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Bacterial biota in reflux esophagitis and Barrett's esophagus

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World Journal of Gastroenterology 2005年第46期11卷 7277-7283页

作者： Zhiheng Pei Liying Yang Richard m Peek Jr steven m levine David T Pride martin J Blaser Departments of Pathology and medicine New York University School of Medicine New York NY 10016 the United States of America and Department of Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Health System New York NY 10010United States Department of Pathology New York University School of Medicine New York NY 10016 United States Jr Department of Medicine Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville TN 37212United States Department of medicine New York University School of Medicine New York NY 10016 United States Departments of medicine and microbiology New York University School of Medicine New York NY 10016United States Departments of medicine and microbiology New York University School of Medicine New York NY 10016the United States of America and Department of Veterans AffairsNew York Harbor Health System New York NY 10010 United States

AIm： To identify the bacterial flora in conditions such as Barrett＇s esophagus and reflux esophagitis to determine if they are similar to normal esophageal flora. mETHODS： Using broad-range 16S rDNA PCR, esophageal biopsies were examined from 24 patients [9 with normal esophageal mucosa, 12 with gastroesophageal reflux disease （GERD）, and 3 with Barrett＇s esophagus]. Two separate broad-range PCR reactions were performed for each patient, and the resulting products were cloned. In one patient with Barrett＇s esophagus, 99 PCR clones were analyzed. RESULTS： Two separate clones were recovered from each patient （total = 48）, representing 24 different species, with 14 species homologous to known bacteria, 5 homologous to unidentified bacteria, and 5 were not homologous （〈97% identity） to any known bacterial 16S rDNA sequences. Seventeen species were found in the reflux esophagitis patients, 5 in the Barrett＇s esophagus patients, and 10 in normal esophagus patients. Further analysis concentrating on a single biopsy from an individual with Barrett＇s esophagus revealed the presence of 21 distinct bacterial species. members of four phyla were represented, including Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria. microscopic examination of each biopsy demonstrated bacteria in intimate association with the distal esophageal epithelium, suggesting that the presence of these bacteria is not transitory. CONCLUSION： These findings provide evidence for a complex, residential bacterial population in esophageal reflux-related disorders. While much of this biota is present in the normal esophagus, more detailed comparisons may help identify potential disease associations.

关键词： Bacterial biota Esophagus 16S rDNA PCR

Phenotypic plasticity in prostate cancer： role of ntrinsically disordered proteins

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Asian Journal of Andrology 2016年第5期18卷 704-710页

作者： steven m mooney mohit Kumar Jolly Herbert levine Prakash Kulkarni Department of Biology University of Waterloo Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada Center for Theoretical Biological Physics Rice University Houston TX 77005 USA Department of Bioengineering Rice University Houston TX 77005 USA Department of Physics and Astronomy Rice University Houston TX 77005 USA institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research University of Maryland Rockville Maryland 20850 USA

A striking characteristic of cancer ceLls is their remarkable phenotypic plasticity, which is the ability to switch states or phenotypes in response to environmental fluctuations. Phenotypic changes such as a partial or complete epithelial to mesenchymal transition （EmT） that play important roles in their survival and proliferation, and development of resistance to therapeutic treatments, are widely believed to arise due to somatic mutations in the genome. However, there is a growing concern that such a deterministic view is not entirely consistent with multiple lines of evidence, which indicate that stochasticity may also play an important role in driving phenotypic plasticity. Here, we discuss how stochasticity in protein interaction networks （PINs） may play a key role in determining phenotypic plasticity in prostate cancer （PCa）. Specifically, we point out that the key players driving transitions among different phenotypes （epithelial, mesenchymal, and hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal）, including ZEB1, SNAIl, OVOL1, and OVOL2, are intrinsically disordered proteins （IDPs） and discuss how plasticity at the molecular level may contribute to stochasticity in phenotypic switching by rewiring PINs. We conclude by suggesting that targeting iDPs implicated in EmT in PCa may be a new strategy to gain additional insights and develop novel treatments for this disease, which is the most common form of cancer in adult men.

关键词： epithelial to mesenchymal transition intrinsically disordered proteins prostate cancer state-switching

Surgery for Peyronie＇s disease

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Asian Journal of Andrology 2013年第1期15卷 27-34页

作者： Laurence A levine Stephen m Larsen Department of Urology Rush University Medical Center Chicago IL 60612 USA

Peymnie＇s disease （PD） is most simply referred to as a fibrotic wound-healing disorder of the tunica albuginea. It is both a physically and psychologically devastating disorder that causes penile deformity, curvature, hinging, narrowing and shortening, which may compromise sexual function. Although a variety of non-surgical treatments have been suggested, none to date offer a reliable and effective correction of the penile deformity. As a result, surgery remains the gold standard treatment option, offering the most rapid and reliable treatment which will be the focus of this article. We review the preoperative evaluation, surgical algorithm, graft materials and postoperative management of PD. Outcomes for tunical shortening, tunical lengthening and penile prosthesis placement for penile straightening are reviewed. Tunica albuginea plication is the preferred method of straightening for men with adequate rigidity and less severe disease defined as curvature less than 70° without narrowing/hinging. men who have more severe, complex deformity, but maintain strong preoperative erectile function should be considered candidates for straightening with plaque incision or partial excision and grafting. Finally, for those men who have inadequate rigidity and PD, penile prosthesis placement with straightening is the best approach to address both problems.

关键词： penile prosthesis Peyronie's disease, penile reconstruction plaque excision and grafting plaque incision tunica albuginea plication

modern treatment strategies for penile prosthetics in Peyronie’s disease:a contemporary clinical review

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Asian Journal of Andrology 2020年第1期22卷 51-59页

作者： matthew J Ziegelmann m Ryan Farrell Laurence A levine Division of Urology Rush University Medical CenterChicagoIL 60612USA

Peyronie's disease is a common condition resulting in penile deformity,psychological bother,and sexual *** dysfunction is one common comorbid condition seen in men with Peyronie’s disease,and its presence significantly impacts treatment *** a man with Peyronie's disease and significant erectile dysfunction who desires the most reliable treatment,penile prosthesis placement should be strongly *** some instances,such as those patients with relatively mild curvature,prosthesis placement alone may result in adequate ***,many patients will require additional straightening maneuvers such as manual modeling,penile plication,and tunica albuginea incision with or without *** patients with severe penile shortening,penile length restoration techniques may also be ***,we provide a comprehensive clinical review of penile prosthesis placement in men with Peyronie's ***,we discuss preoperative indications,intraoperative considerations,adjunctive straightening maneuvers,and postoperative outcomes.

关键词： collagenase grafting penile length penile prosthesis Peyronie's

Development of a building information model-guided post-earthquake building inspection framework using 3D synthetic environments

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Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration 2023年第2期22卷 279-307页

作者： Nathaniel m.levine Yasutaka Narazaki Billie F.Spencer Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbanaIllinois 61801USA Zhejiang University-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute Zhejiang UniversityHaining 314400China

Computer vision-based inspection methods show promise for automating post-earthquake building *** methods survey a building with unmanned aerial vehicles and automatically detect damage in the collected ***,assessing the damage′s impact on structural safety requires localizing damage to specific building components with known design and *** paper proposes a BIm-based automated inspection framework to provide context for visual surveys.A deep learning-based semantic segmentation algorithm is trained to automatically identify damage in *** BIm automatically associates any identified damage with specific building ***,components are classified into damage states consistent with component fragility models for integration with a structural *** demonstrate the framework,methods are developed to photorealistically simulate severe structural damage in a synthetic computer graphics environment.A graphics model of a real building in Urbana,Illinois,is generated to test the framework;the model is integrated with a structural analysis to apply earthquake damage in a physically realistic manner.A simulated UAV survey is flown of the graphics model and the framework is *** method achieves high accuracy in assigning damage states to visible structural *** assignment enables integration with a performance-based earthquake assessment to classify building safety.

关键词： computer vision earthquake engineering building information model physics-based graphics model synthetic environment

Transport model for shale gas well leakage through the surrounding fractured zones of a longwall mine

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International Journal of mining Science and Technology 2020年第5期30卷 635-641页

作者： Kayode m.Ajayi steven J.Schatzel Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for Occupational Safety and HealthPittsburghPA 15236USA

The environmental risks associated with casing deformation in unconventional(shale)gas wells positioned in abutment pillars of longwall mines is a concern to many in the mining and gas well *** the recent interest in shale exploration and the proximity to longwall mining in Southwestern Pennsylvania,the risk to mine workers could be catastrophic as fractures in surrounding strata create pathways for transport of leaked ***,this research by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health(NIOSH)presents an analytical model of the gas transport through fractures in a low permeable *** derived equations are used to conduct parametric studies of specific transport conditions to understand the influence of stratum geology,fracture lengths,and the leaked gas properties on subsurface *** results indicated that the prediction that the subsurface gas flux decreases with an increase in fracture length is specifically for a non-gassy *** sub-transport trend could be significantly impacted by the stratum gas generation rate within specific fracture lengths,which emphasized the importance of the stratum *** findings provide new insights for improved understanding of subsurface gas transport to ensure mine safety.

关键词： Subsurface gas transport Longwall mining Shale gas well Analytical modeling Environmental risk Shale gas casing failure

Assessing the reproductive health of men with occupational exposures

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Asian Journal of Andrology 2014年第1期16卷 23-30页

作者： steven m Schrader Katherine L marlow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Division of Applied Research and Technology Cincinnati OH USA.

The earliest report linking environmental （occupational） exposure to adverse human male reproductive effects dates back to1775 when an English physician, Percival Pott, reported a high incidence of scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps. This observation led to safety regulations in the form of bathing requirements for these workers. The fact that male-mediated reproductive harm in humans may be a result of toxicant exposures did not become firmly established until relatively recently, when Lancranjan studied lead-exposed workers in Romania in 1975, and later in 1977, when Whorton examined the effects of dibromochloropropane （DBCP） on male workers in California. Since these discoveries, several additional human reproductive toxicants have been identified through the convergence of laboratory and observational findings. many research gaps remain, as the pool of potential human exposures with undetermined effects on male reproduction is vast. This review provides an overview of methods used to study the effects of exposures on male reproduction and their reproductive health, with a primary emphasis on the implementation and interpretation of human studies. Emphasis will be on occupational exposures, although much of the information is also useful in assessing environmental studies, occupational exposures are usually much higher and better defined.

关键词： accessory glands endocrine epidemiology semen sexual function sperm testis toxicology

Strigolactones redefine plant hormones

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Science China(Life Sciences) 2016年第10期59卷 1083-1085页

作者： Lu Wang steven m.Smith School of Biological Sciences University of Tasmania Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Chinese Academy of sciences

A commonly accepted view of plant growth hormones is that their interaction with the cognate receptor protein is reversible, so that each hormone molecule can potentially interact multiple times with a receptor and so either amplify the hormone signal or maintain it over an extended period of time. The signal can be ＇cancelled＇ by degrading the hormone. Strigolactones present us with a potentially new paradigm. The receptor is a serine hydrolase-type protein which attacks the strigolactone resulting in covalent modi- fication of the receptor, while at the same time destroying the hormone. Strigolactone is apparently a one-use ＇dispos- able＇ hormone.

关键词：植物激素受体蛋白定义植物生长激素相互作用激素信号酸水解

Determinants of the Specif icity of Protein Targeting to Chloroplasts or mitochondria

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molecular Plant 2019年第7期12卷 893-895页

作者： Lucas mcKinnon steven m.Theg Department of Plant Biology University of California Davis Davis CA USA

Chloroplasts and mitochondria are both thought to have arisen through primary endosymbiosis (Kutschera and Niklas, 2005). As each organelle evolved, most of its genome was transferred to the host nucleus resulting in the vast majority of its proteome being nuclear encoded and synthesized on cytosolic ribosomes (Shi and Theg, 2013).

关键词： Chloroplasts mitochondria