Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent psychiatric condition that affects millions of people worldwide and is a leading cause of disability. Chronic stress is a key factor in the development of MDD, leading to...
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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent psychiatric condition that affects millions of people worldwide and is a leading cause of disability. Chronic stress is a key factor in the development of MDD, leading to hyperactivation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and elevated glucocorticoid levels, which in turn affect brain function and structure. Astrocytes, crucial for maintaining central nervous system (CNS) homeostasis, play a significant role in the pathophysiology of MDD. Dysregulation of glucocorticoid signaling in astrocytes contributes to changes in astrocyte survival, reactivity, metabolism, neurotrophic support, gliotransmitter release, and neuroinflammation, exacerbating depressive symptoms. This review explains the necessity for exploring the effects of glucocorticoid in astrocytes and subsequent MDD progression. Firstly, we briefly explore the glucocorticoid signaling and the multifaceted function of astrocytes. Then, this study discusses the mechanisms by which chronic stress and glucocorticoid exposure induce astrocyte-mediated neurodegenerative changes, highlighting the importance of targeting glucocorticoid-related signaling of astrocytes in developing therapeutic interventions for MDD. Understanding these mechanisms could lead to the development of more effective treatments aimed at restoring astrocyte function and alleviating MDD.
Diagrammatic summation is a common bottleneck in modern applications of projected entangled-pair states, especially in computing low-energy excitations of a two-dimensional quantum many-body system. To solve this prob...
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Studying the real-time dynamics of strongly correlated systems poses significant challenges, which have recently become more manageable thanks to advances in density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) and tensor netw...
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We study the simplest quantum lattice spin model for the two-dimensional (2D) cubic ferromagnet by means of mean-field analysis and tensor network calculation. While both methods give rise to similar results in detect...
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XERICO's capacity to enhance ABA-driven stress responses across diverse crops, its regulatory crosstalk with other hormonal pathways, and its compatibility with advanced genetic engineering tools highlight its cen...
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The cement industry has been the cornerstone of economic development since the Industrial Revolution. However, the calcination process used to produce cement raw materials releases various pollutants, such as carbon d...
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The cement industry has been the cornerstone of economic development since the Industrial Revolution. However, the calcination process used to produce cement raw materials releases various pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur oxides, which are key contributors to global warming. Therefore, innovative technologies are urgently needed to minimize the environmental impact of the cement industry. In recent years, microalgae have gained attention because of their advantages in recovering resources and reducing the impacts of industrial pollutants. The use of microalgae to address the environmental challenges associated with cement production remains largely overlooked in current reviews. This review summarizes the recent advances in the utilization of microalgae to address the environmental challenges posed by the cement industry. Microalgae offer two main pathways for environmental mitigation: the (i) production of bio-cement as an eco-friendly alternative for construction and (ii) conversion of cement flue gases into biomass feedstock with high-value downstream applications. We also identify existing challenges and propose an integrative “Microalgae–Bacteria Consortium” system as a sustainable strategy for the significant reduction of the environmental footprint of cement production. This approach has the potential to transform the cement industry into a more sustainable and eco-friendlier sector. Overall, microalgae provide an innovative and sustainable platform to revolutionize the cement industry into a greener sector, supporting the global shift toward a low-carbon, circular economy.
We investigate the thermal-transport properties of the kagome antiferromagnet Cd-kapellasite (Cd-K). We find that a field-suppression effect on the longitudinal thermal conductivity κxx sets in below approximately 25...
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We investigate the thermal-transport properties of the kagome antiferromagnet Cd-kapellasite (Cd-K). We find that a field-suppression effect on the longitudinal thermal conductivity κxx sets in below approximately 25 K. This field-suppression effect at 15 T becomes as large as 80% at low temperatures, suggesting a large spin contribution κxxsp in κxx. We also find clear thermal Hall signals in the spin liquid phase in all Cd-K samples. The magnitude of the thermal Hall conductivity κxy shows a significant dependence on the sample’s scattering time, as seen in the rise of the peak κxy value in almost linear fashion with the magnitude of κxx. On the other hand, the temperature dependence of κxy is similar in all Cd-K samples; κxy shows a peak at almost the same temperature of the peak of the phonon thermal conductivity κxxph which is estimated by κxx at 15 T. These results indicate the presence of a dominant phonon thermal Hall κxyph at 15 T. In addition to κxyph, we find that the field dependence of κxy at low fields turns out to be nonlinear at low temperatures, concomitantly with the appearance of the field suppression of κxx, indicating the presence of a spin thermal Hall κxysp at low fields. Remarkably, by assembling the κxx dependence of κxysp data of other kagome antiferromagnets, we find that, whereas κxysp stays a constant in the low-κxx region, κxysp starts to increase as κxx does in the high-κxx region. This κxx dependence of κxysp indicates the presence of both intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms in the spin thermal Hall effect in kagome antiferromagnets. Furthermore, both κxyph and κxysp disappear in the antiferromagnetic ordered phase at low fields, showing that phonons alone do not exhibit the thermal Hall effect. A high field above approximately 7 T induces κxyph, concomitantly with a field-induced increase of κxx and the specific heat, suggesting a coupling of the phonons to the field-induced spin excitations as the origin of κxyph.
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