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Recent studies have found that face masks affect social cognition and behaviour in the context of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The eyes, the only part of the face not covered by face masks, are an important spatial attention cue that can trigger social attention orienting. Here, we adopted a spatial gaze-cueing task to investigate whether face masks affect social...
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) can arise anyplace along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The uncommon tumor location in groin area is rarely reported. We herein reported a metastasized case presented as GI hemorrhage complicated with indirect hernia, and underwent tumor cytoreduction, herniorrhaphy and chemotherapy for jejunal GIST. The case was described consecutively...
On-skin devices that show both high performance and imperceptibility are desired for physiological information detection, individual protection, and bioenergy conversion with minimal sensory interference. Herein, versatile electrospun micropyramid arrays (EMPAs) combined with ultrathin, ultralight, gas-permeable structures are developed through a self-assembly technology based on...
Acute myocardial ischaemia and reperfusion (I–R) are major causes of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with a history of coronary artery disease. Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) has previously been shown to be antiarrhythmic in fetal hearts. This study was performed to investigate if UDCA protects against ischaemia-induced and reperfusion-induced arrhythmias in the adult myocardium...
Cu1.8S has been considered as a potential thermoelectric (TE) material for its stable electrical and thermal properties, environmental benignity, and low cost. Herein, the TE properties of nanostructured Cu1.8S1−xTex (0 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.2) bulks fabricated by a facile process combining mechanical alloying (MA) and room-temperature high-pressure sintering (RT-HPS) technique were optimized...
Obese individuals are more susceptible to comorbidities than individuals of healthy weight, including cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders. MicroRNAs are a class of small and noncoding RNAs that are implicated in the regulation of chronic human diseases. We previously reported that miR-125b plays a critical role in adipogenesis in vitro. However, the involvement of miR...
Bureau, project number: ZY (2018–2020)—FWTX-8005. Author Contributions Conceptualization: Xubo Wu, Alice YM Jones, Yiwen Bai, Jia Han, Elizabeth Dean. Data curation: Xubo Wu, Yiwen Bai, Jia Han. Formal ... analysis: Xubo Wu, Alice YM Jones, Yiwen Bai, Jia Han, Elizabeth Dean. 8 / 10 Funding acquisition: Xubo Wu. Investigation: Xubo Wu, Alice YM Jones, Yiwen Bai, Jia Han, Elizabeth Dean. Methodology: Xubo Wu
Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer. However, systematic characterizations of metabolites in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) are still lacking. Our study profiled the polar metabolome and lipidome in 330 TNBC samples and 149 paired normal breast tissues to construct a large metabolomic atlas of TNBC. Combining with previously established transcriptomic and...
field optics. Jia-Han Li received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in 2005, where he studied nanophotonics, including nearfield irregular diffractive optical
Neolamarckia cadamba (Roxb.) Bosser (Rubiaceae) is a widespread plant with medicine value and has been used for treating various diseases, such as coughs, fevers, anemia, blood disorders and stomach pains. It had been reported that plant miRNAs might enter mammalian intestines and exert a special ingredient across the different species. However, the knowledge about miRNAs in N...
Superiority of the left upper limb in proprioception tasks performed by right-handed individuals has been attributed to better utilization of proprioceptive information by a non-preferred arm/hemisphere system. However, it is undetermined whether this holds for multiple upper and lower limb joints. Accordingly, the present study tested active movement proprioception at four pairs...
Objective To investigate the effects of recombinant human granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor(rhGM-CSF) hydrogel on the healing of residual burn wound surface.Methods One hundred and thirty-eight residual burn wound surfaces were assigned into experimental group and control group(69 each),and randomized,double-blind,placebo-controlled and self-controlled clinical...
The optical antennas have the potential in various applications because of their field enhancement and directivity control. The directivity of a dipole antenna can be improved by directivity-enhanced Raman scattering structure, which is a combination of a dipole antenna and a ring reflector layer on a ground plane. The concentric rings can collect the light into the center hole...
Autophagy modulation is now recognized as a potential therapeutic approach for cancer (including colorectal cancer), yet the molecular mechanisms regulating autophagy in response to cellular stress are still not well understood. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been found to play important roles in controlling many cellular functions, including growth, metabolism and stress response. The...
This paper proposes entitymetrics to measure the impact of knowledge units. Entitymetrics highlight the importance of entities embedded in scientific literature for further knowledge discovery. In this paper, we use Metformin, a drug for diabetes, as an example to form an entity-entity citation network based on literature related to Metformin. We then calculate the network...
Bacterial cellulose is a promising source of biodegradable polymers having high purity. The time required to disperse bacterial cellulose wet membranes was studied, along with evaluation by infrared spectroscopy and thermal analysis of the dispersed bacterial fiber and tests of the physical properties of the sheet. The results showed that bacterial cellulose wet membrane can be...
The retina is a light-sensitive tissue of the central nervous system that is vulnerable to ischemia. The pathological mechanism underlying retinal ischemic injury is not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate structural and functional changes of different types of rat retinal neurons and visual behavior following transient global ischemia. Retinal ischemia...
Aim:To develop an artificial neural network (ANN) model for predicting skin permeability (log Kp) of new chemical entities.Methods:A large dataset of 215 experimental data points was compiled from the literature. The dataset was subdivided into 5 subsets and 4 of them were used to train and validate an ANN model. The same 4 datasets were also used to build a multiple linear...
Hypertension is an important risk factor for chronic kidney disease. The kidney, in turn, has an important role in the regulation of blood pressure (BP). On the basis of a genome-wide association study, single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the uromodulin (UMOD) promoter region had been considered to influence both renal sodium reabsorption and BP. In this study, we asked whether...
Background. The Fcγ receptors play important roles in anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody disease (anti-GBM disease) in animal models, and FCGR gene polymorphisms have been reported to be associated with numerous human autoimmune diseases. We aimed to clarify the genetic association of FCGR gene polymorphisms with anti-GBM disease in Chinese patients. Methods. A total of...
