Ischemic stroke represents a major neurological disorder characterized by significant morbidity, where neuroinflammation plays a central role in exacerbating cerebral injury. Following ischemic events, microglial activation and the subsequent infiltration of peripheral immune cells, particularly neutrophils, contribute to the disruption of the blood-brain barrier and amplify neuronal damage. In the present study, as a part of our ongoing screening experiment to evaluate the anti-inflammatory effects of new compounds, a novel compound, namely N-{2-[(7-chloro-4-oxo-4H-pyrido[1,2-a] pyrimidin-2-yl) methoxy] phenyl}-2,2-dimethylpropanamide (referred to as CP-10 in this study), to test whether it could target microglial activation and neutrophil chemotaxis, both critical contributors to ischemic brain injury.
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March 2025
Background: Exercise brings great benefits to patients with depression and is recommended as adjunct treatment for depressive disorder. The low compliance to exercise makes the effective management of depression a serious challenge. Preferences for exercise are important for promoting intrinsic motivation, enjoyment, and behavior maintenance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Psychiatric nurses are instrumental in enhancing accessibility to care and addressing the mental health care needs of individuals. However, the field faces a significant shortage of nurses coupled with a high turnover rate. Developing policies to attract or retain psychiatric nurses is imperative, but little is known about the preferences of psychiatric nurses regarding the economic and non-economic attributes of work.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Achieving complete immune reconstitution (CIR) in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) following antiretroviral therapy (ART) is essential for preventing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) progression and improving survival. However, there is a paucity of robust prediction models for determining the likelihood of CIR in PLWH after ART. We aimed to develop and validate a CIR prediction model utilizing baseline data.
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July 2024
Introduction: Workplace violence against healthcare workers has become a serious global public health problem. The incidence of workplace violence towards Psychiatric nurses is higher than in all other medical institutions, up to 84.2% per year.
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February 2024
Introduction: Depression threatens people's lives and imposes huge economic burden. Antidepressant therapy is the first-line treatment for depression, and patient adherence to medication is the key to successful treatment. Depression patients have poor medication adherence, which leads to failure of depression management and significantly poorer clinical outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gastric cancer is a common cancer worldwide and is responsible for over one million new cases in 2020 and an estimated 769,000 deaths, ranking fifth for incidence and fourth for mortality globally. Incidence rates are highest in Eastern Asia and Eastern Europe. Gastric cancer is highly heterogeneous and progresses rapidly.
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November 2023
Background: Emerging evidence has shown that myeloid cells that infiltrate into the peri-infarct region may influence the progression of ischemic stroke by interacting with microglia. Properdin, which is typically secreted by immune cells such as neutrophils, monocytes, and T cells, has been found to possess damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) properties and can perform functions unrelated to the complement pathway. However, the role of properdin in modulating microglia-mediated post-stroke neuroinflammation remains unclear.
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December 2024
We aimed to explore the best orthodontic step distance of the right upper central incisor with mild, moderate, and severe pathological displacement achieved a clear aligner. Three-dimensional models of maxilla-tooth-periodontal ligament clear aligner of the right upper central incisors with five different steps of 0.1, 0.
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October 2023
Immune cell infiltration in response to myocyte death regulates extracellular matrix remodeling and scar formation after myocardial infarction (MI). Caspase-recruitment domain family member 9 (CARD9) acts as an adapter that mediates the transduction of pro-inflammatory signaling cascades in innate immunity; however, its role in cardiac injury and repair post-MI remains unclear. We found that Card9 was one of the most upregulated Card genes in the ischemic myocardium of mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe NLRP3 inflammasome is involved in the neuroinflammatory pathway of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The aim of this study is to explore the roles and underlying mechanisms of ginkgolide (Baiyu®) on amyloid precursor protein (APP)/presenilin 1 (PS1) transgenic mice and a murine microglial cell line, BV-2. In the present study, the APP/PS1 mice were administered with ginkgolide, followed by a Morris water maze test.
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June 2023
Background: The Swanson Nolan, and Pelham scale version IV (SNAP-IV) is the most critical tool for ADHD screening and diagnosis, which has two scoring methods. ADHD requires symptom assessment in multiple scenarios, and parent and teacher reports are indispensable for diagnosing ADHD. But the differences of assessment results from fathers, mothers and teachers, and the consistency of results from different scoring methods are unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Implicit rationing of nursing care can adversely affect patient safety and the quality of care, and increase nurses' burnout and turnover tendency. Implicit rationing care occurs at the nurse-to-patient level (micro-level), and nurses are direct participants. Therefore, the strategies based on experience of nurses to reduce implicit rationing care have more reference value and promotion significance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurposes: The purposes of this discrete choice experiment are as follows: (1) quantify the relevant characteristics that may affect the follow-up selection of gastric cancer patients after surgery and (2) explore the differences in follow-up preferences of gastric cancer patients at different stages and reveal the change trend of preferences over time, thereby providing references for the formulation and optimization of follow-up strategies.
Methods: A survey instrument that was developed using the design principle of a discrete choice experiment investigated gastric cancer patients on the day of discharge, and at 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months after discharge. In Stata 15.
Liquidambarines A - C (-), three new abietane-type diterpenoids, together with five known compounds (-) were isolated from the resin of Hance. Their structures were elucidated by the combination of spectroscopic and computational methods. We explored their anti-inflammatory potential by analyzing the protein expression of iNOS and COX-2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To explore the public's preference for psychological interventions through a discrete choice experiment and to provide references for formulating psychological intervention policies and establishing psychological intervention procedures in response to public health emergencies.
Methods: This study is a discrete choice experiment. Attributes and levels were identified through literature reviews, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and expert consultations.
Front Psychiatry
January 2022
Appl Biochem Biotechnol
June 2022
NF-κB signaling has been reported to play a key regulatory role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of ginkgolide on cell viability in an AD cellular model involving an APP/PS1 double gene-transfected HEK293 cell line (APP/PS1-HEK293) and further explore the mechanisms of action related to NF-κB signaling. The optimal time point and concentration of ginkgolide for cell proliferation were screened using a cell counting kit-8 assay.
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February 2022
Ischemic stroke is a severe and acute neurological disorder with limited therapeutic strategies currently available. Oxidative stress is one of the critical pathological factors in ischemia/reperfusion injury, and high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) may drive neuronal apoptosis. Rescuing neurons in the penumbra is a potential way to recover from ischemic stroke.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Follow-up care is important for gastric cancer survivors, but follow-up strategies for gastric cancer survivors remain inconsistent, and compliance of gastric cancer survivors with follow-up care is very low. Understanding the needs and preferences of gastric cancer survivors is conducive to developing appropriate and acceptable follow-up strategies, thereby improving patient compliance. Discrete choice experiments can quantify individual needs and preferences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIschemic stroke is a devastating disease with high morbidity and mortality rates, and the proinflammatory microglia-mediated inflammatory response directly affects stroke outcome. Previous studies have reported that JLX001, a novel compound with a structure similar to that of cyclovirobuxine D (CVB-D), exerts antiapoptotic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidative effects on ischemia-induced brain injury. However, the role of JLX001 in microglial polarization and nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptor family pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome regulation after ischemic stroke has not been fully investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Hypoglycemic drugs affect the bone quality and the risk of fractures in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We aimed to investigate the effects of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) and insulin on bone mineral density (BMD) in T2DM.
Methods: In this single-blinded study, a total of 65 patients with T2DM were randomly assigned into four groups for 52 weeks: the exenatide group ( = 19), dulaglutide group ( = 19), insulin glargine group ( = 10), and placebo ( = 17).
Support Care Cancer
February 2022
Purposes: The purposes of this discrete choice experiment are as follows: (1) to investigate the preferences of gastric cancer survivors for follow-up care, and (2) to quantify the importance of follow-up care-related characteristics that may affect the gastric cancer survivors' choices of their follow-up, so as to provide references for the development of the follow-up strategy of gastric cancer survivors.
Methods: Discrete choice experimental design principle was applied to develop the survey instrument. All questionnaires were filled out by the respondents and collected on site.
Background: It is very necessary to implement gastric cancer screening in China to reduce the mortality of gastric cancer, but there are no national screening guidelines and programs. Understanding of individual preferences is conducive to formulating more acceptable screening strategies, and discrete choice experiments can quantify individual preferences. In addition, the first-degree relatives of gastric cancer patients are at high risk for gastric cancer.
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