共查询到20条相似文献，搜索用时 31 毫秒
1.
Background
The perception and use of plants correspond with common plant names. The study of plant names may give insight into historical and recent use of plants.Methods
Plant names in dictionaries and folklore have been evaluated. A etymological analysis of the names is provided. Onomasiological and semasiological aspects have been considered. Therefore, species named with names related to each other have been selected.Results
Plant names containing the stem dag- or deg- may belong to either of two categories: incenses or thorny plants. Plants named in durn- have been in use as psychopharmaca. The name rymo points not to Rome but to the use of plants as anodyne or psychopharmaca. 相似文献2.
Background
Clinical statement alone is not enough to predict the progression of disease. Instead, the gene expression profiles have been widely used to forecast clinical outcomes. Many genes related to survival have been identified, and recently miRNA expression signatures predicting patient survival have been also investigated for several cancers. However, miRNAs and their target genes associated with clinical outcomes have remained largely unexplored.Methods
Here, we demonstrate a survival analysis based on the regulatory relationships of miRNAs and their target genes. The patient survivals for the two major cancers, ovarian cancer and glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), are investigated through the integrated analysis of miRNA-mRNA interaction pairs.Results
We found that there is a larger survival difference between two patient groups with an inversely correlated expression profile of miRNA and mRNA. It supports the idea that signatures of miRNAs and their targets related to cancer progression can be detected via this approach.Conclusions
This integrated analysis can help to discover coordinated expression signatures of miRNAs and their target mRNAs that can be employed for therapeutics in human cancers.3.
Background
Previous studies have reported frequent stretches of homozygosity in human subjects but have failed to clarify whether these are due to cytogenetic abnormalities or to autozygosity.Methods
Trios which had been typed for closely spaced SNPs spanning the genome were studied. Stretches of extended homozygosity were identified in the child members, as were occasions on which the child had been genotyped as not inheriting one parental allele. The number of times such transmission errors occurred within regions of extended homozygosity was compared with the chance expectation.Results
Transmission errors occurred more rarely in regions of extended homozygosity than would be expected by chance.Discussion
Regions of extended homozygosity are not generally due to cytogenetic abnormalities such as uniparental isodisomy. They reflect the Mendelian inheritance of haplotypes from a common ancestor. This may have implications for mapping disease genes. 相似文献4.
Introduction
Numerous studies have shown that economic crises are linked to a worsening of health conditions of the population. During the current economic crisis in Spain, there have been significant cuts in social and health services and a general worsening of the emotional well-being of the population. All these changes could have an impact on the health of the population, especially in the most vulnerable groups like older people.Material and methods
The evolution of life expectancy and healthy life years in the period 2004-2014 have been examined in order to examine the health status of people aged 65 years and over in Spain during the economic crisis.Results
Changes are observed in the evolution of healthy life years of people aged 65 years and over, particularly in the case of women.Conclusions
The results do not show that the current economic crisis has had a negative impact on the health conditions of older people in Spain, but there has been a decline in their well-being and quality of life. 相似文献5.
Chaturaka Rodrigo Fabio Luciani 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2019,1863(2):511-519
Background
Next generation sequencing (NGS) methods have significantly contributed to a paradigm shift in genomic research for nearly a decade now. These methods have been useful in studying the dynamic interactions between RNA viruses and human hosts.Scope of the review
In this review, we summarise and discuss key applications of NGS in studying the host – pathogen interactions in RNA viral infections of humans with examples.Major conclusions
Use of NGS to study globally relevant RNA viral infections have revolutionized our understanding of the within host and between host evolution of these viruses. These methods have also been useful in clinical decision-making and in guiding biomedical research on vaccine design.General significance
NGS has been instrumental in viral genomic studies in resolving within-host viral genomic variants and the distribution of nucleotide polymorphisms along the full-length of viral genomes in a high throughput, cost effective manner. In the future, novel advances such as long read, single molecule sequencing of viral genomes and simultaneous sequencing of host and pathogens may become the standard of practice in research and clinical settings. This will also bring on new challenges in big data analysis. 相似文献6.
Aim
Review of recent advances and vision for future developments in clinical practice of Radiation Oncology.Background
There have been substantial research and technological developments in Radiation Oncology over the past 40 years.Materials and methods
The relevant literature was reviewed and the authors offer their perspective on future opportunities for advancement in Radiation Oncology.Conclusions
Significant innovative technological developments have been introduced in the practice of Radiation Oncology, with more precise target delineation and tracking and three dimensional treatment planning, optimal delivery of radiation therapy to the target and lower doses to surrounding Organs at Risk. This dose optimization and adaptive therapy have enhanced the role of Radiation Therapy to more effectively treat patients with cancer. Further creativity and refinements will continue to advance the field into new applications of ionizing radiations in cancer therapy. 相似文献7.
Grant W McKenzie Johanna Abbott Huitong Zhou Qian Fang Norma Merrick Rachel H Forrest J Richard Sedcole Jonathan G Hickford 《遗传、选种与进化》2010,42(1):43
Background
Feral sheep are considered to be a source of genetic variation that has been lost from their domestic counterparts through selection.Methods
This study investigates variation in the genes KRTAP1-1, KRT33, ADRB3 and DQA2 in Merino-like feral sheep populations from New Zealand and its offshore islands. These genes have previously been shown to influence wool, lamb survival and animal health.Results
All the genes were polymorphic, but no new allele was identified in the feral populations. In some of these populations, allele frequencies differed from those observed in commercial Merino sheep and other breeds found in New Zealand. Heterozygosity levels were comparable to those observed in other studies on feral sheep. Our results suggest that some of the feral populations may have been either inbred or outbred over the duration of their apparent isolation.Conclusion
The variation described here allows us to draw some conclusions about the likely genetic origin of the populations and selective pressures that may have acted upon them, but they do not appear to be a source of new genetic material, at least for these four genes. 相似文献8.
Background
Fatty Liver Disease (FLD) is one of the most critical diseases that should be detected and cured at the earlier stage in order to decrease the mortality rate. To identify the FLD, ultrasound images have been widely used by the radiologists. However, due to poor quality of ultrasound images, they found difficulties in recognizing FLD. To resolve this problem, many researchers have developed various Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems for the classification of fatty and normal liver ultrasound images. However, the performance of existing CAD systems is not good in terms of sensitivity while classifying the FLD.Methods
In this paper, an attempt has been made to present a CAD system for the classification of liver ultrasound images. For this purpose, texture features are extracted by using seven different texture models to represent the texture of Region of Interest (ROI). Highly discriminating features are selected by using Mutual Information (MI) feature selection method.Results
Extensive experiments have been carried out with four different classifiers, and for carrying out this study, 90 liver ultrasound images have been taken. From the experimental results, it has been found that the proposed CAD system is able to give 95.55% accuracy and sensitivity of 97.77% with the 20 best features selected by the MI feature selection technique.Conclusion
The experimental results show that the proposed system can be used for the classification of fatty and normal liver ultrasound images with higher accuracy. 相似文献9.
Background
Microarray gene expression data are accumulating in public databases. The expression profiles contain valuable information for understanding human gene expression patterns. However, the effective use of public microarray data requires integrating the expression profiles from heterogeneous sources.Results
In this study, we have compiled a compendium of microarray expression profiles of various human tissue samples. The microarray raw data generated in different research laboratories have been obtained and combined into a single dataset after data normalization and transformation. To demonstrate the usefulness of the integrated microarray data for studying human gene expression patterns, we have analyzed the dataset to identify potential tissue-selective genes. A new method has been proposed for genome-wide identification of tissue-selective gene targets using both microarray intensity values and detection calls. The candidate genes for brain, liver and testis-selective expression have been examined, and the results suggest that our approach can select some interesting gene targets for further experimental studies.Conclusion
A computational approach has been developed in this study for combining microarray expression profiles from heterogeneous sources. The integrated microarray data can be used to investigate tissue-selective expression patterns of human genes.10.
Background
Retrotransposons have been extensively studied in plants and animals and have been shown to have an impact on human genome dynamics and evolution. Their ability to move within genomes gives retrotransposons to affect genome instability.Methods
we examined the polymorphic inserted AluYa5, evolutionary young Alu, in the progesterone receptor gene to determine the effects of Alu insertion on molecular environment. We used mono-allelic inserted cell lines which carry both Alu-present and Alu-absent alleles. To determine the epigenetic change and gene expression, we performed restriction enzyme digestion, Pyrosequencing, and Chromatin Immunoprecipitation.Results
We observed that the polymorphic insertion of evolutionally young Alu causes increasing levels of DNA methylation in the surrounding genomic area and generates inactive histone tail modifications. Consequently the Alu insertion deleteriously inactivates the neighboring gene expression.Conclusion
The mono-allelic Alu insertion cell line clearly showed that polymorphic inserted repetitive elements cause the inactivation of neighboring gene expression, bringing aberrant epigenetic changes. 相似文献11.
Muhammad Asim Javed Arne Schwelm Nazanin Zamani-Noor Rasha Salih Marina Silvestre Vañó Jiaxu Wu Melaine González García Thies Marten Heick Chaoyu Luo Priyavashini Prakash Edel Pérez-López 《Molecular Plant Pathology》2023,24(2):89-106
Background
Plasmodiophora brassicae is the causal agent of clubroot disease of cruciferous plants and one of the biggest threats to the rapeseed (Brassica napus) and brassica vegetable industry worldwide.Disease symptoms
In the advanced stages of clubroot disease wilting, stunting, yellowing, and redness are visible in the shoots. However, the typical symptoms of the disease are the presence of club-shaped galls in the roots of susceptible hosts that block the absorption of water and nutrients.Host range
Members of the family Brassicaceae are the primary host of the pathogen, although some members of the family, such as Bunias orientalis, Coronopus squamatus, and Raphanus sativus, have been identified as being consistently resistant to P. brassicae isolates with variable virulence profile.Taxonomy
Class: Phytomyxea; Order: Plasmodiophorales; Family: Plasmodiophoraceae; Genus: Plasmodiophora; Species: Plasmodiophora brassicae (Woronin, 1877).Distribution
Clubroot disease is spread worldwide, with reports from all continents except Antarctica. To date, clubroot disease has been reported in more than 80 countries.Pathotyping
Based on its virulence on different hosts, P. brassicae is classified into pathotypes or races. Five main pathotyping systems have been developed to understand the relationship between P. brassicae and its hosts. Nowadays, the Canadian clubroot differential is extensively used in Canada and has so far identified 36 different pathotypes based on the response of a set of 13 hosts.Effectors and resistance
After the identification and characterization of the clubroot pathogen SABATH-type methyltransferase PbBSMT, several other effectors have been characterized. However, no avirulence gene is known, hindering the functional characterization of the five intercellular nucleotide-binding (NB) site leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) receptors (NLRs) clubroot resistance genes validated to date.Important Link
Canola Council of Canada is constantly updating information about clubroot and P. brassicae as part of their Canola Encyclopedia: https://www.canolacouncil.org/canola-encyclopedia/diseases/clubroot/ .Phytosanitary categorization
PLADBR: EPPO A2 list; Annex designation 9E. 相似文献12.
Background
Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest terrestrial carnivores of all time, and consequently its ecology and diet have been the focus of much discussion. However, there is little direct evidence of diet or feeding habits in this species.Methodology/Principal Findings
Examination of museum collections has revealed four specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex that bear tooth marks made by large, carnivorous dinosaurs. Because Tyrannosaurus is the only large carnivore known from the Late Maastrichtian of western North America, we infer that Tyrannosaurus made these tooth marks.Conclusions/Significance
The marks are interpreted as feeding traces and these fossils therefore record instances of cannibalism. Given that this behavior has a low preservation potential, cannibalism seems to have been a surprisingly common behavior in Tyrannosaurus, and this behavior may have been relatively common in carnivorous dinosaurs. 相似文献13.
A whole-genome assembly of the domestic cow, Bos taurus 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
Aleksey V Zimin Arthur L Delcher Liliana Florea David R Kelley Michael C Schatz Daniela Puiu Finnian Hanrahan Geo Pertea Curtis P Van Tassell Tad S Sonstegard Guillaume Marçais Michael Roberts Poorani Subramanian James A Yorke Steven L Salzberg 《Genome biology》2009,10(4):R42-10
Background
The genome of the domestic cow, Bos taurus, was sequenced using a mixture of hierarchical and whole-genome shotgun sequencing methods.Results
We have assembled the 35 million sequence reads and applied a variety of assembly improvement techniques, creating an assembly of 2.86 billion base pairs that has multiple improvements over previous assemblies: it is more complete, covering more of the genome; thousands of gaps have been closed; many erroneous inversions, deletions, and translocations have been corrected; and thousands of single-nucleotide errors have been corrected. Our evaluation using independent metrics demonstrates that the resulting assembly is substantially more accurate and complete than alternative versions.Conclusions
By using independent mapping data and conserved synteny between the cow and human genomes, we were able to construct an assembly with excellent large-scale contiguity in which a large majority (approximately 91%) of the genome has been placed onto the 30 B. taurus chromosomes. We constructed a new cow-human synteny map that expands upon previous maps. We also identified for the first time a portion of the B. taurus Y chromosome. 相似文献14.
Purpose
Tumor infiltrating CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ regulatory immune cells (Treg) have been associated with impaired anti- tumor immune response and unfavorable prognosis for patients affected by ovarian carcinoma, whereas CD8+ T-cells have been found to positively influence survival rates in a large panel of solid tumors. Recently, density, location and tumor infiltration patterns of the respective immune cell subtypes have been identified as key prognostic factors for different types of tumors.Patients and Methods
We stained 210 human ovarian carcinoma samples immunhistochemically for FoxP3 and CD8 to identify the impact different immune cell patterns have on generally accepted prognostic variables as well as on overall survival.Results
We found that FoxP3+ cells located within lymphoid aggregates surrounding the tumor were strongly associated with reduced survival time (P = 0.007). Central accumulation of CD8+ effector cells within the tumor bed shows a positive effect on survival (P = 0,001).Conclusion
The distribution pattern of immune cells within the tumor environment strongly influences prognosis and overall survival time of patients with ovarian carcinoma. 相似文献15.
En Hyung Chang Joanne Huang Zixiang Lin Angela C. Brown 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2019,1863(1):191-198
Background
Catechins, polyphenols derived from tea leaves, have been shown to have antibacterial properties, through direct killing of bacteria as well as through inhibition of bacterial toxin activity. In particular, certain catechins have been shown to have bactericidal effects on the oral bacterium, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, as well as the ability to inhibit a key virulence factor of this organism, leukotoxin (LtxA). The mechanism of catechin-mediated inhibition of LtxA has not been shown.Methods
In this work, we studied the ability of six catechins to inhibit LtxA-mediated cytotoxicity in human white blood cells, using Trypan blue staining, and investigated the mechanism of action using a combination of techniques, including fluorescence and circular dichroism spectroscopy, confocal microscopy, and surface plasmon resonance.Results
We found that all the catechins except (?)-catechin inhibited the activity of this protein, with the galloylated catechins having the strongest effect. Pre-incubation of the toxin with the catechins increased the inhibitory action, indicating that the catechins act on the protein, rather than the cell. The secondary structure of LtxA was dramatically altered in the presence of catechin, which resulted in an inhibition of toxin binding to cholesterol, an important initial step in the cytotoxic mechanism of the toxin.Conclusions
These results demonstrate that the catechins inhibit LtxA activity by altering its structure to prevent interaction with specific molecules present on the host cell surface.General significance
Galloylated catechins modify protein toxin structure, inhibiting the toxin from binding to the requisite molecules on the host cell surface. 相似文献16.
Background
Tropical and zoonotic diseases are major problems in developing countries like Ecuador. Poorly designed houses, the high proportion of isolated indigenous population and under developed infrastructure represent a fertile environment for vectors to proliferate. Control campaigns in Ecuador over the years have had varying success, depending on the disease and vectors targeted.Aims
In our study we analyse the current situation of some neglected diseases in Ecuador and the efficiency of the control campaigns (by measuring changes in numbers of cases reported) that the Ecuadorian government has been running to limit the spread of these infectious and parasitic diseases.Results
Our study reveals that Brucellosis, Chagas Disease, Rabies and Onchocerciasis have been controlled, but small outbreaks are still detected in endemic areas. Leptospirosis and Echinococcosis have been increasing steadily in recent years in Ecuador since the first records. The same increase has been reported world-wide also. Better diagnosis has resulted in a higher number of cases being identified, particularly with regard to the linking of outdoor activities and contact with farm animals as contributing vectors. Improvements in diagnosis are due to regular professional training, implementation of automatized systems, establishing diagnosis protocols and the creation of an epidemiological vigilance network that acts as soon as a case is reported.Conclusion
Control campaigns performed in Ecuador have been successful in recent years, although natural phenomena limit their efficiency. Leptospirosis and Echinococcosis infections remain a growing problem in Ecuador as it is worldwide. 相似文献17.
18.
Background
Many human tissues are comprised of multilayered tissue structures in which spatial organization is essential to provide biological tissue functions.Methods
Recently, strategies such as 3D bioprinting, photolithography, 3D auto-assembly, molding or bulk acoustic cells manipulation have been developed to fabricate layered tissue mimics. These methods have broad applications in tissue engineering for the bioengineering of multilayered structures, and for the fundamental understanding of many microphysiological and pathological process like cell differentiation. Each method relies on the use of a special scaffold structure made of natural or artificially created biopolymers, and of specific cell types.In the field of neuronal 3D constructs fabrication, where ex-vivo samples are difficult to get, different strategies have been developed going from rat neurons culture to embryonic stem cells culture and differentiation into neurons after their encapsulation in 3D scaffolds.Conclusion
All those possibilities open new perspectives for the future, aiming to the development of different types of tissues composed of different multilayer structures. 相似文献19.
Iuliia Khomenko Irene Stefanini Luca Cappellin Valentina Cappelletti Pietro Franceschi Duccio Cavalieri Tilmann D. Märk Franco Biasioli 《Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society》2017,13(10):118
Introduction
Producing a wide range of volatile secondary metabolites Saccharomyces cerevisiae influences wine, beer, and bread sensory quality and hence selection of strains based on their volatilome becomes pivotal. A rapid on-line method for volatilome assessing of strains growing on standard solid media is still missing.Objectives
Methodologically, the aim of this study was to demonstrate the automatic, real-time, direct, and non-invasive monitoring of yeast volatilome in order to rapidly produce a robust large data set encompassing measurements relative to many strains, replicates and time points. The fundamental scope was to differentiate volatilomes of genetically similar strains of oenological relevance during the whole growing process.Method
Six different S. cerevisiae strains (four meiotic segregants of a natural strain and two laboratory strains) inoculated onto a solid medium have been monitored on-line by Proton Transfer Reaction—Time-of-Flight—Mass Spectrometry for 11 days every 4 h (3540 time points). FastGC PTR-ToF-MS was performed during the stationary phase on the 5th day.Results
More than 300 peaks have been extracted from the average spectra associated to each time point, 70 have been tentatively identified. Univariate and multivariate analyses have been performed on the data matrix (3640 measurements?×?70 peaks) highlighting the volatilome evolution and strain-specific features. Laboratory strains with opposite mating type, and meiotic segregants of the same natural strain showed significantly different profiles.Conclusions
The described set-up allows the on-line high-throughput screening of yeast volatilome of S. cerevisiae strains and the identification of strain specific features and new metabolic pathways, discriminating also genetically similar strains, thus revealing a novel method for strain phenotyping, identification, and quality control.20.
Andrea Del Duce Marcel Gauch Hans-Jörg Althaus 《The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment》2016,21(9):1314-1326