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ACS Omega ; 9(36): 37585-37595, 2024 Sep 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39281958

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Novel t-butyloxycarbonyl-protected molecular glass photoresists with pyrene as the core (Pyr-8Boc and Pyr-4Boc) were designed and synthesized. The thermal stability and film-forming ability were measured to assess their applicability for lithography. Pyr-Boc (Pyr-8Boc and Pyr-4Boc) photoresists were evaluated by high-resolution electron beam lithography (EBL), acting as chemically amplified resists. Pyr-4Boc showed a better lithography performance, achieving 25 nm line/space patterns at the dose of 50 µC/cm2. Under SF6/O2 plasma, the etch selectivity of the Pyr-4Boc photoresist to silicon was 12.3, which is twice that of the commercially available poly(methyl methacrylate) photoresist (950 k). The lithography mechanism of EBL was further investigated. Theoretical calculations of HOMO/LUMO orbital energies, cyclic voltammetry, and fluorescence quenching experiments were conducted to confirm the electron-transfer reactions between the Pyr-Boc and photoacid generator. The study provides an option of high sensitivity and etch-resistant photoresist for EBL.

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Bioinformatics ; 40(8)2024 08 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39133151

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MOTIVATION: The asymmetrical distribution of expressed mRNAs tightly controls the precise synthesis of proteins within human cells. This non-uniform distribution, a cornerstone of developmental biology, plays a pivotal role in numerous cellular processes. To advance our comprehension of gene regulatory networks, it is essential to develop computational tools for accurately identifying the subcellular localizations of mRNAs. However, considering multi-localization phenomena remains limited in existing approaches, with none considering the influence of RNA's secondary structure. RESULTS: In this study, we propose Allocator, a multi-view parallel deep learning framework that seamlessly integrates the RNA sequence-level and structure-level information, enhancing the prediction of mRNA multi-localization. The Allocator models equip four efficient feature extractors, each designed to handle different inputs. Two are tailored for sequence-based inputs, incorporating multilayer perceptron and multi-head self-attention mechanisms. The other two are specialized in processing structure-based inputs, employing graph neural networks. Benchmarking results underscore Allocator's superiority over state-of-the-art methods, showcasing its strength in revealing intricate localization associations. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The webserver of Allocator is available at http://Allocator.unimelb-biotools.cloud.edu.au; the source code and datasets are available on GitHub (https://github.com/lifuyi774/Allocator) and Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13235798).


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Biología Computacional , Redes Neurales de la Computación , ARN Mensajero , ARN Mensajero/metabolismo , ARN Mensajero/genética , Humanos , Biología Computacional/métodos , Conformación de Ácido Nucleico , Aprendizaje Profundo , Programas Informáticos
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Poult Sci ; 103(9): 104024, 2024 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39013296

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Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is an intracellular protozoan that can cause toxoplasmosis in all warm-blooded hosts. This study focused on the prevalence and genetic characterize of T. gondii in ducks from Fujian province, China. Genomic DNA was extracted from duck tissue samples (heart, liver, lung, and muscle). To assess the genetic diversity of the T. gondii isolates, it was determined by using multilocus polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) technology. A total of 586 ducks from 5 cities in Fujian province were tested, and 35 (6.0%) of which were found to be positive for the T. gondii B1 gene. Further genotyping of these positive samples at 10 genetic markers (SAG1, SAG2, SAG3, BTUB, GRA6, c22-8, c29-2, L358, PK1, and Apico) using PCR-RFLP revealed that one tissue samples (heart samples from Fuzhou ducks) were identified as Type I (ToxoDB#10). This study is the first report on the prevalence and genetic characterization of T. gondii in ducks in Fujian province, and Type I (ToxoDB#10) is found in ducks in China for the first time. The findings document the genetic characterization of T. gondii in free-range ducks from Fujian Province, thereby enriching the understanding of T. gondii genetic diversity in China. Moreover, these results provide essential data support for further prospective studies and underscores the "One Health" concept, emphasizing the integral link among human, animal, and environmental health.


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Patos , Enfermedades de las Aves de Corral , Toxoplasma , Toxoplasmosis Animal , Animales , Toxoplasma/genética , Toxoplasma/aislamiento & purificación , Toxoplasmosis Animal/epidemiología , Toxoplasmosis Animal/parasitología , China/epidemiología , Enfermedades de las Aves de Corral/parasitología , Enfermedades de las Aves de Corral/epidemiología , Prevalencia , Polimorfismo de Longitud del Fragmento de Restricción , Salud Pública , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa/veterinaria , Genotipo , Variación Genética
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Acta Trop ; 257: 107302, 2024 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38959992

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Toxoplasma gondii is an important protozoan pathogen, which can cause severe diseases in the newborns and immunocompromised individuals. Developing an effective vaccine against Toxoplasma infection is a critically important global health priority. Immunofluorescence staining analysis revealed that TgSAG2 and TgSRS2 are membrane associated and displayed on the surface of the parasite. Immunizations with pBud-SAG2, pBud-SRS2 and pBud-SAG2-SRS2 DNA vaccines significantly increased the production of specific IgG antibodies. Immunization with pBud-SAG2-SRS2 elicited cellular immune response with higher concentrations of IFN-γ and IL-4 compared to the control group. Antigen-specific lymphocyte proliferations in the pBud-SRS2 and pBud-SAG2-SRS2 groups were significantly higher compared to that in the control group. Furthermore, 30 % of mice immunized with pBud-SAG2-SRS2 survived after the challenge infection with virulent T. gondii RH tachyzoites. This study revealed that immunization with pBud-SAG2-SRS2 induced potent immune responses, and has the potential as a promising vaccine candidate for the control of T. gondii infection.


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Anticuerpos Antiprotozoarios , Antígenos de Protozoos , Inmunoglobulina G , Proteínas Protozoarias , Vacunas Antiprotozoos , Toxoplasma , Toxoplasmosis Animal , Vacunas de ADN , Animales , Vacunas de ADN/inmunología , Vacunas de ADN/genética , Vacunas de ADN/administración & dosificación , Antígenos de Protozoos/inmunología , Antígenos de Protozoos/genética , Proteínas Protozoarias/inmunología , Proteínas Protozoarias/genética , Toxoplasma/inmunología , Toxoplasma/genética , Anticuerpos Antiprotozoarios/sangre , Vacunas Antiprotozoos/inmunología , Vacunas Antiprotozoos/administración & dosificación , Vacunas Antiprotozoos/genética , Ratones , Inmunoglobulina G/sangre , Femenino , Toxoplasmosis Animal/prevención & control , Toxoplasmosis Animal/inmunología , Ratones Endogámicos BALB C , Interferón gamma/inmunología , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Proliferación Celular , Interleucina-4/inmunología , Análisis de Supervivencia
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Technol Health Care ; 2024 Jul 13.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39058459

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BACKGROUND: Multi-channel acquisition systems of brain neural signals can provide a powerful tool with a wide range of information for the clinical application of brain computer interfaces. High-throughput implantable systems are limited by size and power consumption, posing challenges to system design. OBJECTIVE: To acquire more comprehensive neural signals and wirelessly transmit high-throughput brain neural signals, a FPGA-based acquisition system for multi-channel brain nerve signals has been developed. And the Bluetooth transmission with low-power technology are utilized. METHODS: To wirelessly transmit large amount of data with limited Bluetooth bandwidth and improve the accuracy of neural signal decoding, an improved sharing run length encoding (SRLE) is proposed to compress the spike data of brain neural signal to improve the transmission efficiency of the system. The functional prototype has been developed, which consists of multi-channel data acquisition chips, FPGA main control module with the improved SRLE, a wireless data transmitter, a wireless data receiver and an upper computer. And the developed functional prototype was tested for spike detection of brain neural signal by animal experiments. RESULTS: From the animal experiments, it shows that the system can successfully collect and transmit brain nerve signals. And the improved SRLE algorithm has an excellent compression effect with the average compression rate of 5.94%, compared to the double run-length encoding, the FDR encoding, and the traditional run-length encoding. CONCLUSION: The developed system, incorporating the improved SRLE algorithm, is capable of wirelessly capturing spike signals with 1024 channels, thereby realizing the implantable systems of High-throughput brain neural signals.

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Med Eng Phys ; 129: 104184, 2024 07.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38906570

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Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has been demonstrated as a viable method for addressing motor dysfunction in individuals affected by stroke, spinal cord injury, and other etiologies. By eliciting muscle contractions to facilitate joint movements, FES plays a crucial role in fostering the restoration of motor function compromised nervous system. In response to the challenge of muscle fatigue associated with conventional FES protocols, a novel biofeedback electrical stimulator incorporating multi-motor tasks and predictive control algorithms has been developed to enable adaptive modulation of stimulation parameters. The study initially establishes a Hammerstein model for the stimulated muscle group, representing a time-varying relationship between the stimulation pulse width and the root mean square (RMS) of the surface electromyography (sEMG). An online parameter identification algorithm utilizing recursive least squares is employed to estimate the time-varying parameters of the Hammerstein model. Predictive control is then implemented through feedback corrections based on the comparison between predicted and actual outputs, guided by an optimization objective function. The integration of predictive control and roll optimization enables closed-loop control of muscle stimulation. The motor training tasks of elbow flexion and extension, wrist flexion and extension, and five-finger grasping were selected for experimental validation. The results indicate that the model parameters were accurately identified, with a RMS error of 3.83 % between actual and predicted values. Furthermore, the predictive control algorithm, based on the motor tasks, effectively adjusted the stimulus parameters to ensure that the stimulated muscle groups can achieve the desired sEMG characteristic trajectory. The biofeedback electrical stimulator that was developed has the potential to assist patients experiencing motor dysfunction in achieving the appropriate joint movements. This research provides a foundation for a novel intelligent electrical stimulation model.


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Algoritmos , Electromiografía , Humanos , Terapia por Estimulación Eléctrica/instrumentación , Estimulación Eléctrica , Masculino , Adulto , Biorretroalimentación Psicológica/instrumentación , Actividad Motora
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J Imaging Inform Med ; 2024 Apr 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38587768

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Capsule endoscopy (CE) is non-invasive and painless during gastrointestinal examination. However, capsule endoscopy can increase the workload of image reviewing for clinicians, making it prone to missed and misdiagnosed diagnoses. Current researches primarily concentrated on binary classifiers, multiple classifiers targeting fewer than four abnormality types and detectors within a specific segment of the digestive tract, and segmenters for a single type of anomaly. Due to intra-class variations, the task of creating a unified scheme for detecting multiple gastrointestinal diseases is particularly challenging. A cascade neural network designed in this study, Cascade-EC, can automatically identify and localize four types of gastrointestinal lesions in CE images: angiectasis, bleeding, erosion, and polyp. Cascade-EC consists of EfficientNet for image classification and CA_stm_Retinanet for lesion detection and location. As the first layer of Cascade-EC, the EfficientNet network classifies CE images. CA_stm_Retinanet, as the second layer, performs the target detection and location task on the classified image. CA_stm_Retinanet adopts the general architecture of Retinanet. Its feature extraction module is the CA_stm_Backbone from the stack of CA_stm Block. CA_stm Block adopts the split-transform-merge strategy and introduces the coordinate attention. The dataset in this study is from Shanghai East Hospital, collected by PillCam SB3 and AnKon capsule endoscopes, which contains a total of 7936 images of 317 patients from the years 2017 to 2021. In the testing set, the average precision of Cascade-EC in the multi-lesions classification task was 94.55%, the average recall was 90.60%, and the average F1 score was 92.26%. The mean mAP@ 0.5 of Cascade-EC for detecting the four types of diseases is 85.88%. The experimental results show that compared with a single target detection network, Cascade-EC has better performance and can effectively assist clinicians to classify and detect multiple lesions in CE images.

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Nanotechnology ; 35(29)2024 Apr 30.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38593758

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To break the resolution limitation of traditional resists, more work is needed on non-chemically amplified resists (non-CARs). Non-CARs based on iodonium salt modified polystyrene (PS-I) were prepared with controllable molecular weight and structure. The properties of the resist can be adjusted by the uploading of iodonium salts on the polymer chain, the materials with a higher proportion of iodonium salts show better lithography performance. By comparing contrast curves and quality of the lithographic patterns, the optimum developing condition of 4-methyl-2-pentanone and ethyl alcohol (v:v = 1:7) was selected. The high-resolution stripes of 15 nm half-pitch (HP) can be achieved by PS-I0.58in e-beam lithography (EBL). PS-I0.58shows the advanced lithography performance in the patterns of 16 nm HP and 18 nm HP stripes with low line edge roughness (3.0 nm and 2.4 nm). The resist shows excellent potential for further pattern transfer, the etch selectivity of resist PS-I0.58to the silicon was close to 12:1. The lithographic mechanism of PS-I was investigated by experimental and theoretical calculation, which indicates the polarity of materials changes results in the solubility switch. This work provides a new option and useful guidelines for the development of high-resolution resist.

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Genes (Basel) ; 15(3)2024 03 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38540385

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Phospholipase Ds (PLDs) are important phospholipid hydrolases in plants that play crucial roles in the regulation of plant growth, development, and stress tolerance. In this study, 14 PLD genes were identified in the tomato genome and were localized on eight chromosomes, and one tandem-duplicated gene pair was identified. According to a phylogenetic analysis, the genes were categorized into four subtypes: SlPLDα, ß, and δ belonged to the C2-PLD subfamily, while SlPLDζ belonged to the PXPH-PLD subfamily. The gene structure and protein physicochemical properties were highly conserved within the same subtype. The promoter of all the SlPLD genes contained hormone-, light-, and stress-responsive cis-acting regulatory elements, but no significant correlation between the number, distribution, and type of cis-acting elements was observed among the members of the same subtype. Transcriptome data showed that the expression of the SlPLD genes was different in multiple tissues. A quantitative RT-PCR analysis revealed that the SlPLD genes responded positively to cold, salt, drought, and abscisic acid treatments, particularly to salt stress. Different expression patterns were observed for different genes under the same stress, and for the same gene under different stresses. The results provide important insights into the functions of SlPLD genes and lay a foundation for further studies of the response of SlPLD genes to abiotic stresses.


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Solanum lycopersicum , Solanum lycopersicum/genética , Filogenia , Regiones Promotoras Genéticas , Secuencias Reguladoras de Ácidos Nucleicos , Genes Duplicados
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Bioinform Adv ; 4(1): vbae035, 2024.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38549946

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Motivation: PE/PPE proteins, highly abundant in the Mycobacterium genome, play a vital role in virulence and immune modulation. Understanding their functions is key to comprehending the internal mechanisms of Mycobacterium. However, a lack of dedicated resources has limited research into PE/PPE proteins. Results: Addressing this gap, we introduce MycobactERIal PE/PPE proTeinS (MERITS), a comprehensive 3D structure database specifically designed for PE/PPE proteins. MERITS hosts 22 353 non-redundant PE/PPE proteins, encompassing details like physicochemical properties, subcellular localization, post-translational modification sites, protein functions, and measures of antigenicity, toxicity, and allergenicity. MERITS also includes data on their secondary and tertiary structure, along with other relevant biological information. MERITS is designed to be user-friendly, offering interactive search and data browsing features to aid researchers in exploring the potential functions of PE/PPE proteins. MERITS is expected to become a crucial resource in the field, aiding in developing new diagnostics and vaccines by elucidating the sequence-structure-functional relationships of PE/PPE proteins. Availability and implementation: MERITS is freely accessible at http://merits.unimelb-biotools.cloud.edu.au/.

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J Surg Case Rep ; 2024(3): rjae100, 2024 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38455983

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Teratoma are germ cell tumors, most frequently arising in the gonads and retroperitoneal teratomas are rare, especially adrenal teratomas. Only a few case reports have been documented in the literature so far. We report the case of a 52-year-old asymptomatic male patient who had an incidental finding of a left adrenal teratoma during an abdominal computed tomography scan; due to the large size of the tumor, he underwent laparoscopic left adrenalectomy, and histopathological examination revealed a mature teratoma of the left adrenal gland, Patient recovering well after surgery and had no recurrence after 6 months of postoperative follow-up. The preoperative diagnosis of adrenal teratoma is challenging because imaging features are usually non-specific. Minimally invasive surgical resection is the best option for diagnosis and treatment of adrenal teratoma.

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Int J Surg Case Rep ; 116: 109341, 2024 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38340623

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INTRODUCTION: The occurrence of hypercortisolism resulting from adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-secreting pheochromocytoma is exceedingly uncommon, with limited documented instances thus far. PRESENTATION OF CASE: We present a case of ectopic ACTH-secreting pheochromocytoma in a patient who suffered from severe metabolic disorders. Our clinical case outlines the diagnostic history, preoperative correction of the patient's metabolic disturbances and surgical strategy for management of a rare ectopic ACTH producing pheochromocytoma. DISCUSSION: Ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone-secreting pheochromocytoma displays multifaceted clinical features and requires prompt diagnosis and multidisciplinary management in order to overcome the related severe clinical derangements. CONCLUSION: The combination of biochemical and hormonal testing and imaging procedures is mandatory for the diagnosis of ectopic ACTH secretion, and in the presence of an adrenal mass, the possibility of an ACTH-secreting pheochromocytoma should be taken into account.

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Org Biomol Chem ; 22(9): 1850-1858, 2024 02 28.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38345427

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ß-Galactosidase (ß-gal), which is responsible for the hydrolysis of the glycosidic bond of lactose to galactose, has been recognized as an important biomarker of cell or organism status, especially cell senescence and primary ovarian cancer. Extensive efforts have been devoted to develop probes for detecting and visualizing ß-gal in cells. Herein, a fluorescent probe gal-HCA which possesses both excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties was prepared to monitor ß-gal in living cells. The probe consists of 2-hydroxy-4'-dimethylamino-chalcone (HCA) capped with a D-galactose group. The cleavage of the glycosidic bond in gal-HCA triggered by ß-gal releases HCA, which results in a significant bathochromic shift in fluorescence from 532 to 615 nm. The probe exhibited high selectivity and sensitivity toward ß-gal with a detection limit as low as 0.0122 U mL-1. The confocal imaging investigation demonstrated the potential of gal-HCA in monitoring the endocellular overexpressed ß-gal in senescent cells and ovarian cancer cells. This study provides a straightforward approach for the development of fluorescent probes to monitor ß-gal and detection of ß-gal-associated diseases.


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Chalconas , Neoplasias Ováricas , Femenino , Humanos , Colorantes Fluorescentes/química , Protones , Neoplasias Ováricas/diagnóstico por imagen , Imagen Óptica/métodos , beta-Galactosidasa
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J Surg Oncol ; 129(6): 1073-1081, 2024 May.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38321865

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of adrenal surgery on blood pressure (BP) improvements in patients with hormone-negative adrenal adenoma (HNA) concomitant with hypertension and analyze associated prognostic factors. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of patients with HNA and hypertension and patients with aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) and hypertension who underwent adrenal surgery at our center between 2019 and 2022. Hypertension outcomes were evaluated in all patients and subjects were divided into three groups according to follow-up BP and the administration of anti-hypertensive agents: a clinical curation group, an improvement group, and a no-improvement group. Logistic regression analysis was performed to predict factors associated with clinical curation in patients with HNA post-surgery. RESULTS: Of the 182 patients with HNA, clinical curation was achieved in 58 patients (31.9%), improvement in 72 (39.5%), and no improvement in 52 (28.6%). The clinical curation, improvement and no improvement rates in patients with APA were 64.8% (n = 118), 15.9% (n = 29), and 19.2% (n = 35). Multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that a duration of hypertension ≤6 years and a plasma aldosterone level >160 pg/ml were both independent factors for the clinical curation of hypertension in patients with HNA after adrenal surgery. CONCLUSION: Adrenal surgery can cure or improve hypertension in most patients with HNA, especially in a short duration of hypertension and high plasma levels of aldosterone.


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Neoplasias de las Glándulas Suprarrenales , Adrenalectomía , Presión Sanguínea , Hipertensión , Humanos , Masculino , Femenino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estudios Retrospectivos , Neoplasias de las Glándulas Suprarrenales/cirugía , Neoplasias de las Glándulas Suprarrenales/metabolismo , Adenoma/cirugía , Adenoma/metabolismo , Adenoma/complicaciones , Adenoma/patología , Pronóstico , Adulto , Estudios de Seguimiento , Aldosterona/sangre , Adenoma Corticosuprarrenal/cirugía , Adenoma Corticosuprarrenal/complicaciones , Adenoma Corticosuprarrenal/metabolismo , Anciano
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Front Cell Infect Microbiol ; 14: 1336821, 2024.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38357445

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Drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus stands as a prominent pathogen in nosocomial and community-acquired infections, capable of inciting various infections at different sites in patients. This includes Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SaB), which exhibits a severe infection frequently associated with significant mortality rate of approximately 25%. In the absence of better alternative therapies, antibiotics is still the main approach for treating infections. However, excessive use of antibiotics has, in turn, led to an increase in antimicrobial resistance. Hence, it is imperative that new strategies are developed to control drug-resistant S. aureus infections. Bacteriophages are viruses with the ability to infect bacteria. Bacteriophages, were used to treat bacterial infections before the advent of antibiotics, but were subsequently replaced by antibiotics due to limited theoretical understanding and inefficient preparation processes at the time. Recently, phages have attracted the attention of many researchers again because of the serious problem of antibiotic resistance. This article provides a comprehensive overview of phage biology, animal models, diverse clinical case treatments, and clinical trials in the context of drug-resistant S. aureus phage therapy. It also assesses the strengths and limitations of phage therapy and outlines the future prospects and research directions. This review is expected to offer valuable insights for researchers engaged in phage-based treatments for drug-resistant S. aureus infections.


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Bacteriófagos , Staphylococcus aureus Resistente a Meticilina , Terapia de Fagos , Infecciones Estafilocócicas , Animales , Humanos , Infecciones Estafilocócicas/microbiología , Staphylococcus aureus , Antibacterianos/farmacología , Antibacterianos/uso terapéutico , Fagos de Staphylococcus
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Phys Med Biol ; 69(5)2024 Feb 23.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38316034

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Objective. Ulceration of the small intestine, which has a high incidence, includes Crohn's disease (CD), intestinal tuberculosis (ITB), primary small intestinal lymphoma (PSIL), cryptogenic multifocal ulcerous stenosing enteritis (CMUSE), and non-specific ulcer (NSU). However, the ulceration morphology can easily be misdiagnosed through enteroscopy.Approach. In this study, DRCA-DenseNet169, which is based on DenseNet169, with residual dilated blocks and a channel attention block, is proposed to identify CD, ITB, PSIL, CMUSE, and NSU intelligently. In addition, a novel loss function that incorporates dynamic weights is designed to enhance the precision of imbalanced datasets with limited samples. DRCA-Densenet169 was evaluated using 10883 enteroscopy images, including 5375 ulcer images and 5508 normal images, which were obtained from the Shanghai Changhai Hospital.Main results. DRCA-Densenet169 achieved an overall accuracy of 85.27% ± 0.32%, a weighted-precision of 83.99% ± 2.47%, a weighted-recall of 84.36% ± 0.88% and a weighted-F1-score of 84.07% ± 2.14%.Significance. The results demonstrate that DRCA-Densenet169 has high recognition accuracy and strong robustness in identifying different types of ulcers when obtaining immediate and preliminary diagnoses.


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Intestino Delgado , Úlcera , Humanos , Úlcera/diagnóstico por imagen , China , Intestino Delgado/diagnóstico por imagen , Diagnóstico Diferencial
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Med Biol Eng Comput ; 62(6): 1615-1638, 2024 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38418768

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The scientific diagnosis and treatment of patients with diabetes require frequent blood glucose testing and insulin delivery to normoglycemia. Therefore, an artificial pancreas with a continuous blood glucose (BG) monitoring function is an urgent research target in the medical industry. The problem of closed-loop algorithmic control of the BG with a time delay is a key and difficult issue that needs to be overcome in the development of an artificial pancreas. Firstly, the composition, structure, and control characteristics of the artificial pancreas are introduced. Subsequently, the research progress of artificial pancreas control algorithms is reviewed, and the characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of proportional-integral-differential control, model predictive control, and artificial intelligence control are compared and analyzed to determine whether they are suitable for the practical application of the artificial pancreas. Additionally, key advancements in areas such as blood glucose data monitoring, adaptive models, wearable devices, and fully automated artificial pancreas systems are also reviewed. Finally, this review highlights that meal prediction, control safety, integration, streamlining the optimization of control algorithms, constant temperature preservation of insulin, and dual-hormone artificial pancreas are issues that require further attention in the future.


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Algoritmos , Glucemia , Insulina , Páncreas Artificial , Humanos , Glucemia/análisis , Insulina/administración & dosificación , Automonitorización de la Glucosa Sanguínea/métodos , Inteligencia Artificial , Diabetes Mellitus/terapia , Sistemas de Infusión de Insulina
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Stem Cells ; 42(1): 29-41, 2024 Jan 13.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37933895

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Poor proliferative capacity of adult cardiomyocytes is the primary cause of heart failure after myocardial infarction (MI), thus exploring the molecules and mechanisms that promote the proliferation of adult cardiomyocytes is crucially useful for cardiac repair after MI. Here, we found that miR-130b-5p was highly expressed in mouse embryonic and neonatal hearts and able to promote cardiomyocyte proliferation both in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistic studies revealed that miR-130b-5p mainly promoted the cardiomyocyte proliferation through the MAPK-ERK signaling pathway, and the dual-specific phosphatase 6 (Dusp6), a negative regulator of the MAPK-ERK signaling, was the direct target of miR-130b-5p. Moreover, we found that overexpression of miR-130b-5p could promote the proliferation of cardiomyocytes and improve cardiac function in mice after MI. These studies thus revealed the critical role of miR-130b-5p and its targeted MAPK-ERK signaling in the cardiomyocyte proliferation of adult hearts and proved that miR-130b-5p could be a potential target for cardiac repair after MI.


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MicroARNs , Infarto del Miocardio , Ratones , Animales , Miocitos Cardíacos/metabolismo , MicroARNs/genética , MicroARNs/metabolismo , Infarto del Miocardio/genética , Infarto del Miocardio/metabolismo , Transducción de Señal/genética , Proliferación Celular/genética , Apoptosis
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Am J Transl Res ; 15(11): 6404-6412, 2023.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38074812

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OBJECTIVES: The puncture needle of an intelligent puncture robot must accurately reach the target location early in the diagnosis of benign and malignant nodules and in the puncture ablation of malignant tumors. To track the position and the orientation of the puncture needle tip, an electromagnetic tracking system based on adaptive adjustment of excitation intensity and lock-in amplification is proposed. METHODS: The system includes a time-sharing excitation device with multiple magnetic sources, a magnetic sensor, a signal processing device based on dual-phase lock-in amplifiers and a computing platform in the upper computer. With adaptive adjustment of excitation intensity, the time-sharing excitation device uses a microcontroller to control a direct digital synthesizer. Based on feedback from the magnetic sensor, the microcontroller time-shares the power amplifier to generate the required excitation current. Dual-phase lock-in amplifiers demodulate the magnetic sensor output after preamplification and filtering. Through analog-to-digital conversion and the serial interface, the digital signal is sent to the computing platform for solving by neighborhood particle swarm optimization algorithm, and the position and orientation of the puncture needle fixed with the magnetic sensor are obtained. RESULTS: The experimental results within a 300 mm×300 mm×300 mm space show average position errors of 0.4467 cm (X-axis), 0.4154 cm (Y-axis), and 0.3766 cm (Z-axis). The overall average position error is 0.4129 cm, with a root mean square error of 0.4970 cm. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed electromagnetic tracking system can track the needle position and orientation of puncture robots in real-time, thereby enhancing puncture success rates and reducing puncture times.

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Sheng Wu Yi Xue Gong Cheng Xue Za Zhi ; 40(6): 1200-1208, 2023 Dec 25.
Artículo en Chino | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38151944

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For the transportation process of rescuing wounded personnel on naval vessels, a new type of shoulder type exoskeleton stretcher for individual soldier was designed in this paper. The three-dimensional model of the shoulder type exoskeleton stretcher for individual soldier was constructed using three dimensional modeling software. Finite element analysis technique was employed to conduct statics simulation, modal analysis, and transient dynamics analysis on the designed exoskeleton stretcher. The results show that the maximum stress of the exoskeleton stretcher for walking on flat ground is 265.55 MPa, which is lower than the allowable strength of the fabrication material. Furthermore, the overall deformation of the structure is small. Modal analysis reveals that the natural frequency range of the exoskeleton stretcher under different gait conditions is 1.96 Hz to 28.70 Hz, which differs significantly from the swing frequency of 1 Hz during walking. This indicates that the designed structure can effectively avoid resonance. The transient dynamics analysis results show that the maximum deformation and stress of exoskeleton stretcher remain within the safety range, which meets the expected performance requirements. In summary, the shoulder type exoskeleton stretcher for individual soldier designed in this study can solve the problem of requiring more than 2 people to carry for the existing stretcher, especially suitable for narrow spaces of naval vessels. The research results of this paper can provide a new solution for the rescue of wounded personnel on naval vessels.


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Dispositivo Exoesqueleto , Personal Militar , Camillas , Humanos , Hombro , Caminata , Marcha , Fenómenos Biomecánicos
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