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Dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, has appeared as a major infectious disease globally. The virus requires its proteins to replicate and reproduce in the host cell. The NS3 protease converts the polyprotein to functional proteins with the help of the NS2B cofactor. Thus, NS3 protease is a promising target to develop antiviral inhibitors against the dengue virus. A systematic screening including ADMET properties, molecular docking, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, binding free energy calculation, and QSAR studies is carried out to predict potent inhibitors against the NS3 protease. From the screening of 40 antiviral phytochemicals, ADMET properties analysis was used to screen out ligands that violate ADME rules and have probable toxicity. Cyanidin 3-Glucoside, Dithymoquinone, and Glabridin were predicted to be potent inhibitors against the NS3 protease according to their binding affinity. These ligands showed several noncovalent interactions, including hydrogen bond, hydrophobic interaction, electrostatic interaction, pi-sulfur interactions. The ligand-protein complexes were further scrutinized using 250 ns molecular dynamics simulation. The MM-PBSA binding free energy calculation was conducted to investigate their binding stability in dynamic conditions. The calculated pIC50(mM) value was predicted using the QSAR model with 89.91% goodness of fit. The predicted biologocal activity value for the ligands indicates they might have good potency.Nine previously proposed segmentation evaluation metrics, targeting medical relevance, accounting for holes, and added regions or differentiating over- and under-segmentation, were compared with 24 traditional metrics to identify those which better capture the requirements for clinical segmentation evaluation. Evaluation was first performed using 2D synthetic shapes to highlight features and pitfalls of the metrics with known ground truths (GTs) and machine segmentations (MSs). Clinical evaluation was then performed using publicly-available prostate images of 20 subjects with MSs generated by 3 different deep learning networks (DenseVNet, HighRes3DNet, and ScaleNet) and GTs drawn by 2 readers. The same readers also performed the 2D visual assessment of the MSs using a dual negative-positive grading of -5 to 5 to reflect over- and under-estimation. Nine metrics that correlated well with visual assessment were selected for further evaluation using 3 different network ranking methods - based on a single metric, normalizing the metric using 2 GTs, and ranking the network based on a metric then averaging, including leave-one-out evaluation. These metrics yielded consistent ranking with HighRes3DNet ranked first then DenseVNet and ScaleNet using all ranking methods. Relative volume difference yielded the best positivity-agreement and correlation with dual visual assessment, and thus is better for providing over- and under-estimation. Interclass Correlation yielded the strongest correlation with the absolute visual assessment (0-5). Symmetric-boundary dice consistently yielded good discrimination of the networks for all three ranking methods with relatively small variations within network. Good rank discrimination may be an additional metric feature required for better network performance evaluation.The advent of SARS-CoV-2 has become a universal health issue with no appropriate cure available to date. The coronavirus nucleocapsid (N) protein combines viral genomic RNA into a ribonucleoprotein and protects the viral genome from the host's nucleases. Structurally, the N protein comprises two independent domains the N-terminal domain (NTD) for RNA-binding and C-terminal domain (CTD) involved in RNA-binding, protein dimerization, and nucleocapsid stabilization. The present study explains the structural aspects associated with the involvement of nucleocapsid C-terminal domain in the subunit assembly that helps the RNA binding and further stabilizing the virus assembly by protecting RNA from the hosts exonucleases degradation. The molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the N-CTD and RNA complex suggests two active sites (site I a monomer) and (site II a dimer) with structural stability (RMSD ~2 Å), Cα fluctuations (RMSF ~3 Å) and strong protein-ligand interactions were estimated through the SiteMap module of Schrodinger. Virtual screening of 2456 FDA-approved drugs using structure-based docking identified top two leads distinctively against Site-I (monomer) Ceftaroline fosamil (MM-GBSA = -47.12 kcal/mol) and Cefoperazone (-45.84 kcal/mol); and against Site-II (dimer) Boceprevir, (an antiviral protease inhibitor, -106.78 kcal/mol) and Ceftaroline fosamil (-99.55 kcal/mol). The DCCM and PCA of drugs Ceftaroline fosamil (PC1+PC2 = 71.9%) and Boceprevir (PC1 +PC2 = 61.6%) show significant correlated residue motions which suggests highly induced conformational changes in the N-CTD dimer. Therefore, we propose N-CTD as a druggable target with two active binding sites (monomer and dimer) involved in specific RNA binding and stability. The RNA binding site with Ceftaroline fosamil binding can prevent viral assembly and can act as an antiviral for coronavirus.Nowadays, nanostructured lipid carriers are used as carrier systems to control the release of drug molecules and promote their physicochemical stability. A better understanding of the dynamic behavior of lipid nano-tubules can facilitate a better drug delivery and other relevant applications. The dynamic behaviors of these lipid nano-tubules are susceptible to temperature variations. Hence, a deeper insight into these effects, as mentioned above, is necessary to ensure higher analysis efficiency. However, the models used in previous researches did not take into account these effects. The lipid nano-tubules often possess a small length-to-width ratio and as a result, the use of the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory for modeling them will significantly reduce the accuracy of calculations, in which Timoshenko beam model is used to increase the accuracy of the model. The main objective of the current study is to investigate the bending vibrations of lipid nano-tubules by considering the temperature effects based on nonlocal strain gradient theory. To this end, based on Hamilton's principle, the governing equations of a dynamical system were extracted by taking into account the temperature effects. The equations were solved using the Navier solution method. Moreover, the dimensionless natural frequency and critical temperature of the lipid nano-tubules were calculated. Our findings demonstrate that the critical temperature is a function of the nonlocal parameter and length-scale parameter variations. It is also observed that at a certain interval of the length scale parameter, increasing the value of the nonlocal parameter results in intensification of the hardening behavior of lipid nano-tubules. Based on our findings, the proposed model indicates good accuracy and prediction.Wine models with or without a dearomatised and lyophilized red wine extract containing a young red aroma base (control) plus one vector with one or several aroma compounds (unsaturated-aldehydes, saturated-aldehydes, benzaldehyde, isoamyl-alcohol, methoxypyrazines and (Z)-1,5-octadien-3-one) were prepared. Models were spiked with increasing amounts of acetaldehyde whose headspace concentrations were controlled. Odour and nasal chemesthesic properties were assessed by a trained sensory panel. Results confirm the contribution of the different players, notably isoamyl-alcohol, (Z)-1,5-octadien-3-one, benzaldehyde and methoxypyrazines, to wine aroma and tactile nasal characteristics and demonstrate that acetaldehyde levels play an outstanding role in their modulation. At low levels, it can play positive roles in some specific aromatic contexts, while at higher levels, enhance the negative effects associated to the generic presence of other aldehydes (saturated, unsaturated and Strecker aldehydes) by enhancing "green vegetable" notes and "itching" character and the "burning" effects linked to high levels of isoamyl alcohol.This study aimed to obtain a reliable evaluation about addition of tert-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), and distribution of TBHQ and 2-tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone (TBBQ) contents in typical edible oils and oleaginous foods marketed in Hangzhou City. Briefly, the probability of labeled with addition of TBHQ in foods decreased from 36.45 ± 2.6% to 28.78 ± 3.7% in the period from 2018 to 2020. In the 135 analyzed samples, TBHQ contents were far less than the maximum legal additive amount, and TBBQ contents ranged from below its limit of quantification (LOQ) to 13.54 ± 1.15 mg/kg. The conversion rate from TBHQ to TBBQ in edible oils was 2.94 ± 1.17%, much lower than that in other food categories. Further research determined that the process method and food composition were the main factors for different conversion rates from TBHQ to TBBQ in various food categories. In addition, oil consumption was found to be the primary source of dietary intake of TBHQ and TBBQ.Rice quality changes during storage, but there have been few studies of how rice proteins changes during aging. The present study characterized the structural properties of protein in stored rice and identified the mechanism of quality deterioration using proteomics. Compared with protein from newly harvested rice, the free sulfhydryl content of protein from stored rice was significantly reduced and the disulfide bond content and surface hydrophobicity was higher. Storage resulted in a loss of α-helix and β-sheet structures and increase in β-turn and random coil structures. High-molecular-weight protein subunits decomposed to produce low-molecular-weight subunits at 30 °C, while protein aggregation occurred at 70 °C. At 30 ℃ 157 differential proteins were found and 70 ℃ 395 such proteins occurred. Redox homeostasis, response to oxidative stress, glutathione metabolism, tricarboxylic acid cycle, glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, starch and sucrose metabolism, and fatty acid biosynthesis and degradation led to the different quality of stored rice.In the present study, we aimed to clarify features of carcinomatous cirrhosis from breast cancer presenting as refractory transudate ascites and acute liver failure. In our systematic literature review, we identified 26 studies and 31 cases including our case of this rare condition. Our patient was a 49-year-old woman with a history of ascites and liver failure for the past 4 years and currently being treated for invasive ductal breast cancer. On radiography, she had occult liver metastases that were confirmed using laparoscopic liver biopsy. In the 31 cases, data on the reported year, age, type of primary breast cancer, time from breast cancer diagnosis, presence of ascites and/or varices, liver biopsy, diagnostic modalities, outcomes, and survival were documented and analyzed. All cases were reported during 1984-2020, with a mean patient age of 52.9 years. GSK621 Eighteen patients (58.1%) were diagnosed with ductal breast cancer. Twenty-two patients (70.9%) had ascites. All patients had gradual progression to liver dysfunction. The following tests were performed computed tomography (77.4%); ultrasound (58.0%); liver biopsy (100%); postmortem biopsy (35.5%), transjugular liver biopsy (32.3%), and laparoscopic liver biopsy (3.2%). Outcomes were reported for 29 patients, of whom 24 (82.3%) died after 1 day to 16 months. Invasive ductal carcinoma was the most common histological type; however, invasive lobular carcinoma was more frequent (32.3%) than its reported incidence in the breast. Carcinomatous cirrhosis has poor prognosis at relatively rash and is difficult to diagnose with usual modalities. It may be associated with E-cadherin loss or CD44 pronouncement.