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g., organizational deviance).Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has affected millions of people globally. Clinically, it presents with mild flu-like symptoms in most cases but can cause respiratory failure in high risk population. With the aim of unearthing newer treatments, scientists all over the globe are striving hard to comprehend the underlying mechanisms of COVID-19. Several studies till date have indicated a dysregulated host immune response as the major cause of COVID-19 induced mortality. In this Perspective, we propose a key role of endothelium, particularly pulmonary endothelium in the pathogenesis of COVID-19. We draw parallels and divergences between COVID-19-induced respiratory distress and bacterial sepsis-induced lung injury and recommend the road ahead with respect to identification of endothelium-based biomarkers and plausible treatments for COVID-19. The combination of antiapoptotic and angiogenic actions may represent a pharmacotherapeutic strategy for the treatment of myocardial infarction. Ridaforolimus mTOR inhibitor Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) is expressed in various cell types including endothelial and muscle cells and promotes their survival, migration, and proliferation. Myocardial microvascular endothelial cells were divided into four treatment groups, the sham, hypoxia, basic FGF (bFGF), and bFGF plus 2-methoxyestradiol groups, and subjected to apoptotic analysis and Matrigel assays. An model of myocardial infarction was established by ligaturing the left coronary artery of mice in the four treatment groups. Cardiac performance, myocardial injury, endothelial cell angiogenesis, and myocardial apoptosis were assessed. bFGF administration after myocardial infarction improved cardiac function and cell viability, attenuated myocardial injury and apoptosis, and enhanced angiogenesis. Western blotting of HIF-1α, p-AKT, VEGF, p53, BAX, and Bcl-2 showed that bFGF increased HIF-1α, p-AKT, VEGF, and Bcl-2 and decreased BAX protein levels. The results of the present study indicated that bFGF attenuates myocardial injury by inhibiting apoptosis and promoting angiogenesis a novel HIF-1α-mediated mechanism and a potential utility of bFGF in protecting against myocardial infarction. The results of the present study indicated that bFGF attenuates myocardial injury by inhibiting apoptosis and promoting angiogenesis via a novel HIF-1α-mediated mechanism and a potential utility of bFGF in protecting against myocardial infarction.Due to the complex visual environment and incomplete display of parking slots on around-view images, vision-based parking slot detection is a major challenge. Previous studies in this field mostly use the existing models to solve the problem, the steps of which are cumbersome. In this paper, we propose a parking slot detection method that uses directional entrance line regression and classification based on a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) to make it robust and simple. For parking slots with different shapes and observed from different angles, we represent the parking slot as a directional entrance line. Subsequently, we design a DCNN detector to simultaneously obtain the type, position, length, and direction of the entrance line. After that, the complete parking slot can be easily inferred using the detection results and prior geometric information. To verify our method, we conduct experiments on the public ps2.0 dataset and self-annotated parking slot dataset with 2,135 images. The results show that our method not only outperforms state-of-the-art competitors with a precision rate of 99.68% and a recall rate of 99.41% on the ps2.0 dataset but also performs a satisfying generalization on the self-annotated dataset. Moreover, it achieves a real-time detection speed of 13 ms per frame on Titan Xp. By converting the parking slot into a direct