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2. Development of sustainable reaction and separation processes for amantadine and amantadine hydrochloride
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Zi Han Tseng, Hung Lin Lee, Shao Yang Wu, Kuan Lin Yeh, and Tu Lee
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General Chemical Engineering ,General Chemistry - Published
- 2022
3. Mechanism of trophoblast cell‐derived microparticles mediated immunocontraceptive response
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Shao‐Yang Lai, Kai‐Lun Hu, Xuan Zhou, Xiao‐Xue Li, Xiao‐Jun Yu, Jing Shi, and Jie Zhao
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Reproductive Medicine ,Immunology ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Immunology and Allergy - Published
- 2023
4. The impact of individual information exchange strategies on the distribution of social wealth
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Shao, Yang, Atsumori, Hirokazu, Matsumura, Tadayuki, Esaki, Kanako, Minusa, Shunsuke, and Mizuno, Hiroyuki
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Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) ,FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) ,Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Computer Science - Social and Information Networks ,J.4.1 - Abstract
Wealth distribution is a complex and critical aspect of any society. Information exchange is considered to have played a role in shaping wealth distribution patterns, but the specific dynamic mechanism is still unclear. In this research, we used simulation-based methods to investigate the impact of different modes of information exchange on wealth distribution. We compared different combinations of information exchange strategies and moving strategies, analyzed their impact on wealth distribution using classic wealth distribution indicators such as the Gini coefficient. Our findings suggest that information exchange strategies have significant impact on wealth distribution and that promoting more equitable access to information and resources is crucial in building a just and equitable society for all., 19 pages, 37 figures
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- 2023
5. Postoperative hypothalamic damage predicts postoperative weight gain in patients with adult‐onset craniopharyngioma
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Jie Wu, Jun Fu, Zhong Jian Huang, Shen Hao Xie, Bin Tang, Xiao Wu, Zhi Gao Tong, Bo Wen Wu, Cheng Bing Pan, You Qing Yang, Han Ding, Shao Yang Li, Jia Long Qi, and Tao Hong
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Adult ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism ,Hypothalamus ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Weight Gain ,Body Mass Index ,Craniopharyngioma ,Endocrinology ,Humans ,Pituitary Neoplasms ,Obesity ,Hypothalamic Diseases ,Retrospective Studies - Abstract
This study aimed to recapitulate the change trajectory of postoperative weight and investigate the association between postoperative hypothalamic damage and weight gain and hypothalamic obesity (HO) in patients with adult-onset craniopharyngioma.The data of 96 patients with surgically treated primary adult-onset craniopharyngioma were retrospectively analyzed. The association between postoperative hypothalamic damage based on magnetic resonance images or endoscopic observation and postoperative weight gain and HO was determined by multivariable logistic regression.Forty-seven (49.0%) patients and 18 (18.8%) patients experienced clinically meaningful weight gain (≥5%) and HO at last follow-up, respectively. Postoperative weight significantly increased during the first 6 months following surgery, followed by stabilization. Both grade 2 postoperative hypothalamus damage, as evaluated by the magnetic resonance imaging classification system of Müller et al., and higher scores based on the Roth et al. hypothalamic lesion score were significantly associated with postoperative weight gain of ≥5% (p = 0.005 and p = 0.002) and with HO (p = 0.001 and p = 0.008). Additionally, bilateral hypothalamic injury as evaluated by the Hong et al. hypothalamic injury pattern based on endoscopic observation (p = 0.008) could predict postoperative weight gain ≥5%.Significant postoperative weight gain is common in patients with adult-onset craniopharyngioma. Postoperative hypothalamic damage can predict clinically meaningful weight gain and HO.
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- 2022
6. Case report: Identification of atypical mantle cell lymphoma with CCND3 rearrangement by next-generation sequencing
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Dai, Luomengjia, Zhang, Han, Chen, Wen, Xia, Yi, Qin, Shuchao, Shao, Yang, Li, Jianyong, Miao, Yi, Li, Bingzong, and Zhu, Huayuan
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Cancer Research ,Oncology - Abstract
The t(11;14) (q13;q32) translocation resulting in overexpression of cyclin D1 is the major oncogenic mechanism in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). Most MCLs can be diagnosed based on morphological features, cyclin D1 expression, and IGH/CCND1 rearrangement. However, in some atypical cases where conventional FISH studies fail to detect IGH/CCND1 rearrangement or immunohistochemistry for cyclin D1 is negative, the diagnosis of the disease can be difficult. Hence, next-generation sequencing (NGS) may allow the identification of molecular alterations and assist in the diagnosis of atypical MCL. In this study, we reported a case of a patient diagnosed as asymptomatic MCL who presented with lymphadenopathy during the initial assessment. A lymph node biopsy was performed and the results revealed a high Ki67 index. However, initial diagnosis of aggressive MCL was difficult since the IGH/CCND1 rearrangement result was negative. Ultimately, by the aid of NGS we identified a rare CCND3 rearrangement in the patient, which lead to overexpression of cyclin D3, thereby facilitating the diagnosis of MCL.
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- 2023
7. Dynamic detection of three-dimensional crop phenotypes based on a consumer-grade RGB-D camera
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Song, Peng, Li, Zhengda, Yang, Meng, Shao, Yang, Pu, Zhen, Yang, Wanneng, and Zhai, Ruifang
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Plant Science - Abstract
IntroductionNondestructive detection of crop phenotypic traits in the field is very important for crop breeding. Ground-based mobile platforms equipped with sensors can efficiently and accurately obtain crop phenotypic traits. In this study, we propose a dynamic 3D data acquisition method in the field suitable for various crops by using a consumer-grade RGB-D camera installed on a ground-based movable platform, which can collect RGB images as well as depth images of crop canopy sequences dynamically.MethodsA scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) operator was used to detect adjacent date frames acquired by the RGB-D camera to calculate the point cloud alignment coarse matching matrix and the displacement distance of adjacent images. The data frames used for point cloud matching were selected according to the calculated displacement distance. Then, the colored ICP (iterative closest point) algorithm was used to determine the fine matching matrix and generate point clouds of the crop row. The clustering method was applied to segment the point cloud of each plant from the crop row point cloud, and 3D phenotypic traits, including plant height, leaf area and projected area of individual plants, were measured.Results and DiscussionWe compared the effects of LIDAR and image-based 3D reconstruction methods, and experiments were carried out on corn, tobacco, cottons and Bletilla striata in the seedling stage. The results show that the measurements of the plant height (R²= 0.9~0.96, RSME = 0.015~0.023 m), leaf area (R²= 0.8~0.86, RSME = 0.0011~0.0041 m2 ) and projected area (R² = 0.96~0.99) have strong correlations with the manual measurement results. Additionally, 3D reconstruction results with different moving speeds and times throughout the day and in different scenes were also verified. The results show that the method can be applied to dynamic detection with a moving speed up to 0.6 m/s and can achieve acceptable detection results in the daytime, as well as at night. Thus, the proposed method can improve the efficiency of individual crop 3D point cloud data extraction with acceptable accuracy, which is a feasible solution for crop seedling 3D phenotyping outdoors.
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- 2023
8. Research on the Resilience Improvement Method of Urban Distribution Network Considering SOP Voltage Support
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LIU Shuai, DU Ming, and SHAO Yang
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- 2023
9. The Effect of Silver Nanoparticles on Aerobic Denitrifying Bacteria During Biological Nitrogen Removal: A New Perspective Based on Morphological Effects
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Xu Wang, You-Peng Chen, Shao-Yang Liu, Jinsong Guo, Fang Fang, and Peng Yan
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- 2023
10. Additional file 1 of Rare mutation-dominant compound EGFR-positive NSCLC is associated with enriched kinase domain-resided variants of uncertain significance and poor clinical outcomes
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Zhao, Weixin, Song, Ailing, Xu, Yang, Wu, Qian, Liu, Cuicui, Yin, Jiani C., Ou, Qiuxiang, Wu, Xue, Shao, Yang, and Zhao, Xinmin
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Additional file 1: Table S1. The demographic and clinical characteristics ofthe 1,025 lung cancer patients with baseline compound EGFR mutations. Table S2. The correlation of clinical features with thenumber concurrent EGFR mutations. Table S3. The correlation of clinicalfeatures with the subtype of compound EGFRmutations. Table S4. The correlationof clinical features with the presence or absence of common EGFR mutations. Table S5. The enrichment of different subtypes of compound EGFR mutations in various domains ofEGFR protein. Table S6. The involvedgenes of each path during the pathway analysis. EGFR has been excluded from RTKpathway analysis. Table S7. The gainof EGFR exon 20 p.T790M mutation inprogressive disease (PD) samples after front-line EGFR TKI treatment inpatients with different subtypes of compound EGFR mutations. Table S8.The distribution of compound EGFRmutations for 282 patients with their compound EGFR mutations on the same exon. Fig. S1. The type of compound EGFRmutations and the concurrent genetic alterations. Fig. S2. The mutational signature analysis for patients withdifferent numbers of EGFR mutations. Fig. S3. The correlation between thecommon EGFR mutation-containingsubtype and patients’ prognosis to first-line EGFR TKIs. Fig. S4. The correlation between the rare EGFR mutation-dominant subtype and patients’ prognosis tofirst-line EGFR TKIs. Fig. S5. Thecorrelation between the EGFRVUSs-containing subtype and patients’ prognosis to first-line EGFR TKIs. Fig. S6. The difference of the geneticprofile between the baseline sample and the paired PD samples.
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- 2023
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11. The Recovery Potential and Utilization Pathway of Chemical Energy from Wastewater Pollutants During Wastewater Treatment in China
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Li-Li Qiao, Jinsong Guo, Shao-Yang Liu, Fang Fang, You-Peng Chen, and Peng Yan
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- 2023
12. Additional file 1 of The clinical and genomic distinctions of Class1/2/3 BRAF-mutant colorectal cancer and differential prognoses
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Chen, Yungchang, Sun, Hao, Deng, Yanhong, Ma, Yutong, Huang, He, Liu, Yang, Zhang, Yaru, Zhang, Hongyu, Ye, Sheng, E, Mingyan, Guo, Hongqiang, Wu, Mengmeng, Wu, Chunman, Pu, Xingxiang, Chen, Xinggui, Liang, Chaoyong, Ou, Qiuxiang, Weng, Huawei, Wu, Xue, Shao, Yang, Gu, Anxin, and Lin, Tongyu
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Additional file 1: Supplementary Methods. Supplementary Table S1. Clinical characteristics of patients. Supplementary Figure S1. The overview of patients enrolled in this study and the concurrent gene/pathway alterations. (A) A total of 328 colorectal patients whose treatment-naïve tumor samples harboring BRAF mutations from the database are included in this study. (B) The oncoprint of the most frequently concurrent gene mutations (top panel) and pathway alterations (bottom panel) are shown as legend by BRAF classes. Supplementary Figure S2. Patients with Class 3 BRAF mutations demonstrated longer OS compared to those with Class1/2 BRAF mutations. Patients’ overall survival (OS) data from an additional external cohort were analyzed based on the Kaplan-Meier modeling. NR, not reached.
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- 2023
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13. Potential Role of Quorum Quenching Activity of Silver Nanoparticles in Controlling Non-Filamentous Bulking within Activated Sludge Process
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Wei-Xin Liu, Jing Wang, Shao-Yang Liu, You-Peng Chen, Fang Fang, and Peng Yan
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- 2023
14. Behavior and Biotoxicity of Silver Nanoparticles to Cyanobacterial Microcystis Aeruginosa: A New Perspective Based on Surface Charges and Transcriptomics
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Ling-Li Yong, Jing Wang, Shao-Yang Liu, Xu Wang, Zhuang-Zhuang Sun, Jinsong Guo, Fang Fang, You-Peng Chen, and Peng Yan
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- 2023
15. The Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism of miR-27a rs895819 and the Expression of miR-27a in Helicobacter pylori-Related Diseases and the Correlation with the Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome
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Ling Zhang, Meng-Xin Huang, Dan-Yan Li, Yun-Zhan Zhang, Shao-Yang Lan, Qi Luo, Yun-Kai Dai, Yun-Bo Wu, Jin-Tong Ye, Wei-Jing Chen, Ru-Liu Li, and Ling Hu
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Article Subject ,Complementary and alternative medicine - Abstract
Aims. The study aims to explore the effects of the single-nucleotide polymorphism of miR-27a and its expression in Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)-related diseases and the relationship between gastric pathology and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Methods. Subjects were classified into six histopathological groups and five TCM syndrome groups. All specimens underwent H. pylori detection through rapid urease test and methylene blue staining. Histopathological characteristics were observed by hematoxylin-eosin. The expression of miR-27a and its genotype were, respectively, detected by Quantitative Real-Time PCR and direct sequencing. Results. H. pylori promoted the malignant evolution of gastric mucosa and were involved in the formation of TCM syndrome. In H. pylori-positive patients, the frequency of miR-27a CT genotype at the rs895819 locus and its expression in the gastric cancer group were higher than those in other pathological groups. TCM syndrome had a close relationship with histopathological changes, and patients with spleen-qi deficiency syndrome had a higher risk of gastric cancer than other syndromes, regardless of H. pylori infection. Conclusion. The C allele at miR-27a rs895819 locus may be an oncogene in gastric cancer. High levels of miR-27a could play an important role in gastric malignant evolution, especially cancerization. There is a certain connection between TCM syndrome and pathological changes of the gastric mucosa to some extent, where patients with SQD syndrome had a higher risk of GC.
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- 2022
16. Procyanidin B2 Alleviates Palmitic Acid-Induced Injury in HepG2 Cells via Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Pathway
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Yi-Ming Li, Shao-Yang Zhao, Huan-Huan Zhao, Bao-Hua Wang, and Sai-Mei Li
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Other systems of medicine ,Article Subject ,Complementary and alternative medicine ,RZ201-999 ,Research Article - Abstract
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the hepatic manifestation of the metabolic syndrome featuring ectopic lipid accumulation in hepatocytes. NAFLD has been a severe threat to humans with a global prevalence of over 25% yet no approved drugs for the treatment to date. Previous studies showed that procyanidin B2 (PCB2), an active ingredient from herbal cinnamon, has an excellent hepatoprotective effect; however, the mechanism remains inconclusive. The present study aimed to investigate the protective effect and underlying mechanism of PCB2 on PA-induced cellular injury in human hepatoma HepG2 cells. Our results showed that PA-induced oxidative stress, calcium disequilibrium, and subsequent endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) mediated cellular injury, with elevated protein levels of GRP78, GRP94, CHOP, and hyperphosphorylation of PERK and IRE1α as well as the increased ratio of Bax/Bcl-2, which was restored by PCB2 in a concentration-dependent manner, proving the excellent antiapoptosis effect. In addition, 4-phenylbutyric acid (4-PBA), the ER stress inhibitor, increased cell viability and decreased protein levels of GRP78 and CHOP, which is similar to PCB2, and thapsigargin (TG), the ER stress agonist, exhibited conversely meanwhile partly counteracted the hepatic protection of PCB2. What is more, upregulated protein expression of p-IKKα/β, p-NF-κB p65, NLRP3, cleaved caspase 1, and mature IL-1β occurred in HepG2 cells in response to PA stress while rescued with the PCB2 intervention. In conclusion, our study demonstrated that PA induces ERS in HepG2 cells and subsequently activates downstream NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated cellular injury, while PCB2 inhibits NLRP3/caspase 1/IL-1β pathway, inflammation, and apoptosis with the presence of ERS, thereby promoting cell survival, which may provide pharmacological evidence for clinical approaches on NAFLD.
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- 2021
17. Changes of Lipoxin A4 and the Anti-inflammatory Role During Parturition
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Xuan Zhou, Shao-Yang Lai, Mei Han, Yi-Meng Ge, and Jie Zhao
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Lipoxin a4 ,Epinephrine ,medicine.drug_class ,Anti-Inflammatory Agents ,Inflammation ,Anti-inflammatory ,Mice ,Lipoxygenase ,Pregnancy ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Macrophage ,Receptor ,biology ,business.industry ,Parturition ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Lipoxins ,Endocrinology ,biology.protein ,Increased stress ,Cytokines ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
Parturition is the physiological process of newborn birth; more and more evidences show that parturition is closely related to the occurrence and resolution of inflammation. However, the inflammatory media and the mechanism are not very clear during parturition. Here, we investigate the inflammatory event during human parturition and in mouse model. We found that the pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-6, IL-8, and IL-1β) and cells (neutrophil and macrophage) are decreased in pregnant women in labor and in mouse labor model. Mechanistically, increased stress stimulates the high-level adrenaline production in labor. Then, adrenaline upregulates the expression of 12/15-LOX (lipoxygenase) to produce more lipoxin A4 (LXA4), which is an inflammation inhibitor. Thus, LXA4 promotes the elimination of inflammation during labor to protect the body from excessive inflammatory damages. In addition, using BOC-2, the inhibitor of LXA4 receptor could reboot the pro-inflammatory cytokines. Our study indicates that LXA4 is induced by adrenaline in labor and appropriate interference of this pathway may be a potential strategy to regulate the inflammatory process in parturition.
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- 2021
18. Quantifying the impacts of human mobility restriction on the spread of coronavirus disease 2019: an empirical analysis from 344 cities of China
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Jing Tan, Shao-Yang Zhao, Yi-Quan Xiong, Chun-Rong Liu, Shi-Yao Huang, Xin Lu, Lehana Thabane, Feng Xie, Xin Sun, Wei-Min Li, and Pei-Fang Wei
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Geographic mobility ,China ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Population ,Causal effects ,Mobility restriction ,Disease spread ,Interquartile range ,Medicine ,Humans ,Cities ,education ,education.field_of_study ,Coronavirus disease 2019 ,business.industry ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Causal effect ,Confounding ,Outbreak ,COVID-19 ,Regression analysis ,General Medicine ,Original Articles ,business ,Demography - Abstract
Background:. Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), human mobility restriction measures have raised controversies, partly because of the inconsistent findings. An empirical study is promptly needed to reliably assess the causal effects of the mobility restriction. The purpose of this study was to quantify the causal effects of human mobility restriction on the spread of COVID-19. Methods:. Our study applied the difference-in-difference (DID) model to assess the declines of population mobility at the city level, and used the log–log regression model to examine the effects of population mobility declines on the disease spread measured by cumulative or new cases of COVID-19 over time after adjusting for confounders. Results:. The DID model showed that a continual expansion of the relative declines over time in 2020. After 4 weeks, population mobility declined by −54.81% (interquartile range, −65.50% to −43.56%). The accrued population mobility declines were associated with the significant reduction of cumulative COVID-19 cases throughout 6 weeks (ie, 1% decline of population mobility was associated with 0.72% [95% CI: 0.50%–0.93%] reduction of cumulative cases for 1 week, 1.42% 2 weeks, 1.69% 3 weeks, 1.72% 4 weeks, 1.64% 5 weeks, and 1.52% 6 weeks). The impact on the weekly new cases seemed greater in the first 4 weeks but faded thereafter. The effects on cumulative cases differed by cities of different population sizes, with greater effects seen in larger cities. Conclusions:. Persistent population mobility restrictions are well deserved. Implementation of mobility restrictions in major cities with large population sizes may be even more important.
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- 2021
19. Ferroptosis Patterns Correlate with Immune Microenvironment Characterization in Gastric Cancer
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Yi Wen, Fan Liu, Shijie Xu, Jinglin Pan, Yufeng Liu, Peiwu Li, Peng Liu, Shao-Yang Lan, Kechao Nie, Xiaotao Jiang, Fengbin Liu, Yanhua Yan, Junhui Zheng, Yuancheng Huang, Kailin Jiang, Zhihua Zheng, and Kunhai Zhuang
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Tumor microenvironment ,Stromal cell ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Ferroptosis ,gastric cancer ,immune cell infiltration ,Cancer ,International Journal of General Medicine ,General Medicine ,Immunotherapy ,medicine.disease ,Phenotype ,ferroptosis ,Immune system ,medicine ,Cancer research ,tumor microenvironment ,immunotherapy ,business ,Immune cell infiltration ,Original Research - Abstract
Xiaotao Jiang,1,2 Fan Liu,2,3 Peng Liu,1,2 Yanhua Yan,1,2 Shaoyang Lan,1 Kunhai Zhuang,1,4 Yufeng Liu,5 Kailin Jiang,1,2 Yuancheng Huang,1,2 Kechao Nie,1,2 Zhihua Zheng,1,2 Jinglin Pan,6 Junhui Zheng,1,2 Fengbin Liu,1,4 Shijie Xu,5 Peiwu Li,1 Yi Wen1 1Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peopleâs Republic of China; 2First Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peopleâs Republic of China; 3Zhaoqing Hospital of Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Southern Medical University, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, Peopleâs Republic of China; 4Baiyun Hospital of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peopleâs Republic of China; 5Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peopleâs Republic of China; 6Department of Gastroenterology, Hainan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Haikou, Hainan, Peopleâs Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Peiwu Li; Yi Wen Email doctorlipw2@163.com; 421491922@qq.comObjective: We aimed to build a ferroptosis-based classifier to characterize the molecular features of gastric cancers (GC) and investigate the relationship between different ferroptosis patterns and GC tumor microenvironment (TME).Methods: Based on the genomic and clinical information from TCGA portal and GEO database, non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) was used to identify ferroptosis subtypes in GC patients. In order to estimate the ferroptosis levels, we established ferroptosis subtype score (FSS) to quantify ferroptosis patterns and ferroptosis potential index (FPI) by principal component analysis (PCA). The correlations of different ferroptosis patterns with TME cell-infiltrating characteristics (including immune cell infiltration, immune checkpoints expression levels, tumor mutational burden (TMB) and immunotherapy response) were systematically analyzed.Results: Two ferroptosis subtypes, C1 (with lower FSS) and C2 (with higher FSS), were determined. C2 displayed a significantly lower FPI than C1. Besides, C2 was associated with diffuse subtype while C1 with intestinal subtype. As for TME characteristics, C2 was in accordance with the immune-excluded phenotype as it showed more active immune and stromal activities but lower TMB, less probability of immunotherapy response and poorer prognosis. C1 was linked to immune-inflamed phenotype as it had lower stromal activities but increased neoantigen load, enhanced response to immunotherapy and relatively better prognosis.Conclusion: The systematic assessment of ferroptosis patterns and ferroptosis levels presented in our study implied that ferroptosis serves as an important factor in the formation of TME, which may expand the understanding of TME and provide a novel perspective for the development of targeted immunotherapeutic strategies for GC patients.Keywords: ferroptosis, gastric cancer, immune cell infiltration, tumor microenvironment, immunotherapy
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20. Cytotoxic flavonoids from the leaves of
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Jin-Lin, Zhang, Yin, Xiao, Lu, Zhou, Shao-Yang, Yin, Jia-Yin, Long, Hong-Lin, Xiang, Xi-Feng, Sheng, and Hui, Zou
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A new flavonoid glycoside, luteolin-3'
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21. Dietary Supplementation with Prebiotic Chitooligosaccharides Enhances the Growth Performance, Innate Immunity and Disease Resistance of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
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null Nurmalasari, Chun-Hung Liu, Ir. M. Maftuch, and Shao-Yang Hu
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chitooligosaccharides ,Oreochromis niloticus ,growth ,innate immunity ,disease resistance ,Ecology ,Aquatic Science ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
Prebiotics acting as immunosaccharides exhibit immunomodulatory functions to improve the immune defense of the host against infectious diseases. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of dietary chitooligosaccharide (COS) supplementation on the growth, innate immunity and disease resistance of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fed a diet containing 0.4%, 0.8% and 1.2% COSs for 8 weeks. The results showed significant increases in weight gain (WG), feed efficiency (FE) and specific growth rate (SGR) in COS-supplemented fish compared to fish in the control group. The fish exhibited a significant decrease in cumulative mortality in fish fed 0.8% and 1.2% COS when challenged with Streptococcus iniae. The immune parameters, including phagocytotic activity (PA), respiratory burst (RB) activity, and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities of the head kidney and serum lysozyme, as well as the expression of TNF-α, IL-1β and IL-8, were revealed in 0.8% and 1.2% COS-supplemented fish. These results demonstrated that COS could be used as a prebiotic and that dietary supplementation with 0.8% COS could improve growth performance and innate immunity against pathogen infections in Nile tilapia.
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22. Design and Implementation of Project Management System Based on Vue3.0 Framework
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Chao Li, Shao Yang Zhang, Jie Si Na, and Lei Yue
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23. Antiangiogenic potential of Lepista nuda extract suppressing MAPK/p38 signaling-mediated developmental angiogenesis in zebrafish and HUVECs
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Dhanashri Deshmukh, Ya Fen Hsu, Chien-Chih Chiu, Mahendra Jadhao, Sodio C.N. Hsu, Shao-Yang Hu, Shu-Hui Yang, and Wangta Liu
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Pharmacology ,General Medicine - Abstract
The medicinal properties of natural/edible plant products and their use are popular in traditional practice owing to their nutritional contents with little to no side effects. Lepista nuda (L. nuda), an edible mushroom (Clitocybe nuda, commonly known as blewit), has attracted researchers to evaluate its contents and the mechanism of its activities. In the current study, we focused on evaluating the antiangiogenic effects of L. nuda water extract on zebrafish development and in vitro human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC) tube formation. Bioactive components such as ergothioneine, eritadenine, and adenosine were identified and quantified by HPLC analysis. The L. nuda extract showed antiangiogenic properties and inhibited intersegmental vessel (ISV), caudal vein plexus (CVP), hyaloid vessel (HV), and subintestinal vessel (SIV) development in Tg (fli1: EGFP) zebrafish embryos. The expression of angiogenesis-related genes (vegfaa, kdrl, vegfba, flt1, kdr) was affected following L. nuda extract treatment. L. nuda extract attenuated in vitro HUVEC tube formation, migration, and invasion. Furthermore, inhibition of MAPK/p38 signaling and depletion of proangiogenic genes, including growth factors (fgf, ang2, and vegfa); primary and accessory receptors (tie2, vegfr2, and eng); MMPs (mmp1 and mmp2); and cytokines (il-1α, il-1β, il-6, and tnf-α) was observed in HUVECs following L. nuda treatment. An in vivo zebrafish xenograft assay showed that L. nuda extract inhibited HuCCT1 cell-induced SIV sprouting in HuCCT1-injected embryos. Collectively, the results suggest that L. nuda could be a potential inhibitor of angiogenesis limiting cancer progression.
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24. Neighborhood VAR: Efficient estimation of multivariate timeseries with neighborhood information
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Hu, Zhihao, Ranganathan, Shyam, Shao, Yang, and Deng, Xinwei
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Methodology (stat.ME) ,FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Applications (stat.AP) ,Statistics - Applications ,Statistics - Methodology - Abstract
In data science, vector autoregression (VAR) models are popular in modeling multivariate time series in the environmental sciences and other applications. However, these models are computationally complex with the number of parameters scaling quadratically with the number of time series. In this work, we propose a so-called neighborhood vector autoregression (NVAR) model to efficiently analyze large-dimensional multivariate time series. We assume that the time series have underlying neighborhood relationships, e.g., spatial or network, among them based on the inherent setting of the problem. When this neighborhood information is available or can be summarized using a distance matrix, we demonstrate that our proposed NVAR method provides a computationally efficient and theoretically sound estimation of model parameters. The performance of the proposed method is compared with other existing approaches in both simulation studies and a real application of stream nitrogen study.
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- 2022
25. [Spatial distribution characteristics of rare and endangered medicinal plant resources in Gansu province]
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Shao-Yang, Xi, Hou-Kang, Cao, Yan-Xiu, Guo, Xiao-Hui, Ma, Tian-Tian, Zhu, and Ling, Jin
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China ,Soil ,Plants, Medicinal ,Rivers ,Tibet - Abstract
Gansu province is located at the intersection of the three plateaus(Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Inner Mongolia Plateau, and Loess Plateau) and the three river basins(Yellow River Basin, Yangtze River Basin, and inland river basin). The complex eco-environment and climate conditions here have created rich and diverse vegetation. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the spatial distribution characteristics of rare and endangered medicinal plant resources in Gansu province for formulating reasonable protection po-licies and promoting the development of medicinal plant industry. The data of rare and endangered medicinal plant resources in 87 counties of Gansu province were collected from results of the fourth general survey. The spatial distribution and the high-or low-value gathering area of rare and endangered medicinal plant resources in Gansu province were analyzed by geostatistical methods such as exploratory spatial data analysis, trend surface analysis, and Anselin Local Moran's I. The eco-environment characteristics of the high-or low-value gathering area were analyzed with the data of vegetation type, soil texture classification, annual mean temperature, annual mean precipitation, and elevation. Furthermore, the relationships of the spatial distribution and diversity with the geographical environment of rare and endangered medicinal plants in Gansu province were analyzed to provide support for the restoration and protection policy making of these plant resources.
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- 2022
26. The impact of national centralized drug procurement on health expenditures for lung cancer inpatients: A difference-in-differences analysis in a large tertiary hospital in China
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Yuan-Jin, Zhang, Yan, Ren, Quan, Zheng, Jing, Tan, Ming-Hong, Yao, Yun-Xiang, Huang, Xia, Zhang, Kang, Zou, Shao-Yang, Zhao, and Xin, Sun
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Tertiary Care Centers ,Inpatients ,Lung Neoplasms ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Humans ,Health Expenditures ,Drug Costs - Abstract
The availability and affordability of medicines remain major health challenges around the world. In March 2019, the Chinese government introduced a pilot National Centralized Drug Procurement (NCDP) program in order to reduce drug prices and improve the affordability of effective and safe medicines. This study aimed to assess the impact of NCDP policy on health expenditures of cancer patients. Using inpatient discharge records from a large hospital in the pilot city, we performed a difference-in-differences design to estimate the change in health expenditures before and after the policy. We found that the implementation of NCDP was associated with a significant decrease in total expenditures (14.13%) and drug expenditures (20.75%) per inpatient admission. There were also significant reductions in non-drug-related expenditures, including a 7.65% decrease in health service expenditures, a 38.28% decrease in diagnosis expenditures, and a 25.31% decrease in consumable material expenditures per inpatient admission. However, the NCDP implementation was associated with a 107.97% increase in the traditional Chinese medicine expenditures. Overall, the study provided evidence that the NCDP policy has achieved its goals of high-quality and affordable healthcare. The drug expenditures of lung cancer patients revealed a continuous decline, and the policy may have spillover effects on other healthcare expenditures. Further studies are needed to evaluate the long-term effects of NCDP on policy-related expenditures and health outcomes.
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27. Regulation of the kiss2 promoter in yellowtail clownfish (Amphiprion clarkii) by cortisol via GRE-dependent GR pathway
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Shao-Yang Bu, Yan-Yu Zhang, Xian Zhang, Tian-Xiu Li, De-Cai Zheng, Ze-Xiang Huang, and Qian Wang
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Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism - Abstract
Kisspeptin plays a vital role in mediating the stress-induced reproductive regulation. Cortisol, known as a stress-related hormone, is involved in gonadal development and sexual differentiation by binding with glucocorticoid receptor (GR) to regulate the expression of kiss gene. In the present study, cortisol treatment in yellowtail clownfish (Amphiprion clarkii) showed that the expression of kiss (kiss1 and kiss2) and gr (gr1 and gr2) genes were increased significantly. We demonstrated that the yellowtail clownfish Kiss neurons co-express the glucocorticoid receptors in the telencephalon, mesencephalon, cerebellum, and hypothalamus. We further cloned the promoter of kiss2 gene in yellowtail clownfish and identified the presence of putative binding sites for glucocorticoid receptors, estrogen receptors, androgen receptors, progesterone receptors, AP1, and C/EBP. Applying transient transfection in HEK293T cells of the yellowtail clownfish kiss2 promoter, cortisol (dexamethasone) treatment was shown to enhance the promoter activities of the yellowtail clownfish kiss2 gene in the presence of GRs. Deletion analysis of kiss2 promoter indicated that cortisol-induced promoter activities were located between position −660 and −433 with GR1, and −912 and −775 with GR2, respectively. Finally, point mutation studies on the kiss2 promoter showed that cortisol-stimulated promoter activity was mediated by one GRE site located at position −573 in the presence of GR1 and by each GRE site located at position −883, −860, −851, and −843 in the presence of GR2. Results of the present study provide novel evidence that cortisol could regulate the transcription of kiss2 gene in the yellowtail clownfish via GRE-dependent GR pathway.
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28. Sexually dimorphic distribution of kiss1 and kiss2 in the brain of yellowtail clownfish, Amphiprion clarkii
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Yan-yu Zhang, Xian Zhang, Shao-yang Bu, Wei-wei Zhang, Tian-xiu Li, De-cai Zheng, Ze-xiang Huang, and Qian Wang
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Endocrinology ,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism ,Internal Medicine - Abstract
Kisspeptin system was shown to be a key factor in mediating social stress and reproduction. Yellowtail clownfish, Amphiprion clarkii, is a hermaphrodite fish, whose sex determination and gonadal development are affected by the social status of individuals. The yellowtail clownfish is a fantastic animal model to explore sex determination, but the social status and precise distribution of kiss mRNAs in the brain of this species are unknown. Hererin, a novel in situ hybridization technique, RNAscope, was used to investigate the distribution of kiss1 and kiss2 expressions in the brain of yellowtail clownfish. The coronal planes of brain showed that the kiss1 signal was mainly present in dorsal habenular nucleus (NHd) and kiss2 mRNA was widely expressed in telencephalon, midbrain, and hypothalamus, especially in dorsal part of the nucleus of the lateral recess (NRLd). Additionally, kiss1 and kiss2 signals have sexually dimorphic distribution. The kiss1 mRNA was distributed in NHd, the telencephalon, and lateral part of the diffuse nucleus of the inferior lobe (NDLIl) of females but in NHd and NDLIl of males. kiss2 signals were stronger in females than that in males. The distribution of kiss1 and kiss2 neurons in NHd of habenula and NRLd of hypothalamus may suggest that kiss genes associate environmental signaling and reproductive function in yellowtail clownfish.
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29. Mechanisms of survival mediated by the stringent response in Pseudomonas aeruginosa under environmental stress in drinking water systems: Nitrogen deficiency and bacterial competition
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Xu Wang, Jing Wang, Shao-Yang Liu, Jin-Song Guo, Fang Fang, You-Peng Chen, and Peng Yan
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Environmental Engineering ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Environmental Chemistry ,Pollution ,Waste Management and Disposal - Published
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30. progress and application on the analysis of anthropogenic radionuclide 236U
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Shao, Yang, Yang, Guosheng, Zhang, Jilong, Luo, Min, Ma, Lingling, and Xu, Diandou
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Uranium-236 is an important anthropogenic radionuclide except for the three main natural uranium isotopes, which could be applied in the fields of environmental tracer, nuclear emergency response, nuclear forensics and nuclear safeguards. Artificial 236U is mainly generated through neuron absorption of nuclear fuel 235U after neuron irradiation. Therefore, the isotopic ratios of 236U with other uranium isotopes (fingerprints) are different regarding the different nuclear fuel age. Also, the corresponding fingerprints are different in different types of nuclear reactor. The operation statue of nuclear reactor, the source of nuclear material and the migration of released radionuclides in environment could be studied by analyzing the isotopic ratios of 236U/238U and 236U/235U in the corresponding samples. Since 236U is a minor isotope and its concentration is extremely low in nuclear material and environmental samples, it is important to accurately analyze the isotopic ratios for its application in the environmental tracer, nuclear emergency response, nuclear forensics and nuclear safeguards. In this review, we summarized the development of sample pretreatment and analysis technologies for 236U measurement in recent years, especially focused on the development of 236U isotopic ratio analysis using mass spectrometry. In the meanwhile, the research progress of 236U application in the fields of nuclear safeguards and environmental tracer was also reviewed. The research prospect for 236U analysis and application was also proposed.
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31. Similarity evaluation of stratum anti-drilling ability and a new method of drill bit selection
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Zhaokai Hou, Rui Xu, Weikai Liu, Wenfeng Sun, Yuan Yuan, Shao Yang, and Tie Yan
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Computer science ,absolutely ideal solution ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology ,relative distance measurement method ,02 engineering and technology ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Grey relational analysis ,stratum anti-drilling ability ,Rate of penetration ,Geochemistry and Petrology ,entropy weight ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Entropy (information theory) ,Drill bit ,021108 energy ,Petroleum refining. Petroleum products ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Drill ,ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING ,InformationSystems_DATABASEMANAGEMENT ,Drilling ,Geology ,TOPSIS ,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology ,Bit (horse) ,grey relational analysis ,Economic Geology ,drill bit selection ,Algorithm ,TP690-692.5 - Abstract
Considering the stratum anti-drilling ability, drill bit working conditions, drill bit application effect and drill bit economic benefits, the similarity of stratum anti-drilling ability was evaluated by grey relational analysis theory to screen out candidate drill bits with reference values. A new comprehensive performance evaluation model of drill bit was established by constructing the absolute ideal solution, changing the relative distance measurement method, and introducing entropy weight to work out the closeness between the candidate drill bits and ideal drill bits and select the reasonable drill bit. Through the construction of absolute ideal solution, improvement of relative distance measurement method and introduction of entropy weight, the inherent defects of TOPSIS decision analysis method, such as non-absolute order, reverse order and unreasonable weight setting, can be overcome. Simple in calculation and easy to understand, the new bit selection method has good adaptability to drill bit selection using dynamic change drill bit database. Field application has proved that the drill bits selected by the new drill bit selection method had significant increase in average rate of penetration, low wear rate, and good compatibility with the drilled formations in actual drilling. This new method of drill bit selection can be used as a technical means to select drill bits with high efficiency, long life and good economics in oilfields.
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32. DescribeCtx
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Shao Yang, Yuehan Wang, Yuan Yao, Haoyu Wang, Yanfang (Fanny) Ye, and Xusheng Xiao
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33. Review of lipoic acid: From a clinical therapeutic agent to various emerging biomaterials
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Shao-yang Lv, Suisui He, Xiao-li Ling, Yue-qin Wang, Cong Huang, Jin-rong Long, Jia-qi Wang, Yang Qin, Hua Wei, and Cui-Yun Yu
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Thioctic Acid ,Alzheimer Disease ,Neoplasms ,Polyesters ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Humans ,Biocompatible Materials ,Antioxidants - Abstract
Lipoic acid (LA), an endogenous small molecule in organisms, has been extensively used for the highly efficient clinical treatment of malignant diseases, which include diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer over the past seven decades. Tremendous progresses have been made on the use of LA in nanomedicine for the development of various biomaterials because of its unique biological properties and highly adaptable structure since the first discovery. However, there are few reviews thus far, to our knowledge, summarizing this hot subject of research of LA and its derived biomaterials. For this purpose, we present herein the first comprehensive summary on the design and development of LA and its derived materials for biomedical applications. This review first discusses the therapeutic use of LA followed by the description of synthesis and preclinical study of LA-derived-small molecules. The applications of various LA and poly (lipoic acid) (PLA)-derived-biomaterials are next summarized in detail with an emphasis on the use of LA for the design of biomaterials and the diverse properties. This review describes the development of LA from a clinical therapeutic agent to a building unit of various biomaterials field, which will promote the further discovery of new therapeutic uses of LA as therapeutic agents and facile development of LA-based derivates with greater performance for biomedical applications.
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34. Effects of repetitive submergence on the accumulation and release of nutrient elements in Pinus elliottii seedlings
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Yan Guo, Wenfa Xiao, Yafei Shen, Shao Yang, Ruimei Cheng, Pengfei Sun, and Lijun Wang
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Total organic carbon ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Potassium ,Phosphorus ,fungi ,Flooding (psychology) ,food and beverages ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Nutrients ,General Medicine ,010501 environmental sciences ,Evergreen ,Pinus ,01 natural sciences ,Pollution ,Nitrogen ,Trees ,Plant Leaves ,Horticulture ,Nutrient ,chemistry ,Seedlings ,Environmental Chemistry ,Ecotoxicology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Pinus elliottii is an evergreen coniferous tree. It is considered a potential species for ecological restoration in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA). To classify the effects of different degrees of flooding stress in winter on nutrient accumulation in Pinus elliottii after experiencing early drought stress in summer, simulated water treatments of deep submergence (DS) and moderate submergence (MS) were imposed after the summer drought period. The results indicated that the survival rate of seedlings was 95.3%, and the accumulation trend of the flooded plants was rapid at an average rate of 1.99 ± 0.33% in the early stage of flooding (stage I: 0-7 days), a rapid release rate in the second stage (stage II: 7-60 days), and an average rate of only 0.07 ± 0.04% in the later stage (stage III: 60-150 days). After 150 days of flooding, the leaves of Pinus elliottii released an average of 7.156 ± 0.4 g kg-1 of organic carbon, 8.839 ± 0.6 g kg-1 of nitrogen, 0.781 ± 0.1 g kg-1 of phosphorus, and 2.985 ± 0.3 g kg-1 of potassium of macroelement content, and an average of 0.201 ± 0.03 g kg-1 manganese, 0.147 ± 0.04 g kg-1 iron, 0.002 g kg-1 copper, and 0.023 g kg-1 of zinc of microelement contents. Our results also demonstrated that after 150 days of flooding, the C/N, N/P, and C/P ratios of the nutrient element content of Pinus elliottii in the water-level fluctuation zone of the TGRA were 0.810%, 11.32%, and 9.16%, respectively. The absorption and release of nutrients under water flooding are generally divided into three stages: first, the early storage stage (the first stage: 0 to 7 days, optional), then the rapid release (the second stage: 7 to 60 days), and the later stage slow release phase (third stage: 60 to 150 days). Water flooding reduced the contents of C, N, P, and K and affected the absorption of nutrient elements in the plant. At the same time, soluble Mn2 + and Fe2 + over absorbed during flooding could cause toxicity to leaf tissues. At the same time, Pinus elliottii selected to reduce Cu in leaves to ensure that the root has a strong redox capacity and improve nitrogen utilization, thereby preventing the long-term flooding of toxic cations and acid substances. Taken together, our results conclude that increased drought stress can reduce the ability of Pinus elliottii seedlings to withstand flooding stress; the seedlings of Pinus elliottii can maintain their growth by accumulating certain nutrient elements under submerged conditions, which implies that this species would be a suitable candidate for reforestation in the TGRA because of its tolerance to submergence.
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35. Potential role of AHL-mediated quorum sensing in inducing non-filamentous sludge bulking under high organic loading
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Hong-Xin Shi, Jing Wang, Shao-Yang Liu, Jin-Song Guo, Fang Fang, You-Peng Chen, and Peng Yan
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General Chemical Engineering ,Environmental Chemistry ,General Chemistry ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering - Published
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36. STRN-ALK Fusion in Lung Adenocarcinoma with Excellent Response Upon Alectinib Treatment: A Case Report and Literature Review
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Su, Cuiyun, Jiang, Ya, Jiang, Wei, Wang, Huilin, Liu, Sisi, Shao, Yang, Zhao, Wenhua, Ning, Ruiling, and Yu, Qitao
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hemic and lymphatic diseases ,Case Report ,alectinib ,targeted NGS ,ctDNA ,STRN-ALK fusion ,lung adenocarcinoma - Abstract
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement benefit from treatment with ALK inhibitors. Therefore, the identification of druggable ALK fusions is necessary for NSCLC treatment. More than 90 fusion partners of ALK have been reported in NSCLC patients, but the striatin gene (STRN)-ALK fusion has rarely been reported. Moreover, the response of STRN-ALK fusion patients treated with ALK inhibitors remains to be explored. A 64-year-old Chinese male with no history of smoking or alcohol consumption was diagnosed as stage IVB lung adenocarcinoma (LADC) (cT4N3M1c) in October 2018. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) targeting 425 cancer-related genes was performed on the plasma and supernatant of pleural effusion samples and revealed an STRN-ALK fusion. The patient received alectinib (600 mg, twice daily) as the first-line treatment with an excellent response exceeding 19 months. This is the first report of a NSCLC patient harboring an STRN-ALK fusion and exhibiting an excellent response to alectinib treatment. This case provides valuable information for therapeutic decision-making of patients with STRN-ALK fusions. Furthermore, this case also highlighted the advantage of performing targeted NGS on circulating tumor DNA for the identification and analysis of rare, druggable genomic alterations.
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37. Probiotic supplementation containing Bacillus velezensis enhances expression of immune regulatory genes against pigeon circovirus in pigeons ( Columba livia )
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Shao-Yang Hu, Gail Everette M. Catulin, Ching-Yi Tsai, Harvey M. Santos, Kuo Pin Chuang, and Lemmuel L. Tayo
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Circovirus ,Bacillus ,chemical and pharmacologic phenomena ,Spleen ,Biology ,Antiviral Agents ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,law.invention ,Microbiology ,Feces ,Interferon-gamma ,03 medical and health sciences ,Probiotic ,Immune system ,law ,medicine ,Animals ,Circoviridae Infections ,Columbidae ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Innate immune system ,Bird Diseases ,030306 microbiology ,Probiotics ,food and beverages ,hemic and immune systems ,General Medicine ,Viral Load ,Immunity, Innate ,TLR2 ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Gene Expression Regulation ,DNA, Viral ,Dietary Supplements ,TLR4 ,Cytokines ,Viral load ,psychological phenomena and processes ,Biotechnology - Abstract
AIMS In this study, we aimed to isolate and evaluate the efficacy of Bacillus velezensis as a probiotic and to assess its activity towards pigeons infected with pigeon circovirus (PiCV). METHODS AND RESULTS Bacillus velezensis, isolated from pigeon faeces, was orally administered to pigeons for 60 days. After pigeons were challenged with PiCV, the PiCV viral load and expression of indicator genes for innate immunity were detected in spleen tissue and faeces of pigeons. Bacillus velezensis significantly reduced the PiCV viral load in the faeces and spleen of pigeons 5 days post-challenge (dpc). The mRNA expression levels of treated pigeons showed that interferon-gamma (IFN-γ), myxovirus resistance 1 (Mx1), and signal transducers and activators of transcription 1 (STAT1) genes were upregulated, whereas no expression of interleukin-4 (IL-4) was detected. Moreover, toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) and 4 (TLR4) were significantly upregulated in probiotic-treated pigeons (P
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38. Improvement in the probiotic efficacy of Bacillus subtilis E20-stimulates growth and health status of white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei via encapsulation in alginate and coated with chitosan
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Rusyda Nur Adilah, Shieh-Tsung Chiu, Shao-Yang Hu, Rolissa Ballantyne, Nursyam Happy, Ann-Chang Cheng, and Chun-Hung Liu
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Chitosan ,Penaeidae ,Alginates ,Health Status ,Probiotics ,Environmental Chemistry ,Animals ,General Medicine ,Aquatic Science ,Bacillus subtilis ,Disease Resistance - Abstract
The aim of this study was to increase the efficacy of probiotic Bacillus subtilis E20 by encapsulating the probiotic in alginate and coating it with chitosan. The protective effect was evaluated by firstly ensuring the viability of encapsulated probiotics in simulated gastrointestinal fluid (SGF) and simulated intestinal fluid (SIF) conditions and then at different storage temperatures. In addition, the encapsulated probiotic was incorporated into the diet to improve the growth performance and health status of white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. B. subtilis E20 has the ability to survive in SGF when encapsulated in 1.5-2% alginate and coated with 0.4% chitosan. Furthermore, viability increased significantly in SIF compared to the probiotic encapsulated in 1% alginate and coated with 0.4% chitosan and the non-encapsulated probiotic. Longer storage time and adverse conditions affected probiotics' survival, which was improved by the encapsulation with significantly higher viability than the non-encapsulated probiotic at different temperatures and storage duration. Encapsulation of B. subtilis E20 and dietary administration at 10
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39. Regulation of the
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Shao-Yang, Bu, Yan-Yu, Zhang, Xian, Zhang, Tian-Xiu, Li, De-Cai, Zheng, Ze-Xiang, Huang, and Qian, Wang
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HEK293 Cells ,Receptors, Glucocorticoid ,Hydrocortisone ,Animals ,Humans ,Promoter Regions, Genetic ,Perciformes - Abstract
Kisspeptin plays a vital role in mediating the stress-induced reproductive regulation. Cortisol, known as a stress-related hormone, is involved in gonadal development and sexual differentiation by binding with glucocorticoid receptor (GR) to regulate the expression of
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40. Ellipsometry Study on thickness gradient silicon nitride (SiNx) film by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition
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Qin Zhi Zhong, Xiang Luo, Li Zhou, Fu Shi Hu, Ping Li Dai, Ya Shu Wang, and Peng Shao Yang
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As passivation layer and anti-reflection layer, silicon nitride (SiNx) thin film has been widely used in photovoltaic devices such as solar cells. The structure of SiNx film with thickness gradient can make full use of different wavelengths of sunlight. In this paper, we have studied this structure for the first time. While introducing a quartz layer by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), we obtained a thin SiNx film in the center and gradually thicker toward the edge. The effects of PECVD process parameters, including deposition time, RF power, dielectric layer thickness, etc. on the thickness gradient of SiNx thin film are systematically studied. The film composition changing in the radial direction is also analyzed by ellipsometry. This study provides an instructive method for controlling the thickness gradient of SiNx films and plays an important role in using this structure to the solar cell application.
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41. Effect modification by aging on the associations of nicotine exposure with cognitive impairment among Chinese elderly
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Jian Hou, Chao Huang, Bo Zhu, Wei Liu, Qing-qing Zhu, Lu Wang, Tian Li, Chun-jie Yuan, Shao-yang Lai, De-sheng Wu, Fei-qi Zhu, Jia-fei Zhang, Jia Huang, Er-wei Gao, Yi-dan Huang, Lu-lin Nie, Shao-you Lu, Xi-fei Yang, Li Zhou, Fang Ye, Jing Yuan, and Jian-jun Liu
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Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Environmental Chemistry ,General Medicine ,Pollution - Abstract
Active and passive exposure to tobacco smoke may increase risk of cognitive decline. However, effects of enhanced the aging process on the association of urinary nicotine metabolites with cognitive impairment remain unclear. In this study, 6657 Chinese older adults completed the physical examinations and cognitive tests. We measured urinary nicotine metabolite levels, mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA-CN), and relative telomere length (RTL) and analyzed effects of urinary nicotine metabolites and their interaction with mtDNA-CN or RTL on cognitive impairment by generalized linear models and qg-computation, respectively. Each 1-unit increase in urinary 3-OHCot, 3-OHCotGluc, CotGluc, or NicGluc levels corresponded to a 1.05-, 1.09-, 1.04-, and 0.90-fold increased risk of cognitive impairment. Each 1-quantile increment in the mixture level of 8 nicotine metabolites corresponded to an increment of 1.40- and 1.34-fold risk of cognitive impairment in individuals with longer RTL or low mtDNA-CN. Urinary 3-OHCotGluc and RTL or mtDNA-CN exhibited an additive effect on cognitive impairment in addition to the mixture of 8 nicotine metabolites and mtDNA-CN. The findings suggested that aging process may increase the risk of tobacco-related cognitive impairment.
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42. Additional file 11 of Dynamic monitoring of cerebrospinal fluid circulating tumor DNA to identify unique genetic profiles of brain metastatic tumors and better predict intracranial tumor responses in non-small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases: a prospective cohort study (GASTO 1028)
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Li, Meichen, Chen, Jing, Zhang, Baishen, Yu, Juan, Wang, Na, Li, Delan, Shao, Yang, Zhu, Dongqin, Liang, Chuqiao, Ma, Yutong, Ou, Qiuxiang, Hou, Xue, and Chen, Likun
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Additional file 11: TableS1.The comparison of clinical characteristics between CSF-ctDNA negative and positive subgroups at baseline (N = 92). Table S2. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses of overall survival based on baseline variables (N = 92). Table S3. The comparison of clinical characteristics in patients with CSF ctDNA response and non-response after treatment (N = 25). Table S4. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses of intracranial progression free survival based on baseline variables (N = 25). Table S5.The comparison of clinical characteristics in patients with plasma ctDNA response and non-response after treatment (N = 44).
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43. Mask Atari for Deep Reinforcement Learning as POMDP Benchmarks
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Shao, Yang, Kong, Quan, Matsumura, Tadayuki, Fuji, Taiki, Ito, Kiyoto, and Mizuno, Hiroyuki
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We present Mask Atari, a new benchmark to help solve partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) problems with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-based approaches. To achieve a simulation environment for the POMDP problems, Mask Atari is constructed based on Atari 2600 games with controllable, moveable, and learnable masks as the observation area for the target agent, especially with the active information gathering (AIG) setting in POMDPs. Given that one does not yet exist, Mask Atari provides a challenging, efficient benchmark for evaluating the methods that focus on the above problem. Moreover, the mask operation is a trial for introducing the receptive field in the human vision system into a simulation environment for an agent, which means the evaluations are not biased from the sensing ability and purely focus on the cognitive performance of the methods when compared with the human baseline. We describe the challenges and features of our benchmark and evaluate several baselines with Mask Atari.
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44. Additional file 2 of Letter to the Editor: An ultra-sensitive assay using cell-free DNA fragmentomics for multi-cancer early detection
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Bao, Hua, Wang, Zheng, Ma, Xiaoji, Guo, Wei, Zhang, Xiangyu, Tang, Wanxiangfu, Chen, Xin, Wang, Xinyu, Chen, Yikuan, Mo, Shaobo, Liang, Naixin, Ma, Qianli, Wu, Shuyu, Xu, Xiuxiu, Chang, Shuang, Wei, Yulin, Zhang, Xian, Bao, Hairong, Liu, Rui, Yang, Shanshan, Jiang, Ya, Wu, Xue, Li, Yaqi, Zhang, Long, Tan, Fengwei, Xue, Qi, Liu, Fangqi, Cai, Sanjun, Gao, Shugeng, Peng, Junjie, Zhou, Jian, and Shao, Yang
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Additional file 2: Supplementary Materials and Methods. Supplementary Figure 1. Distribution of cancer scores by cancer stages. Supplementary Figure 2. Cancer detection model evaluation using matched test cohort and cross-validated training cohort. Supplementary Figure 3. Evaluating cancer detection model sensitivity within different primary liver cancer subgroups. Supplementary Figure 4. Evaluating cancer detection model sensitivity within different colorectal cancer subgroups. Supplementary Figure 5. Evaluating cancer detection model sensitivity within different lung adenocarcinoma subgroups. Supplementary Figure 6. Cancer origin scores of the false-negative samples.
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45. Mechanisms of Survival Mediated by Stringent Response in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Under Environmental Stress in Drinking Water Systems: Nitrogen Deficiency and Bacterial Competition
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Xu Wang, Jing Wang, Shao-Yang Liu, Jinsong Guo, Fang Fang, You-Peng Chen, and Peng Yan
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46. Additional file 9 of Circulating tumor DNA integrating tissue clonality detects minimal residual disease in resectable non-small-cell lung cancer
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Wang, Siwei, Li, Ming, Zhang, Jingyuan, Xing, Peng, Wu, Min, Meng, Fancheng, Jiang, Feng, Wang, Jie, Bao, Hua, Huang, Jianfeng, Ren, Binhui, Yu, Mingfeng, Qiu, Ninglei, Li, Houhuai, Yuan, Fangliang, Zhang, Zhi, Jia, Hui, Lu, Xinxin, Zhang, Shuai, Wang, Xiaojun, Xu, Youtao, Xia, Wenjia, Liu, Tongyan, Xu, Weizhang, Xu, Xinyu, Sun, Mengting, Wu, Xue, Shao, Yang, Wang, Qianghu, Dai, Juncheng, Qiu, Mantang, Wang, Jinke, Zhang, Qin, Xu, Lin, Shen, Hongbing, and Yin, Rong
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Additional file 9. Figure S6: ctDNA testing, LDCT scans, and disease-related events of patients during follow-up periods. . Swimmer plot illustrating the first positive ctDNA testing, the last negative LDCT scans, and pathological events of patients that experienced recurrence or deceased. B). The original and adjusted time intervals between the first positive ctDNA testing and final LDCT scans that detected disease recurrence. Abbreviations: LDCT – low-dose computed tomography, LUAD – lung adenocarcinoma, LUSC - lung squamous-cell carcinoma.
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47. Additional file 4 of Circulating tumor DNA integrating tissue clonality detects minimal residual disease in resectable non-small-cell lung cancer
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Wang, Siwei, Li, Ming, Zhang, Jingyuan, Xing, Peng, Wu, Min, Meng, Fancheng, Jiang, Feng, Wang, Jie, Bao, Hua, Huang, Jianfeng, Ren, Binhui, Yu, Mingfeng, Qiu, Ninglei, Li, Houhuai, Yuan, Fangliang, Zhang, Zhi, Jia, Hui, Lu, Xinxin, Zhang, Shuai, Wang, Xiaojun, Xu, Youtao, Xia, Wenjia, Liu, Tongyan, Xu, Weizhang, Xu, Xinyu, Sun, Mengting, Wu, Xue, Shao, Yang, Wang, Qianghu, Dai, Juncheng, Qiu, Mantang, Wang, Jinke, Zhang, Qin, Xu, Lin, Shen, Hongbing, and Yin, Rong
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Additional file 4. Figure S1: Availability of plasma samples. The availability of plasma samples for analysis at each schedule collection time point. Blue and red blocks denote samples collected before and after disease recurrence, respectively. Abbreviations: LUAD – lung adenocarcinoma, LUSC - lung squamous-cell carcinoma, RFS – recurrence-free survival, AT – adjuvant therapy, RT – radiotherapy, LNM – lymph node metastasis.
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48. Additional file 6 of RET fusions as primary oncogenic drivers and secondary acquired resistance to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer
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Wang, Chunyue, Zhang, Zhenlong, Sun, Yulan, Wang, Song, Wu, Mengmeng, Ou, Qiuxiang, Xu, Yang, Chen, Zhiming, Shao, Yang, Liu, Hong, and Hou, Peifeng
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Additional file 6: Figure S5. Survival analyses of patients with plasma ctDNA. a Patient stratification. Four patients with only FFPE samples were excluded from the refined cohort. b-d Kaplan–Meier estimates of PFS in patients with bypass pathway genetic alterations (b), RB1 and TP53 double-mutations (c), and ERBB2 copy-number gain (c) versus corresponding wild-type patients.
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49. Additional file 6 of Circulating tumor DNA integrating tissue clonality detects minimal residual disease in resectable non-small-cell lung cancer
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Wang, Siwei, Li, Ming, Zhang, Jingyuan, Xing, Peng, Wu, Min, Meng, Fancheng, Jiang, Feng, Wang, Jie, Bao, Hua, Huang, Jianfeng, Ren, Binhui, Yu, Mingfeng, Qiu, Ninglei, Li, Houhuai, Yuan, Fangliang, Zhang, Zhi, Jia, Hui, Lu, Xinxin, Zhang, Shuai, Wang, Xiaojun, Xu, Youtao, Xia, Wenjia, Liu, Tongyan, Xu, Weizhang, Xu, Xinyu, Sun, Mengting, Wu, Xue, Shao, Yang, Wang, Qianghu, Dai, Juncheng, Qiu, Mantang, Wang, Jinke, Zhang, Qin, Xu, Lin, Shen, Hongbing, and Yin, Rong
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Additional file 6. Figure S3: Prognostic values of postsurgical ctDNA detection at 3 months and 6 months. A-B) The recurrence-free survival analysis (top panel) and multi-variant Cox regression (bottom panel) of postsurgical ctDNA detection at 3 months (A) and 6 months (B). For the analysis at 6 months after surgeries, only patients with plasma samples available at this scheduled point and followed-up for more than 6 months were included. Abbreviations: RFS – recurrence-free survival, LNM – lymph node metastasis, LUAD – lung adenocarcinoma, LUSC - lung squamous-cell carcinoma.
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50. Additional file 1 of Homologous recombination deficiency in diverse cancer types and its correlation with platinum chemotherapy efficiency in ovarian cancer
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Wen, Hao, Feng, Zheng, Ma, Yutong, Liu, Rui, Ou, Qiuxiang, Guo, Qinhao, Shen, Yi, Wu, Xue, Shao, Yang, Bao, Hua, and Wu, Xiaohua
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Additional file 1: Figure S1. The comparison of panel-based HRD (GeneseeqPrime® HRD) and WGS-based HRD score results. The HRD scores of 49 patients from Cohort I were evaluated by the panel-based HRD pipeline and whole-genome sequencing (WGS). The correlation of HRD scores between (A) Pair Model and WGS or (B) Single Model and WGS is shown with BRCA status labeled as the legend.
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