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Zhao F, Zeng HY, Jia ST, Pei Y, Cheng X, Zhang X, Huang HJ, Wang JQ. [Analysis of clinical effect of arthroscopic release at different time in treating knee adhesion after arthroscopic surgery]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2024; 104:1474-1480. [PMID: 38706053 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112137-20231021-00844] [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] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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Objective: To explore the efficacy of arthroscopic release in treating postoperative knee adhesion and investigate the influence of release timing on the treatment outcomes. Methods: A total of 50 patients who accepted arthroscopic release in Peking University Third Hospital from February 2017 to December 2021 were included in the retrospective cohort. The study cohort comprised 28 men and 22 women, with a mean age of (30.8±11.9) years. All the primary surgeries were manipulated under arthroscopes. A comparison was made between pre-and postoperative range of motion (ROM), visual analog scale (VAS), International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) scores, and Tegner activity scale scores for the patients. According to the interval between the appearance of adhesion and arthroscopic release, the patients were divided into four groups:<3 months group (n=12), 3-6 months group (n=16),>6-12 months group (n=14), and>12 months group (n=8). Inter-group comparisons on postoperative ROM, IKDC scores, and Tegner activity scale scores and improvement values of each outcome were conducted. Results: All the patients were followed up for (36.4±19.7) months. Patients gained significant improvement in flexion, extension, IKDC scores, and Tegner scores (125.0°±20.0° vs 75.7°±27.5°, 2.3°±4.8° vs 7.4°±7.3°, 69.8±17.7 vs 51.4±12.8, 4.1±2.1 vs 2.2±1.1) (all P<0.05), while the VAS scores did not show significant improvement. There were no significant differences among different groups in postoperative extension, IKDC scores or Tegner scores, nor in their improvements. However, patients in the ≤6 months group could gain better postoperative flexion and improvement in flexion than those in the >6 months group (129.9°±20.0° vs 118.8°±17.4°, 58.6°±32.8° vs 37.3°±23.1°) (P<0.05). Conclusions: Arthroscopic release presents a great effect in treating knee adhesion after arthroscopic operation. Once the symptoms of adhesion appear and physical rehabilitation fails to improve the ROM, one should accept early surgical intervention (less than 6 months) for a better outcome.
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Institute of Sports Medicine of Peking University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Engineering Research Center of Sports Trauma Treatment Technology and Devices, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100191, China
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- the Fourth School of Clinical Medicine, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100035, China
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- the Fourth School of Clinical Medicine, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100035, China
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Institute of Sports Medicine of Peking University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Engineering Research Center of Sports Trauma Treatment Technology and Devices, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100191, China
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Institute of Sports Medicine of Peking University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Engineering Research Center of Sports Trauma Treatment Technology and Devices, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100191, China
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Institute of Sports Medicine of Peking University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Engineering Research Center of Sports Trauma Treatment Technology and Devices, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100191, China
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Institute of Sports Medicine of Peking University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Engineering Research Center of Sports Trauma Treatment Technology and Devices, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100191, China
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Institute of Sports Medicine of Peking University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Engineering Research Center of Sports Trauma Treatment Technology and Devices, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100191, China
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Lv J, Wang Y, Fu H, Pei Y, Xie Z. Deep-Learning-Assisted Sensor with Multiple Perception Capabilities for an Intelligent Driver Assistance Monitoring System. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2024; 16:13651-13661. [PMID: 38447140 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c15956] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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Driver assistance systems can help drivers achieve better control of their vehicles while driving and reduce driver fatigue and errors. However, the current driver assistance devices have a complex structure and severely violate the privacy of drivers, hindering the development of driver assistance technology. To address these limitations, this article proposes an intelligent driver assistance monitoring system (IDAMS), which combines a Kresling origami structure-based triboelectric sensor (KOS-TS) and a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based data analysis. For different driving behaviors, the output signals of the KOS-TSs contain various features, such as a driver's pressing force, pressing time, and sensor triggering sequence. This study develops a multiscale CNN that employs different pooling methods to process KOS-TS data and analyze temporal information. The proposed IDAMS is verified by driver identification experiments, and the results show that the accuracy of the IDAMS in discriminating eight different users is improved from 96.25% to 99.38%. In addition, the results indicate that IDAMS can successfully monitor driving behaviors and can accurately distinguish between different driving behaviors. Finally, the proposed IDAMS has excellent hands-off detection (HOD), identification, and driving behavior monitoring capabilities and shows broad potential for application in the fields of safety warning, personalization, and human-computer interaction.
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- Jingliang Lv
- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150042, China
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- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150042, China
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- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150042, China
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- College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150042, China
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- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150042, China
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Li Y, Fan X, Pei Y, Wu K. Dynamic Effects of Thoracic Irradiation on Immune Status of Organs in and out of Radiation Field in Mice. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e244. [PMID: 37784958 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.1177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) Thoracic irradiation involves large blood vessels and hematopoietic tissues which was easily inducing lymphopenia. Lymphocytes are important components of immune response and lymphopenia is associated with poorer survival. However, the dynamic recovery of lymphocyte subsets after thoracic irradiation were rarely reported in the literature. This study focused on dynamic changes of lymphocytes subsets of mice after receiving thoracic irradiation in and out of radiation field. MATERIALS/METHODS C57BL/6 male mice aged 6-8 weeks received 2Gy*5fx whole thoracic irradiation and were sacrificed on the 1 day, 7 days, 15 days, 25 days after irradiation. Peripheral blood was harvested for mature lymphocyte subsets (B cells, T cells, CD4+T cells, CD8+T cells, NK cells) detection by performing flow cytometry, while thymus, femur bone marrow and sternal bone marrow for hematopoietic stem cells (Long-term Hematopoietic Stem Cell [LT-HSC], Short-term Hematopoietic Stem Cell [ST-HSC]) and progenitor cells (Multipotent Progenitor [MPP], Common Lymphoid Progenitor [CLP]). Absolute counts method was used in flow cytometry and data analysis were performed by scientific 2-D graphing and statistics software. RESULTS We found that the lymphocyte subsets were significantly reduced in peripheral blood of irradiated mice (all p<0.05). The mature lymphocyte subsets returned to normal 2-3 weeks after irradiation. After radiation, thymus weight was significantly decreased (p<0.0001). With the recovery of thymus weight, the number of hematopoietic stem cells returned to the baseline. For the femur bone marrow (out of the radiation field), hematopoietic stem cells and progenitor cells showed a proliferation tendency. MPP significantly increased in the 1day after irradiation (p = 0.0347) and LT-HSC increased in the 8 days (p = 0.0011). However, although ST-HSC and CLP were slightly increased after irradiation, there were no statistically significance. The sternal bone marrow (in the radiation field) reached the lowest value 1day after irradiation (all p<0.0001). Although hematopoietic stem cells and progenitor cells recovered gradually, but still far away from the level of the control group (all p<0.05). CONCLUSION The recovery of lymphocytes in the peripheral blood might mainly come from the supplement of bone marrow out of the irradiation field, while bone marrow in the field suffered serious destruction which did slightly help for lymphocytes recovery.
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- Y Li
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China; Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center, Fudan University Cancer Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China; Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center, Fudan University Cancer Hospital, Shanghai, China
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Fan X, Li Y, Pei Y, Wu K. Recovery Characteristics of Lymphocyte Subsets after Thoracic Radiotherapy: A Single Center Clinical Study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e18. [PMID: 37784799 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) Lymphocytes play a critical role in anti-tumor, and are highly sensitive to radiation. However, the dynamic changes of lymphocytes subsets after receiving thoracic radiotherapy have rarely been investigated. This study was to explore the recovery characteristics of each subset, and the role of thymosin α1 after thoracic radiotherapy. MATERIALS/METHODS A total of 252 patients receiving chest radiotherapy included in this study. Blood was harvested before, at the end of radiotherapy, 1 month, 4 months, 7 months, 10 months, 13 months, and 19 months after radiotherapy for lymphocyte subsets detection by performing flow cytometry. In addition, a total of 26 patients with thoracic malignancy were treated with thymosin α1 after radiotherapy for one month. The number of lymphocyte subsets at the end of 1 month after radiotherapy were compared with control group. Absolute counts method was used in flow cytometry. RESULTS At the end of radiotherapy, nearly all of the subsets decreased significantly (T cell: 65.4%, Tc cell: 64.8%, Th cell: 66.1%, B cell: 88.7%, NK cell: 68.8%), except Treg cell. Tc cells recovered rapidly to baseline level at 1 month. The number of NK cells increased by 1.95 times at 1 month, and recovered to baseline level at 7th month. The number of B cell at 1 month was still 19.2% compared baseline, and recovered slowly to baseline at 7th month. The number of Th cells were nearly no recovery, and were 44.1% compared with baseline even at 19th month. For patients with thymosin α1 injection, all of the lymphocyte subsets had no significant difference compared those without thymosin α1 injection. In addition, younger patients were with better recovery in Th cells (p = 0.011) and B cells (p < 0.001) than elder patients at 1 month. CONCLUSION B cell was the most radiosensitive lymphocyte, and Th cell was continuous exhaustion after thoracic radiation. Thymosin α1 had no effect on lymphocyte subpopulation recovery, and new drugs are urgently needed to explore in the future.
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China; Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center, Fudan University Cancer Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China; Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center, Fudan University Cancer Hospital, Shanghai, China
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Lv C, Wang R, Li S, Yan S, Wang Y, Chen J, Wang L, Liu Y, Guo Z, Wang J, Pei Y, Yu L, Wu N, Lu F, Gao F, Chen J, Liu Y, Wang X, Li S, Han B, Zhang L, Ma Y, Ding L, Wang Y, Yuan X, Yang Y. Randomized phase II adjuvant trial to compare two treatment durations of icotinib (2 years versus 1 year) for stage II-IIIA EGFR-positive lung adenocarcinoma patients (ICOMPARE study). ESMO Open 2023; 8:101565. [PMID: 37348348 PMCID: PMC10515286 DOI: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2023.101565] [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: 02/21/2023] [Revised: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Despite the prolonged median disease-free survival (DFS) by adjuvant targeted therapy in non-small-cell lung cancer patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations, the relationship between the treatment duration and the survival benefits in patients remains unknown. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this multicenter, randomized, open-label, phase II trial, eligible patients aged 18-75 years with EGFR-mutant, stage II-IIIA lung adenocarcinoma and who had not received adjuvant chemotherapy after complete tumor resection were enrolled from eight centers in China. Patients were randomly assigned (1 : 1) to receive either 1-year or 2-year icotinib (125 mg thrice daily). The primary endpoint was DFS assessed by investigator. The secondary endpoints were overall survival (OS) and safety. This study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01929200). RESULTS Between September 2013 and October 2018, 109 patients were enrolled (1-year group, n = 55; 2-year group, n = 54). Median DFS was 48.9 months [95% confidence interval (CI) 33.1-70.1 months] in the 2-year group and 32.9 months (95% CI 26.6-44.8 months) in the 1-year group [hazard ratio (HR) 0.51; 95% CI 0.28-0.94; P = 0.0290]. Median OS for patients was 75.8 months [95% CI 64.4 months-not evaluable (NE)] in the 2-year group and NE (95% CI 66.3 months-NE) in the 1-year group (HR 0.34; 95% CI 0.13-0.95; P = 0.0317). Treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) were observed in 41 of 55 (75%) patients in the 1-year group and in 36 of 54 (67%) patients in the 2-year group. Grade 3-4 TRAEs occurred in 4 of 55 (7%) patients in the 1-year group and in 3 of 54 (6%) patients in the 2-year group. No treatment-related deaths or interstitial lung disease was reported. CONCLUSIONS Two-year adjuvant icotinib was shown to significantly improve DFS and provide an OS benefit in EGFR-mutant, stage II-IIIA lung adenocarcinoma patients compared with 1-year treatment in this exploratory phase II study.
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Hebi
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, CMU, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Hebi
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- Thoracic Neoplasms Surgical Department, Tianjing Medical University General Hospital, Tianjing
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- Thoracic Neoplasms Surgical Department, Inner Mongolia People's Hospital, Inner Mongolia
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, PLA Pocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing
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- Betta Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd, Hangzhou, China
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- Betta Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd, Hangzhou, China
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- Betta Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery II, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing.
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Pei Y, Liu YY, Sun M, Zheng J, Zhou TT, Wang B, Hu H, Wang ZL. Beneficial effects of pioglitazone and α-lipoic acid in patients with polycystic ovaries syndrome. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2023; 27:7118-7126. [PMID: 37606122 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202308_33285] [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: 08/23/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Changes in hormone levels, improper lipid metabolism, and oxidative stress all significantly contribute to the pathogenic process of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). According to earlier research, pioglitazone and alpha-lipoic acid are crucial in the emergence of PCOS. The beneficial effects of pioglitazone and alpha-lipoic acid on PCOS were examined in the current study. PATIENTS AND METHODS The 120 patients with PCOS received three months of treatment in pioglitazone groups (n=40 case, 30 mg/time, 1 time/day), α-lipoic acid (n=40 case, 0.6 g/time, 1 time/day), and combination therapy (n=40 case, pioglitazone 30 mg/time, 1 time/day and α-lipoic acid, 0.6 g/time, 1 time/day). Before and after therapy, the following factors were evaluated: the hormonal profile, fasting serum insulin, body weight, body mass index (BMI), menstruation status, oxidative stress, and indications of lipid metabolism. RESULTS The combination of pioglitazone and α-lipoic acid has a significantly improving effect on BMI, body weight, oxidative stress levels, lipid metabolism, and menstrual status. A significant increase in body weight, BMI, and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) levels were found in mice after being treated with α-lipoic acid alone. However, the use pioglitazone alone improves body weight, BMI, the calculation of insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR), Area under the curve (AUC)-insulin, fasting glucose/insulin (G/I) ratio, total testosterone, and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels in post-treatment than pre-treatment. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that pioglitazone alone has a better effect than alpha-lipoic acid in improving oxidative stress levels, BMI, and menstrual cyclicity. Additionally, treatment with pioglitazone and alpha-lipoic acid did demonstrate a greater effect than monotherapy with each medication alone.
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- Y Pei
- Department of Endocrinology, Xuzhou Municipal Hospital Affiliated to Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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Li H, Pei Y, Yang GQ, Li YJ, Ni Q, Chen YL, Ba JM, Lyu ZH, Mu YM. [Diagnosis and treatment of aldosterone-producing adenoma presenting as bilateral adrenal lesions: a case report]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi 2023; 62:714-717. [PMID: 37263957 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112138-20220826-00639] [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: 06/03/2023]
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- H Li
- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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Wu Z, Chen H, Zhang J, Pei Y, Huang Z. Temporal motif-based attentional graph convolutional network for dynamic link prediction. INTELL DATA ANAL 2023. [DOI: 10.3233/ida-216169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Dynamic link prediction is an important component of the dynamic network analysis with many real-world applications. Currently, most advancements focus on analyzing link-defined neighborhoods with graph convolutional networks (GCN), while ignoring the influence of higher-order structural and temporal interacting features on link formation. Therefore, based on recent progress in modeling temporal graphs, we propose a novel temporal motif-based attentional graph convolutional network model (TMAGCN) for dynamic link prediction. As dynamic graphs usually contain periodical patterns, we first propose a temporal motif matrix construction method to capture higher-order structural and temporal features, then introduce a spatial convolution operation following a temporal motif-attention mechanism to encode these features into node embeddings. Furthermore, we design two methods to combine multiple temporal motif-based attentions, a dynamic attention-based method and a reinforcement learning-based method, to allow each individual node to make the most of the relevant motif-based neighborhood to propagate and aggregate information in the graph convolutional layers. Experimental results on various real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed model is superior to state-of-the-art baselines on the dynamic link prediction task. It also reveals that temporal motif can manifest the essential dynamic mechanism of the network.
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- Zheng Wu
- Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Geller D, Perez-Garcia C, Pei Y, Liu X, Engelhardt J, Hodges C, Mense M, Coote K, Cheng Y, Mahoney J, Parker S, Chivukula P. WS16.03 LUNAR-CF: an mRNA replacement approach for cystic fibrosis lung disease. J Cyst Fibros 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-1993(22)00245-4] [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: 10/18/2022]
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Liu D, Pei Y. The secret of H 2 S to keep plants young and fresh and its products. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2022; 24:587-593. [PMID: 34921509 DOI: 10.1111/plb.13377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Recently, accumulating evidence has shown that hydrogen sulphide (H2 S), a newly determined gasotransmitter, plays important roles in senescence, which is an essential biological process for plant fitness and an important agricultural trait that is critical for the yield and quality of farm produce. Here, in this review, we summarize the roles of H2 S in senescence, both before and after the harvesting of agricultural products, and the underlying mechanism is also discussed. During the plant growth process, the function of H2 S in the leaf senescence process has been studied extensively, and H2 S plays roles during the whole process, including the initiation, reorganization and terminal stages. While during the postharvest stage, H2 S can prevents farm products from deterioration resulting from over-ripening, pathogen attack and incorrect storage. The underlying H2 S-related mechanisms during different stages of the senescence process are summarized and compared. The most prominent interaction occurs between H2 S and reactive oxygen species, and the molecular mechanism is explored. Additionally, the conserved action mode of H2 S in different life processes and different species is also discussed. In the future, multi-omics analyses over time will be needed to investigate the detailed mechanisms of H2 S, and a safety attribute analysis of H2 S is also required before it can be used in agricultural production.
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- School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
- Shanxi Key Laboratory for Research and Development of Regional Plants, Taiyuan, China
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- School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
- Shanxi Key Laboratory for Research and Development of Regional Plants, Taiyuan, China
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Nassar M, Kostrzewa M, Khowaja S, Iluta I, Pei Y, Shlomovitz E. Abstract No. 371 Percutaneous renal cyst aspiration and sclerotherapy in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease results in local pressure reduction: a preliminary study. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2022.03.452] [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: 11/27/2022] Open
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Zhang Q, Zang L, Zhang CY, Gu WJ, Li B, Jia XF, Chen K, Pei Y, Du J, Guo QH, Ba JM, Lyu ZH, Dou JT, Mu YM. [Diagnosis and treatment of 21-hydroxylase deficiency with testicular adrenal rest tumors:a report of three cases and literature review]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi 2022; 61:72-76. [PMID: 34979773 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112138-20210718-00488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Objective: To provide insight into the diagnosis for clinicians, the clinical characteristics, diagnosis and treatment history of 3 patients with 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD) and testicular adrenal rest tumors (TART) were analyzed. Methods: The clinical, laboratory and imaging data of 3 male patients with 21-OHD and TART, confirmed with CYP21 gene sequencing, from May 2010 to May 2021 in the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital were analyzed retrospectively. The treatment strategy and clinical outcome were followed up. Results: All the 3 patients were first diagnosed with bilateral adrenal mass at the age of 27-42 years old. They were 145-162 cm tall. The levels of progesterone, 17-hydroxyprogesterone, and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) of the 3 patients were relatively high, and that of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) of the 3 patients were low. Testosterone level of 1 patient was significantly elevated, and that of the other 2 patients was below the lower limit of normal range. Testicular ultrasound showed heterogeneous hyperechoic masses in both testes. CT of the adrenal glands showed bilateral adrenal enlargement with mass. All 3 patients were treated with dexamethasone. After 4-96 months of follow-up, 17-hydroxyprogesterone level was kept above the median normal level. One of the patients got married and had a baby after treatment. The sizes of adrenal hyperplasia and testicular masses reduced to various degrees with the change of the testicular masses being proportional to that of adrenal hyperplasia. Conclusions: Patients with 21-OHD are prone to have TART, leading to the impaired testicular function. Early glucocorticold therapy is beneficial to the reduction of TART and restoration of testicular function.
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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Liu X, Luo M, Pei Y, Bao B, Cai Q, Liang B, Bartels D, Perez-Garcia C, Engelhardt J. 663: LUNAR efficiently delivers mRNA into ferret airway epithelial cells in vitro and in vivo. J Cyst Fibros 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-1993(21)02086-5] [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: 11/15/2022]
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Pei Y, Huang T, van Ipenburg W, Pechenizkiy M. ResGCN: attention-based deep residual modeling for anomaly detection on attributed networks. Mach Learn 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10994-021-06044-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AbstractEffectively detecting anomalous nodes in attributed networks is crucial for the success of many real-world applications such as fraud and intrusion detection. Existing approaches have difficulties with three major issues: sparsity and nonlinearity capturing, residual modeling, and network smoothing. We propose Residual Graph Convolutional Network (ResGCN), an attention-based deep residual modeling approach that can tackle these issues: modeling the attributed networks with GCN allows to capture the sparsity and nonlinearity, utilizing a deep neural network allows direct residual ing from the input, and a residual-based attention mechanism reduces the adverse effect from anomalous nodes and prevents over-smoothing. Extensive experiments on several real-world attributed networks demonstrate the effectiveness of ResGCN in detecting anomalies.
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Wu Z, Chen H, Zhang J, Liu S, Huang R, Pei Y. A directed link prediction method using graph convolutional network based on social ranking theory. INTELL DATA ANAL 2021. [DOI: 10.3233/ida-195006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Graph convolutional networks (GCN) have recently emerged as powerful node embedding methods in network analysis tasks. Particularly, GCNs have been successfully leveraged to tackle the challenging link prediction problem, aiming at predicting missing links that exist yet were not found. However, most of these models are oriented to undirected graphs, which are limited to certain real-life applications. Therefore, based on the social ranking theory, we extend the GCN to address the directed link prediction problem. Firstly, motivated by the reciprocated and unreciprocated nature of social ties, we separate nodes in the neighbor subgraph of the missing link into the same, a higher-ranked and a lower-ranked set. Then, based on the three kinds of node sets, we propose a method to correctly aggregate and propagate the directional information across layers of a GCN model. Empirical study on 8 real-world datasets shows that our proposed method is capable of reserving rich information related to directed link direction and consistently performs well on graphs from numerous domains.
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- Zheng Wu
- Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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LANKTREE M, Guiard E, Akbari P, Pourafkari M, Iliuta I, Ahmed S, Haghighi A, He N, Song X, Paterson A, Khalili K, Pei Y. POS-428 PROTEIN-TRUNCATING PKD1 MUTATIONS YET MILD AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE IS UNDER-RECOGNIZED. Kidney Int Rep 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2021.03.451] [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: 10/21/2022] Open
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The aim of this study was to develop an integrative framework on aging, immigration, and oral health. The methodology was a critical review that used immigration as a social determinant framework through which to evaluate its impact on the oral health of older immigrants. We reviewed recent empirical evidence on factors related to oral health in older immigrants. In a systematic search across multiple databases, we identified 12 eligible studies in this review. Among the eligible studies, most were conducted among East Asian immigrants (8 articles), followed by non-Hispanic White/European origin (2 articles), Mexican origins (1 article), and Iran and other Middle East regions (1 article). The research revealed knowledge gaps in the evidence base, including the dynamic relationship between acculturation and oral health, the role of environmental factors on oral health for immigrants, psychosocial stressors and their relationship with oral health, and oral health literacy, norms, and attitude to dental care utilization and oral hygiene practices. The development of the integrative framework suggests the pathways/mechanisms through which immigration exerts influences on oral health in later life. This provides opportunities for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to gain greater insights into the complex associations between immigration and oral health among older adults.
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- Rory Meyers College of Nursing and College of Dentistry, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- School of Social Work, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
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- Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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Li ZW, Yang GQ, Dou JT, Lyu ZH, Pei Y, Du J, Ba JM, Guo QH, Mu YM. [Clinical aspects of pregnancy-related lymphocytic hypophysitis]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2020; 100:3314-3318. [PMID: 33202493 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112137-20200331-01022] [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 analyze clinical features, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of pregnancy-related lymphocytic hypophysitis (LyH). Methods: The clinical data of 16 cases diagnosed as pregnancy-related LyH at Chinese PLA General Hospital between October 2010 and November 2019 were reviewed. Results: Sixteen patients were included (aged 20-40 years). All patients' symptoms occurred from the last 2 months of pregnancy to 12 months postpartum, with 6 cases in the third trimester and 10 cases during postpartum, and all the patients were diagnosed after delivery. Six patients had lymphocytic adenohypophysitis (LAH), 4 patients had lymphocytic infundibuloneurohypophysitis (LINH), 4 patients had lymphocytic panhypophysitis (LPH), and 2 had lymphocytic hypothalamitis. Eight patients presented with symptoms of intracranial space-occupying lesions, 14 patients had symptoms of anteriorpituitary hormone deficiencies, 9 patients had central diabetes insipidus (CDI), and 2 had hyperprolactinemia. Pituitary MRI showed that the pituitary presented with diffuse enlargement, pituitary stalk thickening, disappearing of high-intensity signals in posterior pituitary and space-occupying lesions in the infundibulum of hypothalamus. Nine patients were treated with immunosuppressive agent, 3 patients alleviated the space-occupying effects after surgery, and 4 patients recovered spontaneously. Fourteen patients were followed up with a period of 3-98 months. Four patients had a relapse, 2 patients had a complete remission, and 12 patients needed long-term hormone replacement therapy. Conclusions: Clinical manifestations of pregnancy-related LyH are diverse. LyH should be suspected in pregnant or postpartum women with a sellar mass to avoid missed diagnosis or misdiagnosis. Immunosuppressant therapy is effective. Overall, LyH patients have a favorable prognosis.
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- Z W Li
- Department of Endocrinology, Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China (Li Zewei is working at the Department of Endocrinology, Chifeng Municipal Hospital, Chifeng 024000, China)
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- Department of Endocrinology, Hainan Hospital of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Sanya 572000, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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Chen F, Liu H, Wang X, Li Z, Zhang J, Pei Y, Zheng Z, Wang J. Melatonin activates autophagy via the NF-κB signaling pathway to prevent extracellular matrix degeneration in intervertebral disc. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2020; 28:1121-1132. [PMID: 32470597 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2020.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [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] [Received: 06/29/2019] [Revised: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This study investigated whether melatonin alleviates intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) by promoting autophagy through inhibiting the NF-κB signaling pathway. METHODS Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining and Safranin-O staining were used to measure disc degeneration in rat needle puncture IVDD models, and melatonin was injected intraperitoneally in the treated group to test its function. The expression of autophagy and extracellular matrix (ECM) degeneration related-markers were measured in the discs using immunohistochemistry. Transmission electron microscopy was used to evaluate the activation of autophagy in human nucleus pulposus (NP) tissues with different degenerated statuses. The expression of autophagy and disc degeneration related-markers were detected in NP cells by Western blot, RT-qPCR, and immunofluorescence analyses. NF-κB signaling pathway involvement was studied by lentivirus-mediated knockdown, Western blotting, and immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence staining. RESULTS Melatonin prevented IVDD development in vivo and in vitro. Compared to non-degenerated disc tissues, degenerated human NP tissues showed a decrease in the autophagy-specific marker LC3B and the numbers of autophagosomes and autolysosomes, whereas the p62 level was increased; similar results were observed in rat IVDD models, indicating a negative correlation between autophagy and IVDD. Furthermore, both in vivo and in vitro studies found that melatonin application induced autophagy and reduced ECM disc degradation. Melatonin was also shown to regulate autophagy by inhibiting the NF-κB signaling pathway in vivo and vitro. CONCLUSION This study indicates that melatonin prevents IVDD by promoting autophagy, indicating its possible therapeutic potential for controlling the progression of IVDD.
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- Department of Spine Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, PR China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, PR China
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- Guangdong Institute of Gastroenterology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Diseases, The 6th Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, PR China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, PR China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, PR China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, PR China.
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- Department of Spine Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, PR China.
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Ahmadi N, Pei Y, Carrette E, Aldenkamp AP, Pechenizkiy M. EEG-based classification of epilepsy and PNES: EEG microstate and functional brain network features. Brain Inform 2020; 7:6. [PMID: 32472244 PMCID: PMC7260313 DOI: 10.1186/s40708-020-00107-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [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: 09/02/2019] [Accepted: 05/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) often show over-lap in symptoms, especially at an early disease stage. During a PNES, the electrical activity of the brain remains normal but in case of an epileptic seizure the brain will show epileptiform discharges on the electroencephalogram (EEG). In many cases an accurate diagnosis can only be achieved after a long-term video monitoring combined with EEG recording which is quite expensive and time-consuming. In this paper using short-term EEG data, the classification of epilepsy and PNES subjects is analyzed based on signal, functional network and EEG microstate features. Our results showed that the beta-band is the most useful EEG frequency sub-band as it performs best for classifying subjects. Also the results depicted that when the coverage feature of the EEG microstate analysis is calculated in beta-band, the classification shows fairly high accuracy and precision. Hence, the beta-band and the coverage are the most important features for classification of epilepsy and PNES patients.
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- Negar Ahmadi
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, TU/e, P.O.Box: 513, 5600MB, Eindhoven, NL, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, TU/e, P.O.Box: 513, 5600MB, Eindhoven, NL, The Netherlands
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, TU/e, P.O.Box: 513, 5600MB, Eindhoven, NL, The Netherlands
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Pei Y, Du X, Zhang J, Fletcher G, Pechenizkiy M. struc2gauss: Structural role preserving network embedding via Gaussian embedding. Data Min Knowl Discov 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10618-020-00684-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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AbstractNetwork embedding (NE) is playing a principal role in network mining, due to its ability to map nodes into efficient low-dimensional embedding vectors. However, two major limitations exist in state-of-the-art NE methods: role preservation and uncertainty modeling. Almost all previous methods represent a node into a point in space and focus on local structural information, i.e., neighborhood information. However, neighborhood information does not capture global structural information and point vector representation fails in modeling the uncertainty of node representations. In this paper, we propose a new NE framework, struc2gauss, which learns node representations in the space of Gaussian distributions and performs network embedding based on global structural information. struc2gauss first employs a given node similarity metric to measure the global structural information, then generates structural context for nodes and finally learns node representations via Gaussian embedding. Different structural similarity measures of networks and energy functions of Gaussian embedding are investigated. Experiments conducted on real-world networks demonstrate that struc2gauss effectively captures global structural information while state-of-the-art network embedding methods fail to, outperforms other methods on the structure-based clustering and classification task and provides more information on uncertainties of node representations.
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Cheng G, Cheng R, Pei Y, Xu L, Qi W. Severity assessment of accidents involving roadside trees based on occupant injury analysis. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0231030. [PMID: 32255784 PMCID: PMC7138306 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 11/12/2019] [Accepted: 03/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The aims of this study were to achieve a quantitative assessment of the severity of accidents involving roadside trees on highways and to propose corresponding safety measures to reduce accident losses. This paper used the acceleration severity index (ASI), head injury criteria (HIC) and chest resultant acceleration (CRA) as indicators of occupant injuries and horizontal radii, vehicle departure speeds, tree diameters and roadside tree spacing as research variables to carry out bias collision tests between cars, trucks and trees by constructing a vehicle rigid body system and an occupant multibody system in PC-crash 10.0® simulation software. A total of 2,256 data points were collected. For straight and curved segments of highways, the occupant injury evaluation models of cars were fitted based on the CRA, and occupant injury evaluation models of trucks and cars were fitted based on the ASI. According to the Fisher optimal segmentation method, reasonable classification standards of severities of accidents involving roadside trees and the corresponding ASI and CRA thresholds were determined, and severity assessment methods for accidents involving roadside trees based on the CRA and ASI were provided. Additionally, a new index by which to evaluate the accuracy of the accident severity classification and the degree of misclassification was built and applied for the validity verification of the proposed severity assessment methods. A proportion of trucks was introduced to further improve the ASI evaluation model. For the same simulation conditions, the results show that driver chest injuries are more serious than driver head injuries and that the average ASI of cars is greater than that of trucks. The CRA and ASI have a positive linear correlation with the departure speed and a logarithmic correlation with the roadside tree diameters. The larger the spacing of roadside trees is and the smaller the horizontal radius is, the smaller the chance that a vehicle will experience a second collision and the lower the risk of occupant injury. In method validation, the evaluation results from two proposed severity assessment methods based on the CRA and ASI are consistent, and the degrees of misclassification are 4.65% and 4.26%, respectively, which verifies the accuracy of the methods proposed in this paper and confirms that the ASI can be employed as an effective index for evaluating occupant injuries in accidents involving roadside trees.
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- Guozhu Cheng
- School of Traffic and Transportation, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- School of Traffic and Transportation, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- School of Traffic and Transportation, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- School of Civil Engineering, Changchun Institute of Technology, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Department of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Wang YJ, Du J, Pei Y, Chen K, Yang GQ, Wang XL, Guo QH, Lyu ZH, Ba JM, Dou JT, Mu YM. [A case of lymphocytic hypophysitis presenting as spontaneous resolution of a pituitary mass]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi 2020; 59:62-65. [PMID: 31887839 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0578-1426.2020.01.011] [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: 11/05/2022]
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- Y J Wang
- Department of Endocrinology, the First Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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Patel N, Frosi Stella S, Hsiao R, Gurevich A, Kostrzewa M, Iliuta I, Tai E, Jaberi A, Pei Y, Shlomovitz E. 4:12 PM Abstract No. 116 Safety of high-dose 3% sodium tetradecyl sulfate for sclerotherapy treatment of renal cysts in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: a five-year study. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2019.12.146] [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: 10/25/2022] Open
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Du X, Pei Y, Duivesteijn W, Pechenizkiy M. Exceptional spatio-temporal behavior mining through Bayesian non-parametric modeling. Data Min Knowl Discov 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10618-020-00674-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AbstractCollective social media provides a vast amount of geo-tagged social posts, which contain various records on spatio-temporal behavior. Modeling spatio-temporal behavior on collective social media is an important task for applications like tourism recommendation, location prediction and urban planning. Properly accomplishing this task requires a model that allows for diverse behavioral patterns on each of the three aspects: spatial location, time, and text. In this paper, we address the following question: how to find representative subgroups of social posts, for which the spatio-temporal behavioral patterns are substantially different from the behavioral patterns in the whole dataset? Selection and evaluation are the two challenging problems for finding the exceptional subgroups. To address these problems, we propose BNPM: a Bayesian non-parametric model, to model spatio-temporal behavior and infer the exceptionality of social posts in subgroups. By training BNPM on a large amount of randomly sampled subgroups, we can get the global distribution of behavioral patterns. For each given subgroup of social posts, its posterior distribution can be inferred by BNPM. By comparing the posterior distribution with the global distribution, we can quantify the exceptionality of each given subgroup. The exceptionality scores are used to guide the search process within the exceptional model mining framework to automatically discover the exceptional subgroups. Various experiments are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of our method. On four real-world datasets our method discovers subgroups coinciding with events, subgroups distinguishing professionals from tourists, and subgroups whose consistent exceptionality can only be truly appreciated by combining exceptional spatio-temporal and exceptional textual behavior.
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Tai E, Qazi A, Chan T, Zener R, Iliuta I, Barua M, Khalili K, Jaberi A, Pei Y, Shlomovitz E. 04:12 PM Abstract No. 419 3% STS foam sclerotherapy of liver cysts is effective and durable for cyst volume reduction in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease patients. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2018.12.497] [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] Open
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Liu DD, Zhou W, Li PL, Zhang JL, Chen W, Gu WJ, Pei Y, Du J, Zang L, Ba JM, Lü ZH, Mu YM, Shan BC, Zhang YL, Ma L, Dou JT. [Differences of brain functional alterations between subtypes of Cushing's syndrome patients]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2019; 99:593-598. [PMID: 30818928 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0376-2491.2019.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Objective: To compare the differences of brain functional damage of subtypes of patients with Cushing's syndrome (CS). Methods: A total of 11 adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-dependent CS patients and 29 ACTH-independent CS patients were recruited from Chinese PLA General Hospital between September 2015 and March 2017 with confirmed CS. The psychiatric scales and brain task functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) were evaluated. Results: A total of 40 patients (34 females, 6 males) with a mean age of (39.20±12.10) years and a median education level of 12 (9, 16) years were enrolled. ACTH-dependent patients had significantly worse performance than the ACTH-independent patients in response to the depression evaluation (64.6±6.1 vs 56.2±12.8, P=0.008), positive emotion (17.8±4.2 vs 24.3±7.2, P=0.008) and CS life quality [31(29,33) vs 42(29,51), P=0.040]. In the reaction to positive target pictures, ACTH-dependent CS patients showed stronger activation in left superior temporal gyrus compared with patients in ACTH-independent group, while the activation degree of their bilateral dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, bilateralsuperior frontal gyrus and left middle frontal gyrus was much worse. In the reactions to negative target pictures, ACTH-dependent CS patients had weaker activation in bilateral cerebellum, left superior frontal gyrus, left middle frontal gyrus, left precuneus and right postcentral gyrus, compared with patients in the ACTH-independent CS group (P<0.01, AlphaSim corrected). The activation degree of some regions whose brain function was different between the two groups was correlated to the cortisol level, ACTH level, 24 h urinary free cortisol (UFC) level, depression evaluation and negative emotion assessment (all P<0.05). Conclusions: The severity of the depression and the life quality of patients in ACTH-dependent group are worse than ACTH-independent CS patients. The brain function of ACTH-dependent CS patients is much weaker.
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- D D Liu
- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism of PLA, Beijing 100853, China( is working in the Department of Endocrinology, Baoding First Central Hospital, Baoding 071000, China)
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- Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Division of Nuclear Technology and Applications, Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100049, China
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- Department of Pharmacology School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism of PLA, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism of PLA, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism of PLA, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism of PLA, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism of PLA, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism of PLA, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism of PLA, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism of PLA, Beijing 100853, China
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- Division of Nuclear Technology and Applications, Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100049, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Baoding First Central Hospital, Baoding 071000, China
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- Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism of PLA, Beijing 100853, China
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Cong Z, Pei Y. WHOSE EDUCATION COUNTS? CHILDREN’S EDUCATION AND OLDER PARENTS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN RURAL CHINA. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Z Cong
- Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States
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- Human Development and Family Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
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Cong Z, Pei Y, Silverstein M, Li S. HOW DO INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS CHANGE WHEN PARENT’S DEATH GETS CLOSER? Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Z Cong
- Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States
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- Human Development and Family Studies, Texas Tech University, TX, USA
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- Sociology, Human Development and Family Science, Syracuse Unviersity, NY, USA
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- Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
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- Jianpeng Zhang
- Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological R&D Center, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Liang J, Zhu Y, Liu XK, Qiu QQ, Sun YT, Wang Y, Pei Y, Yang MQ, Qi L. Protective Effects of an Obesity-Associated Polymorphism (CDKAL1 rs9356744) on Prediabetes: The Cardiometabolic Risk in Chinese (CRC) Study. Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 2018; 126:540-545. [PMID: 29933462 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-109607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 10/28/2022]
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Background Obesity is strongly associated with insulin resistance and elevated plasma glucose levels. The rs9356744 polymorphism in the CDKAL1 gene is associated with body mass index (BMI) only in East Asians. Here, we examined the effect of the rs9356744 polymorphism on glucose-related traits and prediabetes in Chinese adults.
Methods A total of 2 357 participants were enrolled from the Cardiometabolic Risk in Chinese (CRC) Study, including 499 persons with prediabetes, 204 persons with type 2 diabetes, and 1 654 normoglycemic controls. The rs9356744 polymorphism in CDKAL1 was genotyped and analyzed in all participants.
Results Despite the positive relationship between obesity and glucose traits, the T allele of rs9356744, which is associated with a predisposition to obesity, was correlated with lower levels of 2-h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) plasma glucose (2hPG) (β=− 0.2104 and P=0.0233), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) (β=− 0.0551 and P=0.0298) and higher levels of homeostasis model of assessment β-cell function (HOMA-B) (β=5.282 and P=0.0424). After further adjustment for BMI, the levels of HOMA-B maintained a similar increased trend across rs9356744 genotype (β=3.277 and P=0.1958). In stratified analyses, the associations of rs9356744 with 2hPG and HbA1c were significant for individuals with a low BMI. Moreover, an antagonism action of BMI and rs9356744 on 2hPG (P for interaction=0.0055) was observed. In addition, we found a protective effect of rs9356744 on prediabetes.
Conclusions The CDKAL1 rs9356744 T allele associated with a predisposition to obesity showed a protective effect on HbA1c, 2hPG, and prediabetes. BMI was mediator of the association between the genetic variant and HbA1c, 2hPG, and prediabetes.
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- J. Liang
- Department of Endocrinology and Central Laboratory, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Jiangsu, China
- Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Xuzhou Institute of Medical Sciences, Xuzhou Institute of Diabetes, Jiangsu, China
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- Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Central Laboratory, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Jiangsu, China
- Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Central Laboratory, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Jiangsu, China
- Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Xuzhou Institute of Medical Sciences, Xuzhou Institute of Diabetes, Jiangsu, China
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- Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Central Laboratory, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Jiangsu, China
- Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Xuzhou Institute of Medical Sciences, Xuzhou Institute of Diabetes, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Central Laboratory, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Jiangsu, China
- Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Xuzhou Institute of Medical Sciences, Xuzhou Institute of Diabetes, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Wijeyesinghe E, Pei Y, Feritori S, Uldall P. Right Atrial Ball Thrombus as a Complication of Subclavian Catheter Insertion for Hemodialysis Access. Int J Artif Organs 2018. [DOI: 10.1177/039139888701000208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In two patients right atrial ball thrombi developed following prolonged subclavian cannulation for hemodialysis. One patient died, the other had the ball thrombus removed by open heart surgery. It appears that repeated friction of the catheter tip may have damaged the endothelium of the right atrial wall. This hitherto unrecognised complication might be prevented by ensuring that subclavian hemodialysis catheters are never allowed to reach as far as the right atrium.
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- Toronto General Hospital, Canada
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Wei Q, Yang GQ, Li YJ, Zang L, Pei Y, Du J, Gu WJ, Ba JM, Lü ZH, Dou JT, Mu YM, Lu JM. [Clinical features and prognosis of 18 cases of primary lymphocytic hypophysitis]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2018; 98:102-108. [PMID: 29343033 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0376-2491.2018.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objective: To analyze clinical features, prognosis and treatment of lymphocytic hypophysitis (LYH). Methods: The clinical data, treatments and outcomes of 18 cases diagnosed as LYH at Chinese PLA General Hospital between January 2001 and July 2017 was respectively reviewed. Results: Eighteen patients with histology-proven LYH (13 females and 5 males ) were identified. All lymphocytic adenohypophysitis (LAH) were females(n=6), two of whom were associated with pregnancy. Eleven patients (6 females and 5 males) had lymphocytic panhypophysitis (LPH) and one(female) had hypothalamitis. Pre-treatment evaluation revealed that 11 patients presented with symptoms of intracranial space-occupying lesions, 12 patients had symptoms of anterior pituitary hormone deficiencies, and 12 patients had central diabetes insipidus (CDI). All patients had space-occupying lesions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which were symmetrically enlarged and homogenously enhanced with or without pituitary stalk thickening. Before or after surgery, 11 patients received immunosuppressant therapy or radiotherapy to alleviate space-occupying effect. After 4-204 months follow-up, 5 patients had a relapse and received immunosuppressants, radiotherapy or surgery to achieve remission. Full recovery (both symptomatic and radiographic) was seen in 6 patients, and 11 patients maintained stable replacement therapy. Conclusions: LYH presents with acute space-occupying effects such as headache, visual disturbances, hypopituitarism, CDI and mild hyperprolactinemia, especially with characteristic radiographic manifestations. Usually, surgery reliably establishes diagnosis, and immunosuppressant therapy is a necessity. On the whole, LYH has a good prognosis.
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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Shen Y, Zhang H, Zhang L, Li H, Mao H, Pei Y, Jing Z, Lu Q. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement with balloon-expandable valve : Analysis of initial experience in China. Herz 2017; 43:746-751. [PMID: 29236149 PMCID: PMC6280821 DOI: 10.1007/s00059-017-4622-x] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2017] [Revised: 08/21/2017] [Accepted: 08/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Background Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is widely applied for the treatment of severe aortic stenosis (AS) in developed countries; however, in China, it is still in the early stage of utilization. On the basis of previous studies, this work explored the feasibility of TAVR in patients with severe AS in China and analyzed the cause of death in four cases. Methods This retrospective study included 20 patients who had severe AS and underwent TAVR with a balloon-expandable system (Edwards SAPIEN XT) in our hospital from January 2011 to June 2016. The valve and heart functions of 16 survivors before and after the TAVR procedure were compared. TAVR endpoints, device success, and adverse events were assessed according to the definitions of the Valve Academic Research Consortium-2 (VARC-2). Results There were 13 male and seven female patients aged 65–81 years (average, 73.15) who underwent TAVR. The TAVR approach was transfemoral in 19 patients and transapical in one patient. Four patients died (two of coronary artery occlusion and two of aortic annulus rupture) during the TAVR procedure or shortly after; six patients had mild paravalvular leakage, and the rest of the patients showed a significant improvement in cardiac function. During the follow-up period (2–62 months), one patient died of lung cancer 13 months after the TAVR procedure. Conclusion TAVR with a balloon-expandable system is safe and effective and can be used for patients with severe AS in China. It requires careful patient selection and preoperative assessment so as to reduce the 30-day postoperative mortality rate.
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China.
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Chen G, Li LL, Sun J, Gu WJ, Jin N, Yan WH, Chen K, Du J, Wang XL, Zang L, Pei Y, Guo QH, Yang GQ, Ba JM, Lyu ZH, Lu JM, Mu YM, Dou JT. [Clinical characteristics of 128 hospitalized patients with syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretics of different etiologies]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi 2017; 56:816-821. [PMID: 29136710 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0578-1426.2017.11.008] [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 summarize and analyze the clinical features and etiologies in hospitalized patients with syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretics (SIAD) during the past 25 years. Methods: All data of 128 patients with SIAD admitted to Chinese PLA General Hospital since January 1991 to January 2016 were collected. SIAD was diagnosed based on the 1957 criterion. Results: (1) The most frequent causes of increased inappropriate secretion of vasopressin were malignant tumors, lung diseases (e. g. pneumonia), and central nervous system diseases, in which malignant tumors accounted for 38.28% of the SIAD. (2) During the past 25 years, the proportion of malignant diseases declined from 4/7 to 35.29%, while, the proportion of pulmonary infection increased from 1/7 to 35.29% (P<0.05). (3) The patients with malignant tumors had the lowest serum sodium and serum osmolality among all SIAD patients. (4) CT scan had a high diagnostic value for chest and brain detection. (5) Among three SIAD subjects with unknown reasons at onset, two were diagnosed with small cell lung cancer and one with gastric cancer during follow-up. Conclusion: The etiology of SIAD is complex and it could be attributed to multifarious etiological factors. Malignant tumors account for the largest proportion of all patients, and pulmonary infection was ranked in second place. Cautions on tumors have to be taken when serum sodium of a SIAD patient is below 118.1 mmol/L.
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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Wang L, Pei Y, Li S, Zhang S, Yang Y. P1.14-004 Outcomes of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy and Surgery in Treating Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Meta-Analysis. J Thorac Oncol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2017.09.1022] [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: 10/18/2022]
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Cui L, Chen L, Xia W, Jiang Y, Cui L, Huang W, Wang W, Wang X, Pei Y, Zheng X, Wang Q, Ning Z, Li M, Wang O, Xing X, Lin Q, Yu W, Weng X, Xu L, Cummings SR. Vertebral fracture in postmenopausal Chinese women: a population-based study. Osteoporos Int 2017; 28:2583-2590. [PMID: 28560474 DOI: 10.1007/s00198-017-4085-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [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: 01/08/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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UNLABELLED In a random sample of postmenopausal Chinese women, the prevalence of radiographic vertebral fractures increased from 13% between ages 50 and 59 to over 50% after age 80 years. A model with seven clinical risk factors predicted the probability of vertebral fractures as well with as without BMD and better than a model with only three risk factors. More than half an hour of outdoor activity per day might correlate with lower risk of vertebral fracture in this population. INTRODUCTION We aimed to describe the prevalence and develop a model for prediction of radiographic vertebral fractures in a large random sample of postmenopausal Chinese women. METHODS We enrolled 1760 women from an age-stratified random sample of postmenopausal women in Beijing, China. The presence of vertebral fracture was assessed by semi-quantitative grading of lateral thoracolumbar radiographs, risk factors by interview, bone mineral density (BMD) of the proximal femur and lumbar spine by dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and markers of bone turnover from a fasting blood sample. Associations of these factors were analyzed in logistic models and discrimination by areas of receiver operating characteristics curves (AUC). RESULTS The prevalence of vertebral fracture, ranged from 13.4% ages 50 to 59 years old to 58.1% at age 80 years or older. Older age, a history of non-vertebral fracture, lower femoral neck BMD T-score, body mass index (BMI), height loss, housework, and less than half an hour of outdoor activity were significantly associated with increased probability of having a vertebral fracture. A model with those seven factors had a similar AUC with or without BMD and performed better than a simple model with three factors. CONCLUSION This study is from a true random sample of postmenopausal women in urban China with high response rate. The prevalence of vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women in Beijing increases from 13% under age 60 to over 50% by age 80 years. A model with seven clinical risk factors with or without BMD is better than simple models and may guide the use of spine x-rays to identify women with vertebral fractures. More than half an hour of outdoor activity might correlate with lower risk of vertebral fracture in this population.
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
- Department of Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China.
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, BeiJing HaiDian Hospital, Beijing, 100080, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, 100144, China
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- Department of Cadre Unit, General Hospital of the Second Artillery Force, Beijing, 100088, China
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- Department of Geriatric Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, China Rehabilitation Research Center, Beijing, 100068, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Beijing Liangxiang Hospital, Beijing, 102401, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Beijing, 100020, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Radiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Radiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, 100730, China
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- San Francisco Coordinating Center, CPMC Research Institute and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, USA
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Baghbaderani BA, Syama A, Sivapatham R, Pei Y, Mukherjee O, Tian X, Tran H, Menendez L, Fellner T, Zeng X, Rao M. Assay development and cell characterization challenges of human induced pluripotent stem cells for cell therapy applications. Cytotherapy 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcyt.2017.02.223] [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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Zener R, Iliuta I, Shi B, Barua M, Khalili K, Pei Y, Shlomovitz E. Safety and efficacy of 3% sodium tetradecyl sulfate foam sclerotherapy in the treatment of renal cysts in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2016.12.942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Speake C, Pichugin A, Sahu T, Malkov V, Morrison R, Pei Y, Juompan L, Milman N, Zarling S, Anderson C, MacDonald NJ, Wong-Madden S, Wendler J, Ishizuka A, MacMillen ZW, Garcia V, Kappe SH, Krzych U, Duffy PE. Correction: Identification of Novel Pre-Erythrocytic Malaria Antigen Candidates for Combination Vaccines with Circumsporozoite Protein. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0165489. [PMID: 27764243 PMCID: PMC5072645 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159449.].
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Cheng Z, Wang M, Xu C, Pei Y, Liu JC, Huang H, He D, Lu P. Mutational analysis of HOXA10 gene in Chinese patients with cryptorchidism. Andrologia 2016; 49. [PMID: 27108669 DOI: 10.1111/and.12592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 02/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Cryptorchidism is one of the most common congenital anomalies and affects 2-4% of full-term new born boys. Its aetiology is poorly understood at present. HOXA10 plays a pivotal role in regulation of testicular descent. Male mice mutant for Hoxa10 exhibit unilateral or bilateral cryptorchidism as a result of impaired development of the gubernaculums. In this study, we performed mutation analysis of HOXA10 gene in a cohort of 98 cryptorchid patients. And we found a mutation (N27K) in a boy with unilateral cryptorchidism. The mutation was not detected in 106 healthy controls. Both in silico analyses and functional studies showed that the mutation affected the function of HOXA10. The results demonstrated that mutation in HOXA10 gene contributes to the pathogenesis of cryptorchidism, but may not be a common cause.
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Center for Human Genome Research and Cardio-X Institute, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Pediatric Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Pediatric Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing, China
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Zhu T, Wang J, Pei Y, Wang Q, Wu Y, Qiu G, Zhang D, Lv M, Li W, Zhang J. Neddylation controls basal MKK7 kinase activity in breast cancer cells. Oncogene 2015; 35:2624-33. [PMID: 26364603 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2015.323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2014] [Revised: 06/26/2015] [Accepted: 07/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The c-Jun NH2-terminal protein kinase (JNK) pathway has been implicated in mammary tumor development. However, the molecular mechanisms regulating JNK activity in breast cancer cells remain unclear. Here, we report that the inhibition of ubiquitination-like post-translational modification neddylation through different strategies results in enhanced basal JNK phosphorylation in human breast cancer cells. The upregulation of basal JNK phosphorylation upon neddylation inhibition is independent of the deneddylation of Cullins, the well-characterized neddylation substrates. Since augmented basal JNK phosphorylation via ectopic MKK7 expression impedes proliferation and the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) phenotype, the neddylation system might contribute to mammary tumor development partially through limiting basal JNK phosphorylation. Further exploration reveals that MKK7, a JNK-specific MAP2K, undergoes neddylation in human breast cancer cells. MKK7 co-precipitates with a fragment of Ran-binding protein 2 (RanBP2), a large multimodular and pleiotropic protein that has been recognized as a SUMO E3 ligase. Knockdown of RanBP2 attenuates MKK7 neddylation and augments basal JNK phosphorylation without affecting the neddylation of Cullins, whereas ectopic expression of a RanBP2 fragment possessing SUMO E3 activity (RanBP2ΔFG) manifests the opposite effects. In vitro neddylation assays confirm that RanBP2ΔFG works as the neddylation E3 ligase for MKK7. The basal kinase activity of endogenous MKK7 increases upon RanBP2 knockdown but decreases upon the ectopic expression of RanBP2ΔFG. Furthermore, purified MKK7 shows reduced basal kinase activity after in vitro neddylation by RanBP2ΔFG. Consistently, RanBP2 knockdown leads to reduced proliferation and impaired EMT phenotype in human breast cancer cells and the effects of RanBP2 knockdown are reversed by simultaneous MKK7 knockdown. Taken together, our data suggest that MKK7 undergoes neddylation in human breast cancer cells, which limits its basal kinase activity.
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- Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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Pei Y, Kim Y, Obinata G, Genda E, Stefanov D. Robot-aided motion planning for knee joint rehabilitation with two robot-manipulators. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2015; 2013:2495-8. [PMID: 24110233 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2013.6610046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In this paper, we propose a simultaneous design method of motion and external force trajectories for knee joint rehabilitation based on the biomechanical analysis of the lower limb. In this method we assume to use two robots manipulators which provide forces and moments at shank and thigh. We developed a 7 degree of freedom musculoskeletal model of lower limb with 19 muscles. The valuation function of rehabilitation efficiency e has been maximized by Genetic Algorithm (GA) that refers to the musculoskeletal model and tunes motion trajectory of the robots and forces acting on the shank and thigh.
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Pham C, Flores C, Pei Y, Wechsler-Reya R, Mitchell D. IM-14 * IMMUNOLOGIC TARGETING OF MEDULLOBLASTOMA SUBTYPES USING DEVELOPMENTALLY REGULATED ANTIGENS. Neuro Oncol 2015. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nov061.68] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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Liu KW, Pei Y, Wechsler-Reya R. MB-13 * HDAC AND PI3K ANTAGONISTS COOPERATE TO INHIBIT GROWTH OF MYC-DRIVEN MEDULLOBLASTOMA. Neuro Oncol 2015. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nov061.89] [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: 11/12/2022] Open
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Gutova M, Oganesyan D, Grigorova ST, Pei Y, Shahmanyan D, Li Z, Barish M, Aboody K, Wechsler-Reya R. SC-03 * NEURAL STEM CELL-MEDIATED ENZYME/PRODRUG THERAPY FOR MEDULLOBLASTOMA. Neuro Oncol 2015. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nov061.145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Liang J, Pei Y, Gong Y, Liu XK, Dou LJ, Zou CY, Qiu QQ, Yang MQ, Qi L. Serum uric acid and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in non-hypertensive Chinese adults: the Cardiometabolic Risk in Chinese (CRC) study. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2015; 19:305-311. [PMID: 25683947] [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: 06/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The causal relationship between serum uric acid (SUA) level and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has not yet been clarified. The objective of the study was to determine the association between SUA and NAFLD, as well as assess the interactions between SUA and other metabolic risk factors regarding NAFLD. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study samples related to a community-based health examination survey conducted in Central China. Initially, a total of 24,878 patients with medical examination were included. After excluding the individuals with confounding factors, the remaining 21,798 subjects with biomarkers available were included in the present study. RESULTS The data show that the risk of NAFLD significantly increased with the elevated SUA levels. Further adjustments for sex, age, and other confounding metabolic factors did not change the increasing trend of NAFLD risk. The odds ratios [ORs, 95% confidence interval (CI)] of NAFLD across the increasing quintiles of SUA were 1.00, 1,530 (1.174-1.995), 2.24 (1.714-2.886), 2.636 (2.019-3.441), and 3.714 (2.828-4.877) (p for trend < 0.0001). Also, significant interaction was found between SUA and prehypertension in relation to the NAFLD risk (p for interaction < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS SUA was significantly associated with NAFLD risk, independent of other metabolic risk factors, and SUA also had significant interaction with prehypertension regarding the risk of NAFLD.
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- J Liang
- Department of Endocrinology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College; Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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Pham C, Flores C, Pei Y, Wechsler-Reya R, Mitchell D. IT-25 * DEVELOPMENTALLY REGULATED ANTIGENS FOR IMMUNOLOGIC TARGETING OF MEDULLOBLASTOMA SUBTYPES. Neuro Oncol 2014. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nou258.23] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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Wang L, Pei Y. The impact of continuous driving time and rest time on commercial drivers' driving performance and recovery. J Safety Res 2014; 50:11-15. [PMID: 25142356 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2014.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2013] [Revised: 01/11/2014] [Accepted: 01/15/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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PROBLEM This real road driving study was conducted to investigate the effects of driving time and rest time on the driving performance and recovery of commercial coach drivers. METHODS Thirty-three commercial coach drivers participated in the study, and were divided into three groups according to driving time: (a) 2 h, (b) 3 h, and (c) 4 h. The Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS) was used to assess the subjective fatigue level of the drivers. One-way ANOVA was employed to analyze the variation in driving performance. RESULTS The statistical analysis revealed that driving time had a significant effect on the subjective fatigue and driving performance measures among the three groups. After 2 h of driving, both the subjective fatigue and driving performance measures began to deteriorate. After 4 h of driving, all of the driving performance indicators changed significantly except for depth perception. A certain amount of rest time eliminated the negative effects of fatigue. A 15-minute rest allowed drivers to recover from a two-hour driving task. This needed to be prolonged to 30 min for driving tasks of 3 to 4 h of continuous driving. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS Drivers' attention, reactions, operating ability, and perceptions are all affected in turn after over 2 h of continuous driving. Drivers should take a certain amount of rest to recover from the fatigue effects before they continue driving.
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- Lianzhen Wang
- School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China.
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- Traffic College, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
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