The future of artificial hibernation medicine:protection of nerves and organs after spinal cord injury

Spinal cord injury is a serious disease of the central nervous system involving irreversible nerve injury and various organ system injuries.At present,no effective clinical treatment exists.As one of the artificial hibernation techniques,mild hypothermia has preliminarily confirmed its clinical effect on spinal cord injury.However,its technical defects and barriers,along with serious clinical side effects,restrict its clinical application for spinal cord injury.Artificial hibernation is a futureoriented disruptive technology for human life support.It involves endogenous hibernation inducers and hibernation-related central neuromodulation that activate particular neurons,reduce the central constant temperature setting point,disrupt the normal constant body temperature,make the body adapt"to the external cold environment,and reduce the physiological resistance to cold stimulation.Thus,studying the artificial hibernation mechanism may help develop new treatment strategies more suitable for clinical use than the cooling method of mild hypothermia technology.This review introduces artificial hibernation technologies,including mild hypothermia technology,hibernation inducers,and hibernation-related central neuromodulation technology.It summarizes the relevant research on hypothermia and hibernation for organ and nerve protection.These studies show that artificial hibernation technologies have therapeutic significance on nerve injury after spinal co rd injury through inflammatory inhibition,immunosuppression,oxidative defense,and possible central protection.It also promotes the repair and protection of res pirato ry and digestive,cardiovascular,locomoto r,urinary,and endocrine systems.This review provides new insights for the clinical treatment of nerve and multiple organ protection after spinal cord injury thanks to artificial hibernation.At present,artificial hibernation technology is not mature,and research fa ces various challenges.Neve rtheless,the effort is wo rthwhile for the future development of medicine.

Modified Subgradient Extragradient Method for Variational Inequality Problems and Fixed Point Problems

Many approaches inquiring into variational inequality problems have been put forward,among which subgradient extragradient method is of great significance.A novel algorithm is presented in this article for resolving quasi-nonexpansive fixed point problem and pseudomonotone variational inequality problem in a real Hilbert interspace.In order to decrease the execution time and quicken the velocity of convergence,the proposed algorithm adopts an inertial technology.Moreover,the algorithm is by virtue of a non-monotonic step size rule to acquire strong convergence theorem without estimating the value of Lipschitz constant.Finally,numerical results on some problems authenticate that the algorithm has preferable efficiency than other algorithms.

IGF2BP3-induced activation of EIF5B contributes to progression of hepatocellular carcinoma cells

In this study,we investigated the functional role of eukaryotic initiation factor 5B(EIF5B)in hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)and the underlying mechanisms.Bioinformatics analysis demonstrated that the EIF5B transcript and protein levels as well as the EIF5Bcopy number were significantly higher in the HCC tissues compared with the non-cancerous liver tissues.Down-regulation of EIF5B significantly decreased proliferation and invasiveness of the HCC cells.Furthermore,EIF5B knockdown suppressed epithelial-mesenchymal transition(EMT)and the cancer stem cell(CSC)phenotype.Down-regulation of EIF5B also increased the sensitivity of HCC cells to 5-fluorouracil(5-FU).In the HCC cells,activation of the NF-kappa B signaling pathway and IkB phosphorylation was significantly reduced by EIF5B silencing.IGF2BP3 increased the stability of the EIF5B mRNA in an m6A-dependent manner.Our data suggested that EIF5B is a promising prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target in HCC.

Broadband high-efficiency polymerized liquid crystal metasurfaces with spin-multiplexed functionalities in the visible

Traditional optical components are usually designed for a single functionality and narrow operation band,leading to the limited practical applications.To date,it is still quite challenging to efficiently achieve multifunctional performances within broadband operating bandwidth via a single planar optical element.Here,a broadband high-efficiency polarization-multiplexing method based on a geometric phase polymerized liquid crystal metasurface is proposed to yield the polarization-switchable functionalities in the visible.As proofs of the concept,two broadband high-efficiency polymerized liquid crystal metalenses are designed to obtain the spin-controlled behavior from diffraction-limited focusing to sub-diffraction focusing or focusing vortex beams.The experimental results within a broadband range indicate the stable and excellent optical performance of the planar liquid crystal metalenses.In addition,low-cost polymerized liquid crystal metasurfaces possess unique superiority in large-scale patterning due to the straightforward processing technique rather than the point-by-point nanopatterning method with high cost and low throughput.The high-efficiency liquid crystal metasurfaces also have unrivalled advantages benefiting from the characteristic with low waveguide absorption.The proposed strategy paves the way toward multifunctional and high-integrity optical systems,showing great potential in mobile devices,optical imaging,robotics,chiral materials,and optical interconnections.

锡基钙钛矿太阳电池光吸收材料

钙钛矿太阳电池以其优异的光吸收特性、载流子传输能力以及简单的制备工艺,成为太阳电池领域研究的热点。高效、无污染、低成本一直是太阳电池领域追求的目标。然而,传统钙钛矿太阳电池由于其光吸收材料中含重金属元素铅,对环境有较大影响,从而限制了此类钙钛矿太阳电池的进一步商业化应用。基于此,科学家们都在致力于寻找新的无铅钙钛矿材料。在众多无铅钙钛矿材料中,锡基钙钛矿材料由于其相对较小的毒性、合适的带隙以及相应器件具有较高的能量转换效率等优点,成为最有希望应用于钙钛矿太阳电池的替代材料。然而,锡基钙钛矿太阳电池也存在一些弱点,其能量转换效率和器件稳定性相较于铅基钙钛矿太阳电池仍然存在很大差距,器件制备过程中对空气十分敏感。为了更好地解决这些问题,对锡基钙钛矿材料及器件性能的各种影响因素进行系统地研究势在必行。文章分类介绍了各类锡基钙钛矿材料及其在太阳电池中的应用,包括有机-无机杂化锡基钙钛矿材料,锡铅混合钙钛矿材料和全无机锡基钙钛矿材料,综述了锡基钙钛矿材料及其相应器件性能的最新研究进展,并且讨论了影响器件性能的各项因素,最后对锡基钙钛矿太阳电池未来的发展做出了展望。