Generally, the antibiotics in the food web of Lake Taihu including plankton, invertebrates and fish showed trophic dilution. The normalized estimated daily intake (EDI) values are less than the acceptable daily intake (ADI) values, and then hazard quotients were much less than 1. This result suggests the consumption of fish, crab and shrimp in…[Read more]

(3) We also use a matrix to determine that cities in Henan province, Anhui province, and Municipalities (such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing) in China will have a high risk level of disease carriers after a similar emerging epidemic outbreak scenario due to a high influx or outflow of migrant populations.A test was performed…[Read more]

A diverse set of white matter connections supports seamless transitions between cognitive states. However, it remains unclear how these connections guide the temporal progression of large-scale brain activity patterns in different cognitive states. Here, we analyze the brain’s trajectories across a set of single time point activity patterns from…[Read more]

Extracellular membrane vesicles (EVs) have emerged as potential candidates for diagnostics and therapeutics. We have previously reported that keratinocytes release three types of EVs into the extracellular environment. Importantly, those EVs contain a large number of microRNAs (miRNAs) as cargo. In this study, we examined the expression level of…[Read more]

Context Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally and a significant health burden in Kenya. Despite improved outcomes in CVD, palliative care has limited implementation for CVD in low- and middle-income countries. This may be partly due to providers’ perceptions of palliative care and end-of-life decision-making for CVD…[Read more]

Garden bird feeding constitutes a massive provision of food that can support bird communities, but there is a growing concern it might favour the establishment of exotic species that could be detrimental to others. How bird species compete with novel species for this anthropogenic food resources needs to be assessed. Here, we investigated…[Read more]

g production performance.Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising materials for future electronic and optoelectronic applications. However, their electronic properties are strongly affected by peculiar nanoscale defects/inhomogeneities (point or complex defects, thickness fluctuations, grain boundaries, etc.), which are…[Read more]

The median SWB ratios of triethyl phosphate (TEP), tri-n-butyl phosphate (TnBP), bisphenol-A bis(diphenyl phosphate) (BABP), EHDPP, and CDPP were lower than 1, indicating that these OPEs preferred to accumulated in blood cells rather than in serum/plasma. Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate (BEHP) was the major di-OPEs and was detected in almost all whole…[Read more]

Our findings supported that AjTOR served as a negative regulator in sea cucumber authophay.In mammals, interleukin (IL)-17A and IL-17F, mainly produced by Th17 cells, are hallmark inflammatory cytokines that play important roles in the intestinal mucosal immune response. In contrast, three mammalian IL-17A and IL-17F counterparts (IL-17A/F1-3)…[Read more]

UV-absorbing rhodopsins are essential for UV vision and sensing in all kingdoms of life. Unlike the well-known visible-absorbing rhodopsins, which bind a protonated retinal Schiff base for light absorption, UV-absorbing rhodopsins bind an unprotonated retinal Schiff base. Thus far, the photoreaction dynamics and mechanisms of UV-absorbing…[Read more]

Background Alternative splicing (AS) is a key factor in protein-coding gene diversity, and is associated with the development and progression of malignant tumours. However, the role of AS in cervical cancer is unclear. Methods The AS data for cervical squamous cell carcinoma and endocervical adenocarcinoma (CESC) were downloaded from The Cancer…[Read more]