The anti-inflammatory properties of silkworm pupa peptide(SPP)have been recognized for their potential benefits in colitis ***,the underlying mechanism of SPP in colitis animal models remains *** objective of our work...
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The anti-inflammatory properties of silkworm pupa peptide(SPP)have been recognized for their potential benefits in colitis ***,the underlying mechanism of SPP in colitis animal models remains *** objective of our work was to investigate the improving effect and the mechanism of action of SPP on a mouse model of dextran sulfate sodium(DSS)-induced *** findings suggested that SPP effectively eased ulcerative colitis(UC)symptoms in mice by decreasing disease activity index,ameliorating histopathological injury,and decreasing serum and colonic markers of *** addition,our research findings demonstrated that SPP restored intestinal barrier function by increasing the production of tight junction proteins such as zonula occludens-1(ZO-1),claudin-1,claudin-3,occludin,and adherens junction protein ***,SPP supplementation enhanced the concentration of short-chain fatty acids and positively altered the makeup of the gut bacteria in the mice's *** findings underscore SPP's ability to slow the progression of colitis and point to its possible use as a functional component in dietary supplements for the prevention of early-stage colitis.
Aegilops speltoides,the closest ancestor of the wheat B subgenome,has been well studied ***,the epigenetic landscape of *** and the effects of epigenetics on its growth and development remain poorly ***,we present a c...
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Aegilops speltoides,the closest ancestor of the wheat B subgenome,has been well studied ***,the epigenetic landscape of *** and the effects of epigenetics on its growth and development remain poorly ***,we present a comprehensive multi-omics atlas of leaves and roots in ***,encompassing transcriptome,DNA methylation,histone modifications,and small RNA *** DNA methylation levels were detected between leaves and roots,and were associated with differences in accumulated 24-nt *** methylation changes in promoters and gene bodies showed strong connections with altered expression between leaves and *** regulatory networks(TRN)reconstructed between leaves and roots were driven by tissue-specific TF *** methylation and histone modification act together as switches that shape root and leaf morphogenesis by modulating the binding of tissue-specific TFs to their target *** TRNs in leaves and roots reshaped during wheat polyploidization were associated with alterations in epigenetic ***,these results not only shed light on the critical contribution of epigenetic regulation in the morphogenesis of leaves and roots in *** but also provide new insights for future investigations into the complex interplay of genetic and epigenetic factors in the developmental biology of common wheat.
Cor a 14 is one of the most vital allergens in ***,the features of intestinal metabolites and microbiota associated with Cor a 14-induced allergy remain *** this study,we established a hazelnut Cor a 14-allergic BALB/...
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Cor a 14 is one of the most vital allergens in ***,the features of intestinal metabolites and microbiota associated with Cor a 14-induced allergy remain *** this study,we established a hazelnut Cor a 14-allergic BALB/c mice model,which was distinguished by the dropped temperature and enhanced allergic inflammatory factor levels in *** were collected to detect characteristics of the intestinal metabolites by untargeted metabolomics and the gut microbiota by 16S rRNA ***α-andβ-diversity of gut microbiota in Cor a 14-allergic mice differed from the controls with elevated relative abundance of Lactobacillus and reduced relative abundances of Odoribacter,Chloroplast,Alistipes and Lachnospiraceae_NK4A136_*** metabolomics results revealed that 238 significantly differential metabolites(111 up-regulated,127 down-regulated)were identified,of which,L-tryptophan,histamine and N-acetylhistamine were remarkably accumulated and primarily enriched in the enhanced L-tryptophan and histidine metabolism *** correlation analysis suggested that L-tryptophan was positively correlated with allergic indicators and screened as the potential biomarker for Cor a 14 ***,our findings uncovered the characteristics of intestinal metabolites and gut microbiota during Cor a 14 anaphylaxis and provided new potential insights for diagnosis of hazelnut allergy.
Background:Intervertebral disc degeneration(IVDD)is a multifaceted condition characterized by heterogeneity,wherein the balance between catabolism and anabolism in the extracellular matrix of nucleus pulposus(NP)cells...
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Background:Intervertebral disc degeneration(IVDD)is a multifaceted condition characterized by heterogeneity,wherein the balance between catabolism and anabolism in the extracellular matrix of nucleus pulposus(NP)cells plays a central ***,the available treatments primarily focus on relieving symptoms associated with IVDD without offering an effective cure targeting its underlying pathophysiological processes.D-mannose(referred to as mannose)has demonstrated anti-catabolic properties in various ***,its therapeutic potential in IVDD has yet to be ***:The study began with optimizing the mannose concentration for restoring NP *** analyses were employed to identify the mediators influenced by mannose,with the thioredoxin-interacting protein(TXNIP)gene showing the most significant ***,small interfering RNA(siRNA)technology was used to demonstrate that TXNIP is the key gene through which mannose exerts its *** such as colocalization analysis,molecular docking,and overexpression assays further confirmed the direct regulatory relationship between mannose and *** elucidate the mechanism of action of mannose,metabolomics techniques were employed to pinpoint glutamine as a core metabolite affected by ***,various methods,including integrated omics data and the Gene Expression Omnibus(GEO)database,were used to validate the one-way pathway through which TXNIP regulates ***,the therapeutic effect of mannose on IVDD was validated,elucidating the mechanistic role of TXNIP in glutamine metabolism in both intradiscal and orally treated ***:In both in vivo and in vitro experiments,it was discovered that mannose has potent efficacy in alleviating IVDD by inhibiting *** a mechanistic standpoint,it was shown that mannose exerts its anti-catabolic effects by directly targeting the transcription factor max-like protein X-interacting protein(MondoA),re
Clostridioides difficile is the predominant pathogen in hospital-acquired infections and antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Dedicated networks and annual reports for C. difficile surveillance have been established in Eur...
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Clostridioides difficile is the predominant pathogen in hospital-acquired infections and antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Dedicated networks and annual reports for C. difficile surveillance have been established in Europe and North America, however the extensive investigation on the prevalence of C. difficile infection (CDI) in china is limited. In this study, 1528 patients with diarrhea were recruited from seven geographically representative regions of china between July 2021 and July 2022. The positivity rate of toxigenic C. difficile using real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR test of feces was 10.2% (156/1528), and 125 (8.2%, 125/1528) strains were successfully isolated. The isolates from different geographical areas had divergent characteristics after multilocus sequence typing, toxin gene profiling, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. No isolate from clade 2 were found, and clade 1 was still the main clade for these clinical isolates. Interestingly, clade 4, especially ST37, previously known as the characteristic type of china, showed a strong geographical divergence. Clade 3, although rare in china, has been detected in Hainan and Sichuan provinces. Most C. difficile isolates (76.8%, 96/125) were toxigenic. Clindamycin, erythromycin, and moxifloxacin were the top three antibiotics to which resistance was observed, with resistance rates of 81.3%, 63.6%, and 24.0%, respectively. Furthermore, 34 (27.2%, 34/125) multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains were identified. All the strains were sensitive to metronidazole, vancomycin, and meropenem. The genotype of C. difficile varies greatly among the different geographical regions in china, and new types are constantly emerging. Therefore, comprehensive, longitudinal, and standardized surveillance of C. difficile infections is needed in china, covering typical geographical areas.
A morphology-based growth stage system should describe the growth and development of a crop and thereby help farmers and agronomists in formulating reasonable managementmeasures conducive to the development of marketa...
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A morphology-based growth stage system should describe the growth and development of a crop and thereby help farmers and agronomists in formulating reasonable managementmeasures conducive to the development of marketable ***,existing growth stage systems for soybean are either based on plant growth or covered particular phases of flower or pod development,making it difficult to use for tracking the entire growth period of individual flowers and ***,the first flower and pod,located at the base of the primary raceme in the eighth trifoliate node of the main stem,were chosen to illustrate growth dynamics during the full reproductive *** size and fresh weight of the primary raceme in the eighth trifoliate leaf axil,the first flower and pod,the pistils in the first flower,and seeds in the first pod were examined,and the growth of these organs was *** the morphological characteristics and growth features of flowers and pods,as well as existing growth stage systems,the growth and development were delineated in 13 *** detail,we classified the flower phase based on the relative positions of floral components,inspired by the ratio of bract to flower used for staging,refined the lag phase proposed previously,retained the use of pod length to define the early pod phase,and innovatively described the late pod phase by the seed *** developmental events in each stage of flower and pod were distinctive and closely connected to the corresponding *** together,a more detailed growth stage system for describing individual flowers and pods in soybean was *** system will serve as a valuable research tool for describing the development,gene expression,and cellular metabolism associated with the formation of flowers,pods,and seeds.
A lab-scale adiabatic reactor has been self-made to characterize the coupled properties of heat and reactions during the co-thermal-processing of coal and biomass with steam or steam/O2 gasification agents. Results sh...
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The main characteristic of a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier chip (RSOA) is that it does not generate optical resonance under electric pumping and maintains the operation state of spontaneous emission. In t...
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The main characteristic of a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier chip (RSOA) is that it does not generate optical resonance under electric pumping and maintains the operation state of spontaneous emission. In this paper, a Nb2O5/SiO2/Nb2O5/SiO2 (four-layer Nb2O5/SiO2) film system is employed as the coating material for the output facet of the RSOA. The 3 dB spectral width of the spontaneous emission spectrum from this RSOA reaches 79.4 nm, with a ripple of less than 1 dB occurring across this wavelength range. Notably, around the 1550 nm wavelength, the ripple is as low as 0.5 dB. This represents the best performance reported for this type of chip. The RSOA is packaged as a narrow-linewidth external cavity laser. Under test conditions of 25 degrees C and 180 mA, the external cavity laser produces an output power of 12.6 mW and achieves a linewidth of 299.8 Hz. Furthermore, by adjusting the Fabry-P & eacute;rot (FP) standard cavity, filtering, and other external cavity parameters, the lasing spectrum of the narrow-linewidth external cavity laser based on the RSOA is tunable across a wavelength range from 1535.83 nm to 1561.42 nm, which shows the usability of the proposed ROSA for a C-band external cavity narrow-linewidth laser.
Flowfield inverse design can obtain the desired flow and contour with high design efficiency,short design cycle,and small modification *** this study,the Euler equations are formulated in the stream-function coordinat...
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Flowfield inverse design can obtain the desired flow and contour with high design efficiency,short design cycle,and small modification *** this study,the Euler equations are formulated in the stream-function coordinates and combined with the given boundary conditions to derive a gridless space-marching method for the inverse design of subsonic,transonic,and supersonic *** can prescribe the flow parameters along the reference streamline to design flowfields and aerodynamic *** method is validated by the theoretical transonic solution,computational fluid dynamics,and experimental data,*** method supports the fabrication of a Mach 2.0 single expansion *** calibration data agree well with the prescribed pressure *** method is successfully applied to inverse design of contractions,nozzles,and asymmetric *** to classical analytic contractions,the contractions designed by the space-marching method provide a more accurate transonic *** to the classical Sivells’nozzle,the nozzle designed by the space-marching method provides a smaller workload,a more flexible velocity distribution,a 20%reduction in length,and an equally uniform ***,the space-marching method is applied to design the asymmetric channels under various Mach *** asymmetric channels perfectly eliminate Mach waves,achieving the shock-free flow turning and high flow *** results validate the feasibility of the space-marching method,making it a good candidate for the inverse design of subsonic,transonic,and supersonic internal flowfields and aerodynamic contours.
Bronze holds immense artistic, historical, and scientific significance, representing a valuable component of humanity's cultural heritage. Despite its cultural value, bronze is susceptible to corrosion and damage ...
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Bronze holds immense artistic, historical, and scientific significance, representing a valuable component of humanity's cultural heritage. Despite its cultural value, bronze is susceptible to corrosion and damage caused by environmental factors. This paper prepared an environmentally friendly poly(vinyl alcohol)/ poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PVA/PEGDA) microgel loaded with L-cysteine (Cys), which effectively protects fragile bronze artifacts. In this study, the color and microstructure of the bronze coatings were characterized using a camera, colorimeter and scanning electron microscope. The results showed that the PVA/PEGDA microgels loaded with Cys (PVA/PEGDA + Cys microgels coating) not only did not change the color and appearance of the bronze, but also adhered and bonded well to the bronze surface. Confocal microscopy confirmed the soft and self-healing properties of the PVA/PEGDA + Cys microgels coating. Electrochemical testing and analysis showed that the PVA/PEGDA + Cys microgels coating exhibited excellent corrosion inhibition performance, with a corrosion inhibition efficiency of as high as 95.66%. The compressive test shows that the PVA/PEGDA + Cys microgels coating has certain reinforcement properties for bronze. The complete removal of PVA/PEGDA + Cys microgels coating can be achieved by spraying ethanol solution, indicating the enormous potential of microgels coating in protecting corroded bronze artifacts in the short term.
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