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Abstract This review explores the intricate roles of metal ions—iron, copper, zinc, and selenium—in glioma pathogenesis and immune evasion. Dysregulated metal ion metabolism significantly contributes to glioma progression by inducing oxidative stress, promoting angiogenesis, and modulating immune cell functions. Iron accumulation enhances oxidative DNA damage, copper activates hypoxia-inducible factors to stimulate angiogenesis, zinc influences cell proliferation and apoptosis, and selenium modulates the tumor microenvironment through its antioxidant properties. These metal ions also facilitate immune escape by upregulating immune checkpoints and secreting immunosuppressive cytokines. Targeting metal ion pathways with therapeutic strategies such as chelating agents and metalloproteinase inhibitors, particularly in combination with conventional treatments like chemotherapy and immunotherapy, shows promise in improving treatment efficacy and overcoming resistance. Future research should leverage advanced bioinformatics and integrative methodologies to deepen the understanding of metal ion-immune interactions, ultimately identifying novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets to enhance glioma management and patient outcomes.

Abstract Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent programmed cell death associated with severe kidney diseases, linked to decreased glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4). However, the spatial distribution of renal GPX4-mediated ferroptosis and the molecular events causing GPX4 reduction during ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) remain largely unknown. Using spatial transcriptomics, we identify that GPX4 is situated at the interface of the inner cortex and outer medulla, a hyperactive ferroptosis site post-I/R injury. We further discover OTU deubiquitinase 5 (OTUD5) as a GPX4-binding protein that confers ferroptosis resistance by stabilizing GPX4. During I/R, ferroptosis is induced by mTORC1-mediated autophagy, causing OTUD5 degradation and subsequent GPX4 decay. Functionally, OTUD5 deletion intensifies renal tubular cell ferroptosis and exacerbates acute kidney injury, while AAV-mediated OTUD5 delivery mitigates ferroptosis and promotes renal function recovery from I/R injury. Overall, this study highlights a new autophagy-dependent ferroptosis module: hypoxia/ischemia-induced OTUD5 autophagy triggers GPX4 degradation, offering a potential therapeutic avenue for I/R-related kidney diseases.

To develop new energy enhancement energetic materials with great combustion performance and thermal stability, two kinds of ternary thermite, Al/Fe2O3/CuO and Al/Fe2O3/Bi2O3, were prepared and analyzed via mechanical ball milling. The samples were characterized by SEM, XRD, TG-DSC, constant volume and constant pressure combustion experiments. The first exothermic peaks of Al/Fe2O3/CuO and Al/Fe2O3/Bi2O3 appear at 579 °C and 564.5 °C, respectively. The corresponding activation energies are similar. The corresponding mechanism functions are set as G(α)=[−ln(1−α)]3/4 and G(α)=[−ln(1−α)]2/3, respectively, which belong to the Avrami-Erofeev equation. Al/Fe2O3/CuO has better thermal safety. For small dose samples, its critical temperature of thermal explosion is 121.05 °C higher than that of Al/Fe2O3/Bi2O3. During combustion, the flame of Al/Fe2O3/CuO is spherical, and the main products are FeAl2O4 and Cu. The flame of Al/Fe2O3/Bi2O3 is jet-like, and the main products are Al2O3, Bi and Fe. Al/Fe2O3/Bi2O3 has better ignition and gas production performance. Its average ignition energy is 4.2 J lower than that of Al/Fe2O3/CuO. Its average step-up rate is 28.29 MPa/s, which is much higher than 6.84 MPa/s of Al/Fe2O3/CuO. This paper provides a reference for studying the thermal safety and combustion performance of ternary thermite.

ABSTRACTRenal proximal tubular cells are highly vulnerable to different types of assaults during filtration and reabsorption, leading to acute renal dysfunction and eventual chronic kidney diseases (CKD). The chemotherapeutic drug cisplatin elicits cytotoxicity causing renal tubular cell death, but its executing mechanisms of action are versatile and elusive. Here, we show that cisplatin induces renal tubular cell apoptosis and ferroptosis by disrupting glutathione (GSH) metabolism. Upon cisplatin treatment, GSH metabolism is impaired leading to GSH depletion as well as the execution of mitochondria-mediated apoptosis and lipid oxidation-related ferroptosis through activating IL6/JAK/STAT3 signaling. Inhibition of JAK/STAT3 signaling reversed cell apoptosis and ferroptosis in response to cisplatin induction. Using a cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury (CAKI) mouse model, we found that inhibition of JAK/STAT3 significantly mitigates cisplatin nephrotoxicity with a reduced level of serum BUN and creatinine as well as proximal tubular distortion. In addition, the GSH booster baicalein also reclaims cisplatin-induced renal tubular cell apoptosis and ferroptosis as well as the in vivo nephrotoxicity. In conclusion, cisplatin disrupts glutathione metabolism, leading to renal tubular cell apoptosis and ferroptosis. Rewiring glutathione metabolism represents a promising strategy for combating cisplatin nephrotoxicity.

AIM: To discuss the treatment and to evaluate the therapeutic effect by reviewing a group of postvitrectomy diabetic vitreous haemorrhage(PDVH)cases after vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy(PDR). METHODS: Retrospective analysis of 12 cases of 12 PDR patients with PDVH in our hospital from September 2015 to June 2017. First, conservative treatment was performed and then surgical treatments were performed on patients with large amount of bleeding and poor effect of conservative treatment(including anterior chamber flushing, vitreous lavage, vitrectomy, or combination of cataract surgery). The patients were observed and analyzed during and after surgeries. RESULTS: The mean duration between the first surgery and PDVH ranged from 1d to 10mo(mean 61.58±92.69d). The cases of early and late PDVH was 8 eyes and 4 eyes, respectively. Two eyes were treated with conservative treatment and the bleeding were absorbed after 2wk-1mo. Ten eyes without obvious improvement after treatment or intraocular pressure(IOP)increased again received surgical treatment, in which 2 eyes were treated with simple anterior chamber flushing, 8 eyes underwent vitreous lavage(2 eyes combined with cataract surgery, 1 eyes combined with silicone oil injection). Seven eyes received supplementary photocoagulation. Till the last follow-up, all vitreous haemorrhages resolved, and 9 eyes had better visual acuity. CONCLUSION: PDVH can be induced by various reasons and appropriate measures should be taken by regulating blood glucose, improving operative skills and timely symptomatic treatments to improve the visual acuity.

Conventionally, the Al-PTFE is thought to be inert under quasi-static or static loads. However, here we reported an initiation phenomenon of Al-PTFE under quasi-static compression. Quasi-static tests suggest that reacted Al-PTFE samples had much higher toughness than unreacted samples. Dynamic test showed that the energy level needed to initiate the material was similar for quasi-static compression (88–100 J) and dynamic impact (77–91 J). The difference in density indicates that unreacted Al-PTFE has a higher crystallinity, which leads to the lower toughness. SEM images show numerous PTFE fibrils in unreacted composites which made the sample harder to crack and initiate.

To develop new energy enhancement energetic materials with great combustion performance and thermal stability, two kinds of ternary thermite, Al/Fe2O3/CuO and Al/Fe2O3/Bi2O3, were prepared and analyzed via mechanical ball milling. The samples were characterized by SEM, XRD, TG-DSC, constant volume and constant pressure combustion experiments. The first exothermic peaks of Al/Fe2O3/CuO and Al/Fe2O3/Bi2O3 appear at 579 °C and 564.5 °C, respectively. The corresponding activation energies are similar. The corresponding mechanism functions are set as G(α) = [-ln(1 - α)]3/4 and G(α) = [-ln(1 - α)]2/3, respectively, which belong to the Avrami-Erofeev equation. Al/Fe2O3CuO has better thermal safety. For small dose samples, its critical temperature of thermal explosion is 121.05 °C higher than that of Al/Fe2O3/Bi2O3. During combustion, the flame of Al/Fe2O3/CuO is spherical, and the main products are FeAl2O4 and Cu. The flame of Al/Fe2O3/Bi2O3 is jet-like, and the main products are Al2O3, Bi and Fe. Al/Fe2O3/Bi2O3 has better ignition and gas production performance. Its average ignition energy is 4.2 J lower than that of Al/Fe2O3/CuO. Its average step-up rate is 28.29 MPa/s, which is much higher than 6.84 MPa/s of Al/Fe2O3/CuO. This paper provides a reference for studying the thermal safety and combustion performance of ternary thermite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Network Address Translation (NAT) technology is widely applied to solve the exhaustion of IPv4 address by sharing one public IPv4 address among several hosts located behind a NAT device. NAT devices typically block session requests originating from the external side causing the NAT traversal problem which blocks the establishment of TCP/UDP communication sessions. Several researchers have designed a set of techniques to solve the NAT traversal problem in order to maintain TCP/IP network sessions across NAT devices. Among the solutions proposed in the literature, ICE (Interactivity Connectivity Establishment) and CAN (a context-aware NAT traversal scheme) are the most acknowledged approaches. These existing proposals seem more attractive than others since they are independent from the Internet infrastructure and are also appropriate for dynamic port addresses. However, they have some disadvantages such as long session setup time, high transmission delay and bandwidth resource demand. In this paper, a new NAT apply protocol (NatAP) mechanism for NAT traversal is designed and implemented. We conduct our NAT traversal approach in a real network environment and the results highlight its effectiveness. In addition, we also compare the performance of NatAP to CAN. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed NatAP scheme outperforms CAN in terms of session setup time and connectivity check delay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]