Cognitive reserve (CR) refers to individual differences in cognitive processing that can protect from and compensate for functional decline related ageing or brain pathology. The CR theory postulates attaining an active cognitively stimulating lifestyle accumulate CR. Reserve Scale (CRS) is a questionnaire measures lifelong attainment leisure activities. This cross-sectional study aimed examine...

Background and purpose Cerebral small vessel disease is characterized by progressive white matter hyperintensities (WMH) cognitive decline. However, variability exists in how individuals maintain capabilities despite significant neuropathology. The relationships between individual reserve, psychological resilience functioning were examined subjects with varying degrees of WMH. Methods In the He...

Relapses in multiple sclerosis (MS) are disruptive and frequently disabling for patients, and their treatment is often a challenge to clinicians. Despite progress in the understanding of the pathophysiology of MS and development of new treatments for long-term management of MS, options for treating relapses have not changed substantially over the past few decades. Corticosteroids, a component o...

The five melanocortin receptors (MCRs) named MC1R-MC5R have diverse physiological roles encompassing pigmentation, steroidogenesis, energy homeostasis and feeding behavior as well as exocrine function. Since their identification almost 20 years ago much has been learnt about these receptors. As well as interacting with their endogenous ligands the melanocortin peptides, there is now a growing l...

Three-component reactions have emerged as useful methods because the combinationof three components to generate new products in a single step is extremely economical,among the multi-component reactions. A green, simple, efficient, and cost-effective procedure has been carried out by the synthesis of dihydropyrimidinonesin Biginelli’s condensation of ethyl cyanoacetate, aldehyde and urea or thio...

The development of multicomponent reactions (MCRs) designed to produce elaborate biologically active compounds has become an important area of research in organic, combinatorial, and medicinal chemistry. A comparative study of the synthesis of new bis-spiro-oxindolo(pyrrolizidines/pyrrolidines) ring systems by the cycloaddition of azomethine ylides generated by a decarboxylative route from sarc...

In recent years, manufacturing development has received renewed attention from developing and developed countries alike. As mega-city regions (MCRs) are where industries converge, the research on urban networks of MCRs under dominance transaction linkages is currently insufficient. Based buyer–supplier listed firms, this paper investigated characteristics network in Yangtze River Delta region (...

a simple and mild one-pot three-component reaction for the preparation 1,4-dihydropyridines has been developed from various aldehyde substrates, 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds (dimedone) and ammonium acetate (hantzsch method) in the presence of a catalytic amount of phospho sulfonic acid (psa) as an efficient and heterogeneous solid acid in etoh at room temperature. preparation of psa is straightforw...

6-Hydroxy-2-oxo-2H-chromene-4-carbaldehyde (2), 6-chloro-2-oxo-2H-chromene-4-carbaldehyde (3) and 6-hydrazinyl-4-methyl-2H-chromen-2-one (5) were prepared as single-pharmacophore motif key intermediates. Compounds 2, 3 and 5 were incorporated in a series of multicomponent reactions (MCRs), under microwave assistance as well as conventional chemical synthesis processes, to afford a series of thr...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major cause of cancer morbidity and mortality, and elucidation of its underlying genetics has advanced diagnostic screening, early detection, and treatment. Because CRC genomes are characterized by numerous non-random chromosomal structural alterations, we sought to delimit regions of recurrent amplifications and deletions in a collection of 42 primary specimens and...