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PLoS One ; 19(5): e0299928, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38771810

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Mycoplasmal pneumonia in sheep and goats usually result covert but huge economic losses in the sheep and goat industry. The disease is prevalent in various countries in Africa and Asia. Clinical manifestations in affected animals include anorexia, fever, and respiratory symptoms such as dyspnea, polypnea, cough, and nasal discharge. Due to similarities with other respiratory infections, accurate diagnosis can be challenging, and isolating the causative organism is often problematic. However, the utilization of molecular techniques, such as PCR, allows for rapid and specific identification of pathogens. Thus, a goat infection model with Mycoplasma was established and the pathogen was tested using PCR. The results indicated that this approach could be effectively utilized for the rapid detection of mycoplasma in clinical settings. Additionally, the prevalence of contagious pleuropneumonia of sheep in Qinghai Province was further investigated through PCR analysis. A total of 340 nasal swabs were collected from 17 sheep farms in Qinghai province. Among these samples, 84 tested positive for Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri (Mmc) and 148 tested positive for Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae (Movi), resulting in positive rates of 24.71% and 43.53% respectively. Furthermore, our investigation revealed positive PCR results for nasal swabs, trachea, and lung samples obtained from sheep exhibiting symptoms suggestive of mycoplasma infection. Moreover, three distinct strains were isolated from these positive samples. Additionally, the inflammatory cytokines of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were assessed using RT-PCR. The findings demonstrated a high susceptibility of sheep to Movi in Qinghai province, with infected sheep displaying an inflammatory response. Consequently, the outcomes of this study will furnish valuable epidemiological insights for the effective prevention and control of this disease within Qinghai Province.


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Pneumonia por Mycoplasma , Doenças dos Ovinos , Animais , Ovinos , Pneumonia por Mycoplasma/epidemiologia , Pneumonia por Mycoplasma/veterinária , Pneumonia por Mycoplasma/microbiologia , Pneumonia por Mycoplasma/diagnóstico , Doenças dos Ovinos/epidemiologia , Doenças dos Ovinos/microbiologia , Doenças dos Ovinos/diagnóstico , China/epidemiologia , Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae/isolamento & purificação , Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae/genética , Cabras , Prevalência , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase
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Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38768607

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The coupling and interplay between magnon and phonon are important topics for spintronics and magnonics. In this work we studied the nonlinear magnon-phonon coupling in CoF2. First-principles calculations demonstrate that the antiferromagnetic resonance magnon drives a phonon with B1g character; the oscillating driving force has a frequency twice of that of the magnon. Comparing with similar materials indicates a strong correlation between the strength of nonlinear magnon-phonon coupling and the orbital magnetic moment of the magnetic ion. This work pave the way for theoretical study of nonlinear magnon-phonon coupling. .

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Appl Microbiol Biotechnol ; 108(1): 327, 2024 May 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38717623

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Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are a subset of T cells participating in a variety of diseases including mycoplasmal pneumonia, contagious ecthyma, and so on. The role of Tregs in goat contagious ecthyma is not completely understood due to the lack of species-specific antibodies. Here, we developed a combination of CD4 and CD25 fluorescence monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to recognize goat Tregs and assessed its utility in flow cytometry, immunofluorescence staining. Using immunofluorescence staining, we found that the frequency of Treg cells was positively correlated with the viral load during orf virus infection. These antibodies could serve as important tools to monitor Tregs during orf virus infection in goats. KEY POINTS: • A combination of fluorescent mAbs (C11 and D12) was prepared for the detection of goat Tregs. • C11 and D12 are effective in flow cytometry, immunofluorescence staining, and C11 has excellent species specificity. • The frequency of Treg cells was positively correlated with the viral load during orf virus infection.


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Anticorpos Monoclonais , Citometria de Fluxo , Cabras , Linfócitos T Reguladores , Carga Viral , Animais , Linfócitos T Reguladores/imunologia , Anticorpos Monoclonais/imunologia , Ectima Contagioso/diagnóstico , Ectima Contagioso/imunologia , Subunidade alfa de Receptor de Interleucina-2/imunologia , Vírus do Orf/imunologia , Imunofluorescência/métodos , Antígenos CD4/imunologia , Doenças das Cabras/imunologia , Doenças das Cabras/virologia , Doenças das Cabras/diagnóstico
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NPJ Digit Med ; 7(1): 110, 2024 May 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38698139

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Deep learning approaches for clinical predictions based on magnetic resonance imaging data have shown great promise as a translational technology for diagnosis and prognosis in neurological disorders, but its clinical impact has been limited. This is partially attributed to the opaqueness of deep learning models, causing insufficient understanding of what underlies their decisions. To overcome this, we trained convolutional neural networks on structural brain scans to differentiate dementia patients from healthy controls, and applied layerwise relevance propagation to procure individual-level explanations of the model predictions. Through extensive validations we demonstrate that deviations recognized by the model corroborate existing knowledge of structural brain aberrations in dementia. By employing the explainable dementia classifier in a longitudinal dataset of patients with mild cognitive impairment, we show that the spatially rich explanations complement the model prediction when forecasting transition to dementia and help characterize the biological manifestation of disease in the individual brain. Overall, our work exemplifies the clinical potential of explainable artificial intelligence in precision medicine.

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Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38743927

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Chlorine substitution, as an effective and low-cost modification strategy, has been applied in the design of donor and acceptor structures in organic solar cells. We synthesized a series of chlorinated dimerized acceptors to investigate the effect of chlorine numbers and locations on the photovoltaic properties. The results show that the planarity and morphology of DYV-γ-2Cl are greatly improved due to the appropriate numbers and positions of the substituted chlorine atoms. Therefore, the device based on PM6:DYV-γ-2Cl achieves a superior power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.54% among the three oligomeric acceptors with optimized molecular planarity and film morphology. This work demonstrated the positive effect of suitable numbers and the substitution positions of chlorines on the molecular arrangement and photovoltaic properties of the corresponding dimerized acceptors.

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Anal Chem ; 2024 May 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38748451

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Unraveling bacterial identity through Raman scattering techniques has been persistently challenging due to homogeneously amplified Raman signals across a wide variety of bacterial molecules, predominantly protein- or nucleic acid-mediated. In this study, we present an approach involving the use of silver nanoparticles to completely and uniformly "mask" adsorption on the surface of bacterial molecules through sodium borohydride and sodium chloride. This approach enables the acquisition of enhanced surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) signals from all components on the bacterial surface, facilitating rapid, specific, and label-free bacterial identification. For the first time, we have characterized the identity of a bacterium, including its DNA, metabolites, and cell walls, enabling the accurate differentiation of various bacterial strains, even within the same species. In addition, we embarked on an exploration of the origin and variability patterns of the main characteristic peaks of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Significantly, the SERS peak ratio was found to determine the inflection point of accelerated bacterial death upon treatment with antimicrobials. We further applied this platform to identify 15 unique clinical antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, including five Escherichia coli strains in human urine, a first for Raman technology. This work has profound implications for prompt and accurate identification of bacteria, particularly antibiotic-resistant strains, thereby significantly enhancing clinical diagnostics and antimicrobial treatment strategies.

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J Virus Erad ; 10(1): 100365, 2024 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38590730

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This study is a single-arm, single-center phase IV clinical trial on a rabies vaccine that has been marketed in China. The Vero cells and CTN-1V strain are used in the rabies vaccine product. The purpose of this study was to investigate the safety, immunogenicity and immune persistence of this product. One hundred and forty-nine participants were enrolled to the study, all of whom were included in the safety analysis set (SS), among which 116 participants were included in the protocol analysis set (PPS), One hundred and fifteen participants were included in the 6-month immune persistence analysis set (IPS6) and 111 in the 12-month immune persistence analysis set IPS12. Results showed that: 1) In the SS analysis set, adverse reactions were mainly pyrexia and pain at the vaccination site, the severity of which were mostly grade 1, and concentrated in 0-3 days after vaccination. No grade 3 or above adverse events and serious adverse events (SAE) related to the experimental vaccine were observed. 2) In the PPS analysis set, the antibody positive conversion rate reached 100% at 14 days after full immunization of the pre-immunized negative population; The antibody geometric mean titer (GMT) (95% CI) was 14.82 (13.00, 16.90). 3) The positive rate of serum neutralizing antibody was 93.91 % and the GMT at 1.58 IU/ml at 6 months after full immunization. The positive rate of neutralizing antibody was 85.59 % and GMT at 1.30 IU/ml at 12 months after immunization. Our results show that the human rabies vaccine with the CTN-1V strain and Vero cells as matrix had good safety, immunogenicity and immune persistence in our study.

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Biochem Genet ; 2024 Apr 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38635013

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The family Sisoridae is one of the largest and most diverse Asiatic catfish families, with most species occurring in the water systems of the Qinhai-Tibetan Plateau and East Himalayas. At present, the phylogenetic relationship of the Sisoridae is relatively chaotic. In this study, the mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of three species Creteuchiloglanis kamengensis, Glaridoglanis andersonii, and Exostoma sp. were systematically investigated, the phylogenetic relationships of the family were reconstructed and to determine the phylogenetic position of Exostoma sp. within Sisoridae. The lengths of the mitogenomes' sequences of C. kamengensis, G. andersonii, and Exostoma sp. were 16,589 bp, 16,531 bp, and 16,529 bp, respectively. They all contained one identical control region (D-loop), two ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs) and 22 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes. We applied two approaches, Bayesian Inference (BI) and Maximum Likelihood (ML), to construct phylogenetic trees. Our findings revealed that the topological structure of both ML and BI trees exhibited significant congruence. Specifically, the phylogenetic tree strongly supports the monophyly of Sisorinae and Glyptosternoids and provides new molecular biological data to support the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships with Sisoridae. This study is of great scientific value for phylogenetic and genetic variation studies of the Sisoridae.

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GM Crops Food ; 15(1): 118-129, 2024 Dec 31.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38564429

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Soybean is one of the important oil crops and a major source of protein and lipids. Drought can cause severe soybean yields. Dehydrin protein (DHN) is a subfamily of LEA proteins that play an important role in plant responses to abiotic stresses. In this study, the soybean GmDHN9 gene was cloned and induced under a variety of abiotic stresses. Results showed that the GmDHN9 gene response was more pronounced under drought induction. Subcellular localization results indicated that the protein was localized in the cytoplasm. The role of transgenic Arabidopsis plants in drought stress response was further studied. Under drought stress, the germination rate, root length, chlorophyll, proline, relative water content, and antioxidant enzyme content of transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana transgenic genes were higher than those of wild-type plants, and transgenic plants contained less O2-, H2O2 and MDA contents. In short, the GmDHN9 gene can regulate the homeostasis of ROS and enhance the drought resistance of plants.


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Arabidopsis , Arabidopsis/genética , Resistência à Seca , Glycine max/genética , Proteínas de Plantas/genética , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , Peróxido de Hidrogênio/metabolismo , Estresse Fisiológico/genética , Secas , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas/metabolismo , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas
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Elife ; 122024 Apr 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38602745

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Human fetal development has been associated with brain health at later stages. It is unknown whether growth in utero, as indexed by birth weight (BW), relates consistently to lifespan brain characteristics and changes, and to what extent these influences are of a genetic or environmental nature. Here we show remarkably stable and lifelong positive associations between BW and cortical surface area and volume across and within developmental, aging and lifespan longitudinal samples (N = 5794, 4-82 y of age, w/386 monozygotic twins, followed for up to 8.3 y w/12,088 brain MRIs). In contrast, no consistent effect of BW on brain changes was observed. Partly environmental effects were indicated by analysis of twin BW discordance. In conclusion, the influence of prenatal growth on cortical topography is stable and reliable through the lifespan. This early-life factor appears to influence the brain by association of brain reserve, rather than brain maintenance. Thus, fetal influences appear omnipresent in the spacetime of the human brain throughout the human lifespan. Optimizing fetal growth may increase brain reserve for life, also in aging.


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Feto , Longevidade , Feminino , Gravidez , Humanos , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagem , Envelhecimento , Peso ao Nascer
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Analyst ; 149(9): 2526-2541, 2024 Apr 29.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38623605

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Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has emerged as an indispensable analytical tool in biomolecular research, providing unmatched sensitivity critical for the elucidation of biomolecular structures. This review presents a thorough examination of SERS, outlining its fundamental principles, cataloging its varied applications within the biomolecular sphere, and contemplating its future developmental trajectories. We begin with a detailed analysis of SERS's mechanistic principles, emphasizing both the phenomena of surface enhancement and the complexities inherent in Raman scattering spectroscopy. Subsequently, we delve into the pivotal role of SERS in the structural analysis of diverse biomolecules, including proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates, and biochromes. The remarkable capabilities of SERS extend beyond mere detection, offering profound insights into biomolecular configurations and interactions, thereby enriching our comprehension of intricate biological processes. This review also sheds light on the application of SERS in real-time monitoring of various bio-relevant compounds, from enzymes and coenzymes to metal ion-chelate complexes and cellular organelles, thereby providing a holistic view and empowering researchers to unravel the complexities of biological systems. We also address the current challenges faced by SERS, such as enhancing sensitivity and resolution, developing stable and reproducible substrates, and conducting thorough analyses in complex biological matrices. Nonetheless, the continual advancements in nanotechnology and spectroscopy solidify the standing of SERS as a formidable force in biomolecular research. In conclusion, the versatility and robustness of SERS not only deepen our understanding of biomolecular intricacies but also pave the way for significant developments in medical research, therapeutic innovation, and diagnostic approaches.


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Análise Espectral Raman , Análise Espectral Raman/métodos , Humanos , Proteínas/análise , Proteínas/química , Ácidos Nucleicos/análise , Ácidos Nucleicos/química , Propriedades de Superfície , Animais
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J Chem Phys ; 160(16)2024 Apr 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38656441

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In recent years, all-inorganic perovskite materials have become an ideal choice for new thin film solar cells due to their excellent photophysical properties and have become a research hotspot. Studying the ultrafast dynamics of photo-generated carriers is of great significance for further improving the performance of such devices. In this work, we focus on the transient dynamic process of CsPbBr3/TiO2 composite systems with different Mn2+ doping contents using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy technology. We used singular value decomposition and global fitting to analyze the transient absorption spectra and obtained three components, which are classified as hot carrier cooling, charge transfer, and charge recombination processes, respectively. We found that the doping concentration of Mn2+ has an impact on all three processes. We think that the following two factors are responsible: one is the density of defect states and the other is the bandgap width of perovskite. As the concentration of doped Mn2+ increases, the charge transfer time constant shows a trend of initially increasing, followed by a subsequent decrease, reaching a turning point. This indicates that an appropriate amount of Mn2+ doping can effectively improve the photoelectric performance of solar cell systems. We proposed a possible charge transfer mechanism model and further elucidated the microscopic mechanism of the effect of Mn2+ doping on the interface charge transfer process of the CsPbBr3/TiO2 solar cell system.

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Pestic Biochem Physiol ; 201: 105848, 2024 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38685210

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Fusarium asiaticum is a destructive phytopathogenic fungus that causes Fusarium head blight of wheat (FHB), leading to serious yield and economic losses to cereal crops worldwide. Our previous studies indicated that target-site mutations (K216R/E, S217P/L, or E420K/G/D) of Type I myosin FaMyo5 conferred high resistance to phenamacril. Here, we first constructed one sensitive strain H1S and three point mutation resistant strains HA, HC and H1R. Then we conducted comparative transcriptome analysis of these F. asiaticum strains after 1 and 10 µg·mL-1 phenamacril treatment. Results indicated that 2135 genes were differentially expressed (DEGs) among the sensitive and resistant strains. The DEGs encoding ammonium transporter MEP1/MEP2, nitrate reductase, copper amine oxidase 1, 4-aminobutyrate aminotransferase, amino-acid permease inda1, succinate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase, 2, 3-dihydroxybenzoic acid decarboxylase, etc., were significantly up-regulated in all the phenamacril-resistant strains. Compared to the control group, a total of 1778 and 2097 DEGs were identified in these strains after 1 and 10 µg·mL-1 phenamacril treatment, respectively. These DEGs involved in 4-aminobutyrate aminotransferase, chitin synthase 1, multiprotein-bridging factor 1, transcriptional regulatory protein pro-1, amino-acid permease inda1, ATP-dependent RNA helicase DED1, acetyl-coenzyme A synthetase, sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase 2, etc., showed significantly down-regulated expression in phenamacril-sensitive strain but not in resistant strains after phenamacril treatment. In addition, cyanide hydratase, mating-type protein MAT-1, putative purine nucleoside permease, plasma membrane protein yro2, etc., showed significantly co-down-regulated expression in all the strains after phenamacril treatment. Taken together, This study provides deep insights into the resistance regulation mechanism and the inhibitory effect of fungicide phenamacril and these new annotated proteins or enzymes are worth for the discovery of new fungicide targets.


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Farmacorresistência Fúngica , Fungicidas Industriais , Fusarium , Fusarium/efeitos dos fármacos , Fusarium/genética , Fungicidas Industriais/farmacologia , Farmacorresistência Fúngica/genética , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Transcriptoma/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação Fúngica da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Doenças das Plantas/microbiologia , Proteínas Fúngicas/genética , Proteínas Fúngicas/metabolismo
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Front Immunol ; 15: 1354613, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38617840

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Metastatic colon cancer remains an incurable disease, and it is difficult for existing treatments to achieve the desired clinical outcome, especially for colon cancer patients who have received first-line treatment. Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have demonstrated durable clinical efficacy in a variety of solid tumors, their response requires an inflammatory tumor microenvironment. However, microsatellite-stable (MSS) colon cancer, which accounts for the majority of colorectal cancers, is a cold tumor that does not respond well to ICIs. Combination regimens open the door to the utility of ICIs in cold tumors. Although combination therapies have shown their advantage even for MSS colon cancer, it remains unclear whether combination therapies show their advantage in patients with pretreated metastatic colon cancer. We report a patient who has achieved complete remission and good tolerance with sintilimab plus bevacizumab and platinum-based chemotherapy after postoperative recurrence. The patient had KRAS mutation and MSS-type colon cancer, and his PD-1+CD8+ and CD3-CD19-CD14+CD16-HLA-DR were both positive. He has achieved a progression-free survival of 43 months and is still being followed up at our center. The above results suggest that this therapeutic regimen is a promising treatment modality for the management of pretreated, MSS-type and KRAS-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer although its application to the general public still needs to be validated in clinical trials.


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Anticorpos Monoclonais Humanizados , Neoplasias do Colo , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas p21(ras) , Masculino , Humanos , Bevacizumab/uso terapêutico , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas p21(ras)/genética , Resposta Patológica Completa , Neoplasias do Colo/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias do Colo/genética , Platina , Repetições de Microssatélites , Microambiente Tumoral
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Mar Life Sci Technol ; 6(1): 50-67, 2024 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38433959

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To maintain, develop and rationally utilize marine organisms, understanding their genetic structure and habitat adaptation pattern is necessary. Konosirus punctatus, which is a commercial fish species inhabiting the Indo-west Pacific Ocean, has shown an obvious annual global capture and aquaculture production decline due to climate changes and human activities. In the present study, restriction-site associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) was used to describe its genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms panel (SNPs). Among 146 individuals collected at nine locations scattered in China, Korea and Japan, a set of 632,090 SNPs were identified. Population genetic analysis showed that K. punctatus individuals were divided into two significant genetic clusters. Meanwhile, potential genetic differentiation between northern and southern population of K. punctatus was found. Treemix results indicated that gene flow existed among sampling locations of K. punctatus, especially from southern Japan to others. Moreover, candidate genes associated with habitat adaptations of K. punctatus were identified, which are involved in diverse physiological processes of K. punctatus including growth and development (e.g., KIDINS220, PAN3), substance metabolism (e.g., PGM5) and immune response (e.g., VAV3, CCT7, HSPA12B). Our findings may aid in understanding the possible mechanisms for the population genetic structure and local adaptation of K. punctatus, which is beneficial to establish the management and conservation units of K. punctatus, guiding the rational use of resources, with reference significance for a profound understanding of the adaptative mechanisms of other marine organisms to the environment. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42995-024-00216-2.

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Appl Opt ; 63(4): 967-975, 2024 Feb 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38437393

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Based on the principle of laser ablation and elastic vibration effect, a model of continuous nanosecond combined laser removal of rubber marks on a concrete surface was established. The model can explain the evolution of temperature, stress, and removal depth on time and laser energy density during laser cleaning. The results show that the theoretical adsorption force between the rubber layer and the concrete base is approximately 3.88×10-9 N. The continuous laser cleaning threshold is 561.31J/c m 2. In the combined laser, the continuous laser is 534.41J/c m 2, and the nanosecond laser is 0.35J/c m 2. As the delay time between the 2 ns laser beams increases, the maximum peak in the temperature curve gradually decreases. The optimal cleaning delay was obtained as Δ t=0.65S. The peak temperature at the characteristic position (0 µm, 0 µm) is 592.13 K, which is lower than the vaporization temperature of the rubber layer. The thermal stress values generated at this characteristic position exceed the adsorption stress values, indicating that the elastic removal mechanism is the main removal mechanism at the junction between the rubber layer and the concrete substrate.

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Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther ; 46: 104038, 2024 Mar 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38447816

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Given the highly heterogeneous characteristics of advanced gastric cancer (GC), most patients must receive neoadjuvant therapy or conversion therapy consisting of chemotherapy to decrease tumor grade and improve the likelihood of complete resection. Drug resistance, however, always leads to an aborted conversion therapy and inevitable death. When meet drug resistance, alternative drug regimens will be applied with immunotherapy or targeted therapy, whose clinical efficacy remains limited when new drug resistance or severer liver and kidney toxicity emerge. Photodynamic therapy (PDT), a novel treatment, has demonstrated remarkable therapeutic efficacy in different stages of GC. However, no report has been reported so far on the clinical application of photodynamic therapy in conversion therapy after drug resistance. Here we report a case of middle-aged patient with advanced GC, who experienced failure of conversion therapy consisted of multi-line chemotherapy along with immunotherapy. Ultimate success was achieved through a comprehensive conversion therapy of PDT, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy. Subsequently, the patient underwent robotic-assisted radical gastrectomy while the surgical specimen showed no tumor cell exists. The patient underwent 3 cycles of systemic adjuvant therapy following surgical intervention. Presently, the patient remains 17 months in a satisfactory state of health.

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Brain Behav Immun Health ; 37: 100754, 2024 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38511149

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Inflammatory responses to acute stimuli are proposed to regulate sleep, but the relationship between chronic inflammation and habitual sleep duration is elusive. Here, we study this relation using genetically predicted level of chronic inflammation, indexed by CRP and IL6 signaling, and self-reported sleep duration. By Mendelian randomization analysis, we show that elevated CRP level within <10 mg/L has a homeostatic effect that facilitates maintaining 7-8 h sleep duration per day - making short-sleepers sleep longer (p = 2.42 × 10-2) and long-sleepers sleep shorter (1.87 × 10-7); but it is not associated with the overall sleep duration (p = 0.17). This homeostatic effect replicated in an independent CRP dataset. We observed causal effects of the soluble interleukin 6 receptor and gp130 on overall sleep duration (p = 1.62 × 10-8, p = 2.61 × 10-58, respectively), but these effects disappeared when CRP effects were accounted for in the model. Using polygenic score analysis, we found that the homeostatic effect of CRP on sleep duration stems primarily from the genetic variants within the CRP gene region: when genetic variants outside of this region were used to predict CRP levels, the opposite direction of effect was observed. In conclusion, we show that elevated CRP level may causally facilitate maintaining an optimal sleep duration that is beneficial to health, thus updating our current knowledge of immune regulation on sleep.

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Front Psychiatry ; 15: 1275719, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38362027

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Background: Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a heritable disorder with a polygenic architecture, and the gut microbiota seems to be involved in its development and outcome. In this study, we investigate the interplay between genetic risk and gut microbial markers. Methods: We included 159 first-episode, drug-naïve SCZ patients and 86 healthy controls. The microbial composition of feces was characterized using the 16S rRNA sequencing platform, and five microbial α-diversity indices were estimated [Shannon, Simpson, Chao1, the Abundance-based Eoverage Estimator (ACE), and a phylogenetic diversity-based estimate (PD)]. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) for SCZ were constructed using data from large-scale genome-wide association studies. Effects of microbial α-diversity, microbial abundance, and PRS on SCZ were evaluated via generalized linear models. Results: We confirmed that PRS was associated with SCZ (OR = 2.08, p = 1.22×10-5) and that scores on the Shannon (OR = 0.29, p = 1.15×10-8) and Simpson (OR = 0.29, p = 1.25×10-8) indices were inversely associated with SCZ risk. We found significant interactions (p < 0.05) between PRS and α-diversity indices (Shannon, Simpson, and PD), with the effects of PRS being larger in those exhibiting higher diversity compared to those with lower diversity. Moreover, the PRS effects were larger in individuals with a high abundance of the genera Romboutsia, Streptococcus, and Anaerostipes than in those with low abundance (p < 0.05). All three of these genera showed protective effects against SCZ. Conclusion: The current findings suggest an interplay between the gut microbiota and polygenic risk of SCZ that warrants replication in independent samples. Experimental studies are needed to determine the underpinning mechanisms.

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Polymers (Basel) ; 16(4)2024 Feb 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38399900

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Ultrafine, highly active coal gasification slag (HCGS) was produced via a sustainable, green dry-ball-milling method. Coal gasification fine slag (CGS), a potential environmental pollutant, was used as a new source of rubber filler without pre-treatment, enabling waste utilisation. HCGS was added to styrene-butadiene rubber (ESBR) composites, and the effects of HCGS and the filler content on the mechanical and thermal stabilities of SBR were evaluated. The procedure conforms to important green metrics, requiring no solvent or additional reagent, or solvent-assistance for product collection. HCGS reduced the scorch time (t10) and curing time (t90) of the filled ESBR composites relative to those of pure SBR and improved the mechanical parameters. The tensile strength at 50 phr reached 10.91 MPa, and the tear strength at 90 phr reached 64.92 kN/m, corresponding to 9.4- and 3.92-fold increases relative to that of SBR filled with HCGS, respectively. HCGS exerted a reinforcing effect on ESBR, comparable to that of commercial carbon black (CB) N330. HCGS improves the binding between rubber molecules and filler particles and captures the rubber chain, thereby limiting its movement. HCGS is potentially applicable as a CB substitute in the rubber industry, with environmental and economic benefits in the disposal of CGS.

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