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TOTA (trioxatriangulenium ion) is a close-shelled carbocation known to intercalate strongly with the DNA double helix (J. Reynisson, G. B. Schuster, S. B. Howerton, L. D. Williams, R. N. Barnett, C. L. Cleveland, U. Landman, N. Harrit, J. B. Chaires, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 2072). The cytotoxicity of TOTA and its four close structural analogues, ADOTA, Pr-ADOTA, Pr-DAOTA and n-Butyl-TATA were tested against the breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231 and colon cancer cell line HCT116. The most potent derivatives Pr-ADOTA and Pr-DAOTA had IC50 values of ∼80 nM for MDA-MB-231 but slightly higher for HCT116 in the low hundreds nM range. A 3D model assay of HCT116 spheroids was also used, mimicking a tumour environment, again both Pr-ADOTA and Pr-DAOTA were very active with IC50 values of 38 nM and 21 nM, respectively. Molecular modelling suggest that the planar derivatives intercalate between the base pairs of the DNA double helix. However, only modest DNA double stranded DNA cleavage was observed using the γH2AX assay as compared to camptothecin, a topoisomerase I poison suggesting a different mechanism. Finally, a robust density functional theory (DFT) model was built to predict the pKR+ stability values, i.e., to design derivatives, which predominantly have a non-intercalating buckled form in healthy tissues followed by a nucleophilic attach of water on the central carbon, but a planar form at relatively low pH values rendering them only cytotoxic in the interior of tumours.This review is about the significance of the use of lipidomic analysis for identifying susceptibility to skin diseases. Exactly this article describes the use of lipidomic analysis in different studies to detect abnormalities in the lipid composition of the skin to diagnose and prevent various dermatological diseases.Mobile health (m-health) is the term of monitoring the health using mobile phones and patient monitoring devices etc. It has been often deemed as the substantial breakthrough in technology in this modern era. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics have been applied within the m-health for providing an effective healthcare system. Various types of data such as electronic health records (EHRs), medical images, and complicated text which are diversified, poorly interpreted, and extensively unorganized have been used in the modern medical research. This is an important reason for the cause of various unorganized and unstructured datasets due to emergence of mobile applications along with the healthcare systems. In this paper, a systematic review is carried out on application of AI and the big data analytics to improve the m-health system. Various AI-based algorithms and frameworks of big data with respect to the source of data, techniques used, and the area of application are also discussed. This paper explores the applications of AI and big data analytics for providing insights to the users and enabling them to plan, using the resources especially for the specific challenges in m-health, and proposes a model based on the AI and big data analytics for m-health. Findings of this paper will guide the development of techniques using the combination of AI and the big data as source for handling m-health data more effectively.
Blood, like fresh produce, is a perishable element, with platelets having a limited lifetime of five days and red blood cells lasting 42 days. To manage the blood supply chain more effectively under demand and supply uncertainty, it is of considerable importance to developing a practical blood supply chain model. This paper proposed an essential blood supply chain model under demand and supply uncertainty.
This study focused on how to manage the blood supply chain under demand and supply uncertainty effectively. A stochastic mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model for the blood supply chain is proposed. Furthermore, this study conducted a sensitivity analysis to examine the impacts of the coefficient of demand and supply variation and the cost parameters on the average total cost and the performance measures (units of shortage, outdated units, inventory holding units, and purchased units) for both the blood center and hospitals.
Based on the results, the hospitals and the blood center can choose tthe most efficient inventory policy with a minimum cost based on the uncertainty of blood supply and demand. The model also performs as a decision support system to help health care professionals manage and control blood inventory more effectively under blood supply and demand uncertainty, thus reducing shortage of blood and expired wastage of blood.
To establish the correlation model between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) constitution and physical examination indexes by backpropagation neural network (BPNN) technology. N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl) nitrosamine A new method for the identification of TCM constitution in clinics is proposed, which is trying to solve the problem like shortage of TCM doctor, complicated process, low efficiency, and unfavorable application in the current TCM constitution identification methods.
The corresponding effective samples were formed by sorting out and classifying the original data which were collected from physical examination indexes and TCM constitution types of 950 physical examinees, who were examined at the affiliated hospital of Chengdu University of TCM. The BPNN algorithm was implemented using the C# programming language and Google's AI library. Then, the training group and the test (validation) group of the effective samples were, respectively, input into the algorithm, to complete the construction and validation of the target model.
For alonstitution, and it may be expected to avoid the existing problem of TCM constitution identification at present.
The more the physical examination indexes are used in training, the more accurate the network model is established to predict TCM constitution. The sample data used in this paper showed that there was a relatively strong correlation between TCM constitution and physical examination indexes. Construction of the correlation model between physical examination indexes and TCM constitution is a kind of study for the integration of Chinese and Western medicine, which provides a new approach for the identification of TCM constitution, and it may be expected to avoid the existing problem of TCM constitution identification at present.