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Abiotic stresses substantially affect the growth and development of plants. Plants have evolved multiple strategies to cope with the environmental stresses, among which transcription factors play an important role in regulating the tolerance to abiotic stresses. Basic leucine zipper transcription factors (bZIP) are one of the largest gene families. The stability and activity of bZIP transcription factors could be regulated by different post-translational modifications (PTMs) in response to various intracellular or extracellular stresses. This paper introduces the structural feature and classification of bZIP transcription factors, followed by summarizing the PTMs of bZIP transcription factors, such as phosphorylation, ubiquitination and small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) modification, in response to abiotic stresses. In addition, future perspectives were prospected, which may facilitate cultivating excellent stress-resistant crop varieties by regulating the PTMs of bZIP transcription factors.
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Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors/genetics , Protein Processing, Post-Translational , Phosphorylation , Transcription Factors/genetics , Stress, Physiological/geneticsABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the pregnancy and operation of uterine fibroids during pregnancy. Methods The clinical data of 70 cases of pregnancy complicated with uterine fibroids undergoing cesarean section were analyzed retrospectively. The patients without uterine myoma underwent cesarean section were selected as the control group. The complications of pregnancy (abortion rate, premature delivery rate, myoma degeneration and abnormal fetal position) were compared; and the cesarean section bleeding volume, operation time, postoperative exhaust time and hospitalization time were compared. Results The two groups of pregnancy threatened abortion rate, preterm labor rate was statistically significant (P<0.05); the two groups the incidence of fetal abnormalities was not statistically significant. There was no significant difference between the two groups in the average intraoperative blood loss, operation time, postoperative exhaust time and hospital stay. Conclusion Pregnancy associated with uterine fibroids increases the incidence of pregnancy complications, but cesarean myomectomy is safe and feasible.
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OBJECTIVE:To provide reference for standardizing the names of TCM from Rumex. METHODS:According to lit-erature research,the most frequently used names (such as Jinbuhuan,Tudahuang,Yangti) of TCM in Rumex were combed,and suggestions for existing problems were put forward. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS:The TCM names were used confusedly,main-ly showing that inconsistent names of TCM from the same plant in different areas,same name of TCM from different plants in the same area,same name of TCM from different plants in different areas. The key to solving the confused use of names of TCM in Rumex is standardization and unification of medicinal plant source and names. It can be developed and solved in order by resource investigation and identification,establishing quality standard and excavating medicinal value,in which,conducting the resource in-vestigation and specie identification,determining the medicinal names,stipulating the official names and establishing the quality standard are the important work in future.
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Objective To investigate the effect of coenzyme Q10 combined with Shenmai injection on serum enzyme in the treatment of brain hypoxic injury after asphyxia by meconium in newborn.Methods 64 cases with brain hypoxic injury after asphyxia by meconium from Medical University of Tianjin Jinghai Clinical College were selected and randomly divided into 2 groups, 32 cases in each group.The control group received maintained ventilation and circulation function and routine drug therapy adequate, and the experiment group received more with coenzyme Q10 combined with Shenmai injection for 7 days.Serum enzymes and myocardial injury markers, oxidative stress and inflammation related factors and the clinical effect and complications were compared after the treatment.Results Compared with before treatment, levels of CK-MB, AST, LDH, CK and α-HBDH decreased in two groups after the treatment, levels of CT-1, CTnI and Mb decreased, levels of SOD and MDA decreased, contents of GSH-Px, APN, IGF-1 increased, contents of Leptin decreased (P<0.05).Compared with the control group, the levels of CK-MB, AST, LDH, CK and α-HBDH in the experiment group were lower, levels of CT-1, CTnI and Mb were lower, levels of SOD and MDA were lower, contents of GSH-Px, APN, IGF-1 were higher, contents of Leptin were lower(P<0.05).The clinical curative effect rate of control group(65.63%) was lower than the experiment group (87.50%)(P<0.05).Conclusion Coenzyme Q10 combined with Shenmai injection in the treatment of brain hypoxic injury after asphyxia by meconium in newborn is curative effective with high safety, and it can reduce serum enzyme and myocardial injury.
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A method was developed for the simultaneous determination of 17 characteristic ingredients of plant extracts, including paeoniflorin, hydroxysafflor yellow A, calycosin_7_glucoside ferulic acid, etc. , in hair growth cosmetics using ultra high performance liquid chromatography ( UPLC ) . Different cosmetic samples were extracted by ultrasonic_assisted extraction with the solvent of methanol/water (4∶1, V/V) solution. After demulsified by the addition of appropriate amount of NaCl and high speed centrifugation, the supernatant was transferred and analyzed with UPLC. The separation was conducted on a Waters reversed phase column of ACQUITY UPLC CSH C18(50 mm×2. 1 mm, 1. 7μm), and the mobile phases were methanol and the solution of 0. 05% phosphate in water. The detection was performed with a photodiode_array ( PDA) detector. The linear range was 0 . 2-25 mg/L with correlation coefficients higher than 0 . 999 . The limits of detection were within 0. 3-1. 5 mg/kg, and the limits of quantification were from 1. 0 to 4. 0 mg/kg. The average recoveries of 17 characteristic ingredients were within 93 . 5%-105 . 0%, with the intra_and inter_day precision ( n=6 ) less than 4. 6%. This method was simple, rapid, with good_repeatability, and had been applied to the analysis of real samples.