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Using immune cell-based bioactivity assays to compare the inflammatory activities of oil sands process-affected waters from a pilot scale demonstration pit lake

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Journal of Environmental Sciences 2023年第6期128卷 55-70页

作者： Dustin M.E.Lillico nora A.S.Hussain Yemaya Y.Choo-Yin Rui Qin Zuo Tong How Mohamed Gamal El-Din James L.Stafford Department of Biological Sciences University of AlbertaAlberta T6G 2E9Canada Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of AlbertaAlberta T6G 2E9Canada

In this study,we provide evidence that oil sands process-affected waters(OSPW)contain factors that activate the antimicrobial and proinflammatory responses of immune ***,using the murine macrophage RAW 264.7 cell line,we establish the bioactivity of two different OSPW samples and their isolated ***,we directly compared the bioactivity of two pilot scale demonstration pit lake(DPL)water samples,which included expressed water from treated tailings(termed the before water capping sample;BWC)as well as an after water capping(AWC)sample consisting of a mixture of expressed water,precipitation,upland runoff,coagulated OSPW and added *** inflammatory(*** activating)bioactivity was associated with the AWC sample and its organic fraction(OF),whereas the BWC sample had reduced bioactivity that was primarily associated with its inorganic fraction(IF).Overall,these results indicate that at non-toxic exposure doses,the RAW 264.7 cell line serves as an acute,sensitive and reliable biosensor for the screening of inflammatory constituents within and among discrete OSPW samples.

关键词： OSPW Oil sands Tailings ponds Remediation Macrophages Bioactivity Bioindicator Immunoecotoxicology

Bariatric surgery induces alterations in effective connectivity between the orbitofrontal cortex and limbic regions in obese patients

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Science China(Information Sciences) 2020年第7期63卷 49-59页

作者： Shijun DUAN Gang JI Guanya LI Yang HU Wenchao ZHANG Jia WANG Dardo TOMASI nora D.VOLKOW Yongzhan NIE Guangbin CUI Gene-Jack WANG Yi ZHANG Department of Radiology Tangdu Hospital Fourth Military Medical University State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases Fourth Military Medical University Center for Brain Imaging School of Life Science and Technology Xidian University Laboratory of Neuroimaging National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Obese subjects show enhanced brain responses in motivation and reward neurocircuitry encompassing sensory and somatic integration-interception, motivation-reward(striatal), emotion, and memory processes, which attenuate frontal region activation during food cues. Bariatric surgery(BS) is the only reliable treatment for morbid obesity. Unfortunately, it is unknown how BS affects neurocircuitry after weight loss. We aimed to examine effects of BS on the basal activity of brain areas involved in reward and motivation processing, emotion, memory, and gut-brain interaction. We combined resting-state fMRI with amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation(ALFF) and Granger causality analysis(GCA) to assess interactions between regions within the frontal-mesolimbic circuitry in 16 obese subjects(OB) and 22 normal-weight(NW) *** OB group was studied at baseline and 1 month post BS. Comparisons between OB and NW, and preand post BS showed significant differences in ALFF in areas involved in drive(caudate, orbitofrontal cortex(OFC)), arousal(thalamus), and conditioning/memory(amygdala, hippocampus)(P < 0.05, FDR correction). GCA revealed that in the OB group, the OFC had greater connectivity to limbic regions(amygdala,hippocampus, and medial thalamus) and the caudate. Post BS, the connectivity of the OFC to limbic regions decreased, whereas the connectivity from the amygdala and hippocampus to the caudate and thalamus was enhanced, particularly in subjects with lower body mass index(BMI). OFC activation in the OB group was associated with BMI prior to surgery, and changes in OFC post surgery were associated with alterations in BMI. Overall, the functional connectivity of the OFC was significantly decreased. As it is important for salience attribution and connected to limbic brain regions involved with emotional reactivity and conditioning after BS, its significant association with BMI changes indicates the contribution of OFC changes to the improved control of eating behavi

关键词： fMRI Granger causality analysis obesity bariatric surgery frontal-mesolimbic

hsa-mir-183 is frequently methylated and related to poor survival in human hepatocellular carcinoma

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World Journal of Gastroenterology 2017年第9期23卷 1568-1575页

作者： Sumadi Lukman Anwar Till Krech Britta Hasemeier Elisa Schipper nora Schweitzer Arndt Vogel Hans Kreipe Reena Buurman Britta Skawran Ulrich Lehmann Ulrich Lehmann Institute of PathologyMedizinische Hochschule Hannover Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine Universitas Gadjah Mada Department of Gastroenterology Hepatology and EndocrinologyMedizinische Hochschule Hannover Institute of Human Genetics Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

To screen clinically relevant microRNAs (miRNAs) silenced by DNA methylation in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).METHODSKnockdown of DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) using siRNAs and miRNA profiling in HCC cell lines were performed to identify DNA hypermethylation-mediated miRNA downregulation. Confirmation using individual quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) assays was then performed followed by DNA methylation quantification at the promoter of the miRNA genes. Quantification of DNA methylation and miRNA expression was then performed in primary HCC tumor samples and related with clinicopathological *** profiling after DNMT knockdown in HCC cell lines revealed upregulation of miR-23, miR-25 and miR-183. After qRT-PCR confirmation and CpG island methylation quantification of these miRNAs in cell lines, further analysis in primary HCC specimens showed that hsa-miR-183 is hypermethylated in 30% of HCC (n = 40). Expression of mature miR-183 showed an inverse correlation with DNA methylation levels. In HCC cells, DNMT knockdown and 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine treatment reduced methylation and stimulated expression of miR-183. In HCC patients, hypermethylation at hsa-miR-183 promoter significantly correlates with poor survival (log-rank test P = 0.03). DNA methylation analysis in healthy liver, benign liver tumors (hepatocellular adenoma and focal nodular hyperplasia) and their corresponding adjacent tissues showed absence of hypermethylation supporting the notion that aberrant methylation at hsa-miR-183 is specific for the malignant transformation of *** data indicate that hypermethylation of hsa-miR-183 is a frequent event in HCC and potentially useful as a novel surrogate diagnostic and prognostic marker.

关键词： hsa-miR-183 DNA methylation DNMT knockdown microRNA microarray

Influence of Increasing Shares of Miscanthus on Physical and Mechanical Properties of Pellets Produced in an Industrial Softwood Pellets Plant

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Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology(B) 2012年第7期2卷 768-779页

作者： Michael Temmerman Christelle Mignon nora Pieret Centre Wallon de Recherches Agronomiques (CRA-W) 146 chaussee de Namur 5030 Gembloux Belgium ValBiom asbl Gembloux Belgium

It has been possible to pelletize wood Miscanthus mixtures （12.5%, 25% and 50%） without modifying production process settings of a softwood pellets plant. Pure Miscanthus material tested in the same conditions has led to unstable production, mainly explained by hammermill overfeeding. The unstable production has been identified as the main responsible factor of the low quality of pellets produced with pure Miscanthus for these trials. The produced pellets were tested in a 25 kW boiler and compared with agro-pellets of various origins： winter barley straw, rapeseed straw, reed, old hay, Miscanthus, and wood pellets. Results gained during these combustion trials allowed to describe combustion of these uncommon fuels and to characterize its emissions. The trials confirm general characteristics of agricultural fuel combustion： influence of the ash content on the gross calorific value, influence of the N content in the fuel on the NOx emissions, influence on the alkali content on the C12 emissions. But the influence of known parameter （S. alkali and earth alkali content） on SO2 emission might not be highlighted, while a relation with the fuel moisture content could be considered.

关键词： Pellets Miseanthus agricultural fuel combustion.

Landfill Siting Evaluation Using GIS and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method: A Case Study: Dammam Municipal Solid Waste Landfill

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Journal of Geographic Information System 2021年第4期13卷 508-522页

作者： nora Al Khaldi Firdos Almadani Sara Ouerghi Department of Geography and GIS Faculty of Arts & Humanities King Abdulaziz University Jeddah Saudi Arabia

Waste landfills are a prominent global issue that does not concern a country without the other because of its long-term effects especially in the environmental aspect. As these pose an environmental threat to water, air and soil;and directly affect human life and health. Accordingly, this research uses the integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) approaches to assess the location of the municipal solid waste dump in Dammam, which was established in (2000AD) twenty years ago, due to the lack of recent studies assessing the current status of the landfill and whether it is in a suitable location and keeps pace with the population and urbanization increase in the region. For this purpose, the researchers are using the tools and techniques of GIS to evaluate eight criteria on the study area. The required standards were directed to the landfill site and transformed into maps that represent the most important economic, social, environmental, geological, geomorphological and Public Acceptance standards. These standards have been processed using the tools of spatial and statistical analyses. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is implemented in geographical information system for building the suitable cartographic model, and thus allowed to determine the suitable degree of Dammam municipal solid waste landfill site in light of the study criteria. The study concluded that the current landfill site achieves a good degree of suitability, as it achieved 63% measured against the quality standards set by the study, and that the current landfill site conforms to most of the criteria in this study to a good degree. But it violates two standards, which are distance from wells standard and distance between landfill and the center of waste generation standard.

关键词： Landfill Site Criteria Weights GIS Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Aminoguanidine impedes human pancreatic tumor growth and metastasis development in nude mice

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World Journal of Gastroenterology 2009年第9期15卷 1065-1071页

作者： nora A Mohamad Graciela P Cricco Lorena A Sambuco Máximo Croci Vanina A Medina Alicia S Gutiérrez Rosa M Bergoc Elena S Rivera Gabriela A Martín Laboratory of Radioisotopes School of Pharmacy and BiochemistryUniversity of Buenos AiresJunín 954 (C1113AAB)Buenos AiresArgentina Institute of Immunooncology Dr. Ernesto Crescenti Av. Córdoba 3200 (C1187AAS)Buenos AiresArgentina National Research Council (CONICET) Av. Rivadavia 1917 (C1033AAJ)Buenos AiresArgentina

AIM:To study the action of aminoguanidine on pancreatic cancer xenografts in relation to cell proliferation,apoptosis,redox status and ***:Xenografts of PANC-1 cells were developed in nude mice. The animals were separated into two groups:control and aminoguanidine treated. Tumor growth,survival and appearance of metastases were determined in vivo in both groups. Tumors were excised and ex vivo histochemical studies were performed. Cell growth was assessed by Ki-67 expression. Apoptosis was studied by intratumoral expression of B cell lymphoma-2 protein (Bcl-2) family proteins and Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase biotin-dUTP Nick End Labeling (Tunel). Redox status was evaluated by the expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS),catalase,copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD),manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx). Finally,vascularization was determined by Massons trichromic staining,and by VEGF and CD34 ***:Tumor volumes after 32 d of treatment by aminoguanidine (AG) were significantly lower than in control mice (P < 0.01). Median survival of AG mice was significantly greater than control animals (P < 0.01). The appearance of both homolateral and contralateral palpable metastases was significantly delayed in AG group. Apoptotic cells,intratumoral vascularization (trichromic stain) and the expression of Ki-67,Bax,eNOS,CD34,VEGF,catalase,CuZnSOD and MnSOD were diminished in AG treated mice (P < 0.01),while the expression of Bcl-2 and GPx did not ***:The antitumoral action of aminoguanidine is associated with decreased cell proliferation,reduced angiogenesis,and reduced expression of antioxidant enzymes.

关键词： Aminoguanidine Pancreatic ductal carcinoma Tumor growth Metastasis Apoptosis

Robust Deep Learning Model for Black Fungus Detection Based on Gabor Filter and Transfer Learning

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Computer Systems Science & Engineering 2023年第11期47卷 1507-1525页

作者： Esraa Hassan Fatma M.Talaat Samah Adel Samir Abdelrazek Ahsan Aziz Yunyoung Nam nora El-Rashidy Machine Learning and Information Retrieval Department Faculty of Artificial IntelligenceKafrelsheikh UniversityKafrelsheikhEgypt Electronics and Communication Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering Horus UniversityDamiettaEgypt Information Systems Department Faculty of Computers and InformationMansoura UniversityMansoura35516Egypt Department of ICT Convergence Soonchunhyang UniversityAsanKorea

Black fungus is a rare and dangerous mycology that usually affects the brain and lungs and could be life-threatening in diabetic ***,some COVID-19 survivors,especially those with co-morbid diseases,have been susceptible to black ***,recovered COVID-19 patients should seek medical support when they notice mucormycosis *** paper proposes a novel ensemble deep-learning model that includes three pre-trained models:reset(50),VGG(19),and *** approach is medically intuitive and efficient compared to the traditional deep learning *** image dataset was aggregated from various resources and divided into two classes:a black fungus class and a skin infection *** the best of our knowledge,our study is the first that is concerned with building black fungus detection models based on deep learning *** proposed approach can significantly improve the performance of the classification task and increase the generalization ability of such a binary classification *** to the reported results,it has empirically achieved a sensitivity value of 0.9907,a specificity value of 0.9938,a precision value of 0.9938,and a negative predictive value of 0.9907.

关键词： Black fungus COVID-19 Transfer learning pre-trained models medical image

Stroke in COVID-19: a single-centre initial experience in a hotspot of the pandemic

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Stroke & Vascular Neurology 2020年第4期5卷 331-336页

作者： Ivo Bach Pratibha Surathi nora Montealegre Osama Abu-Hadid Sara Rubenstein Sviatoslav Redko Siddharth Gupta Machteld Hillen Pratit Patel Priyank Khandelwal Adham Kamel Department of Neurology and Neurosciences New Jersey Medical SchoolNewarkNew JerseyUSA Department of Neurological Surgery New Jersey Medical SchoolNewarkNew JerseyUSA

Background COVID-19,caused by SARS-CoV-2,is a global pandemic that has been an immense burden on healthcare systems all over the *** patients may be at higher risk for acute ischaemic stroke(AIS).We present our experience with AIS in patients with *** We reviewed all patients admitted to our hospital during a 6-week period with a positive nasopharyngeal swab test for *** these patients,we identified *** reviewed the demographics,clinical,laboratory,imaging characteristics,treatments received and outcomes of AIS in patients with *** We identified 683 patients admitted with COVID-19 during the study period,of which 20 patients had ***-vessel occlusion(LVO)was noted in 11 patients(55%).Intravenous alteplase was administered in four patients(20%)and mechanical thrombectomy was performed in five patients(25%).Respiratory symptoms preceded the onset of AIS in most of the patients(70%)by 1 to 21 *** in patients with AIS was 50%compared with 26%of all COVID-19 *** of these patients died due to non-neurological causes(70%).Three patients with AIS had clinical and imaging findings consistent with COVID-19,but were negative for multiple nasopharyngeal swab *** LVO was more common in patients with AIS and *** had more severe disease and higher mortality *** of the patients had respiratory symptoms preceding AIS by days to *** could explain certain patients with clinical picture of COVID-19 but negative nasopharyngeal swab tests.

关键词： admitted nasopharyngeal acute

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