Depression is a psychological disease with no particularly effective therapy currently available.In the present study,we aimed to examine the antidepressive activity of a pharmaceutical Chinese medicine called TaiZi(T...Depression is a psychological disease with no particularly effective therapy currently available.In the present study,we aimed to examine the antidepressive activity of a pharmaceutical Chinese medicine called TaiZi(TZ)capsule,consisting of total polysaccharides of Radix Pseudostellariae and total flavonoids of both Radix Pueraria and Herba Epimedii.A tail suspension test and forced swimming test were performed to assess the effect of TZ in vivo.A plasmid of TPH2(tryptophan hydroxylase-2)was constructed to determine the exact target of TZ in vitro.In addition,mRNA expression was detected using a real-time PCR assay,and the protein expression was investigated using a Western blotting analysis.The results showed that TZ had an anti-depression effect in mouse and rat models with increased serotonin in the brain,and in the upregulation of mRNA and protein expression of TPH2 in the brain simultaneously by inhibition of NRSF(neuron restrictive silencer factor)expression because NRSF could bind to NRSE(neuron restrictive silencer element)to repress TPH2 transcription during the depression conditions.Icariin could bind to NRSE directly and block NRSF protein toward to NRSE for TPH2 inhibition.Therefore,we concluded that TZ had potential antidepressive effects because it could ameliorat the depression-like behavior in the animals,and the underlying mechanism of the effect was involved in NRSF/NRSE-TPH2 signaling.Icariin was identified as the active component of TZ.This study provided a new perspective for the development of antidepression drugs(Chinese medicines)based on NRSF/NRSE-TPH2 signaling.展开更多
In this paper, we propose a Packet Cache-Forward(PCF) method based on improved Bayesian outlier detection to eliminate out-of-order packets caused by transmission path drastically degradation during handover events in...In this paper, we propose a Packet Cache-Forward(PCF) method based on improved Bayesian outlier detection to eliminate out-of-order packets caused by transmission path drastically degradation during handover events in the moving satellite networks, for improving the performance of TCP. The proposed method uses an access node satellite to cache all received packets in a short time when handover occurs and forward them out in order. To calculate the cache time accurately, this paper establishes the Bayesian based mixture model for detecting delay outliers of the entire handover scheme. In view of the outliers' misjudgment, an updated classification threshold and the sliding window has been suggested to correct category collections and model parameters for the purpose of quickly identifying exact compensation delay in the varied network load statuses. Simulation shows that, comparing to average processing delay detection method, the average accuracy rate was scaled up by about 4.0%, and there is about 5.5% cut in error rate in the meantime. It also behaves well even though testing with big dataset. Benefiting from the advantage of the proposed scheme in terms of performance, comparing to conventional independent handover and network controlled synchronizedhandover in simulated LEO satellite networks, the proposed independent handover with PCF eliminates packet out-of-order issue to get better improvement on congestion window. Eventually the average delay decreases more than 70% and TCP performance has improved more than 300%.展开更多
The fall armyworm(FAW),Spodoptera frugiperda,is a destructive pest native to America and has recently become an invasive insect pest in China.Because of its rapid spread and great risks in China,understanding of FAW g...The fall armyworm(FAW),Spodoptera frugiperda,is a destructive pest native to America and has recently become an invasive insect pest in China.Because of its rapid spread and great risks in China,understanding of FAW genetic background and pesticide resistance is urgent and essential to develop effective management strategies.Here,we assembled a chromosome-level genome of a male FAW(SFynMstLFR)and compared re-sequencing results of the populations from America,Africa,and China.Strain identification of 163 individuals collected from America,Africa and China showed that both C and R strains were found in the American pop-ulations,while only C strain was found in the Chinese and African populations.Moreover,population geno-mics analysis showed that populations from Africa and China have close relationship with significantly genetic differentiation from American populations.Taken toge-ther,FAWs invaded into China were most likely origi-nated from Africa.Comparative genomics analysis displayed that the cytochrome p450 gene family is extremely expanded to 425 members in FAW,of which 283 genes are specific to FAW.Treatments of Chinese populations with twenty-three pesticides showed the variant patterns of transcriptome profiles,and several detoxification genes such as AOX,UGT and GST spe-cially responded to the pesticides.These findings will be useful in developing effective strategies for manage-ment of FAW in China and other invaded areas.展开更多
Objective To study uninjured diabetic skin structure and compare the pathological characteristics of skin tissue from mouse and rat models of diabetes mellitus(DM)and humans with DM.Methods Establishing the DM C57BL/6...Objective To study uninjured diabetic skin structure and compare the pathological characteristics of skin tissue from mouse and rat models of diabetes mellitus(DM)and humans with DM.Methods Establishing the DM C57BL/6J mice skin tissue models and db/db mice skin tissue models,as well as DM rat skin tissue models.Skin tissues were collected from the animal models and DM patients.The biopsy specimens were stained with hematoxylin and eosin(HE)staining,Masson trichrome staining and periodic acid-Schiff(PAS)staining.Results(1)Skin from mice with streptozotocin(STZ)-induced DM was thinner and had less hair than skin from control mice.The epidermis had abnormal keratinization and dermal collagen and elastin fibers were dense and significantly atrophied.(2)Compared with the control group,skin tissue from db/db mice was thinner and had less hair.There was no aberrant keratinization in the epidermis,and dermal collagen and elastin fibres were loose.(3)Skin tissue from rats with STZ-induced DM was significantly thinner than control skin.The epidermis had mildly abnormal keratinization,and the dermis layer was atrophied and partly loose.Some focal lipofuscin was deposited.(4)Whole skin tissue from patients with diabetes was significantly thinner than skin from subjects without DM.The epidermis had mild hyper keratinization,and the dermal elastin fibers were atrophied,loose,irregular,and showed focal mucoid degeneration.Conclusions Uninjured DM skin tissues were thinner and more irregular than normal skin.Structural changes in rat DM skin were most like those seen in the skin of patients with DM.展开更多
To the Editor:5q spinal muscular atrophy(5qSMA)is an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder caused by the lack of the survival motor neuron(SMN)protein encoded by the SMN1 gene,located at 5q11.2-q13.3.[1]The incid...To the Editor:5q spinal muscular atrophy(5qSMA)is an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder caused by the lack of the survival motor neuron(SMN)protein encoded by the SMN1 gene,located at 5q11.2-q13.3.[1]The incidence is 1/10,000-1/6000 live births,and the mutation carrier rate in China is 1/42.[1]Spinal muscular atrophy(SMA)is mainly divided into four subtypes:SMA type I,II,III,and IV,based on the motor milestones ever achieved.Types I-III occur in children,[1]which often result in progressive muscular atrophy and weakness as well as multi-system dysfunction,including nutritional and metabolic issues.[2]Children with SMA may have hidden nutritional and lipid imbalances,despite normal body appearance and anthropometric measurements,making it difcult to detect early and intervene.展开更多
Background:Clinical parameter-based nomograms and staging systems provide limited information for the prediction of survival in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma(ICC)patients.In this study,we developed a methylation sig...Background:Clinical parameter-based nomograms and staging systems provide limited information for the prediction of survival in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma(ICC)patients.In this study,we developed a methylation signature that precisely predicts overall survival(OS)after surgery.Methods:An epigenome-wide study of DNA methylation based on whole-genome bisulfite sequencing(WGBS)was conducted for two independent cohorts(discovery cohort,n=164;validation cohort,n=170)from three hepatobiliary centers in China.By referring to differentially methylated regions(DMRs),we proposed the concept of prognostically methylated regions(PMRs),which were composed of consecutive prognostically methylated CpGs(PMCs).Using machine learning strategies(Random Forest and the least absolute shrinkage and selector regression),a prognostic methylation score(PMS)was constructed based on 14 PMRs in the discovery cohort and confirmed in the validation cohort.Results:The C-indices of the PMS for predicting OS in the discovery and validation cohorts were 0.79 and 0.74,respectively.In the whole cohort,the PMS was an independent predictor of OS[hazard ratio(HR)=8.12;95% confidence interval(CI):5.48-12.04;P<0.001],and the C-index(0.78)of the PMS was significantly higher than that of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine(JHUSM)nomogram(0.69,P<0.001),the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital(EHBSH)nomogram(0.67,P<0.001),American Joint Committee on Cancer(AJCC)tumor-node-metastasis(TNM)staging system(0.61,P<0.001),and MEGNA prognostic score(0.60,P<0.001).The patients in quartile 4 of PMS could benefit from adjuvant therapy(AT)(HR=0.54;95%CI:0.32-0.91;log-rank P=0.043),whereas those in the quartiles 1-3 could not.However,other nomograms and staging system failed to do so.Further analyses of potential mechanisms showed that the PMS was associated with tumor biological behaviors,pathway activation,and immune microenvironment.Conclusions:The PMS could improve the prognostic accuracy and identify patients who would benefit from AT for ICC pati展开更多
台标识别是典型的细微目标识别问题,针对台标区域小、信息量低,且镂空、半透明台标极易受到画面背景影响的难题,提出一个基于端到端全卷积网络的像素级台标识别网络——PNET.首先构建一个像素级标注的台标数据集,通过视频抽帧和图像预...台标识别是典型的细微目标识别问题,针对台标区域小、信息量低,且镂空、半透明台标极易受到画面背景影响的难题,提出一个基于端到端全卷积网络的像素级台标识别网络——PNET.首先构建一个像素级标注的台标数据集,通过视频抽帧和图像预处理获得台标图像集,并提出一种逐图像的像素级半自动标注方法获得二值标签图像集;然后提出一个像素级台标识别网络,在典型分类网络AlexNet,VGG的基础上,通过微调,将分类网络在分类任务中学习到的网络参数转换为像素级台标识别网络在台标分割任务中的所需的网络参数;最后引入跨层架构,融合来自网络深层的全局信息和浅层的局部信息.实验结果表明PNET实现了准确的像素级分割,准确率高达98.3%,在NVIDIA Tesla K80上单幅图像识别时间不超过1.5 s.展开更多
基金The Student Research Training(SRT)Program of Tsinghua University(Grant No.1522T0221)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.81374006 and 81073092)。
文摘Depression is a psychological disease with no particularly effective therapy currently available.In the present study,we aimed to examine the antidepressive activity of a pharmaceutical Chinese medicine called TaiZi(TZ)capsule,consisting of total polysaccharides of Radix Pseudostellariae and total flavonoids of both Radix Pueraria and Herba Epimedii.A tail suspension test and forced swimming test were performed to assess the effect of TZ in vivo.A plasmid of TPH2(tryptophan hydroxylase-2)was constructed to determine the exact target of TZ in vitro.In addition,mRNA expression was detected using a real-time PCR assay,and the protein expression was investigated using a Western blotting analysis.The results showed that TZ had an anti-depression effect in mouse and rat models with increased serotonin in the brain,and in the upregulation of mRNA and protein expression of TPH2 in the brain simultaneously by inhibition of NRSF(neuron restrictive silencer factor)expression because NRSF could bind to NRSE(neuron restrictive silencer element)to repress TPH2 transcription during the depression conditions.Icariin could bind to NRSE directly and block NRSF protein toward to NRSE for TPH2 inhibition.Therefore,we concluded that TZ had potential antidepressive effects because it could ameliorat the depression-like behavior in the animals,and the underlying mechanism of the effect was involved in NRSF/NRSE-TPH2 signaling.Icariin was identified as the active component of TZ.This study provided a new perspective for the development of antidepression drugs(Chinese medicines)based on NRSF/NRSE-TPH2 signaling.
基金supported by National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program,No.2014AA7011005)National Nature Science Foundation of China(No.91438120)
文摘In this paper, we propose a Packet Cache-Forward(PCF) method based on improved Bayesian outlier detection to eliminate out-of-order packets caused by transmission path drastically degradation during handover events in the moving satellite networks, for improving the performance of TCP. The proposed method uses an access node satellite to cache all received packets in a short time when handover occurs and forward them out in order. To calculate the cache time accurately, this paper establishes the Bayesian based mixture model for detecting delay outliers of the entire handover scheme. In view of the outliers' misjudgment, an updated classification threshold and the sliding window has been suggested to correct category collections and model parameters for the purpose of quickly identifying exact compensation delay in the varied network load statuses. Simulation shows that, comparing to average processing delay detection method, the average accuracy rate was scaled up by about 4.0%, and there is about 5.5% cut in error rate in the meantime. It also behaves well even though testing with big dataset. Benefiting from the advantage of the proposed scheme in terms of performance, comparing to conventional independent handover and network controlled synchronizedhandover in simulated LEO satellite networks, the proposed independent handover with PCF eliminates packet out-of-order issue to get better improvement on congestion window. Eventually the average delay decreases more than 70% and TCP performance has improved more than 300%.
基金This study was financially supported by the Yunnan Eco-friendly Food International Cooperation Research Center(YEFICRC)Project of Yunnan Provincial Key Programs(Grant No.2019ZG009)the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2019YFD0300101)+3 种基金the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genome Read and Write(Grant No.2017B030301011)the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KJZD-SW-L07)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,CAS(No.2016080)Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(No.2020B020224002)。
文摘The fall armyworm(FAW),Spodoptera frugiperda,is a destructive pest native to America and has recently become an invasive insect pest in China.Because of its rapid spread and great risks in China,understanding of FAW genetic background and pesticide resistance is urgent and essential to develop effective management strategies.Here,we assembled a chromosome-level genome of a male FAW(SFynMstLFR)and compared re-sequencing results of the populations from America,Africa,and China.Strain identification of 163 individuals collected from America,Africa and China showed that both C and R strains were found in the American pop-ulations,while only C strain was found in the Chinese and African populations.Moreover,population geno-mics analysis showed that populations from Africa and China have close relationship with significantly genetic differentiation from American populations.Taken toge-ther,FAWs invaded into China were most likely origi-nated from Africa.Comparative genomics analysis displayed that the cytochrome p450 gene family is extremely expanded to 425 members in FAW,of which 283 genes are specific to FAW.Treatments of Chinese populations with twenty-three pesticides showed the variant patterns of transcriptome profiles,and several detoxification genes such as AOX,UGT and GST spe-cially responded to the pesticides.These findings will be useful in developing effective strategies for manage-ment of FAW in China and other invaded areas.
基金Creation and Innovation Project of Jilin Province(2022C043-11,2023C041-2)Science and Technology Project of Jilin Province(20230203059SF)。
文摘Objective To study uninjured diabetic skin structure and compare the pathological characteristics of skin tissue from mouse and rat models of diabetes mellitus(DM)and humans with DM.Methods Establishing the DM C57BL/6J mice skin tissue models and db/db mice skin tissue models,as well as DM rat skin tissue models.Skin tissues were collected from the animal models and DM patients.The biopsy specimens were stained with hematoxylin and eosin(HE)staining,Masson trichrome staining and periodic acid-Schiff(PAS)staining.Results(1)Skin from mice with streptozotocin(STZ)-induced DM was thinner and had less hair than skin from control mice.The epidermis had abnormal keratinization and dermal collagen and elastin fibers were dense and significantly atrophied.(2)Compared with the control group,skin tissue from db/db mice was thinner and had less hair.There was no aberrant keratinization in the epidermis,and dermal collagen and elastin fibres were loose.(3)Skin tissue from rats with STZ-induced DM was significantly thinner than control skin.The epidermis had mildly abnormal keratinization,and the dermis layer was atrophied and partly loose.Some focal lipofuscin was deposited.(4)Whole skin tissue from patients with diabetes was significantly thinner than skin from subjects without DM.The epidermis had mild hyper keratinization,and the dermal elastin fibers were atrophied,loose,irregular,and showed focal mucoid degeneration.Conclusions Uninjured DM skin tissues were thinner and more irregular than normal skin.Structural changes in rat DM skin were most like those seen in the skin of patients with DM.
基金Key Technologies Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province(No.2021C03099)Key R&D Program of Zhejiang Province(No.2022C03167)+2 种基金National Natural Science Foundation(No.82271735)Zhejiang Province Public Welfare Technology Application Research Project(No.LGC21H090001)Scientific Research Fund of Zhejiang University(No.XY2022045)
文摘To the Editor:5q spinal muscular atrophy(5qSMA)is an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder caused by the lack of the survival motor neuron(SMN)protein encoded by the SMN1 gene,located at 5q11.2-q13.3.[1]The incidence is 1/10,000-1/6000 live births,and the mutation carrier rate in China is 1/42.[1]Spinal muscular atrophy(SMA)is mainly divided into four subtypes:SMA type I,II,III,and IV,based on the motor milestones ever achieved.Types I-III occur in children,[1]which often result in progressive muscular atrophy and weakness as well as multi-system dysfunction,including nutritional and metabolic issues.[2]Children with SMA may have hidden nutritional and lipid imbalances,despite normal body appearance and anthropometric measurements,making it difcult to detect early and intervene.
基金supported by The National Key Technologies R&D Program of China(No.2018YFC1106800)The 1.3.5 project for disciplines of excellence,West China Hospital,Sichuan University(No.ZYJC18008)The Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.91859105,81773012,81872004,81802302 and 81902401).
文摘Background:Clinical parameter-based nomograms and staging systems provide limited information for the prediction of survival in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma(ICC)patients.In this study,we developed a methylation signature that precisely predicts overall survival(OS)after surgery.Methods:An epigenome-wide study of DNA methylation based on whole-genome bisulfite sequencing(WGBS)was conducted for two independent cohorts(discovery cohort,n=164;validation cohort,n=170)from three hepatobiliary centers in China.By referring to differentially methylated regions(DMRs),we proposed the concept of prognostically methylated regions(PMRs),which were composed of consecutive prognostically methylated CpGs(PMCs).Using machine learning strategies(Random Forest and the least absolute shrinkage and selector regression),a prognostic methylation score(PMS)was constructed based on 14 PMRs in the discovery cohort and confirmed in the validation cohort.Results:The C-indices of the PMS for predicting OS in the discovery and validation cohorts were 0.79 and 0.74,respectively.In the whole cohort,the PMS was an independent predictor of OS[hazard ratio(HR)=8.12;95% confidence interval(CI):5.48-12.04;P<0.001],and the C-index(0.78)of the PMS was significantly higher than that of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine(JHUSM)nomogram(0.69,P<0.001),the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital(EHBSH)nomogram(0.67,P<0.001),American Joint Committee on Cancer(AJCC)tumor-node-metastasis(TNM)staging system(0.61,P<0.001),and MEGNA prognostic score(0.60,P<0.001).The patients in quartile 4 of PMS could benefit from adjuvant therapy(AT)(HR=0.54;95%CI:0.32-0.91;log-rank P=0.043),whereas those in the quartiles 1-3 could not.However,other nomograms and staging system failed to do so.Further analyses of potential mechanisms showed that the PMS was associated with tumor biological behaviors,pathway activation,and immune microenvironment.Conclusions:The PMS could improve the prognostic accuracy and identify patients who would benefit from AT for ICC pati
文摘台标识别是典型的细微目标识别问题,针对台标区域小、信息量低,且镂空、半透明台标极易受到画面背景影响的难题,提出一个基于端到端全卷积网络的像素级台标识别网络——PNET.首先构建一个像素级标注的台标数据集,通过视频抽帧和图像预处理获得台标图像集,并提出一种逐图像的像素级半自动标注方法获得二值标签图像集;然后提出一个像素级台标识别网络,在典型分类网络AlexNet,VGG的基础上,通过微调,将分类网络在分类任务中学习到的网络参数转换为像素级台标识别网络在台标分割任务中的所需的网络参数;最后引入跨层架构,融合来自网络深层的全局信息和浅层的局部信息.实验结果表明PNET实现了准确的像素级分割,准确率高达98.3%,在NVIDIA Tesla K80上单幅图像识别时间不超过1.5 s.
