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OBJECTIVES: STAT3 is a transcriptional activator of breast cancer oncogenes, suggesting that it could be a potential therapeutic target for breast cancer. Therefore, this study investigated the potential application of C188-9, a STAT3 signal pathway inhibitor, in the treatment of breast cancer through a novel pre-clinical platform with patient-specific primary cells (PSPCs). METHODS: PSPCs were isolated from breast cancer samples obtained via biopsy or surgery from fifteen patient donors with their full acknowledgements. PSPCs were treated with C188-9 or other chemotherapeutic agents, and then analyzed with cell viability assay. Western blot assay and real-time quantitative PCR were also used to determine the expression and activity of STAT3 signaling pathway of corresponding PSPCs. RESULTS: C188-9 treatment at normal (experimental) concentration had valid inhibition on PSPCs proliferation. Meanwhile, treatment at a low (clinic-relevant) concentration of C188-9 for an extended period reduced cell viability of PSPCs still more than some of other traditional chemotherapy drugs. In addition, C188-9 decreased expression level of pSTAT3 in PSPCs from some, but not all patient samples. The treatment of C188-9 reduced cell viability of the breast cancer samples through inhibiting the STAT3 to C-myc signaling pathway. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we tested a novel drug C188-9 at a low, clinic-relevant concentration, together with several traditional chemotherapy agents. PSPCs from ten out of fifteen patient donors were sensitive to C188-9, while some of traditional chemotherapy agents failed. This finding suggested that C188-9 could have treatment effects only on those ten PSPC patient donors, indicating the future personalized utilization of PSPCs.
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Neoplasias de la Mama , Proliferación Celular , Factor de Transcripción STAT3 , Humanos , Neoplasias de la Mama/patología , Neoplasias de la Mama/metabolismo , Neoplasias de la Mama/tratamiento farmacológico , Femenino , Proliferación Celular/efectos de los fármacos , Factor de Transcripción STAT3/metabolismo , Transducción de Señal/efectos de los fármacos , Supervivencia Celular/efectos de los fármacos , Regulación Neoplásica de la Expresión Génica/efectos de los fármacos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Línea Celular Tumoral , Antineoplásicos/farmacología , Antineoplásicos/uso terapéuticoRESUMEN
Investigating organic carriers' utilization efficiency and bioactivity within organic-inorganic hybrid nanoflowers is critical to constructing sensitive immunosensors. Nevertheless, the sensitivity of immunosensors is interactively regulated by different classes of biomolecules such as antibodies and enzymes. In this work, we introduced a new alkaline phosphatase-antibody-CaHPO4 hybrid nanoflowers (AAHNFs) microreactor based colorimetric immunoprobe. This system integrates a biometric unit (antibody) with a signal amplification element (enzyme) through the biomineralization process. Specifically, the critical factors affecting antibody recognition activity in the formation mechanism of AAHNFs are investigated. The designed AAHNFs retain antibody recognition ability with enhanced protection for encapsulated proteins against high temperature, organic solvents, and long-term storage, facilitating the selective construction of lock structures against antigens. Additionally, a colorimetric immunosensor based on AAHNFs was developed. After ascorbic acid 2-phosphate hydrolysis by alkaline phosphatase (ALP), the generated ascorbic acid decomposes I2 to I-, inducing the localized surface plasmon resonance in the silver nanoplate, which is effectively tuned through shape conversion to develop the sensor. Further, a 3D-printed portable device is fabricated, integrated with a smartphone sensing platform, and applied to the data of collection and analysis. Notably, the immunosensor exhibits improved analytical performance with a 0.1-6.25 ng·mL-1 detection range and a 0.06 ng·mL-1 detection limit for quantitative saxitoxin (STX) analysis. The average recoveries of STX in real samples ranged from 85.9% to 105.9%. This study presents a more in-depth investigation of the recognition element performance, providing insights for improved antibody performance in practical applications.
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Due to the potential health risks of adulterated febuxostat in uric-acid-lowering foods, it is urgent to develop rapid detection methods. However, there are no fast analytical techniques for febuxostat yet. Herein, an efficient hapten simulation strategy was proposed to successfully produce a highly sensitive and selective monoclonal antibody toward febuxostat. Based on such a robust recognition element, easy colorimetric and ultrasensitive fluorescent lateral flow immunochromatographic immunoassays were first established, which can detect febuxostat as low as 60 µg/kg by the naked eye or 1.01 µg/kg by a commercial test strip reader with acceptable stability. Furthermore, in the recovery test and blind sample analysis, consistent results between our methods and the authorized liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method suggested the high accuracy and practicality of this work. The present work not only proposes a rational hapten design idea but also provides favorable tools for the rapid screening of febuxostat in functional foods.
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Anticuerpos Monoclonales , Febuxostat , Contaminación de Alimentos , Alimentos Funcionales , Febuxostat/análisis , Febuxostat/química , Contaminación de Alimentos/análisis , Alimentos Funcionales/análisis , Anticuerpos Monoclonales/química , Inmunoensayo/métodos , Inmunoensayo/instrumentación , Haptenos/química , Haptenos/inmunología , AnimalesRESUMEN
The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae), is a notorious pest in agriculture that has developed resistance to almost all chemical types used for its control. Here, we assembled a chromosome-level genome for the TSSM using Illumina, Nanopore, and Hi-C sequencing technologies. The assembled contigs had a total length of 103.94 Mb with an N50 of 3.46 Mb, with 87.7 Mb of 34 contigs anchored to three chromosomes. The chromosome-level genome assembly had a BUSCO completeness of 94.8%. We identified 15,604 protein-coding genes, with 11,435 genes that could be functionally annotated. The high-quality genome provides invaluable resources for the genetic and evolutionary study of TSSM.
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Tetranychidae , Animales , Tetranychidae/genética , Cromosomas , GenomaRESUMEN
Aim: This study aimed to explore using peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC)-derived chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) NK cells targeting ROBO1 as a personalized medicine approach for ovarian cancer. Methods: A two-step strategy generated ROBO1-targeted CAR NK cells from PBMCs of ovarian cancer patients. Efficacy was evaluated using xCELLigence RTCA, CCK-8 and Live/Dead fluorescence assays. Results: ROBO1-NK cells exhibited higher efficiency in eradicating primary ovarian cancer cells and lysing ovarian tumor organoids compared with primary NK cells without ROBO1-CAR modification. Conclusion: These findings highlight the potential of developing ROBO1-targeted CAR-NK cells from patients' PBMCs as a personalized treatment option for ovarian cancer.
Ovarian cancer represents a formidable clinical challenge necessitating the urgent exploration of novel therapeutic approaches. In this study, the focus was directed toward ROBO1, a molecule known to play a pivotal role in cancer angiogenesis and metastasis, while limited investigation in the context of ovarian cancer. Leveraging this knowledge, we sought to construct ROBO1-targeting chimeric antigen receptor natural killer (CAR-NK) cells utilizing peripheral blood mononuclear cells derived from the patients themselves. The overarching goal of this investigation was to harness the potential of immunotherapy using autologous resources to realize personalized treatment strategies for ovarian cancer in clinical settings.
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The public health concern of antibiotic residues in animal-origin food has been a long-standing issue. In this work, we present a novel method for antibiotic detection, leveraging optical weak value amplification and harnessing an indirect competitive inhibition assay, which significantly boosts the system's sensitivity in identifying small molecule antibiotics. We chose chloramphenicol as a model compound and mixed it with chloramphenicol-bovine serum albumin conjugates to bind to the chloramphenicol antibody competitively. We achieved a broad linear detection range of up to 3.24 ng/mL and a high concentration resolution of 33.20 pg/mL. To further validate the universality of our proposed detection methodology, we successfully applied it to testing gibberellin and tetracycline. Moreover, we conducted regeneration experiments and real-sample correlation studies. This study introduces a novel strategy for the label-free optical sensing of small molecule antibiotics, greatly expanding the range of applications for sensors utilizing optical weak value amplification.
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The demand for accurate and efficient immunoassays calls for the development of precise, high-throughput analysis methods. This paper introduces a novel approach utilizing a weak measurement interface sensor for immunoassays, offering a solution for high throughput analysis. Weak measurement is a precise quantum measurement method that amplifies the weak value of a system in the weak interaction through appropriate pre- and post-selection states. To facilitate the simultaneous analysis of multiple samples, we have developed a chip with six flow channels capable of conducting six immunoassays concurrently. We can perform real-time immunoassay to determine the binding characteristics of spike protein and antibody through real-time analysis of the flow channel images and calculating the relative intensity. The proposed method boasts a simple structure, eliminating the need for intricate nano processes. The spike protein concentration and relative intensity curve were fitted using the Log-Log fitting regression equation, and R2 was 0.91. Utilizing a pre-transformation approach to account for slight variations in detection sensitivity across different flow channels, the present method achieves an impressive limit of detection(LOD) of 0.85 ng/mL for the SARS-CoV-2 the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein, with a system standard deviation of 5.61. Furthermore, this method has been successfully verified for monitoring molecular-specific binding processes and differentiating binding capacities.
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Técnicas Biosensibles , COVID-19 , SARS-CoV-2 , Glicoproteína de la Espiga del Coronavirus , Glicoproteína de la Espiga del Coronavirus/análisis , Inmunoensayo/métodos , Humanos , COVID-19/diagnóstico , COVID-19/virología , Límite de Detección , Ensayos Analíticos de Alto RendimientoRESUMEN
Allergy is a prevalent disease, and the potential allergic population is expanding with industrialization and changes in people's living standards. Serum immunoglobulin E (IgE) level is one of the critical indicators for determining allergy. Here, we proposed a simple, real-time monitoring, low chip cost, label-free aptamer biosensing strategy based on weak value amplification (WVA) for the quantitative detection of IgE in serum samples, enabling early and accurate diagnosis of allergic or hypersensitive patients. The aptasensor combined an imaging weak measurement system with the high specificity of the aptamer for the marker IgE. By modifying the amino group at the 3-terminal end, the anti-IgE aptamers can attach to a dopamine-modified prism's surface and selectively recognize IgE in human serum. In the presence of IgE, a specific binding reaction occurred, resulting in a change in the refractive index of the reactive region's surface, manifested as a change in the light intensity of the camera acquired experimental images. As the concentration of IgE increased, the relative light intensity advanced sequentially. The WVA-aptasensing strategy achieved a wide detection range of 0.01 ng/mL to 2 µg/mL in phosphate buffered saline buffer, with the resolution as low as 4.3 pg/mL. IgE testing experiments in human serum have proved the feasibility of our methods in detecting complex samples. In addition, the method specifically recognized IgE without interference from other proteins. We believe that our proposed sensing strategy opens up new possibilities for ultrahigh sensitivity screening of IgE and can be expanded to detecting other biomolecules.
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Aptámeros de Nucleótidos , Técnicas Biosensibles , Inmunoglobulina E , Inmunoglobulina E/sangre , Humanos , Aptámeros de Nucleótidos/química , Técnicas Biosensibles/métodos , Límite de DetecciónRESUMEN
Adulterating hazardous bisoxatin (BSO) and bisoxatin acetate (BSOA) in slimming foods poses a threat to public health. A rapid synchronous detection method is urgently needed. Herein, the precise design of four novel haptens based on the general skeleton of BSO and BSOA was driven by computer-chemical visualization strategy, which was used to raise monoclonal antibody (mAb) toward both target compounds. The generated mAb 1F1 recognized BSO and BSOA with maximal half-inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 0.26 and 16.85 ng/mL, respectively. The molecular mechanism governing the duplex-recognition of mAb was elucidated by homology modeling and molecular docking. Finally, an immunochromatography (ICA) was developed for identifying BSO and BSOA, demonstrating a detection capability for screening (CCß) estimated to be 10-500 ng/g in candy tablets, jellies, and oral liquids. This study provides a robust approach for determining adulteration in food and offers insights into hapten design to improve antibody recognition spectrum.
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Anticuerpos Monoclonales , Contaminación de Alimentos , Haptenos , Haptenos/química , Contaminación de Alimentos/análisis , Anticuerpos Monoclonales/química , Animales , Inmunoensayo/métodos , Ratones , Simulación del Acoplamiento Molecular , Ratones Endogámicos BALB CRESUMEN
A label-free optical sandwich immunoassay sensor, utilizing weak value amplification and total internal reflection, was devised for real-time, high-sensitivity analysis and detection of low-concentration targets. 3D printed channels and sodium chloride solution were employed to ensure reproducibility, reliability, and stability of the measurements for calibration. The sandwich structure demonstrated enhanced responsiveness in the proposed optical biosensor through a comparative analysis of the direct assay and sandwich assay for detecting alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) at the same concentration. By optimizing the binding sequences of the coating antibody, target, and detection antibody in the sandwich method, a more suitable sandwich sensing approach based on weak value amplification was achieved. With this approach, the limit of detection (LOD) of 6.29 ng/mL (pM level) for AFP in PBS solution was achieved. AFP testing and regeneration experiments in human serum have proved the feasibility of our methods in detecting complex samples and the reusability of sensing chips. Additionally, the method demonstrated excellent selectivity for unpaired antigens. The efficacy of this methodology was evaluated by simultaneously detecting AFP, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), and CA15-3 on a singular sensor chip. In conclusion, the label-free sandwich immunoassay sensing scheme holds promise for advancing the proposed optical sensors based on weak value amplification in early diagnosis and prevention applications. Compared to other biomarker detection methods, it will be easier to promote in practical applications.
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Técnicas Biosensibles , Antígeno Carcinoembrionario , Límite de Detección , alfa-Fetoproteínas , Técnicas Biosensibles/métodos , alfa-Fetoproteínas/análisis , Humanos , Antígeno Carcinoembrionario/sangre , Antígeno Carcinoembrionario/análisis , Inmunoensayo/métodos , Mucina-1/sangre , Mucina-1/análisis , Anticuerpos Inmovilizados/inmunología , Anticuerpos Inmovilizados/químicaRESUMEN
Chlorphenamine maleate is a prohibited additive found in herbal teas and health foods. Excessive intake of this substance can result in adverse health effects. In this study, two novel haptens, PEM and bepotastine (PB1), mimicking chlorphenamine maleate structure were designed and synthesized based on molecular simulation for developing two corresponding polyclonal antibodies (PEM-Ab and PB1-Ab), respectively. Afterward, an indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ic-ELISA) was developed to quickly and accurately detect chlorphenamine maleate in herbal teas using PB1-Ab, which has a high sensitivity and specificity. For chlorphenamine maleate, the half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) and limit of detection (LOD) of PB1-Ab under ideal circumstances were found to be 1.18 µg/L and 0.07 µg/L, respectively. Besides, an environmentally friendly sample pre-treatment strategy was employed that allowed easy and effective elimination of complex matrices. The ic-ELISA method observed the average recovery rate from 87.7% to 94.0% with the variance coefficient (CV) ranging from 2.2% to 9.4%. Additionally, the identification of 25 commercially available herbal teas using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) further confirmed the validity of our detection. The results of the two methods are consistent. Overall, the proposed ic-ELISA could be an ultrasensitive and reliable method for chlorphenamine maleate adulterated in foods or exposure to the environment.
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PURPOSE: In pathology images, different stains highlight different glomerular structures, so a supervised deep learning-based glomerular instance segmentation model trained on individual stains performs poorly on other stains. However, it is difficult to obtain a training set with multiple stains because the labeling of pathology images is very time-consuming and tedious. Therefore, in this paper, we proposed an unsupervised stain augmentation-based method for segmentation of glomerular instances. METHODS: In this study, we successfully realized the conversion between different staining methods such as PAS, MT and PASM by contrastive unpaired translation (CUT), thus improving the staining diversity of the training set. Moreover, we replaced the backbone of mask R-CNN with swin transformer to further improve the efficiency of feature extraction and thus achieve better performance in instance segmentation task. RESULTS: To validate the method presented in this paper, we constructed a dataset from 216 WSIs of the three stains in this study. After conducting in-depth experiments, we verified that the instance segmentation method based on stain augmentation outperforms existing methods across all metrics for PAS, PASM, and MT stains. Furthermore, ablation experiments are performed in this paper to further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed module. CONCLUSION: This study successfully demonstrated the potential of unsupervised stain augmentation to improve glomerular segmentation in pathology analysis. Future research could extend this approach to other complex segmentation tasks in the pathology image domain to further explore the potential of applying stain augmentation techniques in different domains of pathology image analysis.
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Epigenetic alterations promote cancer development by regulating the expression of various oncogenes and anti-oncogenes. Histone methylation modification represents a pivotal area in epigenetic research and numerous publications have demonstrated that aberrant histone methylation is highly correlated with tumorigenesis and development. As a key histone demethylase, lysine-specific demethylase 5B (KDM5B) demethylates lysine 4 of histone 3 (H3K4) and serves as a transcriptional repressor of certain tumor suppressor genes. Meanwhile, KDM5B inhibits STING-induced intrinsic immune response of tumor cells or recruits SETDB1 through non-enzymatic function to silence reverse transcription elements to promote immune escape. The conventional small molecule inhibitors can only inhibit the enzymatic function of KDM5B with no effect on the non-enzymatic function. In the article, we present the development of the first series of KDM5B degraders based on CPI-455 to inhibit the non-enzymatic function. Among them, GT-653 showed optimal KDM5B degradation efficiency in a ubiquitin proteasome-dependent manner. GT-653 efficiently reduced KDM5B protein levels without affecting KDM5B transcription. Interestingly, GT-653 increased H3K4me3 levels and activated the type-I interferon signaling pathway in 22RV1 cells without significant phenotypic response on cell proliferation.
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Antineoplásicos , Histona Demetilasas con Dominio de Jumonji , Neoplasias de la Próstata , Humanos , Masculino , Histona Demetilasas con Dominio de Jumonji/metabolismo , Histona Demetilasas con Dominio de Jumonji/antagonistas & inhibidores , Neoplasias de la Próstata/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias de la Próstata/patología , Neoplasias de la Próstata/metabolismo , Relación Estructura-Actividad , Antineoplásicos/farmacología , Antineoplásicos/química , Antineoplásicos/síntesis química , Regulación hacia Arriba/efectos de los fármacos , Proliferación Celular/efectos de los fármacos , Estructura Molecular , Descubrimiento de Drogas , Relación Dosis-Respuesta a Droga , Línea Celular Tumoral , Ensayos de Selección de Medicamentos Antitumorales , Proteolisis/efectos de los fármacos , Interferones/metabolismo , Proteínas Nucleares , Proteínas RepresorasRESUMEN
Bladder cancer (BC) poses high morbidity and mortality, with urinary exosomal microRNA (miR)-21 showing potential value in its diagnosis and prognosis, and we probed its specific role. We prospectively selected 116 BC patients and 116 healthy volunteers as the BC and control groups, respectively. BC urinary exosomal miR-146a-5p, miR-93-5p, miR-663b, miR-21, and miR-4454 relative expression levels were assessed. The correlations between clinical indexes and urinary exosomal miR-21, prognostic value of miR-21, and diagnostic value of the five candidate miRNAs, urine cytology, and miRNA joint diagnostic panel for BC and urinary exosomal miR-21, miR-4454, and urine cytology for Ta-T1 and T2-T4 stage BC were analyzed. Urinary exosomal miR-146a-5p, miR-93-5p, miR-663b, miR-21, and miR-4454 were highly expressed in BC patients. miR-146a-5p, miR-93-5p, miR-663b, miR-21, miR-4454, miRNA combined diagnostic panel, and urine cytology had certain diagnostic value for BC, with miR-21, miR-4454, and miRNA co-diagnostic panel showing the highest diagnostic value. Collectively, urinary exosomal miR-21 was closely related to Tumor-Node-Metastasis staging and grading in BC patients. Urinary exosomal miR-21 had high diagnostic value for BC and Ta-T1 and T2-T4 stage BC, and had high predictive value for BC poor prognosis, providing an effective indicator for the occurrence, development, and prognostic assessment of BC.
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Exosomas , MicroARNs , Neoplasias de la Vejiga Urinaria , Humanos , MicroARNs/orina , MicroARNs/genética , Neoplasias de la Vejiga Urinaria/diagnóstico , Neoplasias de la Vejiga Urinaria/orina , Neoplasias de la Vejiga Urinaria/genética , Neoplasias de la Vejiga Urinaria/patología , Femenino , Exosomas/genética , Exosomas/metabolismo , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Pronóstico , Anciano , Biomarcadores de Tumor/orina , Biomarcadores de Tumor/genética , Detección Precoz del Cáncer , Regulación Neoplásica de la Expresión Génica , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Estadificación de NeoplasiasRESUMEN
Introduction: Chimeric antigen receptor natural killer (CAR-NK) cells have been found to be successful in treating hematologic malignancies and present potential for usage in solid tumors. Methods: In this study, we created CD276-targeted CAR-expressing NK cells from pluripotent stem cells (iPSC CD276-targeted CAR-NK cells) and evaluated their cytotoxicity against esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) using patient-specific organoid (PSO) models comprising of both CD276-positive and CD276-negative adjacent epithelium PSO models (normal control PSO, NC PSO) as well as primary culture of ESCC cell models. In addition, in vitro and in vivo models such as KYSE-150 were also examined. iPSC NK cells and NK-free media were used as the CAR-free and NK-free controls, respectively. Results: The positive CD276 staining was specifically detected on the ESCC membrane in 51.43% (54/105) of the patients of all stages, and in 51.35% (38/74) of stages III and IV. The iPS CD276-targeted CAR-NK cells, comparing with the iPS NK cells and the NK-free medium, exhibited specific and significant cytotoxic activity against CD276-positive ESCC PSO rather than CD276-negative NC PSO, and exhibited significant cytotoxicity against CD276-expressing cultured ESCC cells, as well as against CD276-expressing KYSE-150 in vitro and in BNDG mouse xenograft. Discussion: The efficacy of the iPSC CD276-targeted CAR-NK cells demonstrated by their successful treatment of CD276-expressing ESCC in a multitude of pre-clinical models implied that they hold tremendous therapeutic potential for treating patients with CD276-expressing ESCC.
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Neoplasias Esofágicas , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas de Esófago , Células Madre Pluripotentes Inducidas , Receptores Quiméricos de Antígenos , Humanos , Animales , Ratones , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas de Esófago/terapia , Neoplasias Esofágicas/terapia , Neoplasias Esofágicas/metabolismo , Células Asesinas Naturales , Antígenos B7/metabolismoRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Glomerular lesions reflect the onset and progression of renal disease. Pathological diagnoses are widely regarded as the definitive method for recognizing these lesions, as the deviations in histopathological structures closely correlate with impairments in renal function. METHODS: Deep learning plays a crucial role in streamlining the laborious, challenging, and subjective task of recognizing glomerular lesions by pathologists. However, the current methods treat pathology images as data in regular Euclidean space, limiting their ability to efficiently represent the complex local features and global connections. In response to this challenge, this paper proposes a graph neural network (GNN) that utilizes global attention pooling (GAP) to more effectively extract high-level semantic features from glomerular images. The model incorporates Bayesian collaborative learning (BCL), enhancing node feature fine-tuning and fusion during training. In addition, this paper adds a soft classification head to mitigate the semantic ambiguity associated with a purely hard classification. RESULTS: This paper conducted extensive experiments on four glomerular datasets, comprising a total of 491 whole slide images (WSIs) and 9030 images. The results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves impressive F1 scores of 81.37%, 90.12%, 87.72%, and 98.68% on four private datasets for glomerular lesion recognition. These scores surpass the performance of the other models used for comparison. Furthermore, this paper employed a publicly available BReAst Carcinoma Subtyping (BRACS) dataset with an 85.61% F1 score to further prove the superiority of the proposed model. CONCLUSION: The proposed model not only facilitates precise recognition of glomerular lesions but also serves as a potent tool for diagnosing kidney diseases effectively. Furthermore, the framework and training methodology of the GNN can be adeptly applied to address various pathology image classification challenges.
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Prácticas Interdisciplinarias , Enfermedades Renales , Humanos , Teorema de Bayes , Enfermedades Renales/diagnóstico por imagen , Glomérulos Renales/diagnóstico por imagen , Redes Neurales de la ComputaciónRESUMEN
An ultra-sensitive phase plasmonic sensor combined with weak value amplification is proposed for the detection of IgG, as a model analyte. Phase detection is accomplished by self-interference between the p-polarization and the s-polarization of the light. With the principles of weak value amplification, a phase compensator is used to modulate the coupling strength and enhance the refractive index sensitivity of the system. On a simple Au-coated prism-coupled surface plasmon resonance (SPR) structure, the scheme, called WMSPR, achieves a refractive index sensitivity of 4.737 × 104 nm/RIU, which is about three times higher than that of the conventional phase-based approach. The proposed WMSPR biosensor gives great characteristics with a high resolution of 6.333 × 10-8 RIU and a low limit of detection (LOD) of 5.3 ng/mL. The results yield a great scope to promote the optimization of other SPR biosensors for high sensitivity.
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Screening for the hazardous adulterant phenolphthalein (PTH) in slimming foods is necessary. Herein, the linkage of the PTH target epitope with various spacer arms was proposed for hapten design, aiming to produce highly sensitive and specific antibodies targeting PTH. To understand the influence of spacer arms on epitope, comprehensive evaluations were conducted using computer-aided chemistry and animal immunization. The resulting antibody exhibited maximal half-inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 0.25 ng/mL. Then, a lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) was established with detection capability for screening (CCß) of less than 140, 240, and 25 ng/g for PTH in tea, instant coffee, and oral liquid, respectively. Furthermore, blind sample results agreed well with LFIA and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Therefore, this work not only provides a robust tool for detecting PTH adulteration but also suggests that the careful pairing of spacer arms with hapten epitope is a key factor in advancing rational hapten design.
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Fenolftaleína , Espectrometría de Masas en Tándem , Animales , Cromatografía Liquida , Epítopos , Espectrometría de Masas en Tándem/métodos , Inmunoensayo/métodos , Anticuerpos , Haptenos/químicaRESUMEN
Biocomplex materials formed by oppositely charged biopolymers (proteins) tend to be sensitive to environmental conditions and may lose part functional properties of original proteins, and one of the approaches to address these weaknesses is protein modification. This study established an electrostatic composite system using succinylated ovalbumin (SOVA) and ε-polylysine (ε-PL) and investigated the impact of varying degrees of succinylation and ε-PL addition on microstructure, environmental responsiveness and functional properties. Molecular docking illustrated that the most favorable binding conformation was that ε-PL binds to OVA groove, which was contributed by the multihydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interactions. Transmission electron microscopy observed that SOVA/ε-PL had a compact spherical structure with 100 nm. High-degree succinylation reduced complex sensitivity to heat, ionic strength, and pH changes. ε-PL improved the gel strength and antibacterial properties of SOVA. The study suggests possible uses of SOVA/ε-PL complex as multifunctional protein complex systems in the field of food additives.
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Antibacterianos , Polilisina , Polilisina/química , Ovalbúmina , Electricidad Estática , Simulación del Acoplamiento MolecularRESUMEN
Stimulant laxatives were recently found to be abused in slimming foods, resulting in harmful effects on consumers. To ensure the safety of relative products, sensitive yet multiplex immunoassays are crucial in rapid screening of stimulant laxatives. However, there are few immunoassays for these substances, and even less for broad-specific recognition. Thus, in this work, four theoretically promising haptens of emerging stimulant laxative bisacodyl were rationally designed using molecular modeling and synthesized to immune animals, whose feasibility was confirmed by the obtained broad-specific antibody. Based on this unique antibody, a highly sensitive multiplex competitive indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ciELISA) was established with low limits of detection for bisacodyl, sodium picosulfate, and BHPM (0.23, 13.68, and 0.11 ng/mL). In spiked sample recovery test and real sample detection, this ciELISA exhibited acceptable consistency with the validation method, demonstrating high accuracy and applicability of our method. This reliable multiplex ciELISA proceeds the rapid screening of stimulant laxatives in slimming foods.