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Bai XF, Tian D, Wang TY, Shu JC, He YJ, Zhu MJ. The impact of probiotics on gut microbiota in the eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection: a systematic review. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2023; 27:6736-6743. [PMID: 37522685 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202307_33144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The effect of probiotics supplementation on the gut microbiota in Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) eradication therapy is controversial. Therefore, this review aimed to illustrate changes in the gut microbiota after standard eradication therapy with probiotics supplements. MATERIALS AND METHODS A computerized literature search in PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and Embase database was performed up to February 1st, 2022, with English language restriction. The extracted outcomes were analyzed, including gut microbiota, adverse effects, and eradication rate. RESULTS 13 studies reported data on 777 participants who were finally eligible for this systematic review. All of them are randomized controlled trials investigating the effect of H. pylori eradication with probiotics supplementation therapy on gut microbiota. Probiotics supplementation seems to play a positive role in restoring the gut microbiota during H. pylori eradication therapy. However, the changes in the gut microbiota are still controversial. The included studies had significant heterogeneity in the study population, diagnostic methods of H. pylori infection, and detection techniques of the gut microbiota and probiotics species. CONCLUSIONS The results provided a basis for the rational selection of probiotics in the H. pylori eradication process. Probiotic supplementation might keep the balance of gut microbiota and reduce the gastrointestinal adverse effects of antibiotics, but whether it could improve the eradication rate or not is a debatable point. Therefore, more research is needed to provide evidence.
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
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Tian D, Sun Y, Ritchey MM, Xi T, Ren M, Ma J, Wang J, Zhao Z, Ling X, Liu X. Varying cultivation strategies in eastern Tianshan corresponded to growing pastoral lifeways between 1300 BCE and 300 CE. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.966366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This study combines plant stable isotope and archaeobotanical analyses to explore how ancient pastoral communities in varying landscapes of eastern Tianshan managed their barley fields. The question is less archaeologically investigated, as recent discussions have focused on pastoral and nomadic activities. Results show that diversified cultivation strategies were employed in barley cultivation at different locations in eastern Tianshan. We also observed a diachronic transition toward less labour-intensive crop management corresponding to a growing pastoral lifeway from the late Bronze Age (1300–800 BCE) to historical periods (400 BCE–300 CE). These results inform us about the mechanism by which southwest Asian originated domesticates were adapted to the Inner Asian environments in the context of the early food globalisation.
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Ren J, Royse A, Tian D, Royse C, Boggett S, Bellomo R, Gaudino M, Fremes S. Total arterial revascularization is associated with long-term survival benefit in coronary artery bypass grafting: systematic review with meta-analysis. Eur Heart J 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehac544.2139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Importance
Total arterial revascularization (TAR), the complete avoidance of saphenous vein grafting (SVG) in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), is advocated based on the superior conduit durability and resistance against atherosclerosis. However, the low adoption rate of TAR indicates a high level of controversy.
Objective
To compare long-term survival between TAR and conventional CABG involving SVG.
Data sources
A comprehensive literature search was conducted through digital databases including MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from the inception to May 2021.
Study selection
The inclusion criteria were randomized clinical trials, or propensity-score balanced or multivariable-adjusted observational studies with a sample size of at least 100 patients in each arm, isolated CABG, comparing TAR (SVG=0) vs. non-TAR (SVG≥1), and inclusion of all-cause mortality.
Data extraction and synthesis
Two reviewers performed independent extraction following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Pooled hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated with random-effect and fixed-effect models using generic inverse variance weighting. Individual patient time-to-event data were reconstructed to create an overall Kaplan-Meier survival function for matched studies. Sensitivity analyses were performed according to the risk of bias, matching status, and source of HR.
Main outcomes and measures
The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality.
Results
A total of 23 studies (100,314 patients), all with a retrospective observational design, were identified. The weighted mean follow-up time was 8.8 years post-operatively. Total arterial revascularization was associated with greater freedom from all-cause mortality than non-TAR (HR, 0.77, 95% CI, 0.71 to 0.84, p<0.001). There was evidence of low heterogeneity (I2=45%) across studies. Low publication bias was observed. Leave-one-out influence analysis and sensitivity analyses produced consistent results. Cochrane Collaboration signaling domains showed no critical risk of bias.
Conclusions and relevance
This meta-analysis found superior late survival associated with total arterial revascularization. Further randomized clinical trials are needed.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding sources: None.
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- J Ren
- University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Australia
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- University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Australia
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- University of Sydney , Sydney , Australia
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- University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Australia
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- University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Australia
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- University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Australia
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- Weill Cornell Medicine, we , New York , United States of America
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- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre , Toronto , Canada
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Ye C, Chen QY, Ma XQ, Lv P, Yang HL, Tian D, Zhao ZL, Lin JQ, Cui N, Li HL, Qin H. [Long-term outcomes of 328 patients with of autism spectrum disorder after fecal microbiota transplantation]. Zhonghua Wei Chang Wai Ke Za Zhi 2022; 25:798-803. [PMID: 36117371 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn441530-20220601-00238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in the treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Methods: A longitudinal study was conducted. Clinical data from ASD patients with gastrointestinal symptoms and who underwent FMT in the Tenth People's Hospital affiliated to Tongji University or Jinling Hospital between May 2012 to May 2021 were retrospectively collected. Scores derived from the autism behavior checklist (ABC), the childhood autism rating scale (CARS), the Bristol stool form scale (BSFS), and the gastrointestinal symptom rating scale (GSRS) were analyzed at baseline and at the 1st, 3rd, 6th, 12th, 24th, 36th, 48th and 60th month after FMT. Records of any adverse reactions were collected. Generalized estimating equations were used for analysis of data on time points before and after FMT. Results: A total of 328 patients met the inclusion criteria for this study. Their mean age was 6.1±3.4 years old. The cohort included 271 boys and 57 girls. The percentage of patients remaining in the study for post-treatment follow-up at the 1st, 3rd, 12th, 24th, 36th, 48th and 60th month were as follows: 303 (92.4%), 284 (86.7%), 213 (64.9%), 190 (57.9%), 143 (43.6%), 79 (24.1%), 46 (14.0%), 31 (9.5%). After FMT, the average ABC score was significantly improved in the first 36 months and remained improved at the 48th month. However, the average score was not significantly different from baseline by the 60th month (1st-36th month, P<0.001; 48th month, P=0.008; 60th month, P=0.108). The average CARS score improved significantly during the first 48 months and remained improved at the 60th month (1st-48th month, P<0.001; 60th month, P=0.010). The average BSFS score was also significantly improved in the first 36 months (with an accompanying stool morphology that resembled type 4). This improvement was maintained at the 48th month. However, the average score was similar to baseline at the 60th month (1st-36th month, P<0.001; 48th month, P=0.008; 60th month, P=0.109). The average GSRS score was significantly improved during the first 24 months, but not afterwards (1st-24th month, P<0.001; 36th month, P=0.209; 48th month, P=0.996; 60th month, P=0.668). The adverse events recorded during treatment included abdominal distension in 21 cases (6.4%), nausea in 14 cases (4.3%), vomiting in 9 cases (2.7%), abdominal pain in 15 cases (4.6%), diarrhea in 18 cases (5.5%), fever in 13 cases (4.0%), and excitement in 24 cases (7.3%). All adverse reactions were mild to moderate and improved immediately after suspension of FMT or on treatment of symptoms. No serious adverse reactions occurred. Conclusion: FMT has satisfactory long-term efficacy and safety for the treatment of ASD with gastrointestinal symptoms.
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- C Ye
- Department of Colorectal Disease Specialty, the Tenth People's Hospital, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China
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- Department of Colorectal Disease Specialty, the Tenth People's Hospital, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China
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- Department of Colorectal Disease Specialty, the Tenth People's Hospital, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China
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- Department of Colorectal Disease Specialty, the Tenth People's Hospital, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China
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- Department of Colorectal Disease Specialty, the Tenth People's Hospital, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China
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- Department of Colorectal Disease Specialty, the Tenth People's Hospital, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China
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- Department of Colorectal Disease Specialty, the Tenth People's Hospital, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China
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- Department of Colorectal Disease Specialty, the Tenth People's Hospital, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China
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- Department of Colorectal Disease Specialty, the Tenth People's Hospital, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing 210002, China
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- Department of Colorectal Disease Specialty, the Tenth People's Hospital, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China
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Dong J, Jin S, Guo J, Yang R, Tian D, Xue H, Xiao L, Guo Q, Wang R, Xu M, Teng X, Wu Y. Pharmacological inhibition of eIF2alpha phosphorylation by integrated stress response inhibitor (ISRIB) ameliorates vascular calcification in rats. Physiol Res 2022; 71:379-388. [PMID: 35616039 DOI: 10.33549/physiolres.934797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Vascular calcification (VC) is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality with the absence of current treatment. This study aimed to investigate whether eIF2alpha phosphorylation inhibition could ameliorate VC. VC in rats was induced by administration of vitamin D3 (3×10(5) IU/kg, intramuscularly) plus nicotine (25 mg/kg, intragastrically). ISRIB (0.25 mg/kg·week), an inhibitor of eIF2alpha phosphorylation, ameliorated the elevation of calcium deposition and ALP activity in calcified rat aortas, accompanied by amelioration of increased SBP, PP, and PWV. The decreased protein levels of calponin and SM22alpha, and the increased levels of RUNX2 and BMP2 in calcified aorta were all rescued by ISRIB, while the increased levels of the GRP78, GRP94, and C/EBP homologous proteins in rats with VC were also attenuated. Moreover, ISRIB could prevent the elevation of eIF2alpha phosphorylation and ATF4, and partially inhibit PERK phosphorylation in the calcified aorta. These results suggested that an eIF2alpha phosphorylation inhibitor could ameliorate VC pathogenesis by blocking eIF2alpha/ATF4 signaling, which may provide a new target for VC prevention and treatment.
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- J Dong
- Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China. and
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Tian D, Xu L, Wang J, Zheng X, Tang H, Li C, Yang W, Wu Y, Hou S, Liu P, Yan H, Huang H. Metformin Attenuates Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in a Rat Lung Transplantation Model. J Heart Lung Transplant 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2022.01.190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Li Q, Tian D, Cen J, Duan L, Xia W. Novel AVPR2 mutations and clinical characteristics in 28 Chinese families with congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. J Endocrinol Invest 2021; 44:2777-2783. [PMID: 34101133 DOI: 10.1007/s40618-021-01607-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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AIMS To investigate genotype and phenotype of congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus caused by AVPR2 mutations, which is rare and limitedly studied in Chinese population. METHODS 88 subjects from 28 families with NDI in a department (Beijing, PUMCH) were screened for AVPR2 mutations. Medical records were retrospectively reviewed and characterized. Genotype and phenotype analysis was performed. RESULTS 23 AVPR2 mutations were identified, including six novel mutations (p.Y117D, p.W208R, p.L313R, p.S127del, p.V162Sfs*30 and p.G251Pfs*96). The onset-age ranged from 1 week to 3 years. Common presentations were polydipsia and polyuria (100%) and intermittent fever (57%). 21% and 14% of patients had short stature and mental impairment. Urine SG and osmolality were decreased, while serum osmolality and sodium were high. Urological ultrasonography results showed hydronephrosis of the kidney (52%), dilation of the ureter (48%), and thickened bladder wall or increased residual urine (32%), led to intermittent urethral catheterization (7%), cystostomy (11%) and binary nephrostomy (4%). Urological defects were developed in older patients. Genotype and phenotype analysis revealed patients with non-missense mutations had higher levels of serum sodium than missense mutations. CONCLUSION In the first and largest case series of NDI caused by AVPR2 mutations in Chinese population, we established genetic profile and characterized clinical data, reporting six novel mutations. Further, we found genotype was associated with phenotype. This knowledge broadens genotype and phenotype spectrum of rare congenital NDI caused by AVPR2 mutations, and provides basis for studying molecular biology of AVPR2.
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- Q Li
- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, NHC, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shuaifuyuan No. 1, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 79 Qingchun Road, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, NHC, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shuaifuyuan No. 1, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100730, China.
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, NHC, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shuaifuyuan No. 1, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100730, China.
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Tian D, Luo L, Wang T, Qiao J. MiR-296-3p inhibits cell proliferation by the SOX4-Wnt/β-catenin pathway in triple-negative breast cancer. J Biosci 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s12038-021-00219-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Jin M, Chen X, Gao M, Sun R, Tian D, Xiong Q, Wei J, Kalkhajeh YK, Gao H. Manganese promoted wheat straw decomposition by regulating microbial communities and enzyme activities. J Appl Microbiol 2021; 132:1079-1090. [PMID: 34424586 DOI: 10.1111/jam.15266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Revised: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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AIMS This study investigated the dose-effect of manganese (Mn) addition on wheat straw (WS) decomposition, and explored the potential mechanisms of Mn involved in the acceleration of WS decomposition in regards to the soil microbial communities and enzyme activities. METHODS AND RESULTS A 180-day incubation experiment was performed to examine the decomposition of WS under four Mn levels, that is, 0, 0.25, 1 and 2 mg g-1 . The effects of microbial communities and enzyme activities were evaluated using control (0 mg g-1 ) and Mn (0.25 mg g-1 ) treatments. Our results revealed that Mn (0.25 mg g-1 ) addition significantly increased WS decomposition, and enhanced the release of carbon and nitrogen. Optimal Mn addition (0.25 mg g-1 ) also caused significant increases in the activity of neutral xylanase (NEX), laccase (Lac), manganese peroxidase (MnP) and lignin peroxidase (LiP) within the incubation period. Mn (0.25 mg g-1 ) addition also enriched some operational taxonomic units (OTUs) that, in turn, had the potential ability to decompose crop straw, such as secreting lignocellulolytic enzymes. CONCLUSIONS Mn (0.25 mg g-1 ) could promote WS decomposition through enrichment of the microbial species involved in biomass decomposition, which enhanced the lignocellulose-degrading enzyme activity. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY This study provides evidence for Mn to promote WS biodegradation after Mn application, opening new windows to improve the utilization efficiency of crop residues.
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- M Jin
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation and Pollution Prevention, School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.,Research Centre of Phosphorous Highly Efficient Utilization and Water Environment Protection, Yangtze River Economic Zone, P.R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation and Pollution Prevention, School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.,Research Centre of Phosphorous Highly Efficient Utilization and Water Environment Protection, Yangtze River Economic Zone, P.R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation and Pollution Prevention, School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.,Research Centre of Phosphorous Highly Efficient Utilization and Water Environment Protection, Yangtze River Economic Zone, P.R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation and Pollution Prevention, School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.,Research Centre of Phosphorous Highly Efficient Utilization and Water Environment Protection, Yangtze River Economic Zone, P.R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation and Pollution Prevention, School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.,Research Centre of Phosphorous Highly Efficient Utilization and Water Environment Protection, Yangtze River Economic Zone, P.R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation and Pollution Prevention, School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.,Research Centre of Phosphorous Highly Efficient Utilization and Water Environment Protection, Yangtze River Economic Zone, P.R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation and Pollution Prevention, School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.,Research Centre of Phosphorous Highly Efficient Utilization and Water Environment Protection, Yangtze River Economic Zone, P.R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation and Pollution Prevention, School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.,Research Centre of Phosphorous Highly Efficient Utilization and Water Environment Protection, Yangtze River Economic Zone, P.R. China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation and Pollution Prevention, School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.,Research Centre of Phosphorous Highly Efficient Utilization and Water Environment Protection, Yangtze River Economic Zone, P.R. China
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Tian D, Festa M, Cong D, Zhao Z, Jia PW, Betts A. New evidence for supplementary crop production, foddering and fuel use by Bronze Age transhumant pastoralists in the Tianshan Mountains. Sci Rep 2021; 11:13718. [PMID: 34215794 PMCID: PMC8253771 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93090-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The nature of economies and the movement of agricultural crops across Eurasia in the Bronze Age have been the subject of significant research interest in recent years. This study presents and discusses new results of flotation, radiocarbon and carbon stable isotope analyses from the seed assemblage at the Adunqiaolu site (northwestern Xinjiang), in combination with archaeological evidence. Archaeobotanical evidence, including carbonized foxtail millet, broomcorn millet, and naked barley, documents the diversity of local cereal consumption during the mid-second millennium BC. Our results suggest that crops were not grown locally, however, but in the lower Boertala Valley, supporting the argument that Adunqiaolu was a winter camp. These new sets of data constitute an important contribution to the discussion on cereal dispersal across the Tianshan Mountains in the Bronze Age.
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- Duo Tian
- Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China.
- School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 100010, People's Republic of China
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- School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
- Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 100010, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Archaeology and China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
- School of History and Culture, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475001, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Archaeology and China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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Tian D, Shiiya H, Takahashi M, Terasaki Y, Urushiyama H, Shinozaki-Ushiku A, Sato M, Nakajima J. Application of Radiomics Based on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography for Predicting of Allograft Rejection in a Rat Lung Transplantation Model. J Heart Lung Transplant 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2021.01.458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Tian D, Luo L, Wang T, Qiao J. MiR-296-3p inhibits cell proliferation by the SOX4-Wnt/βcatenin pathway in triple-negative breast cancer. J Biosci 2021; 46:98. [PMID: 34785625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been demonstrated to play critical roles in the tumorigenesis of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). In this work, we addressed the specific role of miR-296-3p in TNBC. The levels of miR-296-3p and SOX4 were determined using RT-qPCR. The function of miR-296-3p overexpression on TNBC cell proliferation, migration, invasion, cancer stem cell (CSC)-like properties, and Wnt pathway activation was investigated by MTT, EdU, wound healing, Transwell, sphere formation assays and western blot. Mechanistic investigations, including luciferase reporter, RNA pull-down, and RIP assays, were con-ducted to explore the regulatory mechanisms of miR-296-3p. We found that miR-296-3p was downregulated in TNBC tissues and cells. Overexpression of miR-296-3p suppressed TNBC cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and CSC-like properties. Furthermore, miR-296-3p could bind to SOX4 and negatively modulate SOX4 expression. In addition, miR-296-3p was verified to inhibit Wnt/β-catenin pathway by downregulating SOX4. Moreover, overexpression of SOX4 or activation of Wnt pathway rescued the miR-296-3p upregulation-mediated suppressive effect on cellular processes in TNBC. In conclusion, miR-296-3p inhibits Wnt/β-catenin pathway by targeting SOX4 and exerts anti-tumor effects in TNBC.
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- Duo Tian
- Department of General Surgery, Hefei BOE Hospital, Hefei 230013, Anhui, China
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Tian D, Chakos A, Hirst L, Chung S, Yan T. M15 Surgery for Type A Intramural Haematoma: A Systematic Review of Clinical Outcomes. Heart Lung Circ 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2021.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Niu YY, Jian XD, Tian D. [Two cases of acute inhalation methanol poisoning]. Zhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi 2020; 38:546-547. [PMID: 32746583 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn121094-20190927-00412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Fan W, Zhang H, Tian D, Li T, Bai Y, He M, Liu Y, Gong Y, Xu X. 1012P Analysis of tumor location related oncologic characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma. Ann Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2020.08.1128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Sun Y, Zhang LN, Feng Q, Li L, Ai ML, Cao L, Tian D, Yang Q. [A preliminary study on the evaluation of diaphragm function by ultrasound in patients with invasive mechanical ventilation]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi 2020; 59:695-699. [PMID: 32838500 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112138-20200113-00026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objectives: To study the feasibility of using ultrasound to evaluate diaphragm function in patients with invasive mechanical ventilation. Methods: From March to December 2017, 40 adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome who were admitted to the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University for more than 48 hours were included. Diaphragmatic excursion and thickness of bilateral anterior, middle and posterior parts were measured by ultrasound for 5 consecutive days. Results: (1) Compared with the diaphragmatic excursion of the right [anterior: (11.05±3.04) mm; middle: (12.08±2.71) mm; posterior: (11.51±3.33) mm] and left [anterior: (13.63±7.52) mm; middle: (15.44±7.52) mm; posterior: (14.76±6.93) mm] sides on day 1, the diaphragmatic excursion of the right [anterior: (8.90±3.65) mm; middle: (10.02±4.24) mm; posterior: (10.25±4.38) mm] and left [anterior: (9.82±1.96) mm; middle: (11.60±1.13) mm; posterior: (11.52±1.98) mm] sides decreased significantly on day 3 (P<0.05). Bilateral anterior, middle and posterior diaphragmatic excursion recovered on day 5, and was higher than the baseline levels on day 1, with the left middle and posterior diaphragmatic excursion changing most significantly. (2) Compared with day 1, 2, 3, the thickening fraction of bilateral anterior, middle and posterior diaphragm were significantly decreased on day 4, with the left middle part [day 1: (33.87±14.34)%; day 2: (37.26±13.91)%; day 3: (30.56±14.27)%; day 4: (15.53±5.68)%] and the left posterior part [day 1: (35.50±15.69)%; day 2: (39.84±15.32)%; day 3: (29.06±14.96)%; day 4: (13.30±5.79)%] changing most significantly (P<0.05). The thickening fractions of left anterior, middle and posterior diaphragm recovered on day 5 compared with that on day 4, but still lower than those on day 1 (P<0.05). Conclusions: It is feasible to evaluate the diaphragm function in patients with invasive mechanical ventilation by ultrasound, which can provide guidance for preventing diaphragmatic atrophy and withdrawing from mechanical ventilation.
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- Department of Critical Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Changsha 410008, China
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- Department of Critical Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Changsha 410008, China
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- Department of Critical Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Changsha 410008, China
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- Department of Critical Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Changsha 410008, China
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- Department of Critical Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Changsha 410008, China
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- Department of Critical Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Changsha 410008, China
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- Department of Critical Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Changsha 410008, China
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- Department of Critical Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Changsha 410008, China
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- Department of Critical Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Changsha 410008, China
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Su YJ, Dong Q, Han XT, Wang JJ, Tian D, Jiang RM. [Clinical features of 9 cases of Brucella endocarditis]. Zhonghua Xin Xue Guan Bing Za Zhi 2020; 48:142-147. [PMID: 32135615 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0253-3758.2020.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objective: To explore the clinical characteristics of patients with Brucella endocarditis. Methods: The clinical data of 9 patients with Brucella endocarditis admitted to Beijing Ditan Hospital from October 2008 to August 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. Through the electronic medical record system of the hospital. Through assessing the electronic medical record system of the hospital, demographic data, main symptoms, vital signs, blood culture, Rose Bengal Plate Agglutination Test, echocardiography, electrocardiogram, chest imaging and other clinical data of included patients were inquired and recorded. Patients were followed up by telephone for medication, operation and outcome. Results: The 9 patients were all Han nationality, aged from 25 to 66 years, 7 out of 9 patients were male, and they came from Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Beijing. Of the 9 patients, 5 were farmers, 2 were self-employed, 1 was a technician, and 1 was unemployed. Of the 9 cases, 8 had a history of close contact with cattle and sheep, and 5 had a history of eating beef and mutton. Rose-Bengal Plate Agglutination Test and blood culture were positive in all 9 patients. Aortic valve was involved in 7 out of 9 patients, mitral and tricuspid valve was involved in 1 patient, respectively, and aortic dissection occurred in 1 patient. Condition of 1 patient rapidly deteriorated after admission and finally died during hospitalization despite antibiotic therapy, the remaining patients received long-term antibiotic treatment. A total of 7 patients who underwent valve replacement were followed up. One patient died of cerebral hemorrhage 6 months after operation, and the remaining 6 patients recovered well after valve replacement. Heart failure occurred in all 9 patients, and pericardial effusion occurred in 8 patients. Electrocardiogram showed low voltage of the QRS complex in the limb in 3 cases and poor R-wave progression in V(1)-V(3) lead in 2 cases, and sinus tachycardia in 2 cases. One patient developed non-specific ST-T abnormalities. All patients had fever, 7 patients complained of weakness, and 6 patients complained of palpitations. Among the 9 patients, 7 cases had anemia, 7 patients had pneumonia, 6 had bilateral pleural effusion, 4 had thrombocytopenia. Creatinine was above normal in 4 patients, urine protein was positive in 3 patients, Delta Bilirubin was higher in 3 cases. Conclusions: Patients with Brucella endocarditis often suffer from heart failure and have severe complications. Adequate antibiotic therapy in combination with valve replacement is effective for the treatment of patients with Brucella endocarditis.
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- Department of Cardiology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100015, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100015, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100015, China
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- Infectious Diseases Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Research Centre, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Synergetic and Innovative Centre for Prevention and Treatment of Key Infectious Diseases, Capital Medical University National Clinical Key Department of Infectious Diseases, Beijing 100015, China
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- Infectious Diseases Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Research Centre, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Synergetic and Innovative Centre for Prevention and Treatment of Key Infectious Diseases, Capital Medical University National Clinical Key Department of Infectious Diseases, Beijing 100015, China
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- Infectious Diseases Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Research Centre, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Synergetic and Innovative Centre for Prevention and Treatment of Key Infectious Diseases, Capital Medical University National Clinical Key Department of Infectious Diseases, Beijing 100015, China
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Zhou QW, Gao FY, Tian D, Liu HR, Wang FX. [Inhibition of the TGF-β/Smad3 signaling pathway by SB431542: A study of the intervention effect of SB431542 on silicotic fibrosis in rats]. Zhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi 2020; 37:801-805. [PMID: 31826541 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1001-9391.2019.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objective: To investigate the intervention effect of SB431542, which inhibits the TGF-β/Smad3 signaling pathway, on silicotic fibrosis in rats. Methods: A total of 40 specific pathogen-free Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into normal saline control group, model group, SB431542 inhibitor group, and SB431542 inhibitor control group using a random number table, with 10 rats in each group. All rats except those in the normal saline control group were given non-exposed single intratracheal instillation of free silicon dioxide dust suspension 1 mL (50 mg/mL) ; the rats in the SB431542 inhibitor group were given intraperitoneal injection of SB431542 (5 mg/kg) on days 7 and 30 after dust exposure, those in the SB431542 inhibitor control group were given intraperitoneal injection of SB431542 cosolvent (5 mg/kg) on days 7 and 30 after dust exposure, and those in the normal saline control group were given intratracheal instillation of an equal volume of normal saline (5 mg/kg). On day 60 after dust exposure, the paraffin-embedded section of the right upper lobe of lung was collected for HE staining; the left upper lobe of lung was collected to measure the mRNA levels of fibronectin (FN) , collagen type I (COL-I) , and collagen type III (COL-III) by quantitative real-time PCR; the right inferior lobe of lung was collected to measure the protein levels of FN, COL-I, COL-III, phosphorylated Smad3 (p-Smad3) , and Smad3. Results: Compared with the normal saline control group, the model group had nodules with various sizes in lung tissue, with rupture of some alveolar septa, emphysema changes, and pulmonary interstitial fibrosis, as well as significant increases in the mRNA expression of FN, COL-I, and COL-III and the protein expression of FN, COL-I, COL-III, p-Smad3, and Smad3 in lung tissue (P<0.05) . Compared with the SB431542 inhibitor control group, the SB431542 inhibitor group had a relatively complete structure of lung tissue without marked nodules and with a small amount of exudate in alveolar space and the lumen of bronchioles, as well as significant reductions in the mRNA expression of FN, COL-I, and COL-III and the protein expression of FN, COL-I, COL-III, p-Smad3, and Smad3 in lung tissue (P<0.05) . There were no significant differences in the mRNA expression of FN, COL-I, and COL-III and the protein expression of FN, COL-I, COL-III, p-Smad3, and Smad3 between the model group and the SB431542 inhibitor control group (P>0.05) . Conclusion: SB431542 exerts an intervention effect on silicotic fibrosis by blocking the TGF-β/Smad3 signaling pathway and reducing the expression of the downstream fibrosis factors FN, COL-I, and COL-III.
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- Q W Zhou
- School of Public Health and Management, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan 750004, China
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Tian D, Zhang X, Ben X, Qiao G. P2.01-53 Surgical Resection of Primary Tumor Improve the Prognosis of Lung Cancer Patients with Bone Metastasis. J Thorac Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2019.08.1396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Du X, Tian D, Liu L, Xiao J, Zhou H, Liu W, Yuan S, Zhang J. P2.12-15 The Role of Surgery in Patients with Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Period Propensity Score Matching Analysis of the SEER Database, 2010-2015. J Thorac Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2019.08.1760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Wang XJ, Fu Q, Zhang ZB, Lu ZQ, Tian D, Nan J, Wang JJ, Li YH. [Delay on care-seeking and related influencing factors among tuberculosis patients in Wuhan, 2008-2017]. Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 2019; 40:643-647. [PMID: 31238612 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2019.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objective: To analyze the epidemiological characteristics, trend and related factors of tuberculosis patients that delayed for care, in Wuhan from 2008 to 2017. Methods: Data regarding tuberculosis (TB) patients was collected from the tuberculosis management information system (TMIS), a part of the China information system for disease control and prevention from 2008 to 2017. A total of 64 208 tuberculosis patients, aged 0 to 95 years were included for the analysis. Unconditional logistic regression method was used to estimate those factors that associated with this study. Results: Days of delay among TB patients appeared as M=10 (P(25)-P(75): 3-28) day, in Wuhan, 2008-2017. The prevalence of the delay was 52.5% (33 703/64 208), presenting a downward trend from 2008 to 2017 (trend χ(2)=10.64, P<0.001), but the proportions of women and ≥65 year-olds were gradually increasing. Results from the multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that factors as: patients living far away from the city vs. near the city (OR=1.29, 95%CI: 1.25-1.35), and age above 45 years vs. younger than 25 years (the age 45-64 years group vs. aged less than 25 years group, OR=1.22, 95%CI: 1.15-1.29; the age 65 or above group vs. aged less than 25 years group, the OR=1.30, 95%CI: 1.22-1.39) were under higher risk on the delay of seeking care. Occupation, way of case-finding and classification of tuberculosis patients also appeared as influencing factors on this issue. Conclusions: Prevalence on the delay of care was 52.5% among tuberculosis patients in Wuhan, 2008-2017, but with an annual decrease. Attention should be paid to female, wrinkly or elderly tuberculosis patients regarding the delay of care on TB, in Wuhan.
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- Tuberculosis Control and Management Office, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan 430030, China
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- School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China
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- Tuberculosis Control and Management Office, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan 430030, China
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- Tuberculosis Control and Management Office, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan 430030, China
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- Tuberculosis Control and Management Office, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan 430030, China
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- Tuberculosis Control and Management Office, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan 430030, China
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- Tuberculosis Control and Management Office, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan 430030, China
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- Tuberculosis Control and Management Office, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan 430030, China
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Li Y, Storozum M, Tian D, Frachetti M, Su K, Wang X. Farming strategies of 1st millennium CE agro-pastoralists on the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains: A geoarchaeological and macrobotanical investigation of the Mohuchahangoukou (MGK) site, Xinjiang, China. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0217171. [PMID: 31167227 PMCID: PMC6551202 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2019] [Accepted: 05/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Archaeological evidence emerging over the past decade clearly illustrates that agro-pastoralists living along the foothills of major mountain chains in Central Asia (the so-called “Inner Asian Mountain Corridor” or IAMC) facilitated the spread of domesticated grains through their direct involvement in farming. While the environmental conditions across the northwestern slopes of the IAMC provided adequate resources for incipient farming and herding as early as the mid-3rd mill. BCE, the development of local agricultural strategies on the extremely arid and eroded foothills on the southeastern, leeward side of the mountains remain comparatively less studied. Our study tackles this problem by combining geoarchaeological analysis with conventional macrobotanical identification in the investigation of a 1st-mill. CE agro-pastoralist farming site, Mohuchahangoukou (MGK), located on the arid foothills of the Tianshan range. Our results illustrate how ancient agro-pastoralists at MGK innovated irrigation systems both to combat water shortage and, importantly, to trap sediments carried by flood-water for crop cultivation. By synthesizing currently available data, we estimate that they managed to trap about 40 cm of fine-grained sediment within a span of 200 years or even less. These stone-built field systems helped water a diverse stand of crops and create deeper soils in an otherwise deflated landscape with thin desert soils. Since we detected high levels of salt concentration (>2 dSm-1) in the lower portions of all three test trenches we analyzed, we conclude that soil salinization might have affected the long-term sustainability of this form of irrigated field management. We also infer that, besides engineering efforts, the ancient agro-pastoralists at MGK had to resolve the scheduling conflicts between irrigated farming and animal herding through labor specialization.
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- Yuqi Li
- School of History, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Institute of Archaeological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.,Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- SAIE Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America.,Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America
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- Hejing County Office for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, Hejing, Xinjiang, China
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Zhu T, Tian D, Zhang L, Xu X, Xia K, Hu Z, Xiong Z, Tan J. Novel mutations in mevalonate kinase cause disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis. Br J Dermatol 2019; 181:304-313. [PMID: 30597534 DOI: 10.1111/bjd.17596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- T. Zhu
- Center for Medical Genetics School of Life Sciences Central South University Changsha Hunan China
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- Department of Stomatology Xiangya Hospital Central South University Changsha Hunan China
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- Department of Ophthalmology the Second Xiangya Hospital Central South University Changsha Hunan China
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- The Reproductive Medicine Hospital of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University Lanzhou Gansu China
- The Key Laboratory for Reproductive Medicine and Embryo Lanzhou Gansu China
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- Center for Medical Genetics School of Life Sciences Central South University Changsha Hunan China
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- Center for Medical Genetics School of Life Sciences Central South University Changsha Hunan China
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- The Third Xiangya Hospital Central South University Changsha Hunan China
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- Center for Medical Genetics School of Life Sciences Central South University Changsha Hunan China
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Tian D, Zhang L, Wang Y, Chen L, Zhang KP, Zhou Y, Wen HY, Fu MY. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with irinotecan and nedaplatin in a single cycle followed by esophagectomy on cT4 resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a prospective nonrandomized trial for short-term outcomes. Dis Esophagus 2019; 32:5084843. [PMID: 30247659 DOI: 10.1093/dote/doy080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) significantly extends survival in advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), but the short-term outcomes for cT4 ESCC remain controversial. Many NAC regimens have been previously reported, although no study has reported a regimen of irinotecan and nedaplatin for cT4 potential resectable ESCC. We evaluated the short-term outcomes of NAC with irinotecan and nedaplatin in a single cycle followed by esophagectomy on cT4 resectable ESCC. A total of 51 patients with cT4 potentially resectable ESCC were eligible for this study. Twenty of these patients underwent NAC, and the other 31 patients underwent surgery alone. The toxicities and response of NAC were evaluated. The clinicopathologic characteristics, responses, toxicities, surgical outcomes, postoperative complications, and survival time between the two groups were analyzed. No significant differences were found in clinicopathologic characteristics between the groups (P > 0.05). The response rate of NAC was 75% (15/20). The differences in the long-axis diameter of the tumor and cT stage between pre- and post-NAC were significant (P < 0.05). Twenty-four toxic events occurred in 11 patients of the NAC group, and 20/24 of these were mild. The R0 resection rates in the NAC group and the surgery alone group were 85% and 64.5%, with no statistically significant difference (P > 0.05). Differences in the pathological T stage and pathological tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stage were significant (P < 0.05). The overall survival (OS) time and mortality in the NAC group versus the surgery alone group were 31.57 ± 3.06 months versus 15.24 ± 1.46 months and 25% versus 61.3%, respectively. The differences in OS and mortality were significant (P < 0.05). The NAC group and R0 resection were significant and independent predictors of positive prognosis. NAC with irinotecan and nedaplatin in a single cycle followed by esophagectomy on cT4 resectable ESCC as a new NAC is safe and effective.
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College
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- Translational Medicine Research Center, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College
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Chakos A, Jbara D, Singh K, Yan T, Tian D. Network Meta-Analysis of Antiplatelet Therapy Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: None Versus One Versus Two Antiplatelet Agents. Heart Lung Circ 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2019.02.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Liu X, Lister DL, Zhao Z, Petrie CA, Zeng X, Jones PJ, Staff RA, Pokharia AK, Bates J, Singh RN, Weber SA, Matuzeviciute GM, Dong G, Li H, Lü H, Jiang H, Wang J, Ma J, Tian D, Jin G, Zhou L, Wu X, Jones MK. Correction: Journey to the east: Diverse routes and variable flowering times for wheat and barley en route to prehistoric China. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0209518. [PMID: 30543704 PMCID: PMC6292627 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187405.].
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Ji S, Tian Y, Xin D, Tian D, Hao W. Enhanced TrkA Neurotrophin Receptor Expression Ameliorated Irradiation-Induced Memory Decline. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.07.632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Wang X, Zhang Y, Wei G, Li Z, Tian D, Huang W. Mechanism of Nucleoside Triphosphate Diphosphohydrolase-1-Associated Imbalance in Adenosine Diphosphate Degradation, B-Cell Activation, and Related Injury During Acute Antibody-Mediated Rejection. Transplant Proc 2018; 50:1292-1297. [PMID: 29880349 DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2018.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2017] [Accepted: 03/01/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase-1 (NTPDase1) during acute antibody-mediated rejection (AMR). METHODS NTPDase1 overexpression, NTPDase1 knockout, and wild-type nude mice skin graft models were used to induce acute AMR. NTPDase1 expression in B cells, NTPDase1 messenger RNA expression in skin grafts, extracellular adenosine diphosphate (ADP) concentration, B-cell volume and surface antigens expression, average platelet transport rate, and ultrastructure and apoptosis of skin graft cells were investigated. RESULTS During acute AMR in nude mice, higher NTPDase1 expression caused lower extracellular ADP concentration, smaller increase in B-cell volume, and major histocompatibility complex II surface antigen expression, suggesting a negative correlation between them; higher NTPDase1 expression also caused slower average platelet transport rate and less severe skin graft injury, suggesting a negative correlation between them. Pretreatment with high-dose exogenous NTPDase1 inhibited platelet activation and protected skin grafts, but it resulted in prolonged bleeding time (by 51.4%) and prolonged coagulation time (by 44.1%). CONCLUSION An NTPDase1-associated imbalance in extracellular ADP degradation may contribute to B-cell activation, platelet activation, and more severe skin graft injury in nude mice. Pretreatment with high-dose exogenous NTPDase1 effectively protected skin grafts in nude mice at 1 week, but it increased the risk of bleeding.
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Neurology Research Division, China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Disease, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Neurology Research Division, China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Disease, Beijing, China.
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Neurology Research Division, China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Disease, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Neurology Research Division, China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Disease, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Neurology Research Division, China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Disease, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Neurology Research Division, China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Disease, Beijing, China
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Niu C, Liu N, Liu J, Zhang M, Ying L, Wang L, Tian D, Dai J, Luo Z, Liu E, Zou L, Fu Z. Vitamin A maintains the airway epithelium in a murine model of asthma by suppressing glucocorticoid-induced leucine zipper. Clin Exp Allergy 2017; 46:848-60. [PMID: 26399569 DOI: 10.1111/cea.12646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2015] [Revised: 08/05/2015] [Accepted: 08/12/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND The effects of glucocorticoids (GCs) on the repair of the airway epithelium in asthma are controversial, and we previously reported that the GC dexamethasone (Dex) inhibits the repair of human airway epithelial cells and that this process is mediated by glucocorticoid-induced leucine zipper (GILZ) through MAPK-ERK signaling in vitro. Vitamin A (VA) is involved in the regulation of the MAPK-ERK pathway but has not been widely supplied during asthma treatment. It is unclear whether VA attenuates the negative regulation of GILZ on the MAPK-ERK pathway and maintains airway epithelium integrity during asthma treatment. METHODS Female BALB/c mice were sensitized and challenged with ovalbumin (OVA) and subsequently treated with Dex, VA or intranasal inhalation of adenovirus sh-GILZ vectors. Indexes of airway epithelium integrity, including pathological alterations, pulmonary EGFR expression and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), were then measured. The expression of GILZ and key components of activated MAPK-ERK signals (p-Raf-1, p-MEK, and p-Erk1/2) were also detected. RESULTS Dex failed to relieve OVA-induced asthma airway epithelium injury, as assessed through H&E staining, EGFR expression and AHR. Moreover, in the OVA-challenged mice treated with Dex, GLIZ expression was increased, whereas the ratios of p-Raf-1/Raf-1, p-MEK/MEK and p-Erk1/2/Erk1/2 were significantly decreased. Further study indicated that GILZ expression was decreased and that the ratios of p-Raf-1/Raf-1, p-MEK/MEK and p-Erk1/2/Erk1/2 were up-regulated in the GILZ-silenced OVA-challenged mice and VA-fed OVA-challenged mice, independent of Dex treatment. The airway epithelium integrity of the OVA-challenged mice was maintained by treatment with both VA and Dex. CONCLUSIONS Vitamin A maintained the Dex-treated asthma airway epithelium via the down-regulation of GILZ expression and the activation MAPK-ERK signaling, and these effects might contribute to improving the effects of GC therapeutics on asthma.
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- C Niu
- Key Laboratory of Pediatrics in Chongqing, Chongqing International Science and Technology Cooperation Center for Child Development and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing, China.,Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pediatrics in Chongqing, Chongqing International Science and Technology Cooperation Center for Child Development and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing, China.,Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pediatrics in Chongqing, Chongqing International Science and Technology Cooperation Center for Child Development and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, Chongqing Stem Cell Therapy Technology Research Center, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Estes LD, Searchinger T, Spiegel M, Tian D, Sichinga S, Mwale M, Kehoe L, Kuemmerle T, Berven A, Chaney N, Sheffield J, Wood EF, Caylor KK. Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017; 371:rstb.2015.0316. [PMID: 27502381 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Rapidly rising populations and likely increases in incomes in sub-Saharan Africa make tens of millions of hectares of cropland expansion nearly inevitable, even with large increases in crop yields. Much of that expansion is likely to occur in higher rainfall savannas, with substantial costs to biodiversity and carbon storage. Zambia presents an acute example of this challenge, with an expected tripling of population by 2050, good potential to expand maize and soya bean production, and large areas of relatively undisturbed miombo woodland and associated habitat types of high biodiversity value. Here, we present a new model designed to explore the potential for targeting agricultural expansion in ways that achieve quantitatively optimal trade-offs between competing economic and environmental objectives: total converted land area (the reciprocal of potential yield); carbon loss, biodiversity loss and transportation costs. To allow different interests to find potential compromises, users can apply varying weights to examine the effects of their subjective preferences on the spatial allocation of new cropland and its costs. We find that small compromises from the objective to convert the highest yielding areas permit large savings in transportation costs, and the carbon and biodiversity impacts resulting from savannah conversion. For example, transferring just 30% of weight from a yield-maximizing objective equally between carbon and biodiversity protection objectives would increase total cropland area by just 2.7%, but result in avoided costs of 27-47% for carbon, biodiversity and transportation. Compromise solutions tend to focus agricultural expansion along existing transportation corridors and in already disturbed areas. Used appropriately, this type of model could help countries find agricultural expansion alternatives and related infrastructure and land use policies that help achieve production targets while helping to conserve Africa's rapidly transforming savannahs.This article is part of the themed issue 'Tropical grassy biomes: linking ecology, human use and conservation'.
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- L D Estes
- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Zambia Agricultural Research Institute, Mt. Makhulu Research Station, Chilanga, Zambia
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- Zambia Agricultural Research Institute, Mt. Makhulu Research Station, Chilanga, Zambia
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- Geography Department, Humboldt University, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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- Geography Department, Humboldt University, 10099 Berlin, Germany Integrative Research Institute for Transformations in Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt University, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Liu X, Lister DL, Zhao Z, Petrie CA, Zeng X, Jones PJ, Staff RA, Pokharia AK, Bates J, Singh RN, Weber SA, Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G, Dong G, Li H, Lü H, Jiang H, Wang J, Ma J, Tian D, Jin G, Zhou L, Wu X, Jones MK. Journey to the east: Diverse routes and variable flowering times for wheat and barley en route to prehistoric China. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0187405. [PMID: 29095896 PMCID: PMC5667820 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2017] [Accepted: 10/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Today, farmers in many regions of eastern Asia sow their barley grains in the spring and harvest them in the autumn of the same year (spring barley). However, when it was first domesticated in southwest Asia, barley was grown between the autumn and subsequent spring (winter barley), to complete their life cycles before the summer drought. The question of when the eastern barley shifted from the original winter habit to flexible growing schedules is of significance in terms of understanding its spread. This article investigates when barley cultivation dispersed from southwest Asia to regions of eastern Asia and how the eastern spring barley evolved in this context. We report 70 new radiocarbon measurements obtained directly from barley grains recovered from archaeological sites in eastern Eurasia. Our results indicate that the eastern dispersals of wheat and barley were distinct in both space and time. We infer that barley had been cultivated in a range of markedly contrasting environments by the second millennium BC. In this context, we consider the distribution of known haplotypes of a flowering-time gene in barley, Ppd-H1, and infer that the distributions of those haplotypes may reflect the early dispersal of barley. These patterns of dispersal resonate with the second and first millennia BC textual records documenting sowing and harvesting times for barley in central/eastern China.
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- Xinyi Liu
- Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institutue of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), University of Glasgow, East Kibride, United Kingdom
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of AIHC and Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University, Varnasi, India
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- Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, United States of America
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- Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of History of Science and Archaeometry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
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- School of History and Culture, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Li XX, Jiao YN, Luo YN, Chen YX, Tian D, Lou F, Li HD, Li W, Chen JD, Yan YJ. [Determination of relative elements of hard metal in workplace air and urine by inductive coupled plama]. Zhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi 2016; 34:861-864. [PMID: 28043285 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1001-9391.2016.11.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Objective: To establish a rapid detection method regarding the air conditions of workplace and the workers' urine included Tungsten, Cobalt, Nickel, Titanium, Cadmium, Manganese, Lead and its compounds based on inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) . Methods: The experiment adopts ICP-MS to deter-mine those metals in workshop air and workers urine, evaluate the detection's limitation, the precision and accuracy of the method. Using the membrane filter and urine freeze - dried metal standard material to verify this method. Results: Each element of correlation coefficient was greater than 0.999. The recovery rate of air samples was 91.6%~104.6%, within-batch RSD precision was 1.41%~3.50%, between-run precision was 1.28%~4.31%, urine samples recovery rate was 93.0%~102.6%, within - batch RSD precision was 1.25%~3.56%, between - run precision was 1.58%~4.67%, According to the method every element was within the scope of the standard reference, it was also showed that the established method is accurate and reliable. Conclusion: ICP-MS is an effective and feasible method to detect the workshop air and the workers' urine which included Tungsten, Cobalt, Nickel, Titanium, Cadmium, Manganese, Lead and its compounds.
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- X X Li
- Shandong Academy of Occupational Health and Occupational Medicine, Jinan 250062, China
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Evenson D, Gerber PF, Xiao CT, Halbur PG, Wang C, Tian D, Ni YY, Meng XJ, Opriessnig T. A porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus candidate vaccine based on the synthetic attenuated virus engineering approach is attenuated and effective in protecting against homologous virus challenge. Vaccine 2016; 34:5546-5553. [PMID: 27742217 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.09.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2016] [Revised: 09/13/2016] [Accepted: 09/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Current porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) vaccines sometimes fail to provide adequate immunity to protect pigs from PRRSV-induced disease. This may be due to antigenic differences among PRRSV strains. Rapid production of attenuated farm-specific homologous vaccines is a feasible alternative to commercial vaccines. In this study, attenuation and efficacy of a codon-pair de-optimized candidate vaccine generated by synthetic attenuated virus engineering approach (SAVE5) were tested in a conventional growing pig model. Forty pigs were vaccinated intranasally or intramuscularly with SAVE5 at day 0 (D0). The remaining 28 pigs were sham-vaccinated with saline. At D42, 30 vaccinated and 19 sham-vaccinated pigs were challenged with the homologous PRRSV strain VR2385. The experiment was terminated at D54. The SAVE5 virus was effectively attenuated as evidenced by a low magnitude of SAVE5 viremia for 1-5 consecutive weeks in 35.9% (14/39) of the vaccinated pigs, lack of detectable nasal SAVE5 shedding and failure to transmit the vaccine virus from pig to pig. By D42, all vaccinated pigs with detectable SAVE5 viremia also had detectable anti-PRRSV IgG. Anti-IgG positive vaccinated pigs were protected from subsequent VR2385 challenge as evidenced by lack of VR2385 viremia and nasal shedding, significantly reduced macroscopic and microscopic lung lesions and significantly reduced amount of PRRSV antigen in lungs compared to the non-vaccinated VR2385-challenged positive control pigs. The nasal vaccination route appeared to be more effective in inducing protective immunity in a larger number of pigs compared to the intramuscular route. Vaccinated pigs without detectable SAVE5 viremia did not seroconvert and were fully susceptible to VR2385 challenge. Under the study conditions, the SAVE approach was successful in attenuating PRRSV strain VR2385 and protected against homologous virus challenge. Virus dosage likely needs to be adjusted to induce replication and protection in a higher percentage of vaccinated pigs.
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- Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- The Roslin Institute and The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK
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- Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA; The Roslin Institute and The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK.
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Gittleman H, Lim D, Kattan M, Chakravarti A, Gilbert M, Lassman A, Lo S, Machtay M, Sloan A, Sulman E, Tian D, Vogelbaum M, Wang T, Penas-Prado M, Youssef E, Blumenthal D, Zhang P, Mehta M, Barnholtz-Sloan J. An Independently Validated Nomogram for Individualized Estimation of Survival Among Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma: NRG Oncology/RTOG 0525 and 0825. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.06.231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Luo ZL, Fu MY, Tian D, Shi GD. [HER-2 expression and clinical significance in esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma (Siewert type Ⅱ)]. Zhonghua Zhong Liu Za Zhi 2016; 38:667-71. [PMID: 27647398 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0253-3766.2016.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER-2) expression in esophagogastirc junction adenocarcinoma(Siewert type Ⅱ)and its clinical significance. METHODS A total of 180 patients with esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma (Siewert type Ⅱ) were included in this study. The HER-2 expression was detected by immunohistochemistry (IHC), and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis was performed to assess the HER-2 gene amplification in the IHC-positive and IHC-weak positive cases. RESULTS HER-2 overexpression (3+ ), weak positive (2+ ) and negative (1+ /0) was 11.7%(21/180), 8.9%(16/180), and 79.4%(143/180), respectively. The FISH analysis showed HER-2 gene amplification in 95.2%(20/21) of HER-2(3+ ) cases and 18.8% (3/16) of HER-2(2+ ) cases. The concordance rate between IHC and FISH was 95.2%. Overexpression of HER-2(3+ ) was associated with the tumor differentiation (P<0.05), and irrelevant to age, sex, pT stage, pN stage, pM stage and pTNM stage (P>0.05). The median overall survival time (OS) was 13 months in HER-2(3+ ) patients, significantly shorter than the 21 months in HER-2(2+ ) and HER-2(+ /-) cases (P<0.01). CONCLUSIONS Approximately 11.7% of the patients with esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma (Siewert type Ⅱ) are HER-2-positive on IHC. HER-2 overexpression is associated with the tumor differentiation. IHC can be used as a screening test for the positive expression of HER-2 in the esophagogastirc junction adenocarcinoma (Siewert type Ⅱ). However, FISH detection can be used as a more reliable detection method.
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China
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Vanini R, Kabbara S, Elia E, Piancastelli A, Guglielminetti D, Tuveri M, Tuveri A, Nicolo E, Tomizawa K, Kuroyanagi H, Matoba S, Moriyama J, Toda S, Hanaoka Y, Fukui Y, Haruta S, Clara ES, Tang S, Tan WB, Wijerathne S, Hu J, Shabbir A, Lomanto D, Son G, Park S, Pietrantoni S, Pietrantoni C, Nishihara M, Takehara H, Nakagawa H, Kuniyoshi N, Aka H, Takushi Y, Miyahira T, Hanashiro N, Okushima N, Mayer F, Lechner M, Öfner D, Bittner R, Köhler G, Fortelny R, Köckerling F, Lim R, Berney C, Kato J, Iuamoto L, Meyer A, Floridi A, Bombelli E, Giuliani D, Galli I, Monti M, Longo A, Pisano G, Li J, Tian D. Topic: Inguinal Hernia - Tailored surgery. Hernia 2015; 19 Suppl 1:S287-92. [PMID: 26518825 DOI: 10.1007/bf03355373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- R Vanini
- Casa di Cura Privata Malatesta Novello, Cesena, Italy
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- Casa di Cura Privata Malatesta Novello, Cesena, Italy
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- Casa di Cura Privata Malatesta Novello, Cesena, Italy
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- U.O. Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale N.S. di Bonaria, San Gavino Monreale, Italy
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- U. O. Chirurgia Generale, CDC Sant'Elena, Quartu Sant Elena, Italy
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- Dept. of General Surgery, Jefferson Hospital, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Toranomon Hospital Surgery, Tokyo, Japan
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- Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, Department of Surgery, National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore, Singapore.,Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, Department of Surgery, National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore, Singapore.,Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, Department of Surgery, National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore, Singapore.,Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, Department of Surgery, National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore, Singapore
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- Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, Department of Surgery, National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore, Singapore.,Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, Department of Surgery, National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore, Singapore.,Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, Department of Surgery, National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore, Singapore.,Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Yangsan Busan National Univ. Hospital, Yangsan-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
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- Yangsan Busan National Univ. Hospital, Yangsan-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
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- General Surgery Department (Director: C. Pietrantoni), S.S. Filippo e Nicola Hospital, Avezzano, AQ, Italy
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- Heart-life Hospital, Nakagami-gun, Japan
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- Heart-life Hospital, Nakagami-gun, Japan
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- Heart-life Hospital, Nakagami-gun, Japan
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- Heart-life Hospital, Nakagami-gun, Japan
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- Heart-life Hospital, Nakagami-gun, Japan
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- Heart-life Hospital, Nakagami-gun, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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- Winghofer Medicum Hernia Center, Rottenburg, Germany
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- Department Surgery, Sisters of Charity Hospital, Linz, Austria
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- Department of General Surgery, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Surgery and Center of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Vivantes Hospital, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, University of N.S.W., Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital, Bankstown, Australia
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- Department of Surgery, University of N.S.W., Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital, Bankstown, Australia
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- University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Director of Abdominal Wall Repair Center, Samaritano Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- U.O. Chirugia Genarele, A.O. Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy
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- U.O. Chirugia Genarele, A.O. Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy
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- U.O. Chirugia Genarele, A.O. Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy
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- U.O. Chirugia Genarele, A.O. Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy
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- U.O. Chirugia Genarele, A.O. Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy
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- U.O. Chirugia Genarele, A.O. Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy
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- U.O. Chirugia Genarele, A.O. Ospedale Maggiore di Crema, Crema, Italy
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- The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Cao C, Tian D, Ang S, Virk S, Novis E, Wilcox C, Yan T. A meta-analysis of endoscopic versus conventional open radial artery harvesting for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Heart Lung Circ 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2015.06.686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Virk S, Tian D, Liou K, Pathan F, Novis E, Wilcox C, Cao C. Systematic review of percutaneous coronary intervention and transcatheter aortic valve implantation for concomitant aortic stenosis and coronary artery disease. Heart Lung Circ 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2015.06.452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Zheng L, Qian B, Tian D, Tang T, Wan S, Wang L, Zhu L, Geng X. FOXA1 positively regulates gene expression by changing gene methylation status in human breast cancer MCF-7 cells. Int J Clin Exp Pathol 2015; 8:96-106. [PMID: 25755696 PMCID: PMC4348911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2014] [Accepted: 12/23/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification with tumor suppressor gene silencing in cancer. The mechanisms underlying DNA methylation patterns are still poorly understood. This study aims to evaluate the potential value of FOXA1 for controlling gene CpG island methylation in breast cancer. METHODS FOXA1 was down-regulated by transfection with siRNA and up-regulated by transfection with plasmid in MCF-7 cell lines. The DNA methylation and mRNA levels were examined by qMSP and qRT-PCR. The cell proliferation and apoptosis was detected by MTT and Flow cytometry. RESULTS Suppression of FOXA1 enhanced the methylation status of DAPK, MGMT, RASSF1A, p53, and depressed mRNA levels of these tumor suppressor genes, whereas over-expression of FOXA1 showed the opposite effects. DNMT1, DNMT3A and DNMT3B mRNA were up-regulated by siRNA knock-down of FOXA1. At the same time, FOXA1 suppression promoted cell growth and inhibited apoptosis. CONCLUSIONS FOXA1 may be associated with methylation of the tumor suppressor genes promoter through changing DNMTs expression. FOXA1 could be a potential demethylation target for prevention and treatment of breast cancer.
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- Department of General Surgery, The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical UniversityAnhui, Hefei 230601, China
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- Department of General Surgery, The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical UniversityAnhui, Hefei 230601, China
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- Department of General Surgery, The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical UniversityAnhui, Hefei 230601, China
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- Department of General Surgery, The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical UniversityAnhui, Hefei 230601, China
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- Department of General Surgery, The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical UniversityAnhui, Hefei 230601, China
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- Department of General Surgery, The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical UniversityAnhui, Hefei 230601, China
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- Cental Laboratory, The First Hospital of Anhui Medical UniversityAnhui, Hefei 230022, China
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- Department of General Surgery, The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical UniversityAnhui, Hefei 230601, China
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Zhang A, Huang Y, Tian D, Lau EH, Wan Y, Liu X, Dong Y, Song Z, Zhang X, Zhang J, Bao M, Zhou M, Yuan S, Sun J, Zhu Z, Hu Y, Chen L, Leung CY, Wu JT, Zhang Z, Zhang X, Peiris JS, Xu J. Kinetics of serological responses in influenza A(H7N9)-infected patients correlate with clinical outcome in China, 2013. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 18:20657. [PMID: 24342519 DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2013.18.50.20657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The novel avian influenza A(H7N9) infection has recently emerged to cause severe respiratory illness in China. The objectives of this study were to define the kinetics of the antibody responses in patients with influenza A(H7N9) disease and to correlate these kinetics with clinical outcome. Serial serum samples were obtained at intervals of three to four days from 18 patients with virologically confirmed A(H7N9) disease in Shanghai. We determined the kinetics of the haemagglutination inhibition (HI) and A(H7H9) pseudotype neutralisation antibody (Nab) responses and correlated these with clinical outcomes. Most patients had robust serological responses by both HI and Nab tests. Taking into account censoring due to time of testing and death, the median time from onset of illness to Nab titre ≥1:40 was 14 days (95% confidence interval (CI): 11–18 days) in the fatal cases and 10.5 days (95% CI: 7–12) in the survivors (p=0.003). The two groups did not differ in initial Nab titres, but the rate of increase in Nab titres was significantly faster for survivors by approximately 10-fold per 15 days (p=0.007). Early and rapid induction of Nab was correlated significantly with better clinical outcome.
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- Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministry of Education/Health, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Zhang XX, Li H, Tian D, He X, Lu CH. Enhancement of thermal aging performance and oil resistance of acrylic rubber vulcanisates by adding devulcanised ground fluoroelastomer ultrafine powder as functional filler. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1179/1433075x11y.0000000035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials EngineeringPolymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials EngineeringPolymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials EngineeringPolymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials EngineeringPolymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials EngineeringPolymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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Zhou ZH, Zhang XX, Tian D, Xiong R, Lu CH. Solvent free synthesis of polyaniline with improved molecular weight through solid state mechanochemical milling at ambient temperature. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1179/1433075x12y.0000000028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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- Z. H. Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials EngineeringPolymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials EngineeringPolymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials EngineeringPolymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials EngineeringPolymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials EngineeringPolymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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BACKGROUND Angiocidin plays a key role in angiogenesis and tumor progression. High angiocidin expression is detected in some kind of solid tumors and tumor vascular endothelial cells. Several reports have shown the inhibition of angiogenesis and tumor growth caused by angiocidin. However, the role of angiocidin in liver cancers growth is still unclear. OBJECTIVES To examine angiocidin expression in SMMC-7221 and HepG2 cells and the role of angiocidin in liver cancer cell growth. METHODS RT-PCR and western blot are used in this study to detect angiocidin expression. SiRNA and MTT experiments are used in exploring the role of angiocidin in tumor cell growth. RESULTS Our study showed high angiocidin expression in two kinds of liver cancer cells. Angiocidin protein production in HepG2 cells were reduced significantly by siRNA. When HepG2 cells were transfected with siRNA-angiocidin, these cells showed very low proliferation activity compared with control cells. Our study suggests that reduction of angiocidin may contribute to decreased proliferation activity in liver cancer cells. CONCLUSION Angiocidin is highly expressed in liver cancer cells, and it may play a key role in tumor growth of liver cancers.
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- X G Guan
- Life Science Research Center, Beihua University, Jilin, Jilin Province, China
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Kikkawa T, Uchida K, Shiomi Y, Qiu Z, Hou D, Tian D, Nakayama H, Jin XF, Saitoh E. Longitudinal spin Seebeck effect free from the proximity Nernst effect. Phys Rev Lett 2013; 110:067207. [PMID: 23432302 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.067207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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This Letter provides evidence for intrinsic longitudinal spin Seebeck effects (LSSEs) that are free from the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) caused by an extrinsic proximity effect. We report the observation of LSSEs in Au/Y(3)Fe(5)O(12) (YIG) and Pt/Cu/YIG systems, showing that the LSSE appears even when the mechanism of the proximity ANE is clearly removed. In the conventional Pt/YIG structure, furthermore, we separate the LSSE from the ANE by comparing the voltages in different magnetization and temperature-gradient configurations; the ANE contamination was found to be negligibly small even in the Pt/YIG structure.
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- T Kikkawa
- Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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Tian D, Chu XH, Yu DH, Yue YZ, Zhao P, Sun X, Liu WL. Immobilization of Polymethyl Methacrylate Brushes on Hydroxyapatite under Molecular Weight Control. Ind Eng Chem Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1021/ie102026p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- D. Tian
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong Polytechnic University, Jinan 250353, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Processing and Testing Technology of Glass Functional Ceramics of Shandong Province, Jinan, 250353, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong Polytechnic University, Jinan 250353, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Processing and Testing Technology of Glass Functional Ceramics of Shandong Province, Jinan, 250353, P.R. China
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering, Aalborg University, DK-9000 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering, Aalborg University, DK-9000 Aalborg, Denmark
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong Polytechnic University, Jinan 250353, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Processing and Testing Technology of Glass Functional Ceramics of Shandong Province, Jinan, 250353, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong Polytechnic University, Jinan 250353, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Processing and Testing Technology of Glass Functional Ceramics of Shandong Province, Jinan, 250353, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong Polytechnic University, Jinan 250353, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Processing and Testing Technology of Glass Functional Ceramics of Shandong Province, Jinan, 250353, P.R. China
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An artificial immune system algorithm is introduced in which nonlinear dynamic models are evolved to fit time series of interacting biomolecules. This grammar-based machine learning method learns the structure and parameters of the underlying dynamic model. In silico immunogenetic mechanisms for the generation of model-structure diversity are implemented with the aid of a grammar, which also enforces semantic constraints of the evolved models. The grammar acts as a DNA repair polymerase that can identify recombination and hypermutation signals in the antibody (model) genome. These signals contain information interpretable by the grammar to maintain model context. Grammatical Immune System Evolution (GISE) is applied to a nonlinear system identification problem in which a generalized (nonlinear) dynamic Bayesian model is evolved to fit biologically motivated artificial time-series data. From experimental data, we use GISE to infer an improved kinetic model for the oxidative metabolism of 17beta-estradiol (E(2)), the parent hormone of the estrogen metabolism pathway.
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- B A McKinney
- Department of Genetics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
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Vucic S, Tian D, Chong PST, Cudkowicz ME, Hedley-Whyte ET, Cros D. Facial onset sensory and motor neuronopathy (FOSMN syndrome): a novel syndrome in neurology. Brain 2006; 129:3384-90. [PMID: 17012296 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A 'syringomyelia-like' syndrome has been infrequently reported in neurological disorders such as Tangiers disease and lepromatous leprosy. This study reports a novel 'syringomyelia-like' syndrome in four adult male patients, which we have termed facial onset sensory and motor neuronopathy, or FOSMN syndrome, that appears to have a neurodegenerative aetiology. Clinical, neurophysiological and pathological data of four patients were reviewed, including the autopsy in one patient. Four male patients (mean age at onset 43), initially developed paraesthesiae and numbness in a trigeminal nerve distribution, which slowly progressed to involve the scalp, neck, upper trunk and upper limbs in sequential order. Motor manifestations, including cramps, fasciculations, dysphagia, dysarthria, muscle weakness and atrophy developed later in the course of the illness. Neurophysiological findings revealed a generalized sensory motor neuronopathy of caudally decreasing severity in all four patients. Autopsy in one patient disclosed loss of motoneurons in the hypoglossal nucleus and cervical anterior horns, along with loss of sensory neurons in the main trigeminal sensory nucleus and dorsal root ganglia. FOSMN syndrome appears to be a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disorder, whose pathogenesis remains to be determined.
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- S Vucic
- Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Randwick, Australia
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Chou RC, Henson JW, Tian D, Hedley-Whyte ET, Reginato AM. Successful treatment of rheumatoid meningitis with cyclophosphamide but not infliximab. Ann Rheum Dis 2006; 65:1114-6. [PMID: 16837495 PMCID: PMC1798234 DOI: 10.1136/ard.2005.042093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Nowak JB, Huey LG, Russell AG, Tian D, Neuman JA, Orsini D, Sjostedt SJ, Sullivan AP, Tanner DJ, Weber RJ, Nenes A, Edgerton E, Fehsenfeld FC. Analysis of urban gas phase ammonia measurements from the 2002 Atlanta Aerosol Nucleation and Real-Time Characterization Experiment (ANARChE). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1029/2006jd007113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Sreekala C, Wu L, Gu K, Wang D, Tian D, Yin Z. Excision of a selectable marker in transgenic rice (Oryza sativa L.) using a chemically regulated Cre/loxP system. Plant Cell Rep 2005; 24:86-94. [PMID: 15662501 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-004-0909-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2004] [Revised: 11/28/2004] [Accepted: 11/29/2004] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Removal of a selectable marker gene from genetically modified (GM) crops alleviates the risk of its release into the environment and hastens the public acceptance of GM crops. Here we report the production of marker-free transgenic rice by using a chemically regulated, Cre/loxP-mediated site-specific DNA recombination in a single transformation. Among 86 independent transgenic lines, ten were found to be marker-free in the T0 generation and an additional 17 lines segregated marker-free transgenic plants in the T1 generation. Molecular and genetic analyses indicated that the DNA recombination and excision in transgenic rice were precise and the marker-free recombinant T-DNA was stable and heritable.
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- C Sreekala
- Laboratory of Molecular Plant Pathology, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117604, Republic of Singapore
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