Utilizing ultrasonography to determine the minimal transverse diameter of the subglottic airway for informed selection of reinforced cuffed endotracheal tube models in children.

Objective: We explored the use of ultrasonography in determining the minimal transverse diameter of the subglottic airway (MTDSA) for the purpose of choosing an appropriate model of reinforced cuffed endotracheal tube.

Methods: A total of 110 pediatric patients who received general anesthesia and tracheal intubation for selective surgeries at the hospital from February 2019 to February 2022 were chosen. They were then randomly assigned to three groups: 39 in the MTDSA group, 35 in the age formula group, and 36 in the height formula group.

Cistadesertosides B-E, Four New Diastereomeric Lignan Glycosides from the Stems of Cultural Cistanche deserticola in Tarim Desert.

Four previously undescribed diastereomeric lignan glycosides, namely cistadesertosides B-E (1-4) were isolated from the stems of cultural Cistanche deserticola in Tarim desert. The structures of these compounds were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analyses, including IR, HR-ESI-MS, 1D and 2D NMR, circular dichroism (CD) data and chemical degradation. The in vitro anti-inflammatory activity of the isolates was also investigated.

Enhancing Quality of Patients Care and Improving Patient Experience in China with Assistance of Artificial Intelligence.

Improving health of Chinese people has become national strategy according to the . Patient experience evaluation examines health care service from perspective of patients; it is important for improving health care quality. Applying artificial intelligence (AI) in patient experience is an innovative approach to assist continuous improvement of care quality of patient service.

as a Metabolic Engineering Platform for the Production of Very-Long-Chain Wax Esters.

The oleaginous yeast is an attractive cell factory platform strain and can be used for sustainable production of high-value oleochemical products. Wax esters (WEs) have a good lubricating property and are usually used as a base for the production of advanced lubricants and emollient oils. In this study, we reported the metabolic engineering of to heterologously biosynthesize high-content very-long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) and fatty alcohols and efficiently esterify them to obtain very-long-chain WEs.

Overproduction of Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters by the Oleaginous Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica through Metabolic Engineering and Process Optimization.

Recent advances in the production of biofuels by microbes have attracted attention due to increasingly limited fossil fuels. Biodiesels, especially fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs), are considered a potentially fully sustainable fuel in the near future due to similarities with petrodiesels and compatibility with existing infrastructure. However, biosynthesis of FAEEs is limited by the supply of precursor lipids and acetyl-CoA.

[Comparison of genetic damage in mice exposed to black carbon and ozone-oxidized black carbon].

Objective: To make an assessment on the genotoxicity caused by black carbon (BC) and ozonized black carbon (O₃-BC).

Methods: In this study, 74 healthy male ICR mice [weighed (28 ± 1.5) g] were randomly divided into 7 groups, including one phosphate buffer solution (PBS) control group and six particles exposed groups by intratracheal instillation with either BC or O₃-BC at the doses of 50, 100, 200 μg/mouse, respectively.

[Evidence-based study of chromate exposed workers' health surveillance indexes].

Objective: The health surveillance proposal for chromate exposed workers was provided and analyzed on the evidence-based study and then to be improved.

Method: Firstly, the related literatures were searched about liver damage, micronuclei, urinary chromium and hexavalent chromium exposure in Evidence Based Medicine Reviews such as Cochran library, OVID Medline, Web of knowledge in December 2011; and then, these literatures were reviewed in according to inclusion and exclusion criteria; 22 articles totally were retrieved, evaluated and classified in according to the grading standard by Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine.Finally, field epidemiological investigation was further adopted to confirm the efficiency and feasibility of this proposal, combined with cost-effectiveness analysis:the ratio of total cost divided survival years was used to express the cost-effectiveness.

Decreased histone H2B monoubiquitination in malignant gastric carcinoma.

Aim: To investigate H2B monoubiquitination (uH2B) and H3K4 di- and tri-methylation (H3K4-2me, H3K4-3me) levels and their clinical significance in gastric cancer (GC).

Methods: Immunohistochemistry (IGC) was used to detect the differential levels of uH2B, H3K4-2me and H3K4-3me modifications in GC specimens from chemo/radiotherapy-naïve patients who underwent potentially curative surgical resection (n = 159) and in a random sampling of non-tumor gastric epithelium specimens (normal controls, n = 20). The immunohistochemistry (IHC)-detected modifications were classified as negative, low-level, or high-level using a dual-rated (staining intensity and percentage of positively-stained cells) semi-quantitative method.

catena-Poly[[bis-(μ-2-formyl-6-meth-oxy-phenolato-1:2κO,O:O,O)copper(II)sodium]-μ-tetra-fluorido-borate-1:1'κF:F'].

In the title heterodinuclear complex, [CuNa(BF(4))(C(8)H(7)O(3))(2)](n), the Cu(II) ion is four-coordinated by four O atoms of two 2-formyl-6-meth-oxy-phenolate ligands, giving rise to a square-planar geometry. The Na(+) ion is six-coordinated by four O atoms from the two ligands and two F atoms of two tetra-fluoridoborate anions. The tetra-fluoridoborate anion links the Na(+) ions, forming a one-dimensional structure along [001].

catena-Poly[[bis-(μ-2-formyl-6-meth-oxy-phenolato)copper(II)sodium]-μ-nitrato].

In the title heterodinuclear complex, [CuNa(C(8)H(7)O(3))(2)(NO(3))](n), the Cu(II) ion is five-coordinated in a square-pyramidal arrangement by four atoms of two different ligand molecules in equatorial positions and one remote nitrate O atom in the apical position. The Na(+) ion is eight-coordinated by four ligand O atoms and four nitrate O atoms. The ligand links the Cu(II) and Na ions, forming a layered arrangement extending parallel to (001).

{μ-6,6'-Dimeth-oxy-2,2'-[ethane-1,2-diyl-bis(nitrilo-methanylyl-idene)]diphenolato-1κO,O,O,O;2κO,N,N',O}(methanol-1κO)(tetra-fluoridoborato-1κF,F')-2-copper(II)-1-sodium.

In the dinuclear salen-type title complex, [CuNa(BF(4))(C(18)H(18)N(2)O(4))(CH(3)OH)], the Cu(II) atom is chelated by two O atoms and two N atoms of the deprotonated Schiff base in a square-planar geometry. The Na atom is seven-coordinate as it is linked to four O atoms of the same Schiff base ligand, one O atom of the methanol and two tetra-fluorido-borate F atoms. The remaining two F atoms of the anion are disordered over two sites in a 0.

High-level expression, purification and characterization of codon-optimized recombinant hemagglutinin 5 proteins in mammalian cells.

Background: Numerous Asian cases of avian influenza virus infection, especially the highly pathogenic strain H5N1, in humans have raised the concern that another influenza pandemic is close. However, there are no effective therapeutic drugs or preventative vaccines available. Hemagglutinin is the membrane glycoprotein of avian influenza virus responsible for receptor binding to human cells and the main immunogenic protein that elicits a strong immune response.

[Determination of trace mercury in different sorts of Chinese herbs by atomic fluorescence spectrometry with microwave digestion].

A method for the determination of trace mercury in different sorts of Chinese herbs using hydride generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry under different microwave digestion conditions was developed. Under the optimized experimental conditions, the linear equation was I(F) = 809.1 x -3.