Anticipating postoperative complications in hepatobiliary surgery: procalcitonine as predictive factor.

Background And Aims: Few studies have indicated that procalcitonin has a potential role in anticipating postoperative complications of hepatic surgery. Here, we focused on validating the relationship between posthepatectomy and serum procalcitonin as short-term prognostic factors.

Methods: Data from 52 patients who underwent hepatectomy (partial) due to hepatocellular carcinoma from June 2018 to July 2023 were enrolled to evaluate the risk factors related to post-hepatectomy complications, especially post-hepatectomy liver failure and 30-day survival.

Acupuncture clinical hotspots and trends from 2013 to 2022: A bibliometric and visualized analysis.

Through bibliometric analysis, trends in international acupuncture clinical development, key research areas, and current scientific issues were identified based on literature published from 2013 to 2022. Literature on acupuncture in clinical settings was retrieved and analyzed in this study utilizing the Web of Science database. A visualization analysis of the scientific landscape was performed using CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and GraphPad Prism.

Associations between the oral microbiome, number of teeth and frailty among American adults: A cross-sectional study from NHANES 2009-2012.

Background: The intricate interrelationship between oral health, the number of teeth, oral microbiota, and frailty remains largely unexplored in clinical research. This study aimed to investigate the interrelationship between oral microbiome, the number of teeth, and frailty.

Methods: Data from 4518 participants in NHANES 2009-2012 were analyzed.

Unraveling the Relationship between Key Aroma Compounds and Sensory Characteristics of Cherry-Red Tobacco.

Cherry-red tobacco has aroused significant interest in both the academic and industrial fields due to its unique aroma style. In order to analyze the aroma characteristics of Cherry-red tobacco and the intrinsic aroma substance basis, the aroma compounds were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), the aroma characteristics were verified by sensory evaluation, and a correlation analysis was further conducted. The sensory evaluation suggested that Cherry-red tobacco was significantly richer in aroma, containing a total of 11 aromas, among which nutty, bean, herbal, and spicy were the characteristic aromas.

Computed tomography enterography-based radiomics nomograms to predict inflammatory activity for ileocolonic Crohn's disease: a preliminary single-center retrospective study.

Objectives: This study aims to develop and validate nomograms that utilize morphological and radiomics features derived from computed tomography enterography (CTE) to evaluate inflammatory activity in patients with ileocolonic Crohn's disease (CD).

Methods: A total of 54 CD patients (237 bowel segments) with clinically confirmed CD were retrospectively analyzed. The Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease (SES-CD) was used as a reference standard to quantify the degree of mucosal inflammation and assess disease severity.

Improving the simulation accuracy of summer maize growth and yield by pixel-based parameterization based on assimilating upscaled MODIS LAI.

Accurately simulating maize (Zea mays L.) yield at the regional scale is of paramount importance for making informed policy adjustments and for ensuring food security. Sobol sensitivity analysis was used in this study to screen sensitive parameters of a process-based crop model (Chinese Agricultural Meteorological Model, CAMM).

The nicotine demethylase CYP82E4 is essential for the formation of red dapples on flue-cured leaves of cherry-red tobacco.

Common flue-cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) primarily accumulates nicotine, and its flue-cured leaves exhibit a lemon appearance. In contrast, a spontaneous cherry-red variant (CR60) primarily accumulates nornicotine, accompanied by distinctive red dapples on the cured leaves.

Efficacy and tolerability of oxcarbazepine in the treatment of focal epilepsy in neonates and infants under 3 months of age: A single-center retrospective analysis.

Objective: The neonatal and infantile period is the age group with the highest incidence of epilepsy, in which gene variants in sodium and potassium channels are an important etiology, so the sodium channel blocker class of antiseizure medications may be effective in the treatment of early onset epilepsy. This study aimed to summarize the efficacy and tolerability of oxcarbazepine (OXC) in the treatment of focal epilepsy in neonates and infants under 3 months of age.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of children with focal epilepsy onset within 3 months of age and treated with OXC in a tertiary pediatric epilepsy center in China was conducted.

Effect and environmental behaviour of microplastics in soil.

Soil microplastic pollution is currently a worldwide concern. Microplastics are organic pollutants that are abundant in the natural environment, are persistent and difficult to degrade and may endanger human health while harming the environment. This article offers a bibliometric analysis of the environmental behaviour of microplastics in soils, as well as a thorough statistical analysis of research goals and trends in this field.

The Top 100 Cited Articles on Acupuncture in the Last 20 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis.

Background: Acupuncture has gained increasing international attention in recent decades. The act of incorporating acupuncture treatment into the routine treatment of COVID-19 in China drove us to review the 100 most influential articles of the last 20 years to learn about the current status and trends of acupuncture.

Method: Articles related to acupuncture from January 1, 2001, to July 4, 2022, were searched in the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection database.

The clinical spectrum associated with ATP1A2 variants in Chinese pediatric patients.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical spectrum associated with ATP1A2 variants in Chinese children with hemiplegia, migraines, encephalopathy or seizures.

Methods: Sixteen children (12 males and 4 females), including ten patients with ATP1A2 variants whose cases had been published previously, were identified using next-generation sequencing.

Results: Fifteen patients had FHM2 (familial hemiplegic migraine type 2), including three who had AHC (alternating hemiplegia of childhood) and one who had drug-resistant focal epilepsy.

Characterization of feruloyl esterases from Pecoramyces sp. F1 and the synergistic effect in biomass degradation.

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Effect of hydroxyl on antioxidant properties of 2,3-dihydro-3,5-dihydroxy-6-methyl-4-pyran-4-one to scavenge free radicals.

It is well known that 2,3-dihydro-3,5-dihydroxy-6-methyl-4-pyran-4-one (DDMP) is usually formed in the Maillard reaction and it contributes to the antioxidant properties of Maillard reaction intermediates. A series of hydroxyl group protected DDMP derivatives were synthesized to further understand the source of antioxidant activity. Antioxidant abilities of the DDMP derivatives were evaluated by scavenging the 2,2'-azinobis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonate) cationic radical (ABTS˙), 2,2'-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical (DPPH), and galvinoxyl radical, respectively.

Synthesis of 2,3-dihydro-3,5-dihydroxy-6-methyl-4H-pyran-4-one from maltol and its taste identification.

2,3-Dihydro-3,5-dihydroxy-6-methyl-4H-pyran-4-one (DDMP) exists in many foods, and its effect on taste is controversial. The aim of this study was to clarify whether DDMP has bitter taste or not. For this purpose, DDMP was synthesized from maltol instead of from glucose for the first time.

Mahalanobis distance based similarity regression learning of NIRS for quality assurance of tobacco product with different variable selection methods.

Quality assurance is one of the key issues in tobacco industry and many efforts have been put on the quality control. This paper introduces a new chemometrics technique to estimate the "quality similarity rate", which is used for quality control. The value of the quality similarity rate represents the similarity degree between the products and the standard reference samples, which is a global parameter that can be generated by either human assessors or machine learning.

Interactions between Anaerobic Fungi and Methanogens in the Rumen and Their Biotechnological Potential in Biogas Production from Lignocellulosic Materials.

Anaerobic fungi in the digestive tract of herbivores are one of the critical types of fiber-degrading microorganisms present in the rumen. They degrade lignocellulosic materials using unique rhizoid structures and a diverse range of fiber-degrading enzymes, producing metabolic products such as H/CO, formate, lactate, acetate, and ethanol. Methanogens in the rumen utilize some of these products (e.

Clinical characteristics and gene mutation analysis of an adult patient with ETFDH‑related multiple acyl‑CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.

Multiple acyl‑CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of fatty acid metabolism caused by defects in electron transfer flavoprotein (ETF) or electron transfer flavoprotein dehydrogenase (ETFDH). These defects are mainly classified into the neonatal and late‑onset types, based on their clinical manifestations. ETFDH gene mutations are generally considered to be associated with the late‑onset type.

Association between diabetic neuropathy and osteoporosis in patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: Many studies have explored the association between neuropathy and osteoporosis in patients with diabetes mellitus. However, the results still remain inconsistent and controversial. We aimed to estimate the association between diabetic neuropathy and osteoporosis.

The enrichment of anaerobic fungi and methanogens showed higher lignocellulose degrading and methane producing ability than that of bacteria and methanogens.

In this study, rumen content was used to obtain three enrichments of anaerobic fungi and methanogens (F + M enrichment), bacteria and methanogens (B + M enrichment), and whole rumen content (WRC enrichment), to evaluate their respective ability to degrade lignocellulose and produce methane. Among the treatments, F + M enrichment elicited the strongest lignocellulose degradation and methane production ability with both rice straw and wheat straw as substrates. Quantitative real-time PCR analysis and diversity analyses of methanogens in the three enrichment treatments demonstrated that F + M had larger number of 16S rRNA gene copies of methanogens and higher relative abundance of Methanobrevibacter, the predominant methanogen found in all enrichments.

Effect of thyrotropin suppressive therapy on heart rate variability and QT dispersion in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.

The effects of thyrotropin (TSH) suppressive therapy on autonomic regulation and ventricular repolarization in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) have not been elucidated. The aim of present study was to evaluate variation in heart rate variability (HRV) and QT dispersion after TSH suppressive therapy in patients with DTC.Cases, defined as 271 patients with DTC within 1 year of exogenous levothyroxine, and all patients underwent a full history, physical examination, including standard 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG), and 24 h ambulatory ECG monitoring (Holter) with normal free thyroxine (FT4) and free triiodothyronine (FT3) with levothyroxine.

Heterozygous mutation of in patients with hypophosphatemic kidney stones and osteoporosis: a case report.

Hypophosphatemic kidney stones with osteoporosis is a rare disease clinically. Mutations in the solute carrier family 34 member 1 gene (), encoding NaPi-IIa, are considered to be associated with this disease. In this report, a 38-year-old Chinese woman was diagnosed with hypophosphatemic kidney stones with osteoporosis.