Aims: To investigate the relationship among NLRP3 inflammasome, glucose and lipid metabolism, and insulin resistance (IR) in the serum of patients with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Methods: A total of 100 patients with ...Aims: To investigate the relationship among NLRP3 inflammasome, glucose and lipid metabolism, and insulin resistance (IR) in the serum of patients with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Methods: A total of 100 patients with abnormal blood glucose divided into the pre-diabetes mellitus (PDM) group (N = 46) and the type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) group (N = 54). 20 normoglycemic subjects (NG, N = 20) were selected as a control group. The serum levels of glucose and lipid metabolism, IR, and the expression of NLRP3, ASC and Caspase-1 were measured. Besides, the correlations of NLRP3 inflammasome with glucose and lipid metabolism, and IR were analyzed. Results: Compared with the NG group, the levels of NLRP3, ASC, Caspase-1, FBG, HbA<sub>1</sub>C, TG, LDL-C, FINs, and HOMA-IR were higher (P β were lower (P P β were seen (P P β. Regression analysis further showed that blood glucose related indexes, FINs, and NLRP3 have made a decisive contribution to IR. Conclusions: Collectively, this evidence suggested that NLRP3 is closely related to glucose and lipid metabolism, and IR, and activated in PDM and T2DM.展开更多
Silicon is recognized as the most advantageous next-generation anode material for LIBs in terms of its extremely high theoretical capacity and appropriate operating voltage.However,the application of Si anode is limit...Silicon is recognized as the most advantageous next-generation anode material for LIBs in terms of its extremely high theoretical capacity and appropriate operating voltage.However,the application of Si anode is limited by huge volume expansion emerging with cycling,which in turn induces the collapse of the electrode structure,resulting in rapid capacity decay.Here,we report a strategy using self-swelling artificial laponite to prepare a laponite/MXene/CNT composite framework with both rigidity and flexibility,which can excellently address these challenges of Si anode.The self-swelling artificial laponite participates in the construction of hierarchical and porous structures,providing sufficient buffer space to mitigate the volume expansion of the LixSi alloying reaction.Meanwhile,tough and tightly cross-linked silicate nanosheets can improve the mechanical strength of the framework for strong structural stability.More importantly,the negative charge between the layers of artificial laponite can effectively promote fast Li-ion transport in the electrode.This free-standing silicon anode enables the preparation of high areal capacity electrodes to further enhance the energy density of LIBs and a higher reversible capacity of 2381.8 mAh/g at 0.1 C after 50 cycles with an initial coulombic of 85.6%.This work provides a simple and practical fabrication strategy for developing high-performance Si-based batteries,which can speed up their commercialization.展开更多
文摘Aims: To investigate the relationship among NLRP3 inflammasome, glucose and lipid metabolism, and insulin resistance (IR) in the serum of patients with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Methods: A total of 100 patients with abnormal blood glucose divided into the pre-diabetes mellitus (PDM) group (N = 46) and the type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) group (N = 54). 20 normoglycemic subjects (NG, N = 20) were selected as a control group. The serum levels of glucose and lipid metabolism, IR, and the expression of NLRP3, ASC and Caspase-1 were measured. Besides, the correlations of NLRP3 inflammasome with glucose and lipid metabolism, and IR were analyzed. Results: Compared with the NG group, the levels of NLRP3, ASC, Caspase-1, FBG, HbA<sub>1</sub>C, TG, LDL-C, FINs, and HOMA-IR were higher (P β were lower (P P β were seen (P P β. Regression analysis further showed that blood glucose related indexes, FINs, and NLRP3 have made a decisive contribution to IR. Conclusions: Collectively, this evidence suggested that NLRP3 is closely related to glucose and lipid metabolism, and IR, and activated in PDM and T2DM.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51871113)Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20200047).
文摘Silicon is recognized as the most advantageous next-generation anode material for LIBs in terms of its extremely high theoretical capacity and appropriate operating voltage.However,the application of Si anode is limited by huge volume expansion emerging with cycling,which in turn induces the collapse of the electrode structure,resulting in rapid capacity decay.Here,we report a strategy using self-swelling artificial laponite to prepare a laponite/MXene/CNT composite framework with both rigidity and flexibility,which can excellently address these challenges of Si anode.The self-swelling artificial laponite participates in the construction of hierarchical and porous structures,providing sufficient buffer space to mitigate the volume expansion of the LixSi alloying reaction.Meanwhile,tough and tightly cross-linked silicate nanosheets can improve the mechanical strength of the framework for strong structural stability.More importantly,the negative charge between the layers of artificial laponite can effectively promote fast Li-ion transport in the electrode.This free-standing silicon anode enables the preparation of high areal capacity electrodes to further enhance the energy density of LIBs and a higher reversible capacity of 2381.8 mAh/g at 0.1 C after 50 cycles with an initial coulombic of 85.6%.This work provides a simple and practical fabrication strategy for developing high-performance Si-based batteries,which can speed up their commercialization.
