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Design of an automated robotic microinjection system for batch injection of zebrafish embryos and larvae

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Microsystems & Nanoengineering 2024年第1期10卷 89-103页

作者： Zhongyi Guo Nana Ai Wei Ge Qingsong Xu department of Electromechanical Engineering Faculty of Science and TechnologyUniversity of MacaoMacaoChina department of biomedical sciences and Centre of Reproduction Development and Aging(CRDA)Faculty of Health SciencesUniversity of MacaoMacaoChina

This paper presents the design of a vision-based automated robotic microinjection system for batch injection of both zebrafish embryos and larvae.A novel visual recognition algorithm based on an automatic threshold and excessive dilatation is introduced to accurately identify the center of zebrafish embryos and larval yolks.A corresponding software system is developed using the producer-consumer model as the framework structure,and a friendly user interface is designed to allow operators to choose from a range of desired functions according to their different *** addition,a novel microstructural agarose device is designed and fabricated to simultaneously immobilize mixed batches of embryos and ***,a prototype microinjection system is fabricated by integrating hardware devices with visual *** experimental study is conducted to verify the performance of the robotic microinjection *** results show that the reported system can accurately identify zebrafish embryos and larvae and efficiently complete batch microinjection tasks of the mixtures with an injection success rate of 92.05%in 13.88 s per *** with manual and existing microinjection systems,the proposed system demonstrates the merits of versatility,excellent efficiency,high success rate,high survival rate,and sufficient stability.

关键词： zebra automated hardware

Integration of multiple flexible electrodes for realtime detection of barrier formation with spatial resolution in a gut-on-chip system

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Microsystems & Nanoengineering 2024年第1期10卷 105-114页

作者： Mara Lucchetti Gabriel Werr Sofia Johansson Laurent Barbe Léa Grandmougin Paul Wilmes Maria Tenje Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine(LCSB) University of LuxembourgEsch-sur-Alzette L-4362Luxembourg Division of biomedical Engineering Department of Materials Science and EngineeringScience for Life LaboratoryUppsala University75121 UppsalaSweden department of Life sciences and medicine Faculty of ScienceTechnology and MedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch-sur-Alzette L-4362Luxembourg

In healthy individuals,the intestinal epithelium forms a tight barrier to prevent gut bacteria from reaching blood *** study the effect of probiotics,dietary compounds and drugs on gut barrier formation and disruption,human gut epithelial and bacterial cells can be cocultured in an in vitro model called the human microbial crosstalk(HuMiX)gut-on-a-chip ***,we present the design,fabrication and integration of thin-film electrodes into the HuMiX platform to measure transepithelial electrical resistance(TEER)as a direct readout on barrier tightness in *** various aspects of the HuMiX platform have already been set in their design,such as multiple compressible layers,uneven surfaces and nontransparent materials,a novel fabrication method was developed whereby thin-film metal electrodes were first deposited on flexible substrates and sequentially integrated with the HuMiX system via a transfer-tape ***,to measure localized TEER along the cell culture chamber,we integrated multiple electrodes that were connected to an impedance analyzer via a *** further developed a dynamic normalization method because the active measurement area depends on the measured TEER *** fabrication process and system setup can be applicable to other barrier-on-chip *** a proof-of-concept,we measured the barrier formation of a cancerous Caco-2 cell line in real-time,which was mapped at four spatially separated positions along the HuMiX culture area.

关键词： barrier system multiple

Inflammatory bowel disease(ulcerative colitis type)severity shows inverse correlation with semen parameters and testosterone levels

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Asian Journal of Andrology 2024年第2期26卷 155-159页

作者： Darmadi Darmadi Cennikon Pakpahan Rajender Singh Ankur Saharan Wanly Syahrizal Pasaribu Hermansyah Hermansyah Andri Rezano department of Internal medicine Faculty of MedicineUniversitas Sumatera UtaraMedan 20155Indonesia Andrology Study Program Faculty of MedicineUniversitas AirlanggaSurabaya 60132Indonesia department of biomedical sciences Faculty of MedicineUniversitas AirlanggaSurabaya 60132Indonesia Division of Endocrinology Central Drug Research InstituteLucknowUtar Pradesh 226031India Amity University LucknowUttar Pradesh 226010India department of biomedical sciences Faculty of MedicineUniversitas PadjadjaranSumedang 45363Indonesia

Individuals with inflammatory bowel disease(IBD)have been reported to be at an increased risk of infertility and sexual *** the relationship between them remains unclear,IBD severity is suspected to affect hormone levels and *** analyze the impact of IBD severity on semen parameters and sex hormone levels in ulcerative colitis-type IBD(UC-IBD),we conducted a cross-sectional study involving 120 patients with UC-IBD in Adam Malik General Hospital,Medan,*** patients were classified into three groups based on the Mayo score for Uc,followed by a comparison of various semen and hormone parameters among these *** addition to the cross-sectional analysis,a simple correlation test was conducted irrespective of the patient *** concentration,motility,and morphology were found to decline significantly with an increase in IBD *** classifying patients with IBD into subgroups,the Mayo score showed negative correlations with sperm concentration(r=-0.375,P<0.0001),rapid progressive motility(r=-0.660,P<0.0001),free testosterone(r=-0.732,P<0.0001),and total testosterone(r=-0.721,P<0.0001),and positivecorrelations with immotile sperm(r=0.660,P<0.0001),abnormal morphology(r=0.657,P<0.0001),and sex hormone-binding globulin(SHBG;r=0.278,P=0.002).Sperm concentration,motility,and morphology declined significantly with the severity of *** study suggests a significant negative impact of IBD severityonsemenqualityand sexhormones.

关键词： inflammatory bowel disease reproductive health sexual health sperm parameter testosterone

Aberration correction for deformable-mirror-based remote focusing enables high-accuracy whole-cell super-resolution imaging

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Photonics Research 2024年第4期12卷 821-832页

作者： WEI SHI YINGCHUAN HE JIANLIN WANG LULU ZHOU JIANWEI CHEN LIWEI ZHOU ZEYU XI ZHEN WANG KE FANG YIMING LI department of biomedical Engineering Southern University of Science and TechnologyShenzhen 518055China

Single-molecule localization microscopy(SMLM)enables three-dimensional(3D)investigation of nanoscale structures in biological samples,offering unique insights into their ***,traditional 3D super-resolution microscopy using high numerical aperture(NA)objectives is limited by imaging depth of field(DOF),restricting their practical application to relatively thin biological ***,we developed a unified solution for thick sample super-resolution imaging using a deformable mirror(DM)which served for fast remote focusing,optimized point spread function(PSF)engineering,and accurate aberration *** effectively correcting the system aberrations introduced during remote focusing and sample aberrations at different imaging depths,we achieved high-accuracy,large DOF imaging(~8μm)of the whole-cell organelles[i.e.,nuclear pore complex(NPC),microtubules,and mitochondria]with a nearly uniform resolution of approximately 35 nm across the entire cellular volume.

关键词： enable mirror resolution

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Long-term in vivo chimeric cells tracking in non-human primate

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Protein & Cell 2024年第3期15卷 207-222页

作者： Junmo Wu Yu Kang Xiang Luo Shaoxing Dai Yuxi Shi Zhuoyao Li Zengli Tang Zhenzhen Chen Ran Zhu Pengpeng Yang Zifan Li Hong Wang Xinglong Chen Ziyi Zhao Weizhi ji Yuyu Niu State Key Laboratory of Primate biomedical Research Institute of Primate Translational MedicineKunming University of Science and TechnologyKunming 650500China Yunnan Key Laboratory of Primate biomedical Research Kunming 650500China faculty of Life science and Technology Kunming University of Science and TechnologyKunming 650500China

Non-human primates(NHPs)are increasingly used in preclinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of biotech-nology ***,given the ethical issues and costs associated with this model,it would be highly advantageous to use NHP cellular models in clinical ***,developing and maintaining the naive state of primate pluripotent stem cells(PSCs)remains difficult as does in vivo detection of PSCs,thus limiting biotech-nology application in the cynomolgus ***,we report a chemically defined,xeno-free culture system for culturing and deriving monkey PSCs in *** cells display global gene expression and genome-wide hypometh-ylation patterns distinct from monkey-primed *** also found expression of signaling pathways components that may increase the potential for chimera *** for biomedical applications,we were also able to integrate bioluminescent reporter genes into monkey PsCs and track them in chimeric embryos in vivo and in *** engineered cells retained embryonic and extra-embryonic developmental ***,we generated a chimeric monkey carrying bioluminescent cells,which were able to track chimeric cells for more than 2 years in living *** study could have broad utility in primate stem cell engineering and in utilizing chimeric monkey models forclinical studies.

关键词： pluripotent stem cells bioluminescence imaging non-human primates

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ELK3-ID4 axis governs the metastatic features of triple negative breast cancer

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Oncology Research 2024年第1期32卷 127-138页

作者： JIN-HO CHOI JOO DONG PARK SEUNG HEE CHOI EUN-SU KO HYE JUNG JANG KYUNG-SOON PARK department of biomedical science CHA UniversitySeongnamKorea

Purpose:Cancer cell metastasis is a multistep process,and the mechanism underlying extravasation remains ***3 is a transcription factor that plays a crucial role in regulating various cellular processes,including cancer *** on the finding that ELK3 promotes the metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer(TNBC),we investigated whether ELK3 regulates the extravasation of TNBC by forming the ELK3-ID4 ***4 functions as a transcriptional regulator that interacts with other transcription factors,inhibiting their activity and subsequently influencing various biological processes associated with cell differentiation,survival,growth,and ***:We assessed the correlation between the expression of ELK3 and that of ID4 in TNBCs using bioinformatics analyses,QRT-PCR,western blot analysis,luciferase reporter assays,and chromatin ***,adhesion,invasion,and lung metastasis assays were employed to determine whether the ELK3-ID4 axis regulates the metastatic features of ***:We found that ELK3 binds directly to a binding motif close to the ID4 promoter to repress promoter *** expression of E-cadherin in TNBC was regulated by the ELK3-ID4 *** vitro and in vivo analyses showed that inhibiting ID4 expression in ELK3-knockdown MDA-MB-231(ELK3KD)cells restored the ability to extravasate and ***:The results indicate that the ELK3 regulates ID4 promoter activity,and that the ELK3-ID4 axis regulates the metastatic characteristics of TNBC ***,the data suggest that the ELK3-ID4 axis regulates metastasis of TNBCs by modulating expression of E-cadherin.

关键词： E-cadherin Extravasation Colonization

Neural plasticity in Parkinson's disease: a neuroimaging perspective

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第6期19卷 1203-1205页

作者： Christina Andica Koji Kamagata department of Radiology Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine faculty of Health Data science Juntendo University

Parkinson’s disease(PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized primarily by classical motor signs of bradykinesia,rigidity,tremors,and postural instability usually manifesti ng unilate rally or at least *** disease involves a loss of dopaminergic neurons projecting from the substantia nigra pars compacta to the dorsal striatum,

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Non-pancreatic hyperlipasemia:A puzzling clinical entity

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World Journal of Gastroenterology 2024年第19期30卷 2538-2552页

作者： Krisztina Eszter Feher David Tornai Zsuzsanna Vitalis Laszlo Davida Nora Sipeki Maria Papp Division of Gastroenterology Department of Internal MedicineFaculty of MedicineUniversity of DebrecenDebrecen H-4032Hajdu-BiharHungary Kalman Laki Doctoral School of biomedical and Clinical sciences Faculty of MedicineUniversity of DebrecenDebrecen H-4032Hungary

BACKGROUND Increased lipase level is a serological hallmark of the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis(AP)but can be detected in various other diseases associated with lipase leakage due to inflammation of organs surrounding the pancreas or reduced renal clearance and/or hepatic *** non-pancreatic hyperlipasemia(NPHL)is puzzling for attending physicians during the diagnostic procedure for *** would be clinically beneficial to identify the clinical and laboratory variables that hinder the accuracy of lipase diagnosis with the aim of improve it.A more precise description of the NPHL condition could potentially provide prognostic factors for adverse outcomes which is currently *** To perform a detailed clinical and laboratory characterization of NPHL in a large prospective patient cohort with an assessment of parameters determining disease *** A Hungarian patient cohort with serum lipase levels at least three times higher than the upper limit of normal(ULN)was prospectively evaluated over 31 *** were identified using daily electronic laboratory reports developed to support an ongoing observational,multicenter,prospective cohort study called the EASY trial(ISRCTN10525246)to establish a simple,easy,and accurate clinical scoring system for early prognostication of *** of NPHL was established based on≥3×ULN serum lipase level in the absence of abdominal pain or abdominal imaging results characteristic of *** A total of 808 patients[male,n=420(52%);median age(IQR):65(51-75)years]were diagnosed with≥3×ULN serum lipase levels.A total of 392 patients had AP,whereas 401 had NPHL with more than 20 different *** and acute kidney injury(AKI)were the most prevalent etiologies of NPHL(27.7%and 33.2%,respectively).The best discriminative cut-off value for lipase was≥666 U/L(sensitivity,71.4%;specificity,88.8%).The presence of AKI or sepsis negatively affected the diagnostic performance of *** w

关键词： Non-pancreatic hyperlipasemia Acute pancreatitis Glycoprotein 2 Acute kidney injury Sepsis Mortality

The Influence of Tartaric Acid in the Silver Nanoparticle Synthesis Using Response Surface Methodology

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Journal of Renewable Materials 2024年第2期12卷 245-258页

作者： Yatim Lailun Ni’mah Afaf Baktir Dewi Santosaningsih Suprapto Suprapto Chemistry department Faculty of Science and Data AnalyticsInstitut Teknologi Sepuluh NopemberSurabayaIndonesia Chemistry department Faculty of Science and TechnologyAirlangga UniversitySurabayaIndonesia department Clinical Microbiology Faculty of MedicineBrawijaya UniversityMalangIndonesia

Silver nanoparticles(AgNPs)synthesized using tartaric acid as a capping agent have a great impact on the reaction kinetics and contribute significantly to the stability of *** protective layer formed by tartaric acid is an important factor that protects the silver surface and reduces potential cytotoxicity *** attributes are critical for assessing the compatibility of AgNPs with biological systems and making them suitable for drug delivery *** aim of this research is to conduct a comprehensive study of the effect of tartaric acid concentration,sonication time and temperature on the formation of silver *** Response Surface Methodology(RSM)with Face-Centered Central Composite Design(FCCD),the optimization process identifies the most favorable synthesis ***-Vis spectrum regression analysis shows that AgNPs stabilized with tartaric acid are more stable than AgNPs without tartaric *** highlights the increased stability that tartaric acid provides in AgNP *** size distribution analysis showed a multimodal distribution for AgNPs with tartaric acid and showed the smallest size peak with an average size of 20.53 *** second peak with increasing intensity shows a dominant average size of 108.8 nm accompanied by one standard deviation of 4.225 nm and a zeta potential of−11.08 *** contrast,AgNPs synthesized with polyvinylpyrrolidone(PVP)showed a unimodal particle distribution with an average particle size of 81.62 nm and a zeta potential of−2.96 *** more negative zeta potential of AgNP-tartaric acid indicates its increased *** of antibacterial activity showed that AgNPs stabilized with tartaric acid showed better performance against *** and *** bacteria compared with *** summary,this study highlights the potential of tartaric acid in AgNP synthesis and suggests an avenue for the development of stable AgNPs with versatile applications.

关键词： Tartaric acid silver nanoparticle polyvinyl pyrrolidone response surface methodology