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Chen H, Chen JB, Du LN, Yuan HX, Shan JJ, Wang SC, Ye J, Lin LL. Integration of lipidomics and metabolomics reveals plasma and urinary profiles associated with pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections and its severity. Biomed Chromatogr 2024; 38:e5817. [PMID: 38131121 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.5817] [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: 11/02/2023] [Revised: 12/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a significant contributor to lower respiratory infections in children. However, the lipidomics and metabolics bases of childhood M. pneumoniae infections remain unclear. In this study, lipidomics and metabolomics analyses were conducted using UHPLC-LTQ-Orbitrap XL mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry on plasma (n = 65) and urine (n = 65) samples. MS-DIAL software, in combination with LipidBlast and Fiehn BinBase DB, identified 163 lipids and 104 metabolites in plasma samples, as well as 208 metabolites in urine samples. Perturbed lipid species (adjusted p < 0.05) were observed, including lysophosphatidylethanolamines, phosphatidylinositols, phosphatidylcholines, phosphatidylethanol amines, and triglycerides. Additionally, differential metabolites (adjusted p < 0.05) exhibited associations with amino acid metabolism, nucleotide metabolism, and energy metabolism. Thirteen plasma metabolites, namely l-hydroxyproline, 3-phosphoglycerate, citric acid, creatine, inosine, ribitol, α tocopherol, cholesterol, cystine, serine, uric acid, tagatose, and glycine, showed significant associations with disease severity (p < 0.05) and exhibited distinct separation patterns in M. pneumoniae-infected bronchitis and pneumonia, with an area under the curve of 0.927. Nine of them exhibited either positive or negative correlations with neutrophil or lymphocyte percentages. These findings indicated significant systemic metabolic shifts in childhood M. pneumoniae infections, offering valuable insights into the associated metabolic alterations and their relationship with disease severity.
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- Hui Chen
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Pediatric Respiratory Disease, Institute of Pediatrics, Medical Metabolomics Center, Pediatrics Department, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- The First Clinical Medical College, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Chinese Medicine, Beijing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Pediatric Respiratory Disease, Institute of Pediatrics, Medical Metabolomics Center, Pediatrics Department, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Pediatric Respiratory Disease, Institute of Pediatrics, Medical Metabolomics Center, Pediatrics Department, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Pediatric Respiratory Disease, Institute of Pediatrics, Medical Metabolomics Center, Pediatrics Department, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Pediatric Respiratory Disease, Institute of Pediatrics, Medical Metabolomics Center, Pediatrics Department, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Pediatric Respiratory Disease, Institute of Pediatrics, Medical Metabolomics Center, Pediatrics Department, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Zheng TL, Zhang LL, Chen JB, Zhang YL, Zhou XF. [Degradation of SMX with Peracetic Acid Activated by Nano Core-shell Co@NC Catalyst]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2023; 44:2635-2645. [PMID: 37177937 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202205214] [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: 05/15/2023]
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Peracetic acid (PAA), as a new oxidant, has attracted increasing attention in the treatment of refractory organic pollution in sewage. In this study, the nano core-shell Co@NC catalyst was prepared via etching and used to activate PAA to degrade sulfamethoxazole (SMX) in sewage. The results indicated that the degradation rate of SMX reached 98%, and its reaction rate constant was 0.80 min-1 under optimal conditions (catalyst dosage=0.02 g·L-1, PAA concentration=0.12 mmol·L-1, pH=7, SMX concentration=10 μmol·L-1). With the increase in PAA concentration and core-shell Co@NC dosage, the degradation efficiency of SMX increased. The study found that the core-shell Co@NC/PAA system had the best degradation effect on SMX under near-neutral conditions (pH 6.0-8.0), and both acidic and alkaline environments were not conducive to SMX degradation. HCO3- and humic acid showed significant inhibition on the degradation of SMX, whereas Cl- showed weak inhibition. In addition, through a free radical quenching experiment and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) detection, acetoxy radical (CH3CO2CO3·) were the main active species for the degradation of organic pollutants in the system. Transformation products (TPs) of SMX were analyzed by U-HPLC-Q-Exactive Orbitrap HRMS, and a possible degradation path of SMX was proposed. At the same time, the catalyst recycling experiment showed that the nano core-shell Co@NC catalyst had good stability and reusability.
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- Ting-Lu Zheng
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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Zhu JJ, Liu HY, Yang LJ, Fang Z, Fu R, Chen JB, Liu S, Fei BY. Anti-tumour effect of Huangqin Decoction on colorectal cancer mice through microbial butyrate mediated PI3K/Akt pathway suppression. J Med Microbiol 2023; 72. [PMID: 37195736 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.001692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023] Open
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Introduction. Huangqin Decoction (HQD), a Chinese herbal formula, is widely used for various diseases, including colorectal cancer (CRC).Hypothesis/Gap Statement. We proposed that microbial butyrate mediated PI3K/Akt pathway suppression might involve the anti-cancer effect of HQD.Aim. This study aimed to evaluate the potential mechanism of HQD against CRC.Methodology. An azoxymethane plus dextran sulphate sodium induced CRC mouse model was used, and the intestinal flora and faecal short-chain fatty acid changes were detected, respectively, after HQD administration with 16S rRNA sequencing and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. Disease activity index, colon length and levels of inflammatory cytokines were measured to evaluate the effect of HQD on intestinal inflammation. Tumour size, number and histopathology were assessed to reflect the impact of HQD on tumour burden. Apoptosis and PI3K/Akt pathway activity were measured by TUNEL staining and Western-blotting. In vitro, the effects of sodium butyrate (NaB) on the viability of CRC cell lines were detected by the Cell-counting Kit-8. The apoptotic cells were determined by TUNEL staining. Cell migration and invasion were assessed by wound healing assay and Transwell assay, respectively. Western-blotting and immunofluorescent staining were used to test the activity of PI3K/Akt pathway.Results. Animal study showed that HQD could improve the gut dysbiosis, increase the abundance of Clostridium and the level of faecal butyric acid. Then, we found that HQD could attenuate colitis, reduce tumour burden, promote cell apoptosis and suppress PI3K/Akt pathway activity in CRC mice. In vitro experiment revealed that NaB treatment could inhibit cell growth, migration and invasion in CRC cell lines. Additionally, NaB enhanced cellular apoptosis, and reduced phosphorylated PI3K and Akt expressions. Interestingly, addition of 740Y-P, an agonist of PI3K, reversed the NaB effects on CRC cells.Conclusion. Overall, in this study, we revealed that HQD could induce apoptosis through microbial butyrate mediated PI3K/Akt inhibition and perform anti-CRC activity.
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- Jia-Jie Zhu
- Department of Gastroenterology, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Department of Oncology, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Basic Medical College, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, PR China
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Liu CC, Dong SS, Chen JB, Wang C, Ning P, Guo Y, Yang TL. MetaDecoder: a novel method for clustering metagenomic contigs. Microbiome 2022; 10:46. [PMID: 35272700 PMCID: PMC8908641 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01237-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Clustering the metagenomic contigs into potential genomes is a key step to investigate the functional roles of microbial populations. Existing algorithms have achieved considerable success with simulated or real sequencing datasets. However, accurately classifying contigs from complex metagenomes is still a challenge. RESULTS We introduced a novel clustering algorithm, MetaDecoder, which can classify metagenomic contigs based on the frequencies of k-mers and coverages. MetaDecoder was built as a two-layer model with the first layer being a GPU-based modified Dirichlet process Gaussian mixture model (DPGMM), which controls the weight of each DPGMM cluster to avoid over-segmentation by dynamically dissolving contigs in small clusters and reassigning them to the remaining clusters. The second layer comprises a semi-supervised k-mer frequency probabilistic model and a modified Gaussian mixture model for modeling the coverage based on single copy marker genes. Benchmarks on simulated and real-world datasets demonstrated that MetaDecoder can be served as a promising approach for effectively clustering metagenomic contigs. CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, we developed the GPU-based MetaDecoder for effectively clustering metagenomic contigs and reconstructing microbial communities from microbial data. Applying MetaDecoder on both simulated and real-world datasets demonstrated that it could generate more complete clusters with lower contamination. Using MetaDecoder, we identified novel high-quality genomes and expanded the existing catalog of bacterial genomes. Video Abstract.
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- Cong-Cong Liu
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049 P. R. China
- National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Biodiagnosis and Biotherapy, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710004 P. R. China
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Chen JB, Dong SS, Yao S, Duan YY, Hu WX, Chen H, Wang NN, Chen XF, Hao RH, Thynn HN, Guo MR, Zhang YJ, Rong Y, Chen YX, Zhou FL, Guo Y, Yang TL. Modeling circRNA expression pattern with integrated sequence and epigenetic features demonstrates the potential involvement of H3K79me2 in circRNA expression. Bioinformatics 2021; 37:3386. [PMID: 34430971 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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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Dong SS, Zhu DL, Zhou XR, Rong Y, Zeng M, Chen JB, Jiang F, Tuo XM, Feng Z, Yang TL, Guo Y. An Intronic Risk SNP rs12454712 for Central Obesity Acts As an Allele-Specific Enhancer To Regulate BCL2 Expression. Diabetes 2021; 70:1679-1688. [PMID: 34035043 DOI: 10.2337/db20-1151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have reproducibly associated the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs12454712 with waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI (WHRadjBMI), but the functional role underlying this intronic variant is unknown. Integrative genomic and epigenomic analyses supported rs12454712 as a functional independent variant. We further demonstrated that rs12454712 acted as an allele-specific enhancer regulating expression of its located gene BCL2 by using dual-luciferase reporter assays and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9. Specifically, the rs12454712-C allele can bind transcription factor ZNF329, which efficiently elevates the enhancer activity and increases BCL2 expression. Knocking down Bcl2 in 3T3-L1 cells led to the downregulation of adipogenic differentiation marker genes and increased cell apoptosis. A significant negative correlation between BCL2 expression in subcutaneous adipose tissues and obesity was observed. Our findings illustrate the molecular mechanisms behind the intronic SNP rs12454712 for central obesity, which would be a potential and promising target for developing appropriate therapies.
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- Shan-Shan Dong
- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
- Research Institute of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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Rong Y, Dong SS, Hu WX, Guo Y, Chen YX, Chen JB, Zhu DL, Chen H, Yang TL. DDRS: Detection of drug response SNPs specifically in patients receiving drug treatment. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2021; 19:3650-3657. [PMID: 34257842 PMCID: PMC8254081 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.06.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Revised: 06/16/2021] [Accepted: 06/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Detecting SNPs associated with drug efficacy or toxicity is helpful to facilitate personalized medicine. Previous studies usually find SNPs associated with clinical outcome only in patients received a specific treatment. However, without information from patients without drug treatment, it is possible that the detected SNPs are associated with patients' clinical outcome even without drug treatment. Here we aimed to detect drug response SNPs based on data from patients with and without drug treatment through combing the cox proportional-hazards model and pairwise Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. A pipeline named Detection of Drug Response SNPs (DDRS) was built and applied to TCGA breast cancer data including 363 patients with doxorubicin treatment and 321 patients without any drug treatment. We identified 548 doxorubicin associated SNPs. Drug response score derived from these SNPs were associated with drug-resistant level (indicated by IC50) of breast cancer cell lines. Enrichment analyses showed that these SNPs were enriched in active epigenetic regulation markers (e.g., H3K27ac). Compared with random genes, the cis-eQTL genes of these SNPs had a shorter protein-protein interaction distance to doxorubicin associated genes. In addition, linear discriminant analysis showed that the eQTL gene expression levels could be used to predict clinical outcome for patients with doxorubicin treatment (AUC = 0.738). Specifically, we identified rs2817101 as a drug response SNP for doxorubicin treatment. Higher expression level of its cis-eQTL gene GSTA1 is associated with poorer survival. This approach can also be applied to identify new drug associated SNPs in other cancers.
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- Yu Rong
- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China
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- Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China.,National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Biodiagnosis and Biotherapy, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China
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Dong SS, Zhang K, Guo Y, Ding JM, Rong Y, Feng JC, Yao S, Hao RH, Jiang F, Chen JB, Wu H, Chen XF, Yang TL. Phenome-wide investigation of the causal associations between childhood BMI and adult trait outcomes: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study. Genome Med 2021; 13:48. [PMID: 33771188 PMCID: PMC8004431 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-021-00865-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Background Childhood obesity is reported to be associated with the risk of many diseases in adulthood. However, observational studies cannot fully account for confounding factors. We aimed to systematically assess the causal associations between childhood body mass index (BMI) and various adult traits/diseases using two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR). Methods After data filtering, 263 adult traits genetically correlated with childhood BMI (P < 0.05) were subjected to MR analyses. Inverse-variance weighted, MR-Egger, weighted median, and weighted mode methods were used to estimate the causal effects. Multivariable MR analysis was performed to test whether the effects of childhood BMI on adult traits are independent from adult BMI. Results We identified potential causal effects of childhood obesity on 60 adult traits (27 disease-related traits, 27 lifestyle factors, and 6 other traits). Higher childhood BMI was associated with a reduced overall health rating (β = − 0.10, 95% CI − 0.13 to − 0.07, P = 6.26 × 10−11). Specifically, higher childhood BMI was associated with increased odds of coronary artery disease (OR = 1.09, 95% CI 1.06 to 1.11, P = 4.28 × 10−11), essential hypertension (OR = 1.12, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.16, P = 1.27 × 10−11), type 2 diabetes (OR = 1.36, 95% CI 1.30 to 1.43, P = 1.57 × 10−34), and arthrosis (OR = 1.09, 95% CI 1.06 to 1.12, P = 8.80 × 10−9). However, after accounting for adult BMI, the detrimental effects of childhood BMI on disease-related traits were no longer present (P > 0.05). For dietary habits, different from conventional understanding, we found that higher childhood BMI was associated with low calorie density food intake. However, this association might be specific to the UK Biobank population. Conclusions In summary, we provided a phenome-wide view of the effects of childhood BMI on adult traits. Multivariable MR analysis suggested that the associations between childhood BMI and increased risks of diseases in adulthood are likely attributed to individuals remaining obese in later life. Therefore, ensuring that childhood obesity does not persist into later life might be useful for reducing the detrimental effects of childhood obesity on adult diseases. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13073-021-00865-3.
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- Shan-Shan Dong
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China. .,National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Biodiagnosis and Biotherapy, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710004, China.
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Chen YX, Rong Y, Jiang F, Chen JB, Duan YY, Dong SS, Zhu DL, Chen H, Yang TL, Dai Z, Guo Y. An integrative multi-omics network-based approach identifies key regulators for breast cancer. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2020; 18:2826-2835. [PMID: 33133424 PMCID: PMC7585874 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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: 02/29/2020] [Revised: 09/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have successfully identified thousands of risk variants for human complex diseases, understanding the biological function and molecular mechanisms of the associated SNPs involved in complex diseases is challenging. Here we developed a framework named integrative multi-omics network-based approach (IMNA), aiming to identify potential key genes in regulatory networks by integrating molecular interactions across multiple biological scales, including GWAS signals, gene expression-based signatures, chromatin interactions and protein interactions from the network topology. We applied this approach to breast cancer, and prioritized key genes involved in regulatory networks. We also developed an abnormal gene expression score (AGES) signature based on the gene expression deviation of the top 20 rank-ordered genes in breast cancer. The AGES values are associated with genetic variants, tumor properties and patient survival outcomes. Among the top 20 genes, RNASEH2A was identified as a new candidate gene for breast cancer. Thus, our integrative network-based approach provides a genetic-driven framework to unveil tissue-specific interactions from multiple biological scales and reveal potential key regulatory genes for breast cancer. This approach can also be applied in other complex diseases such as ovarian cancer to unravel underlying mechanisms and help for developing therapeutic targets.
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- Yi-Xiao Chen
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, PR China.,Research Institute of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Zhejiang Province 311215, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, PR China.,Research Institute of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Zhejiang Province 311215, PR China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 310003, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, PR China
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Chen JB, Dong SS, Yao S, Duan YY, Hu WX, Chen H, Wang NN, Chen XF, Hao RH, Thynn HN, Guo MR, Zhang YJ, Rong Y, Chen YX, Zhou FL, Guo Y, Yang TL. Modeling circRNA expression pattern with integrated sequence and epigenetic features demonstrates the potential involvement of H3K79me2 in circRNA expression. Bioinformatics 2020; 36:4739-4748. [PMID: 32539144 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Revised: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION CircRNAs are an abundant class of non-coding RNAs with widespread, cell-/tissue-specific patterns. Previous work suggested that epigenetic features might be related to circRNA expression. However, the contribution of epigenetic changes to circRNA expression has not been investigated systematically. Here, we built a machine learning framework named CIRCScan, to predict circRNA expression in various cell lines based on the sequence and epigenetic features. RESULTS The predicted accuracy of the expression status models was high with area under the curve of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) values of 0.89-0.92 and the false-positive rates of 0.17-0.25. Predicted expressed circRNAs were further validated by RNA-seq data. The performance of expression-level prediction models was also good with normalized root-mean-square errors of 0.28-0.30 and Pearson's correlation coefficient r over 0.4 in all cell lines, along with Spearman's correlation coefficient ρ of 0.33-0.46. Noteworthy, H3K79me2 was highly ranked in modeling both circRNA expression status and levels across different cells. Further analysis in additional nine cell lines demonstrated a significant enrichment of H3K79me2 in circRNA flanking intron regions, supporting the potential involvement of H3K79me2 in circRNA expression regulation. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The CIRCScan assembler is freely available online for academic use at https://github.com/johnlcd/CIRCScan. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Jia-Bin Chen
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Department of Hematopathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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Xu J, Wang L, Chen JB, Xu F, Wang KQ, Hou ZF, Huang TY. [Degradation of AO7 with Magnetic Fe 3O 4-CuO Heterogeneous Catalyzed Sodium Percarbonate System]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2020; 41:1734-1742. [PMID: 32608680 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.201908117] [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: 11/22/2022]
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Magnetically recyclable Fe3O4-CuO was synthesized by a one-step hydrothermal method and characterized by scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive spectrometer (SEM-EDS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The degradation of azo dye acid orange 7 (AO7) by percarbonate (SPC) activated with Fe3O4-CuO was studied. The effects of Fe3O4-CuO catalyst loading, SPC concentration, pH value, and common chloride ions on AO7 degradation in the Fe3O4-CuO/SPC system were evaluated. The main reaction mechanism of AO7 degradation was analyzed. The results show that Fe3O4-CuO could effectively activate SPC to degrade AO7 and the reaction was accelerated with the increase of Fe3O4-CuO dosage. The increase of SPC dosage was favorable for the degradation of AO7, but excessive SPC dosage inhibited the degradation of AO7. Common ions (e.g., Cl-) in dye wastewater could promote the degradation of AO7, and the degradation rate increased with increasing concentration of Cl-. The reaction mainly occurred on the surface of the catalyst, and·OH was identified as the main active species for the degradation of AO7. The catalyst Fe3O4-CuO showed excellent stability owing to the high catalytic activity remaining after 4 cycles of repeated use. The Fe3O4-CuO/SPC system achieved a high mineralization rate in the process of decolorization of AO7.
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- Jie Xu
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- Kunshan Architectural Design Co., Ltd., Kunshan 215300, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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Yao S, Dong SS, Ding JM, Rong Y, Zhang YJ, Chen H, Chen JB, Chen YX, Yan H, Dai Z, Guo Y. Sex-specific SNP-SNP interaction analyses within topologically associated domains reveals ANGPT1 as a novel tumor suppressor gene for lung cancer. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2020; 59:13-22. [PMID: 31385379 DOI: 10.1002/gcc.22793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 12/04/2018] [Revised: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Genetic interaction has been recognized to be an important cause of the missing heritability. The topologically associating domain (TAD) is a self-interacting genomic region, and the DNA sequences within a TAD physically interact with each other more frequently. Sex differences influence cancer susceptibility at the genetic level. Here, we performed both regular and sex-specific genetic interaction analyses within TAD to identify susceptibility genes for lung cancer in 5204 lung cancer patients and 7389 controls. We found that one SNP pair, rs4262299-rs1654701, was associated with lung cancer in women after multiple testing corrections (combined P = 8.52 × 10-9 ). Single-SNP analyses did not detect significant association signals for these two SNPs. Both identified SNPs are located in the intron region of ANGPT1. We further found that 5% of nonsmall cell lung cancer patients have an alteration in ANGPT1, indicated the potential role of ANGPT1 in the neoplastic progression in lung cancer. The expression of ANGPT1 was significantly down-regulated in patients in lung squamous cell carcinoma and lung adenocarcinoma. We checked the interaction effect on the ANGPT1 expression and lung cancer and found that the minor allele "G" of rs1654701 increased ANGPT1 gene expression and decreased lung cancer risk with the increased dosage of "A" of rs4262299, which consistent with the tumor suppressor function of ANGPT1. Survival analyses found that the high expression of ANGPT1 was individually associated with a higher survival probability in lung cancer patients. In summary, our results suggest that ANGPT1 may be a novel tumor suppressor gene for lung cancer.
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- Shi Yao
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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Hu J, Tian XY, Chen JB, Ren XF, Cheng YL. [Structural equation model analysis of infectious disease-specific health literacy scale in China]. Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 2019; 40:237-240. [PMID: 30744279 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2019.02.021] [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 explore the relationship between different dimensions of infectious disease-specific health literacy scale in China. Methods: Structural equation model (SEM) was employed to assess the psychometric properties of the infectious disease-specific health literacy scale. Based on the database from a randomly selected sample of 4 499 adult residents in three provinces in China, from March to May 2015. AMOS 21.0 software was used to build the SEM for data analyses. Results: SEM analyses showed a good model fit of data, with the following satisfied parameters: goodness-of-fit index was 0.969, adjusted goodness-of-fit index was 0.962, root mean square residual was 0.038, root mean square error of approximation was 0.038, standardized root mean square residual was 0.032, Tacker-Lewis index/non-normed fit index was 0.926, comparative fit index was 0.934, normed fit index was 0.925, relative fit index was 0.915, incremental fit index was 0.934, parsimony goodness-of-fit index was 0.782, parsimony-adjusted normed fit index was 0.817, parsimony-adjusted comparative fit index was 0.825 and critical N was 702. The established SEM showed that the total influence path coefficient of "infectious disease-related knowledge and values" on the "infectious disease prevention" , "management or treatment of infectious diseases" and "identification of infection sources" were 0.771, 0.744 and 0.843, respectively. The total influence path coefficients of "identification of infection sources" , "infectious disease prevention" on "management or treatment of infectious diseases" were 0.164 and 0.535, respectively. The effect of "infectious disease-related knowledge and values" on "management or treatment of infectious diseases" appeared the greatest (55.4%), followed by "infectious disease prevention" (28.6%) and "identification of infection sources" (2.7%). Conclusion: This SEM could be optimistically used for planning and evaluation of health education and promotion programs on infectious diseases prevention.
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- J Hu
- Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100011, China; Chinese Center for Health Education, Beijing 100011, China
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- Chinese Center for Health Education, Beijing 100011, China
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- Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, Beijing 100011, China
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- Chinese Center for Health Education, Beijing 100011, China
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- Chinese Center for Health Education, Beijing 100011, China
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Chen YX, Guo Y, Dong SS, Chen XF, Chen JB, Zhang YJ, Yao S, Thynn HN, Zhi L, Yang TL. Runs of homozygosity associate with decreased risks of lung cancer in never-smoking East Asian females. J Cancer 2018; 9:3858-3866. [PMID: 30410588 PMCID: PMC6218761 DOI: 10.7150/jca.22855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [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: 08/18/2017] [Accepted: 02/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified some risk single-nucleotide polymorphisms in East Asian never-smoking females, the unexplained missing heritability is still required to be investigated. Runs of homozygosity (ROHs) are thought to be a type of genetic variation acting on human complex traits and diseases. We detected ROHs in 8,881 East Asian never-smoking women. The summed ROHs were used to fit a logistic regression model which noteworthily revealed a significant association between ROHs and the decreased risk of lung cancer (P < 0.05). We identified 4 common ROHs regions located at 2p22.1, which were significantly associated with decreased risk of lung cancer (P = 2.00 × 10-4 - 1.35 × 10-4). Functional annotation was conducted to investigate the regulatory function of ROHs. The common ROHs were overlapped with potential regulatory elements, such as active epigenome elements and chromatin states in lung-derived cell lines. SOS1 and ARHGEF33 were significantly up-regulated as the putative target genes of the identified ROHs in lung cancer samples according to the analysis of differently expressed genes. Our results suggest that ROHs could act as recessive contributing factors and regulatory elements to influence the risk of lung cancer in never-smoking East Asian females.
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- Yi-Xiao Chen
- Department of Joint Surgery, Honghui Hospital; The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China.,Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, P. R. China
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- Department of Joint Surgery, Honghui Hospital; The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China
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- Department of Joint Surgery, Honghui Hospital; The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China.,Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, P. R. China
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Shan LQ, Cai HB, Zhang WS, Tang Q, Zhang F, Song ZF, Bi B, Ge FJ, Chen JB, Liu DX, Wang WW, Yang ZH, Qi W, Tian C, Yuan ZQ, Zhang B, Yang L, Jiao JL, Cui B, Zhou WM, Cao LF, Zhou CT, Gu YQ, Zhang BH, Zhu SP, He XT. Experimental Evidence of Kinetic Effects in Indirect-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Hohlraums. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 120:195001. [PMID: 29799245 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.195001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2017] [Revised: 01/19/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We present the first experimental evidence supported by simulations of kinetic effects launched in the interpenetration layer between the laser-driven hohlraum plasma bubbles and the corona plasma of the compressed pellet at the Shenguang-III prototype laser facility. Solid plastic capsules were coated with carbon-deuterium layers; as the implosion neutron yield is quenched, DD fusion yield from the corona plasma provides a direct measure of the kinetic effects inside the hohlraum. An anomalous large energy spread of the DD neutron signal (∼282 keV) and anomalous scaling of the neutron yield with the thickness of the carbon-deuterium layers cannot be explained by the hydrodynamic mechanisms. Instead, these results can be attributed to kinetic shocks that arise in the hohlraum-wall-ablator interpenetration region, which result in efficient acceleration of the deuterons (∼28.8 J, 0.45% of the total input laser energy). These studies provide novel insight into the interactions and dynamics of a vacuum hohlraum and near-vacuum hohlraum.
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- L Q Shan
- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
- HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Graduate School, China Academy of Engineering Physics, P.O. Box 2101, Beijing 100088, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
- IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
- IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
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- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
- Graduate School, China Academy of Engineering Physics, P.O. Box 2101, Beijing 100088, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
- HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Xia WJ, Liu F, Hao SB, Huang TY, Wang ZM, Chen JB. [Degradation of OG with Peroxymonosulfate Activated by a MnFe 2O 4-graphene Hybrid]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2018; 39:2202-2210. [PMID: 29965520 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.201709162] [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: 11/22/2022]
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The rG-MnFe2O4 was synthesized by hydrothermal method and characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and Raman spectra. The rG-MnFe2O4 was used to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) to decolorize azo dyes, e.g., Orange G, and the effect of PMS dosage, rG-MnFe2O4 loadings, initial pH, and the concentration of Cl- were investigated. The results indicated that the degradation rate of OG was 100% within 27 min with 0.3 g ·L-1 of rG-MnFe2O4 and at a 40:1 of PMS:OG molar ratio. The decolorization efficiency of OG increased with increasing PMS concentration and increasing rG-MnFe2O4 dosage. The initial pH had a significant effect on OG degradation, and pH 5.00 was most favorable for its decolorization. In addition, the addition of Cl- accelerated the decolorization of OG, and the decolorization rate increased with increasing concentration of Cl-. The rG-MnFe2O4 also exhibited an excellent reusability, and its activation of PMS was still observed after five rounds of tests. From the analysis of UV-vis spectra and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS), the naphthalene ring and azo band were found to be destroyed, with p-nitrophenol and phthalic acid as the main degradation products. Finally, a TOC analysis indicated that a certain degree of OG mineralization was obtained in the rG-MnFe2O4/PMS system.
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- Wen-Jun Xia
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- Changzhou Municipal Enginerring Design Research College Co., Ltd., Changzhou 213003, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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Chen XF, Zhu DL, Yang M, Hu WX, Duan YY, Lu BJ, Rong Y, Dong SS, Hao RH, Chen JB, Chen YX, Yao S, Thynn HN, Guo Y, Yang TL. An Osteoporosis Risk SNP at 1p36.12 Acts as an Allele-Specific Enhancer to Modulate LINC00339 Expression via Long-Range Loop Formation. Am J Hum Genet 2018; 102:776-793. [PMID: 29706346 PMCID: PMC5986728 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [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: 09/25/2017] [Accepted: 02/28/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have reproducibly associated variants within intergenic regions of 1p36.12 locus with osteoporosis, but the functional roles underlying these noncoding variants are unknown. Through an integrative functional genomic and epigenomic analyses, we prioritized rs6426749 as a potential causal SNP for osteoporosis at 1p36.12. Dual-luciferase assay and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments demonstrate that rs6426749 acts as a distal allele-specific enhancer regulating expression of a lncRNA (LINC00339) (∼360 kb) via long-range chromatin loop formation and that this loop is mediated by CTCF occupied near rs6426749 and LINC00339 promoter region. Specifically, rs6426749-G allele can bind transcription factor TFAP2A, which efficiently elevates the enhancer activity and increases LINC00339 expression. Downregulation of LINC00339 significantly increases the expression of CDC42 in osteoblast cells, which is a pivotal regulator involved in bone metabolism. Our study provides mechanistic insight into how a noncoding SNP affects osteoporosis by long-range interaction, a finding that could indicate promising therapeutic targets for osteoporosis.
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- Xiao-Feng Chen
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China.
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Chen JB, Zhang J, Hu HZ, Xue M, Jin YJ. Polymorphisms of TGFB1, TLE4 and MUC22 are associated with childhood asthma in Chinese population. Allergol Immunopathol (Madr) 2017; 45:432-438. [PMID: 28262390 DOI: 10.1016/j.aller.2016.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 10/31/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the genetic variants of TGFB1, TLE4, MUC22 and IKZF3 are associated with the development of asthma in Chinese children. METHODS 572 adolescent asthma patients and 590 age-matched healthy controls were included in this study. A total of four SNPs were genotyped, including rs2241715 of TGFB1, rs2378383 of TLE4, rs2523924 of MUC22, and rs907092 of IKZF3. Allele frequencies of the patients and the control group were compared by the Chi-square test. The Student t test was used to analyse the relationship between genotypes and clinical feature of the patients. RESULTS Patients were found to have significantly different frequencies of allele A of rs2241715, allele G of rs2378383 and allele A of rs2523924 as compared with the controls (40.4% vs. 45.9%, p=0.01 for rs2241715; 17.2% vs. 13.4%, p=0.01 for rs2378383; 15.3% vs. 11.9%, p=0.02 for rs2523924). For patients with severe asthma, those with genotype AA/AG of rs2241715 had remarkably higher FEV1% as compared with those with genotype GG (59.1±4.3% vs. 55.4±3.7%, p<0.001). Moreover, those with genotype GG/GA of rs2378383 had remarkably lower FEV1% as compared with those with genotype AA (54.6±2.9% vs. 58.6±4.1%, p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS Genes TGFB1, TLE4 and MUC22 are associated with the risk of childhood asthma in Chinese population. Our results associating TGFB1 and TLE4 with clinical features of asthma suggest potential application of these parameters in the management of asthma children.
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- J B Chen
- Department of Paediatrics, Jiangsu Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Jiangsu Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, China
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- Department of Paediatrics, Jiangsu Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, China
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- Department of Paediatrics, Jiangsu Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, China
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- Department of Paediatrics, Jiangsu Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, China.
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Dong SS, Guo Y, Yao S, Chen YX, He MN, Zhang YJ, Chen XF, Chen JB, Yang TL. Integrating regulatory features data for prediction of functional disease-associated SNPs. Brief Bioinform 2017; 20:26-32. [DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbx094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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- Shan-Shan Dong
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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Yao S, Guo Y, Dong SS, Hao RH, Chen XF, Chen YX, Chen JB, Tian Q, Deng HW, Yang TL. Regulatory element-based prediction identifies new susceptibility regulatory variants for osteoporosis. Hum Genet 2017. [PMID: 28634715 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-017-1825-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Despite genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified many susceptibility genes for osteoporosis, it still leaves a large part of missing heritability to be discovered. Integrating regulatory information and GWASs could offer new insights into the biological link between the susceptibility SNPs and osteoporosis. We generated five machine learning classifiers with osteoporosis-associated variants and regulatory features data. We gained the optimal classifier and predicted genome-wide SNPs to discover susceptibility regulatory variants. We further utilized Genetic Factors for Osteoporosis Consortium (GEFOS) and three in-house GWASs samples to validate the associations for predicted positive SNPs. The random forest classifier performed best among all machine learning methods with the F1 score of 0.8871. Using the optimized model, we predicted 37,584 candidate SNPs for osteoporosis. According to the meta-analysis results, a list of regulatory variants was significantly associated with osteoporosis after multiple testing corrections and contributed to the expression of known osteoporosis-associated protein-coding genes. In summary, combining GWASs and regulatory elements through machine learning could provide additional information for understanding the mechanism of osteoporosis. The regulatory variants we predicted will provide novel targets for etiology research and treatment of osteoporosis.
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- Shi Yao
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, People's Republic of China
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- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710049, People's Republic of China.
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Wang LM, Zhang LD, Chen JB, Huang DF, Zhang YD. Physiological analysis and transcriptome comparison of two muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) cultivars in response to salt stress. Genet Mol Res 2016; 15:gmr8738. [PMID: 27706747 DOI: 10.4238/gmr.15038738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is an important vegetable crop that ranks second in salt tolerance among the Cucurbitaceae. Previous studies on the two muskmelon cultivars 'Bing XueCui' (BXC) and 'Yu Lu' (YL) revealed that they had different characteristics under salt stress, but the molecular basis underlying their different physiological responses is unclear. Here, we combined a physiological study with a genome-wide transcriptome analysis to understand the molecular basis of genetic variation that responds to salt stress in the melon. BXC performed better under salt stress than YL in terms of biomass and photosynthetic characteristics, because it exhibited less reduction in transpiration rate, net photosynthesis rate, and stomatal conductance under 150-mM NaCl stress than YL. A transcriptome comparison of the leaves of the cultivars revealed that 1171 genes responded to salt stress in BXC while 1487 genes were identified as salt-stress-responsive in YL. A real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis of 12 of the responsive genes revealed that there was a strong, positive correlation with RNA sequencing data. The genes were involved in several pathways, including photosynthesis, the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, metabolism, and plant hormone signal transduction, and their expression levels differed between the two cultivars in response to salt stress. This study provides a molecular perspective of two melon cultivars in response to salt stress, and its results could be used to investigate the complex molecular mechanisms underlying salt tolerance in the melon.
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- L M Wang
- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China .,Key Laboratory of Urban Agriculture (South), Ministry of Agriculture, Shanghai, China
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Chen JB, Wang F, Wu JJ, Cai M. Glutathione S-transferase pi polymorphism contributes to the treatment outcomes of advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients in a Chinese population. Genet Mol Res 2016; 15:gmr7498. [PMID: 27525853 DOI: 10.4238/gmr.15037498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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We analyzed the association between polymorphisms in three glutathione S-transferase genes (GSTP1, GSTM1, and GSTT1) and the treatment outcome for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We recruited 284 NSCLC patients at advanced stage from Department of Radiotherapy in Peace Hospital Attached to Changzhi Medical College between May 2009 and May 2011, who had received cisplatin-based chemotherapy. The GSTP1, GSTM1, and GSTT1 genotyping for was determined using DNA pyrosequencing on an ABI Prism 3100 DNA analyzer. In the Cox proportional hazards model, the IIe/Val and Val/Val genotypes of GSTP1 were associated with lower risk of disease progression compared with the IIe/IIe genotype, and the HRs (95%CIs) were 0.37 (0.18-0.74) and 0.15 (0.06-0.35), respectively. The IIe/Val and Val/Val genotypes significantly decreased risk of death from all causes in patients with NSCLC, and the HRs (95%CIs) were 0.52 (0.29-0.92) and 0.37 (0.17- 0.79), respectively No significant association was observed between GSTM1 and GSTT1 polymorphisms and progression-free survival and overall survival in the NSCLC patients. In summary, we suggest that GSTP1 polymorphisms might influence the treatment outcome of advanced NSCLC patients, and our results could help improve individualized therapy.
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- J B Chen
- Department of Radiotherapy, Peace Hospital Attached to Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi, China
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Peace Hospital Attached to Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi, China
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Peace Hospital Attached to Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi, China
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Peace Hospital Attached to Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi, China
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Wang ZM, Chen JB, Zhang LM, Li WW, Huang TY. [Activated Carbon Supported Co 3O 4 Catalysts to Activate Peroxymonosulfate for Orange G Degradation]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2016; 37:2591-2600. [PMID: 29964467 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.2016.07.023] [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: 06/08/2023]
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Activated carbon supported cobalt catalysts (Co/AC) were prepared through wet impregnation and high temperature calcination methods. The X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) characterization results showed that Co3O4 was the major form of Co species distributed on AC. The performance of Co/AC was evaluated as catalyst to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) to produce sulfate radicals (SO4-·) for Orange G (OG) degradation in solution. The activation mechanism and several influential factors were also investigated. The results demonstrated that SO4-·played a dominant role in OG degradation. And the degradation efficiency of OG increased with increasing Co/AC dosage, higher PMS concentration or elevating reaction temperature. Initial pH had a significant effect on OG degradation, with pH range of 4 to 8 as the optimal pH for degradation. In addition, the strong acidic or alkaline conditions were unfavorable for OG degradation. A dual effect of chloride ions (Cl-) was observed. The high Cl- concentration promoted degradation, while low concentration led to inhibition. The Co/AC also exhibited excellent reusability and its activating performance toward PMS was still observed after 6 rounds of tests. Finally, the degradation process and intermediate products of OG were analyzed with UV-visible spectroscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS).
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- Zhong-Ming Wang
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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Zhang LM, Chen JB, Li WW, Wang ZM, Huang TY. [Kinetics for Degradation of Orange G with Peroxymonosulfate Activated by Carbon Nanotubes]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2016; 37:2601-2609. [PMID: 29964468 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.2016.07.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Carbon nanotube (CNT) was used as an activator to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) to degrade azo dye orange G (OG) in aqueous solution. The results indicated that CNT exhibited a much better performance in activating PMS to decolorize OG than activated carbon (GAC), with 99% decolorization of OG achieved within 45 min. Afterwards, the degradation mechanism of OG in CNT activated PMS system was explored, and SO4-·was found to be dominantly responsible for OG degradation, which mainly took place on the surface of CNT. Effects of various factors, including temperatures, initial concentration of OG, CNT loadings, PMS dosage, and initial pH, on degradation of OG were then investigated, and OG degradation in these cases well conformed to first-order kinetics. From the analysis of UV-vis spectra of OG during the reaction, the peaks at 479 nm and 330 nm were found to be significantly decreased, suggesting that the azo band and naphthaline ring were destructed, respectively. Finally, TOC analysis indicated that a certain degree of OG mineralization was obtained in CNT activated PMS system.
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- Li-Ming Zhang
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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Liou CW, Chuang JH, Chen JB, Tiao MM, Wang PW, Huang ST, Huang TL, Lee WC, Weng SW, Huang PH, Chen SD, Chen RS, Lu CS, Lin TK. Mitochondrial DNA variants as genetic risk factors for Parkinson disease. Eur J Neurol 2016; 23:1289-300. [PMID: 27160373 DOI: 10.1111/ene.13020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [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: 11/08/2015] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Investigation of the relationship between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variants and Parkinson disease (PD) remains an issue awaiting more supportive evidence. Moreover, an affirming cellular model study is also lacking. METHODS The index mtDNA variants and their defining mitochondrial haplogroup were determined in 725 PD patients and 744 non-PD controls. Full-length mtDNA sequences were also conducted in 110 cases harboring various haplogroups. Cybrid cellular models, composed by fusion of mitochondria-depleted rho-zero cells and donor mitochondria, were used for a rotenone-induced PD simulation study. RESULTS Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that subjects harboring the mitochondrial haplogroup B5 have resistance against PD (odds ratio 0.50, 95% confidence interval 0.32-0.78; P = 0.002). Furthermore, a composite mtDNA variant group consisting of A10398G and G8584A at the coding region was found to have resistance against PD (odds ratio 0.50, 95% confidence interval 0.33-0.78; P = 0.001). In cellular studies, B4 and B5 cybrids were selected according to their higher resistance to rotenone, in comparison with cybrids harboring other haplogroups. The B5 cybrid, containing G8584A/A10398G variants, showed more resistance to rotenone than the B4 cybrid not harboring these variants. This is supported by findings of low reactive oxygen species generation and a low apoptosis rate in the B5 cybrid, whereas a higher expression of autophagy was observed in the B4 cybrid particularly under medium dosage and longer treatment time with rotenone. CONCLUSIONS Our studies, offering positive results from clinical investigations and cybrid experiments, provide data supporting the role of variant mtDNA in the risk of PD.
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- C W Liou
- Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. .,Mitochondrial Research Unit, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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- Department of Pediatrics Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Division of Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Chinese Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Division of Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Mitochondrial Research Unit, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Section of Movement Disorder, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Section of Movement Disorder, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.,Mitochondrial Research Unit, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Hao RH, Guo Y, Dong SS, Weng GZ, Yan H, Zhu DL, Chen XF, Chen JB, Yang TL. Associations of Plasma FGF2 Levels and Polymorphisms in the FGF2 Gene with Obesity Phenotypes in Han Chinese Population. Sci Rep 2016; 6:19868. [PMID: 26879180 PMCID: PMC4754629 DOI: 10.1038/srep19868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Accepted: 12/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Obesity is highly heritable, but the specific genes influencing obesity related traits are largely unknown. Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) could influence adipocyte differentiation. However, the association of FGF2 polymorphisms and obesity remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the associations of both the plasma FGF2 levels and SNPs in FGF2 gene with obesity phenotypes in Han Chinese populations. Plasma FGF2 levels were measured and subjected to association analyses in 62 subjects. Eleven SNPs in FGF2 were genotyped and tested for associations in a discovery sample of 1,300 subjects. SNPs significantly associated with obesity were subjected to replication in another independent sample of 1,035 subjects. We found that plasma FGF2 levels were positively correlated with fat mass (P = 0.010). Association analyses in the discovery sample identified three SNPs (rs1449683, rs167428, rs308442) significantly associated with fat mass after multiple testing adjustments (P < 0.0045). Subsequent replication study successfully validated one SNP (rs167428) associated with fat mass (Pcombine = 3.46 × 10−5). eQTL analyses revealed that SNPs associated with obesity also affected FGF2 expression. Our findings suggested that high plasma FGF2 level correlated with increased risk of obesity, and FGF2 gene polymorphisms could affect individual variances of obesity in Han Chinese population.
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- Ruo-Han Hao
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Xi'an Jiaotong University Hospital, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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Wu JW, Wang JJ, Chen JB, Huang YL, Wang H, Liu GH, Li LF, Kang M, Wang XG, Cai HH. Resveratrol could reverse the expression of SIRT1 and MMP-1 in vitro. Genet Mol Res 2015; 14:12386-93. [PMID: 26505388 DOI: 10.4238/2015.october.16.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [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: 11/03/2022]
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Intervertebral disc degeneration is the main cause of lumbago disease, in which the extracellular matrix structure and moisture in the nucleus pulposus is lost continuously. In this study, we aimed to detect differential expression of silence mating type information regulation 2 homolog 1 (SIRT1) and matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) in human intervertebral disc nucleus pulposus cells and to explore the effects of SIRT1 and MMP-1 on the development of the intervertebral disc degeneration. Intervertebral disc nucleus pulposus specimens from 41 patients who underwent lumbar protrusion resection at HuiZhou Municipal Central Hospital, during the period from October 2011 to December 2013, were studied in comparison with 23 control cases from patients who underwent fractured lumbar resection. In degenerated human intervertebral disc nucleus pulposus cells, the expression of SIRT1 is decreased and MMP-1 is increased compared with that of the control cells. Resveratrol could reverse these effects, thereby increasing the expression of SIRT1 (0.87 ± 0.07 vs 0.54 ± 0.04), Coll2α1 (0.90 ± 0.08 vs 0.38 ± 0.01), and aggrecan (0.69 ± 0.07 vs 0.42 ± 0.05) and decreasing the expression of MMP-1 (0.61 ± 0.03 vs 0.93 ± 0.08). These results suggest that resveratrol could possibly reverse the process of intervertebral disc degeneration and thus could be applied as a potential drug for the disease.
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- J W Wu
- Department of Spine Surgery, HuiZhou Municipal Central Hospital, HuiZhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, HuiZhou Municipal Central Hospital, HuiZhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, HuiZhou Municipal Central Hospital, HuiZhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, HuiZhou Municipal Central Hospital, HuiZhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, HuiZhou Municipal Central Hospital, HuiZhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, HuiZhou Municipal Central Hospital, HuiZhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Emergency, HuiZhou Municipal Central Hospital, HuiZhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, HuiZhou Municipal Central Hospital, HuiZhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, HuiZhou Municipal Central Hospital, HuiZhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, HuiZhou Municipal Central Hospital, HuiZhou, Guangdong, China
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Guo Y, Yang TL, Dong SS, Yan H, Hao RH, Chen XF, Chen JB, Tian Q, Li J, Shen H, Deng HW. Genetic analysis identifies DDR2 as a novel gene affecting bone mineral density and osteoporotic fractures in Chinese population. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0117102. [PMID: 25658585 PMCID: PMC4319719 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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DDR2 gene, playing an essential role in regulating osteoblast differentiation and chondrocyte maturation, may influence bone mineral density (BMD) and osteoporosis, but the genetic variations actually leading to the association remain to be elucidated. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate whether the genetic variants in DDR2 are associated with BMD and fracture risk. This study was performed in three samples from two ethnicities, including 1,300 Chinese Han subjects, 700 Chinese Han subjects (350 with osteoporotic hip fractures and 350 healthy controls) and 2,286 US white subjects. Twenty-eight SNPs in DDR2 were genotyped and tested for associations with hip BMD and fractures. We identified 3 SNPs in DDR2 significantly associated with hip BMD in the Chinese population after multiple testing adjustments, which were rs7521233 (P = 1.06×10-4, β: -0.018 for allele C), rs7553831 (P = 1.30×10-4, β: -0.018 for allele T), and rs6697469 (P = 1.59×10-3, β: -0.015 for allele C), separately. These three SNPs were in high linkage disequilibrium. Haplotype analyses detected two significantly associated haplotypes, including one haplotype in block 2 (P = 9.54×10-4, β: -0.016) where these three SNPs located. SNP rs6697469 was also associated with hip fractures (P = 0.043, OR: 1.42) in the Chinese population. The effect on fracture risk was consistent with its association with lower BMD. However, in the white population, we didn't observe significant associations with hip BMD. eQTL analyses revealed that SNPs associated with BMD also affected DDR2 mRNA expression levels in Chinese. Our findings, together with the prior biological evidence, suggest that DDR2 could be a new candidate for osteoporosis in Chinese population. Our results also reveal an ethnic difference, which highlights the need for further genetic studies in each ethnic group.
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- Yan Guo
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
- * E-mail: (TLY); (HWD)
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- * E-mail: (TLY); (HWD)
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Dong SS, Yang TL, Yan H, Rong ZQ, Chen JB, Hao RH, Chen XF, Guo Y. Association analyses of FGFR2 gene polymorphisms with femoral neck bone mineral density in Chinese Han population. Mol Genet Genomics 2014; 290:485-91. [PMID: 25300516 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-014-0936-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2014] [Accepted: 09/30/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Femoral neck (FN) bone mineral density (BMD) is the most important risk phenotype for osteoporosis and has been used as a reference standard for describing osteoporosis. Identification of genetic variations associated with FN BMD may provide potential targets for therapeutic studies. Given the important biological role of FGFR2 gene involved in bone, we tested the associations between FGFR2 polymorphisms and FN BMD in 1,300 Chinese Han subjects. Of the 28 total SNPs, 2 SNPs, namely rs11200014 and rs1078806, were significantly associated with FN BMD under dominant model (P = 0.0014 and 0.0012, respectively) after conservative Bonferroni correction. The two SNPs were in complete linkage disequilibrium. In addition, haplotype-based association tests identified two haplotypes significantly associated with FN BMD, including one haplotype in block 4 where the two SNPs located. However, different from previous studies in white older men, we did not detect any significant association in sex-stratified analyses. In summary, our findings suggest that the FGFR2 gene may play an important role in variation in FN BMD in Chinese Han population, independent of gender effects. Further studies performed in multiple and large samples are needed to elucidate the underlying molecular mechanism and pathophysiology of osteoporosis.
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- Shan-Shan Dong
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, People's Republic of China
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Chen JB, Gao HW, Zhang YL, Zhang Y, Zhou XF, Li CQ, Gao HP. Developmental toxicity of diclofenac and elucidation of gene regulation in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Sci Rep 2014; 4:4841. [PMID: 24788080 PMCID: PMC4007093 DOI: 10.1038/srep04841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2013] [Accepted: 04/08/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Environmental pollution by emerging contaminants, e.g. pharmaceuticals, has become a matter of widespread concern in recent years. We investigated the membrane transport of diclofenac and its toxic effects on gene expression and the development of zebrafish embryos. The association of diclofenac with the embryos conformed to the general partition model at low concentration, the partition coefficient being 0.0033 ml per embryo. At high concentration, the interaction fitted the Freundlich model. Most of the diclofenac remained in the extracellular aqueous solution with less than 5% interacting with the embryo, about half of which was adsorbed on the membranes while the rest entered the cytoplasm. Concentrations of diclofenac over 10.13 μM were lethal to all the embryos, while 3.78 μM diclofenac was teratogenic. The development abnormalities at 4 day post treatment (dpt) include shorter body length, smaller eye, pericardial and body edema, lack of liver, intestine and circulation, muscle degeneration, and abnormal pigmentation. The portion of the diclofenac transferred into the embryo altered the expression of certain genes, e.g. down-regulation of Wnt3a and Gata4 and up-regulation of Wnt8a. The alteration of expression of such genes or the regulation of downstream genes could cause defects in the cardiovascular and nervous systems.
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- Jia-Bin Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- Hunter Biotechnology, Inc., Hangzhou, 311231, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- Hunter Biotechnology, Inc., Hangzhou, 311231, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
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Wang JR, Yu JL, Li GH, Wang M, Gao B, Li HF, Chen JB, Zhang C. [Imaging assessment of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis]. Zhonghua Er Ke Za Zhi 2013; 51:331-335. [PMID: 23941837] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To improve the understanding of recognizing and diagnosis of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), imaging assessment of neonates with NEC was analyzed retrospectively. METHOD Data of 211 cases of NEC were retrospectively collected from the Department of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University between Jan.1(st) 2006-Dec.31(st) 2011. RESULT Analysis of abdominal X-ray of 211 cases showed that there were 40 cases (19.0%) who had no changes on each X-ray, 47 cases (22.3%) had improvement and 23 cases (10.9%) became worse. In the group of no changes, positive rate with good prognosis was 97.5% and with poor prognosis, it was 2.5%. In the group of improvement, positive rate with good prognosis was 97.9%, and the contrary was 2.1%. Positive rate with good prognosis was 56.5%, and the contrary was 43.5% in worse group. Chi-square analysis of the three groups showed χ(2) = 31.742, P < 0.01. Comparison of detection rate of pneumoperitoneum on abdominal X-ray (16.0%, 12/75) and Doppler US (1.3%, 1/75), χ(2) = 10.191, P < 0.05, portal pneumatosis on abdominal X-ray(1.3%, 1/75) versus Doppler US (12.0%,9/75), χ(2) = 6.857, P < 0.05. Surgical timing mostly corresponded to pneumoperitoneum (OR = 19.543) and intestinal obstruction (OR = 19.527) of abdominal X-ray. The logistic regression equation is y = -2.915-1.588x1+2.972x4+2.973x7 + 1.711x9 (χ(2) = 101.705, P < 0.01). CONCLUSION Abdominal X-ray is the most important method of diagnosis of NEC, the group of deterioration of abdominal X-ray has obvious bad prognosis differ from no change group and better group. Comparison with abdominal X-ray and Doppler US, the former in pneumoperitoneum positive rate was higher than the latter, at the same time, portal pneumatosis on Doppler US is more sensitive to abdominal X-ray, the value of two imaging assessments both supplement each other. Surgical timing mostly corresponds to pneumoperitoneum and intestinal obstruction.
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MESH Headings
- Abdomen/diagnostic imaging
- Abdomen/surgery
- Birth Weight
- Enterocolitis, Necrotizing/diagnosis
- Enterocolitis, Necrotizing/pathology
- Enterocolitis, Necrotizing/surgery
- Female
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases/diagnosis
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases/pathology
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases/surgery
- Infant, Premature
- Intestinal Perforation/diagnostic imaging
- Intestinal Perforation/surgery
- Logistic Models
- Male
- Pneumoperitoneum/diagnosis
- Pneumoperitoneum/diagnostic imaging
- Portal Vein/diagnostic imaging
- Portal Vein/pathology
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Prognosis
- Radiography, Abdominal
- Retrospective Studies
- Severity of Illness Index
- Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color
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- Jia-Rong Wang
- Department of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400014, China
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Luo PG, Deng KJ, Hu XY, Li LQ, Li X, Chen JB, Zhang HY, Tang ZX, Zhang Y, Sun QX, Tan FQ, Ren ZL. Chloroplast ultrastructure regeneration with protection of photosystem II is responsible for the functional 'stay-green' trait in wheat. Plant Cell Environ 2013; 36:683-96. [PMID: 22943368 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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CN17 is a functional stay-green wheat variety that exhibits delayed leaf senescence and enhanced photosynthetic competence. To better understand these valuable traits, levels of chlorophyll a and b, soluble proteins, unsaturated fatty acids, and other components of CN17 were assayed. In addition, chloroplast ultrastructure, chloroplast number, and differences in gene expression between CN17 and a control variety, MY11, were examined. By 21 d post-anthesis (DPA), CN17 leaves exhibited a significantly higher maximal photochemical efficiency for photosystem II (PSII) (F(v) /F(m) ) and a significantly higher efficiency of excitation capture by open PSII reaction centres (F(v) '/F(m) '). In addition, chlorophyll degradation in CN17 was delayed by approximately 14 d, and was not blocked as observed in cosmetic stay-green phenotypes. The soluble protein content (Ps) of CN17 was higher than MY11 at all timepoints assayed, and the ratio of unsaturated to saturated fatty acids was significantly higher. CN17 also exhibited isolated granal lamellae associated with vesicles and diminished peroxidation, and between 35 and 42 DPA, a sharp decrease in chloroplast number was detected. Taken together, these results strongly support the hypothesis that chloroplast ultrastructure regeneration is responsible for the functional stay-green trait of CN17, and gene expression data provide insight into the mechanistic details.
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- P G Luo
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan 625014, China.
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Chen JB, Sun H, Zhou LX, He M, Lei D. Successful endovascular treatment of carotid aneurysms in a patient with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. J Neurol Surg A Cent Eur Neurosurg 2012; 74 Suppl 1:e85-8. [PMID: 22847070 DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1322591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Patients with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) can develop internal carotid artery (ICA) aneurysms. Any surgical procedure is hazardous and often unrewarding because of fragile blood vessels. Endovascular treatment may be an alternative approach to the treatment of ICA aneurysms in patients with vascular EDS. CASE A 23-year-old woman with vascular EDS developed a cervical right ICA aneurysm and a left petrous ICA aneurysm, which were successfully treated with endovascular interventions without major complications. CONCLUSION This case report suggests that endovascular treatment of ICA aneurysms is feasible and can be achieved in patients with vascular EDS.
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- J B Chen
- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, West China School of Medicine Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, West China School of Medicine Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, West China School of Medicine Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, West China School of Medicine Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, West China School of Medicine Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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Zhang LP, Gan QF, Ma TH, Li HD, Wang XP, Li JY, Gao X, Chen JB, Ren HY, Xu SZ. Toll-like receptor 2 gene polymorphism and its relationship with SCS in dairy cattle. Anim Biotechnol 2009; 20:87-95. [PMID: 19544205 DOI: 10.1080/10495390902873096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) plays an important role in the innate immune response to a variety of pathogens. In this study, bovine TLR2 gene was taken as a candidate gene for mastitis resistance. Through PCR-SSCP analysis and sequencing, three missense mutations at T385 G, G398A, and G1884A were detected in the coding region that encoded extracellular domain. Altogether 240 dairy cattle of three breeds (Holstein, Simmental, and Sanhe cattle) were genotyped and allele frequencies were determined. The effects of TLR2 polymorphisms on somatic cell score (SCS) were analyzed and significant association was found between T385 G and SCS. The mean of genotype GG was significantly lower than those of genotype TT and TG. No significant associations were found with SCS for G398A and G1884A. Information provided in this research will be useful in further studies to determine the role of TLR2 gene in the mastitis resistance.
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- L P Zhang
- Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
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Yang X, Hu J, Chen D, Zhang H, Shen X, Chen J, Ji L. Verification of GRAPES unified global and regional numerical weather prediction model dynamic core. Sci Bull (Beijing) 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0417-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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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Yang X, Chen J, Hu J, Chen D, Shen X, Zhang H. A semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian global nonhydrostatic model and the polar discretization scheme. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-0124-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Chen JB, Yu Y, Yang JL, Morgan DAF, Walsh WR. BMP-7 and CBFA1 in allograft bone in vivo bone formation and the influence of gamma-irradiation. J Biomed Mater Res A 2007; 80:435-43. [PMID: 17013857 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.30913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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An initial study showed that morselized human bone grafts were osteoconductive and osteoinductive when implanted in nude rat tibial window defects, and 25 kGy of gamma-irradiation significantly reduced those properties. The mechanism of the osteoinductivity and the influence of gamma-irradiation required further investigation. In this study we assessed the paraffin sections of seven morselized human bone grafts implanted into rat tibial defects for 3 weeks after being treated with 0, 15, or 25 kGy gamma-radiation respectively. Osteoclast-like cell counting and protein expressions of bone morphogenetic protein-7 (BMP-7), core binding factor alpha1 (CBFA1), and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) were investigated and the positive signals were quantitatively analyzed. More new bone formation was observed in the 0 and 15 kGy groups compared with 25 kGy groups. The newly formed bones were found mainly from the intact cortex into the defects bridged by the implanted grafts. A dense staining of BMP-7 and CBFA1 was noted in the osteoblast-like cells in those areas. The BMP-7 and CBFA1 staining was also seen in the cells surrounding the implanted grafts in the centre areas of the defects in distance from the intact cortex. Quantitative analysis of immunohistochemical staining of the centre areas of the defects showed that gamma-irradiation (15 and 25 kGy) significantly reduced the expression of CBFA1 and BMP-7. In conclusion, morselized human bone grafts may contain some factors, which induced osteoblast lineage differentiation and bone formation and gamma-irradiation damages those bone inducing factors.
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- J B Chen
- Surgical and Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2031, Australia
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Hu CL, Li YB, Zou YG, Zhang JM, Chen JB, Liu J, Tang YH, Tang QZ, Huang CX. Troponin T measurement can predict persistent left ventricular dysfunction in peripartum cardiomyopathy. Heart 2006; 93:488-90. [PMID: 17065185 PMCID: PMC1861492 DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.087387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether measurement of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) concentration in newly diagnosed peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) can be used to predict persistent left ventricular dysfunction after a 6-month follow-up. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a prospective, multiple-centre clinical trial that studied 106 patients with newly diagnosed PPCM surviving over 6 months. cTnT concentration was measured within 2 weeks of the onset of PPCM. RESULTS Serum cTnT concentration was negatively correlated with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) at follow-up (LVEF, r = -0.518, p = 0.0001). Analysis by receiver operator characteristic curve yielded an area under the curve of 0.764 (95% CI 0.669 to 0.860, p = 0.0001, vs null hypothesis value 0.5) for cTnT, and a cTnT concentration cut off of >0.04 ng/ml, predicting persistent left ventricular dysfunction with a sensitivity of 54.9% and a specificity of 90.9%. Among 106 recruited patients, there were 33 patients with cTnT concentrations >0.04 ng/ml and 73 patients with cTnT concentrations < or =0.04 ng/ml. After a 6-month follow-up, there was significantly smaller LVEF (35.42% (13.04% vs 50.16% (10.48%, p = 0.0001) and more persistent left ventricular dysfunction (84.8% vs 31.5%, OR = 12.17 (95% CI 4.17 to 35.57), p = 0.001) in patients with cTnT >0.04 ng/ml than in patients with cTnT < or =0.04 ng/ml. CONCLUSION Serum cTnT concentration measured within 2 weeks of the onset of PPCM was correlated negatively with LVEF at follow-up. This marker offers a simple, quick, inexpensive, non-invasive method for predicting a persistent LVEF of < or =50%. A cTnT concentration of >0.04 ng/ml predicted persistent left ventricular dysfunction with a sensitivity of 54.9% and a specificity of 90.9%.
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- Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuchang District, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
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Wu CH, Ko SF, Lee CH, Cheng BC, Hsu KT, Chen JB, Chien YS, Yang CC, Huang MC, Chuang FR. Successful outpatient treatment of renal vein thrombosis by low-molecular weight heparins in 3 patients with nephrotic syndrome. Clin Nephrol 2006; 65:433-40. [PMID: 16792140 DOI: 10.5414/cnp65433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Renal vein thrombosis (RV Thromb) is a serious complication ofnephrotic syndrome. Anticoagulation is usually recommended as the treatment of choice. This study reports 3 nephrotic patients diagnosed to have RVThromb combined with thromboembolic events. Low-molecular weight heparin (LMWHep) was given subcutaneously every 12 hours following the diagnosis of RVTromb, which continued at the outpatient clinic after an average of 11 in-hospital days. The patients visited the nephrology outpatient clinic every other week and underwent magnetic resonance image (MRI) studies at 6-week intervals for follow-up of patency of the involved renal vein. LMWHep was discontinued when MRI showed this patency. The average outpatient treatment period was 74 days. There was no recurrent RVThromb in the follow-up course of 6 months after discontinuation of LMWHep. Kidney function was preserved, as indicated by image studies and serial renal function tests. LMWHep produced a more predictable anti-coagulant effect, a superior bioavailability, a longer half-life and a dose-independent effect than unfractionated heparin and coumadin. These benefits made the outpatient treatment of RVThromb possible. Our report recommends outpatient treatment of RVThromb by LMWHep because it is feasible, effective and safe.
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- C H Wu
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Hu CL, Jiang H, Tang QZ, Zhang QH, Chen JB, Huang CX, Li GS. Comparison of rate control and rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation after percutaneous mitral balloon valvotomy: a randomised controlled study. Heart 2005; 92:1096-101. [PMID: 16387819 PMCID: PMC1861118 DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.080325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To compare rate control and rhythm control strategies in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) after percutaneous mitral balloon valvotomy (PMV). METHODS 183 patients with AF after successful PMV, with AF duration <or= 12 months and post-PMV left atrial (LA) size <or= 45 mm, were studied in a prospective, randomised trial. The primary end point was improvement in AF-related symptoms. Secondary study end points were 6 min walk tests, quality of life (QOL), normalisation of LA size, number of hospital admissions and duration of hospital stay. RESULTS Over one year, 2% patients in the rate control group had sinus rhythm, as compared with 96% of patients in the rhythm control group (p < 0.001). A greater proportion of patients reported improvement in symptoms in the rhythm control group than in the rate control group (p < 0.0001 at every visit time). Walking distance in a 6 min walk test, QOL and LA size normalisation were better in the rhythm control group than in the rate control group. The strategy of rhythm control was associated with similar numbers of hospital admissions but with longer duration of hospital admissions. Drug-related side effect did not differ between the rate control and rhythm control groups. During the follow-up period, no patients in either group had embolic or transitory ischaemic neurological events. CONCLUSIONS In patients with AF after PMV, AF duration <or= 12 months and post-PMV LA size <or= 45 mm, sinus rhythm was easy and safe to achieve and maintain. Moreover, patients benefited from restoration and maintenance of sinus rhythm in terms of improved AF-related symptoms, 6 min walk tests and QOL, and of LA size normalisation. Rhythm control should therefore be considered as the preferred initial therapy for this group of patients. The optimal strategy to treat AF after PMV should be individualised.
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- C L Hu
- Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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Chiang SS, Chen JB, Yang WC. Lanthanum carbonate (Fosrenol®) efficacy and tolerability in the treatment of hyperphosphatemic patients with end-stage renal disease. Clin Nephrol 2005; 63:461-70. [PMID: 15960148 DOI: 10.5414/cnp63461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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AIMS High serum phosphorus levels are a common problem in patients receiving long-term dialysis treatment. Lanthanum carbonate (Fosrenol) is a new non-aluminum, non-calcium phosphate binder developed for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). We report data from a recent trial, which, for the first time, assessed the efficacy and tolerability of lanthanum carbonate treatment, compared with placebo, in Chinese patients with ESRD. PATIENTS AND METHODS Following a one- to three-week washout phase and a four-week, open-label lanthanum carbonate dose-titration phase, male and female hemodialysis patients were randomized (1:1) to receive either lanthanum carbonate or placebo for four weeks. The primary efficacy parameter of the study was the control of serum phosphorus levels (< or =1.8 mmol/l [< or = 5.6 mg/dl]). Secondary endpoints included the profile of serum phosphorus during titration and parathyroid hormone, calcium, and calcium x phosphorus (Ca x P) product levels. The safety and tolerability of lanthanum carbonate were assessed by monitoring adverse events throughout the study. RESULTS Mean serum phosphorus level at the end of washout was 2.5 +/- 0.5 mmol/l (7.7 +/- 1.5 mg/dl; n=73), and there was no evidence of a difference in levels between the treatment groups pre-randomization. At the end of the study, lanthanum carbonate-treated patients had significantly lower phosphorus levels (1.6 +/- 0.5 mmol/l [5.1 +/- 1.5 mg/dl]; n=30) than those receiving placebo (2.3 +/- 0.4 mmol/l [7.2 +/- 1.3 mg/dl]; n=31; p < 0.001). In addition, a significantly higher proportion of patients receiving lanthanum carbonate had controlled serum phosphorus levels (60%) compared with the placebo group (10%; p < 0.001). Ca x P product levels were also significantly lower in the lanthanum carbonate group at the end of randomized treatment (p < 0.001). Lanthanum carbonate was well tolerated; only one serious adverse event was reported, which was unrelated to treatment. CONCLUSIONS Lanthanum carbonate was shown to be an effective and well-tolerated phosphate binder for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in Chinese patients with ESRD. This finding supports the results of previous US and European studies, which have also shown that lanthanum carbonate treatment effectively controls serum phosphorus levels.
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- S S Chiang
- Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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Kuo CC, Lee CT, Chuang CH, Su Y, Chen JB. Recombinant human erythropoietin independence in chronic hemodialysis patients: clinical features, iron homeostasis and erythropoiesis. Clin Nephrol 2005; 63:92-7. [PMID: 15730050 DOI: 10.5414/cnp63092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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AIMS Recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEPO) is widely used to correct renal anemia in uremic patients. Interestingly, some chronic hemodialysis (HD) patients can maintain high hemoglobin level without the need of r-HuEPO. The aim of this study is to investigate clinical features, iron metabolism and erythropoiesis of these r-HuEPO-independent HD patients. METHODS r-HuEPO independence was defined in dialysis patients as hemoglobin greater than 12 g/dl and no use of r-HuEPO for at least 6 months. An age- and sex-matched group was selected for comparison. Their underlying diseases, duration of hemodialysis therapy, efficacy of dialysis (Kt/V), normalized protein catabolic rate (nPCR) and body mass index (BMI) were recorded. Laboratory data including: hemoglobin, albumin, high sensitivity C-reactive protein, serum iron, total iron binding capacity, transferrin saturation, ferritin, intact parathyroid hormone, soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR), serum EPO, cortisol, testosterone, aluminum and leptin levels were measured. Renal sonography was also performed in each patient to evaluate renal cyst formation. RESULTS About 2.3% of all HD patients (21/888; M : F = 18 : 3) were r-HuEPO-independent. These patients had significantly longer HD duration and higher serum EPO and sTfR levels, and lower transferrin saturation rate than dependent groups. Correlation analysis revealed that hemoglobin level strongly correlated with HD duration, serum sTfR and EPO levels. Levels of sTfR were positively related with serum EPO levels and BMI. Multivariate regression analysis showed that level of sTfR was the only independent factor related to r-HuEPO independence. CONCLUSION R-HuEPO independence is rare among chronic hemodialysis patients. Factors contributing to this dependence are complex and multiple. Level of serum sTfR parallels erythropoiesis and is the most significant factor associated with r-HuEPO independence in chronic HD patients.
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- C C Kuo
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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We report on a 51-year-old woman with initial hypercalcaemia and unknown ascites. In spite of unyielding laparoscopy, laparotomy showed findings compatible with tuberculous peritonitis (TBP). Unexpectedly, a series of examinations eventually revealed the concurrence of hyperparathyroidism due to a parathyroid adenoma. Anti-tuberculous regimen was given and was uneventful. However, hypercalcaemia was not decreased but sustained at a high level even after anti-tuberculous therapy for 3 months. Parathyroidectomy was performed with subsequent normalisation of hypercalcaemia. The aetiology of hypercalcaemia in a patient with an explored disease able to cause this electrolyte abnormality such as TBP may be a coexistent occult parathyroid adenoma.
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- K H Hung
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Ko YC, Lee CT, Cheng YF, Hung KH, Kuo CY, Huang CC, Chen JB. Hypercalcaemia and haemophagocytic syndrome: rare concurrent presentations of disseminated tuberculosis in a dialysis patient. Int J Clin Pract 2004; 58:723-5. [PMID: 15311732 DOI: 10.1111/j.1368-5031.2004.00054.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Tuberculosis remains an important cause of infection in chronic haemodialysis patients. Frequent extrapulmonary involvement, non-specific presentation and limited diagnostic tools usually make early diagnosis difficult. Herein, we report on an 83-year-old female patient who had been on regular heamodialysis therapy for 15 years, who presented with asymptomatic hypercalcaemia and pancytopenia. Haemophagocytic syndrome was documented during the admission period. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was cultured from bone marrow 1 month after her demise. This case report highlights the non-specific manifestations of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in dialysis patients and the limited value of conventional diagnostic methods. We would like to recommend aggressive intervention and early tissue aspiration from possible infectious sites when tuberculosis cannot be completely ruled out. Disseminated tuberculosis should be considered as an indication of hypercalcaemia where haemophagocytic syndrome occurs simultaneously.
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- Y C Ko
- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
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Chen TC, Chung FR, Lee CH, Huang SC, Chen JB, Hsu KT. Successful treatment of crescentic glomerulonephritis associated with adult-onset Henoch-Schoenlein purpura by double-filtration plasmapheresis. Clin Nephrol 2004; 61:213-6. [PMID: 15077873 DOI: 10.5414/cnp61213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Henoch-Schoenlein purpura (HSP) crescentic glomerulonephritis with acute renal failure in adults is extremely rare. The condition carries a grave renal outcome if it is not appropriately managed. Oral corticosteroids, intravenous methylprednisolone pulse therapy and plasmapheresis with concomitant plasma replacement have been used alone or in various combinations to treat patients with HSP nephritis, yet the effects are uncertain. We describe a 33-year-old man with oliguric acute renal failure in the setting of HSP crescentic glomerulonephritis that is refractory to intravenous methylprednisolone pulse therapy (1,000 mg/day for 3 days) with maintained oral prednisolone (1 mg/kg/day) and oral cyclophosphamide (2 mg/kg/day) for 3 weeks, resulting in successful recovery of renal function after 9 sessions of simple double-filtration plasmapheresis treatment without concomitant plasma replacement. There was no recurrence of vasculitic events within 18 months. In this case, we emphasize that simple double-filtration plasmapheresis without concomitant plasma replacement is an effective and safe modality therapy for adult patients with HSP crescentic glomerulonephritis and acute renal failure, especially when conventional therapy has failed.
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Chen JB, Peng XF, Tao T, Lee DJ. Thermal drying of wastewater sludge with crack formation. Water Sci Technol 2004; 50:177-182. [PMID: 15581010] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We examined in this work the drying characteristics of wastewater sludge. The drying flux of the constant-rate period for sludge cake could be up to 40% higher than that from a sand bed. Owing to the considerable volume shrinkage of cake, cracks would form and develop on the crack surface, which yielded three-dimensional but rather than the one-dimensional cake structure assumed in conventional drying theories. The crack length was fully developed in the first 30 min of drying, while the width of crack increased linearly with time. Using these data the drying flux from the cracks was estimated. Enhanced drying flux was noticeable which depended on the crack shape and the crossflow velocity.
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- J B Chen
- Thermal Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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Tian ZC, Zhang XC, Wang JM, Yin JG, Li JH, Chen JB, Yang J. [Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis of Cryptosporidium species and strains]. Zhongguo Ji Sheng Chong Xue Yu Ji Sheng Chong Bing Za Zhi 2003; 19:100-2. [PMID: 12571997] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To analyse the genetic heterogeneity of 8 isolates of Cryptosporidium belonging to three species (Cryptosporiduim muris, Cryptosporiduim parvum and Cryptosporidium meleagridis) using RAPD technique. METHODS DNA extracts of the 8 isolates were amplified by PCR using 26 out of 200 primers. The amplified products were separated by agar electrophoresis followed by staining with ethidium bromide. RESULTS RAPD analysis revealed; 1. Obvious differences among species were found, the average genetic distance being 7.037; 2. Certain differences among different isolates of the same species were found, the average genetic distance being 5.162. CONCLUSION RAPD could differentiate the common and respective gene fragments of the 8 isolates of Cryptosporidium.
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- Department of Preventive Veterinary Science, Quartermaster University of PLA, Changchun 130062
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Wang JG, Ma XH, Chen JB, Li SP, Lin JF. Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Flooding Velocity of an Immiscible Vapor Mixture Condensing in Vertical Tubes. Ind Eng Chem Res 2003. [DOI: 10.1021/ie0208016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jian-Guo Wang
- Institute of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, China, and China Huanqiu Chemical Engineering Corporation, Beijing 10029, China
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- Institute of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, China, and China Huanqiu Chemical Engineering Corporation, Beijing 10029, China
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- Institute of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, China, and China Huanqiu Chemical Engineering Corporation, Beijing 10029, China
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- Institute of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, China, and China Huanqiu Chemical Engineering Corporation, Beijing 10029, China
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- Institute of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, China, and China Huanqiu Chemical Engineering Corporation, Beijing 10029, China
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AIMS To identify clinical features and treatment response of tuberculous peritonitis (TBP) in a uremic population, a retrospective case-control study was performed. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirteen uremic patients with TBP (Group I: 62.7 +/- 6.8 years, male 54%) collected between January 1986 and January 2002 were compared with another two age- and sex-matched controls: 19 non-azotemic patients with TBP (Group II: 62.9 +/- 7.3 years, male 47%) and 30 uremic patients without TBP (Group III: 61.1 +/- 8.7 years, male 47%). Clinical information and data of ascites and blood examinations were evaluated. RESULTS Significant differences between Groups I and II were found in comorbidity, hypertension, anorexia, percentages of neutrophil and lymphocyte from blood and ascites, and serum calcium (sCa), phosphorus and albumin-adjusted calcium (sAACa). However, no significant differences in duration of symptoms, coexistent pulmonary tuberculosis (p = 0.061), duration or complications of therapy and mortality (p = 0.13) were detected. Significant differences between Groups I and III were found in peripheral white cell counts and percentages of neutrophil and lymphocyte as well as in serum creatinine (sCr), albumin, sCa, sAACa and intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH). CONCLUSIONS Non-specific symptoms make the diagnosis of TBP in a uremic population difficult. However, neutrophil predominance in blood and ascites, hypoalbuminemia, relatively lower sCr and hypercalcemia with suppressed serum iPTH were found to be characteristic. In TBP uremic patients, therapy complications were not common and there was a tendency for higher mortality, largely due to septic shock.
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- K H Hung
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC.
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Chen JB, Kudzu T, Hishikawa E, Miyazaki S. Endoscopic resection of a large esophageal leiomyoma. Endoscopy 2002; 34:428. [PMID: 11972281 DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-25278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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- J B Chen
- Dept. of Surgery, Taichung Veterans' General Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China
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