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At different observation time, the bone area in group B and C were not significant different over time. In group A, little new bone formation was found but surrounded by a large amount of inflammatory cells at 8 week. However, group D showed bone area increasing gradually with time. CONCLUSIONS TC-PHBHHx/β-TCP has significant anti-inflammatory and osteogenic effects. Iodoform gauzes and periocline have good anti-inflammatory results but not significant osteogenic effects.PURPOSE This study was designed to investigate the effect of psoralen on periodontal tissue reconstruction after orthodontic tooth movement(OTM) in rats. METHODS Thirty-six male 6-week-old Wistar rats were randomly divided into 2 groups the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group and the control group were all installed between the central incisor and the left maxillary first molars to pull the first molars away from the force device; after 21 days, the force was removed and the rats in 2 groups were given drug gavage. GLPG1690 Rats in the experimental group were given a gavage of psoralen 8 mg/kg per day, while rats in the control group were given the same amount of 0.9% sodium chloride everyday. Maxillary casts were made every week during the experimental and were scanned by 3D Scanner to measure relapse distance, and histologic examination was conducted. After 28 days, the rats were sacrificed and rats' upper jaw was separated. The remaining sections were immunohistochemically stained with BMP2 and BMP4. SPSS 19.0 software package was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS：Both groups had relapse after the force device was removed. Significant decrease of relapse percentage was observed in the experimental group compared with the control group at day 7，day 14，day 21 and day 28（P less then 0.05）. The speed of relapse of both groups were fastest in the first week and slowed down in the second, third and fourth week gradually. The speed of relapse in the experimental group in the first week was significantly less than in the control group(P less then 0.05).The expression of BMP2 and BMP4 within periodontal membrane and alveolar bone was significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group(P less then 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Psoralen can accelerate the reconstruction of periodontal tissues of orthodontic tooth and reduce relapse.Classification for retrognathism malocclusions, assessed and determined by facial concavity, dento-basal compensation, skeletal discrepancy and mandibular morphology, includes dento-alveolar, mandibular positioning and skeletal categories. The skeletal category further consists of 3 subtypes, namely, maxillary originated, mandibular originated and maxillo-mandibular originated. The inspection of cephalometric images reveals that the mandibular contours in dento-alveolar, mandibular positioning and skeleto-maxillary originated categories present with flat and rectangular shapes; and in skeleto-mandibular originated and maxillo-mandibular originated subtypes, massive triangular shapes are distinctive. A longitudinal observation indicates that, spanning the course from the onset to the cessation of pubertal growth spurt, the prognosis of growth patterns remains stable and relatively favorable in dento-alveolar, mandibular positioning and skeleto-maxillary originated categories, but deteriorates and becomes unfavorable in skeleto-mandibular originated and maxillo-mandibular originated subtypes. The skeletal categories with triangle mandible coupled with deep curvature of symphysis hold high likelihood of relapse and are expected to achieve optimal correction by surgical interventions，although the orthopedic therapies are still advisable in the early stage.Determining biomarkers for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is crucial to understanding its mechanisms. Recently deep learning methods have achieved success in the classification task of ASD using fMRI data. However, due to the black-box nature of most deep learning models, it's hard to perform biomarker selection and interpret model decisions. The recently proposed invertible networks can accurately reconstruct the input from its output, and have the potential to unravel the black-box representation. Therefore, we propose a novel method to classify ASD and identify biomarkers for ASD using the connectivity matrix calculated from fMRI as the input. Specifically, with invertible networks, we explicitly determine the decision boundary and the projection of data points onto the boundary. Like linear classifiers, the difference between a point and its projection onto the decision boundary can be viewed as the explanation. We then define the importance as the explanation weighted by the gradient of prediction w.r.t the input, and identify biomarkers based on this importance measure. We perform a regression task to further validate our biomarker selection compared to using all edges in the connectivity matrix, using the top 10% important edges we generate a lower regression error on 6 different severity scores. Our experiments show that the invertible network is both effective at ASD classification and interpretable, allowing for discovery of reliable biomarkers.Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) were designed for dealing with time-series data and have recently been used for creating predictive models from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. However, gathering large fMRI datasets for learning is a difficult task. Furthermore, network interpretability is unclear. To address these issues, we utilize multitask learning and design a novel RNN-based model that learns to discriminate between classes while simultaneously learning to generate the fMRI time-series data. Employing the long short-term memory (LSTM) structure, we develop a discriminative model based on the hidden state and a generative model based on the cell state. The addition of the generative model constrains the network to learn functional communities represented by the LSTM nodes that are both consistent with the data generation as well as useful for the classification task. We apply our approach to the classification of subjects with autism vs. healthy controls using several datasets from the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange.