Capsicum chinense is one of the best ingredients for making chili sauces and extracting capsaicin. In this study, we identified 59 genes associated with shikimic acid, phenylpropane, unsaturated fatty acids, phenylalanine, valine, leucine, isoleucine and other metabolic pathways based on pepper genome. In the present study, 58 of the 59 genes involved in capsaicin synthesis were found to be unevenly distributed on 11 chromosomes, and several genes with the same number of exons and high...

Aerosol loadings and their spatial distribution are among the most important atmospheric information needed for a range of applications such as air quality monitoring, climate research, and public health. A key measure of aerosol quantity is aerosol optical depth (AOD) and it has been routinely observed from space by Earth observing satellites/instrument, especially the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Despite its global coverage and daily temporal resolution, the MODIS Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC)...

Aerosol loadings and their spatial distribution are among the most important atmospheric information needed for a range of applications such as air quality monitoring, climate research, and public health. A key measure of aerosol quantity is aerosol optical depth (AOD) and it has been routinely observed from space by Earth observing satellites/instrument, especially the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Despite its global coverage and daily temporal resolution, the MODIS Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC)...

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Although cardiac disorder-related adverse events (AEs) have been reported in patients treated with aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) agonists, their safety profiles remain unknown. Here, we identified significant cardiac disorders associated with AHR agonists and further evaluated their relevance. Database queries were performed using OpenVigil 2.1 and AEs voluntarily submitted to Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) between 2004 and 2020 were included. This study based on the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities...

The destruction of the ecological system caused by urban expansion has led to the environmental deterioration, cities have become increasingly vulnerable. In this study, six districts and counties along the Yellow River in Zhengzhou were selected as the study area. First, green infrastructure elements were extracted by morphological spatial pattern analysis. Then, outside the urban areas, we used connectivity analysis to evaluate the importance of core areas, adopted minimum cumulative resistance model to extract potential...

Lamivudine is a first-line medication used for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment. To date, the population pharmacokinetics of lamivudine in Chinese HIV-infected adults have not been assessed. This study aimed to develop a population pharmacokinetic model for oral lamivudine in Chinese HIV-infected adults and to determine the optimal lamivudine dosage regimens. A total of 1113 samples, from 828 Chinese HIV-infected patients treated with lamivudine 300 mg every 24 hours, were pooled from two open-label, prospective...

Regional studies have found significant agglomeration effects of education development on economic growth. Regional favouritism is potentially closely related to public investment in education, further impacting regional growth. This paper provides significant empirical evidence on the potential impact of favouritism on education development in the Chinese context. Using data for 282 Chinese cities from 1996 to 2016 with treatment for endogeneity (Lewbel two-stage least squares estimator), the results provide evidence that Chinese provincial political leaders...

Predicting omalizumab treatment response has been a challenge and significant aspect for selecting suitable severe allergic asthma patients for omalizumab use. To determine which domains of pretreatment baseline characteristics predict omalizumab treatment response among asthmatic patients. Electronic bases were searched for eligible studies that reported potential biomarkers that could predict omalizumab responsiveness and efficacy. Patients who accepted omalizumab treatment were stratified into responders and non-responders. WMD, OR, and their 95%CI were used to access the...

Drug delivery and triggered release in tumor cells would realize the ultimate goal of precise cancer treatment. An APE1 triggered DNA nanoprism was designed, aiming at the applications of both drug delivery and precise triggered drug release in cancer cell. We demonstrate that the AP-Prism was successfully used as a vehicle based on the intracellular endogenous enzyme APE1 triggered for controlled drug delivery and triggered release. The box like DNA prism was self-assembled by annealing...

Taking the lower Yellow River basin as the study area, this study aims to construct ecological networks to mitigate the negative impacts of rapid urbanization on the ecosystem. Ecological sources were identified based on morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA), habitat quality and landscape connectivity. The ecological resistance surface was constructed and corrected by integrating natural and anthropogenic factors. The spatial range of ecological corridors and some of their key nodes were identified based on circuit...

The alloying of precious metals with non-noble metals in the active components for hydrogen activation during regeneration of the solid acid catalyst in hydrogenation conditions, can reduce the cost of the catalyst and improve the catalytic efficiency of precious metals. However, it lacks a theoretical method to guide the development of non-noble-metal-based alloy catalysts. In this work, the dependence of hydrogen adsorption and dissociation of alloy models on various non-noble-metal bases has been investigated by...

Model averaging has a rich history dating from its use for combining forecasts from time-series models (Bates and Granger) and presents a compelling alternative to model selection methods. We propose a frequentist model averaging procedure defined over categorical regression splines (Ma, Racine, and Yang) that allows for mixed-data predictors, as well as nonnested and heteroscedastic candidate models. We demonstrate the asymptotic optimality of the proposed model averaging estimator, and develop a post-averaging inference theory for...

Many panel data have the latent subgroup effect on individuals, and it is important to correctly identify these groups since the efficiency of resulting estimators can be improved significantly by pooling the information of individuals within each group. However, the currently assumed parametric and semiparametric relationship between the response and predictors may be misspecified, which leads to a wrong grouping result, and the nonparametric approach hence can be considered to avoid such mistakes. Moreover, the...

Many panel data have the latent subgroup effect on individuals, and it is important to correctly identify these groups since the efficiency of resulting estimators can be improved significantly by pooling the information of individuals within each group. However, the currently assumed parametric and semiparametric relationship between the response and predictors may be misspecified, which leads to a wrong grouping result, and the nonparametric approach hence can be considered to avoid such mistakes. Moreover, the...

Despite their poor tolerance, weak opioids are still the most commonly-prescribed medicine for osteoarthritis (OA)-related pain. The objective of this network meta-analysis was to comparatively examine the efficacy and safety of weak opioids in OA treatment. Databases including PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library and Web of Science were searched from inception to 4 April 2022 to retrieve randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing weak opioids with placebo or between one another in OA patients. Bayesian network meta-analysis...

Four new ionones and ionone glycosides (1–4) were isolated from the whole plant of Rehmannia piasezkii Maxim. Their planar structures as well as absolute configuration were confirmed via spectroscopic analysis, ECD calculation, and X-ray crystallography. Compounds 1–4 were tested for their cytotoxicity against five human tumor cell lines and ability to inhibit LPS-activated NO production in the BV2 cell line.

Additional file 2. Predicted binding sites through JASPAR database, and the sequences of the constructed Luciferase activity reporter assays.

Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 1. Clinical features of 60 HNSCC patients. Supplementary Table 2. Oligonucleotide sequences used in this study. Supplementary Table 3. Antibodies used in this study. Supplementary Table 4. Primer sequences used for qRT-PCR in this study. Supplementary Table 5. Primers used for luciferase reporter in this study. Supplementary Table 6. Primers used for ChIP Assays in this study.

Additional file 1: Figure S1. Correlation between gene significance and related module membership. A. The correlation between gene significance and module membership in the gray module. B. The correlation between gene significance and module membership in the blue module. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

Additional file 5: Figure S5. Kaplan-Meier survival curve according to the DLC1 expression level for 48 AML patients in our center. Kaplan-Meier plots was used to visualize the overall survival probability of 48 patients based on the expression of DLC1 at diagnosis in our center.

Additional file 2: Figure S1. Demarcation of patients using a SNN modularity optimization-based clustering algorithm. A Unsupervised clustering of NSCLC samples with four clusters. B Unsupervised clustering of LUAD and LUSC samples. C Distribution of LUAD and LUSC samples in four different clusters. Figure S2. Associations between NSCLC subtypes and TME features. A Levels of stromal score, immune score, ESTIMATE score, and tumor purity in LUAD (n = 512), LUSC (n = 430), and LASC...

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605221132711 for New onset atrial fibrillation during orthotopic liver transplantation induced by iced saline injection for transpulmonary thermodilution: a case report by Xin Li, Xu Wang and Zheng Guan in Journal of International Medical Research

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