacteriophages encode polysaccharide-degrading enzymes referred to as depolymerases that cleave the capsular polysaccharide (CPS), one of the main virulence factors of K. pneumoniae. In this study, we identified and characterized a new capsule depolymerase K19-Dpo41 from K. pneumoniae bacteriophage SH-KP156570. Our characterization of K19-Dpo41 demonstrated that this depolymerase showed specific activities against K19-type K. pneumoniae. K19-Dpo41-mediated treatments promoted the sensitivity of a multidrug-resistant K19-type K. pneumoniae strain to the bactericidal effect of human serum and significantly increased the survival rate of Galleria mellonella infected with K19-type K. pneumoniae. Our results provided strong primary evidence that K19-Dpo41 was not only effective in capsular typing of K19-type K. pneumoniae but promising in terms of developing new alternative therapeutic strategies against K19-type CRKP infections in the future.
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Objective: We aim to clarify the vascular and nerve anatomy of the breast and combine it with an ultrasound knife to use in transaxillary endoscopic biplane breast augmentation. Methods: This study is a retrospective review of patients undergoing transaxillary endoscopic biplane breast augmentation between October and October 2021. Related variables were collected using a standardized data collection template. The detailed process of the transaxillary endoscopic biplane breast augmentation under anatomy instruction is carefully described in this study, and the postoperative effect was closely observed. Results: Sixty-three female patients underwent transaxillary endoscopic biplane breast augmentation. The average implants volume counted 242.46 ± 31.34 cc, and the average operation time was 155.92 ± 22.34 min. Patients were followed up for a mean of 13.67 months (range, 3-27 months), and most of the patients achieved good postoperative results and no severe complications and were satisfied with both appearance and function. Conclusions: The application of anatomy combined with an ultrasound knife in transaxillary endoscopic biplane breast augmentation is a promising way to achieve good breast shapes with high patient satisfaction and is worthy of clinical promotion and application.
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Insoluble dietary fiber (IDF) were isolated from wheat bran (WB) after microbial fermentation with single or mixed strain [Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bacillus subtilis or mixed lactic acid bacteria (L. plantarum and L. acidophilus with ration of 1:1)]. Structure, physicochemical, functional properties, and antioxidant activity of the wheat bran insoluble dietary fiber (W-IDF) modified by fermentation were studied. Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis suggested the successful modification of W-IDF. After fermentation with L. plantarum and mixed lactic acid bacteria, the water retention capacity (WRC), oil retention capacity (ORC), and water swelling capacity (WSC) of W-IDF were improved. The sodium cholate adsorption capacity (SCAC), and cation exchange capacity (CEC) of W-IDF modified with L. acidophilus fermentation were significantly increased. Although the cholesterol adsorption capacity (CAC) of W-IDF decreased after modification with probiotic fermentation, nitrite ion adsorption capacity (NIAC), and total phenolic content (TPC) were enhanced. Additionally, W-IDF modified by fermentation with B. subtilis or mixed lactic acid bacteria exhibited superior antioxidant capacity verified by DPPH, ABTS and total reducing power assays. Results manifested that microbial fermentation is a promising methods to modify the W-IDF to provide high-quality functional IDF for food processing and human health management.
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Neuroinflammation and intestinal microbiota cause pathological progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD), leading to neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. This study investigates the effects of wheat embryo globulin nutrient (WEGN) on depression, neuroinflammation, and intestinal microbial disorder caused by AD and its protective mechanism on cognitive impairment. Results demonstrated that rats in the WEGN group have lower feed intake but higher body weight than those in the control group. Notably, rats in the WEGN group have a higher number of cross grids and uprights and a smaller amount of fecal particles than those in the control group. Biochemical examinations revealed that rats in the WEGN group had lower expression of interleukin-1ß, interleukin-6, and tumor necrosis factor α in hippocampus tissue and the expression of genes and proteins related to the TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB signaling pathway in AD rats was down-regulated compared to those in the control group. The 16S rRNA gene sequencing results demonstrated that WEGN treatment inhibits the increase of Erysipelotrichaceae, Erysipelatoclostridium, Erysipelotrichaceae, Corynebacterium, and Frisingicoccus, and the reduction of Lactobacillus in AD rats. WEGN has potential value as a practical food in alleviating neuroinflammation-related diseases such as AD.
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Enfermedad de Alzheimer , Disfunción Cognitiva , Globulinas , Animales , Interleucina-1beta/metabolismo , Interleucina-6/genética , Interleucina-6/metabolismo , Factor 88 de Diferenciación Mieloide/genética , Factor 88 de Diferenciación Mieloide/metabolismo , FN-kappa B/genética , FN-kappa B/metabolismo , Nutrientes , ARN Ribosómico 16S , Ratas , Ratas Sprague-Dawley , Receptor Toll-Like 4/genética , Receptor Toll-Like 4/metabolismo , Triticum/metabolismo , Factor de Necrosis Tumoral alfa/metabolismoRESUMEN
Herein we report a novel strategy for the detection of bacteria using unfunctionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), which was utilized as a colorimetric sensor. The UV-vis absorbance of AuNPs showed red shift due to the interactions between bacteria and AuNPs in the high acidic environment, producing a distinct color change which can be visually detected by naked-eye. The proposed low pH-based colorimetric assay was studied with seven types of foodborne bacteria, and the detection limit was found to be 1.6 × 107 CFU/mL, 3.3 × 105 CFU/mL, 4.5 × 106 CFU/mL, 5.8 × 106 CFU/mL, 2.8 × 105 CFU/mL, 4.4 × 107 CFU/mL and 6.6 × 106 CFU/mL for strains Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella flexneri, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Salmonella typhimurium respectively. The result can be observed by naked-eye within 5 min, the color changed from red to purple, blue and colorless with increasing the concentration of the bacteria, indicated the assay have the ability to differentiate bacteria of different concentrations. This work demonstrates that low pH-based colorimetric assay using unfunctionalized AuNPs for the directly detection of untreated bacteria is fast, simple and visual, has the potential for applications in bacterial diagnostics, especially the detection of pathogenic bacteria in food.
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Bacterias/aislamiento & purificación , Técnicas Bacteriológicas/métodos , Técnicas Biosensibles/métodos , Colorimetría/métodos , Oro/química , Nanopartículas del Metal/química , Inocuidad de los Alimentos , Enfermedades Transmitidas por los Alimentos/diagnóstico , Enfermedades Transmitidas por los Alimentos/microbiología , Concentración de Iones de Hidrógeno , Tamaño de la PartículaRESUMEN
In the present study, novel silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized via a green method by using Forsythia suspensa fruit water extract. The synthesized AgNPs showed antibacterial activities against all the tested food-borne pathogens, including Listeria monocytogenes, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Salmonella typhimurium. Furthermore, the S. aureus and V. parahaemolyticus were introduced as Gram-positive and Gram-negative model strains to explore the antibacterial mechanism of AgNPs. Minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of V. parahaemolyticus and S. aureus were 6.25⯵g/mL and 50⯵g/mL, respectively, and the minimum bactericidal concentrations (MBCs) of V. parahaemolyticus and S. aureus were 12.5⯵g/mL and 100⯵g/mL, respectively. Results indicated that the AgNPs caused morphological alterations and damaged the membrane integrity of strains S. aureus and V. parahaemolyticus. In addition, the AgNPs induced the release of nucleic acids of V. parahaemolyticus cells, resulting in disrupting of cells reproduction.
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Antibacterianos/farmacología , Microbiología de Alimentos , Forsythia/química , Frutas/química , Nanopartículas del Metal/química , Plata/farmacología , Membrana Celular/efectos de los fármacos , Membrana Celular/metabolismo , Nanopartículas del Metal/ultraestructura , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Ácidos Nucleicos/metabolismo , Espectroscopía Infrarroja por Transformada de Fourier , Staphylococcus aureus/efectos de los fármacos , Staphylococcus aureus/crecimiento & desarrollo , Staphylococcus aureus/ultraestructura , Vibrio parahaemolyticus/efectos de los fármacos , Vibrio parahaemolyticus/ultraestructuraRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Karyopherin alpha 2 (KPNA2) promotes tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We aimed to determine the content and clinical significance of mechanism underlying. METHODS: The association of transcriptional factor pleomorphic adenoma gene 1 (PLAG1) with KPNA2 was explored by co-immunoprecipitation. In vitro gain- and loss-of-function models were established to explore the functional interaction. Clinical samples from 314 HCC patients were applied to explore the clinical significance. RESULTS: We found that PLAG1 could associate with KPNA2 and be promoted into nucleus by KPNA2. The increment of proliferative and metastatic abilities by KPNA2 over-expression can be significantly retarded by PLAG1 inhibition. The co-enrichment of KPNA2 and PLAG1 in nucleus is observed in clinical samples and can distinguish patients with the worst prognosis. The positive PLAG1 expression is an independent risk factor of recurrence free survival (HR: 1.766, 1.315-2.371; P = 0.000) and overall survival (HR: 1.589, 1.138-2.220; P = 0.007). Especially for patients with positive KPNA2 staining (N = 152), the positive PLAG1 expression is the sole risk factor for both recurrence free survival (HR: 1.749, 1.146-2.670; P = 0.010) and overall survival (HR: 1.662, 1.007-2.744; P = 0.047). CONCLUSIONS: The nuclear import of PLAG1 by KPNA2 is essential for the role of KPNA2 in HCC cells and is significant to predict poor survival of HCC patients after hepatectomy.