BackgroundTo directly compare traditional lipid ratios (total cholesterol [TC]/high density lipoprotein cholesterol [HDL-C], non-HDL-C/HDL-C, low density lipoprotein cholesterol [LDL-C]/HDL-C, and triglycerides [TG]/HDL-C), apolipoprotein B (apoB)/apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) ratio, visceral adiposity index (VAI), lipid accumulation product (LAP), and the product of TG and fasting glucose (TyG) for strength and independence as risk factors for insulin resistance (IR).MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 7629 Chinese adults using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey 2009.ResultsFor all lipid ratios (traditional lipid ratios and apoB/apoA-I), among both sexes, TG/HDL-C explained the most additional percentage of variation in HOMA-IR (2.9% in men, and 2.3% in women); for all variables of interest, the variability in HOMA-IR explained by VAI and TG/HDL-C were comparable; TyG had the most significant association with HOMA-IR, which explained 9.1% for men and 7.8% for women of the variability in HOMA-IR. Logistic regression analysis showed the similar patterns. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed that, among both sexes, TG/HDL-C was a better discriminator of IR than apoB/apoA-I; the area under the ROC curve (AUC) for VAI (0.695 in men and 0.682 in women) was greater than that for TG/HDL-C (AUC 0.665 in men and 0.664 in women); TyG presented the greatest value of AUC (0.709 in men and 0.711 in women).ConclusionThe apoB/apoA-I performs no better than any of the traditional lipid ratios in correlating with IR. The TG/HDL-C, VAI and TyG are better markers for early identification of IR individuals.

A strategy is designed to fabricate well-dispersed Mo2N nanoparticles on nitrogen-doped carbon as a new and effective electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution in alkaline electrolyte.

Aggregation‐caused fluorescence quenching with insufficient production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) has limited the application of photosensitizers (PSs) in fluorescence‐imaging‐guided photodynamic therapy (PDT). Aggregation‐induced emission PSs (AIE‐PSs) exhibit enhanced fluorescence intensity and a high efficiency of ROS generation in the aggregation state, which provides an opportunity to solve the above problems. Herein, a series of AIE‐PSs are successfully designed and synthesized by adjusting the D–A intensity through molecular engineering. The photophysical properties and theoretical calculations prove that the synergistic effect of 3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene and quinolinium increases the intramolecular charge transfer effect (ICT) of the whole molecule and promotes the intersystem crossing (ISC) from the lowest excited singlet state (S1) to the lowest triplet state (T1). Among these AIE‐PSs, the optimal AIE‐PS (TPA‐DT‐Qy) exhibits the highest generation yield of 1O2 (5.3‐fold of Rose Bengal). Further PDT experiments show that the TPA‐DT‐Qy has a highly efficient photodynamic ablation of breast cancer cells (MCF‐7 and MDA‐MB‐231) under white light irradiation. Moreover, the photodynamic antibacterial study indicates that TPA‐DT‐Qy has the discrimination and excellent photodynamic inactivation of S. aureus. This work provides a feasible strategy for the molecular engineering of novel AIE‐PSs to improve the development of fluorescence‐imaging‐guided PDT.

Seven novel porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), Zn 2 (BTC)(NO 3 )(DMA) 3 (1), Zn 11 (BTC) 6 (NO 3 ) 4 (DEE) 9 (2), Zn 11 (BTC) 6 (NO 3 ) 4 (DEP) 8 (3), Zn(BTC)?DMA?C 2 H 8 N (4), Zn 3 (BTC) 3 ?3(C 2 H 8 N)?4(DMA) (5), Zn 9 (BTC) 6 (OH) 2 ?2(C 2 H 8 N)?15(DEE) (6), and Zn 9 (BTC) 5 (OH) 3 (C 2 O 4 )?2(C 4 H 12 N)?5(DEE) (7) have been solvothermally synthesized using zinc nitrate, 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate acid (H 3 BTC) and differently sized solvents (DMF, DMA, DEE, DEP, DPE, DPP), showing that the solvent size can not only dramatically influence the pore size, but also allow access to new structures and topologies previously unrealized in MOFs. With increasing solvent size, the pore size of MOFs correspondingly changes from 9 A ˚to 23 A ˚along with different structures: three frameworks have cages larger than 16 A ˚, one has a 23 A ˚chiral cage, five are anionic frameworks, three have topologies heretofore unreported in MOFs and all structures are noninterpenetrating. The ion-exchange experiment estimated by HNMR analyses shows that dimethylamine ions in 5 can be exchanged by NH 4 + ions.