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Historic references, such as those documented here, are invaluable for providing conservation targets and for contextualizing disturbance and broad scale ecosystem change.In the era of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), it is important to analyse the prognostic value of deficient mismatch repair (dMMR) in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). In this study, in pretreatment biopsies of 69 patients with stage II-IVa NPC, the expression levels of MMR proteins, including MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2, were assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC). The median follow-up time was 37.5 months (3.1-87.4 months). 50.7% of cases (35/69) showed preserved expression of all 4 MMR proteins, which was interpreted as proficient mismatch repair (pMMR). Only 1.5% of cases (1/69) lost expression of all 4 MMR proteins, 26.1% of cases (18/69) have PMS2 loss alone and 21.7% of cases (15/69) lost expression of both PMS2 and MLH1. Thus, 49.3% of cases (34/69) lost expression of one or more MMR proteins, which was interpreted as dMMR. There was no significant difference (P > 0.05) in terms of sex, age, clinical stage, T category, N category or therapy regimens between the dMMR and pMMR groups. The multivariate Cox regression analysis revealed that dMMR was an independent significant prognostic factor for distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) (dMMR vs pMMR P = 0.01, HR = 0.25, 95% CI 0.09~0.75). Therefore, NPC patients with dMMR had significantly superior DMFS compared with patients with pMMR. It can be expected that dMMR will become a new independent prognostic factor for NPC.Despite successful clinical application of non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure plasma (APP), the details of the molecular mechanisms underlying APP-inducible biological responses remain ill-defined. We previously reported that exposure of 3T3L1 cells to APP-irradiated buffer raised the cytoplasmic free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) concentration by eliciting Ca2+ influx in a manner sensitive to transient receptor potential (TRP) channel inhibitors. However, the precise identity of the APP-responsive channel molecule(s) remains unclear. In the present study, we aimed to clarify channel molecule(s) responsible for indirect APP-responsive [Ca2+]i rises. siRNA-mediated silencing experiments revealed that TRPA1 and TRPV1 serve as the major APP-responsive Ca2+ channels in 3T3L1 cells. Conversely, ectopic expression of either TRPA1 or TRPV1 in APP-unresponsive C2C12 cells actually triggered [Ca2+]i elevation in response to indirect APP exposure. Desensitization experiments using 3T3L1 cells revealed APP responsiveness to be markedly suppressed after pretreatment with allyl isothiocyanate or capsaicin, TRPA1 and TRPV1 agonists, respectively. APP exposure also desensitized the cells to these chemical agonists, indicating the existence of a bi-directional heterologous desensitization property of APP-responsive [Ca2+]i transients mediated through these TRP channels. Mutational analyses of key cysteine residues in TRPA1 (Cys421, Cys621, Cys641, and Cys665) and in TRPV1 (Cys258, Cys363, and Cys742) have suggested that multiple reactive oxygen and nitrogen species are intricately involved in activation of the channels via a broad range of modifications involving these cysteine residues. Taken together, these observations allow us to conclude that both TRPA1 and TRPV1 channels play a pivotal role in evoking indirect APP-dependent [Ca2+]i responses.Applications of correlated vanadium dioxides VO2(A) and VO2(B) in electrical devices are limited due to the lack of effective methods for tuning their fundamental properties. We find that the resistivity of VO2(A) and VO2(B) is widely tunable by doping them with tungsten ions. When x less then 0.1 in V1-xWxO2(A), the resistivity decreases drastically by four orders of magnitude with increasing x, while that of V1-xWxO2(B) shows the opposite behaviour. Using spectroscopic ellipsometry and X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, we propose that correlation effects are modulated by either chemical-strain-induced redistribution of V-V distances or electron-doping-induced band filling in V1-xWxO2(A), while electron scattering induced by disorder plays a more dominant role in V1-xWxO2(B). Tivantinib mw The tunable resistivity makes correlated VO2(A) and VO2(B) appealing for next-generation electronic devices.The toxicity of lead perovskite hampers the commercialization of perovskite-based photovoltaics. While tin perovskite is a promising alternative, the facile oxidation of tin(II) to tin(IV) causes a high density of defects, resulting in lower solar cell efficiencies. Here, we show that tin(0) nanoparticles in the precursor solution can scavenge tin(IV) impurities, and demonstrate that this treatment leads to effectively tin(IV)-free perovskite films with strong photoluminescence and prolonged decay lifetimes. These nanoparticles are generated by the selective reaction of a dihydropyrazine derivative with the tin(II) fluoride additive already present in the precursor solution. Using this nanoparticle treatment, the power conversion efficiency of tin-based solar cells reaches 11.5%, with an open-circuit voltage of 0.76 V. Our nanoparticle treatment is a simple and broadly effective method that improves the purity and electrical performance of tin perovskite films.Feature selection is demanded in many modern scientific research problems that use high-dimensional data. A typical example is to identify gene signatures that are related to a certain disease from high-dimensional gene expression data. The expression of genes may have grouping structures, for example, a group of co-regulated genes that have similar biological functions tend to have similar expressions. Thus it is preferable to take the grouping structure into consideration to select features. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian Robit regression method with Hyper-LASSO priors (shortened by BayesHL) for feature selection in high dimensional genomic data with grouping structure. The main features of BayesHL include that it discards more aggressively unrelated features than LASSO, and it makes feature selection within groups automatically without a pre-specified grouping structure. We apply BayesHL in gene expression analysis to identify subsets of genes that contribute to the 5-year survival outcome of endometrial cancer (EC) patients.
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