Skin color is considered an important beauty standard for women in China.The typical tool for skin color measurement,individual typology angle(ITA),was developed based on Caucasian skin features.The ITA effectively me...Skin color is considered an important beauty standard for women in China.The typical tool for skin color measurement,individual typology angle(ITA),was developed based on Caucasian skin features.The ITA effectively measures the brightness of facial skin,which is traditionally associated with beauty in Caucasian women.However,in Chinese women,whiteness is not the only determinant of skin esthetics,and other elements such as“yellowness”and“redness”are also important considerations.Thus,the hue angle system was developed based on the skin features of Chinese women,whose skin is typically on the“yellow-red”spectrum.Studies examining the skin color of Chinese women based on both the ITA and hue angle should be carried out.The skin colors of 4500 women aged 18–45 years across five different regions of China were measured using both the ITA and hue angle systems.The relationship of the“red pigment and melanin content”with the“brightness and redness of skin color”was also examined.Further,the different skin types of women across different regions were identified.Measurements based on the ITA system reveal a saddle-shaped distribution of skin brightness among Chinese women across five different regions,with skin brightness being high in the eastwest regions and low in the north-south regions.The ITA and hab values are not consistent in individual women,and thus,both need to be considered when evaluating skin color.Additionally,no correlation between the skin’s red pigment and melanin content and the skin’s ITA and hab values is identified.This study provides skin color data based on both the ITA and hue angle systems.The findings show that skin ITA/hab values cannot simply be explained by the red pigment/melanin content of the skin.Given the distribution of skin types across different regions of China,whitening ingredients causing little to no irritation should be used to formulate whitening cosmetics.展开更多
BACKGROUND Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma(EHE)is an uncommon low-grade aggressive vascular tumor.It can occur in almost all locations,but is rarely encountered in bone.CASE SUMMARY We report a 23-year-old man who pr...BACKGROUND Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma(EHE)is an uncommon low-grade aggressive vascular tumor.It can occur in almost all locations,but is rarely encountered in bone.CASE SUMMARY We report a 23-year-old man who presented with left hip pain with no obvious cause.X-ray revealed bone destruction in the left femoral neck with sclerosis at the edges of the lesions.Magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)showed bone destruction in the medullary cavity of the left femoral head and neck.18Fdeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography(PET/CT)imaging showed bone destruction in the left ischium,acetabulum,and left femoral head neck,accompanied by increased radioactive uptake;the maximum standard uptake value was 4.2.Histopathologic examination revealed spindleshaped mesenchymal tissue hyperplasia with scattered epithelioid cells.The patient underwent left femoral head replacement surgery.No signs of recurrence were observed as of the 18-mo follow-up.CONCLUSION The definitive diagnosis of femoral EHE can be established aided by the MRI and PET/CT findings.展开更多
Antibiotics have received increasing attention due to their potential adverse effects on aquatic life and human health.How to efficiently degrade them into harmless substances is a challenging subject.Ferroelectric ma...Antibiotics have received increasing attention due to their potential adverse effects on aquatic life and human health.How to efficiently degrade them into harmless substances is a challenging subject.Ferroelectric materials with a built-in electric field can offer a strong separation ability for the photoinducedcharge pairs and are now found to be used as photocatalysts.Herein,a series of different morphologies of SrBi_(2)Ta_(2)O_(9)ferroelectric photocatalysts with high antibiotic degradation efficiency have been successfully synthesized through a molten salt method.With the addition of KCl,SrBi_(2)Ta_(2)O_(9)(SBTO 3)with exposed(001)facets shows the most excellent photocatalytic activity for decomposing tetracycline(TC)and ciprofloxacin(CIP)under visible light illumination(λ>420 nm).The rate constants of SBTO 3 for TC and CIP degradation are 1.38×10^(–1)and 4.54×10^(–2)min^(–1),which are 18 and 138 times that of the unmodified sample,respectively.The enhancement of photocatalytic performance is mainly attributed to the spontaneous polarization electric field along the[001]direction which provides a strong driven force for the separation of photoinduced charges.The KPFM results also confirm that the superior photocatalytic activity is consistent with the big large surface potential changes before and after light irradiation.The possible degradation pathways and intermediates of TC and CIP were well analyzed by DFT calculation and LC-MS.The results highlight that morphology control of the ferroelectric materials exhibits enhanced photocatalytic performance for the degradation of the antibiotic.展开更多
基金the financial support provided by a scientific grant(No.TC-2023-003)from Guyu Qingnang Biotechnology Institute,Guangzhou Qingnang Biotechnology Co.Ltd.,Guangzhou Fanzhirong Cosmetics Co.Ltd.
文摘Skin color is considered an important beauty standard for women in China.The typical tool for skin color measurement,individual typology angle(ITA),was developed based on Caucasian skin features.The ITA effectively measures the brightness of facial skin,which is traditionally associated with beauty in Caucasian women.However,in Chinese women,whiteness is not the only determinant of skin esthetics,and other elements such as“yellowness”and“redness”are also important considerations.Thus,the hue angle system was developed based on the skin features of Chinese women,whose skin is typically on the“yellow-red”spectrum.Studies examining the skin color of Chinese women based on both the ITA and hue angle should be carried out.The skin colors of 4500 women aged 18–45 years across five different regions of China were measured using both the ITA and hue angle systems.The relationship of the“red pigment and melanin content”with the“brightness and redness of skin color”was also examined.Further,the different skin types of women across different regions were identified.Measurements based on the ITA system reveal a saddle-shaped distribution of skin brightness among Chinese women across five different regions,with skin brightness being high in the eastwest regions and low in the north-south regions.The ITA and hab values are not consistent in individual women,and thus,both need to be considered when evaluating skin color.Additionally,no correlation between the skin’s red pigment and melanin content and the skin’s ITA and hab values is identified.This study provides skin color data based on both the ITA and hue angle systems.The findings show that skin ITA/hab values cannot simply be explained by the red pigment/melanin content of the skin.Given the distribution of skin types across different regions of China,whitening ingredients causing little to no irritation should be used to formulate whitening cosmetics.
文摘BACKGROUND Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma(EHE)is an uncommon low-grade aggressive vascular tumor.It can occur in almost all locations,but is rarely encountered in bone.CASE SUMMARY We report a 23-year-old man who presented with left hip pain with no obvious cause.X-ray revealed bone destruction in the left femoral neck with sclerosis at the edges of the lesions.Magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)showed bone destruction in the medullary cavity of the left femoral head and neck.18Fdeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography(PET/CT)imaging showed bone destruction in the left ischium,acetabulum,and left femoral head neck,accompanied by increased radioactive uptake;the maximum standard uptake value was 4.2.Histopathologic examination revealed spindleshaped mesenchymal tissue hyperplasia with scattered epithelioid cells.The patient underwent left femoral head replacement surgery.No signs of recurrence were observed as of the 18-mo follow-up.CONCLUSION The definitive diagnosis of femoral EHE can be established aided by the MRI and PET/CT findings.
基金financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Project of China(No.2019YFC1803404)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51772325)+3 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(Nos.2021A1515010375,2021A1515010390)the Excellent Young Talents Discipline Construction Project of Jinan University(No.2019QNGG19)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.21621401)the Open Fund of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications(No.2020B121201005)。
文摘Antibiotics have received increasing attention due to their potential adverse effects on aquatic life and human health.How to efficiently degrade them into harmless substances is a challenging subject.Ferroelectric materials with a built-in electric field can offer a strong separation ability for the photoinducedcharge pairs and are now found to be used as photocatalysts.Herein,a series of different morphologies of SrBi_(2)Ta_(2)O_(9)ferroelectric photocatalysts with high antibiotic degradation efficiency have been successfully synthesized through a molten salt method.With the addition of KCl,SrBi_(2)Ta_(2)O_(9)(SBTO 3)with exposed(001)facets shows the most excellent photocatalytic activity for decomposing tetracycline(TC)and ciprofloxacin(CIP)under visible light illumination(λ>420 nm).The rate constants of SBTO 3 for TC and CIP degradation are 1.38×10^(–1)and 4.54×10^(–2)min^(–1),which are 18 and 138 times that of the unmodified sample,respectively.The enhancement of photocatalytic performance is mainly attributed to the spontaneous polarization electric field along the[001]direction which provides a strong driven force for the separation of photoinduced charges.The KPFM results also confirm that the superior photocatalytic activity is consistent with the big large surface potential changes before and after light irradiation.The possible degradation pathways and intermediates of TC and CIP were well analyzed by DFT calculation and LC-MS.The results highlight that morphology control of the ferroelectric materials exhibits enhanced photocatalytic performance for the degradation of the antibiotic.
