Enlighten-Research publications by members of the University of Glasgow http://eprints.gla.ac.uk Minimally invasive surgery with thrombolysis in intracerebral haemorrhage evacuation (MISTIE III): a randomised, controlled, open-label phase 3 trial with blinded endpoint
Preexisting noncommunicable diseases (eg, diabetes) increase the risk of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death. Mood disorders are associated with impaired immune function and social determinants that increase the risk of COVID-19. Determining whether preexisting mood disorders represent a risk of COVID-19 would inform public health priorities.OBJECTIVE To assess whether preexisting mood disorders are associated with a higher risk of COVID-19 susceptibility, hospitalization, severe complications, and death.DATA SOURCES Systematic searches were conducted for studies reporting data on COVID-19 outcomes in populations with and without mood disorders on PubMed/MEDLINE,
Polyelectrolytes play an important
role in both natural biological
systems and human society, and their synthesis, functional exploration,
and profound application are thus essential for biomimicry and creating
new materials. In this study, we developed an efficient synthetic
methodology for in situ generation of azonia-containing
polyelectrolytes in a one-pot manner by using readily accessible nonionic
reactant in the presence of commercially available cheap ionic species.
The resulting polyelectrolytes are emissive in the solid state and
can readily form luminescent photopatterns with different colors.
The azonia-containing polyelectrolytes possess extraordinary potency
of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, enabling them to impressively
kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA),
a drug resistant superbug, both in vitro and in vivo.
Human brain imaging studies have revealed the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) as a key brain region for mediating visceral-pain-cognitive interactions. Recently, we characterized impairments of long-term potentiation and spike-field coherence in the basolateral amygdala (BLA)-ACC network in association with a decision-making deficit in rats with visceral hypersensitivity (VH). Now, by combining integrative neurobiological approaches, we show that ACC-reactive astrogliosis and activity-dependent impairment of lactate release occur in VH rats. Exogenous lactate supply rescues chronic-visceral-pain-caused impairments of ACC phase locking and decision making, which can be mimicked by optogenetic activation of ACC astrocytes. Large-scale electrophysiological recordings in free-moving animals during a decision-making task indicate that optogenetic astrocytic activation improves decision-making performance and engages ACC phase locking and BLA-to-ACC information flow. Collectively, these observations support the idea of an "astrocyte-neuron l-lactate shuttle" and suggest that targeting astrocytes may help with cognitive dysfunctions under chronic visceral pain.
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a high efficient circularly polarizing dichroism waveplate (CPDW) using a Si-based all-dielectric 2Dchiral metasurface. We demonstrate that the CPDW exhibits a unique dichroism in that it functions as a transmissive quarter waveplate for one of either left-or right-handed circularly polarized incident lightand a reflective mirror for the opposite polarization. The circular polarization dichroism (CPD = IRCP − ILCP) in transmission at wavelength ~1.5 μm reaches 97% and the extinction ratio (ER = IRCP/ILCP) is as high as 345:1. Experimental fabrications and measurements of the proposed all-dielectric metasurface are implemented and found to be in excellent agreement with the simulations. The proposed all-dielectric chiral metasurface is of advantages of high-dichroism, easy-fabrication and standard semiconductor fabrication techniques compatible, which could lead to enhanced security in fiber and free-space communications, as well as imaging and sensing applications for circularly polarized light with a highly integrated photonic platform.
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