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Due to the growing global population, reduction in arable land and effects of climate change, incongruity between food supply and demand has become increasingly severe. Nowadays, with awareness of the elementary nutrients required for human growth, increasing attention is being paid to the health and medical functions of food. Along with increased food production achieved by modern agricultural techniques, underutilised functional foods are an important strategy for solving food security problems and maintaining the nutritional quality of the human diet. Rosa roxburghii Tratt (RRT) is a natural fruit that contains unique functional and nutritional constituents, which are characterised by a high anti-oxidant potential. This review summarises the biological characteristics, chemical composition, health-promoting properties and development status of RRT products to inspire investigations on the use of RRT fruit as a functional food, dietary supplement and pharmaceutical additive. The nutrients and functional ingredients of RRT fruit are described in detail to provide more reference information for nutritionists and pharmacists.

Objective: Energy metabolism disorder is one of the causes of Parkinson's disease (PD). Rodents, such as rats and mice are often used to establish animal models of PD. This paper used a bibliometric method to analyze the studies of rat and mouse PD models published between 2009 and 2018 in the Web of Science (WOS) database using CiteSpace V software. In addition, we conducted a literature review on the development status and research hotspots in this field in the past ten years. Methods: The related articles on rat and mouse PD models were retrieved from the WOS database, and an analysis of the keywords in these articles was conducted using CiteSpace V. A timeline graph was developed by the software in order to show the focus of researchers in the PD field. Results : A total of 8,636 articles were obtained. Results of the cluster analysis in the PD field such as neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and autophagy, contributed to the systematic review about the pathogenesis of PD. At the same time, based on the property of the model drug, this review has summarized and compared different administration techniques and mechanisms of 6-hydroxydopamine (6- OHDA), 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1, 2, 4, 5-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), paraquat and rotenone. Conclusion: According to the bibliometric analysis, studies on PD were focused on the mechanisms of oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and autophagy. Activated microglia releases inflammatory cytokines; mitochondrial dysfunction is caused by oxidative damage of mitochondrial protein; abnormal autophagy-lysosome pathway can lead to abnormal protein deposition in dopaminergic neurons. In addition, although many animal models of PD have been established, there are some limitations of such models. Therefore, it is necessary to develop models that accurately mimic human PD.

Background: In this study, we sought to provide an idea for establishing a novel mouse model for Parkinson’s disease (PD) through intranasal administration of paraquat instead of the conventional m...

Sequential invasive-noninvasive ventilation (NIV) improves the outcomes of patients with respiratory failure caused by acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD); however, there is no clear consensus on the optimal timing of the switch to sequential invasive-NIV in these patients. In the present study, a potential role for the modified Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score to guide sequential weaning was investigated. Patients with AECOPD and respiratory failure were prospectively recruited from three study centers (Wenling Hospital Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University and Changsha Central Hospital) between January 1st 2016 and December 31st 2018. Patients were randomly assigned to group A and B, with the switching point for sequential weaning strategy in the two groups being a modified GCS score ≥13 and 10 points, respectively. Each group included 240 patients. Baseline demographic characteristics were comparable in the two groups. The duration of invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) in group A was significantly shorter than that in group B. However, there were no significant between-group differences with respect to the incidence of re-intubation, ventilator-associated pneumonia, in-hospital mortality or the length of hospital stay. Use of a modified GCS score ≥13 as the switching point for sequential invasive-NIV may help decrease the duration of IMV in patients with AECOPD and respiratory failure.

Purpose Dravet syndrome is an infantile epilepsy syndrome with drug resistant seizures and cognitive impairment. The aim of this meta-analysis was to summarize the findings of relevant published studies to identify the efficacy of a ketogenic diet in patients with Dravet syndrome and their compliance thereof, and to provide useful information for clinical practice. Methods The PubMed, Embase, Wanfang, and CNKI databases were searched for relevant studies published up to September 25, 2019; the included studies were reviewed. Meta-analyses were performed using R software to determine the combined efficacy rates and retention rate for the ketogenic diet in patients with Dravet syndrome. Results Seven studies involving 167 patients met the inclusion criteria: four were retrospective studies, and three were prospective studies. The meta-analysis revealed that 63 %, 60 %, and 47 % of responder patients achieved ≥50 % seizure reduction at month 3, 6, and 12, respectively. The pooled retention rate of the ketogenic diet at month 6 and month 12 was 78 % and 49 %, respectively. Conclusions Our meta-analysis indicates that the ketogenic diet is a treatment option for patients with Dravet syndrome. The ketogenic diet is safe and its adverse effects are mostly acceptable. However, further investigations, especially high-quality controlled trials with large samples, are required.

Background The human motor system consists of several divisions in the frontal lobes. The physiological function of projections from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) to the primary motor cortex (M1) remains elusive. Here, we introduce theta burst stimulation (TBS)-based protocols to target inhibitory and facilitatory connections in the DLPFC-M1 network. Methods Intermittent and continuous TBS with 600 pulses (iTBS600/cTBS600) were applied to the left DLPFC. Resting motor threshold (RMT), motor-evoked potential (MEP), and short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) were measured with transcranial magnetic stimulation to the ipsilateral M1. Results iTBS600 to the DLPFC decreased MEP amplitude in M1. Conversely, cTBS600 to the DLPFC increased MEP amplitude in M1. The peak decrease in MEP amplitude after iTBS600 was negatively correlated with the peak increase in MEP amplitude after cTBS600. There were no significant effects in the control group with the sham stimulation. Discussion These results provide insight into the regulation of inhibitory and facilitatory balance from the local DLPFC to M1. TBS modulation in one brain region will induce interactions within other remote cortical areas. Our results enable better understanding of how cognitive resources are allocated to achieve optimal control of motor output.

Objective Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are conversion disorders with functional neurological symptoms that can resemble epileptic seizures (ES). We conducted a systematic review to obtain an overview of the value of prolactin (PRL) levels in the differential diagnosis between PNES and ES. Methods We searched PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases for studies published up to June 4th, 2020. Published studies were included if they fulfilled the following criteria: original research on PRL changes after ES and PNES. By applying Bayes’ theorem, we calculated the predicted values of PRL with pretest probabilities of 90 % and 75 % in ES. Results Sixteen studies were included in this review. All the studies showed that PRL levels increase after ES, especially 10–20 min after ES, when the elevation was most obvious. In studies where capillary PRL level measurements were included, the median sensitivity in the diagnosis of ES (all epileptic seizure types), generalized tonic clonic seizures (GTCS), focal impaired awareness seizures (FIAS), and focal aware seizures (FAS) was 67.3 %, 66.7 %, 33.9 %, and 11.1 %, respectively. The median specificity in the diagnosis of ES was 99.1 %. By using Bayes’ theorem, when we used the median specificity and sensitivity for predictive value calculation, assuming a pretest probability of 90 %, a positive PRL measure was highly predictive (99 %) of all types of ES, and negative predictive values were all below 30 %. When we used the lowest specificity and sensitivity for predictive value calculation, assuming a pretest probability of 75 %, ES and GTCS had positive predictive values of 77.2 % and 81.0 %, respectively; the negative predictive values of PRL in ES and GTCS were 26.2 % and 29.6 %, respectively. Conclusions The use of PRL could be a useful adjunct to differentiate GTCS from PNES. However, PRL levels are of limited use for differentiating FIAS or FAS from PNES, and a negative PRL measure is not predictive of PNES.

Primary carcinoma of the Bartholin's gland (BG) is a rare malignancy. There are extremely rare cases of small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (SCNC) of the BG reported in the English literature. A postmenopausal female presented with a 1-month history of increasing pain and swelling on the left vulva consistent with spontaneously bleeding. Pathology identified SCNC that arose in BG. The patient was treated with a radical wide local excision and bilateral inguinal lymph node dissection followed by six courses of chemotherapy. One month after primary treatment, without any pelvic recurrence or abnormal tumor markers indications, distant metastasis of the liver was diagnosed and VI hepatic lobectomy was performed. The patient maintained regular adjuvant chemotherapy every month under outpatient surveillance and has no local recurrence or distant metastasis.

In signal analysis, as a new representation, the sparse representation caused widespread concern of scholars at home and abroad, and signal processing and analysis produced a very significant impact. Feather and Down is closely related to people's lives, different kinds of down, the price difference is bigger, and thermal properties are different, and therefore, feather species identification has always been an important issue. This paper studies the sparse representation in image processing, while the types of detection of Down key technologies studied, proposed a new algorithm to detect the type of feather sparse representation. In this algorithm, an improved sparse we will de-noising method based on the introduction of a global atomic library come down on the previous species detection algorithm has been improved. The algorithm is applied to obtain a certain effect, making feather and down recognition rate has improved to some extent, the effect is significant.

The disposal of waste textiles has been widely concerned in economic life. With the development of economy, more and more textiles are produced, consumed, discarded and result in a large number of waste textiles, If waste textiles can be put into cyclic utilization, we can save resource consumption, promote ecological protection. More than 95% waste textiles have been reused in the world. In China, existing textile policies and regulations are not comprehensive, recycling channels are not sufficient, peoples consciousness of protecting environment is backward. Advanced experience of waste textiles disposal in developed countries will provide a beneficial reference to formulate scientific strategy of waste textiles disposition in China.

Choose the correct knowledge integration pattern is beneficial to enhancing the independent innovation capability in petroleum equipment manufacturing industry. Analysis elements of the knowledge integration ability and the independent innovation ability , with knowledge integration capability as the breakthrough point, the knowledge integration effect as the intermediary variable , constructs the model of the independent innovation capability in equipment manufacturing - the knowledge integration capacity, puts forward the independent innovation in petroleum equipment manufacturing industry should adopt the three kinds of knowledge integration mode.

With the petrol and gas resources increasingly reducing, petrol equipment manufacturing enterprises focus on the advanced equipment manufacture for the resources hard to exploit. So to analyze the models on technical innovation for the petrol equipment manufacturing enterprises, including motive force and impetus, to establish comprehensive evaluation index system about technical innovation, to introduce some index, such as R&D ability, production capacity, marketing ability and so on, to assess the ability of technical innovation for petrol equipment manufacturing enterprises, lead to enterprises to improve technical innovation in a right direction.

Through analyzed the economic value curve of the oil enterprise safety investment and accident losses, it shows that the relationship between safety investment and accident losses was unified coordination instead of opposition. Established the oil enterprise safety investment benefit system of grey correlation model, and analyzed the safety investment factors of the petroleum enterprise and the correlation of security benefit deeply, it eventually determine that the sensitivity factors which affect oil enterprise security benefit is safety education investment.

To find the effective technological innovation management mode in the whole technological process of the enterprises, this paper made a comparative study on the concepts, models and characters of continuous and discontinuous innovation, and provided an important criterion to define continuous and discontinuous innovation whether the technological trajectory and technological paradigm are the same. According to the technological growth curve, the process of technological innovation is divided into the growth phase, plateau phase and transitional phase, then the paper proposed that the enterprises should adopt innovation combination, conduct continuous and discontinuous innovation management activities during technological growth and technology alternation, and the author built the manage model of the continuous and discontinuous innovation based on technological growth.

Characteristics of fire detection signal are proposed that, in fire case non-fire signals caused by other factors can not be separated from fire signals and in non-fire case non-fire signals may produce changes similar to fire signals. An intelligent algorithm is pointed out to reduce false alarm rate and miss alarm rate, it can improve fire alarm accuracy. The intelligent algorithm includes digital filter, sensitivity autoregulation, drift aotocompensation and rising rate analysis, and it is useful in practical engineering.

A design of embedded remote video monitoring was proposed, which took advantage of MPEG-4 compression standard to achieve low bit rate interactive multimedia communications. Characteristics of the system is that users can cut system’s hardware and software as needed, such as removing the function has nothing to do with monitoring, can resolve hardware conflict and optimize system at any time.

Aim: The BRCA1 promoter is hypermethylated in ovarian cancer patients. We postulated that this hypermethylation might be involved in ovarian cancer progression. Methods: To confirm our hypothesis, tissue and serum samples were collected from ovarian carcinoma patients and categorized according to tumor stage. Healthy or benign ovarian disease tissue samples and corresponding serum samples were used as controls. Breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) promoter methylation levels were detected by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Real-time PCR was also used to evaluate BRCA1 gene expression, and Western blot was performed to assay the expression of BRCA1 protein. Results: BRCA1 showed hypomethylation in 30 normal ovarian and 30 benign ovarian tumors, but showed hypermethylation or methylation in ovarian cancer patients. There was also a significant difference in the BRCA1 promoter methylation levels between different ovarian cancer stages. Compared to stage I and the control groups, there were higher BRCA1 promoter methylation frequencies in stage II and III ovarian cancers. BRCA1 methylation correlated with the loss of BRCA1 expression. BRCA1 promoter in stage I tumors showed hypomethylated. Conclusion: Promoter hypermethylation may act as a biomarker for sporadic ovarian cancer progression, but is unlikely to be helpful in the early diagnosis of ovarian cancer.

An energy saving processes was developed on the treatment of mature landfill leachate. The process adopted biochemical and physicochemical process to deal with COD and NH3-N which were the main pollutant indexes according to the characteristics of mature landfill. The experimental wastewater was from leachate pond of Anshan Yang’eryu landfill. The principle and course of simultaneous nitrogen removal and degradation of organic pollutants were elucidated. For the treated landfill leachate by the process, COD and TN removal rates reached over 95% and 65%, respectively, reaching the first class standard of “Sewage Comprehensive Discharging Standard”(GB8978-1996) for china.

Background Both motor imagery (MI) and motor execution (ME) can facilitate motor cortical excitability. Although cortical excitability is modulated by intracortical inhibitory and excitatory circuits in the human primary motor cortex, it is not clear which intracortical circuits determine the differences in corticospinal excitability between ME and MI. Methods We recruited 10 young healthy subjects aged 18−28 years (mean age: 22.1 ± 3.14 years; five women and five men) for this study. The experiment consisted of two sets of tasks involving grasp actions of the right hand: imagining and executing them. Corticospinal excitability and short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) were measured before the interventional protocol using transcranial magnetic stimulation (baseline), as well as at 0, 20, and 40 min (T0, T20, and T40) thereafter. Results Facilitation of corticospinal excitability was significantly greater after ME than after MI in the right abductor pollicis brevis (APB) at T0 and T20 (p < 0.01 for T0, and p < 0.05 for T20), but not in the first dorsal interosseous (FDI) muscle. On the other hand, no significant differences in SICI between ME and MI were found in the APB and FDI muscles. The facilitation of corticospinal excitability at T20 after MI correlated with the Movement Imagery Questionnaire (MIQ) scores for kinesthetic items (Rho = −0.646, p = 0.044) but did not correlate with the MIQ scores for visual items (Rho = −0.265, p = 0.458). Discussion The present results revealed significant differences between ME and MI on intracortical excitatory circuits of the human motor cortex, suggesting that cortical excitability differences between ME and MI may be attributed to the activation differences of the excitatory circuits in the primary motor cortex.

Abstract Solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPT) of the pancreas is a rare pancreatic tumor with low malignant potential. It occurs characteristically more often in young women. SPT associated with extra- and pancreatic anomalies are occasionally reported. Here we report a case of pancreatic SPT with concomitant urogenital malformations including solitary kidney and uterus didelphys in a 25-year-old woman. The patient underwent central pancreatectomy, and SPT was confirmed with pathological results. Recurrence or metastasis was not found after 14 months of follow-up. Virtual Slides The virtual slide(s) for this article can be found here: http://www.diagnosticpathology.diagnomx.eu/vs/4264758678755142

Based on the pertinent literature at home and abroad, this paper made a comparative study on the concepts, models and characters of continuous and discontinuous innovation, and provided an important criterion to define continuous and discontinuous innovation-weather the technological trajectory and technological paradigm are same. According to the technological growth curve, the process of technological innovation is divided into the growth phase, plateau phase and transitional phase, then the paper proposed that the enterprises should adopt innovation combination, conduct continuous and discontinuous innovation management activities during technological growth and technology alternation, and the author built the manage model of the continuous and discontinuous innovation based on technological growth.