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Dai Q, Li X, Fang Y, Shen B, Wei J, Xie Q, Wu W, Wang M. Gross-total resection in optic nerve sheath meningiomas: minimally invasive and cosmetic pleasing. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2024:10.1007/s00417-024-06447-4. [PMID: 38502351 DOI: 10.1007/s00417-024-06447-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/21/2024] Open
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PURPOSE The optic nerve sheath meningioma (ONSM) is one of the most challenging tumors in orbital surgery. From the perspective of mental health and patient needs, we analyzed the necessity and importance of the endoscopic transnasal approach (ETA) combined with optic nerve transection (ONT) in gross-total resection (GTR) in ONSM patients with residual vision and aim to broaden the use of ONT for specific people. METHODS The authors included patients with ONSMs who were treated between 2014 and 2022. We divided those cases into two groups named ETA group and lateral orbitotomy approach (LOA) group. We present the application of ETA and analyze the preoperative indication of the ONT and compared the advantages and disadvantages between ETA and LOA. The degree of tumor resection was based on imaging and surgical evaluation. RESULTS A total of 23 patients with ONSM were included. Sixteen patients underwent ETA, and seven underwent LOA. Among ETA cases, GTR was achieved in 14 patients with ONT and most patients maintained normal eye movement function (75%) and morphology (93.75%). In the ETA group, 14 patients experienced vision loss, while two other patients saw improvements in vision. And proptosis was alleviated (5.20 ± 2.34 vs 0.27 ± 0.46, p < 0.0001). Six patients with blindness and proptosis of the LOA group resulted in GTR with ONT and ophthalmectomy. Although intracranial extension and recurrence included no cases in the two groups, a significant psychological gap was presented due to cosmetic problems. CONCLUSIONS Under the premise of reducing damage and improving aesthetics, the selection of ETA combined with ONT to gross-total resect ONSMs successfully provides a minimally invasive access with acceptable complications. As an important adjunct to GTR in the surgical treatment of ONSM, the scope of ONT application should be expanded to relieve the patient's psychological burden.
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- Qin Dai
- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
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Fang Y, Shen B, Dai Q, Xie Q, Li X, Wu W, Wang M. Composition and diversity analysis of the TCR CDR3 repertoire in patients with idiopathic orbital inflammation using high-throughput sequencing. BMC Ophthalmol 2023; 23:491. [PMID: 38044453 PMCID: PMC10694961 DOI: 10.1186/s12886-023-03248-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Idiopathic orbital inflammation (IOI) is a nonspecific orbital inflammatory disease with the third highest prevalence among orbital diseases, and its pathogenesis is associated with T-cell-mediated immune responses. This study aimed to investigate the differences in T-cell receptor (TCR) expression between IOI patients and healthy subjects by high-throughput sequencing and to characterize TCR expression in patients with IOI and with respect to glucocorticoid response. METHODS A total of 19 subjects were enrolled in this study and were divided into the idiopathic orbital inflammation group (IOI group, n = 13) and the healthy control group (HC group, n = 6), and within the IOI group were further divided into the glucocorticoid therapy sensitive group (IOI(EF) group, n = 6) and the glucocorticoid therapy ineffective group (IOI(IN) group, n = 7) based on the degree of effectiveness to glucocorticoid therapy. High-throughput TCR sequencing was performed on peripheral blood mononuclear cells of IOI patients and healthy control individuals using 5' RACE technology combined with Unique Identifier (UID) digital tag correction technology. The TCR CDR3 region diversity, sharing patterns, and differential sequences between the IOI and HC groups, and between the IOI(EF) and IOI(IN) groups were analyzed. RESULTS It was found that the diversity of TCR CDR3 in the IOI group was significantly lower than that in the HC group, and the frequency of V gene use was significantly different between groups. The diversity of TCR CDR3 in patients in the IOI(EF) group was significantly lower than that in patients in the IOI(IN) group, and the frequency of V and J gene use was significantly different between the IOI(EF) group and the IOI(IN) group. Additionally, we found 133 nucleotide sequences shared in all IOI samples and screened two sequences with higher expression from them. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggested that abnormal clonal expansion of specific T-cells exists in IOI patients and that TCR diversity may had an impact on the prognosis of glucocorticoid-treated IOI. This study may contribute to a better understanding of the immune status of IOI and provide new insights for T-cell -associated IOI pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment prediction.
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- Yenan Fang
- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
- Department of Ophthalmology, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, No. 399 Wanyuan Road, Shanghai, 201102, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
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Zhu S, Chen L, Wang M, Zhang J, Chen G, Yao Y, Song S, Li T, Xu S, Yu Z, Shen B, Xu D, Chi ZL, Wu W. Schwann cell-derived extracellular vesicles as a potential therapy for retinal ganglion cell degeneration. J Control Release 2023; 363:641-656. [PMID: 37820984 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2023.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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Optic neuropathy is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and is characterized by progressive degeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Several studies have demonstrated that transplantation of Schwann cells (SCs) is a promising candidate therapy for optic neuropathy and that intravitreally transplanted cells exert their effect via paracrine actions. Extracellular vesicle (EV)-based therapies are increasingly recognized as a potential strategy for cell replacement therapy. In this study, we aimed to investigate the neuroprotective and regenerative effects of SC-EVs following optic nerve injury. We found that SC-EVs were internalized by RGCs in vitro and in vivo without any transfection reagents. Intriguingly, SC-EVs significantly enhanced the survival and axonal growth of primary RGCs in a coculture system. In a rat optic nerve crush model, SC-EVs mitigated RGC degeneration, prevented RGC loss, and preserved the thickness of the ganglion cell complex, as demonstrated by the statistically significant improvement in RGC counts and thickness measurements. Mechanistically, SC-EVs activated the cAMP-response element binding protein (CREB) signaling pathway and regulated reactive gliosis in ONC rats, which is crucial for RGC protection and axonal regeneration. These findings provide novel insights into the neuroprotective and regenerative properties of SC-EVs, suggesting their potential as a cell-free therapeutic strategy and natural biomaterials for neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system.
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- Senmiao Zhu
- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China; State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China; Oujiang Laboratory (Zhejiang Lab for Regenerative Medicine, Vision and Brain Health), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China; State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China; State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China; Oujiang Laboratory (Zhejiang Lab for Regenerative Medicine, Vision and Brain Health), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China
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- Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China; State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China; State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China; State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200080, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China; State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China.
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China; State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China; Oujiang Laboratory (Zhejiang Lab for Regenerative Medicine, Vision and Brain Health), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China.
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Wei YQ, Wan BN, Shen B, Yang L, Ji F, Wang Y, Chen M, Liu ZJ. An alternating continuous integration system for magnetic measurements for experimental advanced superconducting tokamak. Rev Sci Instrum 2023; 94:115101. [PMID: 37909840 DOI: 10.1063/5.0169108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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Integrators are critical instruments used for magnetic measurement systems (MMSs) in tokamaks, and, currently, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has over 600 deployed. However, these integrators, designed with real-time drift compensation, will not be able to support longer pulse operations in the near future due to saturation and drift. To address these issues, this paper proposes a new alternating integration system combining analog integration with drift digital rectification. This system utilizes a microcontroller unit (MCU) to control two parallel analog integrators to work alternatively, compensate their drifts based on their respective error characteristics, and assemble the two integration segments together. The designed architecture provides highly flexible capabilities in operation modes and error correction, which make the system operation and maintenance highly automated. Performance tests on the EAST experiment site show that the prototype integrator can meet the requirements of real-time plasma control for a duration of hour-level.
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- Y Q Wei
- School of Instrument Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
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- School of Instrument Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Instrument Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
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- School of Instrument Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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Fang Y, Shen B, Dai Q, Xie Q, Wu W, Wang M. Orbital inflammatory pseudotumor: new advances in diagnosis, pathogenesis, and treatment. Eur J Med Res 2023; 28:395. [PMID: 37794419 PMCID: PMC10548690 DOI: 10.1186/s40001-023-01330-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/06/2023] Open
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Orbital inflammatory pseudotumor (OIP) is a benign, non-specific inflammatory disorder that commonly occurs in middle-aged adults and is usually unilateral but can occur bilaterally. Its clinical manifestations have tremendous clinical heterogeneity and vary according to the site of infiltration and the degree of lesions, including orbital pain, swelling, diplopia, proptosis, restricted eye movement, and decreased visual acuity. Clinical features, Image characteristics and pathological examinations often need to be evaluated to confirm the diagnosis. Currently, there is no systematic research on the pathogenesis of OIP, which may be related to immunity or infection. The first-line treatment is glucocorticoids. Radiotherapy, immunosuppressants, and biologics can be considered for treatment-resistant, hormone-dependent, or intolerant patients. In this review, we aim to summarize and focus on new insights into OIP, including new diagnostic criteria, pathogenesis, and discoveries in new drugs and treatment strategies. In particular, we highlight the literature and find that T cell-mediated immune responses are closely related to the pathogenesis of OIP. Further exploration of the mechanism and signaling pathway of T cells in the immune process will help to identify their therapeutic targets and carry out targeted therapy to treat refractory OIP and reduce the side effects of traditional treatments.
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- Yenan Fang
- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
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Pan H, Liu YF, Luo Y, Chen L, Shen B, Song S, Liu M, Wang Z, Wu W, Li M, Zhang Y. Goats with low levels of AAV antibody may serve as candidates for large animal gene therapy. Exp Eye Res 2023; 233:109514. [PMID: 37207869 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2023.109514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2023] [Revised: 05/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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AAV vector-mediated gene therapy has been proposed as a feasible strategy for several eye diseases. However, AAV antibodies in the serum prior to treatment hinder the transduction efficiency and thus the therapeutic effect. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate AAV antibodies in the serum before gene therapy. As large animals, goats are more closely related to humans than rodents and more economically available than nonhuman primates. Here, we first evaluated the AAV2 antibody serum level in rhesus monkeys before AAV injection. Then, we optimized a cell-based neutralizing antibody assay for detecting AAV antibodies in the serum of Saanen goats and evaluated the consistency of the cell-based neutralizing antibody assay and ELISA for goat serum antibody evaluation. The cell-based neutralizing antibody assay showed that the percentage of macaques with low antibody levels was 42.86%; however, there were no macaques with low antibody levels when the serum was evaluated by ELISA. The proportion of goats with low antibody levels was 56.67% according to the neutralizing antibody assay and 33. 33% according to the ELISA, and McNemar's test showed that the results of the two assays were not significantly different (P = 0.754), but that their consistency is poor (Kappa = 0.286, P = 0.114). Moreover, longitudinal evaluation of serum antibodies before and after intravitreal injection of AAV2 in goats revealed that the level of AAV antibodies increased and transduction inhibition subsequently increased, as reported in humans, indicating that transduction inhibition should be taken into account at different stages of gene therapy. In summary, starting with an evaluation of monkey serum antibodies, we optimized a detection method of goat serum antibodies, providing an alternative large animal model for gene therapy, and our serum antibody measurement method may be applied to other large animals.
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- Huirong Pan
- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China; National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China; National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China; National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China; National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China; National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China; National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China; National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China; National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China; National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China; Shaoxing People's Hospital, Shaoxing, 312000, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Vision Science, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China; National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
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Wang H, Liu J, Kailimai A, Zheng J, Shen B, Sun Y, Zhou D. [Effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme on reproduction of Culex pipiens pallens]. Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing Fang Zhi Za Zhi 2023; 35:251-257. [PMID: 37455095 DOI: 10.16250/j.32.1374.2023031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in the reproduction of Culex pipiens pallens, so as to provide insights into selection of targets for controlling mosquito vector populations. METHODS Cx. pipiens pallens was collected from Tangkou County, Shandong Province in 2009. Female and male mosquitoes were selected at 72 hours post-eclosion, and quantitative real-time reverse transcription PCR (qPCR) assay was used to detect the expression of ACE gene in the whole body and reproductive tissues of male mosquitoes and fertilized female mosquitoes before (0 h) and after blood meals (24, 48, 72 h), respectively. Then, 150 female and 150 male mosquitoes at 0 to 4 hours post-eclosion were selected and divided into the wild-type group (WT group), small interfering RNA-negative control group (siNC group) and small interfering RNA-ACE group (siACE group), of 50 mosquitoes in each group. Mosquitoes in the WT group were given no treatment, and mosquitoes in the siNC and siACE groups were given microinjection of siNC and siACE into the hemolymph at a dose of 0.3 μg per mosquito. The knockdown efficiency was checked using qPCR assay, and the reproductive phenotype of mosquitoes was observed. RESULTS The relative ACE gene expression was higher in the whole body of male mosquitoes (5.467 ± 1.006) relative to females (1.199 ± 0.241) (t = 5.835, P = 0.004) at 72 h post-eclosion, and the highest ACE expression was seen in reproductive tissues of male mosquitoes (199.100 ± 24.429), which was 188.3 times higher than in remaining tissues (1.057 ± 0.340) (t = 6.602, P = 0.002). Blood meal induced high ACE expression in all body tissues of fertilized female mosquitoes, with peak expression at 24 h after blood meals (14.957 ± 2.815), which was 14.8 times higher than that before blood meals (1.009 ± 0.139) (P = 0.002). The transcriptional level of ACEs continued to increase in the ovaries of female mosquitoes after blood meals during the vitellogenesis phase, peaking at 48 h after blood meals (5.500 ± 0.734), which was 5.1 times higher than that before blood meals (1.072 ± 0.178) (P = 0.002). Small RNA interference targeting ACE resulted in a 57.2% reduction in ACE expression in female mosquitoes in the siACE group (0.430 ± 0.070) relative to the siNC group (1.002 ± 0.070) (P = 0.001), and a 41.1% reduction in male mosquitoes in the siACE group (0.588 ± 0.067) relative to the siNC group (1.008 ± 0.131) (P = 0.016). Knockdown of ACE expression resulted in a 48.0% decrease in the number of eggs laid by female mosquitoes in the siACE group [(94.000 ± 27.386) eggs] relative to the siNC group [(180.800 ± 27.386)] (P < 0.001), and a 45.0% decrease in the number of eggs laid by wild female mosquitoes mated with males in the siACE group [(104.500 ± 20.965) eggs] relative to the siNC group [(190.050 ± 10.698) eggs] (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS Reduced ACE expression may inhibit the fecundity of male and female mosquitoes, and ACE may be as a potential target for mosquito vector population suppression.
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- H Wang
- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University; Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University; Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University; Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University; Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University; Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University; Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University; Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
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Wang M, Zhu S, Shen B, Fang Y, Xie Q, Dai Q, Chen Z, Li X, Wu W. Long-term Outcomes Following Endoscopic Transnasal Surgery for Optic Neuropathy Due to Craniofacial Fibrous Dysplasia. Laryngoscope 2023. [PMID: 37191080 DOI: 10.1002/lary.30736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Revised: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the feasibility of endoscopic transnasal optic canal decompression (ETOCD) guided by a navigation surgical system (NSS) for vision recovery in patients with compressive optic neuropathy (CON) caused by craniofacial fibrous dysplasia (CFD), and to explore the underlying cause of visual impairment. METHODS All patients underwent unilateral NSS-guided ETOCD and were followed up periodically for at least six months. Paired sample t-test and Pearson correlation analyses were used to compare continuous variables of the visual outcomes at the final review. A histopathological test of abnormal bone specimens was performed postoperatively. RESULTS Thirty-four patients were finally included, and all surgeries were uneventful. The best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) (logMAR units) decreased from 1.29 ± 0.80 preoperatively to 0.97 ± 0.78 at the last follow-up (p = 0.0012), improving in 28 patients (82.35%). The absolute value of mean defect (MD) significantly decreased (p < 0.001). Color vision was impaired in 17 patients preoperatively and improved in 6 patients. BCVA at the last follow-up was significantly correlated with preoperative BCVA, onset time, preoperative retinal nerve fibril layer thickness, and MD (all p < 0.05). Among 34 patients, 26 had a blunt bony process near the anterior foot of the optic chiasm. Of the total patients, 73.53% patients experienced bony fiber recurrence 6 months or earlier after surgery without visual loss. CONCLUSION NSS-guided ETOCD appeared to be safe and effective for visual recovery in patients with CON due to CFD, and early surgical intervention was critical for long-term recovery. Unbalanced compression of the optic canal by the blunt bony process may be a major cause of visual impairment. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 4 Laryngoscope, 2023.
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- Min Wang
- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
- Department of Orbital and Oculoplastic Surgery, The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
- Department of Orbital and Oculoplastic Surgery, The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
- Department of Orbital and Oculoplastic Surgery, The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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Ayres NJ, Ban G, Bison G, Bodek K, Bondar V, Bouillaud T, Clement B, Chanel E, Chiu PJ, Crawford CB, Daum M, Doorenbos CB, Emmenegger S, Fratangelo A, Fertl M, Griffith WC, Grujic ZD, Harris PG, Kirch K, Krempel J, Lauss B, Lefort T, Naviliat-Cuncic O, Pais D, Piegsa FM, Pignol G, Rauscher G, Rebreyend D, Rienäcker I, Ries D, Roccia S, Rozpedzik D, Saenz-Arevalo W, Schmidt-Wellenburg P, Schnabel A, Severijns N, Shen B, Staab M, Svirina K, Dinani RT, Thorne J, Yazdandoost N, Zejma J, Zsigmond G. Publisher's Note: "The very large n2EDM magnetically shielded room with an exceptional performance for fundamental physics measurements" [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 93, 095105 (2022)]. Rev Sci Instrum 2022; 93:119902. [PMID: 36461461 DOI: 10.1063/5.0130257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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- N J Ayres
- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Normandie Universite, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Cracow, Poland
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- Laboratory for High Energy Physics and Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for High Energy Physics and Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Physics, Photonics Center, University of Belgrade, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Normandie Universite, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Normandie Universite, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for High Energy Physics and Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- VAC-Vacuumschmelze, Gruner Weg 37, 63450 Hanau, Germany
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- Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry-TRIGA Site, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Cracow, Poland
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- Normandie Universite, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Abbestr. 2-12, D-10587 Berlin, Germany
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- Instituut voor Kern-en Stralingsfysica, University of Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry-TRIGA Site, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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- VAC-Vacuumschmelze, Gruner Weg 37, 63450 Hanau, Germany
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- Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- Instituut voor Kern-en Stralingsfysica, University of Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory for High Energy Physics and Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry-TRIGA Site, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Cracow, Poland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Zhang N, Shen B, Shi J, Chen Z. Combination synergy of FGFR inhibitors with other therapeutic agents in FGFR-deregulated cancer models. Eur J Cancer 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(22)00961-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Li T, Xie J, Shen C, Cheng D, Shi Y, Wu Z, Deng X, Chen H, Shen B, Peng C, Li H, Zhan Q, Zhu Z. Retraction Note: Upregulation of long noncoding RNA ZEB1-AS1 promotes tumor metastasis and predicts poor prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma. Oncogene 2022; 41:4839. [PMID: 36180782 DOI: 10.1038/s41388-022-02480-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- T Li
- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Surgery, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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Shen B, Pan B, Wu Y, Shi L, Gao J, Feng J. EP08.01-080 Tislelizumab Plus Chemotherapy as First-Line Treatment for Advanced NSCLC in Patients aged ≥ 70. J Thorac Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.07.652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Ayres NJ, Ban G, Bison G, Bodek K, Bondar V, Bouillaud T, Clement B, Chanel E, Chiu PJ, Crawford CB, Daum M, Doorenbos CB, Emmenegger S, Fratangelo A, Fertl M, Griffith WC, Grujic ZD, Harris PG, Kirch K, Krempel J, Lauss B, Lefort T, Naviliat-Cuncic O, Pais D, Piegsa FM, Pignol G, Rauscher G, Rebreyend D, Rienäcker I, Ries D, Roccia S, Rozpedzik D, Saenz-Arevalo W, Schmidt-Wellenburg P, Schnabel A, Severijns N, Shen B, Staab M, Svirina K, Dinani RT, Thorne J, Yazdandoost N, Zejma J, Zsigmond G. The very large n2EDM magnetically shielded room with an exceptional performance for fundamental physics measurements. Rev Sci Instrum 2022; 93:095105. [PMID: 36182526 DOI: 10.1063/5.0101391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 08/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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We present the magnetically shielded room (MSR) for the n2EDM experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute, which features an interior cubic volume with each side of length 2.92 m, thus providing an accessible space of 25 m3. The MSR has 87 openings of diameter up to 220 mm for operating the experimental apparatus inside and an intermediate space between the layers for housing sensitive signal processing electronics. The characterization measurements show a remanent magnetic field in the central 1 m3 below 100 pT and a field below 600 pT in the entire inner volume, up to 4 cm to the walls. The quasi-static shielding factor at 0.01 Hz measured with a sinusoidal 2 μT peak-to-peak signal is about 100 000 in all three spatial directions and increases rapidly with frequency to reach 108 above 1 Hz.
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- N J Ayres
- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Normandie Université, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Cracow, Poland
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- Laboratory for High Energy Physics and Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for High Energy Physics and Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Physics, Photonics Center, University of Belgrade, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Normandie Université, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Normandie Université, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for High Energy Physics and Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- VAC-Vacuumschmelze, Grüner Weg 37, 63450 Hanau, Germany
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry-TRIGA Site, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Cracow, Poland
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- Normandie Université, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Abbestr. 2-12, D-10587 Berlin, Germany
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- Instituut voor Kern-en Stralingsfysica, University of Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry-TRIGA Site, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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- VAC-Vacuumschmelze, Grüner Weg 37, 63450 Hanau, Germany
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38026 Grenoble, France
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- Instituut voor Kern-en Stralingsfysica, University of Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory for High Energy Physics and Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry-TRIGA Site, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Cracow, Poland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Li B, Pang S, Dou J, Zhou C, Shen B, Zhou Y. The inhibitory effect of LINC00261 upregulation on the pancreatic cancer EMT process is mediated by KLF13 via the mTOR signaling pathway. Clin Transl Oncol 2022; 24:1059-1072. [PMID: 35066757 DOI: 10.1007/s12094-021-02747-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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PURPOSE The long noncoding RNA LINC00261 was reported to be involved in carcinogenesis and has been validated as a tumor suppressor in pancreatic cancer (PC); however, how LINC00261 is regulated has not been fully examined. Here, we attempted to investigate the upstream and downstream targets of LINC00261 in PC. METHODS LINC00261 expression in PC tissues was examined by the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets and the Gene Expression Profiling Interactive Analysis (GEPIA) database. The quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) assays were performed to detect the expression level of LINC00261 in PC cells. The location of LINC00261 in PC cells was identified by RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization (RNA-FISH). Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8), cell apoptosis assay, transwell invasion and migration assays testified the critical role of LINC00261 in PC. The luciferase reporter assay was applied to confirm the binding of LINC00261 to its upstream transcription factor KLF13. The changes in LINC00261 related target protein levels were analyzed by Western blotting assay. RESULTS LINC00261 was significantly lower in PC tissues and was mainly concentrated in the nucleus. Overexpression of LINC00261 inhibited the invasion and migration of PC cells. Mechanistically, transcription factor KLF13 was confirmed to inhibit the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process of PC cells by promoting the transcription of LINC00261 and suppressing the expression of metastasis-associated proteins, such as matrix metalloproteinase MMP2 and vimentin, thus inhibiting the metastasis of PC. CONCLUSION LINC00261 regulates PC cell metastasis through the "KLF13-LINC00261-mTOR-P70S6K1-S6" signaling pathway, which provides a significant set of potential PC therapeutic targets.
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- B Li
- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Jiangsu, 211198, P.R. China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Jiangsu, 211198, P.R. China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Jiangsu, 211198, P.R. China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Jiangsu, 211198, P.R. China
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- Department of General Surgery, Pancreatic Disease Center, Research Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200025, P.R. China.
- Institute of Translational Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200025, P.R. China.
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- Department of General Surgery, Pancreatic Disease Center, Research Institute of Pancreatic Diseases, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200025, P.R. China.
- Institute of Translational Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200025, P.R. China.
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Liu Y, Ma WJ, Huang K, Yang J, Zeng Y, Shen B. Radiographic indexes in AP hip radiographs prior to total hip arthroplasty reveal candidates with low BMD. Osteoporos Int 2022; 33:871-879. [PMID: 34775528 DOI: 10.1007/s00198-021-06231-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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UNLABELLED Using anteroposterior (AP) hip radiograph, we measured several indexes to investigate the association with bone mineral density (BMD) before THA and found a highly effective index to predict femoral BMD. This technique is helpful for both patients and clinicians to identify potential candidates with low BMD to whom DXA examination is particularly recommended. INTRODUCTION The purpose of the study is to identify patients with low bone mineral density (BMD) prior to total hip arthroplasty with the help of AP hip radiographs. METHODS Indexes on AP hip radiographs and T-scores from DXA examination of the lumbar spine and the affected hip were acquired from patients before THA. Indexes measured on AP hip radiographs including the canal calcar ratio (CCR), canal flare index (CFI), morphological cortical index (MCI), canal bone ratio (CBR), and canal bone area ratio (CBAR). The relevance between indexes and the T-score of femora was evaluated by correlation analysis, and the diagnostic value of indexes for osteopenia was examined by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. RESULTS A total of 81 patients were included. The average value of CBR-7, CBR-10, and CBAR (7-10) were highly related to the T-score of femora (r = - 0.592, r = - 0.634, and r = - 0.631, respectively, p < 0.0001). Results of the intra- and interobserver variation assessment was excellent. CBR-7, CBR-10, and CBAR (7-10) were significantly different between the non-osteopenia and osteopenia groups (p < 0.0001). CBR-10 had the biggest area under curve (AUC), means the great diagnostic value for osteopenia in the proximal femora (AUC = 0.821, cutoff value = 0.3805). CONCLUSION The canal bone ratio at 10 × 10-2 m under the level of the lesser trochanter proved to be a great indicator of femoral osteopenia. Trial registration Chinese Clinical Trail Registry, ChiCTR2000041016. Registered 16 December 2020-Retrospectively registered, http://www.chictr.org.cn/listbycreater.aspx .
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- Y Liu
- Orthopedics Research Institute, Department of Orthopedics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Orthopedics Research Institute, Department of Orthopedics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Orthopedics Research Institute, Department of Orthopedics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Orthopedics Research Institute, Department of Orthopedics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Orthopedics Research Institute, Department of Orthopedics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Orthopedics Research Institute, Department of Orthopedics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
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Jia T, He K, Chen D, Qian J, Gu X, Shen B, Sun Y, Shi T, Wang Y, Zhang B, Gong X. The measurements by diamagnetic loops in EAST. Fusion Engineering and Design 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2022.113091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Sirica N, Orth PP, Scheurer MS, Dai YM, Lee MC, Padmanabhan P, Mix LT, Teitelbaum SW, Trigo M, Zhao LX, Chen GF, Xu B, Yang R, Shen B, Hu C, Lee CC, Lin H, Cochran TA, Trugman SA, Zhu JX, Hasan MZ, Ni N, Qiu XG, Taylor AJ, Yarotski DA, Prasankumar RP. Photocurrent-driven transient symmetry breaking in the Weyl semimetal TaAs. Nat Mater 2022; 21:62-66. [PMID: 34750539 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-021-01126-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Symmetry plays a central role in conventional and topological phases of matter, making the ability to optically drive symmetry changes a critical step in developing future technologies that rely on such control. Topological materials, like topological semimetals, are particularly sensitive to a breaking or restoring of time-reversal and crystalline symmetries, which affect both bulk and surface electronic states. While previous studies have focused on controlling symmetry via coupling to the crystal lattice, we demonstrate here an all-electronic mechanism based on photocurrent generation. Using second harmonic generation spectroscopy as a sensitive probe of symmetry changes, we observe an ultrafast breaking of time-reversal and spatial symmetries following femtosecond optical excitation in the prototypical type-I Weyl semimetal TaAs. Our results show that optically driven photocurrents can be tailored to explicitly break electronic symmetry in a generic fashion, opening up the possibility of driving phase transitions between symmetry-protected states on ultrafast timescales.
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- N Sirica
- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.
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- Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
- Center for Superconducting Physics and Materials, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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- Department of Physics, Arizona State Univeristy, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Beus CXFEL Labs, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State Univeristy, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics, Tamkang University, New Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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- Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy (B7), Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.
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Wen S, Chen Y, Hu C, Du X, Xia J, Wang X, Zhu M, Chen Y, Shen B. 28P Combination of tertiary lymphoid structure and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio predicts survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. Ann Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2021.10.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Ma Y, Wang C, Elmhadi M, Zhang H, Han Y, Shen B, He BL, Liu XY, Wang HR. Thiamine ameliorates metabolic disorders induced by a long-term high-concentrate diet and promotes rumen epithelial development in goats. J Dairy Sci 2021; 104:11522-11536. [PMID: 34304871 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2021-20425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Data indicate that dietary thiamine supplementation can partly alleviate rumen epithelium inflammation and barrier function in goats fed a high-concentrate diet. The current work aimed to explore whether thiamine promotes rumen epithelium development by regulating carbohydrate metabolism during a long period of feeding high levels of concentrate. For the experiment, 24 female Boer goats (35.62 ± 2.4 kg of body weight) in parity 1 or 2 were allocated to 3 groups (8 goats per replicate) receiving a low-concentrate diet (concentrate:forage 30:70), a high-concentrate diet (HC; concentrate:forage 70:30), or a high-concentrate diet (concentrate:forage 70:30) supplemented with 200 mg of thiamine/kg of dry matter intake (HCT; concentrate:forage 70:30). On the last day of 12 wk, rumen fluid and blood samples were collected to measure ruminal parameters, endotoxin lipopolysaccharide, and blood inflammatory cytokines. Goats were slaughtered to collect ruminal tissue to determine differential metabolites, enzyme activities, and gene expression. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis revealed that the HCT group had significantly increased concentrations of d-glucose 6-phosphate, d-fructose 6-phosphate, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, thiamine pyrophosphate, oxaloacetate, acetyl-CoA, succinyl-CoA, sedoheptulose 7-phosphate, ribose 5-phosphate, and NADPH compared with the HC group. The pyruvate dehydrogenase, α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, and transketolase enzyme activities in the rumen epithelium of the HCT group were higher than those in the HC group. The plasma total antioxidant capacity values for the HCT group were greater than those for the HC group. The rumen epithelium ATP content in the HCT group was higher than that in the HC group. Compared with the HCT group, the HC group had a lower mRNA abundance of CCND1, CCNA2, CDK2, CDK4, CDK6, BCL2, PI3K, and AKT1. Taken together, the results suggest that dietary thiamine supplementation could ameliorate disorders in the tricarboxylic acid cycle and the pentose phosphate pathway induced by a long-term high-concentrate diet and could promote rumen epithelial growth.
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- Y Ma
- Laboratory of Metabolic Manipulation of Herbivorous Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, P. R. China
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- Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
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- Laboratory of Metabolic Manipulation of Herbivorous Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Metabolic Manipulation of Herbivorous Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Metabolic Manipulation of Herbivorous Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Metabolic Manipulation of Herbivorous Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Metabolic Manipulation of Herbivorous Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Metabolic Manipulation of Herbivorous Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Metabolic Manipulation of Herbivorous Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, P. R. China.
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Ayres NJ, Ban G, Bienstman L, Bison G, Bodek K, Bondar V, Bouillaud T, Chanel E, Chen J, Chiu PJ, Clément B, Crawford CB, Daum M, Dechenaux B, Doorenbos CB, Emmenegger S, Ferraris-Bouchez L, Fertl M, Fratangelo A, Flaux P, Goupillière D, Griffith WC, Grujic ZD, Harris PG, Kirch K, Koss PA, Krempel J, Lauss B, Lefort T, Lemière Y, Leredde A, Meier M, Menu J, Mullins DA, Naviliat-Cuncic O, Pais D, Piegsa FM, Pignol G, Quéméner G, Rawlik M, Rebreyend D, Rienäcker I, Ries D, Roccia S, Ross KU, Rozpedzik D, Saenz W, Schmidt-Wellenburg P, Schnabel A, Severijns N, Shen B, Stapf T, Svirina K, Tavakoli Dinani R, Touati S, Thorne J, Virot R, Voigt J, Wursten E, Yazdandoost N, Zejma J, Zsigmond G. The design of the n2EDM experiment: nEDM Collaboration. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2021; 81:512. [PMID: 34720721 PMCID: PMC8550164 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09298-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We present the design of a next-generation experiment, n2EDM, currently under construction at the ultracold neutron source at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) with the aim of carrying out a high-precision search for an electric dipole moment of the neutron. The project builds on experience gained with the previous apparatus operated at PSI until 2017, and is expected to deliver an order of magnitude better sensitivity with provision for further substantial improvements. An overview is of the experimental method and setup is given, the sensitivity requirements for the apparatus are derived, and its technical design is described.
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- N. J. Ayres
- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Institute for Nuclear and Radiation Physics, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Cracow, Poland
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH UK
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- Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH UK
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute for Nuclear and Radiation Physics, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
- Present Address: Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques, 79110 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Present Address: Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry-TRIGA site, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Chemistry-TRIGA site, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Cracow, Poland
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Nuclear and Radiation Physics, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry-TRIGA site, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Nuclear and Radiation Physics, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Nuclear and Radiation Physics, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry-TRIGA site, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Cracow, Poland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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Shen B, Hoshmand-Kochi M, Abbasi A, Glass S, Jiang Z, Singer AJ, Thode HC, Li H, Hou W, Duong TQ. Initial chest radiograph scores inform COVID-19 status, intensive care unit admission and need for mechanical ventilation. Clin Radiol 2021; 76:473.e1-473.e7. [PMID: 33706997 PMCID: PMC7891126 DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2021.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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AIM To evaluate whether portable chest radiography (CXR) scores are associated with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) status and various clinical outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study included 500 initial CXR from COVID-19-suspected patients. Each CXR was scored based on geographic extent and degree of opacity as indicators of disease severity. COVID-19 status and clinical outcomes including intensive care unit (ICU) admission, mechanical ventilation, mortality, length of hospitalisation, and duration on ventilator were collected. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the relationship between CXR scores and COVID-19 status, CXR scores and clinical outcomes, adjusted for code status, age, gender and co-morbidities. RESULTS The interclass correlation coefficients amongst raters were 0.94 and 0.90 for the extent score and opacity score, respectively. CXR scores were significantly (p < 0.01) associated with COVID-19 positivity (odd ratio [OR] = 1.49; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.27 - 1.75 for extent score and OR = 1.75; 95% CI: 1.42 - 2.15 for opacity score), ICU admission (OR = 1.19; 95% CI: 1.09 - 1.31 for extent score and OR = 1.26; 95% CI: 1.10 - 1.44 for opacity score), and invasive mechanical ventilation (OR = 1.22; 95% CI: 1.11 - 1.35 for geographic score and OR = 1.21; 95% CI: 1.05 - 1.38 for opacity score). CXR scores were not significantly different between survivors and non-survivors after adjusting for code status (p>0.05). CXR scores were not associated with length of hospitalisation or duration on ventilation (p>0.05). CONCLUSIONS Initial CXR scores have prognostic value and are associated with COVID-19 positivity, ICU admission, and mechanical ventilation.
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- B Shen
- Department of Radiology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Radiology, Montefiore Medical Center, 111 East 210(th) Street, Bronx, NY 10467, USA.
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Perez I, Shen B, Patel M, Berry-Tony S, Rice S, Rambhia S. Abstract No. 586 COVID-19 era changes in procedural volume in interventional radiology versus other surgical specialties at a tertiary care hospital. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2021. [PMCID: PMC8079620 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2021.03.396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Wong A, Lin ZQ, Wang L, Chung AG, Shen B, Abbasi A, Hoshmand-Kochi M, Duong TQ. Towards computer-aided severity assessment via deep neural networks for geographic and opacity extent scoring of SARS-CoV-2 chest X-rays. Sci Rep 2021; 11:9315. [PMID: 33927239 PMCID: PMC8085167 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-88538-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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A critical step in effective care and treatment planning for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, is the assessment of the severity of disease progression. Chest x-rays (CXRs) are often used to assess SARS-CoV-2 severity, with two important assessment metrics being extent of lung involvement and degree of opacity. In this proof-of-concept study, we assess the feasibility of computer-aided scoring of CXRs of SARS-CoV-2 lung disease severity using a deep learning system. Data consisted of 396 CXRs from SARS-CoV-2 positive patient cases. Geographic extent and opacity extent were scored by two board-certified expert chest radiologists (with 20+ years of experience) and a 2nd-year radiology resident. The deep neural networks used in this study, which we name COVID-Net S, are based on a COVID-Net network architecture. 100 versions of the network were independently learned (50 to perform geographic extent scoring and 50 to perform opacity extent scoring) using random subsets of CXRs from the study, and we evaluated the networks using stratified Monte Carlo cross-validation experiments. The COVID-Net S deep neural networks yielded R[Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] between predicted scores and radiologist scores for geographic extent and opacity extent, respectively, in stratified Monte Carlo cross-validation experiments. The best performing COVID-Net S networks achieved R[Formula: see text] of 0.739 and 0.741 between predicted scores and radiologist scores for geographic extent and opacity extent, respectively. The results are promising and suggest that the use of deep neural networks on CXRs could be an effective tool for computer-aided assessment of SARS-CoV-2 lung disease severity, although additional studies are needed before adoption for routine clinical use.
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- A Wong
- Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
- DarwinAI Corp., Waterloo, Canada.
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- Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
- DarwinAI Corp., Waterloo, Canada.
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- Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
- DarwinAI Corp., Waterloo, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Zhang HB, Shen B, Ma ZC, Xu YY, Lou YL, Chen M. MiR-593-5p inhibited proliferation and migration of lung adenocarcinoma by targeting ICAM-1. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2021; 24:4298-4305. [PMID: 32373966 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202004_21010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the role of microRNA-593-5p (miR-593-5p) in the development of lung adenocarcinoma (LA). PATIENTS AND METHODS The expression level of miR-593-5p in LA tissues and cell lines was detected by quantitative Real Time-Polymerase Chain Reaction (qRT-PCR). Luciferase reporter gene assay and Western blot were performed to evaluate the interaction between miR-593-5p and intercellular cell adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1). Furthermore, the effects of the miR-593-5p/ICAM-1 axis on A549 cells were determined by MTS, colony formation assay, and transwell assay, respectively. RESULTS MiR-593-5p was significantly downregulated in both clinical samples and cell lines. The bioinformatics analysis predicted that miR-593-5p could complementarily bind to the 3'-UTR of ICAM-1. Luciferase reporter gene assay confirmed that ICAM-1 was the direct target of miR-593-5p. Western blot results demonstrated that miR-593-5p could effectively reduce the protein expression of ICAM-1 in cells. In vitro experiments indicated that the proliferation and migration of A549 cells were significantly inhibited by miR-593-5p transfection. However, the overexpression of ICAM-1 could effectively reverse the inhibitory effects of miR-593-5p in vitro. These results indicated that the inhibitory effects of miR-593-5p on LA were achieved by regulating ICAM-1 expression. CONCLUSIONS MiR-593-5p/ICAM-1 axis might be a potential therapeutic target for the diagnosis and treatment of LA.
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
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Shen B, Wu Y, Shi L, Feng J. P48.24 Anlotinib Combined with Etoposide as Maintenance Treatment in Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer (ES-SCLC). J Thorac Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2021.01.894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Zhang N, Xu FJ, Lang J, Wang LB, Wang JM, Sun YH, Liu BY, Xie N, Fang XZ, Yang XL, Kang XN, Wang XQ, Qin ZX, Ge WK, Shen B. Improved light extraction efficiency of AlGaN deep-ultraviolet light emitting diodes combining Ag-nanodots/Al reflective electrode with highly transparent p-type layer. Opt Express 2021; 29:2394-2401. [PMID: 33726435 DOI: 10.1364/oe.416826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Enhancement of light extraction efficiency (LEE) of AlGaN-based deep-ultraviolet (DUV) light emitting diodes (LEDs) has been attempted by adopting Ag-nanodots/Al reflective electrodes on a highly transparent complex p-type layer. By thinning the p-GaN to several nm, highly DUV transparent p-type layer is achieved, making it meaningful for the application of reflective electrodes composed of Ag-nanodots and Al film to allow most light emitted upward to be reflected back to the sapphire side. By this approach, the maximum light output power and external quantum efficiency of the DUV-LEDs with optimized Ag nanodots/Al electrodes are severally increased by 52% and 58%, respectively, compared to those with traditional Ni/Au electrodes when the current is below 200 mA.
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Tchelebi L, Shen B, Wang M, Park H, Zaorsky N. Non-adherence to Standards of Care in the Treatment of Cancer Patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.07.2459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Shen B, Wu Y, Shi L, Feng J. 1795P Anlotinib combined with etoposide as maintenance treatment in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC): A single-arm, prospective phase II study. Ann Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2020.08.1556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Wang X, Shen B. 1942P IL6 pre-treatment promotes chemosensitivity by eliminating quiescent cancer stem cells. Ann Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2020.08.1334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Feng J, Shen B, Xu J, Wang Q, Ling G, Mao Y, Cai M, Yang Y, Mei J, Han Z, Wu Y, Shi L. 1455P A single-arm, open-label, prospective, multicenter study of apatinib combined with chemotherapy as second-line therapy in patients with advanced gastric cancer. Ann Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2020.08.1961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Zhang X, Huang LF, Hua L, Feng HK, Shen B. Resveratrol protects myocardial apoptosis induced by ischemia-reperfusion in rats with acute myocardial infarction via blocking P13K/Akt/e-NOS pathway. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2020; 23:1789-1796. [PMID: 30840305 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_201902_17142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To elucidate the protective role of resveratrol (RSV) in myocardial apoptosis induced by ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and to explore its underlying mechanism. MATERIALS AND METHODS The AMI rat model was successfully established by ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Rat cardiomyocytes were isolated and cultured. Cells were divided into four groups, including: control group (no specific treatment), AMI group (acute ischemia-reperfusion treatment), AMI+RSV group (RSV pretreatment for 24 h before acute ischemia-reperfusion) and AMI+ RSV+LY group (RSV pretreatment combined with 40 μmol/L phosphatidylinositide 3-kinases (PI3K) pathway inhibitor LY294002 for 24 h before acute ischemia-reperfusion). Morphology of apoptotic cardiomyocytes in each group was observed by Hoechst staining. The proliferation, apoptosis and cell cycle progression of cardiomyocytes were determined by MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide) assay, terminal dexynucleotidyl transferase(TdT)-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay and flow cytometry, respectively. Finally, the protein levels of genes relative to PI3K/Akt/eNOS pathway were detected by Western blot. RESULTS Hoechst staining showed a large number of necrotic cells, cell retraction, enhanced refractive index and enlarged cell gap in AMI group. A small number of necrotic cells were found in AMI+RSV group, which was significantly fewer than that of AMI group. Meanwhile, remaining cells presented normal morphology. However, a great number of necrotic cells were observed in AMI+RSV+LY group, which was obviously more than that of AMI+RSV group. Compared with control group, cells in AMI group showed significantly decreased proliferative rate, increased early phase, late phase and total one of apoptosis. In AMI group, the ratio of G0/G1 phase was remarkably increased, whereas those of S and G2/M phases were decreased. Moreover, the expression levels of phosphorylated Akt (p-Akt) and phosphorylated e-NOS (p-eNOS) were significantly downregulated in AMI group. In AMI+RSV group, cell apoptosis, cell cycle progression and levels of p-Akt and p-eNOS showed the opposite trends as those of AMI group. However, LY294002 pretreatment reversed the protective role of RSV in cellular behaviors of cardiomyocytes. CONCLUSIONS RSV protects cardiomyocyte apoptosis from ischemia-reperfusion injury through regulating phosphorylation levels of proteins relative to PI3K/Akt/e-NOS pathway.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
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Xia NB, Lu Y, Zhao PF, Wang CF, Li YY, Tan L, Fang R, Zhou YQ, Shen B, Zhao JL. Genotyping and characterization of Toxoplasma gondii strain isolated from pigs in Hubei province, central China. Trop Biomed 2020; 37:489-498. [PMID: 33612818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Toxoplasma gondii, a ubiquitous pathogen that infects nearly all warm-blooded animals and humans, can cause severe complications to the infected people and animals as well as serious economic losses and social problems. Here, one local strain (TgPIG-WH1) was isolated from an aborted pig fetus, and the genotype of this strain was identified as ToxoDB #3 by the PCR RFLP typing method using 10 molecular markers (SAG1, SAG2, alternative SAG2, SAG3, BTUB, GRA6, L358, PK1, C22-8, C29-2 and Apico). A comparison of the virulence of this isolate with other strains in both mice and piglets showed that TgPIG-WH1 was less virulent than type 1 strain RH and type 2 strain ME49 in mice, and caused similar symptoms to those of ME49 such as fever in piglets. Additionally, in piglet infection with both strains, the TgPIG-WH1 caused a higher IgG response and more severe pathological damages than ME49. Furthermore, TgPIG-WH1 caused one death in the 5 infected piglets, whereas ME49 did not, suggesting the higher virulence of TgPIG-WH1 than ME49 during piglet infection. Experimental infections indicate that the virulence of TgPIG-WH1 relative to ME49 is weaker in mice, but higher in pigs. This is probably the first report regarding a ToxoDB #3 strain from pigs in Hubei, China. These data will facilitate the understanding of genetic diversity of Toxoplasma strains in China as well as the prevention and control of porcine toxoplasmosis in the local region.
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Medicine in Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
- Hubei Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Medicine in Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
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Yu H, Wang Y, Liu E, Zhang G, Huang L, Liu L, Wu S, Shen B. Experimental Study of the Influences of Temperature on the Properties of Particles in a Gasifier during Coal-Water Slurry Gasification. ACS Omega 2020; 5:5698-5703. [PMID: 32226847 PMCID: PMC7097896 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b03592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Studies were made on the influence of temperature and oxygen to carbon ratio (the O/C ratio) on the properties of particles during water coal slurry gasification by taking a new-type coal-water slurry gasifier as the thermal experiment platform, coal-water slurry as a gasification material, and oxygen as the oxidant. The results show that the higher the gasification temperature, the more spherical particles are generated, the higher the content of Na, Fe, and S on the particle surface, and the greater the mass percentage of fine particles. With increase in the O/C ratio, the production of fine particles also increases, while the carbon content of the particles decreases. When the O/C ratio is 1.1, fine particles mainly exist in the form of aggregates; the O/C ratio has little influence on the contents of the particle surface, such as Na, Al, Si, Fe, and S. The effect of the O/C ratio on particle size distribution is most obvious when the ratio is 1: the fine particles are the most prevalent and the coarse particles are the fewest. When the ratio is 1.1, the amount of coarse particles is the largest and the amount of fine particle aggregates is also greater. When the ratio is 0.9, the particle size distribution is intermediate to the two cases.
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- School of Petroleum
Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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- School of Petroleum
Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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- School of Petroleum
Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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- Business School of Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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- School of Petroleum
Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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- School of Petroleum
Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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- School of Petroleum
Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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- School of Petroleum
Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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Xue M, Chen D, Shen B, Wang Y, Shi T, Wang H, Sun Y, Qian J, Xiao H, Xiao B. Upgrade of poloidal field coils current measurement system on Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak. Fusion Engineering and Design 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.111264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Wei M, Shi S, Xu J, Shen B, Mou Y, Qin R, Fang W, Chen R, Wang W, Shao C, Yu X. Simultaneous resection of pancreatic cancer and liver oligometastases after induction chemotherapy in stage IV patients: An open-label prospective randomized multicenter phase III trial (CSPAC-1). Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz247.154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Lang J, Xu FJ, Ge WK, Liu BY, Zhang N, Sun YH, Wang JM, Wang MX, Xie N, Fang XZ, Kang XN, Qin ZX, Yang XL, Wang XQ, Shen B. Greatly enhanced performance of AlGaN-based deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes by introducing a polarization modulated electron blocking layer. Opt Express 2019; 27:A1458-A1466. [PMID: 31684498 DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.0a1458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2019] [Accepted: 08/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Carrier transport in AlGaN-based deep ultraviolet (DUV) light emitting diodes (LEDs) with the wavelength of 273 nm has been investigated by introducing polarization modulated electron blocking layer (EBL) that adopts an Al composition and thickness graded multiple quantum barriers (MQB) structure. The experimental result shows that the maximum light output power and external quantum efficiency for the proposed structure at the current of 250 mA are 9.6 mW and 1.03% respectively, severally increasing by 405% and 249% compared to traditional one, meanwhile, the efficiency droop at 250 mA is also dramatically reduced from 42.2% to 16.6%. Further simulation analysis indicates that this graded MQB-EBL enhances the potential barrier height for electrons and meanwhile reduces that for holes, hence effectively suppresses the electron leakage, and at the same time significantly improves the hole injection efficiency. As a result, the whole performance of the LED with the proposed MQB-EBL is dramatically improved.
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Shi J, Zhao W, Ying H, Du J, Chen J, Chen S, Shen B. The relationship of platelet to lymphocyte ratio and neutrophil to monocyte ratio to radiographic grades of knee osteoarthritis. Z Rheumatol 2019; 77:533-537. [PMID: 28681116 DOI: 10.1007/s00393-017-0348-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Accumulating data show that platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and neutrophil to monocyte ratio (NMR) undergo changes during inflammation in various diseases; however, the clinical features remain unclear in knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients. The purpose of our study was to evaluate PLR and NMR in knee OA patients, and assess their relationship to knee OA's radiographic grades. METHODS A retrospective study on 132 adult knee OA patients and 162 healthy controls (HC) was performed. All clinical characteristics of the knee OA patients were obtained from their medical records. PLR and NMR were compared between knee OA patients and HC by non-parametric tests. Correlations of PLR and NMR with Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) classification (KL grade 2, KL grade 3, and KL grade 4) were also analyzed through a Spearman correlation test. Ordinal polytomous logistic regression was used to determine independent factors influencing radiographic grades of knee OA patients. RESULTS PLR was increased significantly in knee OA patients, while a statistical difference in NMR was not observed. However, PLR was not relevant to KL grades, while NMR was negatively correlated with these (r = -0.330, P < 0.01) and was independently associated with KL grades of knee OA. CONCLUSION PLR could reflect the inflammation response of knee OA. NMR emerged as an independent factor and could be used as a potential marker indicating the severity of knee OA.
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
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Gao XH, Li JQ, Khan F, Chouhan H, Yu GY, Remer E, Stocchi L, Hull TL, Shen B. Difference in the frequency of pouchitis between ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis: is the explanation in peripouch fat? Colorectal Dis 2019; 21:1032-1044. [PMID: 30985958 DOI: 10.1111/codi.14651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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AIM Patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) have an unexplained higher incidence of pouchitis and a greater amount of peripouch fat compared with patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). The aims of this study were to compare the peripouch fat areas between patients with UC and patients with FAP, and to explore relationship between peripouch fat and pouchitis or chronic antibiotic-refractory pouchitis (CARP). METHOD Patients with an abdominal CT image from our prospectively maintained Pouch Database were included. Abdominal fat and peripouch fat were measured on CT images at different levels or planes. Comparisons of peripouch fat and CARP were performed before and after propensity score matching. RESULTS A total of 277 patients with UC and 40 patients with FAP were included. Compared with patients with FAP, patients with UC were found to have a higher incidence of pouchitis (58.5% vs 15.0%, P < 0.001) and CARP (24.5% vs 2.5%, P = 0.002) and a higher total peripouch fat area (P = 0.030) and mesenteric peripouch fat area (P = 0.022) at Level-3. Univariate and multivariate analyses showed that diagnosis (UC vs FAP) and peripouch fat areas at Level-3 and Level-5 were independent risk factors for CARP. With propensity score matching, 38 pairs of patients with UC and FAP were matched successfully. After matching, patients with UC were found to have higher total peripouch fat area and higher mesenteric peripouch fat area at Level-3, and a higher incidence of pouchitis (57.9% vs 13.2%, P < 0.001) and CARP (23.7% vs 2.6%, P = 0.007). CONCLUSION Our study demonstrates that patients with UC have more peripouch fat than those with FAP, which may explain the difference in the frequency of pouchitis and CARP between these groups of patients.
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.,Department of Colorectal Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology/Hepatology/Nutritionthe, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Abdominal Imaging, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Gastroenterology/Hepatology/Nutritionthe, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Hu RZ, Zhao SQ, Shen B, Guo GB. [Diagnostic value of serum alpha-fetoprotein, alpha-fetoprotein variant and abnormal prothrombin in primary hepatocellular carcinoma]. Zhonghua Gan Zang Bing Za Zhi 2019; 27:634-637. [PMID: 31594082 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1007-3418.2019.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Objective: To explore the diagnostic value of single or combined detection of serum tumor markers alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), α-fetoprotein (AFP)-L3 and abnormal clotting (PIVKA-II) in the primary hepatic carcinoma. Methods: Serum AFP, AFP-L3 and PIVKA-II of 56 cases with primary hepatic carcinoma, 46 cases with cirrhosis, 45 cases with other liver disease and 41 healthy persons (control group) were examined by chemiluminescence method, and the differences in the levels of AFP, AFP-L3 and PIVKA-II in each group were compared. Results: Serum level of AFP, AFP-L3 and PIVKA-II in patients with primary liver cancer was significantly higher than that of the cirrhosis, other liver disease and control groups, and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that the areas under the curve for the diagnosis of primary hepatic carcinoma by AFP, AFP-L3 and PIVKA-II were 0.887, 0.846 and 0.885, respectively. The combined use of the three tumor markers for the diagnosis of primary hepatic carcinoma increased the area under the curve to 0.899. Among the single detection, AFP had the highest sensitivity of 91.07% and PIVKA-II had the highest specificity at 88.63%. In the combined detection, AFP/PIVKA-II combination had the highest sensitivity of 94.64 %, while the AFP + AFP-L3 + PIVKA-II combination had the highest specificity at 98.48%. Conclusion: Combined detection of AFP, AFP-L3 and PIVKA-II could improve the diagnostic specificity and the sensitivity of primary hepatic carcinoma; thereby make up the deficiency of single detection and improve the early diagnosis rate.
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Chongqing 400021, China
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Li CC, Zhan JL, Chen ZZ, Jiao F, Chen YF, Chen YY, Nie JX, Kang XN, Li SF, Wang Q, Zhang GY, Shen B. Operating behavior of micro-LEDs on a GaN substrate at ultrahigh injection current densities. Opt Express 2019; 27:A1146-A1155. [PMID: 31510496 DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.0a1146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Near-ultraviolet micro-LEDs with different diameters were fabricated on GaN substrates. The electroluminescence and the light output power-current density and current density-voltage relationships were measured. A saturated current density of 358 kA/cm2 was achieved with a 20 µm LED. The ideality factor curves showed steps and peaks when the injection current density was increased from 20 to 150 kA/cm2 and an abnormal efficiency increase. The transport and recombination processes of micro-LEDs at high injection current densities were simulated, and the many-body effect and phase space filling in the integrated quantum drift-diffusion model were considered. Serious current crowding was observed above 100 kA/cm2, even for the 20 µm LED.
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Zou F, Guo Q, Shen B, Zhu C. A cluster of CYP6 gene family associated with the major quantitative trait locus is responsible for the pyrethroid resistance in Culex pipiens pallen. Insect Mol Biol 2019; 28:528-536. [PMID: 30716189 DOI: 10.1111/imb.12571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The emergence and rapid spread of insecticide resistance in several mosquito species has become a significant obstacle in management of mosquito-borne diseases, including deltamethrin resistance in Culex pipiens pallens. Previous study identified a major deltamethrin resistance quantitative trait locus (DR-6) that alone explained 62% of the genetic variance. In this study, the marker L4B1.102 and L4B1.175 associated with the DR-6 were characterized. We searched for potential candidate genes in the flank region of two markers in the genome sequence and showed that a cluster of CYP6 cytochrome P450 genes (CYP6BB4, CYP6BB3, CYP6CC2, CYP6P14, CYP6BZ2, CYP6AA9, CYP6AA8, CYP6AA7) was in the vicinity of DR-6. Significant differences in the expression of these P450s in the larval and adult stages were identified in the resistant strains compared with the susceptible strain. For CYP6AA9 and CYP6BB4, the correlation analysis showed a highly positive correlation between relative gene expression quantification and the resistance level in different strains. Knockdown of CYP6BB4 increased the sensitivity of mosquitoes to deltamethrin. We identified that the deltamethrin resistance was in a cluster of CYP6 genes in C. pipiens pallens, and CYP6BB4 may play a significant role in the development of deltamethrin resistance.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Life Sciences, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
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Sirica N, Tobey RI, Zhao LX, Chen GF, Xu B, Yang R, Shen B, Yarotski DA, Bowlan P, Trugman SA, Zhu JX, Dai YM, Azad AK, Ni N, Qiu XG, Taylor AJ, Prasankumar RP. Tracking Ultrafast Photocurrents in the Weyl Semimetal TaAs Using THz Emission Spectroscopy. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 122:197401. [PMID: 31144919 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.197401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2018] [Revised: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We investigate polarization-dependent ultrafast photocurrents in the Weyl semimetal TaAs using terahertz (THz) emission spectroscopy. Our results reveal that highly directional, transient photocurrents are generated along the noncentrosymmetric c axis regardless of incident light polarization, while helicity-dependent photocurrents are excited within the ab plane. This is consistent with earlier static photocurrent experiments, and demonstrates on the basis of both the physical constraints imposed by symmetry and the temporal dynamics intrinsic to current generation and decay that optically induced photocurrents in TaAs are inherent to the underlying crystal symmetry of the transition metal monopnictide family of Weyl semimetals.
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- N Sirica
- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Groningen 9747AG, Netherlands
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
- School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Shen B, Yu H, Guo F, Duan L, Cen D, Cai XJ. [Severe acute pancreatitis with iatrogenic duodenal fistula: cause and minimal invasive treatment]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2019; 99:1418-1420. [PMID: 31137131 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0376-2491.2019.18.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objective: To investigate the causes and treatment of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) with iatrogenic duodenal fistula. Methods: The clinical data of the SAP patients with duodenal fistula treated in the Severe Acute Pancreatitis Center of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital from May 2015 to May 2018 was analyzed retrospectively. Results: A total of 11 patients were enrolled, among which 5 cases of duodenal fistula were caused by iatrogenic injury, including 2 cases of puncture injury, 2 cases of nutritional tube injury and 1 case of drainage tube injury. For patients with poor infection control after conservative treatment, laparoscopic assisted debridement through the right retroperitoneal approach was performed. Treatment of two patients failed for liver failure and the remaining patients were cured. Conclusions: Iatrogenic injury is one of the causes of duodenal fistula in patients with severe pancreatitis. Laparoscopic assisted debridement through the right retroperitoneal approach is an effective treatment for duodenal fistula.
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- B Shen
- Department of Surgery, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Affiliated School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310016, China
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Xue M, Shen B, Chen D, Wang Y, Shi T, Wang H, Sun Y, Qian J, Xiao H, Xiao B. Fiber-optic current sensor for plasma current on experimental advanced superconducting tokamak. Fusion Engineering and Design 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.01.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bi XJ, Jin XF, Zhang HF, Su ZX, Shen B. [Acquired blood coagulation factor Ⅴ deficiency in a patient with severe burn]. Zhonghua Shao Shang Za Zhi 2019; 35:71-73. [PMID: 30678406 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1009-2587.2019.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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In March 2017, a severely burned male patient aged 36 years with hypovolemic shock was admitted to our hospital. The patient received large quantities of antibiotics and blood products and repeated skin graft after admission, and then he suffered wound errhysis and throat congestion. The patient was healthy before without family history of bleeding or thrombosis disease. Laboratory tests showed that prothrombin time and activated partial coagulation time were remarkably prolonged, blood coagulation factor Ⅴ activity was extremely low, and the result of qualitative test of coagulation factor inhibitor was positive. Acquired blood coagulation factor Ⅴ deficiency was diagnosed. After application of dexamethasone (5 mg, twice per day) and infusion of fresh frozen plasma, blood coagulation indicators of patients recovered in 4 days, the result of qualitative test of coagulation factor inhibitor was negative, and bleeding symptoms were improved.
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- X J Bi
- Department of Laboratory, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Taizhou 317000, China
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Wang MX, Xu FJ, Wang JM, Xie N, Sun YH, Liu BY, Lang J, Zhang N, Ge WK, Kang XN, Qin ZX, Yang XL, Wang XQ, Shen B. The sapphire substrate pretreatment effects on high-temperature annealed AlN templates in deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes. CrystEngComm 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9ce00702d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Evolution of crystalline quality of AlN via high-temperature (HT) annealing induced by different sapphire pretreatments is investigated.
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Xu FJ, Zhang LS, Xie N, Wang MX, Sun YH, Liu BY, Ge WK, Wang XQ, Shen B. Realization of low dislocation density AlN on a small-coalescence-area nano-patterned sapphire substrate. CrystEngComm 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c8ce01788c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Growth behaviors of AlN on hexagonal configuration hole-type and truncated-cone-pillar-type nano-patterned sapphire substrates (NPSSs) have been investigated.
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- F. J. Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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Tan Z, Shen B, Ren Y, Zheng X. The Temporal Effect of Low-Dose Irradiation on the Expression of SIRPa in Tumor-Associated Macrophages. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.07.627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Feng J, Shen B, Jiang H, Wang L, Qian J, Shu Y, Chen P, Mao G, Liu B, Zhang X, Liu C, Wu J, Li X, Cai W, Shen W, Wang Q, He J, Hua D, Zhang Z, Zhang Y. Identification of patients who benefit from apatinib in advanced gastric cancer: Data derived from a real-world study. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy282.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Wang MX, Xu FJ, Xie N, Sun YH, Liu BY, Qin ZX, Wang XQ, Shen B. Crystal quality evolution of AlN films via high-temperature annealing under ambient N2 conditions. CrystEngComm 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c8ce00967h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The crystal quality evolution of AlN films via high-temperature (HT) annealing under nitrogen is investigated.
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- M. X. Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics
- School of Physics
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- China
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