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Furthermore, we demonstrated the refractometric sensing and enhanced IR absorption of the FPM device for its potential in chemical and biomolecule sensing applications.Conventional thoracic 4DCBCT scans take 1,320 projections over 4 minutes. This paper investigates which reconstruction algorithms best leverage Respiratory-Motion-Guided (RMG) acquisition in order to reduce scan time and dose while maintaining image quality. We investigated a 200 projection, on average 1-minute RMG acquisition. RMG acquisition ensures even angular separation between projections at each respiratory phase by adjusting the imaging gantry rotation to the patient respiratory signal in real time. Conventional 1,320 projection data and RMG 200 projection data were simulated from 4DCT volumes of 14 patients. Each patient had an initial 4DCT reconstruction, treated as a planning 4DCT, and a 4DCT reconstruction acquired later, used for 4DCBCT data simulation and evaluation. Reconstructions were computed using the Feldkamp-David-Kress (FDK), McKinnon-Bates (MKB), RecOnstructiOn using Spatial and TEmporal Regularization (ROOSTER), and Motion Compensated FDK (MCFDK) algorithms. We also introduced and evaluated a novel MCMKB algorithm. Image quality was evaluated with Root-Mean-Square Error (RMSE), Structural SIMilarity index (SSIM) and Tissue Interface Sharpness (TIS). Rigid registration of the tumor volume regions between the reconstruction and the ground truth was used to evaluate geometric accuracy. Relative to conventional 4DCBCT acquisition, the RMG acquisition delivered 80% less dose and was on average 70% faster. The conventional-acquisition 4DFDK-reconstruction volumes had mean RMSE, SSIM, TIS and geometric error of 94, 0.9987, 2.69 and 1.19mm respectively. The RMG-acquisition MCFDK-reconstruction volumes had mean RMSE, SSIM, TIS and geometric error of 113, 0.9986, 1.76 and 1.77mm respectively with minimal increase in computational cost. These results suggest scan time and dose can be significantly reduced with minimal impact on reconstruction quality by implementing RMG acquisition and motion compensated reconstruction.Autophagy has been identified as an important immune regulatory mechanism. Recent studies have linked macrophage autophagy with innate immune responses against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), which can survive within macrophages by blocking fusion of the phagosome with lysosomes. These findings suggest that autophagy is a regulatable cellular mechanism of M. tuberculosis defense in macrophages. Transcriptomic profiles in human blood in TB patients suggest that M. tuberculosis affects autophagy related pathways. In order to better understand the role of macrophage autophagy in enhancing protective immunity against M. tuberculosis, in this study, we investigate the effects of the autophagy activators rapamycin and LPS in macrophage autophagy and immunity against M. tuberculosis. We confirm that rapamycin and LPS induce autophagy in M. NCB-0846 MAP4K inhibitor tuberculosis infected THP-1-derived macrophages or PMA primed THP-1 macrophages [THP-1(A)]. LPS restores M. tuberculosis-inhibited IL-12 synthesis and secretion in THP-1(A) cells via autophagy. Similarly, autophagy activators increase IL-12 synthesis and secretion in THP-1(A) cells. These studies demonstrate the importance of autophagy in M. tuberculosis elimination in macrophages and may lead to novel therapies for tuberculosis and other bacterial infections.Importance of sperm-derived transcripts and chromatin imprints in organismal development is poorly investigated. Here using an integrative approach, we show that human sperm transcripts are equally important as oocyte. Sperm-specific and sperm-oocyte common transcripts carry distinct chromatin structures at their promoters correlating with corresponding transcript levels in sperm. Interestingly, sperm-specific H3K4me3 patterns at the lincRNA promoters are not maintained in the germ layers and somatic tissues. However, bivalent chromatin at the sperm-specific protein-coding gene promoters is maintained throughout the development. Sperm-specific transcripts reach their peak expression during zygotic genome activation, whereas sperm-oocyte common transcripts are present during early preimplantation development but decline at the onset of zygotic genome activation. Additionally, there is an inverse correlation between sperm-specific and sperm-oocyte lincRNAs throughout the development. Sperm-lincRNAs also show aberrant activation in tumors. Overall, our observations indicate that sperm transcripts carrying chromatin imprints may play an important role in human development and cancer.Deep learning has received increasing attention in recent years and it has been successfully applied for feature extraction (FE) of hyperspectral images. However, most deep learning methods fail to explore the manifold structure in hyperspectral image (HSI). To tackle this issue, a novel graph-based deep learning model, termed deep locality preserving neural network (DLPNet), was proposed in this paper. Traditional deep learning methods use random initialization to initialize network parameters. Different from that, DLPNet initializes each layer of the network by exploring the manifold structure in hyperspectral data. In the stage of network optimization, it designed a deep-manifold learning joint loss function to exploit graph embedding process while measuring the difference between the predictive value and the actual value, then the proposed model can take into account the extraction of deep features and explore the manifold structure of data simultaneously. Experimental results on real-world HSI datasets indicate that the proposed DLPNet performs significantly better than some state-of-the-art methods.G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) couple to diverse heterotrimeric G protein subtypes and then activate downstream signaling pathways in classical GPCR activation. It has also been found that GPCRs transduce signals through different regulatory proteins, such as arrestins. Recently, owing to the breakthroughs in cryo-electron macroscopy (Cryo-EM), numerous structures of GPCR-G protein or GPCR-arrestin complexes have been deciphered. In this review, we summarize most of reported GPCR signaling complex structures, with an emphasis on the structural features of rhodopsin-like GPCR activation and G protein-binding/arrestin-binding modes, to illustrate the activation and signaling mechanism of rhodopsin-like GPCRs.
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