9 research outputs found

    EvaluaciĂłn de los factores determinantes del recuento de plaquetas en pacientes con cirrosis

    Get PDF
    Thrombocytopenia is considered one of the hallmarks of patients with cirrhosis. Several mechanisms have been implicated in the pathophysiology of thrombocytopenia in cirrhosis. Hypersplenism caused by splenomegay, classically regarded as an indirect marker of portal hypertension has been considered the main factor implicated [200]. Nevertheless, portal hypertension is best estimated by the hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) [32, 189], although contradictory results have been reported regarding the association between HVPG and platelet count [195-197]. The identification of thrombopoietin (TPO), a growth factor that enhances the maturation of megakaryocytes and the release of platelets from the bone marrow, has shed new light on the physiolgy of platelets [217]. In normal conditions in adults, TPO is mainly produced in the liver [93, 96] and the circulating leves of platelets are controlled by a negative feedback mechanism [99], so there is an inverse relationship between the amount of circulating platelets, and the amount of TPO that can reach the bone marrow to stimulate thrombopoiesis. In liver cirrhosis perhaps a decreased syntehesis of TPO could be implicated in the development of thrombocytopenia. Controversial findings regarding the role of each mechanism in thrombocytopenia of liver cirrhosis have been reported [142, 146, 160-161, 184] and no study has simultaneously evaluated the influence of the different mechanisms including portal hypertension and TPO production nor whether their influence could change in different stages of the disease..

    DataSheet1_Research on renewable energy power demand forecasting method based on IWOA-SA-BILSTM modeling.xlsx

    No full text
    This paper introduces a novel coupling method to enhance the precision of short- and medium-term renewable energy power load demand forecasting. Firstly, the Tent chaotic mapping incorporates the standard WOA and modifies its internal convergence factor to a nonlinear convergence mode, resulting in an improved IWOA. It is used for the weight optimization part of BILSTM. Then, the SA is introduced to optimize the learning rate, the number of nodes in hidden layers 1 and 2, and the number of iterations of BILSTM, constructing an IWOA-SA-BILSTM prediction model. Finally, through case analysis, the prediction model proposed in this paper has the highest improvement of 76.7%, 74.5%, and 45.9% in terms of Mean Absolute Error, Root Mean Square Error, and R2, respectively, compared to other optimal benchmark models, proving the effectiveness of the model.</p

    Atomic Ordering Effect of Intermetallic PdCoNi/rGO Catalysts on Formic Acid Electro-oxidation

    No full text
    Pd-based alloys, especially for alloys containing early transition metals, have been extensively designed and applied to electro-oxidize formic acid for direct formic acid fuel cells owing to their capability to directly oxidize formic acid molecules via the dehydrogenation pathway. Adjusting the strain and electronic effects of Pd-based alloys is an effective method to regulate the adsorbing phenomena of intermediates on catalysts during formic acid oxidation and improve the catalytic activity and stability. The ordering degree of alloys plays an important role in modulating the adsorbing ability. In this work, we report a strategy varying the atomic ordering degree of PdCoNi/rGO trimetallic alloys to manipulate the strain and electronic effects and electrocatalytic performance toward formic acid oxidation. A series of PdCoNi/rGO-T trimetallic catalysts are synthesized, in which the atomic order of the trimetallic catalysts is regulated by annealing the wet-chemistry-synthesized PdCoNi/rGO alloy. As the annealing temperature increases, the atomic arrangement among Pd, Co, and Ni is ordered. Eventually, ordered intermetallic PdCoNi/rGO-T catalysts are generated. As the atomic ordering degree increases, the lattice constant decreases, and more charge transfers from Pd to Ni and Co, leading to enhanced strain and electronic effects. Moreover, the ordered intermetallic structure stabilizes Co and Ni atoms to prevent the dissolution of the transition metals in acidic electrolyte, and the strain and electronic effects in ordered PdCoNi/rGO catalysts are maintained. With an annealing temperature of 700 °C, the intermetallic PdCoNi/rGO-700 exhibits the highest specific activity of 8.33 mA/cm2, which is 1.95-fold improved compared to pristine PdCoNi/rGO alloy (3.23 mA/cm2) and 2.48 times compared to Pd/rGO-700 (2.54 mA/cm2). Moreover, PdCoNi/rGO-700 also shows outstanding catalytic durability due to its excellent structural stability. We believe that this research helps in developing Pd-based alloy catalysts with high activity and stability for formic acid electro-oxidation

    Improving the Performance of Pd for Formic Acid Dehydrogenation by Introducing Barium Titanate

    No full text
    Formic acid, a safe and widely available organic compound, produces hydrogen under mild conditions, with the existence of Pd-based catalysts. Efficiently generating hydrogen via formic acid decomposition (FAD) is restricted by the cleavage of the C–H bond in adsorbed HCOO* and strong adsorption of hydrogen on the Pd surface. Herein, tetragonal-phase barium titanate (TBT) was in situ grown on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) to support Pd (Pd/TBT/rGO) for FAD. The internal electric field exists around TBT owing to its spontaneous polarization capacity. The physical characterizations illustrate that the introduction of barium titanate affects the catalytic performance of the catalyst by decreasing the particle size of Pd nanoparticles (NPs) and forming electron-rich Pd. The as-synthesized Pd/TBT/rGO exhibited excellent catalytic activity and hydrogen selectivity for FAD with a high initial turnover frequency up to 3019.72 h–1 at 333 K. The reason for this enhancement is not only the small-size Pd NPs but also the internal electric field from TBT, which promotes the desorption of adsorbed hydrogen on the Pd surface. Additionally, the electron-rich Pd is favorable to the cleavage of the C–H bond in HCOO*. This work will improve the understanding of the characterization of barium titanate and provide a new design strategy for the FAD catalyst

    Additional file 3 of Sagittal intervertebral rotational motion: a deep learning-based measurement on flexion–neutral–extension cervical lateral radiographs

    No full text
    Additional file 3. Bland–Altman plots (left) and correlation scatter diagrams (right) showing the differences and correlations between the model and reference standards on N/E motion

    Additional file 2 of Sagittal intervertebral rotational motion: a deep learning-based measurement on flexion–neutral–extension cervical lateral radiographs

    No full text
    Additional file 2. Bland–Altman plots (left) and correlation scatter diagrams (right) showing the differences and correlations between the model and reference standards on F/N motion

    Additional file 4: Figure S1. of Novel roles of DC-SIGNR in colon cancer cell adhesion, migration, invasion, and liver metastasis

    No full text
    DC-SIGNR did not promote colony formation in colon cancer cells. (A) The photographs indicated no influence of DC-SIGNR protein on cell proliferation efficiency of LoVo cells. (B) The histograms showed the clone cells number in respective cells. (TIF 1926 kb
    corecore