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Ultrason Sonochem ; 101: 106674, 2023 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37924614

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Carbon dots (CDs) are a fascinating new type of fluorescent carbon nanomaterial with excellent photoelectric properties. However, preparing long-wavelength and multicolor-emitting CDs has been challenging, limiting their large-scale applications. Fortunately, a new efficient method has been proposed to co-regulate CDs' multicolor spectra using an ultrasonic microreactor. Inspired by plant leaves, a bionic vein microchannel was designed with good fluidity and high energy transfer efficiency. The optimal microchannel structural parameters were determined after investigating the effects of fractal angle, depth-to-width ratio, and inlet angle on the flow uniformity of the microchannel using numerical simulations. The efficiency of ultrasonic energy transfer was improved by directly coupling the microreactor and the sandwich transducer to fabricate the ultrasonic microreactor. Simulation results showed that the ultrasonic microreactor's vibration resonated along the longitudinal direction, and the ultrasonic intensity of the microreactor was maximal and uniform. A high-efficiency and controllable ultrasonic microreactor system was built to synthesize the CDs in situ. The influence of the ultrasound field intensity on CDs' preparation in a microreactor was simultaneously investigated to verify the ultrasound enhancement, and the PLQY of the high-performance CDs was found to be 83.1%. The CDs' multicolor spectra from the blue to the red region can be precisely tuned by adjusting key reaction parameters such as reaction temperature, flow rate, and precursor concentration. This new method shows promising applications in lighting, display, and other fields, making CDs a versatile and exciting new material to explore.

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J Cancer Res Clin Oncol ; 149(15): 14145-14157, 2023 Nov.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37552311

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PURPOSE: To investigate the prognostic factors of survival and develop a predictive nomogram model for elderly GBM patients. METHODS: Elderly patients (> = 65 years) with histologically diagnosed GBM were extracted from the SEER database. Survival analysis of overall survival (OS) was performed by Kaplan-Meier analysis. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were used to determine independent prognostic factors and these factors were used to further construct the nomogram model. RESULTS: A total of 9068 elderly GBM patients (5122 males and 3946 females) were included, with a median age of 72 years (65-96 years). All patients were divided randomly into the training group (n = 6044) and the validation group (n = 3024) by a ratio of 2:1. Cox regression analyses on OS showed eight independent prognostic factors (race, age, tumor side, tumor size, metastasis, surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy) in the training cohort. Also, seven variables (except for race) were identified on CSS in the training group. By comprising these variables, the nomogram models on OS and CSS for predicting the 6-month, 1-year, and 2-year survival probability were constructed and exhibited moderate consistency, respectively. Then, they could be validated well in the validation cohort and by C-index, time-dependent ROC curve, calibration plot, and DCA curve. CONCLUSIONS: Nomogram models on OS and CSS could provide an applicable tool to predict the survival probability and provide clinical references regarding treatment strategies and prognosis.

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Molecules ; 28(12)2023 Jun 09.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37375214

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Most injectable preparations for the articular cavity are solution-type preparations that are frequently administered because of rapid elimination. In this study, triptolide (TPL), an effective ingredient in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), was prepared in the form of a nanoparticle thermosensitive gel (TPL-NS-Gel). The particle size distribution and gel structure were investigated by TEM, laser particle size analysis and laser capture microdissection. The effect of the nanoparticle carrier material PLGA on the phase transition temperature was investigated by 1H variable temperature NMR and DSC. The tissue distribution, pharmacokinetic behavior, four inflammatory factors and therapeutic effect were determined in a rat RA model. The results suggested that PLGA increased the gel phase transition temperature. The drug concentration of the TPL-NS-Gel group in joint tissues was higher than that in other tissues at different time points, and the retention time was longer than that of the TPL-NS group. After 24 days of administration, TPL-NS-Gel significantly improved the joint swelling and stiffness of the rat models, and the improvement degree was better than that of the TPL-NS group. TPL-NS-Gel significantly decreased the levels of hs-CRP, IL-1, IL-6 and TNF-α in serum and joint fluid. There was a significant difference between the TPL-NS-Gel and TPL-NS groups on Day 24 (p < 0.05). Pathological section results showed that inflammatory cell infiltration was lower in the TPL-NS-Gel group, and no other obvious histological changes were observed. Upon articular injection, the TPL-NS-Gel prolonged drug release, reduced the drug concentration outside the articular tissue and improved the therapeutic effect in a rat RA model. The TPL-NS-Gel can be used as a new type of sustained-release preparation for articular injection.


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Artritis Reumatoide , Nanopartículas , Ratas , Animales , Articulaciones/patología , Inyecciones Intraarticulares , Artritis Reumatoide/tratamiento farmacológico
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Sci Total Environ ; 882: 163596, 2023 Jul 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37084916

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Hydroxyl radical (OH) is considered the dominant reactive species in the electro-Fenton (EF) and Fered-Fenton (EF-Fere) processes for wastewater treatment. However, in chloride-rich media, this is arguable due to the obscure mechanisms for the oxidant speciation and pollutant degradation. Herein, the role of active chlorine and Fe(IV)-oxo species (FeIVO2+) as primary oxidizing agents in HClO-mediated Fered-Fenton (EF-Fere-HClO) process is discussed, along with the dependence of their contribution on the pollutant structure. HClO generated from anodic oxidation of Cl- can be consumed by added H2O2 to form singlet oxygen (1O2), which is detrimental because this species is quickly deactivated by water. The reaction between HClO and Fe2+ was proved to generate FeIVO2+, rather than OH or Cl suggested in the literature. The yield of FeIVO2+ species was proportional to the Cl- concentration and barely affected by solution pH. The long-lived HClO and FeIVO2+ can selectively react with electron-rich compounds, which occurs simultaneously to the non-selective attack of OH formed from Fenton's reaction. The FeIVO2+ and OH concentration profiles were successfully modelled. Although the accumulation of toxic chlorinated by-products from HClO-mediated oxidation might cause new environmental concerns, the toxicity of pesticide wastewater with 508 mM Cl- was halved upon EF-Fere-HClO treatment.

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Nanomaterials (Basel) ; 13(2)2023 Jan 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36678108

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Inorganic lead halide perovskite is one of the most excellent fluorescent materials, and it plays an essential role in high-definition display and visible light communication (VLC). Its photochromic properties and stability determine the final performance of light-emitting devices. However, efficiently synthesizing perovskite with high quality and stability remains a significant challenge. Here, we develop a facile and environmentally friendly method for preparing high-stability and strong-emission CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6 composites using ultrasonication and liquid paraffin. Tuning the contents of liquid paraffin, bright-emission CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6 composite powders with a maximum PLQY of 74% were achieved. Thanks to the protection of the Cs4PbBr6 matrix and liquid paraffin, the photostability, thermostability, and polar solvent stability of CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6-LP are significantly improved compared to CsPbBr3 quantum dots and CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6 composites that were prepared without liquid paraffin. Moreover, the fabricated CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6-LP-based WLEDs show excellent luminescent performance with a power efficiency of 129.5 lm/W and a wide color gamut, with 121% of the NTSC and 94% of the Rec. 2020, demonstrating a promising candidate for displays. In addition, the CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6-LP-based WLEDs were also demonstrated in a VLC system. The results suggested the great potential of these high-performance WLEDs as an excitation light source to achieve VLC.

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Sci Total Environ ; 857(Pt 1): 159363, 2023 Jan 20.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36240914

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Canopy conductance (gc) is an important biophysical parameter closely related to ecosystem energy partitioning and carbon sequestration, which can be used to judge drought effect on forest ecosystems. It is very important to explore how soil moisture change affects the environmental control mechanism of gc, especially in natural oak forests in Central China where frequent extreme precipitation (P) and drought will occur in a context of climate change. In this study, variations of gc and its environmental control mechanisms in a warm-temperate forest over three consecutive years under different hydroclimatic conditions were examined by using eddy-covariance technique. Results showed that the averaged gc in the three growing seasons were 11.2, 11.3 and 7.8 mms-1, respectively, with a CV of 19.7 %. The lowest gc occurred in the year with the lowest P. Using three years of data, we found that vapor pressure deficit (VPD) exhibited the dominate effect on gc, both diffuse photosynthetically active radiation (PARdif) and air temperature (Ta) were positively correlated with gc. When relative extractable water content (REW) was larger than 0.4, however, inhibiting effect of high VPD on gc disappeared and the effect of direct photosynthetically active radiation (PARdir) on gc was larger compared to PARdif. When REW was <0.1, the positive relationship between Ta and gc became negative. Our results indicated that soil moisture ultimately shapes the environmental control mechanism of gc in a natural oak forest.


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Ecosistema , Quercus , Suelo , Bosques , Cambio Climático , Estaciones del Año , Agua
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Cancer Med ; 12(5): 6379-6387, 2023 03.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36305248

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BACKGROUND: The current molecular classifications cannot completely explain the polarized malignant biological behavior of low-grade gliomas (LGGs), especially for tumor recurrence. Therefore, we tried to identify suspicious hub genes related to tumor recurrence in LGGs. METHODS: In this study, we constructed a gene-miRNA-lncRNA co-expression network for LGGs by a weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA). GDCRNATools and the WGCNA R package were mainly used in data analysis. RESULTS: Sequencing data from 502 LGG patients were analyzed in this study. Compared with recurrent glioma tissues, we identified 774 differentially expressed (DE) mRNAs, 49 DE miRNAs, and 129 DE lncRNAs in primary LGGs and ultimately determined that the expression of MKLN1 was related to tumor recurrence in LGG. CONCLUSION: This study identified the potential biomarkers for the pathogenesis and recurrence of LGGs and proposed that MKLN1 could be a potential therapeutic target.


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Neoplasias Encefálicas , Glioma , MicroARNs , Humanos , Neoplasias Encefálicas/patología , Recurrencia Local de Neoplasia/genética , Glioma/patología , MicroARNs/genética , Redes Reguladoras de Genes
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Br J Neurosurg ; 37(6): 1797-1800, 2023 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33983105

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Sacral dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) with bilateral arterial supplies are extremely rare. To date, only two cases with arterial supply from bilateral lateral sacral arteries (LSAs) were reported. We report a rare case of sacral DAVF with arterial supply from bilateral LSAs. A 56-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of progressive weakness and numbness in his lower extremities, along with urinary incontinence. Spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed extensive edema of the spinal cord, vascular flow voids, and intraparenchymal enhancement. Spinal angiography revealed a spinal DAVF at the level of S1 supplied by bilateral LSAs and drained ascending into the perimedullary venous plexus. The fistula was successfully treated with endovascular embolization. Sacral DAVFs present various diagnostic and treatment difficulties because of the complex angioarchitecture. Successful management of these lesions requires a profound understanding of the variable patterns of arterial supply in this region.


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Malformaciones Vasculares del Sistema Nervioso Central , Médula Espinal , Masculino , Humanos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Médula Espinal/diagnóstico por imagen , Médula Espinal/cirugía , Angiografía , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Arterias , Malformaciones Vasculares del Sistema Nervioso Central/diagnóstico por imagen , Malformaciones Vasculares del Sistema Nervioso Central/cirugía
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Eur J Med Res ; 27(1): 300, 2022 Dec 20.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36539899

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BACKGROUND: According to reports, between 30 and 40 percent of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) cases are caused by urinary tract tuberculosis (UTB). It is critical to identify UTB quickly since it frequently precedes delayed medical attention, which can have detrimental effects. This study examined the use of Xpert MTB/RIF, a PCR test that can detect MTB as well as resistance to an important drug, rifampicin (RIF), in UTB particularly, for the early identification of UTB. METHODS: 180 participants with clinically presumptive UTB whose urine samples were chosen for urine sediment smear, culture, Xpert MTB/RIF, and TB-DNA testing at Henan Chest Hospital between January 2019 and July 2022. Evaluation of test performance using Composite Reference Standards (CRSs). We studied and compared the positivity rate for various tests using the t-test. The effectiveness of smear, culture, Xpert MTB/RIF, and TB-DNA was assessed using McNemar test. RESULTS: In this subject, a total of 108 participants were diagnosed with UTB, and the positivity rate was 67.1%. Compared with CRS, the positivity rate of Xpert MTB/RIF, smear, culture, and TB-DNA was 29.69% (19/64, P < 0.001), 7.56% (9/119, P < 0.1), 12.12% (4/33, P > 0.05), and 18.75% (6/32, P < 0.1), respectively. The sensitivity of Xpert MTB/RIF assay was significantly better than that of smear and culture tests (78.9% vs. 77.8%, P < 0.05; 78.9% vs. 75%, P < 0.05). Under CRS, the positivity rate for Xpert, culture, and TB-DNA was 31.6% (6/19, P < 0.1), 6.2% (1/16, P > 0.05), and 26.7% (4/15, P > 0.05) for TB-DNA, respectively, compared to smear negative. Xpert MTB/RIF assay specificity was significant for culture and TB-DNA (53.6% vs. 25%, P < 0.01; 53.6% vs. 38.9%, P < 0.05), and Xpert MTB/RIF assay FPV was significant for culture and TB-DNA (53.6% vs. 0%, P < 0.001; 53.6% vs. 0%, P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Xpert MTB/RIF outperforms smear, cultures, and TB-DNA in detecting UTB, plus Xpert MTB/RIF is better suited for early diagnosis in smear-negative UTB.


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Mycobacterium tuberculosis , Tuberculosis Pulmonar , Humanos , Rifampin/farmacología , Tuberculosis Pulmonar/diagnóstico , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genética , Farmacorresistencia Bacteriana/genética , Sensibilidad y Especificidad , Diagnóstico Precoz , Esputo
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Opt Express ; 30(25): 45376-45392, 2022 Dec 05.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36522944

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Benefit from their near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield (PL QY), narrow emission band, and widely tunable bandgap, metal halide perovskites have shown promising in light-emitting applications. Despite such promise, how to facile, environmentally-friendly, and large-scale prepare solid metal halide perovskite with high emission and stability remains a challenging. Herein, we demonstrate a convenient and environmentally-friendly method for the mass synthesis of solid CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6 composites using high-power ultrasonication. Adjusting key experimental parameters, bright emitting CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6 solids with a maximum PL QY of 71% were obtained within 30 min. XRD, SEM, TEM, Abs/PL, XPS, and lifetime characterizations provide solid evidence for forming CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6 composites. Taking advantage of these composites, the photostability, thermostability, and polar solvent stability of CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6 are much improved compared to CsPbBr3. We further demonstrated CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6 use in flexible/stretchable film and high-power WLEDs. After being subjected to bending, folding, and twisting, the film retains its bright emission and exhibits good resistance to mechanical deformation. Additionally, our WLEDs display a superior, durable high-power-driving capability, operating currents up to 300 mA and maintaining high luminous intensity for 50 hours. Such highly emissive and stable metal halide perovskites make them promising for solid-state lighting, lasing, and flexible/stretchable display device applications.

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J Glob Antimicrob Resist ; 31: 328-336, 2022 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36210030

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OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the prevalence and significant clinical outcomes of pre-extensively drug-resistant plus additional drug-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR-plus) in Henan Provincial Chest Hospital between 2017 and 2021. METHODS: We analysed and summarized the drug sensitivity test (DST) results of clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) strains in TB patients seeking care in the Tuberculosis Clinical Medical Research Centre of Henan Province between 2017 and 2021. Medical records of pre-extensively drug-resistant plus additional drug-resistant TB patients were statistically analysed, including demographic characteristics, regimens, and outcomes. RESULTS: Of the 3689 Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, 639 (17.32%), 353 (9.56%), and 109 (2.95%), multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR), and pre-XDR-plus, respectively. The proportion of MDR decreased from 19.1% in 2017 to 17.5% in 2021 (χ2 = 0.686, P = 0.407), the proportion of pre-XDR from 11.4% in 2017 to 9.0% in 2021 (χ2 = 2.39, P = 0.122), and pre-XDR-plus from 4.7% in 2017 to 1.8% in 2020, with the declining trend was significant (χ2 = 9.348, P = 0.002). The most commonly used anti-TB drugs were pyrazinamide (PZA, 37/46, 80.43%) and cycloserine (CS, 32/46, 69.57%), followed by linezolid (LZD, 25/46, 54.35%), protionamide (TH, 25/46, 54.35%), and para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS, 23/46, 50.00%). Patients receiving the LZD regimen were 5 times more likely to have a favourable outcome than those not receiving LZD (OR = 6.421, 95% CI 2.101-19.625, P = 0.001). Patients receiving a regimen containing CS were 4 times more likely to have a favourable outcome compared to those not taking CS (OR = 5.444, 95% CI 1.650-17.926, P = 0.005). CONCLUSIONS: Our data suggest that the population of pre-XDR-plus had significantly decreased over the past five years in the Henan Provincial Chest Hospital. The COVID-19 and flood disaster affect TB patients' selection of medical services. In addition, the pre-XDR-plus patients whose regimens contain LZD or CS were more likely to have favourable outcomes.


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Ácido Aminosalicílico , COVID-19 , Medicina Clínica , Tuberculosis Extensivamente Resistente a Drogas , Mycobacterium tuberculosis , Tuberculosis Resistente a Múltiples Medicamentos , Humanos , Tuberculosis Extensivamente Resistente a Drogas/tratamiento farmacológico , Tuberculosis Extensivamente Resistente a Drogas/epidemiología , Tuberculosis Extensivamente Resistente a Drogas/microbiología , Antituberculosos/farmacología , Antituberculosos/uso terapéutico , Prevalencia , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Tuberculosis Resistente a Múltiples Medicamentos/tratamiento farmacológico , Tuberculosis Resistente a Múltiples Medicamentos/epidemiología , Tuberculosis Resistente a Múltiples Medicamentos/microbiología , Resultado del Tratamiento
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World Neurosurg ; 168: 1-3, 2022 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36210632

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Spinal cauda equina arteriovenous fistulas (CEAVFs) and spinal hemorrhage from spinal AVF are relatively unusual. To our knowledge, such a case of CEAVF presenting with hemorrhage has not been reported. Here, we describe such a rare case of CEAVF. Spinal magnetic resonance imaging and angiography revealed a CEAVF at the L2 level, fed by the proximal radicular artery and with 2 associated venous varices. Considering the feeder from the proximal radicular artery and the presence of acute hemorrhage, direct surgery was performed. Intraoperatively, spinal hematoma and the fistula were identified at the L2 level. The fistula was clipped and divided successfully. The postoperative course was uneventful. CEAVF presenting with spinal hemorrhage is extremely rare. This case demonstrated the angioarchitecture features of CEAVF. The clinicians should be aware of the possibility of this condition and the importance of treatment selection.


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Fístula Arteriovenosa , Cauda Equina , Humanos , Cauda Equina/diagnóstico por imagen , Cauda Equina/cirugía , Cauda Equina/irrigación sanguínea , Fístula Arteriovenosa/complicaciones , Fístula Arteriovenosa/diagnóstico por imagen , Fístula Arteriovenosa/cirugía , Columna Vertebral/patología , Arterias/patología , Hemorragia/diagnóstico por imagen , Hemorragia/etiología , Hemorragia/cirugía , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética
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Nanomaterials (Basel) ; 12(18)2022 Sep 09.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36144918

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Carbon dots (CDs) are attracting much interest due to their excellent photoelectric properties and wide range of potential applications. However, it is still a challenge to regulate their bandgap emissions to achieve full-color CDs with high emissions. Herein, we propose an approach for producing full-color emissive CDs by employing a solvent engineering strategy. By only tuning the volume ratio of water and dimethylformamide (H2O/DMF), the photoluminescence (PL) emission wavelengths of the CDs can be changed from 451 to 654 nm. Different fluorescence features of multicolor CDs were systematically investigated. XRD, SEM, TEM, Abs/PL/PLE, XPS, and PL decay lifetime characterizations provided conclusive evidence supporting the extent to which the solvent controlled the dehydration and carbonization processes of the precursors, leading to a variation in their emission color from red to blue. The as-prepared CDs exhibited excellent and stable fluorescence performance even after being heated at 80 °C for 48 h and with UV light continuously irradiated for 15 h. Based on their excellent fluorescent properties and photothermal stability, bright multicolor light-emitting diodes with a high CRI of up to 91 were obtained. We anticipate that these full-color emissive CDs are beneficial for applications in lighting, display, and other fields.

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Oncogene ; 41(39): 4407-4419, 2022 09.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36008465

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m6A modification, the most abundant and widespread RNA modification, is present and involved in the occurrence and development of various cancers. To date, most studies have mainly focused on the roles of a single m6A regulator (writer/eraser/reader) in various cancers, but cumulative evidence shows that aberrant m6A regulators and m6A levels exert dual effects (promoting and/or inhibiting roles) in cancer progression. Recently, studies have investigated the direct interactions between different m6A regulators (writer/eraser and reader) and mRNAs in a variety of cancers. In this review, we summarize the functions of m6A regulators and their roles in various types of cancers. We further propose the possible crosstalk mechanisms (Writer-m6A-Reader-mRNA axis and Eraser-m6A-Reader-mRNA axis) between different m6A regulators and mRNAs during cancer progression. We also discuss the clinical potential of m6A regulator­targeting strategies.


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Adenosina , Neoplasias , Adenosina/genética , Humanos , Neoplasias/genética , ARN Mensajero/genética
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Sichuan Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban ; 53(4): 588-596, 2022 Jul.
Artículo en Chino | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35871728

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Objective: To explore the prognostic factors of adult ventricle glioma (AVG) and to construct and evaluate a survival-related prognostic nomogram model, which could provide further reference for the clinical management of AVG patients. Methods: The patients covered in the study were selected from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database (1973-2016). They all had definite histological diagnosis of AVG. They were assigned randomly to the training cohort and the validation cohort by random number table at a 2/1 ratio. Survival analysis was performed by Kaplan-Meier analysis. Cox regression analysis was employed to determine the independent prognostic factors for overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS). Then, integrating the basic characteristics of patients, the survival-related nomogram predictive model for OS and CSS in the training cohort was constructed, respectively. After that, internal cross validation and external validation of the model were carried out with the training cohort and the validation cohort in succession. The authenticity and reliability of the nomogram model were evaluated by calculating the concordance index (C-index). Calibration plots were constructed to assess the agreement between the predicted values and the observed values in the training cohort and the validation cohort. Results: A total of 369 AVG patients, including 218 males and 151 females, were included. The median age of the patients was 53. According to the WHO classification of gliomas, 66 (17.9%) patients had grade Ⅱ gliomas, 73 (19.8%) had grade Ⅲ gliomas, and 230 (62.3%) had grade Ⅳ gliomas. Regarding the extent of resection (EOR), 59 (16.0%) had gross total resection (GTR) and 145 (39.3%) had subtotal resection (STR) or partial resection (PR). Of all the patients, 167 (45.3%) received postoperative radiotherapy and 143 (38.8%) received postoperative chemotherapy. Patients were randomized into the training cohort ( n=246) and the validation cohort ( n=123), and there was no significant difference ( P>0.05) in the basic clinical characteristics between the training cohort and the validation cohort. In the training cohort, Cox regression analysis revealed that the independent prognostic factors for OS and CSS included age≥65, grades Ⅲ and Ⅳ according to the WHO classification of gliomas, and not receiving radiotherapy. Furthermore, 5 variables, including age, gender, WHO grades, surgery, and radiotherapy, were used to construct the nomogram model for predicting 6-month, 1-year, and 2-year OS and CSS. The results of internal cross validation in the training cohort showed that the C-indexes of OS and CSS were 0.758 and 0.765, respectively. The external validation results of the validation cohort showed that the C-indexes of OS and CSS were 0.733 and 0.719, respectively. Calibration plots for 6-month, 1-year, and 2-year OS in the training cohort showed relatively good agreement, while in the validation cohort the agreement was relatively low. The 6-month, 1-year, and 2-year CSS calibration plots had results similar to the calibration plots of OS. Conclusion: This nomogram predictive model of OS and CSS showed moderately reliable predictive performance, providing helpful reference information for clinicians to make quick and simple assessment of the survival probability of AVG patients.


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Glioma , Nomogramas , Adulto , Anciano , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Pronóstico , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Programa de VERF
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PLoS One ; 17(5): e0265564, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35617331

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The existing anomaly detection methods can be divided into two popular models based on reconstruction or future frame prediction. Due to the strong learning capacity, reconstruction approach can hardly generate significant reconstruction errors for anomalies, whereas future frame prediction approach is sensitive to noise in complicated scenarios. Therefore, a solution has been proposed by balancing the merits and demerits of the two models. However, most methods relied on single-scale information to capture spatial features and lacked temporal continuity between the video frames, affecting anomaly detection accuracy. Thus, we propose a novel method to improve anomaly detection performance. Because of the objects of various scales in each video, we select different receptive fields to extract comprehensive spatial features by the hybrid dilated convolution (HDC) module. Meanwhile, the deeper bidirectional convolutional long short-term memory (DB-ConvLSTM) module can remember the temporal information between the consecutive frames. Experiments prove that our method can detect abnormalities in various video scenes more accurately than the state-of-the-art methods in the anomaly-detection task.


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Memoria a Largo Plazo
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Langmuir ; 38(8): 2601-2607, 2022 Mar 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35179906

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This article investigates the maximum spreading of ferrofluid droplets impacting on a hydrophobic surface under nonuniform magnetic fields. A generalized model for scaling the maximum spreading is developed. It is observed that, if the magnetic field strength is zero, a ferrofluid droplet not only demonstrates similar spreading dynamics as the water droplet but also obeys the same scaling law for the maximum spreading factor. Therefore, this article emphasizes the effects of magnetic field strength. In this regard, a dimensionless parameter (Nm) is introduced as the ratio between inertial force and Kelvin force, with an assumption that the kinetic energy mainly transforms to thermal energy. This parameter allows us to rescale all experimental data on a single curve with the Padé approximant, which is applicable to a wide range of impact velocities and magnetic field strengths.

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Front Genet ; 13: 1051766, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36588790

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The association between polymorphisms in lncRNA H19 and cancer susceptibility remains to be inconsistent. This study aimed to provide a more precise estimation of the relationship between lncRNA H19 polymorphisms and the risk of cancer based on all available published studies. 53 studies encompassing 32,376 cases and 43,659 controls were included in our meta-analysis by searching the Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, WanFang, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases. Pooled ORs and their 95% CIs were used to estimate the strength between the SNPs in H19 (rs217727, rs2839698, rs2107425, rs3024270, rs2735971, rs3741216, and rs3741219) and cancer susceptibility. The results showed that H19 rs2839698 polymorphism was associated with increased cancer risk in all participants under three genetic models. However, no significant association was identified between the other six SNPs as well as an overall cancer risk. Stratification by ethnicity showed that rs2839698 mutation indicated to be an important hazardous factor for the Asian population. While rs2107425 mutation had a protective effect on the Caucasian population. Stratification by cancer type identified that rs217727 mutation was linked to increased susceptibility to oral squamous cell carcinoma, lung cancer, and hepatocellular carcinoma; whereas rs2839698 mutation was associated with an elevated risk of hematological tumor and digestive system tumor (p < 0.05). Besides, the rs2735971 mutation was connected with the digestive system tumor. In summary, the rs217727, rs2839698, rs2107425 and rs2735971 polymorphisms in H19 have associations with cancer susceptibility.

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