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Dong LC, Yu PY, Zhang WB, Yang YJ, Wang Q, Jia CL, Song XC. [Subglottic light-emitting diode in infants and young children removed through tracheostomy:a case report]. Zhonghua Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi 2023; 58:718-720. [PMID: 37455120 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn115330-20221121-00696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- L C Dong
- Second Clinical Medicine College, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264000, China Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Yantai 264000, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Yantai 264000, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Yantai 264000, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Yantai 264000, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Yantai 264000, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Yantai 264000, China
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- Second Clinical Medicine College, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264000, China Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Yantai 264000, China
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Dong L, Giangrande EJ, Womack SR, Yoo K, Beam CR, Jacobson KC, Turkheimer E. A Longitudinal Analysis of Gene x Environment Interaction on Verbal Intelligence Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood. Behav Genet 2023; 53:311-330. [PMID: 37171531 DOI: 10.1007/s10519-023-10145-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 04/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The Scarr-Rowe hypothesis proposes that the heritability of intelligence is higher in more advantaged socioeconomic contexts. An early demonstration of this hypothesis was Rowe and colleagues (Rowe et al., Child Dev 70:1151-1162, 1999), where an interaction between the heritability of verbal intelligence and parental education was identified in adolescent siblings in Wave I of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. The present study repeated their original analysis at Wave I using contemporary methods, replicated the finding during young adulthood at Wave III, and analyzed the interaction longitudinally utilizing multiple measurements. We examined parental education, family income, and peer academic environment as potential moderators. Results indicated increased heritability and decreased shared environmental variance of verbal intelligence at higher levels of parental education and peer academic environment in adolescence. Moreover, moderation by peer academic environment persisted into adulthood with its effect partially attributable to novel gene-environment interactions that arose in the process of cognitive development.
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- LiChen Dong
- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Zhu YX, Hu HQ, Zuo ML, Mao L, Song GL, Li TM, Dong LC, Yang ZB, Ali Sheikh MS. Effect of oxymatrine on liver gluconeogenesis is associated with the regulation of PEPCK and G6Pase expression and AKT phosphorylation. Biomed Rep 2021; 15:56. [PMID: 34007449 PMCID: PMC8120346 DOI: 10.3892/br.2021.1432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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An increase in liver gluconeogenesis is an important pathological phenomenon in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and oxymatrine is an effective natural drug used for T2DM treatment. The present study aimed to explore the effect of oxymatrine on gluconeogenesis and elucidate the underlying mechanism. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with a high-fat diet and streptozotocin for 4 weeks to induce T2DM, and HepG2 cells were treated with 55 mM glucose to simulate T2DM in vitro. T2DM rats were treated with oxymatrine (10 or 20 mg/kg weight) or metformin for 4 weeks, and HepG2 cells were treated with oxymatrine (0.1 or 1 µM), metformin (0.1 µM), or oxymatrine combined with MK-2206 (AKT inhibitor) for 24 h. Fasting blood glucose and insulin sensitivity of rats were measured to evaluate insulin resistance. Glucose production and uptake ability were measured to evaluate gluconeogenesis in HepG2 cells, and the expression of related genes was detected to explore the molecular mechanism. Additionally, the body weight, liver weight and liver index were measured and hematoxylin and eosin staining was performed to evaluate the effects of the disease. The fasting glucose levels of T2DM rats was 16.5 mmol/l, whereas in the control rats, it was 6.1 mmol/l. Decreased insulin sensitivity (K-value, 0.2), body weight loss (weight, 300 g), liver weight gain, liver index increase (value, 48) and morphological changes were observed in T2DM rats, accompanied by reduced AKT phosphorylation, and upregulated expression of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) and glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase). High-glucose treatment significantly increased glucose production and decreased glucose uptake in HepG2 cells, concomitant with a decrease in AKT phosphorylation and increase of PEPCK and G6Pase expression. In vivo, oxymatrine dose-dependently increased the sensitivity of T2DM rats to insulin, increased AKT phosphorylation and decreased PEPCK and G6Pase expression in the liver, and reversed the liver morphological changes. In vitro, oxymatrine dose-dependently increased AKT phosphorylation and glucose uptake of HepG2 cells subjected to high-glucose treatment, which was accompanied by inhibition of the expression of the gluconeogenesis-related genes, PEPCK and G6Pase. MK-2206 significantly inhibited the protective effects of oxymatrine in high-glucose-treated cells. These data indicated that oxymatrine can effectively prevent insulin resistance and gluconeogenesis, and its mechanism may be at least partly associated with the regulation of PEPCK and G6Pase expression and AKT phosphorylation in the liver.
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- Yu-Xian Zhu
- The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China.,College of Medicine, Hunan Normal University Changsha, Hunan 410000, P.R. China
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- The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- Department of Basic Medicine, Changsha Health Vocational College, Changsha, Hunan 410600, P.R. China
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- The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China.,Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine of Changsha, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China.,Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine of Changsha, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- Internal Medicine Department, Cardiology, College of Medicine, Al Jouf University, Sakaka, Al Jouf 72388, Saudi Arabia
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Mao L, Zuo ML, Wang AP, Tian Y, Dong LC, Li TM, Kuang DB, Song GL, Yang ZB. Low expression of miR‑532‑3p contributes to cerebral ischemia/reperfusion oxidative stress injury by directly targeting NOX2. Mol Med Rep 2020; 22:2415-2423. [PMID: 32705253 PMCID: PMC7411405 DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2020.11325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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NADPH oxidase 2 (NOX2) is a major subtype of NOX and is responsible for the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in brain tissues. MicroRNAs (miRNAs/miRs) are important epigenetic regulators of NOX2. The present study aimed to identify the role of NOX2 miRNA-targets in ischemic stroke (IS). A rat cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (CI/R) injury model and a SH-SY5Y cell hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) model were used to simulate IS. Gene expression levels, ROS production and apoptosis in tissue or cells were determined, and bioinformatic analysis was conducted for target prediction of miRNA. In vitro experiments, including function-gain and luciferase activity assays, were also performed to assess the roles of miRNAs. The results indicated that NOX2 was significantly increased in brain tissues subjected to I/R and in SH-SY5Y cells subjected to H/R, while the expression of miR-532-3p (putative target of NOX2) was significantly decreased in brain tissues and plasma. Overexpression of miR-532-3p significantly suppressed NOX2 expression and ROS generation in SH-SY5Y cells subjected to H/R, as well as reduced the relative luciferase activity of cells transfected with a reporter gene plasmid. Collectively, these data indicated that miR-532-3p may be a target of NOX2 and a biomarker for CI/R injury. Thus, the present study may provide a novel target for drug development and IS therapy.
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- Li Mao
- Office of Good Clinical Practice, The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan, Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- Office of Good Clinical Practice, The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan, Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- Institute of Clinical Research, Affiliated Nanhua Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan 421001, P.R. China
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- Institute of Clinical Research, Affiliated Nanhua Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan 421001, P.R. China
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- Office of Good Clinical Practice, The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan, Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- Office of Good Clinical Practice, The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan, Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- Office of Good Clinical Practice, The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan, Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- Office of Good Clinical Practice, The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan, Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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- Office of Good Clinical Practice, The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Hunan, Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410006, P.R. China
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The permeation of macromolecules such as fluoroescein-labeled dextran fractions through thermally reversible hydrogels has been investigated. A permeation model has been formulated, which takes into account hydrogel porosity and tortuosity as well as the combined effect of a geometric restraint for a relatively large solute molecule at a pore entrance and the friction between solute molecules moving through the pores and pore walls. Based on this model, we have estimated the tortuosity and average pore size of a swollen hydrogel, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) [poly(NIPAAm)] and a swollen heterogel, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-vinyl-terminated dimethylsiloxane) [poly(NIPAAm-co-VTPDMS)]. The permeation data for dextran molecules up to the size of 43.5 A in radius show good agreement with the values predicted from the model.
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