In recent years, sarcopenia, as a progressive muscular atrophy and weakness, has become one of the common diseases in the elderly. Although its cause is not fully understood, a growing body of research suggests that e...In recent years, sarcopenia, as a progressive muscular atrophy and weakness, has become one of the common diseases in the elderly. Although its cause is not fully understood, a growing body of research suggests that epigenetic mechanisms play an important role in the pathogenesis of sarcopenia. The purpose of this review is to summarize the current research progress in the epigenetics of sarcopenia, focusing on the role of DNA methylation, RNA methylation and non-coding RNA in the pathogenesis of sarcopenia. While exploring the epigenetic mechanism of sarcopenia, this study will also look into the application prospect of epigenetics in the treatment strategy of sarcopenia, which will provide new ideas and directions for the treatment of sarcopenia.展开更多
Objectives: In this study, bibliometric approach was used to explore the literature in the field of research related to Diabetic Myasthenia Gravis in order to identify the current research progress in Diabetic Myasthe...Objectives: In this study, bibliometric approach was used to explore the literature in the field of research related to Diabetic Myasthenia Gravis in order to identify the current research progress in Diabetic Myasthenia Gravis related research and to help the researchers to predict the future hotspots in the field of research and to provide reference for the research. Methods: Literature related to diabetic sarcopenia published from 1993 to 2023 since the inception of the repository was extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) and bibliometric analyses were performed. We have analysed the published literature of the last approximately almost 30 years, as well as publication and citation analyses from different countries, institutions, journals and authors. For keywords, we performed co-occurrence, clustering, timeline view and citation burst analysis. Results: On the basis of 1564 publications, we found a continuous increase in the number of publications and citations, especially in the last six years. The United States is the most representative country, and Seoul National University (SNU) is the most representative institution. The most popular journal in the field is Diabetes Care;Fukui, Michiaki is the most prolific author, leading many studies related to diabetic sarcopenia. The most frequently cited reference was a revised European consensus on the definition and diagnosis of sarcopenia;the most cited keywords were related to physiological factors of diabetes, sarcopenia and related conditions, such as “insulin resistance”, “skeletal muscle”, “body composition”, “risk” and “prevalence”. Conclusion: With more and more studies on the relationship between diabetic sarcopenia, this study presents the current status and trend of research related to diabetic sarcopenia over the past nearly 30 years through the visualization software CiteSpace. It can help researchers identify potential collaborators and partner institutions, hotspots and research frontiers in the field of diabetic sarcopenia. However, our work is only based on the English language literature in the WoSCC database, and for future studies, we recommend that researchers explore the literature from multiple databases to enhance the scope of their research.展开更多
Background:Protein releases amino acids faster than starch releases glucose in digestive tract of pigs fed lowprotein(LP)diets.Poor synchronization of dietary glucose and amino acids supply leads to compromised nitrog...Background:Protein releases amino acids faster than starch releases glucose in digestive tract of pigs fed lowprotein(LP)diets.Poor synchronization of dietary glucose and amino acids supply leads to compromised nitrogen efficiency.Dietary starch patterns modulation may improve this situation.Methods:Growing barrows(29.7±2.0 kg)were randomly allotted into 5 dietary treatments with LP diets consisting of different purified starches.Treatments included:waxy corn starch(W LP),corn starch+waxy corn starch(C+W LP),corn starch(C LP),pea starch+waxy corn starch(P+W LP)and pea starch(P LP).In the experiment,growth performance,protein deposition,nutrient metabolism,and fecal microbial community of pigs were investigated.In vitro starch digestion was used for predicting the in vivo glucose response.Results:Dietary starch in vitro glucose release profile was determined by starch source and the ratio of amylopectin and amylose.C+W LP treatment showed decreased total nitrogen excretion and plasma citrulline concentration and improved plasma leptin concentration among treatments(P<0.05).Besides,the highest nitrogen apparent biological value,whole-body protein deposition and growth performance and lowest urinary nitrogen excretion were also observed in C+W LP treatment.Compared with the other groups,C+W LP and C LP showed increased plasma pyruvate,IGF-1,and lipase concentrations(P<0.05).The W LP group presented dramatically increased plasma alanine and urea nitrogen concentration and decreased aldolase and leptin concentrations(P<0.05).Dietary starch patterns did not make an impact on bacterial richness and diversity,but changed the taxonomic and functional structures of the microbial communities.Microbial protein fermentation product(isobutyrate and isovalerate)presented increased in P LP treatments compared with the other treatments(P<0.05).Conclusions:Dietary starch patterns modulation can regulate dietary glucose release profile,nutrient metabolism,protein turnover,and fecal microbial fermentation in pigs.The optimal dietary glucose release profile effectively strengthened whole-body protein deposition and improve nitrogen efficiency and growth performance in growing pigs fed LP diets.展开更多
The magneto-electric coupling and magneto-capacitance effect of a layer composite ferromagnet/ piezoelectric/ferromagnet was investigated. Several resonant peaks were observed on the curves of the capacitance versus f...The magneto-electric coupling and magneto-capacitance effect of a layer composite ferromagnet/ piezoelectric/ferromagnet was investigated. Several resonant peaks were observed on the curves of the capacitance versus frequency. The resonant peaks were found to shift under an applied magnetic field, and the impedance of the sample can be changed from capacitive to inductive ones with changing the field. Thus, giant negative and positive magneto-capacitance effects can be observed simultaneously under a magnetic field less than 1 k Oe near the resonant points. Experimental and theoretical analysis showed that such magnetically tuned variation in impedance originates from the magnetic field-induced change of the compliances of the magnetic phase of the composite.展开更多
With sustainable development of biotechnology,increasing attention has been placed on utilization of solid-state fermented feed(SFF).Solid-state fermented feed has been a candidate strategy to alleviate the contradict...With sustainable development of biotechnology,increasing attention has been placed on utilization of solid-state fermented feed(SFF).Solid-state fermented feed has been a candidate strategy to alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand of feed resources,ensure food hygiene safety,promoting energy conservation,and emission reduction.In production of SFF,a variety of organic acids,enzymes,vitamins,peptides,and other unknown growth factors are produced,which could affect performance of animals.Solid-state fermented feed produced by different fermentation techniques has great instability on different physiological stages of different animals,which hinders the application and standardized production of SFF.Herein,we summarize the current advances in the role of the characteristics of SFF prepared by different manufacturing technique and its research progress in animal experiments on growth performance,gastrointestinal ecology,and immune system,so as to provide references for further acquiring a relatively perfect set of SFF production and evaluation systems.展开更多
Zearalenone(ZEA), an estrogenic mycotoxin, is produced mainly by Fusarium fungi. Previous studies have indicated that acute ZEA exposure induced various damages in different species; however, its transparent hematotox...Zearalenone(ZEA), an estrogenic mycotoxin, is produced mainly by Fusarium fungi. Previous studies have indicated that acute ZEA exposure induced various damages in different species; however, its transparent hematotoxicity in female piglets at dietary levels of 1.1 to 3.2 mg/kg has not been shown. The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary ZEA(1.1—3.2 mg/kg) on hematology, T lymphocyte subset, immunoglobulin, antibody titer, lymphocyte proliferation rate(LPR), and interleukin-2(IL-2) in peripheral blood of post-weaning gilts. A total of 20 female piglets(Landrace × Yorkshire × Duroc),weaned at 42 d with an average body weight of 10.36 ± 1.21 kg were used in the study. Female piglets were kept in a temperature controlled room, divided into four treatments, and fed a diet based on corn-soybean meal-fishmeal-whey, with an addition of 0, 1.1, 2.0, or3.2 mg/kg purified ZEA for 18 d ad libitum. Feed intake and refusal were measured daily and individual pigs were weighed weekly. Blood and serum samples were collected for selected immunological measurements. Female piglets fed different levels of dietary ZEA grew similarly with no difference in feed intake. Hematological values including leukocytes, platelets, lymphocytes, hematocrit, and mean corpuscular hemoglobin(MCH) decreased linearly(P < 0.05) as dietary ZEA increased. Female piglets fed diets containing 2.0 mg/kg ZEA or greater showed significantly decreased CD4+CD8+, CD4+, and CD4+/CD8^+ in comparison to the control(P < 0.05), whereas CD8^+ was significantly increased(P = 0.026) in the gilts which were fed the diet containing 3.2 mg/kg ZEA. Serum immunoglobulin G(IgG) and the antibody titer on d 18 were reduced linearly as dietary ZEA levels increased(P < 0.001). Linear decrease in LPR was observed(P < 0.05). Female piglets fed diets containing 2.0 mg/kg ZEA or more showed significantly decreased IL-2 in comparison to the control(P < 0.05). The results suggested that dietary ZEA at the levels of 1.1 to 3.2 mg/kg can induce different degrees of hematotoxicity and negatively affect immune function in female piglets.展开更多
Extracellular polymeric substances(EPSs)are extracellular macromolecules in bacteria,which function in cell growth and show potential for mechanism study and biosynthesis application.However,the biosynthesis mechanism...Extracellular polymeric substances(EPSs)are extracellular macromolecules in bacteria,which function in cell growth and show potential for mechanism study and biosynthesis application.However,the biosynthesis mechanism of EPS is still not clear.We herein chose Bacillus licheniformis CGMCC 2876 as a target strain to investigate the EPS biosynthesis.epsK,a member of eps cluster,the predicted polysaccharide synthesis cluster,was overexpressed and showed that the overexpression of epsK led to a 26.54%decrease in the production of EPS and resulted in slenderer cell shape.Transcriptome analysis combined with protein-protein interactions analysis and protein modeling revealed that epsK was likely responsible for the synthesis of teichuronic acid,a substitute cell wall component of teichoic acid when the strain was suffering phosphate limitation.Further cell cultivation showed that either phosphate limitation or the overexpression of teichuronic acid synthesis genes,tuaB and tuaE could similarly lead to EPS reduction.The enhanced production of teichuronic acid induced by epsK overexpression triggered the endogenous phosphate starvation,resulting in the decreased EPS synthesis and biomass,and the enhanced bacterial chemotaxis.This study presents an insight into the mechanism of EPS synthesis and offers the potential in controllable synthesis of target products.展开更多
Photomosaic images are composite images composed of many small images called tiles.In its overall visual effect,a photomosaic image is similar to the target image,and photomosaics are also called“montage art”.Noisy ...Photomosaic images are composite images composed of many small images called tiles.In its overall visual effect,a photomosaic image is similar to the target image,and photomosaics are also called“montage art”.Noisy blocks and the loss of local information are the major obstacles in most methods or programs that create photomosaic images.To solve these problems and generate a photomosaic image in this study,we propose a tile selection method based on error minimization.A photomosaic image can be generated by partitioning the target image in a rectangular pattern,selecting appropriate tile images,and then adding them with a weight coefficient.Based on the principles of montage art,the quality of the generated photomosaic image can be evaluated by both global and local error.Under the proposed framework,via an error function analysis,the results show that selecting a tile image using a global minimum distance minimizes both the global error and the local error simultaneously.Moreover,the weight coefficient of the image superposition can be used to adjust the ratio of the global and local errors.Finally,to verify the proposed method,we built a new photomosaic creation dataset during this study.The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a low mean absolute error and that the generated photomosaic images have a more artistic effect than do the existing approaches.展开更多
Poly-γ-glutamic acid is an extracellular polymeric substance with various applications owing to its valuable properties of biodegradability,flocculating activity,water solubility,and nontoxicity.However,the ability o...Poly-γ-glutamic acid is an extracellular polymeric substance with various applications owing to its valuable properties of biodegradability,flocculating activity,water solubility,and nontoxicity.However,the ability of natural strains to produce poly-γ-glutamic acid is low.Atmospheric and room temperature plasma was applied in this study to conduct mutation breeding of Bacillus licheniformis CGMCC 2876,and a mutant strain M32 with an 11%increase in poly-γ-glutamic acid was obtained.Genome resequencing analysis identified 7 nonsynonymous mutations of ppsC encoding lipopeptide synthetase associated with poly-γ-glutamic acid metabolic pathways.From molecular docking,more binding sites and higher binding energy were speculated between the mutated plipastatin synthase subunit C and glutamate,which might contribute to the higher poly-γ-glutamic acid production.Moreover,the metabolic mechanism analysis revealed that the upregulated amino acids of M32 provided substrates for glutamate and promoted the conversion between L-and D-glutamate acids.In addition,the glycolytic pathway is enhanced,leading to a better capacity for using glucose.The maximum poly-γ-glutamic acid yield of 14.08 g·L^(–1)was finally reached with 30 g·L^(–1)glutamate.展开更多
文摘In recent years, sarcopenia, as a progressive muscular atrophy and weakness, has become one of the common diseases in the elderly. Although its cause is not fully understood, a growing body of research suggests that epigenetic mechanisms play an important role in the pathogenesis of sarcopenia. The purpose of this review is to summarize the current research progress in the epigenetics of sarcopenia, focusing on the role of DNA methylation, RNA methylation and non-coding RNA in the pathogenesis of sarcopenia. While exploring the epigenetic mechanism of sarcopenia, this study will also look into the application prospect of epigenetics in the treatment strategy of sarcopenia, which will provide new ideas and directions for the treatment of sarcopenia.
文摘Objectives: In this study, bibliometric approach was used to explore the literature in the field of research related to Diabetic Myasthenia Gravis in order to identify the current research progress in Diabetic Myasthenia Gravis related research and to help the researchers to predict the future hotspots in the field of research and to provide reference for the research. Methods: Literature related to diabetic sarcopenia published from 1993 to 2023 since the inception of the repository was extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) and bibliometric analyses were performed. We have analysed the published literature of the last approximately almost 30 years, as well as publication and citation analyses from different countries, institutions, journals and authors. For keywords, we performed co-occurrence, clustering, timeline view and citation burst analysis. Results: On the basis of 1564 publications, we found a continuous increase in the number of publications and citations, especially in the last six years. The United States is the most representative country, and Seoul National University (SNU) is the most representative institution. The most popular journal in the field is Diabetes Care;Fukui, Michiaki is the most prolific author, leading many studies related to diabetic sarcopenia. The most frequently cited reference was a revised European consensus on the definition and diagnosis of sarcopenia;the most cited keywords were related to physiological factors of diabetes, sarcopenia and related conditions, such as “insulin resistance”, “skeletal muscle”, “body composition”, “risk” and “prevalence”. Conclusion: With more and more studies on the relationship between diabetic sarcopenia, this study presents the current status and trend of research related to diabetic sarcopenia over the past nearly 30 years through the visualization software CiteSpace. It can help researchers identify potential collaborators and partner institutions, hotspots and research frontiers in the field of diabetic sarcopenia. However, our work is only based on the English language literature in the WoSCC database, and for future studies, we recommend that researchers explore the literature from multiple databases to enhance the scope of their research.
基金financially supported by the Beijing Swine Innovation Team of Modern Agriculture Industry Technological System.
文摘Background:Protein releases amino acids faster than starch releases glucose in digestive tract of pigs fed lowprotein(LP)diets.Poor synchronization of dietary glucose and amino acids supply leads to compromised nitrogen efficiency.Dietary starch patterns modulation may improve this situation.Methods:Growing barrows(29.7±2.0 kg)were randomly allotted into 5 dietary treatments with LP diets consisting of different purified starches.Treatments included:waxy corn starch(W LP),corn starch+waxy corn starch(C+W LP),corn starch(C LP),pea starch+waxy corn starch(P+W LP)and pea starch(P LP).In the experiment,growth performance,protein deposition,nutrient metabolism,and fecal microbial community of pigs were investigated.In vitro starch digestion was used for predicting the in vivo glucose response.Results:Dietary starch in vitro glucose release profile was determined by starch source and the ratio of amylopectin and amylose.C+W LP treatment showed decreased total nitrogen excretion and plasma citrulline concentration and improved plasma leptin concentration among treatments(P<0.05).Besides,the highest nitrogen apparent biological value,whole-body protein deposition and growth performance and lowest urinary nitrogen excretion were also observed in C+W LP treatment.Compared with the other groups,C+W LP and C LP showed increased plasma pyruvate,IGF-1,and lipase concentrations(P<0.05).The W LP group presented dramatically increased plasma alanine and urea nitrogen concentration and decreased aldolase and leptin concentrations(P<0.05).Dietary starch patterns did not make an impact on bacterial richness and diversity,but changed the taxonomic and functional structures of the microbial communities.Microbial protein fermentation product(isobutyrate and isovalerate)presented increased in P LP treatments compared with the other treatments(P<0.05).Conclusions:Dietary starch patterns modulation can regulate dietary glucose release profile,nutrient metabolism,protein turnover,and fecal microbial fermentation in pigs.The optimal dietary glucose release profile effectively strengthened whole-body protein deposition and improve nitrogen efficiency and growth performance in growing pigs fed LP diets.
文摘The magneto-electric coupling and magneto-capacitance effect of a layer composite ferromagnet/ piezoelectric/ferromagnet was investigated. Several resonant peaks were observed on the curves of the capacitance versus frequency. The resonant peaks were found to shift under an applied magnetic field, and the impedance of the sample can be changed from capacitive to inductive ones with changing the field. Thus, giant negative and positive magneto-capacitance effects can be observed simultaneously under a magnetic field less than 1 k Oe near the resonant points. Experimental and theoretical analysis showed that such magnetically tuned variation in impedance originates from the magnetic field-induced change of the compliances of the magnetic phase of the composite.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U180220167)the Beijing Swine Innovation Team of Modern Agriculture Industry Technological System。
文摘With sustainable development of biotechnology,increasing attention has been placed on utilization of solid-state fermented feed(SFF).Solid-state fermented feed has been a candidate strategy to alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand of feed resources,ensure food hygiene safety,promoting energy conservation,and emission reduction.In production of SFF,a variety of organic acids,enzymes,vitamins,peptides,and other unknown growth factors are produced,which could affect performance of animals.Solid-state fermented feed produced by different fermentation techniques has great instability on different physiological stages of different animals,which hinders the application and standardized production of SFF.Herein,we summarize the current advances in the role of the characteristics of SFF prepared by different manufacturing technique and its research progress in animal experiments on growth performance,gastrointestinal ecology,and immune system,so as to provide references for further acquiring a relatively perfect set of SFF production and evaluation systems.
基金financed by National Nature Science Foundation of China (Project No. 31572441)
文摘Zearalenone(ZEA), an estrogenic mycotoxin, is produced mainly by Fusarium fungi. Previous studies have indicated that acute ZEA exposure induced various damages in different species; however, its transparent hematotoxicity in female piglets at dietary levels of 1.1 to 3.2 mg/kg has not been shown. The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary ZEA(1.1—3.2 mg/kg) on hematology, T lymphocyte subset, immunoglobulin, antibody titer, lymphocyte proliferation rate(LPR), and interleukin-2(IL-2) in peripheral blood of post-weaning gilts. A total of 20 female piglets(Landrace × Yorkshire × Duroc),weaned at 42 d with an average body weight of 10.36 ± 1.21 kg were used in the study. Female piglets were kept in a temperature controlled room, divided into four treatments, and fed a diet based on corn-soybean meal-fishmeal-whey, with an addition of 0, 1.1, 2.0, or3.2 mg/kg purified ZEA for 18 d ad libitum. Feed intake and refusal were measured daily and individual pigs were weighed weekly. Blood and serum samples were collected for selected immunological measurements. Female piglets fed different levels of dietary ZEA grew similarly with no difference in feed intake. Hematological values including leukocytes, platelets, lymphocytes, hematocrit, and mean corpuscular hemoglobin(MCH) decreased linearly(P < 0.05) as dietary ZEA increased. Female piglets fed diets containing 2.0 mg/kg ZEA or greater showed significantly decreased CD4+CD8+, CD4+, and CD4+/CD8^+ in comparison to the control(P < 0.05), whereas CD8^+ was significantly increased(P = 0.026) in the gilts which were fed the diet containing 3.2 mg/kg ZEA. Serum immunoglobulin G(IgG) and the antibody titer on d 18 were reduced linearly as dietary ZEA levels increased(P < 0.001). Linear decrease in LPR was observed(P < 0.05). Female piglets fed diets containing 2.0 mg/kg ZEA or more showed significantly decreased IL-2 in comparison to the control(P < 0.05). The results suggested that dietary ZEA at the levels of 1.1 to 3.2 mg/kg can induce different degrees of hematotoxicity and negatively affect immune function in female piglets.
基金This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31871779 and 32170061).
文摘Extracellular polymeric substances(EPSs)are extracellular macromolecules in bacteria,which function in cell growth and show potential for mechanism study and biosynthesis application.However,the biosynthesis mechanism of EPS is still not clear.We herein chose Bacillus licheniformis CGMCC 2876 as a target strain to investigate the EPS biosynthesis.epsK,a member of eps cluster,the predicted polysaccharide synthesis cluster,was overexpressed and showed that the overexpression of epsK led to a 26.54%decrease in the production of EPS and resulted in slenderer cell shape.Transcriptome analysis combined with protein-protein interactions analysis and protein modeling revealed that epsK was likely responsible for the synthesis of teichuronic acid,a substitute cell wall component of teichoic acid when the strain was suffering phosphate limitation.Further cell cultivation showed that either phosphate limitation or the overexpression of teichuronic acid synthesis genes,tuaB and tuaE could similarly lead to EPS reduction.The enhanced production of teichuronic acid induced by epsK overexpression triggered the endogenous phosphate starvation,resulting in the decreased EPS synthesis and biomass,and the enhanced bacterial chemotaxis.This study presents an insight into the mechanism of EPS synthesis and offers the potential in controllable synthesis of target products.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61871196,61673186,and 61602190)the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China(2019J01082 and 2017J01110)the Promotion Program for Young and Middle-aged Teacher in Science and Technology Research of Huaqiao University(ZQN-YX601 and ZQN-710)。
文摘Photomosaic images are composite images composed of many small images called tiles.In its overall visual effect,a photomosaic image is similar to the target image,and photomosaics are also called“montage art”.Noisy blocks and the loss of local information are the major obstacles in most methods or programs that create photomosaic images.To solve these problems and generate a photomosaic image in this study,we propose a tile selection method based on error minimization.A photomosaic image can be generated by partitioning the target image in a rectangular pattern,selecting appropriate tile images,and then adding them with a weight coefficient.Based on the principles of montage art,the quality of the generated photomosaic image can be evaluated by both global and local error.Under the proposed framework,via an error function analysis,the results show that selecting a tile image using a global minimum distance minimizes both the global error and the local error simultaneously.Moreover,the weight coefficient of the image superposition can be used to adjust the ratio of the global and local errors.Finally,to verify the proposed method,we built a new photomosaic creation dataset during this study.The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a low mean absolute error and that the generated photomosaic images have a more artistic effect than do the existing approaches.
基金This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.32170061 and 31871779).
文摘Poly-γ-glutamic acid is an extracellular polymeric substance with various applications owing to its valuable properties of biodegradability,flocculating activity,water solubility,and nontoxicity.However,the ability of natural strains to produce poly-γ-glutamic acid is low.Atmospheric and room temperature plasma was applied in this study to conduct mutation breeding of Bacillus licheniformis CGMCC 2876,and a mutant strain M32 with an 11%increase in poly-γ-glutamic acid was obtained.Genome resequencing analysis identified 7 nonsynonymous mutations of ppsC encoding lipopeptide synthetase associated with poly-γ-glutamic acid metabolic pathways.From molecular docking,more binding sites and higher binding energy were speculated between the mutated plipastatin synthase subunit C and glutamate,which might contribute to the higher poly-γ-glutamic acid production.Moreover,the metabolic mechanism analysis revealed that the upregulated amino acids of M32 provided substrates for glutamate and promoted the conversion between L-and D-glutamate acids.In addition,the glycolytic pathway is enhanced,leading to a better capacity for using glucose.The maximum poly-γ-glutamic acid yield of 14.08 g·L^(–1)was finally reached with 30 g·L^(–1)glutamate.
