Background: Strongly water-sensitive reservoirs with high clay content face challenges in conventional development due to clay swelling and impeded seepage. CO2 injection shows potential for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and carbon sequestration; however, the role of clay minerals in regulating CO2-induced asphaltene deposition and sequestration remains unclear.
Methodology: We conducted experiments on clay-oil interactions, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), measurements of crude oil properties, and long core water flooding tests to evaluate deposition, reservoir damage, and CO2 sequestration.
Objective: Anxiety and depression are common mental disorders in the elderly. Concurrent frailty may lead to worse clinical outcomes. This study examined the network structures of anxiety and depression in frail and non-frail older adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study targeted a highly water-sensitive reservoir with high clay content (average 23.87%, mainly montmorillonite and illite), where waterflooding development induces hydration swelling of clay minerals, leading to pore-throat narrowing. The anti-swelling system and CO₂ were found to mitigate this phenomenon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The pathogenesis of Delayed Encephalopathy After Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (DEACMP) remains mysterious, and specific predictive markers are lacking. This study aimed to elucidate the molecular underpinnings and identify predictive biomarkers of DEACMP through multi-omics and single-nucleusRNA sequencing (snRNA-seq).
Methods: Clinical data and blood samples were collected from 105 participants.
Introduction: Understanding the impacts of sustained high-input swine manure on soil phosphorus (P), along with identifying and functionally characterizing P-associated microorganisms, can provide a scientific foundation for effective management of soil P in relation to swine manure application. This study provides novel insights into the functional roles of P-associated microorganisms in mediating phosphorus dynamics under long-term excessive swine manure application.
Methods: The study investigated the prolonged impact of high-volume swine manure application on soil P fractions over an 8-year continuous, randomized field trial involving rotating wheat (wet conditions) and rice (flooded conditions) crops.
The rapid-growth ability of rice seedlings under flooded and hypoxic conditions is a crucial determinant for seedling establishment, survival and crop yield under direct-seeded rice cultivation systems. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying rice germination and seedling growth in flooded soil remains unclear. In this study, we used hypoxia-tolerant (Ht) and hypoxia-sensitive (nHt) rice varieties to analyze the response mechanisms of rice seedlings under hypoxic stress through integrated transcriptome, proteome, metabolome sequencing, and physiological analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContaminants capable of crossing the placental barrier (PB) adversely affect female reproduction and fetal development. The rapid identification of PB-permeable contaminants is urgently needed due to the inefficiencies of conventional cell-based transwell assays for the screening of large quantities of chemicals. Herein, we construct a PBScreen server using a multifusion deep learning (DL) model for the accurate and rapid screening of PB-permeable chemicals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Plant Sci
November 2024
Plant biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) possess ecological functions in antimicrobial benefits and air purification. The objectives of the study were to determine the differences in antimicrobial capacity of bamboo forests at different sampling sites. Three common bamboo species-, and -were selected to determinate the antimicrobial activity of bamboo forests as well as under conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNucleic Acids Res
January 2025
Spatial transcriptomics sequencing technology deepens our understanding of the diversity of cell behaviors, fates and states within complex tissue, which is often determined by the fine-tuning of regulatory network functional activities. Therefore, characterizing the functional activity within tissue space is helpful for revealing the functional features that drive spatial heterogeneity, and understanding complex biological processes. Here, we describe a database, SPathDB (http://bio-bigdata.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe transcriptional heterogeneity of tumor microenvironment (TME) cells is a crucial factor driving the diversity of cellular response to drug treatment and resistance. Therefore, characterizing the cells associated with drug treatment and resistance will help us understand therapeutic mechanisms, discover new therapeutic targets and facilitate precision medicine. Here, we describe a database, scDrugAct (http://bio-bigdata.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Environ Sci (China)
April 2025
The earthworm-based vermiremediation facilitated with benign chemicals such as nano zero-valent iron (nZVI) is a promising approach for the remediation of a variety of soil contaminants including cyanotoxins. As the most toxic cyanotoxin, microcystin-LR (MC-LR) enter soil via runoff, irrigated surface water and sewage, and the application of cyanobacterial biofertilizers as part of the sustainable agricultural practice. Earthworms in such remediation systems must sustain the potential risk from both nZVI and MC-LR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs an important means to enhance oil recovery, ternary composite flooding (ASP flooding for short) technology has achieved remarkable results in Daqing Oilfield. Alkalis, surfactants and polymers are mixed in specific proportions and injected into the reservoir to give full play to the synergistic effect of each component, which can effectively enhance the fluidity of crude oil and greatly improve the oil recovery. At present, the technology for further improving oil recovery after ternary composite flooding is not mature and belongs to the stage of technical exploration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Biol Chem
September 2024
Molecular subtypes play a pivotal role in guiding preclinical and clinical risk assessment and treatment strategies in cancer. In this study, we extracted whole-tissue transcriptomic data from 1987 ovarian cancer patients spanning 26 independent Gene Expression Omnibus cohorts. A total of four consensus subtypes (C1-C4) were identified, notably, subtype C1 samples exhibited a poor prognosis and higher M2 macrophages infiltration, whereas subtype C2 samples demonstrated the best prognosis and higher CD4 resting T cells infiltration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBrief Bioinform
July 2024
Systematic investigation of tumor-infiltrating immune (TII) cells is important to the development of immunotherapies, and the clinical response prediction in cancers. There exists complex transcriptional regulation within TII cells, and different immune cell types display specific regulation patterns. To dissect transcriptional regulation in TII cells, we first integrated the gene expression profiles from single-cell datasets, and proposed a computational pipeline to identify TII cell type-specific transcription factor (TF) mediated activity immune modules (TF-AIMs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study delivers a thorough analysis of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in regulating programmed cell death (PCD), vital for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). We propose a new framework PCDLnc, and identified 20 significant lncRNAs, including HEIH, SNHG15, and SNHG5, associated with PCD gene sets, which were known for roles in proliferation and apoptosis in neurodegenerative diseases. By using GREAT software, we identified regulatory functions of top lncRNAs in different neurodegenerative diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOvarian cancer is one of the most lethal malignant tumors, characterized by high incidence and poor prognosis. Patients relapse occurred in 65-80% after initial treatment. To date, no effective treatment has been established for these patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Previous research has underscored the association between oily fish intake and type 2 diabetes (T2DM), yet the causality remains elusive.
Methods: A bidirectional univariable Mendelian Randomization (MR) analysis was employed to evaluate the causal effects of oily fish and non-oily fish intake on T2DM. Replication analysis and meta-analysis were conducted to ensure robust results.
The efficiency of the enzyme-free toehold-mediated strand displacement (TMSD) technique is often insufficient to detect single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) that possesses only single base pair mismatch discrimination. Here, we report a novel dual base pair mismatch strategy enabling TMSD biosensing for SNP detection under enzyme-free conditions when coupled with catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). The strategy is based on a competitive strand displacement reaction mechanism, affected by the thermodynamic stability originating from rationally designed dual base pair mismatch, for the specific recognition of mutant-type DNA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The optimal cycle of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) remains controversial. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of three and four cycles of NAC in the treatment of MIBC through a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature.
Materials And Methods: Relevant studies were systematically collected and reviewed in PubMed, Medline, Embase, Web of Science Databases, and the Cochrane Library.
Environ Sci Technol
August 2023
Increased epidemiological evidence indicates the association of bisphenol exposure with human vascular disorders, while the underlying mechanism has not been clarified. Here, we sought to unveil the potential angiogenic effect and the underlying mechanism of bisphenols with different structural features using endothelial cells treated with an environmentally relevant concentration of bisphenols (range: 1 nM to 10 μM) and a C57BL/6 mouse model fed with doses of 0.002, 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPollen development and its fertility are obligatory conditions for the reproductive success of flowing plants. () is known to be preferentially expressed and may play critical role in developing pollen. A 31-bp InDel was identified as a unique variation and was shown to be responsible for the expression of downstream gene in our previous study.
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