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Therapeutic effect of modified trabeculectomy in treatment of neovascular glaucoma
AIM: To analyze the effect of modified trabeculectomy in the treatment of neovascular glaucoma.<p>METHODS: There were 44 cases of neovascular glaucoma enrolled during June 2008 to December 2012. They were randomly divided into experimental group(22 cases)and control group(22 cases). The experimental group were treated with the modified trabeculectomy, and the control group were treated with cyclocryotherapy. Therapeutic effect and complications between two groups were compared. <p>RESULTS: Introocular pressure in both groups were significantly lower after treatment than before treatment(<i>P</i><0.01), but there was no obvious difference between two groups(<i>P</i>>0.05). The total effective 21 cases(95%)in experimental group was higher than that in the control group 16 cases(73%)and the difference had statistically significance(<i>χ</i><sup>2</sup>=7.3789, <i>P</i><0.05). At the same time, the incidence of complications and severity in control group were significantly higher than that in the experimental group(<i>P</i><0.05). <p>CONCLUSION: For patients with neovascular glaucoma, modified trabeculectomy can effectively reduce the intraocular pressure, and significantly improve the treatment success rate, as well as reduce the occurrence of adverse reactions. It is a safe and effective method, so modified trabeculectomy should be applied widely in clinical practice
Identification of Regional Lymph Node Involvement of Colorectal Cancer by Serum SELDI Proteomic Patterns
Background. To explore the application of serum proteomic patterns for the preoperative detection of regional lymph node involvement of colorectal cancer (CRC). Methods. Serum samples were applied to immobilized metal affinity capture ProteinChip to generate mass spectra by Surface-Enhanced Laser Desorption/ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS). Proteomic spectra of serum samples from 70 node-positive CRC patients and 75 age- and gender-matched node-negative CRC patients were employed as a training set, and a classification tree was generated by using Biomarker Pattern Software package. The validity of the classification tree was then challenged with a blind test set including another 65 CRC patients. Results. The software identified an average of 46 mass peaks/spectrum and 5 of the identified peaks at m/z 3,104, 3,781, 5,867, 7,970, and 9,290 were used to construct the classification tree. The classification tree separated effectively node-positive CRC patients from node-negative CRC patients, achieving a sensitivity of 94.29% and a specificity of 100.00%. The blind test challenged the model independently with a sensitivity of 91.43% a specificity of 96.67%. Conclusions. The results indicate that SELDI-TOF-MS can correctly distinguish node-positive CRC patients from node-negative ones and show great potential for preoperative screening for regional lymph node involvement of CRC
Luteoloside Inhibits Proliferation of Human Chronic Myeloid Leukemia K562 Cells by Inducing G2/M Phase Cell Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis
Purpose: To investigate the effects of luteoloside on the proliferation of human chronic myeloid leukemia K562 cells and whether luteoloside induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in K562 cells.Methods: Luteoloside’s cytotoxicity was assessed using a cell counting kit. Cell cycle distribution was analysed by flow cytometry after propidium iodide (PI) staining. Cell apoptosis was assayed with apoptosis detection kit and Hoechst staining followed by observation under a fluorescence microscope. The expression of cell cycle- and apoptosis-related proteins was examined by Western blot analysis.Results: Luteoloside inhibited the proliferation of K562 cells in a dose- and time- dependent manner (IC50 = 30.7 μM) with less toxicity in a normal human cell line (IC50 = 91.8 μM). Moreover, antiproliferative effect of luteoloside was accompanied with G2/M phase arrest(p < 0.05 or p<0.01) and apoptosis(p < 0.01 or p < 0.001). Further studies revealed that the expression level of cyclinB1 was down-regulated by luteoloside treatment. Furthermore, luteoloside treatment also increased proapoptotic protein Bax expression and decreased anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 expression.Conclusion: These results suggest that the inhibitory effect of luteoloside on K562 cell proliferation is associated with inducing G2/M phase arrest and apoptosis, and that luteoloside is worth further studying for anticancer potential.Keywords: Luteoloside, Myeloid leukemia, Proliferation, Cell cycle arrest, Apoptosis, Anticance
Learning Semantically Enhanced Feature for Fine-Grained Image Classification
We aim to provide a computationally cheap yet effective approach for
fine-grained image classification (FGIC) in this letter. Unlike previous
methods that rely on complex part localization modules, our approach learns
fine-grained features by enhancing the semantics of sub-features of a global
feature. Specifically, we first achieve the sub-feature semantic by arranging
feature channels of a CNN into different groups through channel permutation.
Meanwhile, to enhance the discriminability of sub-features, the groups are
guided to be activated on object parts with strong discriminability by a
weighted combination regularization. Our approach is parameter parsimonious and
can be easily integrated into the backbone model as a plug-and-play module for
end-to-end training with only image-level supervision. Experiments verified the
effectiveness of our approach and validated its comparable performance to the
state-of-the-art methods. Code is available at https://github.com/cswluo/SEFComment: Accepted by IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 5 pages, 4 figures, 4
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Molecular docking studies on rocaglamide, a traditional Chinese medicine for periodontitis
Purpose: To undertake an in silico assessment of rocaglamide as a potential drug therapy forperiodontitis (dental arthritis).Method: Lamarckian algorithm-based automated docking approach using AutoDock4.2 tool wasapplied for calculating the best possible binding mode of rocaglamide to IL-23p19 and IL-17, the targets of anti-inflammatory drugs in periodontal disease.Results: The top two interactions of rocaglamide with IL-17 (ΔG = -5.45 and -4.83 kcal/mol) were more spontaneous, and the physical interactions (two hydrogen bonds and one π-πbond) generated in the two IL-17- rocaglamide complexes were higher in number than in IL-23p14-rocaglamide complexes.Conclusion: In silico analysis of rocaglamide, a known antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory agent, is a promising natural candidate for periodontitis therapy, and should be further subjected to in vitro and in vivo anti-periodontitis investigations.Keywords: Periodontitis, Inflammation, Rocaglamide, Molecular docking, Lamarckian algorithm, IL- 23p19, IL-1
4-[(2′-Cyanobiphenyl-4-yl)methyl]morpholin-4-ium tetrafluoridoborate
In the crystal structure of the title compound, C18H19N2O+·BF4
−, bifurcated N—H⋯(F,F) hydrogen bonds link the protonated 4′-morpholinemethylbiphenyl-2-carbonitrile cations and slightly distorted tetrafluoroborate anions. π–π interactions [centroid–centroid distance = 3.805 (3) Å] help to consolidate the packing. The dihedral angle between the benzene rings in the cation is 57.24 (11)°
Wasserstein Distance guided Adversarial Imitation Learning with Reward Shape Exploration
The generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) has provided an
adversarial learning framework for imitating expert policy from demonstrations
in high-dimensional continuous tasks. However, almost all GAIL and its
extensions only design a kind of reward function of logarithmic form in the
adversarial training strategy with the Jensen-Shannon (JS) divergence for all
complex environments. The fixed logarithmic type of reward function may be
difficult to solve all complex tasks, and the vanishing gradients problem
caused by the JS divergence will harm the adversarial learning process. In this
paper, we propose a new algorithm named Wasserstein Distance guided Adversarial
Imitation Learning (WDAIL) for promoting the performance of imitation learning
(IL). There are three improvements in our method: (a) introducing the
Wasserstein distance to obtain more appropriate measure in the adversarial
training process, (b) using proximal policy optimization (PPO) in the
reinforcement learning stage which is much simpler to implement and makes the
algorithm more efficient, and (c) exploring different reward function shapes to
suit different tasks for improving the performance. The experiment results show
that the learning procedure remains remarkably stable, and achieves significant
performance in the complex continuous control tasks of MuJoCo.Comment: M. Zhang and Y. Wang contribute equally to this wor
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