13 results on '"Xueqin, He"'
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2. A breakthrough trial of an artificial liver without systemic heparinization in hyperbilirubinemia beagle models
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Yilin Wang, Shanshan Wang, Xueqin He, Yupei Li, Tao Xu, Lin Xu, Bo Yang, Xinnian Fan, Weifeng Zhao, and Changsheng Zhao
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Wearable artificial liver ,Anticoagulant ,Bilirubin ,Kevlar ,Microspheres ,Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials ,TA401-492 ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
The development of wearable artificial livers was restricted to device miniaturization and bleeding risk with water-soluble anticoagulants. Herein, a double-deck column filled with solid anticoagulant microspheres and Kevlar porous microspheres (KPMs, bilirubin adsorbents) was connected with the principle machine of wearable artificial liver (approximately 9 kg) to treat hyperbilirubinemia beagles for the first time. With the initial normal dose of heparin, the double-deck column could afford 3 h hemoperfusion in whole blood without thrombus formation. The removal efficiency of the double-deck column for total bilirubin (TBIL) was 31.4%. Interestingly, the excessive amounts of hepatocyte metabolites were also decreased by approximately 25%. The “anticoagulant + column” realized safe and effective whole blood hemoperfusion without the plasma separation system and heparin pump; however, the proposed principle machine of wearable artificial liver and “anticoagulant + column” cannot completely replace the bio-liver now. The intelligence of the device and the versatility of the adsorbent need to be improved; moreover, advanced experimental techniques need to be developed to validate the survival rates in animals. Overall, this study is a meaningful trial for the development of wearable artificial livers in the future.
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- 2023
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3. Intelligent lesion blood–brain barrier targeting nano-missiles for Alzheimer's disease treatment by anti-neuroinflammation and neuroprotection
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Xueqin He, Xiaorong Wang, Lianyi Yang, Zhihang Yang, Wenqi Yu, Yazhen Wang, Rui Liu, Meiwan Chen, and Huile Gao
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Receptor for advanced glycation end products ,ROS-responsive ,Blood‒brain barrier transcytosis ,Alzheimer's disease ,Drug combination ,Anti-neuroinflammation ,Therapeutics. Pharmacology ,RM1-950 - Abstract
The treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most difficult challenges in neurodegenerative diseases due to the insufficient blood‒brain barrier (BBB) permeability and unsatisfactory intra-brain distribution of drugs. Therefore, we established an ibuprofen and FK506 encapsulated drug co-delivery system (Ibu&FK@RNPs), which can target the receptor of advanced glycation endproducts (RAGE) and response to the high level of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in AD. RAGE is highly and specifically expressed on the lesion neurovascular unit of AD, this property helps to improve targeting specificity of the system and reduce unselective distribution in normal brain. Meanwhile, these two drugs can be specifically released in astrocytes of AD lesion in response to high levels of ROS. As a result, the cognition of AD mice was significantly improved and the quantity of Aβ plaques was decreased. Neurotoxicity was also alleviated with structural regeneration and functional recovery of neurons. Besides, the neuroinflammation dominated by NF-κB pathway was significantly inhibited with decreased NF-κB and IL-1β in the brain. Overall, Ibu&FK@RNPs can efficiently and successively target diseased BBB and astrocytes in AD lesion. Thus it significantly enhances intracephalic accumulation of drugs and efficiently treats AD by anti-neuroinflammation and neuroprotection.
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- 2022
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4. Self-propelled nanomotor reconstructs tumor microenvironment through synergistic hypoxia alleviation and glycolysis inhibition for promoted anti-metastasis
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Wenqi Yu, Ruyi Lin, Xueqin He, Xiaotong Yang, Huilin Zhang, Chuan Hu, Rui Liu, Yuan Huang, Yi Qin, and Huile Gao
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Nanomotor ,Microenvironment modulation ,Hypoxia ,Aerobic glycolysis ,Triple negative breast cancer ,Anti-metastasis ,Therapeutics. Pharmacology ,RM1-950 - Abstract
Solid tumors always exhibit local hypoxia, resulting in the high metastasis and inertness to chemotherapy. Reconstruction of hypoxic tumor microenvironment (TME) is considered a potential therapy compared to directly killing tumor cells. However, the insufficient oxygen delivery to deep tumor and the confronting “Warburg effect” compromise the efficacy of hypoxia alleviation. Herein, we construct a cascade enzyme-powered nanomotor (NM-si), which can simultaneously provide sufficient oxygen in deep tumor and inhibit the aerobic glycolysis to potentiate anti-metastasis in chemotherapy. Catalase (Cat) and glucose oxidase (GOx) are co-adsorbed on our previously reported CAuNCs@HA to form self-propelled nanomotor (NM), with hexokinase-2 (HK-2) siRNA further condensed (NM-si). The persistent production of oxygen bubbles from the cascade enzymatic reaction propels NM-si to move forward autonomously and in a controllable direction along H2O2 gradient towards deep tumor, with hypoxia successfully alleviated in the meantime. The autonomous movement also facilitates NM-si with lysosome escaping for efficient HK-2 knockdown to inhibit glycolysis. In vivo results demonstrated a promising anti-metastasis effect of commercially available albumin-bound paclitaxel (PTX@HSA) after pre-treated with NM-si for TME reconstruction. This cascade enzyme-powered nanomotor provides a potential prospect in reversing the hypoxic TME and metabolic pathway for reinforced anti-metastasis of chemotherapy.
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- 2021
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5. Acid‐Responsive Dual‐Targeted Nanoparticles Encapsulated Aspirin Rescue the Immune Activation and Phenotype in Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Xueqin He, Jiang Xie, Jing Zhang, Xiaorong Wang, Xufeng Jia, Heng Yin, Zhongqing Qiu, Zhihang Yang, Jiao Chen, Zhiliang Ji, Wenqi Yu, Meiwan Chen, Wenming Xu, and Huile Gao
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aspirin ,autism spectrum disorder ,nanoparticles ,neuro‐inflammation ,Science - Abstract
Abstract The treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one of the most difficult challenges in neurodevelopmental diseases, because of the unclear pathogenesis research and low brain‐lesion targeting efficiency. Besides, maternal immune activation has been reported as the most mature and widely used model of ASD and aspirin‐triggered lipoxin A4 is a potent anti‐inflammatory mediator being involved in the resolution of neuroinflammation in ASD. Therefore, an aspirin encapsulated cascade drug delivery system (Asp@TMNPs) is established, which can successively target the blood–brain barrier (BBB) and microglial cells and response to the acid microenvironment in lysosome. As a result, the mitochondrial oxidative stress, DNA damage, and inflammation of microglial cells are prominently alleviated. After the treatment of Asp@TMNPs, the social interaction, stereotype behavior, and anxious condition of ASD mice are notably improved and the activation of microglial cells is inhibited. Overall, this system successively penetrates the BBB and targets microglial cells, therefore, it significantly enhances the intracephalic drug accumulation and improves anti‐neuroinflammatory efficacy of aspirin, providing a promising strategy for ASD treatment.
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- 2022
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6. Multi-Source and Multi-Representation Adaptation for Cross-Domain Electroencephalography Emotion Recognition
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Jiangsheng Cao, Xueqin He, Chenhui Yang, Sifang Chen, Zhangyu Li, and Zhanxiang Wang
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EEG ,emotion recognition ,domain adaption ,deep learning ,affective computing ,SEED ,Psychology ,BF1-990 - Abstract
Due to the non-invasiveness and high precision of electroencephalography (EEG), the combination of EEG and artificial intelligence (AI) is often used for emotion recognition. However, the internal differences in EEG data have become an obstacle to classification accuracy. To solve this problem, considering labeled data from similar nature but different domains, domain adaptation usually provides an attractive option. Most of the existing researches aggregate the EEG data from different subjects and sessions as a source domain, which ignores the assumption that the source has a certain marginal distribution. Moreover, existing methods often only align the representation distributions extracted from a single structure, and may only contain partial information. Therefore, we propose the multi-source and multi-representation adaptation (MSMRA) for cross-domain EEG emotion recognition, which divides the EEG data from different subjects and sessions into multiple domains and aligns the distribution of multiple representations extracted from a hybrid structure. Two datasets, i.e., SEED and SEED IV, are used to validate the proposed method in cross-session and cross-subject transfer scenarios, experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of our model to state-of-the-art models in most settings.
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- 2022
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7. Deep Convolutional Neural Network With a Multi-Scale Attention Feature Fusion Module for Segmentation of Multimodal Brain Tumor
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Xueqin He, Wenjie Xu, Jane Yang, Jianyao Mao, Sifang Chen, and Zhanxiang Wang
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magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ,semantic segmentation ,convolutional neural network ,residual network ,attention mechanism ,brain tumor ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 - Abstract
As a non-invasive, low-cost medical imaging technology, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an important tool for brain tumor diagnosis. Many scholars have carried out some related researches on MRI brain tumor segmentation based on deep convolutional neural networks, and have achieved good performance. However, due to the large spatial and structural variability of brain tumors and low image contrast, the segmentation of MRI brain tumors is challenging. Deep convolutional neural networks often lead to the loss of low-level details as the network structure deepens, and they cannot effectively utilize the multi-scale feature information. Therefore, a deep convolutional neural network with a multi-scale attention feature fusion module (MAFF-ResUNet) is proposed to address them. The MAFF-ResUNet consists of a U-Net with residual connections and a MAFF module. The combination of residual connections and skip connections fully retain low-level detailed information and improve the global feature extraction capability of the encoding block. Besides, the MAFF module selectively extracts useful information from the multi-scale hybrid feature map based on the attention mechanism to optimize the features of each layer and makes full use of the complementary feature information of different scales. The experimental results on the BraTs 2019 MRI dataset show that the MAFF-ResUNet can learn the edge structure of brain tumors better and achieve high accuracy.
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- 2021
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8. Novel Predictors and Risk Score of Treatment Failure in Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Peritonitis
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Xiang Liu, Aiya Qin, Huan Zhou, Xueqin He, Shamlin Cader, Sirui Wang, Yi Tang, and Wei Qin
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predictors ,treatment failure ,catheter removal ,risk score ,peritoneal dialysis associated peritonitis ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Objective: Peritonitis is a severe complication in peritoneal dialysis (PD). This study was performed to identify predictors and establish a risk score for treatment failure in peritonitis patients.Methods: A single-center, retrospective observational study was conducted. The basic demographic characteristics, clinical and laboratory data of all patients with peritonitis during the study period were documented and analyzed. Multivariate logistic regression was applied to examine independent predictors of treatment failure, and a risk prediction score was established.Results: Three hundred fourteen episodes experienced by 241 patients were included in the final analysis. Logistic regression analysis indicated that PD duration (OR 1.017; P 0.005), fibrinogen (OR 1.327; P 0.021), high-density lipoprotein (OR 0.443; P 0.032), fungal infection (OR 63.413; P < 0.001), intestinal obstruction (OR 5.186, P 0.007), and diabetes mellitus (OR 2.451; P 0.018), hemodialysis history (OR 2.804, P 0.006) were independent predictors of treatment failure. The risk prediction score system showed a good calibration (P > 0.05) and discrimination (AUROC 0.80, P < 0.001).Conclusions: Fibrinogen, PD duration, fungal infection, hemodialysis history, concurrent intestinal obstruction, or diabetes mellitus were independent risk factors for a poor peritonitis outcome, while the high-density lipoprotein was a protective factor. This novel risk prediction score system may be used to predict a high risk of treatment failure effectively.
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- 2021
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9. Rational Design of Effective Binders for LiFePO4 Cathodes
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Shu Huang, Xiaoting Huang, Youyuan Huang, Xueqin He, Haitao Zhuo, and Shaojun Chen
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polymer binder ,structure design ,electrochemical performance ,Li-ion batteries ,LiFePO4 cathode ,Organic chemistry ,QD241-441 - Abstract
Polymer binders are critical auxiliary additives to Li-ion batteries that provide adhesion and cohesion for electrodes to maintain conductive networks upon charge/discharge processes. Therefore, polymer binders become interconnected electrode structures affecting electrochemical performances, especially in LiFePO4 cathodes with one-dimensional Li+ channels. In this paper, recent improvements in the polymer binders used in the LiFePO4 cathodes of Li-ion batteries are reviewed in terms of structural design, synthetic methods, and working mechanisms. The polymer binders were classified into three types depending on their effects on the performances of LiFePO4 cathodes. The first consisted of PVDF and related composites, and the second relied on waterborne and conductive binders. Profound insights into the ability of binder structures to enhance cathode performance were discovered. Overcoming the bottleneck shortage originating from olivine structure LiFePO4 using efficient polymer structures is discussed. We forecast design principles for the polymer binders used in the high-performance LiFePO4 cathodes of Li-ion batteries. Finally, perspectives on the application of future binder designs for electrodes with poor conductivity are presented to provide possible design directions for chemical structures.
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- 2021
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10. Evaluation of Controlled Release Urea on the Dynamics of Nitrate, Ammonium, and Its Nitrogen Release in Black Soils of Northeast China.
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Xin Tong, Xueqin He, Hongwei Duan, Lujia Han, and Guangqun Huang
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- 2018
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11. The Implementation of Wireless Sensor Network Visualization Platform Based on Wetland Monitoring.
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Yuxi Hu, Deshi Li, Xueqin He, Tao Sun, and Yanyan Han
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- 2009
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12. Cu (II) and ammonium adsorption from dairy cattle breeding sewage by phosphorus-modified dairy cow manure hydrochar.
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Zhendong Yang, Min Tong, Xueqin He, Lujia Han, Jianbin Guo, Tianjun Jing, Guangqun Huang, and Changming Shi
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CATTLE manure , *CATTLE breeds , *CATTLE breeding , *DAIRY cattle , *SEWAGE , *ANIMAL herds - Abstract
To realize the synergistic treatment of dairy cow manure solids and dairy cattle breeding sewage, this study produced phosphorus-modified hydrochar by dairy cow manure solids impregnated with potassium phosphate (K3PO4). And then, the adsorption characteristics of Cu (II) and ammonium (NH4+) in dairy cattle breeding sewage under different dosages and adsorption time conditions of modified hydrochar were explored. The results show that the specific surface area and total pore volume of the hydrochar were increased by phosphorus-modified. The adsorption amount of hydrochar per unit-mass decreased with the increase in the dosage. With the increase in the dosage, the adsorption capacity of Cu (II) decreased from the initial 26.16 mg/g to 3.38 mg/g. The adsorption of Cu (II) and NH4+ in sewage by hydrochar was mainly chemical adsorption, which was mainly affected by chelation and ion exchange. This adsorption was more inclined to single-molecular layer adsorption. Both the pH values and the ionic strength influenced the competitive adsorption between Cu (II) and NH4+. The higher the pH value was, the greater the adsorption amount, and the stronger the adsorption capacity by hydrochar. Moreover, the increase in the ionic strength decreases the adsorption capacity of hydrochar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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13. Succession of bacteria communities during production and application of dairy bedding by membrane-covered aerobic fermentation.
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Hongjie Yin, Jianfei Zeng, Chen Fang, Xueqin He, Ya Su, Jinpeng Xiong, Lujia Han, and Guangqun Huang
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FERMENTATION , *BACILLUS (Bacteria) , *DAIRY farms , *BACTERIA , *BACTERIAL communities - Abstract
The cost of dairy manure treatment and bedding material purchase increases the operating cost of the dairy farm. Membrane-covered aerobic fermentation system has been widely used for dealing with dairy manure and recycling the final product as bedding material. However, the microbial safety in each processing step is still uncertain. To better understand the bacterial community dynamics during the whole bedding conversion process, a full-chain and large-scale experiment including 16-day membrane-covered aerobic fermentation and 11-day bedding material application was conducted. The results showed that the pile temperatures in the fermentation stage rapidly increased to 80°C and maintained >50°C for more than 11 days and the use of fermentation product as bedding material provided cows with a stable and comfortable bedding environment. The Chao1 and Shannon index decreased at the end of the fermentation stage and remained stable in the application stage, indicating that membrane-covered aerobic fermentation effectively killed some pathogenic bacteria and guaranteed both the maturity and stability of the final product. The dominant bacteria in the fermentation stage were Acinetobacter, Thermus, and Rhodothermus at genus level. Seven common potential pathogens of mastitis (Staphylococcus, Enterococcus, Serratia, Pseudomonas, Corynebacterium, Mycobacterium, and Bacillus) were found at the end of fermentation stage but the relative abundance was low (0.0025%-0.2727%). The dominant bacteria in the application stage mainly included Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, and Flavobacterium at the genus level. The relative abundance of Pseudomonas increased in the application stage, which was a reminder to the dairy farm to pay attention to the disinfection and timely replacement of bedding material to prevent the occurrence of dairy mastitis. The results of this study contributed deep understanding of the microorganism-driven bedding conversion process and provide practical guidance and cautions for the bedding materials application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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