Effect Evaluation and Mechanism Study of Polyether Surfactant-Assisted Supercritical Carbon Dioxide-Oil Miscibility Based on the Visible Vanish of Interface Measurement Method.

Research on reducing the minimum miscible pressure (MMP) of CO and oil is imperative for the advancement of CO flooding, which can effectively enhance the recovery of low-permeability reservoirs and enable CO geological storage. However, the conventional methods of determining the MMP (e.g.

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the ventrolateral orbital cortex regulates spared nerve injury-induced neuropathic pain and related emotional disorders in mice.

Patients with neuropathic pain frequently experience comorbidity with anxiety and depression and lack of effective treatment. The ventrolateral orbital cortex (VLO) plays a pivotal role in regulating neuropathic pain, anxiety, and depression. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), abundant in the central nervous system, has increasingly been reported to play a crucial role in modulating pain, anxiety, and depression through the tyrosine kinase receptor B (TrkB).

Cross-regulation of methylation and oxidative stress: molecular mechanisms and intervention strategies of diabetic cardiomyopathy.

Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM)-a myocardial pathology that is both singular and independent of coronary artery disease and hypertension-constitutes an intrinsically specific cardiac alteration in individuals with diabetes mellitus, whose labyrinthine pathogenesis portends profound compromise of ventricular performance and existential quality of life. In recent years, studies have found that DNA methylation and oxidative stress are closely related to the occurrence and development of diabetic cardiomyopathy. DNA methylation participates in the oxidative damage, metabolic abnormalities, and apoptosis of myocardial cells by regulating the expression of key antioxidant enzymes, inflammatory factors, and mitochondrial function-related genes.

Plasmon-mediated dual S-scheme charge transfer in CuS/InS/BiS hollow polyhedrons for efficient Photothermal-Assisted photocatalysis.

Step-scheme (S-scheme) semiconductor junction has garnered considerable attention for its potential applications in photocatalytic energy conversion. However, the photocatalytic activity of S-scheme junctions is restricted by inadequate light absorption and low charge separation efficiency. Herein, a plasmon-mediated dual S-scheme junction is constructed by growing InS and BiS nanoparticles on CuS hollow polyhedrons, exhibiting efficient photothermal-assisted photocatalysis.

Dynamic memristor for physical reservoir computing.

Reservoir computing (RC) has attracted considerable attention for its efficient handling of temporal signals and lower training costs. As a nonlinear dynamic system, RC can map low-dimensional inputs into high-dimensional spaces and implement classification using a simple linear readout layer. The memristor exhibits complex dynamic characteristics due to its internal physical processes, which renders them an ideal choice for the implementation of physical reservoir computing (PRC) systems.

Coronary artery calcification and risk of mortality and adverse outcomes in patients with COVID-19: a Chinese multicenter retrospective cohort study.

Background: Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is an independent risk factor of major adverse cardiovascular events; however, the impact of CAC on in-hospital death and adverse clinical outcomes in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remains unclear.

Objective: To explore the association between CAC and in-hospital mortality and adverse events in patients with COVID-19.

Methods: This multicenter retrospective cohort study enrolled 2067 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients with definitive clinical outcomes (death or discharge) admitted from 22 tertiary hospitals in China between January 3, 2020 and April 2, 2020.

Risk factors for adverse clinical outcomes with COVID-19 in China: a multicenter, retrospective, observational study.

The risk factors for adverse events of Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) have not been well described. We aimed to explore the predictive value of clinical, laboratory and CT imaging characteristics on admission for short-term outcomes of COVID-19 patients. This multicenter, retrospective, observation study enrolled 703 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted to 16 tertiary hospitals from 8 provinces in China between January 10, 2020 and March 13, 2020.

BECTS Substate Classification by Granger Causality Density Based Support Vector Machine Model.

To investigate the performance of substate classification of children with benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) by granger causality density (GCD) based support vector machine (SVM) model. Forty-two children with BECTS (21 females, 21 males; mean age, 8.6 ± 1.

Application of Three-Dimensional Printing Technology in the Orbital Blowout Fracture Reconstruction.

The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical outcomes of orbital blowout fracture repair by using the three-dimensional (3D) printing-assisted fabrication of individual titanium mesh. Clinical and radiologic data were analyzed for 12 patients with orbital floor and/or medial wall fractures. Lower eyelid incision was used to expose the fractures.

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound for differentiating benign from malignant solid small renal masses: comparison with contrast-enhanced CT.

Purpose: The study aimed to compare the diagnostic efficiency of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) with that of contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) in the evaluation of benign and malignant small renal masses (SRMs) (<4 cm) confirmed by pathology.

Methods: A total of 118 patients with 118 renal masses smaller than 4 cm diagnosed by both CEUS and CECT were enrolled in this study, including 25 benign lesions and 93 malignant lesions. All lesions were confirmed by histopathologic diagnosis after surgical resection.

Supercooling Capacity and Cold Tolerance of the Wild Silkworm, Antheraea pernyi (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae).

While wild silkworms have served humans for several thousand years, little attention on cold hardiness has been paid to these economically important species. In the present study, supercooling capacity and low temperature tolerance of Chinese oak silkworm, Antheraea pernyi (Guérin-Méneville) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae), an economic insect reared both for silk production as well as human food, were examined under laboratory conditions. The supercooling points (SCPs) of pupae dropped significantly from a mean of -15.

A novel member of the NSF family in the corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea: molecular cloning, developmental expression, and tissue distribution.

N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein (NSF) is an ATPase that plays an essential role in intracellular membrane transport events. We report the cloning of a cDNA encoding NSF from the noctuid moth, Helicoverpa zea (Hez), a major agricultural pest. The amino acid sequence deduced from the cDNA indicates that Hez-NSF has 88%, 73%, and 70% identities to NSF from Manduca sexta, Aedes aegypti, and Drosophila melanogaster, respectively.

Juvenile hormone diol kinase, a calcium-binding protein with kinase activity, from the silkworm, Bombyx mori.

Juvenile hormone (JH) diol kinase (JHDK) is an important enzyme involved in the JH degradation pathway. Bombyx mori (Bommo)-JHDK cDNA (637bp) contains an open reading frame encoding a 183-amino acid protein, which reveals a high degree of identity to the two previously reported JHDKs. JHDK is similar to GTP-binding proteins with three conserved sequence elements involved in purine nucleotide binding, contains eight alpha-helices and three EF-hand motifs, and resembles the three-dimensional model of 2SCP and some other calcium-binding proteins.

Molecular characterization and expression of prothoracicotropic hormone during development and pupal diapause in the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera.

Using a strategy of rapid amplification of cDNA ends, the cDNA encoding prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) was cloned from the brain of Helicoverpa armigera (Hearm). The Hearm-PTTH cDNA contains an open reading frame encoding a 226-amino acid preprohormone, which shows high identity with the closely related noctuid moths, Helicoverpa zea (98%) and Heliothis virescens (94%), and low identity with five species of Bombycoidea: Bombyx mori (57%), Manduca sexta (55%), Hyalophora cecropia (52%), Samia cynthia ricini (49%) and Antheraea peryni (48%). Hearm-PTTH cDNA shares important structural characterization known from other PTTHs, such as seven cysteine residues, proteolytic cleavage site, glycosylation site, and hydrophobic regions within the mature peptides.

Developmental expression of FXPRLamide neuropeptides in peptidergic neurosecretory cells of diapause- and nondiapause-destined individuals of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera.

The diapause hormone (DH)-pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide (PBAN) gene encodes five neuropeptides, DH, PBAN, alpha-SGNP, beta-SGNP, and gamma-SGNP (subesophageal ganglion neuropeptide). All share the C-terminal pentapeptide FXPRLamide sequence and are produced in the subesophageal ganglion (SG). Expression of the DH-PBAN gene in the central nervous system of embryonic, larval, pupal, and adult Helicoverpa armigera (Har) was studied using in situ hybridization, whole-mount immunocytochemistry, and competitive ELISA.

Molecular and biochemical characterization of juvenile hormone epoxide hydrolase from the silkworm, Bombyx mori.

One major route of insect juvenile hormone (JH) degradation is epoxide hydration by JH epoxide hydrolase (JHEH). A full-length cDNA (1536 bp) encoding a microsomal JHEH was isolated from the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Bommo-JHEH cDNA contains an open reading frame encoding a 461-amino acid protein (52 kDa), which reveals a high degree of similarity to the previously reported insect JHEHs.

The diapause hormone-pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide gene of Helicoverpa armigera encodes multiple peptides that break, rather than induce, diapause.

FXPRLamide peptides encoded by the DH-PBAN (diapause hormone-pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide) gene induce embryonic diapause in Bombyx mori, but terminate pupal diapause in Helicoverpa armigera (Har). Here, we explore the mechanisms of terminating pupal diapause by the FXPRLamide peptides. Using quantitative RT-PCR, we observed that expression of Har-DH-PBAN mRNA in the SG of nondiapause-type pupae was significantly higher than in diapause-type pupae.

Effect of the brain and suboesophageal ganglion on pupal development in Helicoverpa armigera through regulation of FXPRLamide neuropeptides.

Recent studies in Helicoverpa armigera report a novel role for diapause hormone (DH), pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide (PBAN) and three other FXPRLamide neuropeptides secreted from suboesophageal ganglion (SG) in terminating pupal diapause. In the present paper, we investigated the role of these five FXPRLamide family neuropeptides on pupal development. Although removal of SG could not make nondiapause-destined pupae enter diapause-like status, it did make them eclose approximately 0.