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Progress on genetic polymorphism associated with diabetic retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy(DR)is one of the most serious complications of diabetes, as the second general blindness disease in the world currently. The development of procedures for prevention and treatment of DR is one of the most important problems that should be solved currently. A lot of researches show that the development of DR is determined by genetics. The current research advance in DR relevant gene is reviewed in this article
Efficient Neural Radiance Fields for Interactive Free-viewpoint Video
This paper aims to tackle the challenge of efficiently producing interactive
free-viewpoint videos. Some recent works equip neural radiance fields with
image encoders, enabling them to generalize across scenes. When processing
dynamic scenes, they can simply treat each video frame as an individual scene
and perform novel view synthesis to generate free-viewpoint videos. However,
their rendering process is slow and cannot support interactive applications. A
major factor is that they sample lots of points in empty space when inferring
radiance fields. We propose a novel scene representation, called ENeRF, for the
fast creation of interactive free-viewpoint videos. Specifically, given
multi-view images at one frame, we first build the cascade cost volume to
predict the coarse geometry of the scene. The coarse geometry allows us to
sample few points near the scene surface, thereby significantly improving the
rendering speed. This process is fully differentiable, enabling us to jointly
learn the depth prediction and radiance field networks from RGB images.
Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that our approach exhibits competitive
performance while being at least 60 times faster than previous generalizable
radiance field methods.Comment: SIGGRAPH Asia 2022; Project page: https://zju3dv.github.io/enerf
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Chemokine receptor CXCR3 is important for lung tissue damage and airway remodeling induced by short-term exposure to cigarette smoking in mice
Aim: To investigate the role of chemokine receptor CXCR3 in cigarette smoking (CS)-induced pulmonary damage. Methods: CXCR3 knockout (CXCR3-/-) mice were used. Differences in airspace enlargement, mRNA expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), transforming growth factor (TGF) β1, CXCL10 in lung homogenates, and CXCL10 content in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluids and homogenates were compared between CXCR3-/- mice and wild-type (WT) mice three days after three-day CS exposures. Results: The linear intercept was significantly less in CXCR3-/- mice than in WT mice (30.1±0.9 μm vs 40.3±2.4 μm, P<0.01). Morphologically, collagen was deposited less around airways and vessels in CXCR3-/- mice. The lung hydroxyproline content was significantly lower in CXCR3-/- mice than in WT mice (6.0±1.0 μg/mL vs 12.0±1.6 μg/mL, P<0.05). Profoundly lower mRNA expression of MMP2, MMP12, TGFβ1, and CXCL10 was seen in lung homogenates from CXCR3-/- mice. CXCL10 concentrations in BAL fluid and lung homogenates were significantly lower in CXCR3-/- mice than in WT mice (BAL fluid: 19.3±1.4 pg/mL vs 24.8±1.6 pg/mL, P<0.05; lung homogenates: 76.6±7.0 pg/mL vs 119.5±15.9 pg/mL, P<0.05). Conclusion: CXCR3 is important in mediating lung tissue damage and airway remodeling following a short-term CS insult, possibly through up-regulation of CXCL10 and inducement of mRNA expression of MMPs. Targeting CXCR3 may be helpful for prevention of CS-induced pulmonary pathology
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