The northern Tibetan Plateau is a climatically sensitive zone influenced by monsoon and westerly *** summer,water vapor transport can reach Qinghai Lake and the eastern section of the Qilian Mountains;in winter,wester...
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The northern Tibetan Plateau is a climatically sensitive zone influenced by monsoon and westerly *** summer,water vapor transport can reach Qinghai Lake and the eastern section of the Qilian Mountains;in winter,westerly winds mainly control the *** article compares the wet/dry changes in the region during the mid-Holocene(MH)warm period,the medieval climate anomaly(MCA),the current warm period(CWP),and the future warm period from the perspective of *** found that the MH warm period was mainly affected by the orbit-controlled East Asian summer monsoon,and the region showed warm and humid climate *** MCA was mainly controlled by solar radiation,and there was a warm and dry *** CWP and the future warm period are mainly controlled by the rise in temperature caused by the increase in greenhouse gases,and the climate is becoming more *** wet/dry patterns in the CWP and the future warm period in the next century on the northern Tibetan Plateau are similar to those in the *** warming will lead to the expansion of the westerly belt and a gradually humid *** future wet/dry changes will be more similar to the MH warm period.
Dengue virus(DENV) and Zika virus(ZIKV) have spread throughout many countries in the developing world and infect millions of people every year, causing severe harm to human health and the economy. Unfortunately, there...
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Dengue virus(DENV) and Zika virus(ZIKV) have spread throughout many countries in the developing world and infect millions of people every year, causing severe harm to human health and the economy. Unfortunately, there are few effective vaccines and therapies available against these viruses. Therefore, the discovery of new antiviral agents is ***, a scorpion venom peptide(Smp76) characterized from Scorpio maurus palmatus was successfully expressed and purified in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3). The recombinant Smp76(rSmp76) was found to effectively inhibit DENV and ZIKV infections in a dose-dependent manner in both cultured cell lines and primary mouse macrophages. Interestingly,rSmp76 did not inactivate the viral particles directly but suppressed the established viral infection, similar to the effect of interferon(IFN)-b. Mechanistically, rSmp76 was revealed to upregulate the expression of IFN-b by activating interferon regulatory transcription factor 3(IRF3) phosphorylation, enhancing the type-Ⅰ IFN response and inhibiting viral *** mechanism is significantly different from traditional virucidal antimicrobial peptides(AMPs). Overall, the scorpion venom peptide Smp76 is a potential new antiviral agent with a unique mechanism involving type-Ⅰ IFN responses,demonstrating that natural AMPs can enhance immunity by functioning as immunomodulators.
Traditional construction techniques have a significant impact on the environment and are associated with long construction durations in the construction of municipal rainwater *** jacking technology,a new type of pipe...
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Traditional construction techniques have a significant impact on the environment and are associated with long construction durations in the construction of municipal rainwater *** jacking technology,a new type of pipeline construction method,enables non-excavation construction and can address the shortcomings of traditional pipeline *** article analyzes the concept and application advantages of pipe jacking *** engineering examples,it explores the application strategies of pipe jacking technology in the construction process of municipal rainwater pipelines for reference.
Viral infection still threatens human health all over the world,and many people die from viral diseases every ***,there are no effective vaccines or drugs for preventing or managing most viral ***,the discovery and de...
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Viral infection still threatens human health all over the world,and many people die from viral diseases every ***,there are no effective vaccines or drugs for preventing or managing most viral ***,the discovery and development of broad-spectrum antiviral agents remain ***,we expressed and purified a scorpion venom peptide,Ev37,from the scorpion Euscorpiops validus in a prokaryotic *** found that rEv37 can inhibit dengue virus type 2(DENV-2),hepatitis C virus(HCV),Zika virus(ZIKV) and herpes simplex virus type 1(HSV-1)infections in a dose-dependent manner at noncytotoxic concentrations,but that it has no effect on Sendai virus(SeV) and Adenovirus(AdV) infections in ***,rEv37 alkalized acidic organelles to prevent low pH-dependent fusion of the viral membrane-endosomal membrane,which mainly blocks the release of the viral genome from the endosome to the cytoplasm and then restricts viral late *** together,our results indicate that the scorpion venom peptide Ev37 is a broadspectrum antiviral agent with a specific molecular mechanism against viruses undergoing low pHdependent fusion activation during entry into host *** conclude that Ev37 is a potential candidate for development as an antiviral drug.
Objective: To better understand the reason that Schistosoma japonicurn (S. japonicum) ultraviolet (UV)- radiated cercariae could not induce high level of protection in C57BL/6 mice. Methods: Microarray technolog...
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Objective: To better understand the reason that Schistosoma japonicurn (S. japonicum) ultraviolet (UV)- radiated cercariae could not induce high level of protection in C57BL/6 mice. Methods: Microarray technology was performed to investigate the gene transcription profile in skin draining lymph nodes (sdLNs) at 1 w after exposure to attenuated cercariae (AC) or normal cercariae (NC) of S. japonicum in C57BL/6 mice. The expressions of some representative genes were further confirmed by real-time PCR. Subsequently, the expressions of Th1/Th2 cytokine genes, cytotoxicity-related genes, as well as co-stimulator genes in spleens from AC-vaccinated and NC- infected mice were analyzed by real-time PCR at w 3 and 6 post-exposure. Results: The gene expressions of Th1 cytokines, including interferon-y (IFN-γ), interleukin (IL)-12 and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in the sdLNs were significantly lower in AC-vaccinated mice than in NC-infected mice. Furthermore, the gene expressions of Th1- and Th2- cytokines, including IFN-γ, IL-12, TNF-α, IL-4 and IL-10, in the spleens from AC-vaccinated mice showed little changes at w 3 and 6 post-vaccination. In addition, cytotoxicity-related molecules including granzyme A, granzyme B, granzyme K, perforin 1 and Fas L were up-regulated from the early stage of vaccination, and peaked at the 3rd w after vaccination with UV-AC. Conclusion: UV-AC of S. japonicum could not ef- fectively induce a Thl response in C57BL/6 mice, which may be an explanation for the low protection against parasite challenge, and the role played by up-regulated expression of cytotoxicity-related genes in mice needs to be further investigated.
Wearable and stretchable strain sensors have potential values in the fields of human motion and health monitoring,flexible electronics,and soft robotic *** wearable and stretchable strain sensors can be directly attac...
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Wearable and stretchable strain sensors have potential values in the fields of human motion and health monitoring,flexible electronics,and soft robotic *** wearable and stretchable strain sensors can be directly attached to human skin,providing visualized detection for human motions and personal *** polymer composites(CPC)composed of conductive fillers and flexible polymers have the advantages of high stretchability,good flexibility,superior durability,which can be used to prepare flexible strain sensors with large working strain and outstanding *** review has put forward a comprehensive summary on the fabrication methods,advanced mechanisms and strain sensing abilities of CPC strain sensors reported in recent years,especially the sensors with superior ***,the structural design,bionic function,integration technology and further application of CPC strain sensors are prospected.
Microglial surveillance plays an essential role in clearing misfolded proteins such as amyloid-beta,tau,andα-synuclein aggregates in neurodegenerative ***,due to the complex structure and ambiguous pathogenic species...
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Microglial surveillance plays an essential role in clearing misfolded proteins such as amyloid-beta,tau,andα-synuclein aggregates in neurodegenerative ***,due to the complex structure and ambiguous pathogenic species of the misfolded proteins,a universal approach to remove the misfolded proteins remains ***,we found that a polyphenol,α-mangostin,reprogrammed metabolism in the disease-associated microglia through shifting glycolysis to oxidative phosphorylation,which holistically rejuvenated microglial surveillance capacity to enhance microglial phagocytosis and autophagy-mediated degradation of multiple misfolded *** ofα-mangostin efficiently deliveredα-mangostin to microglia,relieved the reactive status and rejuvenated the misfolded-proteins clearance capacity of microglia,which thus impressively relieved the neuropathological changes in both Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease model *** findings provide direct evidences for the concept of rejuvenating microglial surveillance of multiple misfolded proteins through metabolic reprogramming,and demonstrate nanoformulatedα-mangostin as a potential and universal therapy against neurodegenerative diseases.
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