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Liang JY, Wang YM, Wen Z, Zhang WH, Gao ZZ, Wang Z, Guo SP. [Clinicopathological characteristics and immune microenvironment of breast squamous cell carcinoma]. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi 2024; 53:337-343. [PMID: 38556816 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112151-20231023-00293] [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: 04/02/2024]
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Objective: To investigate the clinicopathological characteristics of breast squamous cell carcinoma and to analyze the relationship between its immune microenvironment tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and prognosis. Methods: Forty-four cases of primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast diagnosed and treated in the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, China from January 2006 to July 2022 were selected. Their clinicopathological characteristics were analyzed. The cell composition of TILs was evaluated using immunohistochemistry (Mainly markers of B lymphocytes, T lymphocytes and plasma cells). The relationship between TILs and prognosis was also analyzed. Results: The 44 patients of breast squamous cell carcinoma were all female and all were invasive carcinoma. Eight cases (8/44, 18.2%) were squamous cell carcinoma, while 36 cases (36/44, 81.8%) were mixed squamous cell carcinoma. The mixed components included non-specific carcinoma and spindle cell metaplastic carcinoma (17 cases each). One case contained ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast and 1 case contained tubular carcinoma. The proportion of squamous cell carcinoma was 10% to 90%. The cases with pure squamous cell carcinoma often had a large cystic cavity, which was lined by atypical squamous epithelium, while infiltrating squamous cell carcinoma nests were seen in the breast tissue around the cystic cavity. Immunohistochemical staining showed that p63 and CK5/6 were expressed in the squamous cell carcinoma component, but ER, PR and HER2 were not, except for one case of HER2 1+. The positive rates of TRPS1 and PDL-1 were 76% and less than 1%, respectively. Fifteen cases were in the high TILs group (TILs≥30%) and 29 cases were in the low TILs group (TILs<30%). Twenty-three patients were followed up for 5 to 118 months. Among them, 12 died within 3 years and 9 were alive at the end of the follow up. There was no significant difference in TNM stage, TILs and prognosis between simple squamous cell carcinoma and mixed squamous cell carcinoma. Conclusions: Breast squamous cell carcinoma can be divided into simple squamous cell carcinoma and mixed squamous cell carcinoma. There are differences in gross findings and histology between the simple and mixed squamous cell carcinoma of the breast. Sufficient samples should be taken to avoid missing the diagnosis of a minor squamous component. The prognosis of patients with high TILs is significantly better than that of patients with low TILs. The expression rate of TRPS1 in primary squamous cell carcinoma of breast is high and helpful to the differential diagnosis from metastatic squamous cell carcinoma.
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- J Y Liang
- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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Wang Y, Liu J, Sun W, Zhou Y, Wang X, Hu Q, Wen Z, Yao J, Li H. Oxygenation of Phenols with Water as the Oxygen Source and Oxoammonium Salt as the Oxidant. J Org Chem 2024; 89:2440-2447. [PMID: 38306296 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c02448] [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: 02/04/2024]
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Aromatic C-H oxygenation is important in both industrial production and organic synthesis. Here we report a metal-free approach for phenol oxygenation with water as the oxygen source using oxoammonium salts as the renewable oxidant. Employing this protocol, various alkyl-substituted phenols were converted into benzoquinones in yields of 59-98%. On the basis of 18O-labeling and kinetic studies, the hydroxy-oxoammonium adduct was proposed to attack the aromatic ring similarly to electrophilic aromatic substitution. We suppose that the findings described here not only provide an efficient and highly selective protocol for aromatic C-H oxygenation but also may encourage further developments of possible transition-metal-free catalytic methods.
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- Yongtao Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Center of Chemistry for Frontier Technologies, ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Center of Chemistry for Frontier Technologies, ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Center of Chemistry for Frontier Technologies, ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou 310058, China
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Liu Y, Chen S, Wen Z, Meng J, Yang Y, Zhang Y, Wang J, Cao X. Comparative pharmacokinetics of free doxorubicin and a liposomal formulation in cats following intravenous administration. Front Vet Sci 2024; 11:1353775. [PMID: 38298449 PMCID: PMC10827984 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1353775] [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] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
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Doxorubicin, a potent chemotherapeutic agent used extensively in cancer treatment, displays complex pharmacokinetic behavior, especially across various formulations. With a rising incidence of cancer cases in cats, understanding the drug's pharmacokinetics in feline subjects remains a critical yet unexplored area. Hence, this study investigated the pharmacokinetic profile of doxorubicin after slow intravenous administration of doxorubicin hydrochloride (DOX·HCl) or doxorubicin hydrochloride pegylated liposome (DOX·HCl-PLI) in twelve cats at a single dose of 20 mg/m2. Blood samples collected at pretreatment time (0 h) and over 192 h were analyzed using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS). The obtained pharmacokinetic parameters of doxorubicin revealed significant differences between the two formulations and were as follows: elimination half-life (T1/2λz) of 5.00 ± 3.20 h (DOX·HCl) and 17.62 ± 8.13 h (DOX·HCl-PLI), area under the concentration/time curve from 0 to last point (AUClast) of 0.67 ± 0.12 μg hr./mL (DOX·HCl) and 783.09 ± 267.29 μg hr./mL (DOX·HCl-PLI), and total body clearance (CL_obs) of 27098.58 ± 5205.19 mL/h/m2 (DOX·HCl) and 28.65 ± 11.09 mL/h/m2 (DOX·HCl-PLI). Additionally, differences were also detected in the apparent volume of distribution (Vz_obs) with 178.56 ± 71.89 L/m2 (DOX·HCl) and 0.64 ± 0.20 L/m2 (DOX·HCl-PLI), and the maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) with 2.25 ± 0.30 μg/mL (DOX·HCl) and 24.02 ± 5.45 μg/mL (DOX·HCl-PLI). Notably, low concentration of doxorubicinol, the metabolite of doxorubicin, was detected in plasma after administration of DOX·HCl, with even less present when DOX·HCl-PLI was administered. This investigation provides valuable insights into the distinct pharmacokinetic behaviors of DOX·HCl and DOX·HCl-PLI in cats, contributing essential groundwork for future studies and potential clinical applications in feline oncology.
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- Yu Liu
- Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory for Modernization of TCVM, College of Veterinary Medicine, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong, China
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- Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Detection for Veterinary Drug Residue and Illegal Additive, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, China
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Xiao K, Cao H, Liu L, Yang B, Dai H, Wang S, Li R, Wen Z, Lu Z, Xiao L, Kang Z, Feng H. Relation Between Calcium-Phosphorus Product and Total Coronary Artery Occlusion in a Nonchronic Kidney Disease Population: A Cross-Sectional Study. Am J Cardiol 2024; 211:239-244. [PMID: 37979640 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2023.11.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Revised: 11/03/2023] [Accepted: 11/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/20/2023]
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Excessive calcium-phosphorus product (Ca-P product) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with coronary artery calcification and coronary artery disease, but the relation between Ca-P product and coronary artery disease in non-CKD populations has rarely been reported. Therefore, we designed a cross-sectional study to investigate the role of Ca-P product in total coronary artery occlusion (TCAO) in a non-CKD population. We reviewed 983 patients who underwent coronary angiography at Guangyuan Central Hospital from February 2018 to January 2020. Ca-P product (mg2/dl2) was calculated as Ca (mmol/L) × 4 × P (mmol/L) × 3.1 and was analyzed as a continuous and tertiary variable. TCAO was defined as complete occlusion of any coronary artery by coronary angiography (thrombolysis in myocardial infarction flow grade 0). Statistical analysis was performed using univariate and multivariate logistic regression models and restricted cubic splines. Univariate logistic regression analysis showed a statistically significant association between Ca-P product and TCAO (odds ratio [OR] 0.97, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.95 to 0.99, p <0.001). After stepwise adjustment for covariates, the risk of TCAO was reduced by 40% in the high versus low Ca-P group (OR 0.6, 95% CI 0.38 to 0.95, p = 0.031), and the risk of TCAO was predicted to decrease by 4% (OR 0.96, 95% CI 0.94 to 0.99, p = 0.006) for each unit increase in Ca-P product. Restricted cubic splines showed a nonlinear relation between Ca-P product and TCAO, with a significant decrease in the risk of TCAO after reaching 27.46 (nonlinear p = 0.047). In conclusion, in non-CKD populations, a higher Ca-P product (≥27.46 mg2/dl2) may help avoid TCAO.
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- Kaiyong Xiao
- The Second Clinical Medical College, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- The Second Clinical Medical College, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
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- The Second Clinical Medical College, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- The Second Clinical Medical College, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- The Second Clinical Medical College, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- The Second Clinical Medical College, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- The Second Clinical Medical College, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Guangyuan Central Hospital, Guangyuan, Sichuan, China
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- Medical Statistics, Guangyuan Central Hospital, Guangyuan, Sichuan, China
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- Medical Laboratory Center, Guangyuan Central Hospital, Guangyuan, Sichuan, China
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Wen Z, Zhang WH, Liang JY, Chai J, Wang YM, Xu WN, Wang Z, Fan LN. [Clinicopathological and molecular genetic characteristics of ELOC mutated renal cell carcinoma]. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi 2023; 52:1204-1209. [PMID: 38058035 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112151-20230915-00178] [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: 12/08/2023]
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Objective: To investigate the clinicopathological features, molecular genetic features, differential diagnosis and prognosis of ELOC mutated renal cell carcinoma. Methods: From January 2015 to June 2022, 11 cases of renal cell carcinoma with clear-cell morphology, expression of CAⅨ and CK7 and no 3p deletion were collected. Two cases of ELOC mutant renal cell carcinoma were diagnosed using whole exome sequencing (WES). The clinical features, morphology, immunophenotype, FISH and WES results were analyzed. The relevant literature was reviewed. Results: The two patients were both male, aged 29 and 51 years, respectively. They were both found to have a renal mass by physical examination. The maximum diameters of the tumors were 3.5 cm and 2.0 cm, respectively. At the low magnification, the tumors were well-defined. The tumor cells showed a pushing border and were separated by thick fibrous bands, forming nodules. The tumor cells were arranged in a variety of patterns, including tubular, papillary, solid nest or alveolar. At high magnification, the tumor cells were large, with well-defined cell borders and clear cytoplasm or fine eosinophilic granules. CAⅨ was diffusely box-like positive in both cases. Case 1 was partially and moderately positive for CK7, strongly positive for CD10, diffusely and moderately positive for P504S, and weakly positive for 34βE12. In case 2, CK7 and CD10 were both partially, moderately positive and P504s were diffusely positive, but 34βE12 was negative. FISH results showed that both cases had no 3p deletion. ELOC c.235T>A (p.Y79N) mutation was identified using WES in case 1, while ELOC c.236_237inv (p.Y79C) mutation was identified in case 2. Conclusions: As a new clinical entity, ELOC mutated renal cell carcinoma may be underdiagnosed due to its overlap with clear cell renal cell carcinoma in morphology and immunophenotype. The diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma with ELOC mutation should be confirmed by morphology, immunohistochemistry, FISH and gene mutation detection. However, more additional cases are needed to explain its biological behavior and prognosis.
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- Z Wen
- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China School of Medicine, Yan'an University, Yan'an 716000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China School of Medicine, Yan'an University, Yan'an 716000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China Department of Pathology, Basic Medical College, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China Department of Pathology, Basic Medical College, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China Department of Pathology, Basic Medical College, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710000, China
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Zhu J, Qu Y, Lu M, Ma A, Mo J, Wen Z. CT-based radiomics for prediction of pulmonary haemorrhage after percutaneous CT-guided transthoracic lung biopsy of pulmonary nodules. Clin Radiol 2023; 78:e993-e1000. [PMID: 37726191 DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2023.08.018] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/21/2023]
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AIM To evaluate the feasibility of intranodular and perinodular computed tomography (CT) radiomics features for predicting the occurrence of pulmonary haemorrhage after percutaneous CT-guided transthoracic lung biopsy (PCTLB) in pulmonary nodules. MATERIALS AND METHODS The data for 332 patients with pulmonary nodules who underwent PCTLB were reviewed retrospectively. Pulmonary haemorrhage after PCTLB was evaluated using CT (144 cases occurred). Radiomics features based on gross nodular (GNV) and perinodular volumes (PNV) were extracted from pre-biopsy CT images and features selection using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression, and three radiomics scores (rad-scores) were built. Rad-scores, clinical, and clinical-radiomic models were developed and evaluated to predict the occurrence of pulmonary haemorrhage. RESULTS Five, five, and six significant features were selected for prediction of pulmonary haemorrhage based on GNV, PNV, and GNV + PNV, respectively. Lesion depth was the only clinical characteristics related to pulmonary haemorrhage. Lesion depth and rad-score based on GNV, PNV, and GNV + PNV for predicting the pulmonary haemorrhage achieved areas under the curves (AUCs) of 0.656, 0.645, 0.651, and 0.635 in the validation group, respectively. Three clinical-radiomic models improved the AUCs to 0.743, 0.723, and 0.748. The performance of rad-score_GNV + PNV combined with lesion depth outperformed the clinical model (p=0.024) and the radiomics signature (p=0.038). In addition, the radiomics signatures were significantly associated with higher-grade pulmonary haemorrhage (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS Radiomics features from intranodular and perinodular regions of pulmonary nodules have good predictive ability for pulmonary haemorrhage after PCTLB, which may provide additional predictive value for clinical practice.
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 253 Gongye Middle Avenue, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 253 Gongye Middle Avenue, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 253 Gongye Middle Avenue, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 253 Gongye Middle Avenue, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 253 Gongye Middle Avenue, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 253 Gongye Middle Avenue, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510282, China.
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Wang H, Zhang X, Yang J, Wen Z, Rhee DJ, Sims C, Alsanea F, Lee A, Hunter R, Williamson T, Gunn GB, Frank SJ, Phan J. Proton Based Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Skull Base Patients: Dosimetric Comparison to 4 Modern Radiation Treatment Modalities. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e733-e734. [PMID: 37786132 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.2257] [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) Re-irradiation with ablative doses to a smaller target volume and strict critical structure constraint is a challenge for modern radiation planning and delivery systems. Several advanced radiation treatment techniques can be used for fractionated stereotactic ablative radiosurgery (FSRS) in select patients with unresectable recurrent head and neck tumors. In this study, in order to better understand the dosimetry advantage of each technique, we compare the stereotactic treatment plans of our new small spot size Hitachi proton treatment unit to those of CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery (CK), Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GK), volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), and MR Linac radiotherapy (MRL). MATERIALS/METHODS Ten FSRS skull base patients treated at our institution using VMAT (n = 5) or GK (n = 5) techniques. Intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) plans were created in Raystation using Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm. VMAT, CK, GK and MRL plans were generated in RayStation, Accuray Precision, Leksell Gamma Plan, and Monaco treatment planning systems, separately. Planning goals were to achieve the best target coverage of prescribed dose without compromising the critical organs at risk dose volume constraints of the clinical treatment plans. Plans were compared based on percent CTV coverage, Paddick conformity index (PCI), gradient index (GI, V50/V100), dose homogeneity index (HI, (D2-D98)/D50), low dose bath volume (LDBV, ratio of total volume irradiated between 20% and 50% prescription dose and the target volume), beam-on-time (BOT), and mean/maximum doses to brainstems. RESULTS The median target volume was 15.5 cm3 (range 1.0 - 36.23 cm3). The prescription was 45 Gy in 5 fractions for VMAT patients, and 21 - 27 Gy in 3 fractions for GK patients. The comparison of the treatment plans of these 5 delivery modalities was shown in table. All techniques achieved comparable CTV coverage. GI was superior for GK plans and outstanding in CK and IMPT plans. IMPT plans were also outstanding in regard to BOT and PCI. Significantly improved HI, LDBV and brainstem mean doses were achieved in IMPT plans. For adjacent brainstem and other OARs, maximum doses were comparable among all techniques. CONCLUSION In these five advanced radiation therapy modalities, proton therapy SBRT showed dosimetric advantage over other modalities to spare nearby OARs without sacrifice of target coverage. Further studies are needed to utilize this clinical benefit and investigate plan robustness.
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Accuray Incorporated, Sunnyvale, CA
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Medical Dosimetry, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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Pham D, Wang JY, Kidd EA, Wen Z, Smith LM, Lyu Q, Boudet J, Bessieres I, Hristov DH. Fixed-Field IMRT for Cervix Carcinoma Patients on an MR-LINAC Platform: Dosimetric Feasibility and Challenges. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e538. [PMID: 37785663 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.1828] [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) To investigate the impact of MR-LINAC performance characteristics and inverse planning implementation on the feasibility of fixed-field IMRT for cervix carcinoma patients by benchmarking MR-LINAC plans against clinically used VMAT plans in a single institution study and multi-institutional treatment planning challenge. MATERIALS/METHODS For 10 cervix cancer patients who had previously received Linac-based VMAT, new treatment plans were optimized for MR-LINAC IMRT using 6X FFF fixed fields with maximum available field size of 27.4 x 24.1 cm2. Dose optimization was performed on the clinically used planning CT and structure set. Prescribed dose was 48.6 Gy in 27 fractions for all patients with 6 patients receiving an additional integrated boost for a total of 58.05 Gy to involved nodes. Constraints were based on our institutional protocol as per Table 1. IMRT delivery time was limited to 20 min. Original clinically used VMAT plans were generated on Eclipse (Varian Medical System) using 3 to 4 arcs. For the multi-institutional planning challenge, the data set from a single patient was anonymized and shared to participants. Participants used a single MR-based Linac planning platform to generate a plan based on our institutional constraints, with maximum treatment time limited to 20 min. For all analyses, a paired samples t-test was used to compare the significance defined at p < 0.05. RESULTS For MR-LINAC plans, the mean number of fields used was 23, mean number of segments 229, and the average estimated treatment delivery time was 17.3 minutes. MR-LINAC plans showed a significantly higher heterogeneity and dose to organs at risk compared to VMAT plans (Table 1). For the planning challenge, a total of 30 participants registered interest. Of this, seven plans were submitted to the challenge. On average, participants generated a plan that would be acceptable based on our institutional constraints (Table 1). However, the volumetric dose to bowel and pelvic bones were higher on MR-LINAC plans compared to the reference VMAT plan. CONCLUSION MR-LINAC fixed-field IMRT for cervix cancer patients is feasible but system constraints and optimization implementation result in greater dose heterogeneity and worse organ-at-risk sparing compared to Linac based VMAT. Further research is needed to determine if potential reduction of treatment margins, allowed by better MRI soft-tissue visualization, will result in MR-LINAC IMRT superior to Linac VMAT.
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- D Pham
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, CA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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- Centre Georges-François Leclerc, Dijon, France
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- Centre Georges-François Leclerc, Dijon, France
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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Zhang WH, Wen Z, Chai J, Du X, Wang Z, Fan LN. [Advances in molecular pathogenetic characteristics of clear cell papillary renal tumor]. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi 2023; 52:880-884. [PMID: 37528003 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112151-20221226-01059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/03/2023]
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- W H Zhang
- School of Medicine, Yan'an University, Yan'an 716000, China Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medicine and the First Affiliated Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- School of Medicine, Yan'an University, Yan'an 716000, China Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medicine and the First Affiliated Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medicine and the First Affiliated Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- School of Medicine, Yan'an University, Yan'an 716000, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medicine and the First Affiliated Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medicine and the First Affiliated Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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Lu M, Qu Y, Ma A, Zhu J, Zou X, Lin G, Li Y, Liu X, Wen Z. [Prediction of 1p/19q codeletion status in diffuse lower-grade glioma using multimodal MRI radiomics]. Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao 2023; 43:1023-1028. [PMID: 37439176 DOI: 10.12122/j.issn.1673-4254.2023.06.19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/14/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To develop a noninvasive method for prediction of 1p/19q codeletion in diffuse lower-grade glioma (DLGG) based on multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radiomics. METHODS We collected MRI data from 104 patients with pathologically confirmed DLGG between October, 2015 and September, 2022. A total of 535 radiomics features were extracted from T2WI, T1WI, FLAIR, CE-T1WI and DWI, including 70 morphological features, 90 first order features, and 375 texture features. We constructed logistic regression (LR), logistic regression least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LRlasso), support vector machine (SVM) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) radiomics models and compared their predictive performance after 10-fold cross validation. The MRI images were reviewed by two radiologists independently for predicting the 1p/19q status. Receiver operating characteristic curves were used to evaluate classification performance of the radiomics models and the radiologists. RESULTS The 4 radiomics models (LR, LRlasso, SVM and LDA) achieved similar area under the curve (AUC) in the validation dataset (0.833, 0.819, 0.824 and 0.819, respectively; P>0.1), and their predictive performance was all superior to that of resident physicians of radiology (AUC=0.645, P=0.011, 0.022, 0.016, 0.030, respectively) and similar to that of attending physicians of radiology (AUC=0.838, P>0.05). CONCLUSION Multiparametric MRI radiomics models show good performance for noninvasive prediction of 1p/19q codeletion status in patients with in diffuse lower-grade glioma.
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- M Lu
- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China
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Zhu J, Zhang Y, Wen Z, Ma Q, Wang Y, Yao J, Li H. Highly Efficient Ruthenium-Catalyzed Semihydrogenation of Urea Derivatives to Formamides. Chemistry 2023:e202300106. [PMID: 36960548 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202300106] [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] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/25/2023]
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The utilization of CO2 as a non-toxic and cheap feedstock for C1 is a desirable route to achieve high value-added chemicals. In this context, we report a highly efficient ruthenium-catalyzed semihydrogenation reaction of CO2-derived ureas. Various alkyl and aryl urea derivatives were successfully hydrogenated to obtain the corresponding recyclable amines and formamides (up to 97% yield), highlighting the good substrate applicability of this method, which makes this method a sustainable alternative for the hydrogenation of CO2 to formamides in the presence of amines. In the meantime, we discover a new pathway that enables rapid hydrogenation of urea derivatives even at lower H2 pressure (< 5 bar). This methodology might provide a new insight into the reduction functionalization of CO2 under mild pressure to form new C-N bond. Based on the control experiments and the observed intermediate products, we clarify the mechanism for selective semi-hydrogenation of ureas.
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- Jun Zhu
- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, CHINA
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- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, CHINA
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- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, CHINA
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- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, CHINA
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- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, CHINA
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- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, CHINA
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- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Zheda Road, 310027, Hangzhou, CHINA
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Tang X, Tian G, Huang Y, Ran J, Wen Z, Xu J, Song S, Liu B, Han R, Shi F, Zhang X, Sun H, Gong Y, Li Y, Zhang Z, Chen Z, Luo P. Activation cross sections for reactions induced by 14 MeV neutrons on natural titanium. Appl Radiat Isot 2023; 193:110636. [PMID: 36584411 DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2022.110636] [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: 08/16/2022] [Revised: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 12/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Cross sections for the neutrons around 14 MeV interaction with natural titanium were precisely measured by neutron activation and off-line measurement technique. The fast neutrons were produced by 3H(d,n)4He reaction and the neutron energy was obtained by using the cross section ratio method of 90Zr(n,2n)89Zr to 93Nb(n,2n)92mNb reactions. Experimental cross sections have been acquired for natTi(n,x)46Sc, natTi(n,x)47Sc, 50Ti(n,x)47Ca and 48Ti(n,x)48Sc reactions. The measured cross section data are compared with the experimental data available in the previous literature and evaluated nuclear data from the ENDF/B-VIII.0, JEFF-3.3, JENDL-5, BROND-3.1, CENDL-3.2 and FENDL-3.2b libraries. Furthermore, excitation functions for these reactions were calculated by using the theoretical model based on Talys-1.96 code with default and adjusted parameters. Within experimental error, evaluated nuclear data are mostly consistent with experimental data. The excitation function with adjusted parameters can roughly reproduce the experimental data.
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- X Tang
- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory, Huizhou, 516000, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory, Huizhou, 516000, China.
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory, Huizhou, 516000, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory, Huizhou, 516000, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory, Huizhou, 516000, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory, Huizhou, 516000, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory, Huizhou, 516000, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China; School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory, Huizhou, 516000, China.
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Zhao Q, Wang Y, Wang Y, Hu Q, Yao J, Wen Z, Li H. Control of Selectivity in FeCl 3 -Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Cycloketones. Chem Asian J 2023; 18:e202201101. [PMID: 36519526 DOI: 10.1002/asia.202201101] [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: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The FeCl3 -catalyzed aerobic oxidation of ketones always gives rise to the α-C-C cleavage product, having challenges to afford hydroxyl keto compounds. Here we report an effective control of the main product from keto acid to α-hydroxyl ketone, by reducing the concentration of FeCl3 catalyst, together with the use of DMSO as the solvent. In addition, mechanistic investigations suggested the same FeCl3 -coordinated peroxide intermediate for both hydroxylation and C-C cleavage routes, and emphasize the role of DMSO as both ligand and reductant. This work provides a new approach for selective aerobic oxidation under Lewis acid catalysis.
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- Qi Zhao
- Department of Chemistry and ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, Zhe Da Rd. 38, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, Zhe Da Rd. 38, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
- Center of Chemistry for Frontier Technologies, Zhejiang University, Zhe Da Rd. 38, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, Zhe Da Rd. 38, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, Zhe Da Rd. 38, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, Zhe Da Rd. 38, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, Zhe Da Rd. 38, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, Zhe Da Rd. 38, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering and College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zhe Da Rd. 38, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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He SY, Qiu XM, Wang YQ, Su ZQ, Zhang BY, Wen Z, Yang YF, Xing BF, Hong M, Liao R. Intervention effect of Potentilla discolor-Euonymus alatus on intestinal flora of type 2 diabetes mellitus rats. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2022; 26:9062-9071. [PMID: 36591818 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202212_30655] [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: 01/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE With this study, we aimed at exploring the regulation mechanism of Potentilla discolor-Euonymus alatus on intestinal flora of T2DM (Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus) rats induced by high-fat diet combined with streptozotocin. MATERIALS AND METHODS T2DM rats were induced by high-fat diet combined with streptozotocin. There were normal control group, model group, metformin group, high-dose Chinese medicine group and low-dose Chinese medicine group. Each group included 10 rats. Normal control group: normal feeding, no modeling, ordinary feed, and gavage of 0.9% normal saline. Model group: T2DM rats, high-fat diet, and gavage of 0.9% normal saline. Metformin group: T2DM rats, high-fat diet and fed with metformin solution. High-dose Chinese medicine group: T2DM rats, high-fat diet, and gavage of concentrated Chinese medicine at a dose of 6 times the clinical dose. Low-dose Chinese medicine group: T2DM rats, high-fat diet, and gavage of concentrated Chinese medicine at a dose twice the clinical dose. The general situation of T2DM rats was observed, and the changes of intestinal flora were observed with 16SrDNA sequencing. RESULTS The T2DM rats induced by high-fat diet combined with streptozotocin were molded. After intervention, at the class level, the ratio of γ-proteobacteria was 22.30% in the model group, 11.97% in the metformin group, 3.24% in the high-dose Chinese herbs group and 1.72% in the low-dose Chinese herbs group; the ratio of Erysipelothrix insidiosa was 4.73% in the model group, 4.68% in the metformin group, 3.93% in the high-dose Chinese herbsgroup and 2.92% in the low dose group; the ratio of Lactinobacillus was 2.30% in the model group, 0.01% in the metformin group, 0.00% in the high-dose Chinese herbs group, and 0.00% low-dose Chinese herbs group; at the portal level, the Firmicutes/Bacteroides was 0.88 in the normal control group, 3.40 in the model group, 1.71 in the metformin group, 2.74 in high-dose Chinese medicine group, and 1.34 in low-dose Chinese medicine group; at the genus level, the relative abundance of Lactobacillus in the model group was 3.28%, that of Akkermansia was 1.99%, that of Shigella coli was 22.08%, and that of Vibrio phaseus was 7.67%. All of them were improved after the intervention of metformin and traditional Chinese medicine. CONCLUSIONS Potentilla discolor-Euonymus Alatus could improve the composition and structure of intestinal flora in T2DM rats and regulate the diversity of intestinal flora. The ratio of Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes was adjusted, mainly to increase the number of Bacteroides; the flora related to intestinal barrier was adjusted, mainly to increase the number of Lactobacillus and Akkermansia bacteria.
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- S-Y He
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.
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Shi L, Wen Z, Song Y, Wang J, Yu D. Computational investigation of potent inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2 2'-O-methyltransferase (nsp16): Structure-based pharmacophore modeling, molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations and binding free energy calculations. J Mol Graph Model 2022; 117:108306. [PMID: 36063745 PMCID: PMC9385381 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2022.108306] [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] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Revised: 08/06/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, has created unprecedented public health and economic crises around the world. SARS-CoV-2 2'-O-methyltransferase (nsp16) adds a "cap" to viral RNA to maintain the stability of viral RNA, and inhibition of nsp16 activity may reduce viral proliferation, making this protein an attractive drug target. Here, we report the identification of several small molecule inhibitors of nsp16 by virtual screening. First, the nsp16-sinefungin complex (PDB ID: 6WKQ) was selected from the protein data bank. Asp6912, Cys6913, Asp6897 and Asp6928 were determined to be the key amino acids for sinefungin binding in the crystal structure of nsp16-sinefungin complex by molecular dynamics simulation. The complex structures in the stable binding trajectory of nsp16-sinefungin were than clustered through molecular dynamics RMSD analysis. Six clusters were generated, and six representative structures were selected to construct the pharmacophore based on the structure. These six pharmacophores were superimposed on the binding pocket to simplify and pick the common characteristics. The compounds obtained by the pharmacophore screening from Bionet and Chembiv databases were docked into the nsp16 active pocket. The candidate compounds were selected according to the molecular docking score and then screened by MM/GBSA. Finally, four candidate compounds were obtained. Four sets of 150ns molecular dynamics simulations were performed to determine whether candidate compounds could maintain stable interactions with key amino acids. The results of MD and MM/PBSA energy decomposition indicated that C1 and C2 could form a stable complex system with nsp16, and could form strong hydrogen bonds and salt bridges with the key amino acid Asp6897 and Asp6928. This study thus identifies and attempts to validate for the first time the potential inhibitory activities of C1 and C2 against nsp16, allowing the development of potent anti-COVID-19 drugs and unique treatment strategies.
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- Liying Shi
- The School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University, Dalian, 116622, PR China
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- The School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University, Dalian, 116622, PR China
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- The School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University, Dalian, 116622, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Structure-Based Drug Design & Discovery of Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang, 110016, PR China.
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- The School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University, Dalian, 116622, PR China.
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Fang W, Bu Q, Wang Q, Zhao W, Wang L, Dong X, Chen P, Wen Z, Jia J, Jiang G, Zhang L. 373P Safety and efficacy of aumolertinib treatment in patients with advanced NSCLC harboring uncommon EGFR mutations: Cohort 2. Ann Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2022.10.411] [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: 12/05/2022] Open
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Werner E, Gokhale A, Ackert M, Xu C, Wen Z, Roberts AM, Roberts BR, Vrailas-Mortimer A, Crocker A, Faundez V. The mitochondrial RNA granule modulates manganese-dependent cell toxicity. Mol Biol Cell 2022; 33:ar108. [PMID: 35921164 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e22-03-0096] [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: 11/11/2022] Open
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Prolonged manganese exposure causes manganism, a neurodegenerative movement disorder. The identity of adaptive and nonadaptive cellular processes targeted by manganese remains mostly unexplored. Here we study mechanisms engaged by manganese in genetic cellular models known to increase susceptibility to manganese exposure, the plasma membrane manganese efflux transporter SLC30A10 and the mitochondrial Parkinson's gene PARK2. We found that SLC30A10 and PARK2 mutations as well as manganese exposure compromised the mitochondrial RNA granule composition and function, resulting in disruption of mitochondrial transcript processing. These RNA granule defects led to impaired assembly and function of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Notably, cells that survived a cytotoxic manganese challenge had impaired RNA granule function, thus suggesting that this granule phenotype was adaptive. CRISPR gene editing of subunits of the mitochondrial RNA granule, FASTKD2 or DHX30, as well as pharmacological inhibition of mitochondrial transcription-translation, were protective rather than deleterious for survival of cells acutely exposed to manganese. Similarly, adult Drosophila mutants with defects in the mitochondrial RNA granule component scully were safeguarded from manganese-induced mortality. We conclude that impairment of the mitochondrial RNA granule function is a protective mechanism for acute manganese toxicity.
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- Department of Cell Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
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- Department of Cell Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 617901
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 617901
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- Program in Neuroscience, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753
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- Department of Cell Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
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Wang Y, Sun W, Lu R, Wen Z, Yao J, Li H. Inorganic Bases Enhanced Organocatalysis for Aerobic αHydroxylation of Aliphatic Cycloketones. ASIAN J ORG CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.202200443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Yongtao Wang
- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry CHINA
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- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry CHINA
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- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry CHINA
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- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry CHINA
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- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry CHINA
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- Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry Zheda Road 310027 Hangzhou CHINA
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Sun W, Wang Y, Wen Z, Yao J, Li H. Mechanistic insights on base-DMSO mediated aerobic oxidation of (hetero)benzylic C-H bonds. Molecular Catalysis 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2022.112645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Yinghua L, Wen Z, Yu W, Xiaoping S, Xian D, Yangguang G, Wei Z, Lu H. 616 Ultraviolet A mediates the keratinocytes supranuclear melanin cap formation via opsin 3. J Invest Dermatol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2022.05.626] [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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Qing YF, Huang Q, Zhao ZY, Zhang QB, Li LQ, Wen Z, You ZX, Tang H, Xu H. AB0334 EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF ABATACEPT IN CHINESE PATIENTS WITH ACTIVE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: REAL-WORLD DATA. Ann Rheum Dis 2022. [DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2022-eular.1198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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BackgroundAbatacept (ABA) has demonstrated efficacy and safety in active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients in Europe and the United States as one of bDMARDs [1]. However, the clinical activity of Abatacept (ABA) has not been sufficiently investigated in patients with RA from a real-world clinical setting in China.ObjectivesThis study was designed to investigate the efficacy and safety of Abatacept in the RA patients in Chinese population who were refractory to csDMARDs, aiming to provide further reference for clinical rational drug use.MethodsClinical data of 55 patients with active RA who were admitted in the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College from June 2020 to June 2021 and did not respond to csDMARDs was retrospectively analyzed. Patients in this study were treated with Abatacept (125 mg by subcutaneous injection once weekly combined with csDMARDs. Changes in clinical manifestations, including DAS28-ESR, CDAI, ACR 20/50/70 at week 12 and 24 from baseline and AEs during 24 weeks were observed and recorded.Results55 patients (46 women and 9 men) were included in this study with a mean age 50.80 ± 12.46 and a mean disease duration of 6.29 ± 6.22 years. The ACR 20 response at week 12 and 24 was 50.91% (28/55) and 87.27% (48/55), respectively. Besides, DAS 28-ESR score were significantly lower at week 12 and 24 compared to baseline (P <0.05) with 19 patients (34.55%) achieving clinical remission or low disease activity. Changes in CDAI scores revealed that 80% patients achieved clinical remission or low disease activity at week 24. DAS28-ESR score was significantly lower in previously untreated patients (Biologic-naive) (n=36) (3.40 ± 0.81) than in the previously treated patients (Biologic non-naive) (n=19) (3.83 ± 0.68) (P = 0.02) (Figure 1). RF, CCP antibody and GLOB levels were significantlyreduced in RA patients after 24-week ABA treatment compared to baseline (P﹤0.05) (Table 1). Two hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers, two patients with active tuberculosis and one patient with latent tuberculosis status showed no reactivation of HBV and no new active tuberculosis lesions 24 weeks after treatment with ABA. AEs were reported in 9.1% (5/55), but no serious infections occurred.Table 1.Analysis of clinical and serological parameters at baseline and after treatment with Abatacept.IndexesBaseline12 weeks24 weeksTJC6 (4,10)3 (2,4)*2 (1,3) **SJC2 (1,4)1 (0,2)*0 (0,1)**PtGA-VAS(0-10cm)8 (7,10)5 (3,6)*2(2,3)**HAQ2 (0,4)1 (0,2)*0 (0,1)**ESR (mm/h)51 (41,89)37 (28,51)*23 (17,37)**HsCRP(mg/L)14.08 (3.7,35.0)5,77 (2.27,20.78) *4.12 (1.34,9.37) **GLOB34.47±5.69-30.33±3.81*RF-IgM (IU/mL)408.55 (68.8,566.5)-167.41 (34.9, 171.25) *RF-IgG (U/mL)8.63 (4.55, 11.1)-7.94 (3.13, 6.23) *RF-IgA (U/mL)90.18 (25.63, 99.12)-58.20 (16.81, 59.09) *CCP (RU/mL)1095.45 (66.79, 1033.28)-782.0 (58.49, 857.5) **p﹤0.05,TJC=Tender joint count, SJC=Swollen joint count, GLOB= immunoglobulin.ConclusionIn the Chinese patients with active RA refractory to csDMARDs, the combination of ABA and csDMARDs showed great clinical efficacy and a favorable safety profile. Moreover, ABA resulted in better efficacy in patients previously untreated with biologics than previously treated with biologics.References[1]Weinblatt ME, Schiff M, Valente R,et al. Head-to-head comparison of subcutaneous abatacept versus adalimumab for rheumatoid arthritis: findings of a phase IIIb, multinational, prospective, randomized study. Arthritis Rheum 2013; 65:28-38.Disclosure of InterestsNone declared
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Wen Z, Huang G, Lai Y, Xiao L, Peng X, Liu K, Zhang C, Chen X, Li R, Li X, Lai Y, Ni L. Diagnostic panel of serum miR-125b-5p, miR-182-5p, and miR-200c-3p as non-invasive biomarkers for urothelial bladder cancer. Clin Transl Oncol 2022; 24:909-918. [PMID: 35028929 DOI: 10.1007/s12094-021-02741-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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PURPOSE This study aimed to identify a diagnostic panel of serum microRNAs (miRNAs) for the early detection of bladder cancer (BC). METHODS Serum samples were collected from 112 BC patients and 112 normal controls (NCs). A three-stage selection was conducted to identify differentially expressed miRNAs as candidates to construct the diagnostic panel. Further, to explore their potential roles in urothelial BC, bioinformatics analyses, including target genes prediction and functional annotation, were used. RESULTS Six downregulated miRNAs (miR-1-3p, miR-30a-5p, miR-100-5p, miR-125b-5p, miR-143-3p, and miR-200c-3p) and one upregulated, miR-182-5p, in BC patients' serum were detected compared to NCs and were selected to establish the diagnostic panel. Based on a backward stepwise logistic regression analysis, miR-125b-5p, miR-182-5p, and miR-200c-3p comprehended the diagnostic panel [area under the curve (AUC) = 0.959, sensitivity = 91.67%, specificity = 92.5%]. CONCLUSION The panel of three miRNAs had an excellent diagnostic capability, representing a potential non-invasive method for early BC detection.
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- Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, 515041, People's Republic of China
- Department of Urology, Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518036, People's Republic of China
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- Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, 515041, People's Republic of China
- Department of Urology, Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518036, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, People's Hospital of Longhua, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518109, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, Shenzhen University General Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518109, People's Republic of China
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- Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, 515041, People's Republic of China
- Department of Urology, Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518036, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518036, People's Republic of China
- Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, 230032, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518036, People's Republic of China
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- Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, 515041, People's Republic of China
- Department of Urology, Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518036, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518036, People's Republic of China
- Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, 230032, People's Republic of China
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- Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, 515041, People's Republic of China
- Department of Urology, Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518036, People's Republic of China
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- Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, 515041, People's Republic of China
- Department of Urology, Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518036, People's Republic of China
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- Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, 515041, People's Republic of China
- Department of Urology, Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518036, People's Republic of China
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Li L, Zou L, Yue W, Liu C, Wang H, Wen Z, Xiang Q, Ren G, Guo S, Fang J. MicroRNA-29a-3p regulates chemosensitivity in hypopharyngeal carcinoma via targeting Cdc42. Malays J Pathol 2022; 44:53-60. [PMID: 35484886] [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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INTRODUCTION Hypopharyngeal carcinoma is one kind of high malignant tumour followed by poor prognosis in head and neck carcinomas. This study aimed to detect miR-29a-3p and Cdc42 in patients with hypopharyngeal carcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS The expression of miR-29a-3p and Cdc42 mRNA were detected, and the correlation between miR-29a-3p/Cdc42 and clinical stages was investigated. RESULTS The relative expression of miR-29a-3p in stage II, III and IV hypopharyngeal carcinoma tissues was significantly lower than that of stage I (P< 0.05). The relative expression of Cdc42 mRNA in stage I, III and IV tissues was significantly higher than that of stage I (P< 0.05). The expression of miR-29a-3p in hypopharyngeal carcinoma with lymph node metastasis was significantly lower than that without lymph node metastasis (P = 0.045). CONCLUSION MiR-29a-3p and Cdc42 mRNA could be potential diagnostic biomarkers of hypopharyngeal carcinoma.
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- Central Hospital of Chaoyang, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Liaoning, China
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- Central Hospital of Chaoyang, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Liaoning, China
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- Central Hospital of Chaoyang, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Liaoning, China
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- Central Hospital of Chaoyang, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Liaoning, China
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- Central Hospital of Chaoyang, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Liaoning, China
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- Central Hospital of Chaoyang, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Liaoning, China
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- Central Hospital of Chaoyang, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Liaoning, China
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- Central Hospital of Chaoyang, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Liaoning, China
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- Central Hospital of Chaoyang, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Liaoning, China
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- Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing, China.
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Wen Z, Liang W, Zhong Y, Sun F, Zhang Q. [Expression of nicotinamide-N-methyltransferase in gastric cancer and its biological and clinicopathological significance]. Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao 2021; 41:828-838. [PMID: 34238734 PMCID: PMC8267982 DOI: 10.12122/j.issn.1673-4254.2021.06.04] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the expression of nicotinamide-N-methyltransferase (NNMT) in gastric cancer (GC) and explore its biological and clinicopathological significance. OBJECTIVE We screened the candidate genes associated with the classification and prognosis of gastric cancer by analyzing GEO, Oncomine and TCGA datasets. The molecular pathways and protein interaction network involving these candidate genes were analyzed using STRING, GSEA, David and Cytoscape software. The expressions of the candidate genes in 28 pairs of gastric cancer and adjacent tissues were detected with qRTPCR, and CCK-8 assay, clone formation assay, wound healing assay and Transwell assay were carried out to analyze the effects of modulation of NNMT expression on proliferation, invasion and migration of different gastric cancer cell lines. OBJECTIVE NNMT was highly expressed in gastric cancer tissues and was negatively correlated with the prognosis of patients with gastric cancer. Pathway analysis showed that the high expression of NNMT was associated with adhesion-related pathway molecules such as extracellular matrix receptors, cell adhesion molecules, and cytokine receptors, while its low expression was associated with base mismatch repair and riboflavin metabolism. Protein interaction analysis showed that NNMT interacted with 16 differentially expressed proteins such as AURKA and was co-expressed with TAGLN, PTRF, AKAP12 and IGF2BP2. In clinical tissue specimens, qRT-PCR results showed that the expression of NNMT mRNA was significantly higher in gastric cancer tissues than in the adjacent tissues (P < 0.05). In gastric cancer cell lines, overexpression of NNMT was found to significantly promote cell proliferation, invasion and migration, while NNMT knockdown produced obvious inhibitory effects on cell proliferation, invasion and migration. OBJECTIVE NNMT is highly expressed in gastric cancer and negatively correlated with the prognosis of gastric cancer patients. The high expression of NNMT promotes the proliferation, invasion and metastasis of gastric cancer cells, suggesting the potential of NNMT as prognostic marker of gastric cancer.
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
- First Clinical Medical School, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
- First Clinical Medical School, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
- First Clinical Medical School, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou 510080, China
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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Shi X, Wen Z, Wang Y, Liu YJ, Shi K, Jiu Y. Feedback-Driven Mechanisms Between Phosphorylated Caveolin-1 and Contractile Actin Assemblies Instruct Persistent Cell Migration. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:665919. [PMID: 33928090 PMCID: PMC8076160 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.665919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The actin cytoskeleton and membrane-associated caveolae contribute to active processes, such as cell morphogenesis and motility. How these two systems interact and control directional cell migration is an outstanding question but remains understudied. Here we identified a negative feedback between contractile actin assemblies and phosphorylated caveolin-1 (CAV-1) in migrating cells. Cytoplasmic CAV-1 vesicles display actin-associated motilities by sliding along actin filaments or/and coupling to do retrograde flow with actomyosin bundles. Inhibition of contractile stress fibers, but not Arp2/3-dependent branched actin filaments, diminished the phosphorylation of CAV-1 on site Tyr14, and resulted in substantially increased size and decreased motility of cytoplasmic CAV-1 vesicles. Reciprocally, both the CAV-1 phospho-deficient mutation on site Tyr14 and CAV-1 knockout resulted in dramatic AMPK phosphorylation, further causing reduced active level of RhoA-myosin II and increased active level of Rac1-PAK1-Cofilin, consequently led to disordered contractile stress fibers and prominent lamellipodia. As a result, cells displayed depolarized morphology and compromised directional migration. Collectively, we propose a model in which feedback-driven regulation between actin and CAV-1 instructs persistent cell migration.
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- Xuemeng Shi
- The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.,The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.,The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.,The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Wen Z, Zhang Y, Lin Z, Shi K, Jiu Y. Cytoskeleton-a crucial key in host cell for coronavirus infection. J Mol Cell Biol 2021; 12:968-979. [PMID: 32717049 PMCID: PMC7454755 DOI: 10.1093/jmcb/mjaa042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 06/21/2020] [Accepted: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The emerging coronavirus (CoV) pandemic is threatening the public health all over the world. Cytoskeleton is an intricate network involved in controlling cell shape, cargo transport, signal transduction, and cell division. Infection biology studies have illuminated essential roles for cytoskeleton in mediating the outcome of host‒virus interactions. In this review, we discuss the dynamic interactions between actin filaments, microtubules, intermediate filaments, and CoVs. In one round of viral life cycle, CoVs surf along filopodia on the host membrane to the entry sites, utilize specific intermediate filament protein as co-receptor to enter target cells, hijack microtubules for transportation to replication and assembly sites, and promote actin filaments polymerization to provide forces for egress. During CoV infection, disruption of host cytoskeleton homeostasis and modification state is tightly connected to pathological processes, such as defective cytokinesis, demyelinating, cilia loss, and neuron necrosis. There are increasing mechanistic studies on cytoskeleton upon CoV infection, such as viral protein‒cytoskeleton interaction, changes in the expression and post-translation modification, related signaling pathways, and incorporation with other host factors. Collectively, these insights provide new concepts for fundamental virology and the control of CoV infection.
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- Zeyu Wen
- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510623, China
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- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Wang Y, Wen Z, Zhang Y, Wang X, Yao J, Li H. Aerobic α-hydroxylation of 2-Me-1-tetralone in 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium ionic liquids. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:5864-5869. [PMID: 33687394 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06047j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The aerobic α-hydroxylation of 2-Me-1-tetralone was investigated in imidazol-based ionic liquids (ILs), where reactions in 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborates were found to generate considerable products. By correlating the conversion at 2 h with viscosity, relative permittivity and the ET(30) value of ILs, we found that the local polarity in ILs represented by the ET(30) value or the chemical shift of α-proton at the substrate was the critical factor influencing the reaction rate. Furthermore, two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (2D NOESY) was used to characterize the distribution of 2-Me-1-tetralone in ILs. As a result, the mesoscopic structures in ILs were recommended to have crucial influences on the distribution of the substrate in ILs, and the caused local polarity could affect the activation of 2-Me-1-tetralone. These findings revealed the solvent effects of ILs with different structures on the α-hydroxylation of 2-Me-1-tetralone, and may encourage the explorations of more types of aerobic oxidations in ILs.
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- Yongtao Wang
- Department of Chemistry, ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, 310027, China. and Center of Chemistry for Frontier Technologies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Department of Chemistry, ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, 310027, China. and Center of Chemistry for Frontier Technologies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Department of Chemistry, ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, 310027, China. and State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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Zhang J, Zhang M, Fu R, Chu X, Wen Z, Gong Y, Jiang B, Liao R, Dong S, Nie Q, Chen R, Xia X, Yang X, Zhong W, Wu Y. P56.01 Postoperative ctDNA Positive Presents the High-risk of Recurrence in Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers. J Thorac Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2021.01.944] [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: 11/24/2022]
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Zhang Y, Wen Z, Shi X, Liu YJ, Eriksson JE, Jiu Y. The diverse roles and dynamic rearrangement of vimentin during viral infection. J Cell Sci 2020; 134:134/5/jcs250597. [PMID: 33154171 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.250597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Epidemics caused by viral infections pose a significant global threat. Cytoskeletal vimentin is a major intermediate filament (IF) protein, and is involved in numerous functions, including cell signaling, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, intracellular organization and cell migration. Vimentin has important roles for the life cycle of particular viruses; it can act as a co-receptor to enable effective virus invasion and guide efficient transport of the virus to the replication site. Furthermore, vimentin has been shown to rearrange into cage-like structures that facilitate virus replication, and to recruit viral components to the location of assembly and egress. Surprisingly, vimentin can also inhibit virus entry or egress, as well as participate in host-cell defense. Although vimentin can facilitate viral infection, how this function is regulated is still poorly understood. In particular, information is lacking on its interaction sites, regulation of expression, post-translational modifications and cooperation with other host factors. This Review recapitulates the different functions of vimentin in the virus life cycle and discusses how they influence host-cell tropism, virulence of the pathogens and the consequent pathological outcomes. These insights into vimentin-virus interactions emphasize the importance of cytoskeletal functions in viral cell biology and their potential for the identification of novel antiviral targets.
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- Yue Zhang
- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road No. 19(A), Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
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- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road No. 19(A), Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
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- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Cell Biology, Biosciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Turku FI-20520, Finland .,Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku FI-20520, Finland
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- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road No. 19(A), Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
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Liu XJ, Xu W, Du EZ, Tang AH, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Wen Z, Hao TX, Pan YP, Zhang L, Gu B, Zhao Y, Shen JL, Zhou F, Gao ZL, Feng Z, Chang YH, Goulding K, Collett J, Vitousek PM, Zhang F. Environmental impacts of nitrogen emissions in China and the role of policies in emission reduction. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 2020; 378:20190324. [PMID: 32981443 PMCID: PMC7536030 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Atmospheric reactive nitrogen (Nr) has been a cause of serious environmental pollution in China. Historically, China used too little Nr in its agriculture to feed its population. However, with the rapid increase in N fertilizer use for food production and fossil fuel consumption for energy supply over the last four decades, increasing gaseous Nr species (e.g. NH3 and NOx) have been emitted to the atmosphere and then deposited as wet and dry deposition, with adverse impacts on air, water and soil quality as well as plant biodiversity and human health. This paper reviews the issues associated with this in a holistic way. The emissions, deposition, impacts, actions and regulations for the mitigation of atmospheric Nr are discussed systematically. Both NH3 and NOx make major contributions to environmental pollution but especially to the formation of secondary fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which impacts human health and light scattering (haze). In addition, atmospheric deposition of NH3 and NOx causes adverse impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems due to acidification and eutrophication. Regulations and practices introduced by China that meet the urgent need to reduce Nr emissions are explained and resulting effects on emissions are discussed. Recommendations for improving future N management for achieving 'win-win' outcomes for Chinese agricultural production and food supply, and human and environmental health, are described. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Air quality, past present and future'.
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- X. J. Liu
- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, School of Agriculture Green Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, School of Agriculture Green Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, and School of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, School of Agriculture Green Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, School of Agriculture Green Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, School of Agriculture Green Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, School of Agriculture Green Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, School of Agriculture Green Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry (LAPC), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse and School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, People's Republic of China
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- Sino-France Institute of Earth Systems Science, Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071000, People's Republic of China
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- School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, People's Republic of China
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- Yale-NUIST Center on Atmospheric Environment, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Sustainable Agricultural Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94016, USA
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, School of Agriculture Green Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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Wen Z, He J, Huang SY. Topology-independent and global protein structure alignment through an FFT-based algorithm. Bioinformatics 2020; 36:478-486. [PMID: 31384919 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Revised: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 08/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Protein structure alignment is one of the fundamental problems in computational structure biology. A variety of algorithms have been developed to address this important issue in the past decade. However, due to their heuristic nature, current structure alignment methods may suffer from suboptimal alignment and/or over-fragmentation and thus lead to a biologically wrong alignment in some cases. To overcome these limitations, we have developed an accurate topology-independent and global structure alignment method through an FFT-based exhaustive search algorithm, which is referred to as FTAlign. RESULTS Our FTAlign algorithm was extensively tested on six commonly used datasets and compared with seven state-of-the-art structure alignment approaches, TMalign, DeepAlign, Kpax, 3DCOMB, MICAN, SPalignNS and CLICK. It was shown that FTAlign outperformed the other methods in reproducing manually curated alignments and obtained a high success rate of 96.7 and 90.0% on two gold-standard benchmarks, MALIDUP and MALISAM, respectively. Moreover, FTAlign also achieved the overall best performance in terms of biologically meaningful structure overlap (SO) and TMscore on both the sequential alignment test sets including MALIDUP, MALISAM and 64 difficult cases from HOMSTRAD, and the non-sequential sets including MALIDUP-NS, MALISAM-NS, 199 topology-different cases, where FTAlign especially showed more advantage for non-sequential alignment. Despite its global search feature, FTAlign is also computationally efficient and can normally complete a pairwise alignment within one second. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION http://huanglab.phys.hust.edu.cn/ftalign/.
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- Zeyu Wen
- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, People's Republic of China
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Liu Y, Wang H, Gao J, Wen Z, Peng L. Cryptotanshinone ameliorates the pathogenicity of Streptococcus suis by targeting suilysin and inflammation. J Appl Microbiol 2020; 130:736-744. [PMID: 32750224 DOI: 10.1111/jam.14810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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AIMS Streptococcus suis is a highly zoonotic pathogen that is a serious threat to human health and the development of the pig industry worldwide. The virulence factors produced during S. suis infection play an important role, and the pore-forming activity of suilysin is considered an important virulence-related factor, especially in meningitis. Treatment of S. suis infection with traditional antibiotics is becoming increasingly challenging due to bacterial resistance. The purpose of this study is to verify the role of cryptotanshinone in the process of S. suis infection and provide a new drug precursor for the treatment of S. suis infection. METHODS AND RESULTS In this study, we used circular dichroism spectroscopy to demonstrate that cryptotanshinone alters the secondary structure of suilysin. The results of the antibacterial activity and haemolysis assays showed cryptotanshinone could inhibit the pore-forming activity of suilysin without affecting bacterial growth or its expression. We also showed that cryptotanshinone reduces bacterial damage and penetration in vitro, reduce the S. suis-induced inflammatory response and provide protection against bacterial infections in vivo and in vitro. CONCLUSIONS Cryptotanshinone is a potential compound precursor for treating S. suis infection. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY Cryptotanshinone may be a promising leading compound for S. suis infection and related diseases.
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Zhao S, Shi X, Zhang Y, Wen Z, Cai J, Gao W, Xu J, Zheng Y, Ji B, Cui Y, Shi K, Liu Y, Li H, Jiu Y. Myosin-18B Promotes Mechanosensitive CaMKK2-AMPK-VASP Regulation of Contractile Actin Stress Fibers. iScience 2020; 23:100975. [PMID: 32222698 PMCID: PMC7109629 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.100975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2019] [Revised: 02/06/2020] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Actin stress fibers guide cell migration and morphogenesis. During centripetal flow, actin transverse arcs fuse accompanied by the formation of myosin II stacks to generate mechanosensitive actomyosin bundles. However, whether myosin II stack formation plays a role in cell mechano-sensing has remained elusive. Myosin-18B is a “glue” molecule for assembling myosin II stacks. By examining actin networks and traction forces, we find that cells abolishing myosin-18B resemble Ca2+∕calmodulin-dependent kinase kinase 2 (CaMKK2)-defective cells. Inhibition of CaMKK2 activity reverses the strong actin network to thin filaments in myosin-18B-overexpressing cells. Moreover, AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activation is able to relieve the thin stress fibers by myosin-18B knockout. Importantly, lack of myosin-18B compromises AMPK-vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein and RhoA-myosin signaling, thereby leading to defective persistent migration, which can be rescued only by full-length and C-extension-less myosin-18B. Together, these results reveal a critical role of myosin-18B in the mechanosensitive regulation of migrating cells. Myosin-18B knockout cells resemble cells dampening mechano-sensing signaling pathway Myosin-18B depletion decreases the phosphorylation level of AMPK-VASP and MLC Myosin-18B knockout cells show compromised persistent migration The N-extension and coiled-coil domain of myosin-18B is indispensable in cell migration
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- Shuangshuang Zhao
- The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510623; Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510623; Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road No. 19(A), Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
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- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road No. 19(A), Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
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- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road No. 19(A), Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Applied Mechanics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Institute of Applied Mechanics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Institute of Applied Mechanics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510623; Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510623; Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road No. 19(A), Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China; Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215163, China
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- The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510623; Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China; The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road No. 19(A), Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China.
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Cai ZM, Wen Z. [Research progress in the application of intralymphatic allergen immunotherapy in allergic diseases]. Lin Chung Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi 2020; 33:1109-1112. [PMID: 31914307 DOI: 10.13201/j.issn.1001-1781.2019.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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SummaryAlthough subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) and sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) have a positive effect, there are drawbacks such as long treatment time period, frequent treatment times, and risk of adverse reactions. Peripheral superficial lymph node injection of allergen immunotherapy (ILIT) as an emerging specific immunotherapy method has the advantages of high safety, less adverse reactions, short treatment time, less treatment times, less patient pain, and exact curative effect. In recent years, more and more scholars have conducted extensive research on intra-lymphatic injection of immunotherapy for allergic diseases. This paper systematically summarizes the theoretical basis, method, safety, effectiveness and possible immune mechanism of ILIT.
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Wen Z, Zhao J, Liu YY, Zhou JJ, Liu C, Li C, Wu MC. Enantioconvergent hydrolysis of m-nitrostyrene oxide at an elevated concentration by Phaseolus vulgaris epoxide hydrolase in the organic/aqueous two-phase system. Lett Appl Microbiol 2019; 70:181-188. [PMID: 31784998 DOI: 10.1111/lam.13258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2019] [Revised: 11/21/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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(R)-m-Nitrophenyl-1,2-ethanediol (m-NPED) is a versatile and highly value-added chiral building block for the synthesis of some bioactive compounds, such as (R)-Nifenalol. To efficiently produce (R)-m-NPED through the enantioconvergent hydrolysis of racemic (rac-) m-nitrostyrene oxide (m-NSO) using the whole resting cells of Escherichia coli/pCold-pveh2 intracellularly expressing PvEH2, an epoxide hydrolase from Phaseolus vulgaris, two reaction systems were investigated. In the Na2 HPO4 -NaH2 PO4 buffer (50 mmol l-1 , pH 7·0) system, merely 15 mmol l-1 rac-m-NSO was successfully subjected to enantioconvergent hydrolysis, producing (R)-m-NPED with 86·0% enantiomeric excess (eep ) and 177·6 mg l-1 h-1 space-time yield (STY). The experimental result indicated that there is inhibitory effect of rac-m-NSO at high concentration on PvEH2. To efficiently increase the concentration of rac-m-NSO and the STY of (R)-m-NPED, petroleum ether was first selected to construct an organic/aqueous two-phase system. Then, both the volume ratio (vo /vb ) of petroleum ether to phosphate buffer and the weight ratio (wc /ws ) of E. coli/pCold-pveh2 dry cells to rac-m-NSO were optimized as 2 : 8 and 5 : 1, respectively. In the optimized petroleum ether/phosphate buffer two-phase system, the enantioconvergent hydrolysis of rac-m-NSO at 40 mmol l-1 (6·6 mg ml-1 ) was carried out at 25°C for 12 h using 33·0 mg ml-1 vacuum freeze-dried cells of E. coli/pCold-pveh2, producing (R)-m-NPED with 87·4% eep , 82·3% yield and 502·4 mg l-1 h-1 STY. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: Epoxide hydrolases play a crucial role in producing enantiopure epoxides and/or vicinal diols. However, numerous biocatalytic reactions of organic compounds, such as epoxides, in aqueous phase suffered various restrictions. Herein, the enantioconvergent hydrolysis of rac-m-NSO in two reaction systems was investigated using the whole cells of Escherichia coli/pCold-pveh2. As a result, the concentration of rac-m-NSO and the space-time yield of (R)-m-NPED in organic/aqueous two-phase system were significantly increased, when compared with those in aqueous phase. To our knowledge, this is the first report about the production of (R)-m-NPED from rac-m-NSO at an elevated concentration by PvEH2 in the two-phase system.
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- Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- The Affiliated Wuxi Matemity and Child Health Care Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China
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- Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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Wen Z, He J, Tao H, Huang SY. PepBDB: a comprehensive structural database of biological peptide-protein interactions. Bioinformatics 2019; 35:175-177. [PMID: 29982280 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2017] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Summary A structural database of peptide-protein interactions is important for drug discovery targeting peptide-mediated interactions. Although some peptide databases, especially for special types of peptides, have been developed, a comprehensive database of cleaned peptide-protein complex structures is still not available. Such cleaned structures are valuable for docking and scoring studies in structure-based drug design. Here, we have developed PepBDB-a curated Peptide Binding DataBase of biological complex structures from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). PepBDB presents not only cleaned structures but also extensive information about biological peptide-protein interactions, and allows users to search the database with a variety of options and interactively visualize the search results. Availability and implementation PepBDB is available at http://huanglab.phys.hust.edu.cn/pepbdb/.
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- Institute of Biophysics, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Institute of Biophysics, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Institute of Biophysics, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Institute of Biophysics, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Wang X, Liu Y, Meng Z, Wu Y, Wang S, Jin G, Qin Y, Wang F, Wang J, Wang L, Bai J, Shi X, Wen Z, Jia X, Fu X, Wang X, Qin Q, Gao Y, Guo W, Lu S. Impact of plasma EGFR mutation fractions on response to first generation tyrosine-kinase inhibitor in treatment of naïve non-small cell lung cancer patients. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz259.018] [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: 11/14/2022] Open
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Wen Z, Xu Z, Zhou Q, Li W, Wu Y, Du Y, Chen L, Xue C, Cao Y. A heterologous 'prime-boost' anti-PEDV immunization for pregnant sows protects neonatal piglets through lactogenic immunity against PEDV. Lett Appl Microbiol 2019; 69:258-263. [PMID: 31278766 PMCID: PMC7165963 DOI: 10.1111/lam.13197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2019] [Revised: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 06/27/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Abstract Porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV) causes severe diarrhoea in neonatal suckling piglets with a high mortality. Maternal vaccines that can induce lactogenic immunity to protect suckling piglets via colostrums and milk are pivotal for the prevention and control of PEDV infection in neonatal suckling piglets. In this study, a group of pregnant sows were first orally immunized with coated PEDV‐loaded microspheres and boosted with killed PEDV vaccines (heterologous prime‐boost). It has been detected that the levels of PEDV‐specific antibodies (IgG and IgA) in their sera and milks were higher than other negative groups (P < 0·001 or P < 0·05). Furthermore, it has been proved by the neutralization assay that the induced antibodies could significantly inhibit virus infection as compared to other negative groups (P < 0·01 or P < 0·05). Importantly, after PEDV challenge, more than 90% of the suckling piglets delivered by the sows in the heterologous prime‐boost group were completely protected. Overall, the results show that ‘heterologous prime‐boost’ form is an efficient and effective way to provide protection for suckling piglets against PEDV through lactogenic immunity. Significance and Impact of the Study As a widespread swine pathogen, PEDV affects the swine industry enormously. It causes enteritis in swine of all ages and is often fatal in neonatal piglets. Our data show that pregnant sows were immunized with ‘coated PEDV‐loaded microspheres + killed PEDV vaccines’ (heterologous prime‐boost immunization) could protect more than 90% suckling piglets delivered by the sows against the virus. These findings provide a new model of developing safe and effective immunizations for newborn animals against established and emerging enteric infections.
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Wen's Group Academy, Wen's Foodstuffs Group Co, Ltd, Xinxing, Guangdong, China
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- Wen's Group Academy, Wen's Foodstuffs Group Co, Ltd, Xinxing, Guangdong, China
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- Wen's Group Academy, Wen's Foodstuffs Group Co, Ltd, Xinxing, Guangdong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Yan Y, Wen Z, Zhang D, Huang SY. Determination of an effective scoring function for RNA-RNA interactions with a physics-based double-iterative method. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 46:e56. [PMID: 29506237 PMCID: PMC5961370 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [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: 10/22/2017] [Accepted: 02/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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RNA–RNA interactions play fundamental roles in gene and cell regulation. Therefore, accurate prediction of RNA–RNA interactions is critical to determine their complex structures and understand the molecular mechanism of the interactions. Here, we have developed a physics-based double-iterative strategy to determine the effective potentials for RNA–RNA interactions based on a training set of 97 diverse RNA–RNA complexes. The double-iterative strategy circumvented the reference state problem in knowledge-based scoring functions by updating the potentials through iteration and also overcame the decoy-dependent limitation in previous iterative methods by constructing the decoys iteratively. The derived scoring function, which is referred to as DITScoreRR, was evaluated on an RNA–RNA docking benchmark of 60 test cases and compared with three other scoring functions. It was shown that for bound docking, our scoring function DITScoreRR obtained the excellent success rates of 90% and 98.3% in binding mode predictions when the top 1 and 10 predictions were considered, compared to 63.3% and 71.7% for van der Waals interactions, 45.0% and 65.0% for ITScorePP, and 11.7% and 26.7% for ZDOCK 2.1, respectively. For unbound docking, DITScoreRR achieved the good success rates of 53.3% and 71.7% in binding mode predictions when the top 1 and 10 predictions were considered, compared to 13.3% and 28.3% for van der Waals interactions, 11.7% and 26.7% for our ITScorePP, and 3.3% and 6.7% for ZDOCK 2.1, respectively. DITScoreRR also performed significantly better in ranking decoys and obtained significantly higher score-RMSD correlations than the other three scoring functions. DITScoreRR will be of great value for the prediction and design of RNA structures and RNA–RNA complexes.
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, P.R. China
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, P.R. China
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, P.R. China
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, P.R. China
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Steinmann A, O'Brien D, Stafford R, Sawakuchi G, Wen Z, Court L, Fuller C, Followill D. Investigation of TLD and EBT3 performance under the presence of 1.5T, 0.35T, and 0T magnetic field strengths in MR/CT visible materials. Med Phys 2019; 46:3217-3226. [PMID: 30950071 DOI: 10.1002/mp.13527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [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: 06/01/2018] [Revised: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD) and radiochromic EBT3 film inside MR/CT visible geometric head and thorax phantoms in the presence of: 0, 0.35, and 1.5 T magnetic fields. METHODS Thermoluminescent Dosimeters reproducibility studies were examined by irradiating IROC-Houston's TLD acrylic block five times under 0 and 1.5 T configurations of Elekta's Unity system and three times under 0 and 0.35 T configurations of ViewRay's MRIdian Cobalt-60 (60 Co) system. Both systems were irradiated with an equivalent 10 × 10 cm2 field size, and a prescribed dose of 3 Gy to the maximum depth deposition (dmax). EBT3 film and TLDs were investigated using two geometrical Magnetic Resonance (MR)-guided Radiation Therapy (MRgRT) head and thorax phantoms. Each geometrical phantom had eight quadrants that combined to create a centrally located rectangular tumor (3 × 3 × 5 cm3 ) surrounded by tissue to form a 15 × 15 × 15 cm3 cubic phantom. Liquid polyvinyl chloride plastic and Superflab were used to simulate the tumor and surrounding tissue in the head phantom, respectively. Synthetic ballistic gel and a heterogeneous in-house mixture were used to construct the tumor and surrounding tissue in the thorax phantom, respectively. EBT3 and double-loaded TLDs were used in the phantoms to compare beam profiles and point dose measurements with and without magnetic fields. GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations were performed to validate the detectors for both Unity 0 T/1.5 T and MRIdian 0 T/0.35 T configurations. RESULTS Average TLD block measurements which, compared the magnetic field effects (magnetic field vs 0 T) on the Unity and MRIdian systems, were 0.5% and 0.6%, respectively. The average ratios between magnetic field effects for the geometric thorax and head phantoms under the Unity system were -0.2% and 1.6% and for the MRIdian system were 0.2% and -0.3%, respectively. Beam profiles generated with both systems agreed with Monte Carlo measurements and previous literature findings. CONCLUSIONS TLDs and EBT3 film dosimeters could potentially be used in MR/CT visible tissue equivalent phantoms that will experience a magnetic field environment.
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- A Steinmann
- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 770304, USA
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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DFT calculations are indispensable for understanding the electro-catalysis through explanation of the experimental phenomena, prediction of experimental results, and guiding of the experimental investigation.
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- Z. W. Chen
- Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials
- Ministry of Education, and School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130022
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials
- Ministry of Education, and School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130022
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials
- Ministry of Education, and School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130022
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials
- Ministry of Education, and School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130022
- China
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Zhang XY, Shen CX, Wen Z, Li GX, Wang HG, Chen F. [The relationship between the key nasal symptoms and the level of histamineand leukotriene D4 in serum and nasal secretions in allergic rhinitis]. Lin Chung Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi 2018; 30:1025-1028. [PMID: 29798030 DOI: 10.13201/j.issn.1001-1781.2016.13.005] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Objective:To investigate the relationship between main nasal symptoms and the levels of histamine and leukotriene D4(LTD4) in serum and nasal secretions in allergic rhinitis(AR),and provide a preliminary guidance for individualized treatment in AR.Method:One hundred and eight cases of AR were divided into two groups,i.e.sneezing group and nasal congestion group,according to 2014 clinical guidelines for allergic rhinitis from January 2014 to June 2015.The levels of histamine and LTD4 in serum and nasal secretions were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) and the relationship was explored between the clinical main nasal symptoms score and the levels of histamine and LTD4.Result:The scores of sneezing(5.58±2.59)for AR were obviously related to the levels of histamine in serum(8.39±4.07)ng/ml and nasal secretion(5.06±2.47)ng/ml,(r=0.79,0.78,all P<0.05).The scores of nasal congestion(5.34±2.36) for AR were also related to the levels of LTD4 in serum(0.356±0.155 ng/ml) and nasal secretion(0.215±0.092)ng/ml,(r=0.74,0.72,all P<0.05).And the levels of histamine(8.39±4.07)ng/ml and LTD4(0.356±0.155) ng/ml in serum for AR patients were positively correlated with the levels in nasal secretions(r=0.99,P<0.01;r=0.98,P<0.01).Conclusion:In AR patients,the high levels of histamine and LTD4 in serum and nasal secretions are closely related to the sneezing symptoms and nasal obstruction symptoms,respectively.
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,Zhujiang Hospital,Southern Medical University,Guangzhou,510282,China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,Zhujiang Hospital,Southern Medical University,Guangzhou,510282,China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,Zhujiang Hospital,Southern Medical University,Guangzhou,510282,China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,Zhujiang Hospital,Southern Medical University,Guangzhou,510282,China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,Zhujiang Hospital,Southern Medical University,Guangzhou,510282,China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,Zhujiang Hospital,Southern Medical University,Guangzhou,510282,China
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Slagowski J, Ding Y, Wen Z, Fuller C, Chung C, Kadbi M, Ibbott G, Wang J. Quantification of Geometric Distortion in Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.07.1527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Chen F, Shen CX, Wang HG, Li GX, Wang XQ, Wen Z. [Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type: a clinical analysis]. Lin Chung Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi 2018; 31:327-333. [PMID: 29871255 DOI: 10.13201/j.issn.1001-1781.2017.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Objective:To explore the clinical diagnosis and treatment characteristics and clinical factors of extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type and provide the basis for clinical individual therapy and experience.Method:The 25 cases personal data of ENKTL received from December in 2009 to July in 2016 by our department including clinical manifestation, the serum EBV-DNA detection, imaging examination, Ann-Arbor staging, histological grade, treatment, and prognosis, etc. were retrospectively analyzed. All of the patients were pathological diagnosis and received standard, specification and system treatment. Single factor survival analysis was performed by Kaplan-Meier method and Log-rank test, and multivariate analysis was carried out using Coxproportional hazard model in the risk assessment about the factors affecting the prognosis of clinical.Result:Of the 25 patients, 15 cases(60%) were in stage ⅠE-ⅡE, which 1 year and 3 years (overall survival) OS were 100%, 100% respectively and 10 cases(40%) were in stage ⅢE-ⅣE, which 1 year and 3 years OS were respectively 40.0%, 26.7%. It had significant statistical difference (P= 0.000). Radiotherapy alone in 3 cases which 1 year and 3 years OS were respectively 100%, 100%;Chemotherapy alone in 6 cases, which 1 year and 3 years OS were 53.6% and 53.6%, respectively; 16 cases of comprehensive treatment combined radiation and chemotherapy which 1 year and 3 years OS are 84.6% and 84.6% respectively. There were significant difference between three kinds of treatment model (P= 0.027), and chemotherapy alone had the worst prognosis. Further multivariate analysis using Coxproportional hazard model showed that the course of the disease, B symptoms, EBV-DNA copy number positive, treatment mode closely associated with the prognosis (P were 0.006, 0.003, 0.010, 0.040 respectively).Conclusion:Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type invasive is strong, the overall prognosis is poor. For early Ann Arbor staging, low risk and limited to the nasal cavity cases, radiotherapy alone curative effect is better. While for strong attack range or terminal patients, chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy is the first selection. In addition, this result shows that Ann Arbor staging, treatment pattern, the course of the disease, B symptoms, EBV-DNA copy number positive are independent prognostic factors.
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- F Chen
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510282, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510282, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510282, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510282, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510282, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510282, China
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Gu SX, Mo X, Zhang AL, Liu J, Coyle ME, Ye S, Wen Z, Cranswick NE, Xue CC, Chen D. A Chinese herbal medicine preparation (Pei Tu Qing Xin) for children with moderate-to-severe atopic eczema: a pilot randomized controlled trial. Br J Dermatol 2018; 179:1404-1405. [PMID: 29981274 DOI: 10.1111/bjd.16988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- S X Gu
- School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Dermatology, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, 111 Dade Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 51012, China
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- School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Dermatology, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, 111 Dade Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 51012, China
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- School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Dermatology, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, 111 Dade Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 51012, China
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- Key Unit of Methodology in Clinical Research, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, 111 Dade Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 51012, China
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- The Royal Children's Hospital, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,The Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Dermatology, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, 111 Dade Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 51012, China.,The Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangdong, China
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Wang Y, Wang L, Wen Z, Wang J, Zhu Y, Chen H, Li H, Han J, Xu J, Zhang S, Hu Z, Song Y. High IL-6 and VEGF-A levels correlate with delayed wound healing in cervical lymph node tuberculosis patients. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2018; 22:1227-1232. [DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.18.0027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- Y. Wang
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai
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- Department of Scientific Research, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai
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- Department of Scientific Research, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai, Department of Scientific Research, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, Department
of Immunology and Microbiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Scientific Research, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai
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Purpose To characterize the response of plastic scintillation detectors (PSDs) to high-energy photon radiation as a function of magnetic field strength. Materials and Methods PSDs were placed inside a plastic phantom held at the center point between 2 magnets and irradiated using a 6-MV photon beam from a linear accelerator. The magnetic field was varied from 0 T to 1.5 T by 0.3-T increments. The light emission and stem-effect-corrected response as a function of magnetic field strength were obtained for both a commercial PSD (Exradin W1, Standard Imaging) and an in-house hyperspectral PSD. Spectral signatures were obtained for the in-house PSD, and light emission from a bare fiber was also measured. Results Light emission increased as magnetic field strength increased for all detectors tested. The tested PSDs exhibited an increase in light intensity of 10% to 20%, mostly owing to the increase in Cerenkov light produced within and transmitted along the optical fiber. When corrected for stem effects, the increase in PSD response went down to 2.4% for both detectors. This most likely represents the change in the inherent dose deposition within the phantom. Conclusion PSDs with a suitable stem-effect removal approach were less dependent on magnetic field strength and had better water equivalence than did ion chambers tested in previous studies. PSDs therefore show great promise for use in both quality assurance and in-vivo dosimetry applications in a magnetic field environment.
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- F Therriault-Proulx
- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 1420, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 1420, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 1420, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 1420, Houston, TX, USA
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Yan Y, Wen Z, Zhang D, He J, Huang S. An Effective Scoring Function for RNA-RNA Interactions Derived with a Double-Iterative Method. Biophys J 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.11.2413] [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] Open
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Wen Z, Li J, Zhang Y, Zhou Q, Gong L, Xue C, Cao Y. Genetic epidemiology of porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus circulating in China in 2012-2017 based on spike gene. Transbound Emerg Dis 2018; 65:883-889. [PMID: 29388343 PMCID: PMC7169843 DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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A porcine epidemic diarrhoea outbreak first occurred in southern China at the end of 2010 and afterwards the disease spread throughout the country. Spike gene is divergent and important for understanding the genetic relations of porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus field strains, the epidemiological status of the virus and vaccine development. In this study, S1 regions of spike gene of 1,235 selected strains collected from 2012 to 2017 in China were clustered along with 25 references of spike sequences mainly from China. The phylogenetic analysis demonstrates that these sequences of S1 regions were genetically more diverse with time. In all strains, G1a, G1b, G2a and G2b clusters accounted for 1.9%, 9.6%, 32.2% and 56.3%, respectively, namely G2a and G2b were the two most prevalent clusters in China. Furthermore, we made a more detailed classification for G2 group based on phylogenetic tree, in which G2a was divided into two subgroups, and G2b was separated into four subgroups.
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.,School of Biology and Food Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Suzhou, China.,Guangdong Wen's Foodstuffs Group Co., Ltd., Yunfu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Wen's Foodstuffs Group Co., Ltd., Yunfu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Chen X, Lu C, Lundborg CS, Lu L, Wen Z, Marrone G. Global health fact: nasal symptom impair quality of life among persistent allergic rhinitis patients. Eur J Public Health 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckx186.199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- X Chen
- Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Yuexiu, China
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- Ital of Chinese Medicine, Yuexiu, China
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- Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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