The peripheral immune system has emerged as a regulator of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.Microglia are resident immune cells in the brain that may orchestrate communication between the centra...The peripheral immune system has emerged as a regulator of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.Microglia are resident immune cells in the brain that may orchestrate communication between the central nervous system and peripheral immune system,though the mechanisms are unclear.Here,we found that gamma-type immunoglobulin,a product originating from peripheral blood B cells,localized in the brain parenchyma of multiple mouse models with amyloid pathology,and was enriched on microglia but not on other brain cell types.Further experiments showed that gamma-type immunoglobulin bound to microglial cell membranes and led to diverse transcriptomic changes,including upregulation of pathways related to phagocytosis and immunity.Functional assays demonstrated that gamma-type immunoglobulin enhanced microglial phagocytic capacity for amyloid-beta fibrils via its Fc fragment,but not Fab fragment,fragment.Our data indicate that microglia,when exposed to gamma-type immunoglobulin,exhibit an enhanced capacity for clearing amyloid-beta fibrils,potentially via the gamma-type immunoglobulin Fc fragment signaling pathway.This suggests that parenchymal gamma-type immunoglobulin should be further investigated to determine whether it may play a beneficial role against Alzheimer’s disease by enhancing microglial function.展开更多
Intracerebral hemorrhage is the most dangerous subtype of stroke,characterized by high mortality and morbidity rates,and frequently leads to significant secondary white matter injury.In recent decades,studies have rev...Intracerebral hemorrhage is the most dangerous subtype of stroke,characterized by high mortality and morbidity rates,and frequently leads to significant secondary white matter injury.In recent decades,studies have revealed that gut microbiota can communicate bidirectionally with the brain through the gut microbiota–brain axis.This axis indicates that gut microbiota is closely related to the development and prognosis of intracerebral hemorrhage and its associated secondary white matter injury.The NACHT,LRR,and pyrin domain-containing protein 3(NLRP3)inflammasome plays a crucial role in this context.This review summarizes the dysbiosis of gut microbiota following intracerebral hemorrhage and explores the mechanisms by which this imbalance may promote the activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome.These mechanisms include metabolic pathways(involving short-chain fatty acids,lipopolysaccharides,lactic acid,bile acids,trimethylamine-N-oxide,and tryptophan),neural pathways(such as the vagus nerve and sympathetic nerve),and immune pathways(involving microglia and T cells).We then discuss the relationship between the activated NLRP3 inflammasome and secondary white matter injury after intracerebral hemorrhage.The activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome can exacerbate secondary white matter injury by disrupting the blood–brain barrier,inducing neuroinflammation,and interfering with nerve regeneration.Finally,we outline potential treatment strategies for intracerebral hemorrhage and its secondary white matter injury.Our review highlights the critical role of the gut microbiota–brain axis and the NLRP3 inflammasome in white matter injury following intracerebral hemorrhage,paving the way for exploring potential therapeutic approaches.展开更多
Cryogenic rolling impacts on microstructure and mechanical properties of spray-formed 7055(SF-7055)Al alloy were investigated.Results show that with the increase of the reduction from 20%to 80%,the grain of cryogenic ...Cryogenic rolling impacts on microstructure and mechanical properties of spray-formed 7055(SF-7055)Al alloy were investigated.Results show that with the increase of the reduction from 20%to 80%,the grain of cryogenic rolled SF-7055 Al alloy is elongated to form a fiber texture.Numerous proliferating dislocations in the microstructure accumulate into dislocation walls and cells,and eventually form subgrains.These subgrain boundaries divide the original grain,thereby reducing the grain size.Under severe deformation conditions,they even enable the formation of nanograins.Meanwhile,the Cu-rich precipitates in the matrix are also broken and refined under the action of large rolling stress.In the process of cryogenic rolling,the tensile strength and hardness of SF-7055 Al alloy gradually increase,while the plasticity decreases.Moreover,the fracture morphology of cryogenic rolled SF-7055 Al alloy gradually transforms to the ductile and quasi-cleavage hybrid fracture characteristics with increased reduction.展开更多
Objectives:Ferroptosis resistance may contribute to tumor progression and immune escape.This study evaluated the prognostic and immunological significance of glutathione peroxidase 4(GPX4),a core ferroptosissuppressiv...Objectives:Ferroptosis resistance may contribute to tumor progression and immune escape.This study evaluated the prognostic and immunological significance of glutathione peroxidase 4(GPX4),a core ferroptosissuppressive enzyme,in surgically resected lung adenocarcinoma.Methods:We retrospectively analyzed 104 patients with primary lung adenocarcinoma who underwent curative resection.GPX4 protein expression was assessed by immunohistochemistry(IHC)using the histological score(H-score),and patients were classified as GPX4-low(n=54)or GPX4-high(n=50).Intratumoral immune contexture was quantified using CD3,CD4,CD8,CD68,programmed cell death protein 1(PD-1),and programmed death-ligand 1(PD-L1)staining.Disease-free survival(DFS)and overall survival(OS)were analyzed using Cox regression.Cutoff sensitivity analyses,category consolidation,ridge-penalized Cox regression,events-per-variable assessment,bootstrap internal validation,and interobserver reproducibility testing were performed to strengthen statistical robustness.Results:GPX4-high tumors were associated with systemic inflammatory and immune-related features,including elevated fibrinogen(p=0.015),lower lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio(p=0.003),and altered aspartate aminotransferase-to-alanine aminotransferase ratio(p=0.028).GPX4-high tumors showed reduced intratumoral CD3+,CD4+,CD8+,and CD68+immune-cell infiltration,together with increased PD-1 and PD-L1 expression,indicating an immune-cold yet checkpoint-enriched phenotype.After category consolidation and ridge-penalized multivariable adjustment,high GPX4 expression remained independently associated with worse DFS(HR,8.63;95%CI,2.99-24.91;p<0.001)and OS(HR,6.94;95%CI,2.44-19.74;p<0.001).GPX4-based prognostic models showed bias-corrected C-index values of 0.782 for DFS and 0.826 for OS,with calibration slopes of 0.964 and 0.937,respectively.Conclusions:High GPX4 expression identifies a clinically adverse,ferroptosis-resistant,immune-remodeled phenotype in resected lung adenocarcinoma.Integrating GPX4 with clinicopathological and inflammatory variables may improve postoperative risk stratification.展开更多
Background:Microglial activation is a hallmark of retinal neurodegeneration.However,whether microglia predominantly drive inflammatory damage or support tissue adaptation after acute photoreceptor injury remains uncle...Background:Microglial activation is a hallmark of retinal neurodegeneration.However,whether microglia predominantly drive inflammatory damage or support tissue adaptation after acute photoreceptor injury remains unclear.Resolving this issue is critical for defining therapeutic strategies.As colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor(CSF1R)signaling is essential for microglial survival,its pharmacological inhibition enables selective microglial depletion in vivo.Here,we used the CSF1R inhibitor PLX5622 in the N-methyl-N-nitrosourea(MNU)model to directly test the contribution of microglia to inflammation and photoreceptor degeneration.Methods:C57BL/6J mice received PLX5622 for 14 days before and throughout a 5-day MNU regimen.Retinal structure was assessed by fundus photography,optical coherence tomography(OCT),and hematoxylin and eosin(H&E)histology.Visual function was evaluated via electroretinography(ERG).Global transcriptomic alterations were profiled by RNA-seq,and selected inflammatory and complement mediators were assessed by Western blot.Results:PLX5622 treatment resulted in near-complete depletion of TMEM119+/Iba1+microglia in MNU-injured retinas.Microglia depletion was associated with reduced fundus white lesions,preserved outer nuclear layer(ONL)thickness and nuclei density,and significantly rescued ERG a-and b-wave amplitudes.Transcriptomic analysis further revealed broad attenuation of pro-inflammatory and innate immune pathways,accompanied by modulation of antioxidant responses,mitochondrial/metabolic alterations,neuron-related signaling,and macroglial activation-related programs.Consistently,Western blot analysis confirmed that MNU-induced upregulation of IL-1β,C3,and C1qa was markedly reduced following PLX5622 treatment.Conclusions:Pharmacological CSF1R inhibition leading to efficient retinal microglial depletion attenuated neuroinflammatory responses and preserved photoreceptor structure and visual function in acute toxic retinal degeneration.These findings indicate that microglial activation functions predominantly as a pathogenic amplifier rather than an adaptive response in this context,and identify CSF1R-dependent myeloid signaling as a key mechanistic driver of injury-associated retinal degeneration.展开更多
Citric acid accumulation is an essential process in citrus fruits that determines fruit flavor and marketability.The MBW complex transcription factor genes,CsAN11,CsAN1,and CsPH4 play key roles in regulating citric ac...Citric acid accumulation is an essential process in citrus fruits that determines fruit flavor and marketability.The MBW complex transcription factor genes,CsAN11,CsAN1,and CsPH4 play key roles in regulating citric acid accumulation.Although how to regulate CsAN1 or CsPH4 was widely investigated,studies on the regulation of CsAN11 are scarce.In this study,we characterized the AP2/ERF(APETALA2/ethylene response factor)transcription factor gene CsAIL6,which is lowly expressed in high-acid citrus varieties and highly expressed in low-acid citrus varieties.Overexpressing CsAIL6 obviously decreased the citric acid content in citrus fruits,calli,or tomatoes,whereas silencing CsAIL6 significantly increased the fruit citric acid content.Additionally,transcript levels of CsAN11,CsAN1,and CsPH4 were significantly increased by silencing CsAIL6;only the CsAN11 transcript level was significantly decreased by overexpressing CsAIL6.Similarly,only the tomato AN11(SIAN11)transcript level in CsAIL6 stably overexpressing fruits was markedly lower than that in wild-type(WT)fruits.Further experiments revealed that overexpressing CsAN11 significantly increased the organic acid content but had no obvious influence on the CsAIL6 transcript level;in addition,CsAIL6 only interacts with CsAN11,rather than with CsAN1 and CsPH4 of the MBW complex.Taken together,our findings verified that CsAIL6 negatively regulates citric acid accumulation through directly interacting with the WD40 protein CsAN11,which provides a new mechanism for citric acid accumulation in fruits through the regulation of the MBW complex.展开更多
The solar interfacial evaporation has a broad application prospect in the fields of steam generation and seawater desalination to deal with the global shortage of fresh-water resources.Bamboo is a great material for s...The solar interfacial evaporation has a broad application prospect in the fields of steam generation and seawater desalination to deal with the global shortage of fresh-water resources.Bamboo is a great material for solar interface evaporators because of its low thermal conductivity and inherent micro-channel porous structure.In this paper,a novel bamboo-based solar interface evaporator with a bionic ripple wave surface structure has been proposed.The subsequent evaporation experiments have been conducted to investigate the salt resistance,stability and water absorption of the bionic ripple bamboo based solar interface evaporator.The results have exhibited that the bamboo's water absorption has been enhanced after carbonization modification.Besides,it should be pointed out that this bamboo-based evaporator’s evaporation rate has dropped during the prolonged simulated seawater evaporation experiment,yet it remained fairly consistent at approximately 1.626 kg·m-2·h-1.The appearance for this experimental phenomenon is the decrease of the floatability of the evaporator constricted by the stored water body absorbed by the evaporator and the deposition of NaCl crystals at the photothermal interface.Besides,compared with the plate-structure evaporator,the salt deposition in the evaporator equipped with the bionic ripple wave surface structure is greatly improved.In regard to its advantages in low cost,environmental friendliness,good salt tolerance and high evaporation rate,the bamboo-based solar interface evaporator with a bionic ripple wave surface structure can provide a potential solution to the global problem of fresh-water shortage.展开更多
BACKGROUND The use of network pharmacology and blood metabolomics to study the patho-genesis of violent aggression in patients with schizophrenia and the related drug mechanisms of action provides new directions for r...BACKGROUND The use of network pharmacology and blood metabolomics to study the patho-genesis of violent aggression in patients with schizophrenia and the related drug mechanisms of action provides new directions for reducing the risk of violent aggression and optimizing treatment plans.AIM To explore the metabolic regulatory mechanism of olanzapine in treating patients with schizophrenia with a moderate to high risk of violent aggression.METHODS Metabolomic technology was used to screen differentially abundant metabolites in patients with schizophrenia with a moderate to high risk of violent aggression before and after olanzapine treatment,and the related metabolic pathways were identified.Network pharmacology was used to establish protein-protein interaction networks of the core targets of olanzapine.Gene Ontology functional analysis and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway enrichment analysis were subsequently performed.RESULTS Compared with the healthy group,the patients with schizophrenia group presented significant changes in the levels of 24 metabolites related to the disruption of 9 metabolic pathways,among which the key pathways were the alanine,aspartate and glutamate metabolism and arginine biosynthesis pathways.After treatment with olanzapine,the levels of 10 differentially abundant metabolites were significantly reversed in patients with schizophrenia.Olanzapine effectively regulated six metabolic pathways,among which the key pathways were alanine,aspartate and glutamate metabolism and arginine biosynthesis pathways.Ten core targets of olanzapine were involved in several key pathways.CONCLUSION The metabolic pathways of alanine,aspartate,and glutamate metabolism and arginine biosynthesis are the key pathways involved in olanzapine treatment for aggressive schizophrenia.展开更多
Metamaterials are composite materials whose material properties(acoustic, electrical, magnetic, or optical, etc.) are determined by their constitutive structural materials, especially the unit cells. The development o...Metamaterials are composite materials whose material properties(acoustic, electrical, magnetic, or optical, etc.) are determined by their constitutive structural materials, especially the unit cells. The development of metamaterials continues to redefine the boundaries of materials science. In the field of electromagnetic research and beyond, these materials offer excellent design flexibility with their customized properties and their tunability under external stimuli. In this paper, we first provide a literature review of metamaterials with a focus on the technology and its evolution. We then discuss steps in the industrialization process and share our own experience.展开更多
Under the guidance of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM),the“Green Therapy”for tumors aims to“control”the condition,i.e.“When lethal treatments were adopted,they should be discontinued when six-tenth...Under the guidance of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM),the“Green Therapy”for tumors aims to“control”the condition,i.e.“When lethal treatments were adopted,they should be discontinued when six-tenths of the disease is eliminated;When treatments with moderate toxicity were chosen,they should be stopped when seven-tenths of the disease is eliminated;When treatments with mild toxicity were using,they should be discontinued when eight-tenths of the disease is eliminated;Even if using non-toxic treatments,they should be terminated when nine-tenths of the disease is wiped out..If the efficacy is below our expectation,we could repeat the treatments;But if go beyond the extent,healthy qi will be damaged and it will not be beneficial or even do harm to the repair capability of the body”,which underlines the end point of treatment,or“stop interventions when half of the disorder is gone”.Based on the Green Therapy theory,minimally invasive surgeries,TCM external treatments,natural medications and the biological target therapies are main approaches in our clinical cancer management.It differs from the modern treatment mode.The Green Therapy for cancers treats“patient’s quality of life”as our priority.This therapy system is particularly suitable for cancer patients who are aged and disqualified for or failed from classic anti-cancer treatments.This is a new trend of anti-cancer strategy characterized by effectiveness,minimally invasion,quick recovery,easy toleration and great sustainability.展开更多
In recent years,frequent fire disasters have led to enormous damage in China.Effective firefighting rescues can minimize the losses caused by fires.During the rescue processes,the travel time of fire trucks can be sev...In recent years,frequent fire disasters have led to enormous damage in China.Effective firefighting rescues can minimize the losses caused by fires.During the rescue processes,the travel time of fire trucks can be severely affected by traffic conditions,changing the effective coverage of fire stations.However,it is still challenging to determine the effective coverage of fire stations considering dynamic traffic conditions.This paper addresses this issue by combining the traveling time calculationmodelwith the effective coverage simulationmodel.In addition,it proposes a new index of total effective coverage area(TECA)based on the time-weighted average of the effective coverage area(ECA)to evaluate the urban fire services.It also selects China as the case study to validate the feasibility of the models,a fire station(FS-JX)in Changsha.FS-JX station and its surrounding 9,117 fire risk points are selected as the fire service supply and demand points,respectively.A total of 196 simulation scenarios throughout a consecutiveweek are analyzed.Eventually,1,933,815 sets of valid sample data are obtained.The results showed that the TECA of FS-JX is 3.27 km2,which is far below the standard requirement of 7.00 km2 due to the traffic conditions.The visualization results showed that three rivers around FS-JX interrupt the continuity of its effective coverage.The proposed method can provide data support to optimize the locations of fire stations by accurately and dynamically determining the effective coverage of fire stations.展开更多
Objective:To investigate the gene related to β-lactam resistance and to confirm the mechanism about a synergy effect between CPZ and β-lactam antibiotics.Methods:To measure antibacterial activity,we performed a mini...Objective:To investigate the gene related to β-lactam resistance and to confirm the mechanism about a synergy effect between CPZ and β-lactam antibiotics.Methods:To measure antibacterial activity,we performed a minimum inhibitory concentration(MIC) and synergy test.Transmission electron microscopy(TEM) was used in morphological analysis.To analyze gene expression,we conducted reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction(PCR).Results:We confirmed a synergy effect between CPZ and β-lactam antibiotics.Furthermore,we observed that CPZ affect the cell envelope of MRS A by using TEM.At the gene level,CPZ reduced the expression of resistance genes.Conclusions:Through this result,we hypothesize that a decrease of resistance factor expressions was caused by CPZ because it disrupts the activity of a sensor protein located in the cell membrane.展开更多
Building-level load forecasting has become essential with the support of fine-grained data collected by widely deployed smart meters.It acts as a basis for arranging distributed energy resources,implementing demand re...Building-level load forecasting has become essential with the support of fine-grained data collected by widely deployed smart meters.It acts as a basis for arranging distributed energy resources,implementing demand response,etc.Compared to aggre-gated-level load,the electric load of an individual building is more stochastic and thus spawns many probabilistic forecasting meth-ods.Many of them resort to artificial neural networks(ANN)to build forecasting models.However,a well-designed forecasting model for one building may not be suitable for others,and manually designing and tuning optimal forecasting models for various buildings are tedious and time-consuming.This paper proposes an adaptive probabilistic load forecasting model to automatically generate high-performance NN structures for different buildings and produce quantile forecasts for future loads.Specifically,we cascade the long short term memory(LSTM)layer with the adjusted Differential ArchiTecture Search(DARTS)cell and use the pinball loss function to guide the model during the improved model fitting process.A case study on an open dataset shows that our proposed model has superior performance and adaptivity over the state-of-the-art static neural network model.Besides,the improved fitting process of DARTS is proved to be more time-efficient than the original one.展开更多
The porous CeO2 flowerlike micro-nano spheres based materials were prepared to remove HCN effectively at lower temperature range.The CeO2 and a serious of porous flowerlike ceria based materials loaded with metal spec...The porous CeO2 flowerlike micro-nano spheres based materials were prepared to remove HCN effectively at lower temperature range.The CeO2 and a serious of porous flowerlike ceria based materials loaded with metal species including Cu,Ag,Ni,Co and Fe were synthesized by hydrothermal method and precipitation method respectively.The physicochemical properties were probed by means of XRD,H2-TPR,BET,SEM and XPS.The removal ability for 130 mg·m﹣3 HCN over CuO/CeO2 showed the highest activity,the breakthrough time of which was more than 70 min at the condition of 30℃,120,000 h-1 and b 5%(volume)H2O,owe to a higher relative atomic ratio of oxygen vacancies and Oβ,the stronger interaction between metal particle and support,the optimum redox properties.The reaction mechanism was speculated by detecting the reaction products selectivity at different reaction temperature.It was shown that the reaction system for removal of HCN over CuO/CeO2 catalytic material involved chemisorption,catalytic hydrolysis,catalytic oxidation as well as NH3-SCR reactions.展开更多
The risk of gas leakage due to geological flaws in offshore carbon capture, utilization, and storage, as well as leakage from underwater oil or gas pipelines, highlights the need for underwater gas leakage monitoring ...The risk of gas leakage due to geological flaws in offshore carbon capture, utilization, and storage, as well as leakage from underwater oil or gas pipelines, highlights the need for underwater gas leakage monitoring technology. Remotely operated vehicles(ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles(AUVs) are equipped with high-resolution imaging sonar systems that have broad application potential in underwater gas and target detection tasks. However, some bubble clusters are relatively weak scatterers, so detecting and distinguishing them against the seabed reverberation in forward-looking sonar images are challenging. This study uses the dual-tree complex wavelet transform to extract the image features of multibeam forward-looking sonar. Underwater gas leakages with different flows are classified by combining deep learning theory. A pool experiment is designed to simulate gas leakage, where sonar images are obtained for further processing. Results demonstrate that this method can detect and classify underwater gas leakage streams with high classification accuracy. This performance indicates that the method can detect gas leakage from multibeam forward-looking sonar images and has the potential to predict gas leakage flow.展开更多
Immune checkpoint inhibitors(ICPI)have shown considerable promise in the treatment of tumors.However,immune-related adverse events(irAEs)caused by ICPI have been reported in nearly every organ system.Whilst this repre...Immune checkpoint inhibitors(ICPI)have shown considerable promise in the treatment of tumors.However,immune-related adverse events(irAEs)caused by ICPI have been reported in nearly every organ system.Whilst this represents a new challenge in the field of cancer treatment,traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)provides benefits in the treatment of irAEs.This article reviews the studies of the treatment of immune-related gastrointestinal diseases and dermatosis with TCM and introduces the collaborative efforts between China and France in the implementation of TCM for the treatment of irAEs.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Nos.82171082(to ZX),32000727(to TZ),32370731(to YZ)Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation,No.2024A151501069(to ZX)+1 种基金Shenzhen Science and Technology Program,Nos.JCYJ20210324101603009(to ZX),GJHZ20220913142807015(to TZ),JCYJ20220531100204010(to TZ),JCYJ20230807091308018(to YZ)Shenzhen Medical Research Funds,No.A2303068(to TZ).
摘要The peripheral immune system has emerged as a regulator of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.Microglia are resident immune cells in the brain that may orchestrate communication between the central nervous system and peripheral immune system,though the mechanisms are unclear.Here,we found that gamma-type immunoglobulin,a product originating from peripheral blood B cells,localized in the brain parenchyma of multiple mouse models with amyloid pathology,and was enriched on microglia but not on other brain cell types.Further experiments showed that gamma-type immunoglobulin bound to microglial cell membranes and led to diverse transcriptomic changes,including upregulation of pathways related to phagocytosis and immunity.Functional assays demonstrated that gamma-type immunoglobulin enhanced microglial phagocytic capacity for amyloid-beta fibrils via its Fc fragment,but not Fab fragment,fragment.Our data indicate that microglia,when exposed to gamma-type immunoglobulin,exhibit an enhanced capacity for clearing amyloid-beta fibrils,potentially via the gamma-type immunoglobulin Fc fragment signaling pathway.This suggests that parenchymal gamma-type immunoglobulin should be further investigated to determine whether it may play a beneficial role against Alzheimer’s disease by enhancing microglial function.
基金supported by the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation,No.2023A1515030045(to HS)Presidential Foundation of Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University,No.yzjj2022ms4(to HS)。
摘要Intracerebral hemorrhage is the most dangerous subtype of stroke,characterized by high mortality and morbidity rates,and frequently leads to significant secondary white matter injury.In recent decades,studies have revealed that gut microbiota can communicate bidirectionally with the brain through the gut microbiota–brain axis.This axis indicates that gut microbiota is closely related to the development and prognosis of intracerebral hemorrhage and its associated secondary white matter injury.The NACHT,LRR,and pyrin domain-containing protein 3(NLRP3)inflammasome plays a crucial role in this context.This review summarizes the dysbiosis of gut microbiota following intracerebral hemorrhage and explores the mechanisms by which this imbalance may promote the activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome.These mechanisms include metabolic pathways(involving short-chain fatty acids,lipopolysaccharides,lactic acid,bile acids,trimethylamine-N-oxide,and tryptophan),neural pathways(such as the vagus nerve and sympathetic nerve),and immune pathways(involving microglia and T cells).We then discuss the relationship between the activated NLRP3 inflammasome and secondary white matter injury after intracerebral hemorrhage.The activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome can exacerbate secondary white matter injury by disrupting the blood–brain barrier,inducing neuroinflammation,and interfering with nerve regeneration.Finally,we outline potential treatment strategies for intracerebral hemorrhage and its secondary white matter injury.Our review highlights the critical role of the gut microbiota–brain axis and the NLRP3 inflammasome in white matter injury following intracerebral hemorrhage,paving the way for exploring potential therapeutic approaches.
基金financially and technically supported by the National Key Laboratory Foundation of Science and Technology on Materials under Shock and Impact,Beijing Institute of Technology,China(No.WDZC2024-1)。
摘要Cryogenic rolling impacts on microstructure and mechanical properties of spray-formed 7055(SF-7055)Al alloy were investigated.Results show that with the increase of the reduction from 20%to 80%,the grain of cryogenic rolled SF-7055 Al alloy is elongated to form a fiber texture.Numerous proliferating dislocations in the microstructure accumulate into dislocation walls and cells,and eventually form subgrains.These subgrain boundaries divide the original grain,thereby reducing the grain size.Under severe deformation conditions,they even enable the formation of nanograins.Meanwhile,the Cu-rich precipitates in the matrix are also broken and refined under the action of large rolling stress.In the process of cryogenic rolling,the tensile strength and hardness of SF-7055 Al alloy gradually increase,while the plasticity decreases.Moreover,the fracture morphology of cryogenic rolled SF-7055 Al alloy gradually transforms to the ductile and quasi-cleavage hybrid fracture characteristics with increased reduction.
基金supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.81402197,81600482,and 82570789)the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(Nos.2019CFB501,2020CFB600,and 2024 AFB663)+1 种基金the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Nos.2018M632875 and 2019T120671)the China Scholarship Council(CSC)(No.202306160006).
摘要Objectives:Ferroptosis resistance may contribute to tumor progression and immune escape.This study evaluated the prognostic and immunological significance of glutathione peroxidase 4(GPX4),a core ferroptosissuppressive enzyme,in surgically resected lung adenocarcinoma.Methods:We retrospectively analyzed 104 patients with primary lung adenocarcinoma who underwent curative resection.GPX4 protein expression was assessed by immunohistochemistry(IHC)using the histological score(H-score),and patients were classified as GPX4-low(n=54)or GPX4-high(n=50).Intratumoral immune contexture was quantified using CD3,CD4,CD8,CD68,programmed cell death protein 1(PD-1),and programmed death-ligand 1(PD-L1)staining.Disease-free survival(DFS)and overall survival(OS)were analyzed using Cox regression.Cutoff sensitivity analyses,category consolidation,ridge-penalized Cox regression,events-per-variable assessment,bootstrap internal validation,and interobserver reproducibility testing were performed to strengthen statistical robustness.Results:GPX4-high tumors were associated with systemic inflammatory and immune-related features,including elevated fibrinogen(p=0.015),lower lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio(p=0.003),and altered aspartate aminotransferase-to-alanine aminotransferase ratio(p=0.028).GPX4-high tumors showed reduced intratumoral CD3+,CD4+,CD8+,and CD68+immune-cell infiltration,together with increased PD-1 and PD-L1 expression,indicating an immune-cold yet checkpoint-enriched phenotype.After category consolidation and ridge-penalized multivariable adjustment,high GPX4 expression remained independently associated with worse DFS(HR,8.63;95%CI,2.99-24.91;p<0.001)and OS(HR,6.94;95%CI,2.44-19.74;p<0.001).GPX4-based prognostic models showed bias-corrected C-index values of 0.782 for DFS and 0.826 for OS,with calibration slopes of 0.964 and 0.937,respectively.Conclusions:High GPX4 expression identifies a clinically adverse,ferroptosis-resistant,immune-remodeled phenotype in resected lung adenocarcinoma.Integrating GPX4 with clinicopathological and inflammatory variables may improve postoperative risk stratification.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(82322016,82271095)Guangdong Provincial Key Area R&D Program(2023B1111050004)+1 种基金Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province,China(2023A1515012656)Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan Project(2025A03J3981,2024B01J1121,2025A03J3988).
摘要Background:Microglial activation is a hallmark of retinal neurodegeneration.However,whether microglia predominantly drive inflammatory damage or support tissue adaptation after acute photoreceptor injury remains unclear.Resolving this issue is critical for defining therapeutic strategies.As colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor(CSF1R)signaling is essential for microglial survival,its pharmacological inhibition enables selective microglial depletion in vivo.Here,we used the CSF1R inhibitor PLX5622 in the N-methyl-N-nitrosourea(MNU)model to directly test the contribution of microglia to inflammation and photoreceptor degeneration.Methods:C57BL/6J mice received PLX5622 for 14 days before and throughout a 5-day MNU regimen.Retinal structure was assessed by fundus photography,optical coherence tomography(OCT),and hematoxylin and eosin(H&E)histology.Visual function was evaluated via electroretinography(ERG).Global transcriptomic alterations were profiled by RNA-seq,and selected inflammatory and complement mediators were assessed by Western blot.Results:PLX5622 treatment resulted in near-complete depletion of TMEM119+/Iba1+microglia in MNU-injured retinas.Microglia depletion was associated with reduced fundus white lesions,preserved outer nuclear layer(ONL)thickness and nuclei density,and significantly rescued ERG a-and b-wave amplitudes.Transcriptomic analysis further revealed broad attenuation of pro-inflammatory and innate immune pathways,accompanied by modulation of antioxidant responses,mitochondrial/metabolic alterations,neuron-related signaling,and macroglial activation-related programs.Consistently,Western blot analysis confirmed that MNU-induced upregulation of IL-1β,C3,and C1qa was markedly reduced following PLX5622 treatment.Conclusions:Pharmacological CSF1R inhibition leading to efficient retinal microglial depletion attenuated neuroinflammatory responses and preserved photoreceptor structure and visual function in acute toxic retinal degeneration.These findings indicate that microglial activation functions predominantly as a pathogenic amplifier rather than an adaptive response in this context,and identify CSF1R-dependent myeloid signaling as a key mechanistic driver of injury-associated retinal degeneration.
摘要Citric acid accumulation is an essential process in citrus fruits that determines fruit flavor and marketability.The MBW complex transcription factor genes,CsAN11,CsAN1,and CsPH4 play key roles in regulating citric acid accumulation.Although how to regulate CsAN1 or CsPH4 was widely investigated,studies on the regulation of CsAN11 are scarce.In this study,we characterized the AP2/ERF(APETALA2/ethylene response factor)transcription factor gene CsAIL6,which is lowly expressed in high-acid citrus varieties and highly expressed in low-acid citrus varieties.Overexpressing CsAIL6 obviously decreased the citric acid content in citrus fruits,calli,or tomatoes,whereas silencing CsAIL6 significantly increased the fruit citric acid content.Additionally,transcript levels of CsAN11,CsAN1,and CsPH4 were significantly increased by silencing CsAIL6;only the CsAN11 transcript level was significantly decreased by overexpressing CsAIL6.Similarly,only the tomato AN11(SIAN11)transcript level in CsAIL6 stably overexpressing fruits was markedly lower than that in wild-type(WT)fruits.Further experiments revealed that overexpressing CsAN11 significantly increased the organic acid content but had no obvious influence on the CsAIL6 transcript level;in addition,CsAIL6 only interacts with CsAN11,rather than with CsAN1 and CsPH4 of the MBW complex.Taken together,our findings verified that CsAIL6 negatively regulates citric acid accumulation through directly interacting with the WD40 protein CsAN11,which provides a new mechanism for citric acid accumulation in fruits through the regulation of the MBW complex.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12,405,179)the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2023JJ40744)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2025JJ50227)the High Performance Computing Center of Central South University(2025JJ50226).
摘要The solar interfacial evaporation has a broad application prospect in the fields of steam generation and seawater desalination to deal with the global shortage of fresh-water resources.Bamboo is a great material for solar interface evaporators because of its low thermal conductivity and inherent micro-channel porous structure.In this paper,a novel bamboo-based solar interface evaporator with a bionic ripple wave surface structure has been proposed.The subsequent evaporation experiments have been conducted to investigate the salt resistance,stability and water absorption of the bionic ripple bamboo based solar interface evaporator.The results have exhibited that the bamboo's water absorption has been enhanced after carbonization modification.Besides,it should be pointed out that this bamboo-based evaporator’s evaporation rate has dropped during the prolonged simulated seawater evaporation experiment,yet it remained fairly consistent at approximately 1.626 kg·m-2·h-1.The appearance for this experimental phenomenon is the decrease of the floatability of the evaporator constricted by the stored water body absorbed by the evaporator and the deposition of NaCl crystals at the photothermal interface.Besides,compared with the plate-structure evaporator,the salt deposition in the evaporator equipped with the bionic ripple wave surface structure is greatly improved.In regard to its advantages in low cost,environmental friendliness,good salt tolerance and high evaporation rate,the bamboo-based solar interface evaporator with a bionic ripple wave surface structure can provide a potential solution to the global problem of fresh-water shortage.
基金Supported by Henan Provincial Science and Technology Research Project,No.242102310203.
摘要BACKGROUND The use of network pharmacology and blood metabolomics to study the patho-genesis of violent aggression in patients with schizophrenia and the related drug mechanisms of action provides new directions for reducing the risk of violent aggression and optimizing treatment plans.AIM To explore the metabolic regulatory mechanism of olanzapine in treating patients with schizophrenia with a moderate to high risk of violent aggression.METHODS Metabolomic technology was used to screen differentially abundant metabolites in patients with schizophrenia with a moderate to high risk of violent aggression before and after olanzapine treatment,and the related metabolic pathways were identified.Network pharmacology was used to establish protein-protein interaction networks of the core targets of olanzapine.Gene Ontology functional analysis and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway enrichment analysis were subsequently performed.RESULTS Compared with the healthy group,the patients with schizophrenia group presented significant changes in the levels of 24 metabolites related to the disruption of 9 metabolic pathways,among which the key pathways were the alanine,aspartate and glutamate metabolism and arginine biosynthesis pathways.After treatment with olanzapine,the levels of 10 differentially abundant metabolites were significantly reversed in patients with schizophrenia.Olanzapine effectively regulated six metabolic pathways,among which the key pathways were alanine,aspartate and glutamate metabolism and arginine biosynthesis pathways.Ten core targets of olanzapine were involved in several key pathways.CONCLUSION The metabolic pathways of alanine,aspartate,and glutamate metabolism and arginine biosynthesis are the key pathways involved in olanzapine treatment for aggressive schizophrenia.
基金supported by Guangdong Innovative Research Team Program (2009010005)
摘要Metamaterials are composite materials whose material properties(acoustic, electrical, magnetic, or optical, etc.) are determined by their constitutive structural materials, especially the unit cells. The development of metamaterials continues to redefine the boundaries of materials science. In the field of electromagnetic research and beyond, these materials offer excellent design flexibility with their customized properties and their tunability under external stimuli. In this paper, we first provide a literature review of metamaterials with a focus on the technology and its evolution. We then discuss steps in the industrialization process and share our own experience.
摘要Under the guidance of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM),the“Green Therapy”for tumors aims to“control”the condition,i.e.“When lethal treatments were adopted,they should be discontinued when six-tenths of the disease is eliminated;When treatments with moderate toxicity were chosen,they should be stopped when seven-tenths of the disease is eliminated;When treatments with mild toxicity were using,they should be discontinued when eight-tenths of the disease is eliminated;Even if using non-toxic treatments,they should be terminated when nine-tenths of the disease is wiped out..If the efficacy is below our expectation,we could repeat the treatments;But if go beyond the extent,healthy qi will be damaged and it will not be beneficial or even do harm to the repair capability of the body”,which underlines the end point of treatment,or“stop interventions when half of the disorder is gone”.Based on the Green Therapy theory,minimally invasive surgeries,TCM external treatments,natural medications and the biological target therapies are main approaches in our clinical cancer management.It differs from the modern treatment mode.The Green Therapy for cancers treats“patient’s quality of life”as our priority.This therapy system is particularly suitable for cancer patients who are aged and disqualified for or failed from classic anti-cancer treatments.This is a new trend of anti-cancer strategy characterized by effectiveness,minimally invasion,quick recovery,easy toleration and great sustainability.
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.52204202)the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No.2023JJ40058)the Science and Technology Program of Hunan Provincial Departent of Transportation (No.202122).
摘要In recent years,frequent fire disasters have led to enormous damage in China.Effective firefighting rescues can minimize the losses caused by fires.During the rescue processes,the travel time of fire trucks can be severely affected by traffic conditions,changing the effective coverage of fire stations.However,it is still challenging to determine the effective coverage of fire stations considering dynamic traffic conditions.This paper addresses this issue by combining the traveling time calculationmodelwith the effective coverage simulationmodel.In addition,it proposes a new index of total effective coverage area(TECA)based on the time-weighted average of the effective coverage area(ECA)to evaluate the urban fire services.It also selects China as the case study to validate the feasibility of the models,a fire station(FS-JX)in Changsha.FS-JX station and its surrounding 9,117 fire risk points are selected as the fire service supply and demand points,respectively.A total of 196 simulation scenarios throughout a consecutiveweek are analyzed.Eventually,1,933,815 sets of valid sample data are obtained.The results showed that the TECA of FS-JX is 3.27 km2,which is far below the standard requirement of 7.00 km2 due to the traffic conditions.The visualization results showed that three rivers around FS-JX interrupt the continuity of its effective coverage.The proposed method can provide data support to optimize the locations of fire stations by accurately and dynamically determining the effective coverage of fire stations.
基金supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Education,Science and Technology(2012-0004337)
摘要Objective:To investigate the gene related to β-lactam resistance and to confirm the mechanism about a synergy effect between CPZ and β-lactam antibiotics.Methods:To measure antibacterial activity,we performed a minimum inhibitory concentration(MIC) and synergy test.Transmission electron microscopy(TEM) was used in morphological analysis.To analyze gene expression,we conducted reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction(PCR).Results:We confirmed a synergy effect between CPZ and β-lactam antibiotics.Furthermore,we observed that CPZ affect the cell envelope of MRS A by using TEM.At the gene level,CPZ reduced the expression of resistance genes.Conclusions:Through this result,we hypothesize that a decrease of resistance factor expressions was caused by CPZ because it disrupts the activity of a sensor protein located in the cell membrane.
基金supported in part by the Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff of The University of Hong Kong(202107185032)and in part by the Alibaba Innovative Research programme.
摘要Building-level load forecasting has become essential with the support of fine-grained data collected by widely deployed smart meters.It acts as a basis for arranging distributed energy resources,implementing demand response,etc.Compared to aggre-gated-level load,the electric load of an individual building is more stochastic and thus spawns many probabilistic forecasting meth-ods.Many of them resort to artificial neural networks(ANN)to build forecasting models.However,a well-designed forecasting model for one building may not be suitable for others,and manually designing and tuning optimal forecasting models for various buildings are tedious and time-consuming.This paper proposes an adaptive probabilistic load forecasting model to automatically generate high-performance NN structures for different buildings and produce quantile forecasts for future loads.Specifically,we cascade the long short term memory(LSTM)layer with the adjusted Differential ArchiTecture Search(DARTS)cell and use the pinball loss function to guide the model during the improved model fitting process.A case study on an open dataset shows that our proposed model has superior performance and adaptivity over the state-of-the-art static neural network model.Besides,the improved fitting process of DARTS is proved to be more time-efficient than the original one.
基金supported by the Chinese Civil Air Defense Office([2014]No.251-61)the Military Scientific Research Program(Zhuangzong[2018]No.635)。
摘要The porous CeO2 flowerlike micro-nano spheres based materials were prepared to remove HCN effectively at lower temperature range.The CeO2 and a serious of porous flowerlike ceria based materials loaded with metal species including Cu,Ag,Ni,Co and Fe were synthesized by hydrothermal method and precipitation method respectively.The physicochemical properties were probed by means of XRD,H2-TPR,BET,SEM and XPS.The removal ability for 130 mg·m﹣3 HCN over CuO/CeO2 showed the highest activity,the breakthrough time of which was more than 70 min at the condition of 30℃,120,000 h-1 and b 5%(volume)H2O,owe to a higher relative atomic ratio of oxygen vacancies and Oβ,the stronger interaction between metal particle and support,the optimum redox properties.The reaction mechanism was speculated by detecting the reaction products selectivity at different reaction temperature.It was shown that the reaction system for removal of HCN over CuO/CeO2 catalytic material involved chemisorption,catalytic hydrolysis,catalytic oxidation as well as NH3-SCR reactions.
摘要The risk of gas leakage due to geological flaws in offshore carbon capture, utilization, and storage, as well as leakage from underwater oil or gas pipelines, highlights the need for underwater gas leakage monitoring technology. Remotely operated vehicles(ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles(AUVs) are equipped with high-resolution imaging sonar systems that have broad application potential in underwater gas and target detection tasks. However, some bubble clusters are relatively weak scatterers, so detecting and distinguishing them against the seabed reverberation in forward-looking sonar images are challenging. This study uses the dual-tree complex wavelet transform to extract the image features of multibeam forward-looking sonar. Underwater gas leakages with different flows are classified by combining deep learning theory. A pool experiment is designed to simulate gas leakage, where sonar images are obtained for further processing. Results demonstrate that this method can detect and classify underwater gas leakage streams with high classification accuracy. This performance indicates that the method can detect gas leakage from multibeam forward-looking sonar images and has the potential to predict gas leakage flow.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China:Surface Project(81573959)the Young Teacher Research Program of the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine(2017-JYB-JS-158)Young Scientist Program of the Dongzhimen Hospital,Beijing University of Chinese Medicine(DZMYS-201610).
摘要Immune checkpoint inhibitors(ICPI)have shown considerable promise in the treatment of tumors.However,immune-related adverse events(irAEs)caused by ICPI have been reported in nearly every organ system.Whilst this represents a new challenge in the field of cancer treatment,traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)provides benefits in the treatment of irAEs.This article reviews the studies of the treatment of immune-related gastrointestinal diseases and dermatosis with TCM and introduces the collaborative efforts between China and France in the implementation of TCM for the treatment of irAEs.