Maturation of Eupyrene Sperm upon Ejaculation Is Influenced by a Male Accessory Gland-Derived Serine Protease in .

is a globally significant fruit pest. Females achieve maximal reproductive output through efficient sperm utilization following a single copulation. Post-mating maturation of eupyrene sperm is a critical step in reproductive success.

Painless postauricular mass: An atypical presentation of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, also known as histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, is a rare self-limiting condition primarily characterized by cervical lymphadenopathy and fever. This report presents the case of a Han Chinese woman in her early 40s who had no significant medical history and presented with a painless mass behind her ear. She denied systemic symptoms such as fever, night sweats, or weight loss.

[Screening and Identification of Polyvinyl Chloride-degrading Bacteria and Its Degradation Characteristics].

Polyvinyl chloride （PVC） has been shown to be degraded by some insect larvae； however, research is scarce on degrading bacteria. This study revealed that larvae were able to keep a higher survival rate only when taking in PVC and reached up to 72.33% within 30 d.

Molecular identification of three cytochrome P450 genes and their potential roles in insecticides tolerance in Grapholita molesta (Busck).

The oriental fruit moth, Grapholita molesta (Busck), is a significant pest of Rosaceae trees worldwide and has developed resistance to various insecticides. Cytochrome P450 play a major role in detoxification of resistance to insecticides in insects. In this study, we found that Piperonyl butoxide (PBO), which inhibits the P450 activity, synergized with abamectin, imidacloprid, and L-cyhalothrin, increasing mortality rates of G.

Self-driven electrochemical system for struvite and energy recovery from digested wastewater: Device optimization strategy and long-term operation.

A self-driven electrochemical system (SDES) was utilized to treat anaerobic digestate wastewater, aiming to achieve wastewater resource utilization and energy generation. The efficiencies of pollutant removal, resource recovery, and energy production were enhanced by adjusting device parameters (anode area, external resistance, and electrode spacing). The high pollutant removal rates and struvite purity were achieved with the magnesium anode area of 15 cm, external resistance of 10 Ω, and electrode spacing of 10 cm.

Myosuppressin signaling deficiency affects ovarian development via repression of 20-hydroxyecdysone biosynthesis in Grapholita molesta.

The steroid 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) is crucial in regulating ovarian development. However, the neuropeptidergic mechanisms underlying ovarian development via 20E are underexplored. In this study, we investigated myosuppressin (MS) signaling in the dominant fruit pest Grapholita molesta and revealed that MS signaling is necessary for 20E biosynthesis during ovarian maturation.

Diagnostic utility of serum and urine biomarkers in idiopathic membranous nephropathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Membranous nephropathy is an autoimmune nephropathy that is one of the most common pathological types of nephrotic syndrome. It is important to find and apply specific biomarkers for the noninvasive diagnosis of idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN). However, there are limited data about their diagnostic value.

Condition optimization of iron-air fuel cell to treat phosphate-containing wastewater regarding sustainable development.

Increasing use of phosphorus products and excessive exploitation of phosphorus resources become two major problems in perspective of phosphorus sustainable development. Phosphorus recovery is the shortcut to solve this dilemma. Combining electrochemistry, an iron-air fuel cell was adopted to recover phosphate and electricity from phosphate-containing wastewater in our previous studies.

Aggregation enhances the activity and growth rate of anammox bacteria and its mechanisms.

The aggregation of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria is important for the start-up and biomass retention of anammox processes. However, it is unclear whether it is beneficial to the activity, growth and reproduction of anammox bacteria. In this study, four reactor systems were developed to explore the effects of aggregation on anammox activity, growth and reproduction, after excluding the contribution of aggregation to sludge settling and retention.

Precise diagnosis of three top cancers using dbGaP data.

The challenge of decoding information about complex diseases hidden in huge number of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotypes is undertaken based on five dbGaP studies. Current genome-wide association studies have successfully identified many high-risk SNPs associated with diseases, but precise diagnostic models for complex diseases by these or more other SNP genotypes are still unavailable in the literature. We report that lung cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer as the first three top cancers worldwide can be predicted precisely via 240-370 SNPs with accuracy up to 99% according to leave-one-out and 10-fold cross-validation.

Improvement of ferrous ion-dependent nitrate removal (FeNiR) process with chelating ferrous ion as substrate.

In order to improve the ferrous ion-dependent nitrate removal (FeNiR) process, hexametaphosphate chelated ferrous ion was used as substrate to replace the free ferrous ion. With hexametaphosphate chelated ferrous ion as substrate, the influent pH was adjusted to 6.8, and as a result a higher effluent pH (7.

[Operational Performance and Microbiological Characteristics of an Iron-Salt Denitrification Reactor in Co-substrate Mode].

When iron salt is used as an autotrophic denitrification electron donor, the high iron yield generated by oxidation is easy to precipitate, resulting in "iron encrustation" on the surface of denitrifying microorganisms, which inhibits their activity and even leads to their death. In order to solve the degradation of the efficiency of the autotrophic ferric denitrification reactor caused by the "iron encrustation" coating, this paper adopted the co-substrate mode to cultivate the ferric denitrification reactor; that is, a small amount of sodium acetate was added into the water of the reactor as an organic electron donor, to realize the efficient and stable operation of the ferric denitrification reactor. The results showed that adding an appropriate amount of organic matter could make the iron salt denitrification reactor run efficiently and stably, with an efficiency of up to 0.

[Retrospective analysis of 896 cases of parotid gland tumor].

Purpose: To review the clinical data of patients undergoing operation, in order to summarize the incidence, proportion, clinical examination and diagnostic methods of parotid tumors.

Methods: Eight hundred and ninty-six cases of parotid gland tumors were collected from 2008 January to 2015 July from department of oral and maxillofacial surgery in Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University. A retrospective study of the clinical data was carried out, including age, gender, tumor location, diagnostic methods and pathological results.

Long noncoding RNA LINC00305 promotes inflammation by activating the AHRR-NF-κB pathway in human monocytes.

Accumulating data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have provided a collection of novel candidate genes associated with complex diseases, such as atherosclerosis. We identified an atherosclerosis-associated single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) located in the intron of the long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) LINC00305 by searching the GWAS database. Although the function of LINC00305 is unknown, we found that LINC00305 expression is enriched in atherosclerotic plaques and monocytes.

Netrin-1 suppresses the MEK/ERK pathway and ITGB4 in pancreatic cancer.

The axon guidance factor netrin-1 promotes tumorigenesis in multiple types of cancers, particularly at their advanced stages. Here, we investigate whether netrin-1 is involved in the in vivo growth of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. We show that netrin-1 is significantly under-expressed in stage-I/II pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).

Association of type 2 diabetes genetic variants with breast cancer survival among Chinese women.

Objective: To evaluate whether the genetic susceptibility of T2D was associated with overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) outcomes for breast cancer (BC).

Methods: Included in the study were 6346 BC patients who participated in three population-based epidemiological studies of BC and were genotyped with either GWAS or Exome-chip. We constructed a genetic risk score (GRS) for diabetes using risk variants identified from the GWAS catalog (http://genome.

MicroRNA-100 functions as a tumor suppressor by inhibiting Lgr5 expression in colon cancer cells.

Previous studies have demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs), a class of single‑stranded RNA molecules that are 18‑27 nucleotides in length, serve a critical function in tumorigenesis, including in the development of colon cancer. In the current study, miR‑100 levels were demonstrated to be reduced in colon cancer tissues compared with the levels in matched adjacent normal tissues. Forced overexpression of miR‑100 by transfection with miR‑100 mimics substantially inhibited the proliferation, migration and invasion of SW480 and HCT116 cells, whereas reduced expression, resulting from transfection of antisense oligonucleotides, promoted these processes.

PML4 facilitates erythroid differentiation by enhancing the transcriptional activity of GATA-1.

Promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) has been implicated as a participant in multiple cellular processes including senescence, apoptosis, proliferation, and differentiation. Studies of PML function in hematopoietic differentiation previously focused principally on its myeloid activities and also indicated that PML is involved in erythroid colony formation. However, the exact role that PML plays in erythropoiesis is essentially unknown.

Involvement of spinal CC chemokine ligand 5 in the development of bone cancer pain in rats.

In this study, we aimed to investigate the role of spinal CC chemokine ligand 5 (CCL5) in the development of bone cancer pain (BCP). A BCP model was established by inoculation of Walker 256 cells into the intramedullary space of rat tibia. The levels of spinal CCL5 mRNA and protein expression significantly and time dependently increased in BCP rats compared with sham rats.

Research on the practical parameters of sex pheromone traps for the oriental fruit moth.

Background: The oriental fruit moth (OFM) is a worldwide fruit-boring insect pest. In China, OFM monitoring traps use a sex pheromone lure, but their overall design is varied. As such, there is a critical need to develop a standardised OFM trap design.

Lymph node ratio and preoperative CA 19-9 levels predict overall survival and recurrence-free survival in patients with resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Aim: Clinicopathologic factors predicting overall survival (OS) would help identify a subset to benefit from adjuvant therapy.

Methods: One hundred and sixty-nine patients patients from 1984 to 2009 with curative resections for pancreatic adenocarcinoma were included. Tumors were staged by American Joint Committee on Cancer 7th edition criteria.

[Complications and short-term outcomes of intraoperative electron radiotherapy (IOERT) in patients with periarticular soft-tissue sarcomas of the extremities].

Objective: To analyze the complications and short-term outcomes of patients receiving intraoperative electron radiotherapy (IOERT) for locally advanced and recurrent periarticular soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities.

Methods: Twenty-one adult patients with locally advanced and/or recurrent periarticular soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities treated with IOERT were included in this study. Among them 14 patients had recurrent diseases after prior operation and 7 patients with locally advanced disease with primary treatment.

[Expression of Survivin mRNA and Caspase-3 mRNA and their correlation in tongue squamous cell carcinoma].

Purpose: To investigate the expression of Survivin mRNA and Caspase-3 mRNA in tongue squamous cell carcinoma(TSCC), and clarify their significance and correlation in TSCC.

Methods: In situ hybridization technique was employed to detect the expression of Survivin mRNA and Caspase-3 mRNA in 10 normal lingual mucous membranes (NLMM) and 45 TSCCs. Data was analyzed with SPSS13.

[Effect of electroacupuncture on metabolism of lipids in rats of obesity induced by sodium glutamate].

Objective: To explore mechanisms of acupuncture for reducing of body weight.

Methods: The rat obesity model was developed by subcutaneous injection of sodium glutamate solution, and the experimental rats were divided into a blank control group, a model group, an electroacupuncture group and a sibutramine group; blood TC, TG, HDL-C, LDL-C contents and lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity, and serum leptin and insulin levels were determined.

Results: The body weight and Lee's index, and TG, TC and LDL-C contents in the electroacupuncture group decreased significantly as compared with those in the model group (all P<0.