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The potential protective effect of basic fibroblast growth factor (BFGF) on the cardiovascular system has been proposed previously, however, its effect on calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) and underlying mechanisms have not been elucidated. The valvular interstitial cell (VIC) were isolated from porcine aortic valve leaflets. To investigate the effect of BFGF on osteogenic differentiation of VIC, the osteogenic induced medium (OIM) and BFGF were added. The protein expression level was detected by Western blot, and apoptosis was determined by flow cytometry. The effect of BFGF on CAVD process in vivo was assessed by a rat CAVD model, which was identified by echocardiography and Alizarin red staining. The expression level of BFGF in the aortic valve and serum were significantly upregulated in CAVD patients compared to control group. In addition, exogenous BFGF injection attenuates CAVD process in vivo. The protein markers of osteogenic differentiation, endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS), and apoptosis were significantly upregulated by culture with OIM. On the contrary, the aforementioned proteins were suppressed after adding 100 ng/mL of BFGF. Inhibition of PI3K/Akt and ERK1/2 pathways by specific inhibitors abolished the protective effect of BFGF. In conclusion, BFGF could alleviate the VIC calcification by inhibiting ERS-mediated apoptosis, which is partly regulated by activation of the PI3K/Akt and ERK1/2 signaling pathways. BFGF may provide a potential avenue for CAVD therapy.
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Valva Aórtica , Fator 2 de Crescimento de Fibroblastos , Humanos , Ratos , Animais , Suínos , Valva Aórtica/metabolismo , Fator 2 de Crescimento de Fibroblastos/farmacologia , Fator 2 de Crescimento de Fibroblastos/metabolismo , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-akt/metabolismo , Osteogênese , Fosfatidilinositol 3-Quinases/metabolismo , Células Cultivadas , ApoptoseRESUMO
Small-molecule fluorescent probes have emerged as potential tools for cancer cell imaging-based diagnostic and therapeutic applications, but their limited selectivity and poor imaging contrast hinder their broad applications. To address these problems, we present the design and construction of a novel near-infrared (NIR) biotin-conjugated and viscosity-activatable fluorescent probe, named as QL-VB, for selective recognition and imaging of cancer cells. The designed probe exhibited a NIR emission at 680 nm, with a substantial Stokes shift of 100 nm and remarkably sensitive responses toward viscosity changes in solution. Importantly, QL-VB provided an evidently enhanced signal-to-noise ratio (SNR: 6.2) for the discrimination of cancer cells/normal cells, as compared with the control probe without biotin conjugation (SNR: 1.8). Moreover, we validated the capability of QL-VB for dynamic monitoring of stimulated viscosity changes within cancer cells and employed QL-VB for distinguishing breast cancer tissues from normal tissues in live mice with improved accuracy (SNR: 2.5) in comparison with the control probe (SNR: 1.8). All these findings indicated that the cancer-targeting and viscosity-activatable NIR fluorescent probe not only enables the mechanistic investigations of mitochondrial viscosity alterations within cancer cells but also holds the potential as a robust tool for cancer cell imaging-based applications.
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BACKGROUND: Critically ill patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) face significant mortality after hospital discharge. Delirium is common in patients with COPD, but its impact on long-term mortality in critically ill COPD patients who survive to discharge remains uncertain. METHODS: Critically ill patients with COPD who survived to discharge were selected from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV database. Delirium was assessed using the Confusion Assessment Method for Intensive Care Unit. The primary outcome was 365- and 180-day mortality after discharge. The secondary outcomes included 90- and 30-day mortality following discharge, length of intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital stays, and nursing care needs after hospital discharge. RESULTS: Of the 2621 survivors of critically ill COPD patients, 982 had suffered delirium during their ICU stay and 709 died within 365 days after hospital discharge. Delirium was significantly associated with 365-day mortality after hospital discharge (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 1.22; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.02-1.47). The results were consistent for 180-, 90-, and 30-day post-discharge mortality (adjusted HR [95% CI]: 1.35 [1.09-1.66], 1.48 [1.16-1.89], and 1.68 [1.21-2.32], respectively). Additionally, patients with delirium had longer ICU and hospital stay (adjusted ß 2.75; 95% CI 2.35-3.16 and 4.25; 95% CI 3.51-4.98, respectively) and increased nursing care needs after hospital discharge (adjusted odds ratio, 1.56; 95% CI 1.13-2.14). CONCLUSION: ICU delirium was an independent risk factor for both long-term and short-term mortality in critically ill patients with COPD who survived to discharge.
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The unique zigzag-patterned tea plant is a rare germplasm resource. However, the molecular mechanism behind the formation of zigzag stems remains unclear. To address this, a BC1 genetic population of tea plants with zigzag stems was studied using histological observation and bulked segregant RNA-seq. The analysis revealed 1494 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the upright and zigzag stem groups. These DEGs may regulate the transduction and biosynthesis of plant hormones, and the effects on the phenylpropane biosynthesis pathways may cause the accumulation of lignin. Tissue sections further supported this finding, showing differences in cell wall thickness between upright and curved stems, potentially due to lignin accumulation. Additionally, 262 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across 38 genes were identified as key SNPs, and 5 genes related to zigzag stems were identified through homologous gene function annotation. Mutations in these genes may impact auxin distribution and content, resulting in the asymmetric development of vascular bundles in curved stems. In summary, we identified the key genes associated with the tortuous phenotype by using BSR-seq on a BC1 population to minimize genetic background noise.
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Camellia sinensis , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , RNA-Seq , Camellia sinensis/genética , Camellia sinensis/metabolismo , Caules de Planta/genética , Caules de Planta/metabolismo , Mutação , Fenótipo , Lignina/metabolismo , Lignina/biossíntese , Transcriptoma/genética , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica/métodos , Proteínas de Plantas/genética , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismoRESUMO
Carbonyl reductase (CR)-catalyzed bioreduction in the organic phase and the neat substrate reaction system is a lasting challenge, placing higher requirements on the performance of enzymes. Protein engineering is an effective method to enhance the properties of enzymes for industrial applications. In the present work, a single point mutation E145A on our previously constructed CR mutant LsCRM3 , coevolved thermostability, and activity. Compared with LsCRM3 , the catalytic efficiency kcat /KM of LsCRM3 -E145A (LsCRM4 ) was increased from 6.6 to 21.9 s-1 mM-1 . Moreover, E145A prolonged the half-life t1/2 at 40°C from 4.1 to 117 h, T m ${T}_{m}$ was increased by 5°C, T 50 30 ${T}_{50}^{30}$ was increased by 14.6°C, and Topt was increased by 15°C. Only 1 g/L of lyophilized Escherichia coli cells expressing LsCRM4 completely reduced up to 600 g/L 2-chloro-1-(3,4-difluorophenyl)ethanone (CFPO) within 13 h at 45°C, yielding the corresponding (1S)-2-chloro-1-(3,4-difluorophenyl)ethanol ((S)-CFPL) in 99.5% eeP , with a space-time yield of 1.0 kg/L d, the substrate to catalyst ratios (S/C) of 600 g/g. Compared with LsCRM3 , the substrate loading was increased by 50%, with the S/C increased by 14 times. Compared with LsCRWT , the substrate loading was increased by 6.5 times. In contrast, LsCRM4 completely converted 600 g/L CFPO within 12 h in the neat substrate bioreaction system.
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Mutação Puntual , Engenharia de Proteínas , Catálise , Etanol , Especificidade por SubstratoRESUMO
We propose a joint modeling approach to investigating the effects of social-psychological factors on the onset of depression. The proposed model comprises two components. The first one is a confirmatory factor analysis model that summarizes latent factors through multiple correlated observed variables. The second one is a logistic regression model that investigates the effects of observed and latent influence factors on the occurrence of depression. We develop a hybrid procedure based on the borrow-strength estimation procedure and the weighted score function to estimate the model parameters. The asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators are established. Simulation studies demonstrate that the method we proposed performs well. An application to a study concerning the social-psychological factors of depression is provided.
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Human type 2 cytotoxic T (Tc2) cells are enriched in severe eosinophilic asthma and can contribute to airway eosinophilia. PGD2 and its receptor PGD2 receptor 2 (DP2) play important roles in Tc2 cell activation, including migration, cytokine production, and survival. In this study, we revealed novel, to our knowledge, functions of the PGD2/DP2 axis in Tc2 cells to induce tissue-remodeling effects and IgE-independent PGD2 autocrine production. PGD2 upregulated the expression of tissue-remodeling genes in Tc2 cells that enhanced the fibroblast proliferation and protein production required for tissue repair and myofibroblast differentiation. PGD2 stimulated Tc2 cells to produce PGD2 using the routine PGD2 synthesis pathway, which also contributed to TCR-dependent PGD2 production in Tc2 cells. Using fevipiprant, a specific DP2 antagonist, we demonstrated that competitive inhibition of DP2 not only completely blocked the cell migration, adhesion, proinflammatory cytokine production, and survival of Tc2 cells triggered by PGD2 but also attenuated the tissue-remodeling effects and autocrine/paracrine PGD2 production in Tc2 induced by PGD2 and other stimulators. These findings further confirmed the anti-inflammatory effect of fevipiprant and provided a better understanding of the role of Tc2 cells in the pathogenesis of asthma.
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Ácidos Indolacéticos/farmacologia , Inflamação/tratamento farmacológico , Prostaglandina D2/antagonistas & inibidores , Piridinas/farmacologia , Receptores Imunológicos/antagonistas & inibidores , Receptores de Prostaglandina/antagonistas & inibidores , Linfócitos T Citotóxicos/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Cultivadas , Técnicas de Cocultura , Humanos , Inflamação/imunologia , Prostaglandina D2/biossíntese , Receptores Imunológicos/imunologia , Receptores de Prostaglandina/imunologia , Linfócitos T Citotóxicos/imunologiaRESUMO
An important way to promote the environmental industry's goal of carbon reduction is to promote the recycling of resources. Membrane separation technology has unique advantages in resource recovery and advanced treatment of industrial wastewater. However, the great promise of traditional organic membrane is hampered by challenges associated with organic solvent tolerance, lack of oxidation resistance, and serious membrane fouling control. Moreover, the high concentrations of organic matter and inorganic salts in the membrane filtration concentrate also hinder the wider application of the membrane separation technology. The emerging cost-effective graphene oxide (GO)-based membrane with excellent resistance to organic solvents and oxidants, more hydrophilicity, lower membrane fouling, better separation performance has been expected to contribute more in industrial wastewater treatment. Herein, we provide comprehensive insights into the preparation and characteristic of GO membranes, as well as current research status and problems related to its future application in industrial wastewater treatment. Finally, concluding remarks and future perspectives have been deduced and recommended for the GO membrane separation technology application for industrial wastewater treatment, which leads to realizing sustainable wastewater recycling and a nearly "zero discharge" water treatment process.
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Grafite , Purificação da Água , Águas Residuárias , Membranas ArtificiaisRESUMO
Background: Endothelial Activation and Stress Index (EASIX) is a reliable alternative biomarker of endothelial dysfunction. Because endothelial activation is involved in sepsis pathophysiology, we aimed to investigate the association between EASIX and prognosis in septic patients. Methods: Data were extracted from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC) IV database. EASIX scores were calculated using the formula: lactate dehydrogenase (U/L) × creatinine (mg/dL)/platelet count (109/L). Patients were grouped into tertiles according to log2 transformed EASIX. The primary and secondary outcomes were 28-day and 90-day mortality. Cox proportional hazards models, Kaplan-Meier curves, restricted cubic spline curves, and subgroup analyses were conducted to evaluate the association between EASIX and prognosis in septic patients. Results: A total of 7504 patients were included. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards analyses showed that higher log2-EASIX was associated with increased risk of 28-day mortality (HR, 1.10; 95% CI, 1.07-1.13; P < 0.001). Compared with tertile 1, the tertile 2 and 3 groups had higher risk of 28-day mortality [HR (95% CI) 1.24 (1.09-1.41); HR (95% CI) 1.51 (1.31-1.74)]; P for trend < 0.001). Similar results were found for 90-day mortality. Kaplan-Meier curves showed that patients with higher EASIX had lower 28-day and 90-day survival rates. A linear relationship was found between log2-EASIX and 28-day and 90-day mortality. Conclusion: High EASIX was significantly associated with an increased risk of 28-day and 90-day all-cause mortality in patients with sepsis.
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Cuidados Críticos , Sepse , Humanos , Estudos Retrospectivos , Creatinina , Unidades de Terapia Intensiva , PrognósticoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Heat stress is a major abiotic stress affecting the growth and development of plants, including crop species. Plants have evolved various adaptive strategies to help them survive heat stress, including maintaining membrane stability, encoding heat shock proteins (HSPs) and ROS-scavenging enzymes, and inducing molecular chaperone signaling. Brassinosteroids (BRs) are phytohormones that regulate various aspects of plant development, which have been implicated also in plant responses to heat stress, and resistance to heat in Arabidopsis thaliana is enhanced by adding exogenous BR. Brassinazole resistant 1 (BZR1), a transcription factor and positive regulator of BR signal, controls plant growth and development by directly regulating downstream target genes. However, the molecular mechanism at the basis of BR-mediated heat stress response is poorly understood. Here, we report the identification of a new factor critical for BR-regulated heat stress tolerance. RESULTS: We identified ERF49 in a genetic screen for proteins required for BR-regulated gene expression. We found that ERF49 is the direct target gene of BZR1 and that overexpressing ERF49 enhanced sensitivity of transgenic plants to heat stress. The transcription levels of heat shock factor HSFA2, heat stress-inducible gene DREB2A, and three heat shock protein (HSP) were significantly reduced under heat stress in ERF49-overexpressed transgenic plants. Transcriptional activity analysis in protoplast revealed that BZR1 inhibits ERF49 expression by binding to the promoter of ERF49. Our genetic analysis showed that dominant gain-of-function brassinazole resistant 1-1D mutant (bzr1-1D) exhibited lower sensitivity to heat stress compared with wild-type. Expressing ERF49-SRDX (a dominant repressor reporter of ERF49) in bzr1-1D significantly decreased the sensitivity of ERF49-SRDX/bzr1-1D transgenic plants to heat stress compared to bzr1-1D. CONCLUSIONS: Our data provide clear evidence that BR increases thermotolerance of plants by repressing the expression of ERF49 through BZR1, and this process is dependent on the expression of downstream heat stress-inducible genes. Taken together, our work reveals a novel molecular mechanism mediating plant response to high temperature stress.
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Proteínas de Arabidopsis , Arabidopsis , Termotolerância , Brassinosteroides , Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/genética , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Termotolerância/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Resposta ao Choque Térmico/genética , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas/genética , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas/metabolismo , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de PlantasRESUMO
Since the discovery of neuromedin U (NmU) from porcine spinal cord in 1985, this neuropeptide has been subsequently identified in many other species with multiple physiological and pathophysiological roles detected, ranging from smooth muscle contraction, feeding, energy balance to tumorigenesis. Intriguingly, NmU is also emerging to play pro-inflammatory roles involving immune cell activation and cytokine release in a neuron-dependent or neuron-independent manner. The NmU-mediated inflammatory responses have already been observed in worm infection, sepsis, autoimmune arthritis and allergic animal models. In this review, we focus on the roles of NmU in immunity and inflammation by highlighting the interactions between NmU and immune cells, summarizing the signalling mechanism involved in their reactions and discussing its potential contributions to inflammatory diseases.
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Imunidade/fisiologia , Inflamação/metabolismo , Neuropeptídeos/metabolismo , Animais , Citocinas/metabolismo , Humanos , Neurônios/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais/fisiologiaRESUMO
Surface triple junctions (STJs), i.e., the termination lines of grain boundaries at solid surface, are the common line defects in polycrystalline materials. Compared with planar defects such as grain boundaries and surfaces, STJ lines are usually overlooked in a material's strengthening although abundant atoms may reside at STJs in many nanomaterials. In this study, by in situ compression of coarse-grained and nanocrystalline nanoporous gold samples in an electrochemical environment, the effect of STJs on the strength of nanoporous gold was successfully decoupled from grain-boundary and surface effects. We found that the strength of nanoporous gold became sensitive to STJ modification when ligament size was decreased to below â¼100 nm, indicating that STJs started to influence ligament strength at sub-100 nm scale. This STJ effect was associated with the emission of dislocations from STJs during plastic deformation. Our findings strongly suggest that the structure and chemistry at STJs should be considered in understanding the mechanical response of sub-100 nm scale materials.
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We report a transition from homogeneous deformation to localized densification for nanoporous gold (NPG) under compression, with its solid fraction (φ) increasing to above â¼1/3. Results obtained herein suggest that this transition is inverted compared to that of conventional porous materials. Consequently, under compression, the low-density NPGs with φ<1/3 showed evident strain hardening, whereas a stress plateau was observed for high-density NPGs with φ>1/3, which is contrary to the established notions for conventional porous materials. The ligament pinch-offs and bending-dominated structures are responsible for the homogeneous deformation of low-density NPGs. For high-density NPGs, the compression- or tension-dominated structure enables the collective strain bursts in nanoligaments, resulting in localized densification and stress plateau in their compression curves. In addition to the nanosize effect, the surface-diffusion-mediated topology evolution and the large-scale crystal-lattice coherency arising from the large grain size are also decisive to the mechanical response of dealloyed NPGs, which might be universal for self-organized nanonetwork materials.
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In this study, twenty novel cinnamic acid magnolol derivatives were synthesized, and screened for their anti-hyperglycemic potential. All synthesized compounds exhibited good to moderate α-glucosidase and α-amylase inhibitory activities with IC50 values: 5.11 ± 1.46-90.26 ± 1.85 µM and 4.27 ± 1.51-49.28 ± 2.54 µM as compared to the standard acarbose (IC50: 255.44 ± 1.89 µM and 80.33 ± 2.95 µM, respectively). Compound 6j showed the strongest inhibitory activity against α-glucosidase (IC50 = 5.11 ± 1.46 µM) and α-amylase (IC50 = 4.27 ± 1.51 µM). Kinetic study indicated that compound 6j was reversible and a mixed type inhibitor against α-glucosidase and α-amylase. In silico studies revealed the binding interaction between 6j and two enzymes, respectively. Finally, cells cytotoxicity assay revealed that compound 6j showed low toxicity against 3 T3-L1 cells and HepG2 cells.
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Compostos de Bifenilo/farmacologia , Cinamatos/farmacologia , Inibidores de Glicosídeo Hidrolases/farmacologia , Lignanas/farmacologia , alfa-Amilases/antagonistas & inibidores , alfa-Glucosidases/metabolismo , Compostos de Bifenilo/síntese química , Compostos de Bifenilo/química , Cinamatos/síntese química , Cinamatos/química , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Inibidores de Glicosídeo Hidrolases/síntese química , Inibidores de Glicosídeo Hidrolases/química , Humanos , Lignanas/síntese química , Lignanas/química , Simulação de Acoplamento Molecular , Estrutura Molecular , Relação Estrutura-Atividade , alfa-Amilases/metabolismoRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: The experience of safe extubation in the operating room (OR) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedure remains not well established. The authors conducted this study to assess the effect of OR extubation in comparison with extubation in the intensive care unit (ICU) on the outcomes and cost in patients undergoing transapical-TAVI. DESIGN: A propensity score-matched analysis. SETTING: A single major urban teaching and university hospital. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 266 patients undergoing transapical TAVI under general anesthesia between June 2015 and March 2020. INTERVENTIONS: Propensity matching on pre- and intraoperative variables was used to identify 99 patients undergoing extubation in the OR versus 72 undergoing extubation in the ICU for outcome analysis. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: After matching, extubation in the OR showed significant reductions of length of stay (LOS) in ICU (38.8 ± 17.4 v 58.0 ± 70.0 h, difference -19.2, 95% confidence interval [CI] -35.7 to -2.7, pâ¯=â¯0.009) and postoperative LOS in hospital (7.1 ± 3.9 v 10.1 ± 4.6 d, difference -3.0, 95% CI -4.3 to -1.7, p < 0.0001) compared with ICU extubation, but did not significantly affect the composite incidence of any postoperative complications (46.5% [46 of 99] v 52.8% [38 of 72], difference -6.3%, 95% CI -21.5 to 8.9, pâ¯=â¯0.415). Also, extubation in the OR led to significant reduction of total hospital cost compared with extubation in the ICU (¥303.5 ± 17.3 v ¥329.9 ± 52.3 thousand, difference -26.2, 95% CI -38.8 to -13.7, p < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: The current study provided evidence that extubation in the OR could be performed safely without increases in morbidity, mortality, or reintubation rate and could provide cost-effective outcome benefits in patients undergoing transapical-TAVI.
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Estenose da Valva Aórtica , Implante de Prótese de Valva Cardíaca , Substituição da Valva Aórtica Transcateter , Extubação , Valva Aórtica/cirurgia , Estenose da Valva Aórtica/cirurgia , Implante de Prótese de Valva Cardíaca/efeitos adversos , Humanos , Salas Cirúrgicas , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/epidemiologia , Pontuação de Propensão , Estudos Retrospectivos , Substituição da Valva Aórtica Transcateter/efeitos adversos , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
The primary objective of this study was to investigate the energy recovery performance of the permafrost hydrate deposit in the Qilian Mountain at site DK-2 using depressurization combined with thermal injection by the approach of numerical simulation. A novel multi-well system with five horizontal wells was applied for large-scale hydrate mining. The external heat is provided by means of water injection, wellbore heating, or the combinations of them through the central horizontal well, while the fluids are extracted outside from the other four production wells under constant depressurization conditions. The injected water can carry the heat into the hydrate deposit with a faster rate by thermal convection regime, while it also raises the local pressure obviously, which results in a strong prohibition effect on hydrate decomposition in the region close to the central well. The water production rate is always controllable when using the multi-well system. No gas seepage is observed in the reservoir due to the resistance of the undissociated hydrate. Compared with hot water injection, the electric heating combined with normal temperature water flooding basically shows the same promotion effect on gas recovery. Although the hydrate regeneration is more severe in the case of pure electric heating, the external heat can be more efficiently assimilated by gas hydrate, and the efficiency of gas production is best compared with the cases involving water injection. Thus, pure wellbore heating without water injection would be more suitable for hydrate development in deposits characterized by low-permeability conditions.
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BACKGROUND: It is unknown whether an abnormal level of von Willebrand factor (vWF) is correlated with the prognosis of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and current findings are controversial. This meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the association between vWF levels and the clinical prognosis of patients with AF. METHODS: We searched prospective cohort studies on PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library and WanFang databases for vWF and adverse events of AF from inception of the databases to July 2019. The risk ratios of all-cause death, cardiovascular death, major adverse cardiac events (MACE), stroke and bleeding prognosis in patients with AF were analysed using a fixed-effects model or random-effects model, and all included studies were evaluated with heterogeneity and publication bias analysis. RESULTS: Twelve studies which included 7449 patients with AF were used in the meta-analysis. The average age was 71.3 years and the average follow-up time was 3.38 years. The analysis found that high vWF levels were associated with increased risks of all-cause death (RR 1.56; 95% CI 1.16 to 2.11, p=0.00400), cardiovascular death (RR 1.91; 95% CI 1.20 to 3.03, p=0.00600), MACE (RR 1.83; 95% CI 1.28 to 2.62, p=0.00090), stroke (RR 1.69; 95% CI 1.08 to 2.64, p=0.02000) and bleeding (RR 2.01; 95% CI 1.65 to 2.45, p<0.00001) in patients with AF. CONCLUSIONS: vWF is a risk factor for poor prognosis of AF, and patients with higher vWF levels have a higher risk of all-cause death, cardiovascular death, MACE, stroke and bleeding.
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Fibrilação Atrial/sangue , Fator de von Willebrand/análise , Biomarcadores/análise , Causas de Morte , Humanos , Prognóstico , Estudos Prospectivos , Fatores de RiscoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Emerging evidence has shown that miR-1275 plays a critical role in tumour metastasis and the progression of various types of cancer. In this study, we analysed the role and mechanism of miR-1275 in the progression and prognosis of gastric cancer (GC). METHODS: Target genes of miR-1275 were identified and verified by luciferase assay and Western blotting. The function of miR-1275 in invasion and metastasis was analysed in vitro and in vivo in nude mice. The signal pathway regulated by miR-1275 was examined by qRT-PCR, Western blotting and chromatin immunoprecipitation analyses. The expression of miR-1275and JAZF1 were measured in specimens of GC and adjacent non cancerous tissues. RESULTS: We identified JAZF1 as a direct miR-1275 target. miR-1275 supresses migration and invasion of GC cells in vitro and in vivo, which was restored by JAZF1 overexpression. Moreover, JAZF1 was recognized as a direct regulator of Vimentin. Knocking-down miR-1275 or overexpressing JAZF1 resulted in upregulation of Vimentin but downregulation of E-cadherin. Meanwhile, we validated in 120 GC patients specimens that low miR-1275expression and high JAZF1 mRNA expression levels were closely associated with lymph node metastasis and poor prognosis. The expression of JAZF1 in protein level displayed the correlations with Vimentin but inversely with E-cadherin. CONCLUSIONS: Increased miR-1275 expression inhibited GC metastasis by regulating vimentin/E-cadherin via direct suppression of JAZF1expression, suggesting that miR-1275 is a tumour-suppressor miRNA with the potential as a prognostic biomarker or therapeutic target in GC.
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Antígenos CD/metabolismo , Caderinas/metabolismo , Movimento Celular , Proteínas Correpressoras/metabolismo , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , MicroRNAs/metabolismo , Neoplasias Gástricas/metabolismo , Neoplasias Gástricas/patologia , Vimentina/metabolismo , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Animais , Biomarcadores Tumorais/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Proteínas Correpressoras/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Feminino , Humanos , Estimativa de Kaplan-Meier , Linfonodos/patologia , Metástase Linfática , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Nus , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Invasividade Neoplásica , Prognóstico , Neoplasias Gástricas/cirurgia , TransfecçãoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Workplace violence (WPV) is a global public health problem and has caused a serious threat to the physical and mental health of healthcare workers. Moreover, WPV also has an adverse effect on the workplace behavior of healthcare workers. This study has three purposes: (1) to identify the prevalence of workplace violence against physicians; (2) to examine the association between exposure to WPV, job satisfaction, job burnout and turnover intention of Chinese physicians and (3) to verify the mediating role of social support. METHODS: A cross-sectional study adopted a purposive sampling method to collect data from March 2017 through May 2017. A total of nine tertiary hospitals in four provinces, which provide healthcare from specialists in a large hospital after referral from primary and secondary care, were selected as research sites based on their geographical locations in the eastern, central and western regions of China. Descriptive analyses, a univariate analysis, a Pearson correlation, and a mediation regression analysis were used to estimate the prevalence of WPV and impact of WPV on job satisfaction, job burnout, and turnover intention. RESULTS: WPV was positively correlated with turnover intention (r = 0.238, P < 0.01) and job burnout (r = 0.150, P < 0.01), and was negatively associated with job satisfaction (r = - 0.228, P < 0.01) and social support (r = - 0.077, P < 0.01). Social support was a partial mediator between WPV and job satisfaction, as well as burnout and turnover intention. CONCLUSIONS: The results show a high prevalence of workplace violence in Chinese tertiary hospitals, which should not be ignored. The effects of social support on workplace behaviors suggest that it has practical implications for interventions to promote the stability of physicians' teams. TRIAL REGISTRATION: (Project Identification Code: HMUIRB2014005), Registered March 1, 2014.
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Esgotamento Profissional/psicologia , Satisfação no Emprego , Médicos/psicologia , Violência no Trabalho/psicologia , Adulto , China/epidemiologia , Estudos Transversais , Feminino , Humanos , Intenção , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Reorganização de Recursos Humanos/estatística & dados numéricos , Prevalência , Qualidade de Vida , Apoio Social , Centros de Atenção Terciária/estatística & dados numéricos , Violência no Trabalho/estatística & dados numéricosRESUMO
Ovarian cancer is one of the most common gynecologic malignancy with poor prognosis. Recently, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been identified as key regulators in cancer development. The current study investigated the role of lncRNA P73 antisense RNA 1T (TP73-AS1) in ovarian cancer. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction determined the expression levels of TP-73AS1, matrix metallopeptidases (MMPs) messenger RNA. Cell proliferative ability, cell invasion, and migration were CCK-8 and colony formation, and transwell invasion and migration assays, respectively. The protein levels of matrix metallopeptidase 2 (MMP2) and MMP9 were measured by Western blot. TP73-AS1 was upregulated in the ovarian cancer tissues and ovarian cancer cells, and upregulation of TP73-AS1 was associated with poor prognosis. Knockdown of TP73-AS1 significantly suppressed cell proliferation, invasion, and migration of SKOV3 cells, and overexpression of TP73-AS1 promoted cell proliferation, invasion, and migration of OVCA429 cells. In addition, knockdown of TP73-AS1 suppressed the in vivo tumor growth. Tumor metastasis RT2 profiler polymerase chain reaction array showed that MMP2 and MMP9 was significantly upregulated by TP73-AS1 overexpression in ovarian cancer cells. TP73-AS1 overexpression enhanced the expression of MMP2 and MMP9 in ovarian cancer cells. Knockdown of MMP2 and MMP9 attenuated the effects of TP73-AS1 overexpression on cell invasion and migration. The clinical data showed that MMP2 and MMP9 were upregulated and positively correlated with TP73-AS1 expression in ovarian cancer tissues. Collectively, our results demonstrated the oncogenic role of TP73-AS1 in ovarian cancer, and targeting TP73-AS1 may represent a novel approach in battling against ovarian cancer.