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Shen L, Ding J, Wang Y, Fan W, Feng X, Liu K, Qin X, Shao Z, Li R. Spatial-temporal trends in leprosy burden and its associations with socioeconomic and physical geographic factors: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Public Health 2024; 230:172-182. [PMID: 38560955 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2024.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2023] [Revised: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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OBJECTIVES The purpose of our study was to assess the multiscalar changes in leprosy burden and its associated risk factors over the last three decades. STUDY DESIGN We conducted an in-depth examination of leprosy's spatial-temporal trends at multiple geographical scale (global, regional, and national), utilizing information from Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD 2019). METHODS Incidence and the estimated annual percentage change (EAPC) in age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) of leprosy were determined, with countries categorized based on leprosy incidence changes. We examined socioeconomic and physical geography influences on leprosy incidence via Spearman correlation analysis, using ternary phase diagrams to reveal the synergetic effects on leprosy occurrence. RESULTS Globally, incident cases of leprosy decreased by 27.86% from 1990 to 2019, with a reduction in ASIR (EAPC = -2.53), yet trends were not homogeneous across regions. ASIR and EAPC correlated positively with sociodemographic index (SDI), and an ASIR growth appeared in high SDI region (EAPC = 3.07). Leprosy burden was chiefly distributed in Tropical Latin America, Oceania, Central Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia. Negative correlations were detected between the incidence of leprosy and factors of SDI, GDP per capita, urban population to total population, and precipitation, whereas the number of refugee population, temperature, and elevation showed opposite positive results. CONCLUSIONS Despite a global decline in leprosy over the past three decades, the disparities of disease occurrence at regional and national scales still persisted. Socioeconomic and physical geographic factors posed an obvious influence on the transmission risk of leprosy. The persistence and regional fluctuations of leprosy incidence necessitate the ongoing dynamic and multilayered control strategies worldwide in combating this ancient disease.
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- L Shen
- School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Ministry of Education Key Lab of Hazard Assessment and Control in Special Operational Environment, School of Public Health, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Ministry of Education Key Lab of Hazard Assessment and Control in Special Operational Environment, School of Public Health, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China; School of Public Health, Baotou Medical College, Baotou 014000, China.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Ministry of Education Key Lab of Hazard Assessment and Control in Special Operational Environment, School of Public Health, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Ministry of Education Key Lab of Hazard Assessment and Control in Special Operational Environment, School of Public Health, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China.
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Yang Q, Yi SH, Fu BS, Zhang T, Zeng KN, Feng X, Yao J, Tang H, Li H, Zhang J, Zhang YC, Yi HM, Lyu HJ, Liu JR, Luo GJ, Ge M, Yao WF, Ren FF, Zhuo JF, Luo H, Zhu LP, Ren J, Lyu Y, Wang KX, Liu W, Chen GH, Yang Y. [Clinical application of split liver transplantation: a single center report of 203 cases]. Zhonghua Wai Ke Za Zhi 2024; 62:324-330. [PMID: 38432674 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112139-20231225-00297] [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] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
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Objective: To investigate the safety and therapeutic effect of split liver transplantation (SLT) in clinical application. Methods: This is a retrospective case-series study. The clinical data of 203 consecutive SLT, 79 living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) and 1 298 whole liver transplantation (WLT) performed at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University from July 2014 to July 2023 were retrospectively analyzed. Two hundred and three SLT liver grafts were obtained from 109 donors. One hundred and twenty-seven grafts were generated by in vitro splitting and 76 grafts were generated by in vivo splitting. There were 90 adult recipients and 113 pediatric recipients. According to time, SLT patients were divided into two groups: the early SLT group (40 cases, from July 2014 to December 2017) and the mature SLT technology group (163 cases, from January 2018 to July 2023). The survival of each group was analyzed and the main factors affecting the survival rate of SLT were analyzed. The Kaplan-Meier method and Log-rank test were used for survival analysis. Results: The cumulative survival rates at 1-, 3-, and 5-year were 74.58%, 71.47%, and 71.47% in the early SLT group, and 88.03%, 87.23%, and 87.23% in the mature SLT group, respectively. Survival rates in the mature SLT group were significantly higher than those in the early SLT group (χ2=5.560,P=0.018). The cumulative survival rates at 1-, 3- and 5-year were 93.41%, 93.41%, 89.95% in the LDLT group and 87.38%, 81.98%, 77.04% in the WLT group, respectively. There was no significant difference among the mature SLT group, the LDLT group and the WLT group (χ2=4.016, P=0.134). Abdominal hemorrhage, infection, primary liver graft nonfunction,and portal vein thrombosis were the main causes of early postoperative death. Conclusion: SLT can achieve results comparable to those of WLT and LDLT in mature technology liver transplant centers, but it needs to go through a certain time learning curve.
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- Q Yang
- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Organ transplant Intensive Care Unit, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510630
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- Organ transplant Intensive Care Unit, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510630
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- Organ transplant Intensive Care Unit, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510630
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- Anesthesia & Surgery Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University ,Guangzhou 510630
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- Anesthesia & Surgery Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University ,Guangzhou 510630
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- Anesthesia & Surgery Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University ,Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Organ transplant Intensive Care Unit, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510630
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- Anesthesia & Surgery Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University ,Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Ultrasound Department of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510630
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- Ultrasound Department of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510630
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- Organ Donation Department of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center, Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases, Guangzhou 510630
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Chen X, Luo C, Liu Y, Li T, Zhang H, Feng X. Effects of soyhulls with different particle size on the growth performance, blood indices and gut microbiota of yellow feather broilers. Br Poult Sci 2024; 65:191-202. [PMID: 38416127 DOI: 10.1080/00071668.2024.2308276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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1. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of soyhulls with different particle sizes on the growth performance, blood indices and gut microbiota of yellow feather broilers.2. Total of 240 healthy, one-day-old, yellow feather broilers were randomly divided into four groups, with six pen replicates within each group and ten birds per pen. The control group birds were fed the basal diet (Control). For the treatment groups, 5% soyhulls with different particle sizes were included in the basal diet. The particle size geometric mean diameters (dgw) of the soyhulls in the three treatment groups were 299.69 μm (LowPS), 489.85 μm (MediumPS) and 734.83 μm (HighPS) with geometric standard deviation (Sgw) 1.75 μm, 1.62 μm and 1.67 μm, respectively.3. Results showed that the growth performance variables and organ indices were not different among the four groups. The MediumPS group had increased TG, T-CHO, ALT, HDL-C, and GSH-PX levels and decreased T-AOC levels, whereas LowPS and HighPS groups had increased HDL-C and GSH-PX levels (p < 0.05). Microbial diversity analysis showed that the intestinal microbiota of yellow feather broilers mainly included Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes. Inclusion of 5% soyhulls with different particle size had no effect on alpha diversity indices of caecal microbiota. The HighPS group had significantly higher relative abundance of Firmicutes spp. and lower Bacteroidetes spp. compared with the LowPS and MediumPS group but this was not different from the Control group. The relative abundance of Cyanobacteria spp. was significantly higher in the HighPS group than the other three groups. LEfSe analysis showed that there were more enriched biomarker taxa in the groups with soyhulls than the control group.4. Overall, the inclusion of soyhulls with different particle sizes had limited effects on growth performance, blood indices and caecal microbiota composition of yellow feather broilers.
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- X Chen
- School of Life Science and Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, China
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Hanigan MD, Souza VC, Martineau R, Lapierre H, Feng X, Daley VL. A meta-analysis of the relationship between milk protein production and absorbed amino acids and digested energy in dairy cattle. J Dairy Sci 2024:S0022-0302(24)00564-2. [PMID: 38490550 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2024-24230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024]
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Milk protein production is the largest draw on AA supplies for lactating dairy cattle. Prior NRC predictions of milk protein production have been absorbed protein (MP)-based and utilized a first-limiting nutrient concept to integrate the effects of energy and protein, which yielded poor accuracy and precision (root mean squared error (RMSE) > 21%). Using a meta-data set gathered, various alternative equation forms considering MP, absorbed total essential AA (EAA), absorbed individual EAA, and digested energy (DE) supplies as additive drivers of production were evaluated, and all were found to be superior in statistical performance to the first limitation approach (RMSE = 14-15%). Inclusion of DE intake and a quadratic term for MP or absorbed EAA supplies were found to be necessary to achieve intercept estimates (non-productive protein use) that were similar to the factorial estimates of NASEM. The partial linear slope for MP was found to be 0.409, which is consistent with the observed slope bias of -0.34g/g when a slope of 0.67 was used for MP efficiency in a first-limiting nutrient system. Replacement of MP with the supplies of individual absorbed EAA expressed in g/d and a common quadratic across the EAA resulted in unbiased predictions with improved statistical performance as compared with MP-based models. Based on Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) and biological consistency, the best equations included absorbed His, Ile, Lys, Met, Thr, the non-essential AA, and individual DE intakes from fatty acids, neutral detergent fiber, residual organic matter, and starch. Several also contained a term for absorbed Leu. These equations generally had RMSE of 14.3% and a concordance correlations (CCC) of 0.76. Based on the common quadratic and individual linear terms, milk protein response plateaus were predicted at approximately 320 g/d of absorbed His, Ile, and Lys; 395 g/d of absorbed Thr; 550 g/d of absorbed Met; and 70 g/d of absorbed Leu. Therefore, responses to each except Leu are almost linear throughout the normal in vivo range. De-aggregation of the quadratic term and parsing to individual absorbed EAA resulted in non-biological estimates for several EAA indicating over-parameterization. Expression of the EAA as g/100 g of total absorbed EAA or as ratios of DE intake and using linear and quadratic terms for each EAA resulted in similar statistical performance, but the solutions had identifiability problems and several non-biological parameter estimates. The use of ratios also introduced nonlinearity in the independent variables which violates linear regression assumptions. Further screening of the global model using absorbed EAA expressed as g/d with a common quadratic using an all-models approach, and exhaustive cross-evaluation indicated the parameter estimates for body weight, all 4 DE terms, His, Ile, Lys, Met, and the common quadratic term were stable, while estimates for Leu and Thr were known with less certainty. Use of independent and additive terms and a quadratic expression in the equation results in variable efficiencies of conversion. The additivity also provides partial substitution among the nutrients. Both of these prevent establishment of fixed nutrient requirements in support of milk protein production.
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- Department of Dairy Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
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- Department of Dairy Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1M 0C8
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1M 0C8
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- Department of Dairy Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
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- Department of Dairy Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
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Luo S, Feng X, Lin L, Li J, Chen W, Guo VY. Association of adverse and positive childhood experiences with health-related quality of life in adolescents. Public Health 2024; 228:92-99. [PMID: 38340507 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2024.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2023] [Revised: 12/28/2023] [Accepted: 01/07/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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OBJECTIVES To investigate the independent impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and positive childhood experiences (PCEs) on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of Chinese adolescents, and to explore the potential moderating role of PCEs in the association between ACEs and HRQOL. STUDY DESIGN This was a cross-sectional study. METHODS We surveyed 6982 students aged 11-20 in Guangzhou, China, from November to December 2021. Adolescents self-reported their ACEs, PCEs, and HRQOL by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Short Form, the Adverse Childhood Experiences-International Questionnaire, the Benevolent Childhood Experiences Scale, and the Paediatric Quality of Life Inventory Version 4.0, respectively. Multivariable linear regressions were performed to examine the associations between ACEs, PCEs, and HRQOL controlled for adolescents' age, gender, single-child status, boarding school attendance, primary caregivers, as well as parental age and occupational status. Likelihood-ratio tests were further applied to explore the moderating role of PCEs. RESULTS In the models that considered both ACEs and PCEs, ACEs were significantly associated with lower HRQOL scores in all dimensions, summary scales, and total scale (β = -13.88, 95% confidence interval [CI]: -14.82, -12.94 for total scale). Conversely, exposure to an above-average number of PCEs was associated with higher HRQOL scores in all measured aspects (β = 7.20, 95%CI: 6.57, 7.84 for total scale). PCEs significantly moderated the association between ACEs and all HRQOL dimensions, summary scales, and total scale, except school functioning. CONCLUSION ACEs and PCEs exert independent and opposite impacts on adolescents' HRQOL. PCEs could mitigate the negative impacts of ACEs. Enhancing resilience, like PCEs, may contribute to improving the HRQOL among adolescents who have exposed to ACEs.
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- S Luo
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, 74 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Guangzhou Huangpu District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, 74 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, 74 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, 74 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, 74 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
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Wang J, Feng X, Yuan W, Zhang J, Zhu S, Xu L, Li H, Song J, Rao X, Liao S, Wang Z, Si H. Development of terpenoid repellents against Aedes albopictus: a combined study of biological activity evaluation and computational modelling. SAR QSAR Environ Res 2024; 35:71-89. [PMID: 38323577 DOI: 10.1080/1062936x.2024.2306327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 01/06/2024] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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To explore novel terpenoid repellents, 22 candidate terpenoid derivatives were synthesized and tested for their electroantennogram (EAG) responses and repellent activities against Aedes albopictus. The results from the EAG experiments revealed that 5-(2-hydroxypropan-2-yl)-2-methylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl formate (compound 1) induced distinct EAG responses in female Aedes albopictus. At concentrations of 0.1, 1, 10, 100, and 1000 mg/L, the EAG response values for compound 1 were 179.59, 183.99, 190.38, 193.80, and 196.66 mV, demonstrating comparable or superior effectiveness to DEET. Repellent activity analysis indicated significant repellent activity for compound 1, closest to the positive control DEET. The in silico assessment of the ADMET profile of compound 1 indicates that it successfully passed the ADMET evaluation. Molecular docking studies exhibited favourable binding of compound 1 to the active site of the odorant binding protein (OBP) of Aedes albopictus, involving hydrophobic forces and hydrogen bond interactions with residues in the OBP pocket. The QSAR model highlighted the influential role of hydrogen-bonding receptors, positively charged surface area of weighted atoms, polarity parameters of molecules, and maximum nuclear-nuclear repulsion force of carbon-carbon bonds on the relative EAG response values of the tested compounds. This study holds substantial significance for the advancement of new terpenoid repellents.
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- J Wang
- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Woody Fragrance and Flavor Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Nanchang, R.P. China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Woody Fragrance and Flavor Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Nanchang, R.P. China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Woody Fragrance and Flavor Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Nanchang, R.P. China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Woody Fragrance and Flavor Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Nanchang, R.P. China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Woody Fragrance and Flavor Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Nanchang, R.P. China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Woody Fragrance and Flavor Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Nanchang, R.P. China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Woody Fragrance and Flavor Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Nanchang, R.P. China
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- Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI, USA
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, R.P. China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Woody Fragrance and Flavor Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Nanchang, R.P. China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Woody Fragrance and Flavor Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Nanchang, R.P. China
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- College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, East China Woody Fragrance and Flavor Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Nanchang, R.P. China
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Wang X, Liang F, Dai Z, Feng X, Qiu F. Combination of Coptis chinensis polysaccharides and berberine ameliorates ulcerative colitis by regulating gut microbiota and activating AhR/IL-22 pathway. J Ethnopharmacol 2024; 318:117050. [PMID: 37595814 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2023.117050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Revised: 07/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/20/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Coptis chinensis Franch. polysaccharide (CCP) and berberine (BBR) are the primary active components of Coptis chinensis Franch. BBR is clinically used for the treatment of intestinal infections and gastroenteritis. CCP was also reported to be effective for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). However, whether CCP combined with BBR shows a synergistic effect on the treatment of UC has not been elucidated yet. AIM OF THE STUDY This study aspired to investigate the therapeutic effect and the possible mechanisms of the combination of CCP with BBR on chronic UC. MATERIALS AND METHODS By periodic administration of dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) to C57BL/6J mice, chronic UC model mice were induced. CCP (15 mg/kg), BBR (50 mg/kg), and CCP.BBR (a combination of 15 mg/kg CCP and 50 mg/kg BBR) were orally administered to the model mice for 10 days. Changes of body weight, disease activity index, colon length, organ index, histopathological damage, expression of cytokines, and intestinal tight junction proteins were determined to evaluate the therapeutic effects. 16S rDNA sequencing, targeted short-chain fatty acid metabolomics, qPCR, and western blotting were performed to elucidate the potential mechanism. RESULTS Both CCP and BBR alleviated UC via improving colon pathological damage, inhibiting the inflammatory response, and regulating the expression of intestinal tight junction proteins. The combination of CCP with BBR showed a more substantial therapeutic effect via increasing the relative abundance of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) producing bacteria, thereby increasing the contents of SCFAs in vivo and activating AhR/IL-22 pathway. CONCLUSION The combination of CCP and BBR showed a synergistic effect on the therapy of chronic UC and the mechanism was associated with regulating gut microbiota and activating AhR/IL-22 pathway.
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- Xuemei Wang
- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Therapeutic Substance of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Therapeutic Substance of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Therapeutic Substance of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Therapeutic Substance of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Therapeutic Substance of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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Li Y, Feng X, Qiu F. Determination of Two Wound Healing Components in Streptocaulon juventas (Lour.) Merr.: Periplogenin and Digitoxigenin. Chem Biodivers 2024; 21:e202301585. [PMID: 38061998 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202301585] [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: 10/08/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
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Streptocaulon juventas (Lour.) Merr. (SJ) is a herbal medicine can promote wound healing. Cardiac glycosides, especially periplogenin, digitoxigenin, and their glycosides were the main constituents of SJ. We aim to establish a method for the simultaneous determination of periplogenin and digitoxigenin in SJ and evaluate the wound healing activities of these two components. UPLC-QqQ-MS/MS was used for the determination of periplogenin and digitoxigenin. Meanwhile, rats were subjected to full-thickness skin resection on the back to investigate the wound healing effects of periplogenin and digitoxigenin. The content of periplogenin and digitoxigenin in 13 batches of SJ extracts ranged from 43.26 to 97.15 μg/g and 18.04 to 55.55 μg/g, respectively. Periplogenin and digitoxigenin significantly increased the rate of wound healing in rats, increased the content of hydroxyproline in wound tissue, and improved the pathological state of wound skin tissue.
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- Yang Li
- School of Chinese Materia Medica, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine and, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Therapeutic Substance of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 10 Poyang Lake Road, West District, Tuanbo New Town, Jinghai District, Tianjin, China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine and, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Therapeutic Substance of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 10 Poyang Lake Road, West District, Tuanbo New Town, Jinghai District, Tianjin, China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine and, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Therapeutic Substance of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 10 Poyang Lake Road, West District, Tuanbo New Town, Jinghai District, Tianjin, China
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Liu S, Zhou C, Liu AD, Zhuang G, Feng X, Zhang J, Zhong XM, Ji JX, Zhang SB, Liu HQ, Wang SX, Fan HR, Wang SF, Gao LT, Shi WX, Chen XY, Liu WD. An E-band multi-channel Doppler backscattering system on EAST. Rev Sci Instrum 2023; 94:123507. [PMID: 38109469 DOI: 10.1063/5.0166949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
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An E-band (60-90 GHz) multi-channel Doppler backscattering (DBS) system with X-mode polarization has been installed on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), which can measure the turbulence at five different radial locations simultaneously. This system can launch 31 fixed microwave frequencies in the range of 60-90 GHz with a 1 GHz interval into the plasma, and five probing signals are selected by employing a reference signal and multiple filters. During experiments, the frequency of the reference signal is tunable in the E-band, and the selected probing signals can be changed as needed without any other adjustments, which can be performed in one shot or between shots. Furthermore, the incident angle can be adjusted from -10° to 20°, and the wavenumber range is 4-25 cm-1 with a wavenumber resolution of Δk/k ≤ 0.35. Ray tracing simulations are employed to calculate the scattering locations and the perpendicular wavenumber. In this article, the hardware design, ray tracing, and initial results obtained from the EAST plasma will be presented.
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- S Liu
- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518061, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230021, China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230021, China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230021, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Li Y, Chu X, Yin Y, Li H, Fu H, Feng X, Deng Y, Ge J. Design, synthesis, and evaluation of 4-(3-(3,5-dimethylisoxazol-4-yl)benzyl)phthalazin-1(2H)-one derivatives: potent BRD4 inhibitors with anti-breast cancer activity. Front Pharmacol 2023; 14:1289003. [PMID: 38099141 PMCID: PMC10720709 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2023.1289003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023] Open
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BRD4 inhibitors have demonstrated promising potential in cancer therapy. However, their therapeutic efficacy in breast cancer varies depending on the breast cancer subtype, particularly in the treatment of TNBC. In this study, we designed and synthesized 94 derivatives of 4-(3-(3,5-dimethylisoxazol-4-yl)benzyl)phthalazin-1(2H)-one to evaluate their inhibitory activities against BRD4. Notably, compound DDT26 exhibited the most potent inhibitory effect on BRD4, with an IC50 value of 0.237 ± 0.093 μM. DDT26 demonstrated significant anti-proliferative activity against both TNBC cell lines and MCF-7 cells. Intriguingly, the phthalazinone moiety of DDT26 mimicked the PAPR1 substrate, resulting in DDT26 displaying a moderate inhibitory effect on PARP1 with an IC50 value of 4.289 ± 1.807 μM. Further, DDT26 was shown to modulate the expression of c-MYC and γ-H2AX, induce DNA damage, inhibit cell migration and colony formation, and arrest the cell cycle at the G1 phase in MCF-7 cells. Our findings present potential lead compounds for the development of potent anti-breast cancer agents targeting BRD4.
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- Yingpeng Li
- College of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- College of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- College of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- College of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- College of Integrative Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- College of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- College of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- College of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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Agarwal V, Yue Y, Zhang X, Feng X, Tao Y, Wang J. Spatial and temporal distribution of endotoxins, antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements in the air of a dairy farm in Germany. Environ Pollut 2023; 336:122404. [PMID: 37625772 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Revised: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023]
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious issue that is continuously growing and spreading, leading to a dwindling number of effective treatments for infections that were easily treatable with antibiotics in the past. Animal farms are a major hotspot for AMR, where antimicrobials are often overused, misused, and abused, in addition to overcrowding of animals. In this study, we investigated the risk of AMR transmission from a farm to nearby residential areas by examining the overall occurrence of endotoxins, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in the air of a cattle farm. We assessed various factors, including the season and year, day and nighttime, and different locations within the farm building and its vicinity. The most abundant ARGs detected were tetW, aadA1, and sul2, genes that encode for resistances towards antibiotics commonly used in veterinary medicine. While there was a clear concentration gradient for endotoxin from the middle of the farm building to the outside areas, the abundance of ARGs and MGEs was relatively uniform among all locations within the farm and its vicinity. This suggests that endotoxins preferentially accumulated in the coarse particle fraction, which deposited quickly, as opposed to the ARGs and MGEs, which might concentrate in the fine particle fraction and remain longer in the aerosol phase. The occurrence of the same genes found in the air samples and in the manure indicated that ARGs and MGEs in the air mostly originated from the cows, continuously being released from the manure to the air. Although our atmospheric dispersion model indicated a relatively low risk for nearby residential areas, farm workers might be at greater risk of getting infected with resistant bacteria and experiencing overall respiratory tract issues due to continuous exposure to elevated concentrations of endotoxins, ARGs and MGEs in the air of the farm.
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- V Agarwal
- Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Laboratory for Advanced Analytical Technologies, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland
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- Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Laboratory for Advanced Analytical Technologies, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland
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- Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Laboratory for Advanced Analytical Technologies, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland
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- Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Laboratory for Advanced Analytical Technologies, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland
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- Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Laboratory for Advanced Analytical Technologies, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland
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- Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Laboratory for Advanced Analytical Technologies, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland.
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Korshunov A, Hu H, Subires D, Jiang Y, Călugăru D, Feng X, Rajapitamahuni A, Yi C, Roychowdhury S, Vergniory MG, Strempfer J, Shekhar C, Vescovo E, Chernyshov D, Said AH, Bosak A, Felser C, Bernevig BA, Blanco-Canosa S. Softening of a flat phonon mode in the kagome ScV 6Sn 6. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6646. [PMID: 37863907 PMCID: PMC10589229 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42186-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023] Open
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Geometrically frustrated kagome lattices are raising as novel platforms to engineer correlated topological electron flat bands that are prominent to electronic instabilities. Here, we demonstrate a phonon softening at the kz = π plane in ScV6Sn6. The low energy longitudinal phonon collapses at ~98 K and q = [Formula: see text] due to the electron-phonon interaction, without the emergence of long-range charge order which sets in at a different propagation vector qCDW = [Formula: see text]. Theoretical calculations corroborate the experimental finding to indicate that the leading instability is located at [Formula: see text] of a rather flat mode. We relate the phonon renormalization to the orbital-resolved susceptibility of the trigonal Sn atoms and explain the approximately flat phonon dispersion. Our data report the first example of the collapse of a kagome bosonic mode and promote the 166 compounds of kagomes as primary candidates to explore correlated flat phonon-topological flat electron physics.
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- A Korshunov
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), BP 220, F-38043, Grenoble, France
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal, 20018, San Sebastián, Spain
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal, 20018, San Sebastián, Spain
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal, 20018, San Sebastián, Spain
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187, Dresden, Germany
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- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187, Dresden, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187, Dresden, Germany
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal, 20018, San Sebastián, Spain
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187, Dresden, Germany
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187, Dresden, Germany
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- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Swiss-Norwegian BeamLines at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), BP 220, F-38043, Grenoble, France
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187, Dresden, Germany
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal, 20018, San Sebastián, Spain.
- Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013, Bilbao, Spain.
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal, 20018, San Sebastián, Spain.
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013, Bilbao, Spain.
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Wang W, Zhou R, Chen C, Feng X, Zhang W, Li HJ, Jin RH. [Development of auxiliary early predicting model for human brucellosis using machine learning algorithm]. Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi 2023; 57:1601-1607. [PMID: 37859377 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112150-20221013-00991] [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: 10/21/2023]
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Using machine learning algorithms to construct an early prediction model of brucellosis to improve the diagnosis efficiency of Brucellosis. This study was a case-control study. 2 381 brucellosis patients from Beijing Ditan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University were retrospectively collected as case group, and healthy people from Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University were collected as control group from May 9, 2011 to November 29, 2021. The relevant clinical information and full blood count results of 13 257 data were collected and five algorithms of machine learning were used to construct an early predication model of brucellosis by using machine learning: random forest, Naive Bayes, decision tree, logistic regression and support vector machine;14 074 data (2 143 cases incase group and 11 931 cases in control group) were used to establish the early predication model of brucellosis, and 1 564 (238 cases in case group and 1 326 cases in control group) data were used to test the predication efficiency of the brucellosis model. The results showed that the support vector machine algorithm has the best predication performance by comparing the five machine learning models. The area under receiver curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) was 0.991, and the accuracy, precision, specificity and Recall were 95.6%, 95.5%, 95.4% and 95.9%, respectively. Based on the SHAP plot, platelet distribution width (PDW) and basophil relative value (BASO%) results were low, and men with high coefficient of variation (R-CV), erythrocyte hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), and platelet volume (MPV) were predicted to be at high risk of brucellosis. Platelet distribution width (PDW) contributed the most to the prediction model, followed by red blood cell distribution width coefficient of variation (R-CV). In conclusion, the establishment of a high-precision early predication method of brucellosis based on machine learning may be of great significance for the early detection and treatment of brucellosis patients.
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- Department of Blood Transfusion, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University,Beijing 100015,China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing 100012, China
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- Beijing Jinfeng Yitong Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing 100020, China
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- Inner Mongolia Zhihui Big data Institute, Hohhot 010020, China
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- Infection Center,Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University,Beijing 100015,China
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- Department of Blood Transfusion, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University,Beijing 100015,China
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- Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University,Beijing 100015,China
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Feng X, Tang B, Wang P, Kang S, Liao X, Yao X, Wang X, Orlandini LC. Effectiveness of Bladder Filling Control during Online MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy for Rectum Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e725-e726. [PMID: 37786113 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.2238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy (MRgART) treatment sessions at MR-Linac are time-consuming and changes in bladder filling during the session can impact the treatment dosimetry. In this work, we present the procedure implemented in the clinical workflow to stabilize bladder filling during the MR based adaptive radiotherapy sessions and evaluate its effectiveness and the resulting dosimetric impact on the adaptive plan. MATERIALS/METHODS Twenty-five rectum cancer patients treated at 1.5T MR-Linac with a short course radiotherapy (25 Gy in 5 fractions of 5 Gy each) were included in this retrospective study. Patients were treated with the adapt-to-shape workflow consisting of a plan adaptation based on the MRI acquired in each session and optimized on the corresponding MR-based synthetic CT. Considering the significant interval time between the acquisition of the first daily MRI used for plan adaptation, and the beam delivery, a bladder catheter was used to stabilize the bladder filling; the procedure consists of emptying the bladder and refilling it with a well-known amount of physiological solution before each MRI acquisition. Two MRIs were acquired at each session: the first was used for plan adaptation and the second was acquired while approving the adapted plan, to be rigidly registered with the first to ensure the appropriateness of the isodoses on the ongoing delivery treatment. A total of 125 sessions and 250 MRI images and bladder contours were analyzed; for each fraction, the time interval between the first and second MRI and the corresponding bladder volumes were recorded; the consistency of bladder volumes and shapes along each online session was assessed with the dice similarity index (DSC) and Hausdorff distance (HD); the impact on plan dosimetry was evaluated by comparing target and bladder DVH cut off points of the plan on the two different MRI datasets. RESULTS The time interval between the first and second MRI, averaged over the 125 sessions is 39.0 min, range (18.6-75.8) min. The changes in bladder volumes, DSC index, HD, and the differences between the bladder and target DVH cut-off points are shown in the table below. The DSC and HD are comparable to inter-observer variability in manual contour segmentation, with an average DSC of 0.91 and average HD of 2.13 mm; the average differences in bladder and target dosimetry remain under 0.63% and 0.10%, respectively. CONCLUSION The use of a procedure in the clinical workflow of MRgART to stabilize the bladder filling throughout the online session may be helpful to guarantee the accuracy of the ongoing delivered treatment.
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- X Feng
- Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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Peng T, Rao J, Zhang T, Wang Y, Li N, Gao Q, Feng X, Song Z, Wang K, Qiu F. Elucidation of the relationship between evodiamine-induced liver injury and CYP3A4-mediated metabolic activation by UPLC-MS/MS analysis. Anal Bioanal Chem 2023; 415:5619-5635. [PMID: 37433953 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-023-04831-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 06/03/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
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Evodiamine (EVD), which has been reported to cause liver damage, is the main constituent of Evodia rutaecarpa (Juss.) Benth and may be bioactivated into reactive metabolites mediated by cytochrome P450. However, the relationships between bioactivation and EVD-induced hepatotoxicity remain unknown. In this study, comprehensive hepatotoxicity evaluation was explored, which demonstrated that EVD caused hepatotoxicity in both time- and dose-dependent manners in mice. By application of UPLC-Q/TOF-MS/MS, two GSH conjugates (GM1 and GM2) derived from reactive metabolites of EVD were identified, in microsomal incubation systems exposed to EVD with glutathione (GSH) as trapping agents. CYP3A4 was proved to be the main metabolic enzyme. Correspondingly, the N-acetyl-L-cysteine conjugate derived from the degradation of GM2 was detected in the urine of mice after exposure to EVD. For the first time, the iminoquinone intermediate was found in EVD-pretreated rat bile by the high-resolution MS platform. Pretreatment with ketoconazole protected the animals from hepatotoxicity, decreased the protein expression of cleaved caspase-1 and -3, but increased the area under the serum-concentration-time curve of EVD in blood determined by UPLC-QQQ-MS/MS. Depletion of GSH by buthionine sulfoximine exacerbated EVD-induced hepatotoxicity. These results implicated that the CYP3A4-mediated metabolic activation was responsible for the observed hepatotoxicity induced by EVD.
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- Ting Peng
- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
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- School of Integrative Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Core Technology in Innovative Chinese Medicine, Tasly Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd, Tianjin, 300410, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China.
- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People's Republic of China.
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Yao ZZ, Yu AZ, Feng X. [Meta-analysis of the correlation between prenatal steroid exposure and hypoglycemia in late preterm neonates]. Zhonghua Er Ke Za Zhi 2023; 61:520-526. [PMID: 37312463 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112140-20230209-00090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Objective: To systematically evaluate the correlation between prenatal steroid exposure and hypoglycemia in late preterm neonates. Methods: Eight databases in either Chinese or English, including PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Embase, Medline, Scopus, CNKI, Wanfang and VIP, were searched to extract the studies on the correlation between prenatal steroid exposure and hypoglycemia in late preterm neonates published from the establishment of each database to December 2022. The Meta-analysis was performed using Stata 14.0 statistical software. Results: A total of 9 studies were included in this Meta-analysis, including 6 retrospective cohort studies, 2 prospective cohort studies and 1 randomized controlled trial (RCT) study, involving 9 143 premature infants. The Meta-analysis showed that prenatal steroid exposure increased the risk of late preterm neonatal hypoglycemia (RR=1.55, 95%CI 1.25-1.91, P<0.001). The similar correlation between prenatal steroid exposure and hypoglycemia in late preterm neonates was all found in the following subgroups: North America (RR=1.57, 95%CI 1.37-1.80, P<0.001), enrolling pregnant women with gestational diabetes (RR=1.62, 95%CI 1.26-2.08, P<0.001), A-grade literature quality (RR=1.43, 95%CI 1.14-1.79, P=0.002), criteria for hypoglycemia ≤40 mg/dl (1 mg/dl=0.056 mmol/L, RR=1.49, 95%CI 1.28-1.73, P<0.001), sample size of 501-1 500 (RR=1.69, 95%CI 1.19-2.40, P=0.003) and >1 500 (RR=1.65, 95%CI 1.48-1.83, P<0.001), steroid injection dosage and frequency of 12 mg 2 times (RR=1.66, 95%CI 1.50-1.84, P<0.001), the time interval from antenatal corticosteroid administration to delivery of 24-47 h (RR=1.98, 95%CI 1.26-3.10, P=0.003), unadjusted gestational age (RR=1.78, 95%CI 1.02-3.10,P=0.043) and unadjusted birth weight (RR=1.80, 95%CI 1.22-2.66, P=0.003). Meta-regression results showed that steroid injection frequency and dose were the main sources of high heterogeneity among studies (P=0.030). Conclusion: Prenatal steroid exposure may be a risk factor for hypoglycemia in late preterm neonates.
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- Department of Neonatology, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen 518034, China
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- Department of Neonatology, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen 518034, China
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- Department of Neonatology, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen 518034, China
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Zhou HY, Zhao H, Tang MM, Peng H, Feng X, Ge J, Liu HL. Systematic evaluation of the safety and therapeutic effects of para-aortic lymphadenectomy for advanced gastric cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2023; 27:5211-5222. [PMID: 37318495 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202306_32639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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OBJECTIVE At present, there is still no definite conclusion on whether advanced gastric cancer (GC) requires additional para-aortic nodes dissection (PAND). The purpose of this study is to summarize current evidence on the potential benefits of the extended systemic lymphadenectomy (D2+) compared to D2 lymphadenectomy in the treatment of gastric cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Systematic literature search was performed across PubMed, Embase, Cochrane library, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Data Knowledge Service Platform, VIP Database for Chinese Technical Periodicals, and China Biology Medicine disc using the following terms: gastric cancer, para-aortic lymphadenectomy, D2+ lymphadenectomy and D3 lymphadenectomy. RevMan 5.3 software was used for the meta-analysis. RESULTS A total of 20 studies involving 5,643 patients were included, consisting of 6 randomized controlled trials (RCT) and 14 non-randomized controlled trials (nRCT). Compared with the D2 group, the operating time in the D2+ group was longer [mean difference (MD)=99.45 min, 95% confidence interval (CI) (48.93, 149.97), p<0.001], with more intra-operative blood loss [MD=262.14 mL, 95% CI (165.21, 359.07), p<0.001]. There were no significant differences in five-year overall survival (OS) [HR=1.09, 95% CI (0.95, 1.25), p=0.22] and post-operative mortality [RR=0.96, 95% CI (0.59, 1.57), p=0.88] between the two groups. The rate of post-operative complications in group D2+ was higher than that in group D2 [RR=1.42, 95% CI (1.11, 1.81), p<0.001]. CONCLUSIONS Prophylactic D2+ surgery is not recommended, since D2+ surgery is associated with an increased rate of post-operative complications and does not improve the long-term survival rate of patients with advanced gastric cancer. However, D2+ surgery (especially D2+PAND) has certain survival advantages for specific patients, and D2+PAND surgery combined with chemotherapy may potentially improve long-term survival rate.
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Central South University, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China.
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Wang Z, Zhou F, Feng X, Li H, Duan C, Wu Y, Xiong Y. FoxO1/NLRP3 Inflammasome Promotes Age-Related Alveolar Bone Resorption. J Dent Res 2023:220345231164104. [PMID: 37203197 DOI: 10.1177/00220345231164104] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023] Open
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Periodontitis is the utmost common chronic oral disease that exhibits intense susceptibility to aging. Aging is characterized by persistent sterile low-grade inflammation, leading to age-related periodontal complications represented by alveolar bone loss. Currently, forkhead transcription factor O1 (FoxO1) is generally believed to have a significant role in body development, senescence, cell viability, and oxidative stress in numerous organs and cells. However, the role of this transcription factor in mediating age-related alveolar bone resorption has not been examined. In this study, FoxO1 deficiency was discovered to have a beneficial correlation with halting the progression of alveolar bone resorption in aged mice. To further investigate the function of FoxO1 in age-related alveolar bone resorption, osteoblastic-specific FoxO1 knockout mice were generated, leading to an amelioration in alveolar bone loss compared to aged-matched wild-type mice, manifested as enhanced osteogenic potential. Mechanistically, we identified enhancement of the NLRP3 inflammasome signaling in FoxO1-deficient osteoblasts in the high dose of reactive oxygen species. Concordant with our study, MCC950, a specific inhibitor of NLRP3 inflammasome, greatly rescued osteoblast differentiation under oxidative stress. Our data shed light on the manifestations of FoxO1 depletion in osteoblasts and propose a possible mechanism for the therapy of age-related alveolar bone loss.
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- Z Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Oral Implantology, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Oral Implantology, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Oral Implantology, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Oral Implantology, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Oral Implantology, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Mao C, Ji D, Ding Y, Zhang Y, Song W, Liu L, Wu Y, Song L, Feng X, Zhang J, Cao J, Xu N. Suvemcitug as second-line treatment of advanced or metastatic solid tumors and with FOLFIRI for pretreated metastatic colorectal cancer: phase Ia/Ib open label, dose-escalation trials. ESMO Open 2023; 8:101540. [PMID: 37178668 DOI: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2023.101540] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Suvemcitug (BD0801), a novel humanized rabbit monoclonal antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor, has demonstrated promising antitumor activities in preclinical studies. PATIENTS AND METHODS The phase Ia/b trials investigated the safety and tolerability and antitumor activities of suvemcitug for pretreated advanced solid tumors and in combination with FOLFIRI (leucovorin and fluorouracil plus irinotecan) in second-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer using a 3 + 3 dose-escalation design. Patients received escalating doses of suvemcitug (phase Ia: 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7.5 mg/kg; phase Ib: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 mg/kg plus FOLFIRI). The primary endpoint was safety and tolerability in both trials. RESULTS All patients in the phase Ia trial had at least one adverse event (AE). Dose-limiting toxicities included grade 3 hyperbilirubinemia (one patient), hypertension and proteinuria (one patient), and proteinuria (one patient). The maximum tolerated dose was 5 mg/kg. The most common grade 3 and above AEs were proteinuria (9/25, 36%) and hypertension (8/25, 32%). Forty-eight patients (85.7%) in phase Ib had grade 3 and above AEs, including neutropenia (25/56, 44.6%), reduced leucocyte count (12/56, 21.4%), proteinuria (10/56, 17.9%), and elevated blood pressure (9/56, 16.1%). Only 1 patient in the phase Ia trial showed partial response, [objective response rate 4.0%, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.1% to 20.4%] whereas 18/53 patients in the phase Ib trial exhibited partial response (objective response rate 34.0%, 95% CI 21.5% to 48.3%). The median progression-free survival was 7.2 months (95% CI 5.1-8.7 months). CONCLUSIONS Suvemcitug has an acceptable toxicity profile and exhibits antitumor activities in pretreated patients with advanced solid tumors or metastatic colorectal cancer.
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- C Mao
- Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Zhejiang University, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
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- Department of Head & Neck Tumors and Neuroendocrine Tumors, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Hospital, Xuhui District, Shanghai; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
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- Phase I Clinical Trials Unit, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Chaoyang District, Changchun, Jilin Province, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nangang District, Harbin, China
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- Clinical Science, Shandong Simcere Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Yantai, Shandong Province, China
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- Clinical Statistics, Shandong Simcere Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Yantai, Shandong Province, China
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- Clinical Science, Shandong Simcere Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Yantai, Shandong Province, China
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- Clinical Pharmacology, Shandong Simcere Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Yantai, Shandong Province, China
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- Clinical Science, Shandong Simcere Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Yantai, Shandong Province, China
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- Clinical Science, Shandong Simcere Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Yantai, Shandong Province, China
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- Department of Lymphoma, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Hospital, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Zhejiang University, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
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Casas-Orozco D, Laky D, Wang V, Abdi M, Feng X, Wood E, Reklaitis GV, Nagy ZK. Techno-economic analysis of dynamic, end-to-end optimal pharmaceutical campaign manufacturing using PharmaPy. AIChE J 2023; 69:e18142. [PMID: 38179085 PMCID: PMC10765457 DOI: 10.1002/aic.18142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/16/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2024]
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Increased interest in the pharmaceutical industry to transition from batch to continuouos manufacturing motivates the use of digital frameworks that allow systematic comparison of candidate process configurations. This paper evaluates the technical and economic feasibility of different end-to-end optimal process configurations, viz. batch, hybrid and continuous, for small-scale manufacturing of an active pharmaceutical ingredient. Production campaigns were analyzed for those configurations containing continuous equipment, where significant start-up effects are expected given the relatively short campaign times considered. Hybrid operating mode was found to be the most attractive process configuration at intermediate and large annual production targets, which stems from combining continuous reactors and semi-batch vaporization equipment. Continuous operation was found to be more costly, due to long stabilization times of continuous crystallization, and thermodynamic limitations of flash vaporization. Our work reveals the benefits of systematic digital evaluation of process configurations that operate under feasible conditions and compliant product quality attributes.
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- Daniel Casas-Orozco
- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
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- Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food & Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food & Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food & Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food & Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
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Feng X, Fu Q, Gu SS, Ye P, Wang J, Duan C, Cai XL, Zhang LQ, Ni SL, Li XZ. [Endoscopic resection of type D trigeminal schwannoma through nasal sinus approach]. Zhonghua Wai Ke Za Zhi 2023; 61:232-238. [PMID: 36650970 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112139-20220725-00323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Objective: To examine the feasibility and surgical approach of removing type D trigeminal schwannoma through nasal cavity and nasal sinus under endoscope. Methods: Eleven patients with trigeminal schwannoma who were treated in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University from December 2014 to August 2021 were analyzed retrospectively in this study. There were 7 males and 4 females, aged (47.5±13.5) years (range: 12 to 64 years). The neoplasm involved the pterygopalatine fossa, infratemporal fossa, ethmoidal sinus, sphenoid sinus, cavernous sinus, and middle cranial fossa. The size of tumors were between 1.6 cm×2.0 cm×2.0 cm and 5.7 cm×6.0 cm×6.0 cm. Under general anesthesia, the tumors were resected through the transpterygoid approach in 4 cases, through the prelacrimal recess approach in 4 cases, through the extended prelacrimal recess approach in 2 cases, and through the endoscopic medial maxillectomy approach in 1 case. The nasal endoscopy and imaging examination were conducted to detect whether neoplasm recurred or not, and the main clinical symptoms during follow-up. Results: All the surgical procedures were performed under endonasal endoscope, including Gross total resection in 10 patients. The tumor of a 12-year-old patient was not resected completely due to huge tumor size and limited operation space. One patient was accompanied by two other schwannomas located in the occipital region and the ipsilateral parotid gland region originating from the zygomatic branch of the facial nerve, both of which were removed concurrently. After tumor resection, the dura mater of middle cranial fossa was directly exposed in the nasal sinus in 2 cases, including 1 case accompanied by cerebrospinal fluid leakage which was reconstructed by a free mucosal flap obtained from the middle turbinate, the other case was packed by the autologous fat to protect the dura mater. The operation time was (M(IQR)) 180 (160) minutes (range: 120 to 485 minutes). No complications and deaths were observed. No recurrence was observed in the 10 patients with total tumor resection during a 58 (68) months' (range: 10 to 90 months) follow-up. No obvious change was observed in the facial appearance of all patients during the follow-up. Conclusion: Type D trigeminal schwannoma involving pterygopalatine fossa and infratemporal fossa can be removed safely through purely endoscopic endonasal approach by selecting the appropriate approach according to the size and involvement of the tumor.
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- X Feng
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology (Shandong University), Jinan 250012, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology (Shandong University), Jinan 250012, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology (Shandong University), Jinan 250012, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology (Shandong University), Jinan 250012, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology (Shandong University), Jinan 250012, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology (Shandong University), Jinan 250012, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology (Shandong University), Jinan 250012, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology (Shandong University), Jinan 250012, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology (Shandong University), Jinan 250012, China
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Niu K, Bai P, Zhang J, Feng X, Qiu F. Cytidine Alleviates Dyslipidemia and Modulates the Gut Microbiota Composition in ob/ob Mice. Nutrients 2023; 15:nu15051147. [PMID: 36904146 PMCID: PMC10005144 DOI: 10.3390/nu15051147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/03/2023] Open
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Cytidine and uridine are endogenous metabolites in the pyrimidine metabolism pathway, and cytidine is a substrate that can be metabolized into uridine via cytidine deaminase. Uridine has been widely reported to be effective in regulating lipid metabolism. However, whether cytidine could ameliorate lipid metabolism disorder has not yet been investigated. In this research, ob/ob mice were used, and the effect of cytidine (0.4 mg/mL in drinking water for five weeks) on lipid metabolism disorder was evaluated in terms of an oral glucose tolerance test, serum lipid levels, liver histopathological analysis and gut microbiome analysis. Uridine was used as a positive control. Our findings reveal that cytidine could alleviate certain aspects of dyslipidemia and improve hepatic steatosis via modulating the gut microbiota composition in ob/ob mice, especially increasing the abundance of short-chain fatty acids-producing microbiota. These results suggest that cytidine supplementation could be a potential therapeutic approach for dyslipidemia.
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- Correspondence: (X.F.); (F.Q.); Tel.: +86-22-595-6223 (X.F.)
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- Correspondence: (X.F.); (F.Q.); Tel.: +86-22-595-6223 (X.F.)
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Li Y, Zang J, Wang X, Feng X, Qiu F. Deciphering the underlying wound healing mechanisms of Streptocaulon juventas (Lour.) Merr. by integrating network pharmacology, transcriptomics, and experimental validation. J Ethnopharmacol 2023; 302:115890. [PMID: 36336222 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2022.115890] [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] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Revised: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Streptocaulon juventas (Lour.) Merr. (SJ), a traditional Chinese folk medicine, has been widely used for the treatment of dysentery and traumatic injuries since ancient times. However, the mechanisms underlying its wound healing activity remain unclear. AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of this study was to evaluate the wound healing activity of SJ and clarify the underlying molecular mechanisms. MATERIALS AND METHODS The wound healing activity of an ethanol extract of SJ (ESJ) was confirmed in rat full-thickness wound models. UPLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS was used to analyze the composition of ESJ. Potential molecular targets and signaling pathways involved in the wound healing activity of ESJ were predicted using network pharmacology and transcriptomic analyses. In addition, the L929 cells were used to evaluate the in vitro wound healing activity of ESJ and to verify the predicted pathways. RESULTS In rat wound models, ESJ significantly accelerated wound healing and promoted hydroxyproline production in wounds. Network pharmacology and transcriptomic analyses results revealed that ESJ might promote wound healing by activating the AKT and MAPK pathways. In L929 cells, ESJ significantly promoted cell proliferation, migration, and expression of collagen I and α-SMA. Additionally, ESJ treatment increased the phosphorylation of AKT, mTOR, ERK, and p38 in a time- and dose-dependent manner. CONCLUSIONS ESJ significantly promoted wound healing in vivo and in vitro. AKT-mTOR and ERK-p38 signaling pathways were involved in the wound healing activity of ESJ.
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- Yang Li
- School of Chinese Materia Medica, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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Feng X, Dogg Sigurdardottir F, Øverby C, Thorshov T, Dammen T, Hrubos-Strøm H. Validation of insomnia questionnaire and estimation of COMISA in a large, population based cohort. Sleep Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2022.05.777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Teng Y, Zhang R, Yang B, Yang H, Li X, Yin D, Feng X, Tian Y. Bio-orthogonally activated tetraphenylene-tetrazine aggregation-induced emission fluorogenic probes. J Mater Chem B 2022; 10:8642-8649. [PMID: 36254898 DOI: 10.1039/d2tb01893d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Tetrazine-based bio-orthogonally activated fluorogenic probes have drawn great attention due to their excellent performance in bioimaging; however, most of them suffer from aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) problems. Herein, we developed a set of novel tetrazine-modified tetraphenylenes (TPEs) as bio-orthogonally activated aggregation-induced emission (AIE) fluorogenic probes. Both the fluorescence and AIE features are quenched by tetrazine, which is mediated by the through-bond energy-transfer (TBET) mechanism, and are activated upon converting tetrazine to pyridazine via the inverse electron-demand Diels-Alder (iEDDA) reaction. The activated cycloadducts displayed a notable fluorescence enhancement, a large Stokes shift, a high fluorescence quantum yield, and evident AIE-active features. Manipulating the length and position of the π-linker enables fine-tuning of the photophysical properties of the probes, while an overlong planar π-linker leads to AIE-to-ACQ transformation. We also designed bi-tetrazyl-substituted probes, which exhibited a higher turn-on ratio than the mono-tetrazyl analogs owing to the 'double-quenched' function. When they reacted with double-clickable linkers, fluorescent macrocycles were obtained because of the restriction of the free rotation of the phenyl rings of TPE. Using an organelle-pretargeting strategy, we succeeded in applying these probes for mitochondria-specific bio-orthogonal imaging in live cells under no-wash conditions, which is expected to provide a powerful tool for biomedical applications.
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- Yu Teng
- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drugability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100050, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drugability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100050, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drugability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100050, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drugability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100050, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drugability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100050, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drugability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100050, China.
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Peng D, Liu M, Tang B, Feng X, Liu Y, Li J, Wu F, Orlandini L. MR-Guided Boost Irradiation for Patients with Pelvic Recurrence of Gynecological Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.07.1260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Caplette JN, Gfeller L, Lei D, Liao J, Xia J, Zhang H, Feng X, Mestrot A. Antimony release and volatilization from rice paddy soils: Field and microcosm study. Sci Total Environ 2022; 842:156631. [PMID: 35691353 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Revised: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The fate of antimony (Sb) in submerged soils and the impact of common agricultural practices (e.g., manuring) on Sb release and volatilization is understudied. We investigated porewater Sb release and volatilization in the field and laboratory for three rice paddy soils. In the field study, the porewater Sb concentration (up to 107.1 μg L-1) was associated with iron (Fe) at two sites, and with pH, Fe, manganese (Mn), and sulfate (SO42-) at one site. The surface water Sb concentrations (up to 495.3 ± 113.7 μg L-1) were up to 99 times higher than the regulatory values indicating a potential risk to aquaculture and rice agriculture. For the first time, volatile Sb was detected in rice paddy fields using a validated quantitative method (18.1 ± 5.2 to 217.9 ± 160.7 mg ha-1 y-1). We also investigated the influence of two common rice agriculture practices (flooding and manuring) on Sb release and volatilization in a 56-day microcosm experiment using the same soils from the field campaign. Flooding induced an immediate, but temporary, Sb release into the porewater that declined with SO42-, indicating that SO42- reduction may reduce porewater Sb concentrations. A secondary Sb release, corresponding to Fe reduction in the porewater, was observed in some of the microcosms. Our results suggest flooding-induced Sb release into rice paddy porewaters is temporary but relevant. Manuring the soils did not impact the porewater Sb concentration but did enhance Sb volatilization. Volatile Sb (159.6 ± 108.4 to 2237.5 ± 679.7 ng kg-1 y-1) was detected in most of the treatments and was correlated with the surface water Sb concentration. Our study indicates that Sb volatilization could be occurring at the soil-water interface or directly in the surface water and highlights that future works should investigate this potentially relevant mechanism.
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- Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China.
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- Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland.
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Fu BS, Yi SH, Yi HM, Feng X, Zhang T, Yang Q, Zhang YC, Yao J, Tang H, Zeng KN, Li XB, Yang Z, Lyu L, Chen GH, Yang Y. [Clinical efficacy of split liver transplantation in the treatment of children with biliary atresia]. Zhonghua Wai Ke Za Zhi 2022; 60:900-905. [PMID: 36207978 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112139-20220712-00309] [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: 06/16/2023]
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Objective: To compare the clinical efficacy of split liver transplantation (SLT) and living donor liver transplantation(LDLT) in the treatment of children with biliary atresia. Methods: The clinical data of 64 children with biliary atresia who underwent SLT and 44 children who underwent LDLT from June 2017 to May 2022 at Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center,the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University were retrospectively analyzed. Among the children who received SLT, there were 40 males and 24 females. The median age at transplantation was 8 months (range:4 to 168 months). Among the patients who received LDLT, there were 24 males and 20 females. The age at transplantation ranged from 4 to 24 months,with a median age of 7 months. Sixty-four children with biliary atresia were divided into two groups according to the SLT operation time: 32 cases in the early SLT group(June 2017 to January 2019) and 32 cases in the technically mature SLT group (February 2019 to May 2022). Rank sum test or t test was used to compare the recovery of liver function between the LDLT group and the SLT group,and between the early SLT group and the technically mature SLT group. The incidence of postoperative complications was compared by χ2 test or Fisher exact probability method. Kaplan-Meier method and Log-rank test were used for survival analysis. Results: The cold ischemia time(M (IQR)) (218 (65) minutes), intraoperative blood loss(175 (100) ml) and graft-to-recipient body weight ratio (3.0±0.7) in the LDLT group were lower than those in the SLT group(500 (130) minutes, 200 (250) ml, 3.4±0.8) (Z=-8.064,Z=-2.969, t=-2.048, all P<0.05). The cold ischemia time(457(158)minutes) and total hospital stay ((37.4±22.4)days) in the technically mature SLT group were lower than those in the early SLT group(510(60)minutes, (53.0±39.0)days).The differences were statistically significant (Z=-2.132, t=1.934, both P<0.05).The liver function indexes of LDLT group and SLT group showed unimodal changes within 1 week after operation. The peak values of ALT, AST, prothrombin time, activeated partial thromboplasting time, international normalized ratio, fibrinogen and creatinine all appeared at 1 day after operation, and the peak value of prothrombin activity appeared at 3 days after operation. All indicators returned to normal at 7 days after operation. The 1-,2-,and 3-year overall survival rates were 95.5% in LDLT group and 93.5% in the technically mature SLT group, and the difference was not statistically significant. The 1-,2-,and 3-year overall survival rates were 90.2% in the early SLT group and 93.5% in the technically mature SLT group, and there was no significant difference between the two groups(P>0.05). The main complications of the early SLT group were surgery-related complications(28.1%,9/32), and the main complications of the technically mature SLT group were non-surgery-related complications(21.9%,7/32). There were 5 deaths in the SLT group,including 4 in the early SLT group and 1 in the technically mature SLT group. Conclusion: The survival rate of SLT in the treatment of biliary atresia is comparable to that of LDLT.
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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- Liver Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University;Institute of Organ Transplantation,Sun Yat-sen University;Guangdong Organ Transplantation Research Center;Guangdong Transplantation Medical Engineering Laboratory;Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Diseases,Guangzhou 510630,China
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Feng X, Prates L, Yu P. PSI-18 Effect of Heat Processing Methods on Carbohydrate Subfractions and Degradation in Relation to Carbohydrate Molecular Spectral Profile of Barley Grain Using Advanced Molecular Spectroscopy in Ruminants. J Anim Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/jas/skac247.657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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To our knowledge, there are few studies on the association between carbohydrate molecular structure spectral profiles of barley grain and ruminant-relevant nutritional characteristics. This study aimed to study associate processing-induced changes in carbohydrate molecular structure with changes in ruminant-relevant carbohydrate nutritional profiles. The heat processing methods included: dry roasting, autoclaving, and microwave irradiation. The ruminant-relevant carbohydrate nutritional profiles were determined which included carbohydrate chemical profiles, carbohydrate subfractions, ruminant-relevant carbohydrate digestion. The molecular structure spectral profiles were determined using vibrational molecular spectroscopy (ATR-FT/IR). The results showed that heat related processing significantly induced carbohydrate molecular spectral profiles. The heat related processing also significantly changed ruminant-relevant nutritional characteristics. There was an association between processing induced carbohydrate molecular structure changes and ruminant-relevant carbohydrate nutritional profiles. The advanced vibrational molecular spectroscopic technique (ATR-FTIR) shows the great potential as a fast analytical tool to predict ruminant-relevant carbohydrate nutritional characteristics.
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- University of Saskatchewan
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- University of Saskatchewan
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Feng X, Wu WY, Onwuka J, Alcala K, Smith-Byrne K, Zahed H, Guida F, Yuan JM, Wang R, Milne R, Bassett J, Langhammer A, Hveem K, Stevens V, Wang Y, Brennan P, Melin B, Johansson M, Robbins H, Johansson M. P1.01-01 Comparison between Protein and Autoantibody Biomarkers for the Early Detection of Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.07.162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Feng X, Wang K, Cao S, Ding L, Qiu F. Pharmacokinetics of Five Alkaloids and their Metabolites in Normal and Diabetic Rats after Oral Administration of Rhizoma coptidis. Planta Med 2022; 88:921-932. [PMID: 34111890 DOI: 10.1055/a-1506-1627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Rhizoma coptidis has been clinically used for a long time for the treatment of various diseases in China, such as hypertension, diabetes, and inflammation. Previous studies have shown that alkaloid components of Rhizoma coptidis extract could be extensively metabolized and the metabolites were also considered to be the therapeutic material basis. However, until now, pharmacokinetic studies of the in vivo metabolites have not been revealed yet. The aim of the present study was to characterize the pharmacokinetics and excretions of five main alkaloids (berberine, jatrorrhizine, palmatine, epiberberine, and coptisine) and their seven metabolites (berberrubine, demethyleneberberine, jatrorrhizine-3-O-β-D-glucuronide, thalifendine-10-O-β-D-glucuronide, berberrubine-9-O-β-D-glucuronide, demethyleneberberine-2-O-sulfate, and demethyleneberberine-2-O-β-D-glucuronide) in rats after oral administration of Rhizoma coptidis extract. Meanwhile, comparative pharmacokinetics and excretions of these analytes in diabetic model rats were also investigated, since Rhizoma coptidis is widely used for the treatment of diabetes. Our results showed that the in vivo existing forms of alkaloid components were phase II metabolites, highlighting the glucuronidation metabolic pathway. In diabetic model rats, the utilization of Rhizoma coptidis alkaloids was significantly increased and the biotransformation of berberine into berberrubine was significantly inhibited.
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- Xinchi Feng
- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
- State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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Zhang L, Feng X, Gu Y, Yang T, Li X, Yu H, You Z. SYNTHESES, CRYSTAL STRUCTURES, AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITIES OF ZINC COMPLEXES DERIVED FROM 2-AMINO-N′- (PYRIDIN-2-YLMETHYLENE)BENZOHYDRAZIDE. J STRUCT CHEM+ 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s0022476622080170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Zhou Z, Feng X, Yang L, Fang XZ, Xu KN, Li WT, Yang YN, Shi YF. [The Helicobacter pylori infection rate detected in combination by immunohistochemical staining and 14C urea breath test in Xinjiang patient and analysis with its related factors]. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi 2022; 51:656-658. [PMID: 35785839 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112151-20211202-00877] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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- Z Zhou
- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830002, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830002, China
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- Key laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Beijing Office for Cancer Prevention and Control, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing 100142, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830002, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830002, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830002, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Pathology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing 100142, China
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Glucolipid metabolism disorders pose a serious and global health problem, and more effective prevention and treatment methods are urgently needed. In this study, ob/ob mice were used to explore the potential mechanism explaining how asiatic acid (AA) regulates glucolipid metabolism disorders. Five-week AA treatment (30 mg kg-1) significantly improved a host of metabolic factors in ob/ob mice, including hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, insulin resistance, and liver histopathology. Combined analysis of untargeted liver metabolomics, liver transcriptomics, and the gut microbiome was conducted, and the results showed that AA alleviates metabolic disorders in ob/ob mice through regulating pyrimidine metabolism, activating PPAR-γ, and modulating gut microbiota. AA treatment remarkedly increased the levels of cytosine and cytidine, two crucial endogenous metabolites related to pyrimidine metabolism, which were significantly decreased in ob/ob mice. AA treatment also affected the levels of 13-S-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid, an endogenous PPAR-γ agonist. The abundances of Lachnospiraceae_NK4A136_group and norank_f__norank_o__Clostridia_UCG-014 were increased after AA treatment. Meanwhile, correlation analysis showed that endogenous metabolites and gut microbiota were strongly correlated. These findings indicated that AA supplements might be beneficial for the prevention of metabolic disorders.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, and State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, and State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, and State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, and State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, and State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
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Pleasance E, Bohm A, Williamson LM, Nelson JMT, Shen Y, Bonakdar M, Titmuss E, Csizmok V, Wee K, Hosseinzadeh S, Grisdale CJ, Reisle C, Taylor GA, Lewis E, Jones MR, Bleile D, Sadeghi S, Zhang W, Davies A, Pellegrini B, Wong T, Bowlby R, Chan SK, Mungall KL, Chuah E, Mungall AJ, Moore RA, Zhao Y, Deol B, Fisic A, Fok A, Regier DA, Weymann D, Schaeffer DF, Young S, Yip S, Schrader K, Levasseur N, Taylor SK, Feng X, Tinker A, Savage KJ, Chia S, Gelmon K, Sun S, Lim H, Renouf DJ, Jones SJM, Marra MA, Laskin J. Whole genome and transcriptome analysis enhances precision cancer treatment options. Ann Oncol 2022; 33:939-949. [PMID: 35691590 DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2022.05.522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Revised: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Recent advances are enabling delivery of precision genomic medicine to cancer clinics. While the majority of approaches profile panels of selected genes or hotspot regions, comprehensive data provided by whole genome and transcriptome sequencing and analysis (WGTA) presents an opportunity to align a much larger proportion of patients to therapies. PATIENTS AND METHODS Samples from 570 patients with advanced or metastatic cancer of diverse types enrolled in the Personalized OncoGenomics (POG) program underwent WGTA. DNA-based data, including mutations, copy number, and mutation signatures, were combined with RNA-based data, including gene expression and fusions, to generate comprehensive WGTA profiles. A multidisciplinary molecular tumour board used WGTA profiles to identify and prioritize clinically actionable alterations and inform therapy. Patient responses to WGTA-informed therapies were collected. RESULTS Clinically actionable targets were identified for 83% of patients, 37% of whom received WGTA-informed treatments. RNA expression data were particularly informative, contributing to 67% of WGTA-informed treatments; 25% of treatments were informed by RNA expression alone. Of a total 248 WGTA-informed treatments, 46% resulted in clinical benefit. RNA expression data were comparable to DNA-based mutation and copy number data in aligning to clinically beneficial treatments. Genome signatures also guided therapeutics including platinum, PARP inhibitors, and immunotherapies. Patients accessed WGTA-informed treatments through clinical trials (19%), off-label use (35%), and as standard therapies (46%) including those which would not otherwise have been the next choice of therapy, demonstrating the utility of genomic information to direct use of chemotherapies as well as targeted therapies. CONCLUSIONS Integrating RNA expression and genome data illuminated treatment options that resulted in 46% of treated patients experiencing positive clinical benefit, supporting the use of comprehensive WGTA profiling in clinical cancer care. CLINICAL TRIAL NUMBER NCT02155621.
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver; Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver; Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control, Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control, Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Pancreas Centre BC, Vancouver
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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- Hereditary Cancer Program, BC Cancer, Vancouver; Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Kelowna
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Victoria
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver; Pancreas Centre BC, Vancouver
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver; Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver; Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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- Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver.
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Bai P, Niu K, Huo Z, Feng X, Qiu F. Application of 2H stable isotope labelling methodology and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography/quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry for the metabolite identification of dehydroandrographolide in rats. ANAL SCI 2022; 38:977-988. [PMID: 35616886 DOI: 10.1007/s44211-022-00129-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Dehydroandrographolide (DA), one of the crucial diterpenoids of Andrographis paniculata (Burm.F.) Nees, which has been widely used clinically due to its excellent biological activities and pharmacological safety. Until now, various investigations about the biological activities, pharmacokinetic profiles, and in vitro metabolism of DA have been conducted. However, information about the in vivo biotransformation of DA was still not available. In this study, a rapid and reliable approach based on stable isotope labeling and UPLC-Q/TOF-MS was developed and applied for the first systematic research about the in vivo metabolism of DA. As a result, a total of 35 metabolites were identified in rat urine, bile, plasma, and feces samples after DA was orally administered at the dose of 95 mg/kg, and 33 of them were further verified based on stable isotope labeling. The major metabolic pathways for DA were hydroxylation, hydration, sulfonation, sulfate conjugation, and glucuronidation. Meanwhile, sulfonation, sulfate conjugation, and amino acids conjugation of DA were reported for the first time. This is the first systematic investigation of the in vivo metabolism of DA in rats, and the identification of these metabolites might provide scientific and reliable support for a full understanding of the metabolism of DA.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, and State Key Laboratory of Component-Based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinghai District, Tianjin, 301617, China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, and State Key Laboratory of Component-Based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinghai District, Tianjin, 301617, China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, and State Key Laboratory of Component-Based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinghai District, Tianjin, 301617, China
- TCM Research Center, Tasly Academy, Tasly Holding Group Co.Ltd, Tianjin, China
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, and State Key Laboratory of Component-Based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinghai District, Tianjin, 301617, China.
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, and State Key Laboratory of Component-Based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinghai District, Tianjin, 301617, China.
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Ning S, Zang J, Zhang B, Feng X, Qiu F. Botanical Drugs in Traditional Chinese Medicine With Wound Healing Properties. Front Pharmacol 2022; 13:885484. [PMID: 35645789 PMCID: PMC9133888 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.885484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [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: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Chronic and unhealed wound is a serious public problem, which brings severe economic burdens and psychological pressure to patients. Various botanical drugs in traditional Chinese medicine have been used for the treatment of wounds since ancient time. Nowadays, multiple wound healing therapeutics derived from botanical drugs are commercially available worldwide. An increasing number of investigations have been conducted to elucidate the wound healing activities and the potential mechanisms of botanical drugs in recent years. The aim of this review is to summarize the botanical drugs in traditional Chinese medicine with wound healing properties and the underlying mechanisms of them, which can contribute to the research of wound healing and drug development. Taken together, five botanical drugs that have been developed into commercially available products, and 24 botanical drugs with excellent wound healing activities and several multiherbal preparations are reviewed in this article.
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- *Correspondence: Feng Qiu, ; Xinchi Feng,
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zhang Y, Huan F, Feng X, Lu F, Li Z, Wei G, Li W, Li H. PO-1836 The Clinical Effectiveness of SGRT on Extremities Patients: Accuracy and Potential Margins Reduction. Radiother Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(22)03799-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Xia K, Wang F, Lai X, Luo P, Chen H, Ma Y, Huang W, Ou W, Li Y, Feng X, Lei Z, Tu X, Ke Q, Mao F, Deng C, Xiang A. Gene Editing/Gene Therapies: AAV-MEDIATED GENE THERAPY PRODUCES FERTILE OFFSPRING IN THE LHCGR-DEFICIENT MOUSE MODEL OF LEYDIG CELL FAILURE. Cytotherapy 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s1465-3249(22)00156-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Feng X, Huan F, Chen H, Lu F, Li Z, Li H, Li W, Wei G, Wan B, Zhang Y, Jing H, Wang S. PO-1874 Evaluating the use of SGRT in supraclavicular fossa positioning of mastectomy patients. Radiother Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(22)03837-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Li J, Tang B, Liu M, Guo S, Yao X, Liao X, Feng X, Clara Orlandini L. PO-1554 Catching errors by synthetic CT in the clinical workflow of an MR-Linac. Radiother Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(22)03518-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Geng CY, Feng X, Luan JM, Ji S, Jin YH, Zhang M. Improved tenderness of beef from bulls supplemented with active dry yeast is related to matrix metalloproteinases and reduced oxidative stress. Animal 2022; 16:100517. [PMID: 35436649 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2022.100517] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Supplementing diets with active dry yeast (ADY, Saccharomyces cerevisiae) improves the carcass quality grade of beef cattle and the tenderness of beef. The relevant mechanisms have not been fully elucidated, but may be related to the effect of ADY on oxidative stress and the activity of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). To provide further insight into these mechanisms, this study evaluated the influence of ADY supplementation on growth performance, carcass traits, meat quality, concentrations of MMPs in serum (MMP-2, MMP-9 and MMP-13), oxidative stress indices and antioxidant capacity indices in beef cattle. Forty-six crossbred Simmental × Yanbian bulls (∼18 months of age, BW 436 ± 35 kg) participated in a 145-day finishing trial. ADY supplementation significantly improved marbling deposition, intramuscular fat content, and beef tenderness (P < 0.05); altered individual fatty acid proportions in the beef and increased saturated fatty acids while decreasing polyunsaturated fatty acids (P < 0.05); significantly decreased the abundance of reactive oxygen species in serum and meat; significantly increased the level of superoxide dismutase in meat (P < 0.05); tended to increase the level of catalase (P = 0.075) in serum and glutathione reductase (P = 0.066) in meat; and increased the secretion of MMPs. The improvement of beef tenderness following ADY supplementation of finishing bulls is related to the effects of ADY on the secretion of MMPs and the lowering of oxidative stress.
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- C Y Geng
- College of Agriculture, Yanbian University, Yanji 133000, China; Engineering Research Center of North-East Cold Region Beef Cattle Science & Technology Innovation, Ministry of Education, Yanbian University, Yanji 133000, China.
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- College of Agriculture, Yanbian University, Yanji 133000, China
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- College of Agriculture, Yanbian University, Yanji 133000, China
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- College of Agriculture, Yanbian University, Yanji 133000, China; Engineering Research Center of North-East Cold Region Beef Cattle Science & Technology Innovation, Ministry of Education, Yanbian University, Yanji 133000, China
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- College of Agriculture, Yanbian University, Yanji 133000, China; Engineering Research Center of North-East Cold Region Beef Cattle Science & Technology Innovation, Ministry of Education, Yanbian University, Yanji 133000, China
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- College of Agriculture, Yanbian University, Yanji 133000, China; Engineering Research Center of North-East Cold Region Beef Cattle Science & Technology Innovation, Ministry of Education, Yanbian University, Yanji 133000, China
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Feng X, Bao W, Wang X, Rao Q, Shi QL, Yue Z. [Pituicytoma: a clinicopathological analysis of twenty-one cases]. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi 2022; 51:314-318. [PMID: 35359042 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112151-20210818-00579] [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: 06/14/2023]
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Objective: To investigate the clinicopathological features and treatment strategies of pituicytoma. Methods: Twenty-one cases of pituicytoma were collected at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University and Jinling Hospital, Nanjing, China from 2009 to 2020. The clinical data of 21 pituicytoma patients was retrospectively analyzed, and the relevant literature was reviewed. Results: Twenty-one patients aged 4 to 68 years, including 8 males and 13 females. All patients underwent surgical treatment. Histologically, the tumor was consisted almost entirely of elongate, bipolar spindle cells arranged in a fascicular or storiform pattern. Mitotic figures were rare. Immunohistochemically, tumor cells were diffusely positive for S-100 protein (21/21), vimentin (15/15) and TTF1 (14/14), while they were weakly or focally positive for GFAP (13/16) and EMA (6/12). CKpan was negative in all cases and Ki-67 proliferation index was low (<5%). Among the 18 patients with follow-up, all survived and 2 relapsed after surgery. Conclusions: Pituicytoma is a rare low-grade glioma of the sellar area. It is easily confused with other sellar tumors. Preoperative diagnosis is difficult. It needs to be confirmed by histopathology and immunohistochemistry. Microsurgery is the main treatment method at present.
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- Department of Pathology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing 210002, China
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- Department of Pathology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing 210002, China
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- Department of Pathology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing 210002, China
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- Department of Pathology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing 210002, China
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- Department of Pathology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing 210002, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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Zhao L, Asis-Cruz JD, Feng X, Wu Y, Kapse K, Largent A, Quistorff J, Lopez C, Wu D, Qing K, Meyer C, Limperopoulos C. Automated 3D Fetal Brain Segmentation Using an Optimized Deep Learning Approach. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2022; 43:448-454. [PMID: 35177547 PMCID: PMC8910820 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a7419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [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] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE MR imaging provides critical information about fetal brain growth and development. Currently, morphologic analysis primarily relies on manual segmentation, which is time-intensive and has limited repeatability. This work aimed to develop a deep learning-based automatic fetal brain segmentation method that provides improved accuracy and robustness compared with atlas-based methods. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 106 fetal MR imaging studies were acquired prospectively from fetuses between 23 and 39 weeks of gestation. We trained a deep learning model on the MR imaging scans of 65 healthy fetuses and compared its performance with a 4D atlas-based segmentation method using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The trained model was also evaluated on data from 41 fetuses diagnosed with congenital heart disease. RESULTS The proposed method showed high consistency with the manual segmentation, with an average Dice score of 0.897. It also demonstrated significantly improved performance (P < .001) based on the Dice score and 95% Hausdorff distance in all brain regions compared with the atlas-based method. The performance of the proposed method was consistent across gestational ages. The segmentations of the brains of fetuses with high-risk congenital heart disease were also highly consistent with the manual segmentation, though the Dice score was 7% lower than that of healthy fetuses. CONCLUSIONS The proposed deep learning method provides an efficient and reliable approach for fetal brain segmentation, which outperformed segmentation based on a 4D atlas and has been used in clinical and research settings.
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- L Zhao
- From the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology (L.Z., J.D.A.-C., Y.W., K.K., A.L., J.Q., C. Lopez, C. Limperopoulos), Developing Brain Institute, Children's National, Washington, DC
- Department of Biomedical Engineering (L.Z., D.W.), Key Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, China
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- From the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology (L.Z., J.D.A.-C., Y.W., K.K., A.L., J.Q., C. Lopez, C. Limperopoulos), Developing Brain Institute, Children's National, Washington, DC
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering (X.F., C.M.), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- From the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology (L.Z., J.D.A.-C., Y.W., K.K., A.L., J.Q., C. Lopez, C. Limperopoulos), Developing Brain Institute, Children's National, Washington, DC
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- From the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology (L.Z., J.D.A.-C., Y.W., K.K., A.L., J.Q., C. Lopez, C. Limperopoulos), Developing Brain Institute, Children's National, Washington, DC
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- From the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology (L.Z., J.D.A.-C., Y.W., K.K., A.L., J.Q., C. Lopez, C. Limperopoulos), Developing Brain Institute, Children's National, Washington, DC
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- From the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology (L.Z., J.D.A.-C., Y.W., K.K., A.L., J.Q., C. Lopez, C. Limperopoulos), Developing Brain Institute, Children's National, Washington, DC
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- From the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology (L.Z., J.D.A.-C., Y.W., K.K., A.L., J.Q., C. Lopez, C. Limperopoulos), Developing Brain Institute, Children's National, Washington, DC
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering (L.Z., D.W.), Key Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology (K.Q.), City of Hope National Center, Duarte, California
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering (X.F., C.M.), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- From the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology (L.Z., J.D.A.-C., Y.W., K.K., A.L., J.Q., C. Lopez, C. Limperopoulos), Developing Brain Institute, Children's National, Washington, DC
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Li E, Zou XL, Xu LQ, Chu YQ, Feng X, Lian H, Liu HQ, Liu AD, Han MK, Dong JQ, Wang HH, Liu JW, Zang Q, Wang SX, Zhou TF, Huang YH, Hu LQ, Zhou C, Qu HX, Chen Y, Lin SY, Zhang B, Qian JP, Hu JS, Xu GS, Chen JL, Lu K, Liu FK, Song YT, Li JG, Gong XZ. Experimental Evidence of Intrinsic Current Generation by Turbulence in Stationary Tokamak Plasmas. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 128:085003. [PMID: 35275672 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.085003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2021] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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High-β_{θe} (a ratio of the electron thermal pressure to the poloidal magnetic pressure) steady-state long-pulse plasmas with steep central electron temperature gradient are achieved in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak. An intrinsic current is observed to be modulated by turbulence driven by the electron temperature gradient. This turbulent current is generated in the countercurrent direction and can reach a maximum ratio of 25% of the bootstrap current. Gyrokinetic simulations and experimental observations indicate that the turbulence is the electron temperature gradient mode (ETG). The dominant mechanism for the turbulent current generation is due to the divergence of ETG-driven residual flux of current. Good agreement has been found between experiments and theory for the critical value of the electron temperature gradient triggering ETG and for the level of the turbulent current. The maximum values of turbulent current and electron temperature gradient lead to the destabilization of an m/n=1/1 kink mode, which by counteraction reduces the turbulence level (m and n are the poloidal and toroidal mode number, respectively). These observations suggest that the self-regulation system including turbulence, turbulent current, and kink mode is a contributing mechanism for sustaining the steady-state long-pulse high-β_{θe} regime.
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- Erzhong Li
- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- CEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022, People's Republic of China
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022, People's Republic of China
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- University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022, People's Republic of China
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- Southwestern Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 432, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China
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- Southwestern Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 432, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Advanced Energy Research Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China
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Duan J, Bernard M, Downes L, Clair WS, Feng X, Chen Q. A Double-Blind Study to Evaluate the Feasibility of Using AI-Powered Auto-Segmentation in Prostate Cancer Treatment. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.07.552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Chen Q, Bernard M, Duan J, Feng X. A Transfer Learning Approach for Improving OAR Segmentation in the Adaptive Therapy or Retreatment of Head and Neck Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.07.550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Duan J, Bernard M, Willows B, Downes L, Mourad W, Clair WS, Feng X, Chen Q. Comparing Deep Learning Based Prostate Delineation With Manual Contouring From Multiple Experts. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.07.472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Dou Q, Chen Q, Rong Y, Feng X. Patch-Based DCNN Method for CBCT Image Enhancement. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.07.471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Demuyakor A, Hu S, Koniaeva E, Liu M, Weng Z, Zhao C, Feng X, He L, Xu Y, Zeng M, Meng W, Yi B, Qin Y, Jia H, Bo Y. Impact of nodular calcification on the outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Eur Heart J 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab724.1249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background
Calcified plaque is thought to adversely impact clinical outcomes but the impact of nodular calcification after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remains unclear.
Purpose
This study sought to explore the impact of nodular calcification on the outcomes of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndromes.
Methods
Five-hundred culprit plaque with calcification were analysed from 495 ACS patients in whom PCI was performed. Plaques were divided into nodular calcification group (n=238) and non-nodular calcification group (n=262). Calcification is defined as an area with low back-scattering signal and a sharp border. Nodular calcification was defined as a protruding mass with an irregular surface, high backscattering, and signal attenuation on optical coherence tomography (OCT).
Results
Patients with nodular calcification were older (p<0.001) and had lower left ventricular ejection fraction (p=0.006) compared to patients with non-nodular calcification. Lesion length (31 (25.2, 38.5) vs. 29 (22.8, 34.1), p<0.001) was longer in plaques with nodular calcification. A higher prevalence of superficial calcium (p<0.001) was observed in plaques with nodular calcification compared with non-nodular calcification group. Minimum stent area (MSA) (5.0 (3.9, 6.3) vs. 5.4 (4.2, 6.7), p=0.011) and stent expansion (70 (62.7, 81.8) vs. 75 (65.2, 86.6), p=0.004) were significantly smaller in the nodular calcification group than in the non-nodular calcification group. Independent predictors of nodular calcification were age (p<0.001) lesion length (p=0.002) and calcium depth (p<0.001).
Conclusion
This study demonstrated that the presence of nodular calcification is associated with unfavourable outcomes with smaller minimum stent area and higher incidence of stent under expansion in patients with ACS treated with primary PCI.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding sources: None.
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University; The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Department of Cardiology, Harbin, China
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