Clinical Course of Patients With Worsening Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Background

Epidemiology of patients with worsening heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) in the real-world setting is not well described.

The Effectiveness of Nutrition Specialists on Pediatric Weight Management Outcomes in Multicomponent Pediatric Weight Management Interventions: A Systematic Review and Exploratory Meta-Analysis

Background

Nutrition specialists are considered key members of multicomponent pediatric weight management intervention teams, but to date, their contribution has not been quantified.

A hotspot mutation in transcription factor IKZF3 drives B cell neoplasia via transcriptional dysregulation

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Legionella feeleii: pneumonia or Pontiac fever? Bacterial virulence traits and host immune response

Medical Microbiology and Immunology - Gram-negative bacterium Legionella is able to proliferate intracellularly in mammalian host cells and amoeba, which became known in 1976 since they caused a...     

Age,period, and cohort analysis of regular dental care behavior and edentulism: A marginal approach

Background

Microbial communities inhabiting human mouth are associated with oral health and disease. Previous studies have indicated the general prevalence of adult gingivitis in China to be high. The aim of this study was to characterize in depth the oral microbiota of Chinese adults with or without gingivitis, by defining the microbial phylogenetic diversity and community-structure using highly paralleled pyrosequencing.

Methods

Six non-smoking Chinese, three with and three without gingivitis (age range 21-39 years, 4 females and 2 males) were enrolled in the present cross-sectional study. Gingival parameters of inflammation and bleeding on probing were characterized by a clinician using the Mazza Gingival Index (MGI). Plaque (sampled separately from four different oral sites) and salivary samples were obtained from each subject. Sequences and relative abundance of the bacterial 16 S rDNA PCR-amplicons were determined via pyrosequencing that produced 400 bp-long reads. The sequence data were analyzed via a computational pipeline customized for human oral microbiome analyses. Furthermore, the relative abundances of selected microbial groups were validated using quantitative PCR.

Results

The oral microbiomes from gingivitis and healthy subjects could be distinguished based on the distinct community structures of plaque microbiomes, but not the salivary microbiomes. Contributions of community members to community structure divergence were statistically accessed at the phylum, genus and species-like levels. Eight predominant taxa were found associated with gingivitis: TM7, Leptotrichia, Selenomonas, Streptococcus, Veillonella, Prevotella, Lautropia, and Haemophilus. Furthermore, 98 species-level OTUs were identified to be gingivitis-associated, which provided microbial features of gingivitis at a species resolution. Finally, for the two selected genera Streptococcus and Fusobacterium, Real-Time PCR based quantification of relative bacterial abundance validated the pyrosequencing-based results.

Conclusions

This methods study suggests that oral samples from this patient population of gingivitis can be characterized via plaque microbiome by pyrosequencing the 16 S rDNA genes. Further studies that characterize serial samples from subjects (longitudinal study design) with a larger population size may provide insight into the temporal and ecological features of oral microbial communities in clinically-defined states of gingivitis.     

GIC衬垫对复合树脂粘接强度的影响

本实验应用玻璃离子粘固剂和光敏固化氢氧化钙作衬垫材料，观察其对复合树脂与牙本质间粘接强度的影响。结果表明采用ＧＩＳ衬垫后，能明显增强复合树脂与牙本质间的粘接强度，而光敏固化氢氧化钙反而降低其粘接强度。各组间差异均极显著。采用ＧＩＳ衬垫方法，以距充填体表面０．５毫米组粘接强度最大，明显高于其它组。     

渐进性咬合紊乱导致兔髁突退行性变的研究

目的 探讨渐进性咬合紊乱是否可导致兔髁突软骨退行性变。方法 27只5月龄雄性新西兰大白兔，随机分为渐进性咬合紊乱组(A组)、操作对照组(B组)和空白对照组(C组)。A组动物以正畸用橡皮圈分别将一侧上颌和对侧下颌第一前磨牙向近中牵拉，以形成上下牙不吻合接触的咬合紊乱；B组作结扎钢丝操作对照，不牵拉。分别在6月龄、7月龄、8月龄时取材，各时间点每组取材3只实验动物，对双侧髁突作组织学观察和测量。结果 B、C两组髁突软骨表现无明显差异，A组有明显随时间延长而加重的退行性变，表现为髁突前、中部软骨变薄，肥大层软骨不连续，局部组织纤维化；髁突后部软骨增厚，增殖层未成熟细胞比例增加。结论 渐进性咬合紊乱可导致兔髁突软骨退行性变。