Landslides pose significant threats to human life and infrastructure globally. In China, the intensification of urbanization and human activities has exacerbated loess landslide risks, making monitoring and mitigation efforts increasingly critical. Rainfall, surface displacement, pore pressure, and seismic waves as key parameters for landslide monitoring.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Parkinson's disease (PD) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) present similar clinical symptoms, but their treatment options and clinical prognosis differ significantly. Therefore, we aimed to discriminate between PD and PSP based on multi-level indices of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) via the machine learning approach.
Materials And Methods: A total of 58 PD and 52 PSP patients were prospectively enrolled in this study.
JOURNAL/nrgr/04.03/01300535-202603000-00044/figure1/v/2025-06-16T082406Z/r/image-tiff Parkinson's disease is characterized by synucleinopathy-associated neurodegeneration. Previous studies have shown that glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) has beneficial effects in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease induced by 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe post-translational phosphorylation modification of stress-related proteins regulated by kinases and phosphatases is one of the crucial regulatory mechanisms for plants in response to salt stress. However, the paired kinases and phosphatases of the same substrate that participate in response to salt tolerance in crops, especially in cotton, remain to be elucidated. Here, we identified GhTOPP4aD as a negative regulator of salt-stress response in cotton.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSalinity is one of the major factors limiting the growth, development, and yield of cotton. Although the mechanisms of cotton tolerance to salt stress have been studied, the regulatory roles and mechanisms of protein kinases and phosphatases in cotton salt response remain poorly understood. Here, we identify Type One Protein Phosphatase 4aD (), belonging to the Type One Protein Phosphatase (TOPP) family, as a negative regulator in cotton salt stress response.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate whether radiomics features derived from hippocampal functional imaging can effectively differentiate cognitively impaired patients from cognitively preserved patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).
Methods: The study included a total of 89 clinically definite PD patients, comprising 55 who werecognitively impaired and 34 who were cognitively preserved. All participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging and clinical assessments.
BackgroundWhile the "swallow tail" sign observed in the substantia nigra (SN) on susceptibility map-weighted imaging (SMWI) serves as an effective marker for differentiating patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) from healthy individuals, its visual assessment proves inadequate in differentiating PD from atypical Parkinson syndromes (APS).PurposeTo employ radiomic features extracted from multi-echo SMWI of the SN to distinguish between PD and APS.Material and MethodsSMWI data were acquired from 63 PD patients, 38 APS patients, and 89 healthy controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a sensitive indicator of climate change and a key variable in ecosystem surface-atmosphere interaction, vegetation phenology, and the growing season length, as well as climatic factors (i.e., temperature, precipitation, and sunshine duration) are widely recognized as key factors influencing vegetation productivity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-affinity K (HAK) transporters play essential roles in facilitating root K uptake in higher plants. Our previous studies revealed that GhHAK5a, a member of the HAK family, is crucial for K uptake in upland cotton. Nevertheless, the precise regulatory mechanism governing the expression of GhHAK5a remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cancer Res Clin Oncol
November 2023
Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a common leukemia with low cure rate and poor prognosis among pediatric patients. The regulation of AML immune microenvironment and methylation remains to be explored. Pediatric and adult AML patients differ significantly in epigenetic factors, and the efficiency of treatment modalities varies between the two groups of patients.
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June 2023
K channels of the family have been shown to play crucial roles in K uptake and transport. Cotton () is an important cash crop. In this study, the 24 family genes were identified in cotton.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Tradit Chin Med
August 2023
Thidiazuron (TDZ) is a widely used chemical defoliant in cotton and can stimulate the production of ethylene in leaves, which is believed to be the key factor in inducing leaf abscission. Ethephon (Eth) can also stimulate ethylene production in leaves, but it is less effective in promoting leaf shedding. In this study, the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) and RNA-seq were used to determine specific changes at hormonal levels as well as transcriptomic mechanisms induced by TDZ compared with Eth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLancet Child Adolesc Health
April 2023
Background: ZF2001 is a recombinant protein subunit vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 that has been approved for use in China, Colombia, Indonesia, and Uzbekistan in adults aged 18 years or older, but not yet in children and adolescents younger than 18 years. We aimed to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of ZF2001 in children and adolescents aged 3-17 years in China.
Methods: The randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 1 trial and the open-label, non-randomised, non-inferiority, phase 2 trial were done at the Xiangtan Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Hunan Province, China).
Virol Sin
October 2022
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter trial was conducted in healthy Chinese infants to assess the efficacy and safety of a hexavalent live human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine (HRV) against rotavirus gastroenteritis (RVGE). A total of 6400 participants aged 6-12 weeks were enrolled and randomly assigned to either HRV (n = 3200) or placebo (n = 3200) group. All the subjects received three oral doses of vaccine four weeks apart.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The aim of this study was to investigate the immunogenicity and safety of the enterovirus 71 vaccine (EV71 vaccine) administered alone or simultaneously.
Methods: A multi-center, open-label, randomized controlled trial was performed involving 1080 healthy infants aged 6 months or 8 months from Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Hunan provinces. These infants were divided into four simultaneous administration groups and EV71 vaccine separate administration group.
Sci Total Environ
September 2022
Wildfire outbreaks can lead to extreme biomass burning (BB) emissions of both oxidized (e.g., nitrogen oxides; NO = NO+NO) and reduced form (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEfficient allocation of the essential nutrient potassium (K ) is a central determinant of plant ion homeostasis and involves AKT2 K channels. Here, we characterize four AKT2 K channels from cotton and report that xylem and phloem expressed GhAKT2bD facilitates K allocation and that AKT2-silencing impairs plant growth and development. We uncover kinase activity-dependent activation of GhAKT2bD-mediated K uptake by AtCBL4-GhCIPK1 calcium signalling complexes in HEK293T cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFN Engl J Med
June 2022
Background: The ZF2001 vaccine, which contains a dimeric form of the receptor-binding domain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and aluminum hydroxide as an adjuvant, was shown to be safe, with an acceptable side-effect profile, and immunogenic in adults in phase 1 and 2 clinical trials.
Methods: We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial to investigate the efficacy and confirm the safety of ZF2001. The trial was performed at 31 clinical centers across Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Ecuador; an additional center in China was included in the safety analysis only.
Front Cardiovasc Med
March 2022
Objective: To identify the feature of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methylation modification genes in acute aortic dissection (AAD) and explore their relationships with immune infiltration.
Methods: The GSE52093 dataset including gene expression data from patients with AAD and healthy controls was downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database in order to obtain the differentially expressed genes (DEGs). The differentially methylated m6A genes were obtained from the GSE147027 dataset.
Thidiazuron (TDZ) is widely used as a defoliant to induce leaf abscission in cotton. However, the underlying molecular mechanism is still unclear. In this study, RNA-seq and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) were performed to reveal the dynamic transcriptome profiling and the change of endogenous phytohormones upon TDZ treatment in leaf, petiole, and abscission zone (AZ).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Clinical symptoms such as major defects in energy metabolism may involve the hypothalamus in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. Our recent study discovered that the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of rs2619566, rs79609816 and rs10260404 are associated with sporadic ALS (sALS). Thus, this study aims to investigate the hypothalamic functional reorganization and its association with the above polymorphisms risk alleles in sALS patients of Chinese Han ancestry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParkinson's disease (PD) is a common degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Although some drugs can alleviate the progress of PD, their long-term use will lead to complications, so it is still necessary to find new drugs to delay or cure PD effectively. In view of the difficulty in developing new drugs, it is imperative to discover new functions of existing compounds that could be used to treat PD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe composition of the gut microbiota, including Akkermansia muciniphila (A. muciniphila), is altered in many neurological diseases and may be involved in the pathophysiological processes of Parkinson's disease (PD). A.
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