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2. DNA vaccine prime and replicating vaccinia vaccine boost induce robust humoral and cellular immune responses against MERS-CoV in mice
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Shen, Xiuli, Wang, Shuhui, Hao, Yanling, Fu, Yuyu, Ren, Li, Li, Dan, Tang, Wenqi, Li, Jing, Chen, Ran, Zhu, Meiling, Wang, Shuo, Liu, Ying, and Shao, Yiming
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As of December 2022, 2603 laboratory-identified Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections and 935 associated deaths, with a mortality rate of 36%, had been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). However, there are still no vaccines for MERS-CoV, which makes the prevention and control of MERS-CoV difficult. In this study, we generated two DNA vaccine candidates by integrating MERS-CoV Spike (S) gene into a replicating Vaccinia Tian Tan (VTT) vector. Compared to homologous immunization with either vaccine, mice immunized with DNA vaccine prime and VTT vaccine boost exhibited much stronger and durable humoral and cellular immune responses. The immunized mice produced robust binding antibodies and broad neutralizing antibodies against the EMC2012, England1 and KNIH strains of MERS-CoV. Prime-Boost immunization also induced strong MERS-S specific T cells responses, with high memory and poly-functional (CD107a-IFN-γ-TNF-α) effector CD8+T cells. In conclusion, the research demonstrated that DNA-Prime/VTT-Boost strategy could elicit robust and balanced humoral and cellular immune responses against MERS-CoV-S. This study not only provides a promising set of MERS-CoV vaccine candidates, but also proposes a heterologous sequential immunization strategy worthy of further development.
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- 2024
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3. Ion and Hydrodynamic Translucency in 1D van der Waals Heterostructured Boron-Nitride Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.
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Cetindag, Semih, Park, Sei Jin, Buchsbaum, Steven F., Zheng, Yongjia, Liu, Ming, Wang, Shuhui, Xiang, Rong, Maruyama, Shigeo, Fornasiero, Francesco, and Shan, Jerry W.
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- 2024
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4. Low deformation re-manufacturing and repair method based on phase transition temperature
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Wei, Yonghe, Liu, Fengli, Wang, Shuhui, Liu, Xiaoting, and Yao, Jian
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- 2024
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5. Learning Hierarchical Modular Networks for Video Captioning
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Li, Guorong, Ye, Hanhua, Qi, Yuankai, Wang, Shuhui, Qing, Laiyun, Huang, Qingming, and Yang, Ming-Hsuan
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Video captioning aims to generate natural language descriptions for a given video clip. Existing methods mainly focus on end-to-end representation learning via word-by-word comparison between predicted captions and ground-truth texts. Although significant progress has been made, such supervised approaches neglect semantic alignment between visual and linguistic entities, which may negatively affect the generated captions. In this work, we propose a hierarchical modular network to bridge video representations and linguistic semantics at four granularities before generating captions: entity, verb, predicate, and sentence. Each level is implemented by one module to embed corresponding semantics into video representations. Additionally, we present a reinforcement learning module based on the scene graph of captions to better measure sentence similarity. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed method performs favorably against the state-of-the-art models on three widely-used benchmark datasets, including microsoft research video description corpus (MSVD), MSR-video to text (MSR-VTT), and video-and-TEXt (VATEX).
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- 2024
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6. A Comprehensive Survey of 3D Dense Captioning: Localizing and Describing Objects in 3D Scenes
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Yu, Ting, Lin, Xiaojun, Wang, Shuhui, Sheng, Weiguo, Huang, Qingming, and Yu, Jun
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Three-Dimensional (3D) dense captioning is an emerging vision-language bridging task that aims to generate multiple detailed and accurate descriptions for 3D scenes. It presents significant potential and challenges due to its closer representation of the real world compared to 2D visual captioning, as well as complexities in data collection and processing of 3D point cloud sources. Despite the popularity and success of existing methods, there is a lack of comprehensive surveys summarizing the advancements in this field, which hinders its progress. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of 3D dense captioning, covering task definition, architecture classification, dataset analysis, evaluation metrics, and in-depth prosperity discussions. Based on a synthesis of previous literature, we refine a standard pipeline that serves as a common paradigm for existing methods. We also introduce a clear taxonomy of existing models, summarize technologies involved in different modules, and conduct detailed experiment analysis. Instead of a chronological order introduction, we categorize the methods into different classes to facilitate exploration and analysis of the differences and connections among existing techniques. We also provide a reading guideline to assist readers with different backgrounds and purposes in reading efficiently. Furthermore, we propose a series of promising future directions for 3D dense captioning by identifying challenges and aligning them with the development of related tasks, offering valuable insights and inspiring future research in this field. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive understanding of 3D dense captioning, foster further investigations, and contribute to the development of novel applications in multimedia and related domains.
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- 2024
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7. Interacting Phonons between Layers in Raman Spectra of Carbon Nanotubes inside Boron Nitride Nanotubes.
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Gulo, Desman Perdamaian, Hung, Nguyen Tuan, Chen, Wei-Liang, Wang, Shuhui, Liu, Ming, Kauppinen, Esko I., Maruyama, Shigeo, Chang, Yu-Ming, Saito, Riichiro, and Liu, Hsiang-Lin
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- 2023
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8. Jinyinqingre Oral Liquid alleviates LPS-induced acute lung injury by inhibiting the NF-κB/NLRP3/GSDMD pathway.
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WANG, Shuhui, LEI, Pan, FENG, Ying, JIANG, Mingzhu, LIU, Zegan, SHEN, Ting, MA, Shinan, WANG, Libo, GUO, Xingrong, and DU, Shiming
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Acute lung injury (ALI) is a prevalent and severe clinical condition characterized by inflammatory damage to the lung endothelial and epithelial barriers, resulting in high incidence and mortality rates. Currently, there is a lack of safe and effective drugs for the treatment of ALI. In a previous clinical study, we observed that Jinyinqingre oral liquid (JYQR), a Traditional Chinese Medicine formulation prepared by the Taihe Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Medicine, exhibited notable efficacy in treating inflammation-related hepatitis and cholecystitis in clinical settings. However, the potential role of JYQR in ALI/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and its anti-inflammatory mechanism remains unexplored. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the therapeutic effects and underlying molecular mechanisms of JYQR in ALI using a mouse model of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced ALI and an in vitro RAW264.7 cell model. JYQR yielded substantial improvements in LPS-induced histological alterations in lung tissues. Additionally, JYQR administration led to a noteworthy reduction in total protein levels within the BALF, a decrease in MPAP, and attenuation of pleural thickness. These findings collectively highlight the remarkable efficacy of JYQR in mitigating the deleterious effects of LPS-induced ALI. Mechanistic investigations revealed that JYQR pretreatment significantly inhibited NF-κB activation and downregulated the expressions of the downstream proteins, namely NLRP3 and GSDMD, as well as proinflammatory cytokine levels in mice and RAW2647 cells. Consequently, JYQR alleviated LPS-induced ALI by inhibiting the NF-κB/NLRP3/GSDMD pathway. JYQR exerts a protective effect against LPS-induced ALI in mice, and its mechanism of action involves the downregulation of the NF-κB/NLRP3/GSDMD inflammatory pathway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. CRISPR-Cas-Driven Single Micromotor (Cas-DSM) Enables Direct Detection of Nucleic Acid Biomarkers at the Single-Molecule Level.
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Chen, Desheng, Liang, Yuanwen, Wang, Honghong, Wang, Hui, Su, Fengxia, Zhang, Pengbo, Wang, Shuhui, Liu, Weiliang, and Li, Zhengping
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- 2023
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10. Research on unbalanced mining of highway project key data based on knowledge graph and cloud model.
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Wang, Yinglin, Zhuang, Jiaxin, Zhou, Guowei, and Wang, Shuhui
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KNOWLEDGE graphs ,ROAD construction ,CONSTRUCTION project management ,INFORMATION superhighway ,BIG data ,BOOSTING algorithms - Abstract
Various stages of highway project construction process involve text, image, audio, video and other related data sources involving many participants, forming a huge amount of data. Accurately tracing the source of responsibility, refining and applying the unbalanced data in the highway project archives is of great significance for realizing the intelligent transformation of highway construction project management. This paper firstly sorts out the construction process of highway projects and the main data sources, constructs a data association network between construction entities and construction process, as well as a knowledge map of highway construction data. Then, according to the highway construction stage, an index system based on 12 key data is constructed by using the entropy weight cloud model method, and the importance of the data is evaluated. Thirdly, based on the unbalanced characteristics of highway project data, a method of mining big data in highway project archives using classification evaluation indexes is proposed, and the accuracy of this method is verified by case calculation. Finally, taking the Shizong Qiubei Expressway in China as an example, the intelligent management and control suggestions for key data of transportation projects are proposed. It is found that the key data with special importance rate in highway construction include construction data, supervision data and completion data. Boosting algorithm is more accurate than the traditional SMOTE algorithm for unbalanced data mining, which helps to save the project construction cost and improve the quality of data extraction in the project archives. This study provides a theoretical reference for key data traceability of highway project intelligent management and control platform and the improvement of intelligent management efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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11. Effectiveness validation of a novel comprehensive classification for intertrochanteric fractures.
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CUI Lukuan, LIU Hao, WANG Jiangjing, FAN Huanhuan, WANG Dapeng, WANG Shuhui, and SONG Chi
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- 2023
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12. General Greedy De-Bias Learning
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Han, Xinzhe, Wang, Shuhui, Su, Chi, Huang, Qingming, and Tian, Qi
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Neural networks often make predictions relying on the spurious correlations from the datasets rather than the intrinsic properties of the task of interest, facing with sharp degradation on out-of-distribution (OOD) test data. Existing de-bias learning frameworks try to capture specific dataset bias by annotations but they fail to handle complicated OOD scenarios. Others implicitly identify the dataset bias by special design low capability biased models or losses, but they degrade when the training and testing data are from the same distribution. In this paper, we propose a General Greedy De-bias learning framework (GGD), which greedily trains the biased models and base model. The base model is encouraged to focus on examples that are hard to solve with biased models, thus remaining robust against spurious correlations in the test stage. GGD largely improves models’ OOD generalization ability on various tasks, but sometimes over-estimates the bias level and degrades on the in-distribution test. We further re-analyze the ensemble process of GGD and introduce the Curriculum Regularization inspired by curriculum learning, which achieves a good trade-off between in-distribution (ID) and out-of-distribution performance. Extensive experiments on image classification, adversarial question answering, and visual question answering demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. GGD can learn a more robust base model under the settings of both task-specific biased models with prior knowledge and self-ensemble biased model without prior knowledge. Codes are available at
https://github.com/GeraldHan/GGD .- Published
- 2023
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13. CRISPR-Cas-Driven Single Micromotor (Cas-DSM) Enables Direct Detection of Nucleic Acid Biomarkers at the Single-Molecule Level
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Chen, Desheng, Liang, Yuanwen, Wang, Honghong, Wang, Hui, Su, Fengxia, Zhang, Pengbo, Wang, Shuhui, Liu, Weiliang, and Li, Zhengping
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The target-dependent endonuclease activity (also known as the trans-cleavage activity) of CRISPR-Cas systems has stimulated great interest in the development of nascent sensing strategies for nucleic acid diagnostics. Despite many attempts, the majority of the sensitive CRISPR-Cas diagnostics strategies mainly rely on nucleic acid preamplification, which generally needs complex probes/primers designs, multiple experimental steps, and a longer testing time, as well as introducing the risk of false-positive results. In this work, we propose the CRISPR-Cas-Driven Single Micromotor (Cas-DSM), which can directly detect the nucleic acid targets at a single-molecule level with high specificity. We have demonstrated that the Cas-DSM is a reliable and practical method for the quantitative detection of DNA/RNA in various complex clinical samples as well as in individual cells without any preamplification processes. Due to the excellent features of the CRISPR/Cas system, including constant temperature, simple design, high specificity, and flexible programmability, the Cas-DSM could serve as a simple and universal platform for nucleic acid detection. More importantly, this work will provide a breakthrough for the development of next-generation amplification-free CRISPR/Cas sensing toolboxes.
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- 2023
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14. Flexible INAR(1) models for equidispersed, underdispersed or overdispersed counts.
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Kang, Yao, Wang, Dehui, Lu, Feilong, and Wang, Shuhui
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Equidispersed, underdispersed and overdispersed count data are commonly encountered in practice. To better describe these data characteristics, this paper develops two classes of INAR(1) processes, which not only can model a wide range of overdispersion and underdispersion, but also have ability to describe the zero-inflated and zero-deflated characteristics of the count data. The probabilistic and statistical properties of the two processes are studied. Estimators of the model parameters are derived by using conditional maximum likelihood (CML) and modified conditional least squares (MCLS) methods. Some asymptotic properties and numerical results of the estimators are investigated. Three real examples are given to show the flexibility and usefulness of the proposed models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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15. Status and transition of normal-weight central obesity and the risk of cardiovascular diseases: A population-based cohort study in China.
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Ren, Ziyang, Sun, Weidi, Wang, Shuhui, Ying, Jiayao, Liu, Wen, Fan, Lijun, Zhao, Yang, Wu, Chenkai, and Song, Peige
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Background and Aims: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become a growing public health concern. Normal weight central obesity (NWCO) has emerged as a potential risk factor for cardiometabolic dysregulation. To date, the association between NWCO and new-onset CVDs remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate the associations of NWCO and its longitudinal transitions with cardiovascular risks in middle-aged and older Chinese.Methods and Results: Data were from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2011-2018. NWCO was defined as the combination of a body mass index (BMI) of <24.0 kg/m2 and a waist circumference (WC) of >85 cm in males or >80 cm in females. CVDs included heart diseases and stroke. Cause-specific hazard models and subdistribution hazard models with all-cause death as the competing event were applied. In 2011, 9856 participants without prior CVDs were included, of whom 1814 developed CVDs during a 7-year follow-up. Compared to normal weight and non-central obesity (NWNCO), NWCO was significantly associated with new-onset CVDs, with cause-specific hazard ratios (cHRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of 1.21 (1.04-1.41) for heart diseases and 1.40 (1.11-1.76) for stroke. From 2011 to 2013, 571 NWNCO participants developed NWCO who subsequently demonstrated a 45% higher risk of CVDs than those with maintained NWNCO.Conclusion: NWCO and transition from NWNCO to NWCO are associated with higher risks of CVDs. Identification and prevention of NWCO may be useful in the management of CVDs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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16. van der Waals SWCNT@BN Heterostructures Synthesized from Solution-Processed Chirality-Pure Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes.
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Zhang, Chiyu, Fortner, Jacob, Wang, Peng, Fagan, Jeffrey A., Wang, Shuhui, Liu, Ming, Maruyama, Shigeo, and Wang, YuHuang
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- 2022
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17. Self-Regulated Learning for Egocentric Video Activity Anticipation
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Qi, Zhaobo, Wang, Shuhui, Su, Chi, Su, Li, Huang, Qingming, and Tian, Qi
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Future activity anticipation is a challenging problem in egocentric vision. As a standard future activity anticipation paradigm, recursive sequence prediction suffers from the accumulation of errors. To address this problem, we propose a simple and effective Self-Regulated Learning framework, which aims to regulate the intermediate representation consecutively to produce representation that (a) emphasizes the novel information in the frame of the current time-stamp in contrast to previously observed content, and (b) reflects its correlation with previously observed frames. The former is achieved by minimizing a contrastive loss, and the latter can be achieved by a dynamic reweighing mechanism to attend to informative frames in the observed content with a similarity comparison between feature of the current frame and observed frames. The learned final video representation can be further enhanced by multi-task learning which performs joint feature learning on the target activity labels and the automatically detected action and object class tokens. SRL sharply outperforms existing state-of-the-art in most cases on two egocentric video datasets and two third-person video datasets. Its effectiveness is also verified by the experimental fact that the action and object concepts that support the activity semantics can be accurately identified.
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18. ATXN3 promotes proliferation, stemness and motility of clear cell renal cell carcinoma cells by regulating S100A8 ubiquitination
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Bai, Jixiang, Han, Jieru, Fan, Jiayi, Song, Jing, and Wang, Shuhui
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- 2023
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19. Genome assembly and genetic dissection of a prominent drought-resistant maize germplasm
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Tian, Tian, Wang, Shuhui, Yang, Shiping, Yang, Zhirui, Liu, Shengxue, Wang, Yijie, Gao, Huajian, Zhang, Shuaisong, Yang, Xiaohong, Jiang, Caifu, and Qin, Feng
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In the context of climate change, drought is one of the most limiting factors that influence crop production. Maize, as a major crop, is highly vulnerable to water deficit, which causes significant yield loss. Thus, identification and utilization of drought-resistant germplasm are crucial for the genetic improvement of the trait. Here we report on a high-quality genome assembly of a prominent drought-resistant genotype, CIMBL55. Genomic and genetic variation analyses revealed that 65 favorable alleles of 108 previously identified drought-resistant candidate genes were found in CIMBL55, which may constitute the genetic basis for its excellent drought resistance. Notably, ZmRtn16, encoding a reticulon-like protein, was found to contribute to drought resistance by facilitating the vacuole H+-ATPase activity, which highlights the role of vacuole proton pumps in maize drought resistance. The assembled CIMBL55 genome provided a basis for genetic dissection and improvement of plant drought resistance, in support of global food security.
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20. Entity-Enhanced Adaptive Reconstruction Network for Weakly Supervised Referring Expression Grounding
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Liu, Xuejing, Li, Liang, Wang, Shuhui, Zha, Zheng-Jun, Li, Zechao, Tian, Qi, and Huang, Qingming
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Weakly supervised Referring Expression Grounding (REG) aims to ground a particular target in an image described by a language expression while lacking the correspondence between target and expression. Two main problems exist in weakly supervised REG. First, the lack of region-level annotations introduces ambiguities between proposals and queries. Second, most previous weakly supervised REG methods ignore the discriminative location and context of the referent, causing difficulties in distinguishing the target from other same-category objects. To address the above challenges, we design an entity-enhanced adaptive reconstruction network (EARN). Specifically, EARN includes three modules: entity enhancement, adaptive grounding, and collaborative reconstruction. In entity enhancement, we calculate semantic similarity as supervision to select the candidate proposals. Adaptive grounding calculates the ranking score of candidate proposals upon subject, location and context with hierarchical attention. Collaborative reconstruction measures the ranking result from three perspectives: adaptive reconstruction, language reconstruction and attribute classification. The adaptive mechanism helps to alleviate the variance of different referring expressions. Experiments on five datasets show EARN outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods. Qualitative results demonstrate that the proposed EARN can better handle the situation where multiple objects of a particular category are situated together.
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21. van der Waals SWCNT@BN Heterostructures Synthesized from Solution-Processed Chirality-Pure Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
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Zhang, Chiyu, Fortner, Jacob, Wang, Peng, Fagan, Jeffrey A., Wang, Shuhui, Liu, Ming, Maruyama, Shigeo, and Wang, YuHuang
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Single-wall carbon nanotubes in boron nitride (SWCNT@BN) are one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures that exhibit intriguing physical and chemical properties. As with their carbon nanotube counterparts, these heterostructures can form from different combinations of chiralities, providing rich structures but also posing a significant synthetic challenge to controlling their structure. Enabled by advances in nanotube chirality sorting, clean removal of the surfactant used for solution processing, and a simple method to fabricate free-standing submonolayer films of chirality pure SWCNTs as templates for the BN growth, we show it is possible to directly grow BN on chirality enriched SWCNTs from solution processing to form van der Waals heterostructures. We further report factors affecting the heterostructure formation, including an accelerated growth rate in the presence of H2, and significantly improved crystallization of the grown BN, with the BN thickness controlled down to one single BN layer, through the presence of a Cu foil in the reactor. Transmission electron microscopy and electron energy-loss spectroscopic mapping confirm the synthesis of SWCNT@BN from the solution purified nanotubes. The photoluminescence peaks of both (7,5)- and (8,4)-SWCNT@BN heterostructures are found to redshift (by ∼10 nm) relative to the bare SWCNTs. Raman scattering suggests that the grown BN shells pose a confinement effect on the SWCNT core.
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22. Light Scattering Technology-Combined Ligation-Dependent Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LL-LAMP) for Sensitive Detection of RNA.
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Wang, Honghong, Wang, Shuhui, Wang, Hui, Liang, Yuanwen, Jia, Yuting, and Li, Zhengping
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- 2022
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23. Development of full automatic calibration system for process calibrators
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Jiang, Yucheng, Xiao, Tianlei, Wang, Shuhui, and Nie, Xiaoye
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- 2024
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24. Sustainable biosynthesis of squalene from waste cooking oil by the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
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Wang, Shuhui, Sun, Xu, Han, Yuqing, Li, Zhuo, Lu, Xiaocong, Shi, Hongrui, Zhang, Cui-ying, Wong, Adison, and Yu, Aiqun
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Squalene is a highly sought-after triterpene compound in growing demand, and its production offers a promising avenue for circular economy practices. In this study, we applied metabolic engineering principles to enhance squalene production in the nonconventional yeast Yarrowia lipolytica, using waste cooking oil as a substrate. By overexpressing key enzymes in the mevalonate pathway — specifically ERG9 encoding squalene synthase, ERG20 encoding farnesyl diphosphate synthase, and HMGR encoding hydroxy-methyl-glutaryl-CoA reductase — we achieved a yield of 779.9 mg/L of squalene. Further co-overexpression of DGA1, encoding diacylglycerol acyltransferase, and CAT2, encoding carnitine acetyltransferase, in combination with prior metabolic enhancements, boosted squalene production to 1381.4 mg/L in the engineered strain Po1g17. To enhance the supply of the precursor acetyl-CoA and inhibit downstream squalene conversion, we supplemented with 6 g/L pyruvic acid and 0.7 mg/L terbinafine, resulting in an overall squalene titer of 2594.1 mg/L. These advancements underscore the potential for sustainable, large-scale squalene production using Y. lipolyticacell factories, contributing to circular economy initiatives by valorizing waste materials.
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25. Synthesis of vertically aligned boron nitride nanotubes with a template of single-walled carbon nanotubes
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Liu, Ming, Wang, Shuhui, Zheng, Yongjia, Takeuchi, Miyuki, Inoue, Taiki, Xiang, Rong, and Maruyama, Shigeo
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- 2022
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26. Re-utilization of Chinese medicinal herbal residue: waste wormwood rod-derived porous carbon as a low-cost adsorbent for methyl orange removal
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Wang, Shuhui, Huang, Yu, Wu, Yiting, Zhang, Xinyu, Wan, Liu, Liu, Xiang, and Zhang, Wanju
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- 2021
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27. Compared catalytic properties of OMS-2-based nanocomposites for the degradation of organic pollutants
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Hou, Wenxin, Wang, Shuhui, Bi, Xiuru, Meng, Xu, Zhao, Peiqing, and Liu, Xiang
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Mn catalysts have been designed based on OMS-2 support to optimize the catalytic activity in the degradation of organic pollutants.
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- 2021
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28. Neoveratrol A-D: Four new arylbenzofurans from Veratrum nigrum.
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Li, Wenxi, Batu, Jirimu, Zhang, Ping, Wang, Shuhui, Zhang, Xuan, Morit, Hiroyuki, and Bao, Baoquan
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• Four new arylbenzofurans (1 - 4) were isolated from Veratrum nigrum. • Nine known compounds (5 - 13) were isolated and the structures were identified. • Compounds 1 - 3 , 5 , 7 - 9 and 11 - 13 showed anti-inflammatory activities. • Compound 5 and 6 showed anti-tumor activities on five tested cell lines. Four new arylbenzofurans, 2-(3′,5′-dimethoxy) phenyl-6-hydroxy-7-methoxy benzofuran (1, Neoveratrol A), 2-(3′-O- β -D-glucosyl-5′-hydroxy) phenyl-4,6-dimethoxy benzofuran (2 , Neoveratrol B), 2-(3′,5′-dimethoxy) phenyl-4-O- β -D-glucosyl-6-hyroxy benzofuran (3 , Neoveratrol C), 2-(3′,5′-dimethoxy) phenyl-6-hydroxy-7-O- β -D-glucosyl benzofuran (4 , Neoveratrol D), together with nine known ones (5-13) were isolated from the dried root and rhizome of a Traditional Mongolian medicinal herb Veratrum nigrum. The structures were elucidated by various spectroscopic methods including UV, IR, NMR and HR-MS. Among these compounds, 1 - 3 , 5 , 7 - 9 and 11 - 13 showed significant inhibitory effects on lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced nitric oxide (NO) production in RAW264.7 cells at the concentration ranging from 50.0–200.0 μ M. Compound 1 exhibited moderate activity against HepG2 and HCT-15. In addition, compound 5 and 6 showed inhibitory activities against human tumor cell lines HepG2, HCT-15, A549, MDA-MB-231 and SH-SY5Y with IC 50 range of 40–100 μ M. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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29. An engineered Cas12i nuclease that is an efficient genome editing tool in animals and plants
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Duan, Zhiqiang, Liang, Yafeng, Sun, Jialei, Zheng, Hongjin, Lin, Tong, Luo, Pengyu, Wang, Mengge, Liu, Ruiheng, Chen, Ying, Guo, Shuhua, Jia, Nannan, Xie, Hongtao, Zhou, Meili, Xia, Minghui, Zhao, Kaijun, Wang, Shuhui, Liu, Na, Jia, Yongling, Si, Wei, Chen, Qitong, Hong, Yechun, Tian, Ruilin, and Zhu, Jian-Kang
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The type V-I CRISPR-Cas system is becoming increasingly more attractive for genome editing. However, natural nucleases of this system often exhibit low efficiency, limiting their application. Here, we used structure-guided rational design and protein engineering to optimize an uncharacterized Cas12i nuclease, Cas12i3. As a result, we developed Cas-SF01, a Cas12i3 variant that exhibits significantly improved gene editing activity in mammalian cells. Cas-SF01 shows comparable or superior editing performance compared to SpCas9 and other Cas12 nucleases. Compared to natural Cas12i3, Cas-SF01 has an expanded PAM range and effectively recognizes NTTN and noncanonical NATN and TTVN PAMs. In addition, we identified an amino acid substitution, D876R, that markedly reduced the off-target effect while maintaining high on-target activity, leading to the development of Cas-SF01HiFi(high-fidelity Cas-SF01). Finally, we show that Cas-SF01 has high gene editing activities in mice and plants. Our results suggest that Cas-SF01 can serve as a robust gene editing platform with high efficiency and specificity for genome editing applications in various organisms.
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- 2024
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30. Multi-sensor signal fusion for tool wear condition monitoring using denoising transformer auto-encoder Resnet
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Wang, Hui, Wang, Shuhui, Sun, Weifang, and Xiang, Jiawei
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Multi-sensor signal fusion is commonly used in associate with the artificial intelligence model to monitor tool wears. However, AI models equipped with limited multi-sensor training samples still exist problems: 1) The limitation of training samples may cause the AI model failure due to the intrinsic wear features contaminated by heavy noises. 2) The selection of multi-sensor signals as training samples is a difficult task for the negative impact on the recognition accuracy using inappropriate sensor features. Therefore, this paper proposes a denoise transformer Auto-Encoder (DTAE) as pre-processor for the tool condition monitoring (TCM) classifiers. The reconstruction task of the DTAE allows the model to pay more attention to the intrinsic wear features and the appropriate selection of them from the multi-sensor signals during feature extraction. Moreover, the loss function for DTAE ResNet is formed by summing the reconstruction loss from DTAE with the classification loss from ResNet. Compared DTAE ResNet to stacked sparse auto-encoder network, deep stacked auto-encoder network, ResNet-18, VGG-16, and LSTM, experiments demonstrated that the present method would attain the highest classification accuracies for tool wear suitable for TCM. And a comparative experiment was conducted to verify the effectiveness of the DTAE preprocessor in improving the anti-noise performance of the classifier.
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- 2024
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31. Evaluating the Efficiency of Boron Nitride Coating in Single-Walled Carbon-Nanotube-Based 1D Heterostructure Films by Optical Spectroscopy
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Wang, Shuhui, Levshov, Dmitry I., Otsuka, Keigo, Zhang, Bo-Wen, Zheng, Yongjia, Feng, Ya, Liu, Ming, Kauppinen, Esko I., Xiang, Rong, Chiashi, Shohei, Wenseleers, Wim, Cambré, Sofie, and Maruyama, Shigeo
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Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) films exhibit exceptional optical and electrical properties, making them highly promising for scalable integrated devices. Previously, we employed SWCNT films as templates for the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthesis of one-dimensional heterostructure films where boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) and molybdenum disulfide nanotubes (MoS2NTs) were coaxially nested over the SWCNT networks. In this work, we have further refined the synthesis method to achieve precise control over the BNNT coating in SWCNT@BNNT heterostructure films. The resulting structure of the SWCNT@BNNT films was thoroughly characterized using a combination of electron microscopy, UV–vis–NIR spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy. Specifically, we investigated the pressure effect induced by BNNT wrapping on the SWCNTs in the SWCNT@BNNT heterostructure film and demonstrated that the shifts of the SWCNT’s G and 2D (G′) modes in Raman spectra can be used as a probe of the efficiency of BNNT coating. In addition, we studied the impact of vacuum annealing on the removal of the initial doping in SWCNTs, arising from exposure to ambient atmosphere, and examined the effect of MoO3doping in SWCNT films by using UV–vis–NIR spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. We show that through correlation analysis of the G and 2D (G′) modes in Raman spectra, it is possible to discern distinct types of doping effects as well as the influence of applied pressure on the SWCNTs within SWCNT@BNNT heterostructure films. This work contributes to a deeper understanding of the strain and doping effect in both SWCNTs and SWCNT@BNNTs, thereby providing valuable insights for future applications of carbon-nanotube-based one-dimensional heterostructures.
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32. Differential analysis of immunoglobulin gene expression pattern in chickens of distinct breeds and developmental periods
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Qiu, Yanbo, Yi, Xiaohua, Tang, Xiaoqin, Wei, Yanpei, Zhang, Beibei, Duan, Shunan, Wang, Shuhui, and Sun, Xiuzhu
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Immunoglobulin is an essential component of the body’s defense against pathogens, aiding in the recognition and clearance of foreign antigens. Research concerning immunoglobulin gene and its diversity of expression across different breeds within the same species is relatively scarce. In this study, we employed RACE (Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends) technology, prepared DNA libraries, performed high-throughput sequencing, and conducted related bioinformatics analysis to analyze the differences in immunoglobulin gene diversity and expression at different periods in Hy-line brown hens, Lueyang black-bone chickens, and Beijing-You chickens. The study found that the composition of chicken immunoglobulin genes is relatively simple, with both the light chain and heavy chain having a functional V gene. Additionally, the mechanisms of immunoglobulin diversity generation tended to be consistent among different breeds and periods of chickens, primarily relying on abundant junctional diversity, somatic hypermutation (SHM), and gene conversion (GCV) to compensate for the limitations of low-level V(D)J recombination. As the age increased, the junctional diversity of IgH and IgL tended to diversify and showed similar expression patterns among different breeds. In the three chicken breeds, the predominant types of mutations observed in IGHV and IGLV SHM were A to G and G to A transitions. Specifically, IGLV exhibited a preference for A to G mutations, whereas IGHV displayed a bias toward G to A mutations. The regions at the junctions between framework regions (FR) and complementarity-determining regions (CDR) and within the CDR regions themselves are typically prone to mutations. The locations of GCV events in IGLV and IGHV do not show significant differences, and replacement segments are concentrated in the central regions of FR1, CDR, and FR2. Importantly, gene conversion events are not random occurrences. Additionally, our investigation revealed that CDRH3 in chickens of diverse breeds and periods the potential for diversification through the incorporation of cysteine. This study demonstrates that the diversity of immunoglobulin expression tends to converge among Hy-line brown hens, Lueyang black-bone chickens, and Beijing-You chickens, indicating that the immunoglobulin gene expression mechanisms in different breeds of chickens do not exhibit significant differences due to selective breeding.This study demonstrates the convergence of immunoglobulin gene expression patterns among Hy-line brown hens, Lueyang black-bone chickens, and Beijing-You chickens, implying that the immunoglobulin gene expression mechanisms in different chicken breeds do not exhibit significant variations resulting from selective breeding.Immunoglobulins play a key role in the organism’s defense against pathogens, and their diverse expression allows the body to generate a wide array of antibodies. This diversity serves as a critical safeguard for the immune system against various pathogens. Natural geographical variances and artificial breeding and selection can potentially lead to different immune responses in distinct populations of the same species when confronted with the same pathogen. In this study, we investigated the diversity of immunoglobulin gene expression in the natural state of different chicken breeds (Hy-line brown hens, Lueyang black-bone chickens, and Beijing-You chickens) and at different periods from the perspective of immunoglobulin gene expression mechanism. We analyzed the diversity of immunoglobulin based on the results of high-throughput sequencing by extracting Fabricius bursa RNA, RACE (Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends) technique, and constructing DNA libraries. Our study reveals that the junctional diversity, somatic hypermutation, CDR3 diversity, and gene conversion expression of immunoglobulins in Hy-line brown hens, Lueyang black-bone chickens, and Beijing-You chickens converge during the same time period. This indicates that the immunoglobulin gene expression mechanisms in different chicken breeds do not exhibit significant variations as a result of selective breeding.
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33. Recent progress on fluorescent probes for viruses
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Shen, Siyang, Xu, Weilin, Lu, Jianxiang, Wang, Shuhui, Huang, Yurou, Zeng, Xiaoyan, Xiao, Weimin, and Yin, Jun
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Viruses are ubiquitous in human life. Some viruses can be used as vectors of genetic engineering and specific pesticides. Other viruses trigger a variety of diseases in humans, animals and plants, resulting in high infection rates and mortality. Therefore, convenient, accurate and rapid detection of viruses is of great significance for the diagnosis and treatment of subsequent diseases. In contrast to traditional methods of detection, which rely on time-consuming and complex techniques such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR), fluorescent probes and imaging methods generate real-time results, with high specificity, and have been widely used in viral detection. In this review, the application of viral fluorescent probes in analyzing the molecular structure, detection and biological imaging is discussed. In particular, we categorized the probes based on their specificity for human and plant viruses, reviewing the latest findings and analyzing their limitations. The potential of fluorescent molecular probes in the treatment of viral disease and environmental analysis, and their possible combinations with protein and immune technology are discussed.
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34. Antibody-Free Determinations of Low-Mass, Soluble Oligomers of Aβ42and Aβ40by Planar Bilayer Lipid Membrane-Based Electrochemical Biosensor
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Duan, Yuemei, Chen, Jia, Jin, Yan, Tu, Qiuyun, Wang, Shuhui, and Xiang, Juan
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease among the elderly. Abnormal aggregates of both β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) subtypes, Aβ42and Aβ40, are the typical neuropathology hallmarks of AD. However, because of the lack of specific recognition elements such as an antibody and aptamer, it is difficult to differentiate and determine the oligomers of Aβ42and Aβ40in clinic. In this paper, we developed a planar bilayer lipid membrane (BLM)-based electrochemical biosensor. According to the dynamic differences on oligomer-induced BLM damage, both low-mass, soluble oligomers of Aβ42and Aβ40(L-Aβ42O and L-Aβ40O) were measured in turn by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The BLM was supported by a porous 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid layer on a gold electrode, which amplified the impedance signal corresponding to the membrane damage and improved the detection sensitivity. The weakly charged surface of the BLM ensured the low non-specific adsorption of coexisting proteins in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Using the electrochemical biosensor, L-Aβ42O was determined within 20 min, with a linear range from 5 to 500 pM and a detection limit of 3 pM. Meanwhile, L-Aβ40O was determined within 60 min, with a linear range from 60 pM to 6.0 nM and a detection limit of 26 pM. The recoveries in oligomer-spiked artificial CSF and human CSF samples confirmed the accuracy and applicability of this proposed method in clinic. This work provides an antibody-free, highly selective, and sensitive method for simultaneous detections of L-Aβ42O and L-Aβ40O in real CSF samples, which is significant for the early diagnosis and prognosis of AD.
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35. A new multi-disciplinary integrated steering technology for horizontal wells in tight sandstone gas reservoirs: A case study of the Ordos Basin
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Fei, Shixiang, Du, Yubin, Wang, Yijun, Chen, Nan, Gao, Yang, Wang, Shuhui, and He, Liu
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The sandstone layers of the Upper Paleozoic tight clastic gas reservoirs in the Ordos Basin are generally distributed in a pattern of nearly NS strip, and the channel branches and intersects frequently. A single sand body is in a multilayered contact mode resulted from lateral accretion, and the sand bodies at the river intersections present a feature of lying in the nearly EW direction, which brings great difficulties to the geo-steering of horizontal wells. In order to improve the reservoir drilling rate of horizontal wells, this paper systematically analyzed the geo-steering status of horizontal wells and the sedimentary characteristics of reservoirs. Then, the spatial distribution of reservoirs was predicted using 3D geological modeling and 3D seismic. In addition, based on the cognitions on the space distribution of sand bodies from the drilled horizontal wells, the horizontal well geo-steering technology and method were constantly improved and enriched. Thus, an integrated steering technology of “fine sublayer correlation for target entering, geology in small scale, and seismic in large scale” based on in-depth integration of multidisciplinary thinking was newly formed, and it was also applied on site. And the following research results were obtained. First, under the guidance of the sedimentation model, the target entering process is controlled precisely and the success rate of one-trip target entering is improved, so it is one important method for the target steering of deviated hole sections. Second, geological modeling can guide the drilling of horizontal wells, but to some extent, it is deviated from the real underground geologic bodies, so it can be used as an auxiliary horizontal-well steering method. Third, 3D seismic steering can tell the boundary of complex river channel and discriminate the spatial relative location of predominant sand bodies, so it is the primary method for horizontal-well steering to provide excellent judgment and guidance on the steering of horizontal hole sections. Fourth, owing to the application of this new method in 62 horizontal wells drilled in the tight gas demonstration area, the average horizontal section length reaches 1430 m, the average sandstone drilling rate is 86.2%, the average gas layer drilling rate is 70.2%, and the gas layer drilling rate of horizontal wells is increased by more than 10%.
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36. Modulation of Gut Microbiota by Fucoxanthin During Alleviation of Obesity in High-Fat Diet-Fed Mice
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Sun, Xiaowen, Zhao, Hailong, Liu, Zonglin, Sun, Xun, Zhang, Dandan, Wang, Shuhui, Xu, Ying, Zhang, Guofang, and Wang, Dongfeng
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Fucoxanthin (Fx), an allenic carotenoid from brown seaweeds or diatoms, has been demonstrated to prevent obesity. Gut dysbiosis and inflammation are two counted important incidence reasons of obesity and related diseases. In this paper, a mouse model induced by high-fat diet (HFD) was used to reveal the role of Fx in modulating intestinal homeostasis and treating obesity. In addition, 16S rRNA sequencing results inferred that Fx alleviated HFD-induced gut microbiota dysbiosis by significantly inhibiting the growth of obesity-/inflammation-related Lachnospiraceae and Erysipelotrichaceae while promoting the growth of Lactobacillus/Lactococcus, Bifidobacterium, and some butyrate-producing bacteria. The correlation analysis showed that some gut microbiota taxa were strongly correlated with obesity phenotypes and the inflammation level. In conclusion, dietary Fx has the potential to alleviate the development of obesity and related symptoms through mediating the composition of gut microbiota as demonstrated in mice. This study provides scientific evidence for the potential effects of Fx on obesity treatment.
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37. 1,2‐Diketones as photoinitiators of both cationic and free‐radical photopolymerization under UV (392 nm) or Blue (455 nm) LEDs
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Zhang, Jing, Wang, Shuhui, Lalevée, Jacques, Morlet‐Savary, Fabrice, Lam, Elizabeth S.‐H., Graff, Bernadette, Liu, Jing, Xing, Feiyue, and Xiao, Pu
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The photoinitiation abilities of three 1,2‐diketones [i.e., acenaphthenequinone (ANPQ), aceanthrenequinone (AATQ), and 9,10‐phenanthrenequinone (PANQ)]‐based photoinitiating systems [PISs, with additives such as iodonium salt, N‐vinylcarbazole (NVK), tertiary amine, and phenacyl bromide (R‐Br)] for cationic photopolymerization and free‐radical photopolymerization under the irradiation of ultraviolet (UV; 392 nm) or blue (455 nm) light‐emitting diode (LED) bulb are investigated. All 1,2‐diketones studied exhibit ground state absorption that match with the emission spectra of UV (392 nm) or blue LED (455 nm) better than that of the well‐known blue‐light‐sensitive photoinitiator camphorquinone (CQ). In particular, AATQ/iodonium salt/NVK can show high photoinitiating ability (with epoxide conversion yield >70%) under the UV light irradiation due to the effect of NVK. In addition, 1,2‐diketone/iodonium salt (and optional NVK) systems are capable of initiating free‐radical photopolymerization of methacrylates, with conversions of 50–58%. Furthermore, some 1,2‐diketone/tertiary amine (and optional R‐Br) combinations are found to demonstrate high efficiency to initiate free‐radical photopolymerization, and 71% of methacrylate conversion can be achieved with PANQ/tertiary amine/R‐Br PIS. Some 1,2‐ketone‐based PISs can even exhibit higher efficiency than the CQ‐based systems. The photochemical mechanism of the radical generation from the 1,2‐diketone‐based PISs is investigated and found to be consistent with the related photopolymerization efficiency. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 58, 792–802 Three 1,2‐diketones (i.e., acenaphthenequinone, aceanthrenequinone, and 9,10‐phenanthrenequinone)‐based photoinitiating systems (PISs, with additives such as iodonium salt, N‐vinylcarbazole, tertiary amine, and phenacyl bromide) exhibit the ability to initiate both the free‐radical and the cationic photopolymerization under the ultraviolet or blue light‐emitting diode. Most of the investigated 1,2‐diketones‐based PISs are even more efficient than the well‐known camphorquinone‐based systems.
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38. Structural insights into substrate recognition by the type VII secretion system
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Wang, Shuhui, Zhou, Kaixuan, Yang, Xiaolin, Zhang, Bing, Zhao, Yao, Xiao, Yu, Yang, Xiuna, Yang, Haitao, Guddat, Luke W., Li, Jun, and Rao, Zihe
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Type VII secretion systems (T7SSs) are found in many disease related bacteria including Mycobacterium tuberculosis(Mtb). ESX-1 [early secreted antigen 6 kilodaltons (ESAT-6) system 1] is one of the five subtypes (ESX-1~5) of T7SSs in Mtb, where it delivers virulence factors into host macrophages during infection. However, little is known about the molecular details as to how this occurs. Here, we provide high-resolution crystal structures of the C-terminal ATPase3domains of EccC subunits from four different MtbT7SS subtypes. These structures adopt a classic RecA-like ɑ/βfold with a conserved Mg-ATP binding site. The structure of EccCb1 in complex with the C-terminal peptide of EsxB identifies the location of substrate recognition site and shows how the specific signaling module “LxxxMxF” for MtbESX-1 binds to this site resulting in a translation of the bulge loop. A comparison of all the ATPase3structures shows there are significant differences in the shape and composition of the signal recognition pockets across the family, suggesting that distinct signaling sequences of substrates are required to be specifically recognized by different T7SSs. A hexameric model of the EccC-ATPase3is proposed and shows the recognition pocket is located near the central substrate translocation channel. The diameter of the channel is ~25-Å, with a size that would allow helix-bundle shaped substrate proteins to bind and pass through. Thus, our work provides new molecular insights into substrate recognition for MtbT7SS subtypes and also a possible transportation mechanism for substrate and/or virulence factor secretion.
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39. Minimum entropy deconvolution based on simulation-determined band pass filter to detect faults in axial piston pump bearings.
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Wang, Shuhui, Xiang, Jiawei, Tang, Hesheng, Liu, Xiaoyang, and Zhong, Yongteng
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RECIPROCATING pumps ,DECONVOLUTION (Mathematics) ,ENTROPY (Information theory) ,FINITE element method ,FAULT diagnosis ,FILTERS & filtration - Abstract
Abstract The fault diagnosis of axial piston pumps is of significance for enhancing the reliability and security of hydraulic systems. Most of the faults occurring in the mechanical components of piston pumps are exhibited as fault-excited impulses. However, the strong impact-induced natural periodic impulses under the common working conditions (i.e. reciprocating motion of pistons) inevitably cause interference that considerably affects the fault detection performance. In this study, a simulation-determined band pass filter is employed to improve the performance of minimum entropy deconvolution (MED) for the fault diagnosis of axial piston pump bearings. First, a finite element method (FEM) simulation is performed to determine the possible carrier frequency. Second, the carrier frequency is used as the center frequency in association with a fixed bandwidth to determine the band pass filter parameters. Finally, the MED technique is applied to enhance weak fault-excited impulses by means of kurtosis maximization. Thereafter, envelope spectrum analysis is applied to the enhanced signals to obtain faulty feature frequencies. Two case studies are conducted, using bearings with faults in the outer and inner races of an axial piston pumps under common working conditions. The case studies confirm the necessity and effectiveness of the proposed method for detecting bearings faults in axial piston pumps. Highlights • An improved minimum entropy deconvolution (MED) method using simulation determined band-pass filter is developed to detect faults in bearings of axial piston pumps contaminated with impact induced natural periodic impulses. • The finite element method (FEM) simulation is performed to determine the possible carrier frequency to decrease the interference of natural periodic impact. • The MED technique is applied to the filtered signals to enhance the fault excited impulses. • Two case studies are conducted using bearings with faults in the outer and inner races to highlight the performance of the present method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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40. Coimmunocapture and Electrochemical Quantitation of Total and Phosphorylated Amyloid‑β40 Monomers.
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Yin, Zhenzhen, Wang, Shuhui, Shen, Baochai, Deng, Chunyan, Tu, Qiuyun, Jin, Yan, Shen, Lu, Jiao, Bin, and Xiang, Juan
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41. Flaxseed oil improves liver injury and inhibits necroptotic and inflammatory signaling pathways following lipopolysaccharide challenge in a piglet model.
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Wang, Longmei, Tu, Zhixiao, Wang, Haibo, Wang, Shuhui, Wang, Xiuying, Zhu, Huiling, Hu, Chien-An Andy, and Liu, Yulan
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The hepatoprotective effects of flaxseed oil (FO) were tested in a pig model of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced liver injury. Twenty-four piglets were used in a 2 × 2 factorial design including diet and an LPS challenge. After 3 weeks of feeding with 5% FO or 5% corn oil, pigs were challenged with LPS or saline. FO alleviated LPS-induced morphological liver damage, reduced serum alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase and alkaline phosphatase activities, and increased claudin-1 protein expression. FO decreased tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-6 and cyclooxygenase 2 mRNA expression, and heat shock protein 70 mRNA and protein expression. FO downregulated receptor interacting protein kinase (RIP)1, RIP3, and mixed-lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL) mRNA expression, RIP1 and RIP3 protein expression, and MLKL phosphorylation. FO downregulated mRNA expression of toll-like receptor 4, nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain protein 1 and multiple downstream signaling molecules, and decreased p38 and extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 phosphorylation. These results indicate that FO inhibits necroptotic and inflammatory signaling pathways to protect the liver from inflammation-related injury. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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42. Hospital-acquired lower respiratory tract infections among high risk hospitalized patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital in China: An economic burden analysis.
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Yan, Tianyuan, Li, Yingxia, Sun, Yu, Wang, Haiyan, Wang, Jingna, Wang, Weili, Liu, Yunhong, Wu, Xiaohui, and Wang, Shuhui
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Background Data on the economic burden of hospital-acquired lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) among high risk hospitalized patients are lacking in China. This study aims to fill this knowledge gap. Methods We used a prospective matched cohort design, comparing patients with LRTIs and 1:1 matched patients without LRTIs. Study period was from January 2013 to December 2015 analyzing inpatients from high risk wards – intensive care unit (ICU), dialysis, hematology, etc. – in a tertiary hospital. Hospital information system and hospital infection surveillance system were applied to extract necessary information. The primary outcome was incidence of hospital-acquired LRTIs, and the secondary was economic burden outcomes, including incremental medical costs and prolonged length of stay (LOS). Wilcoxon’s signed rank test was used to explore the differences in the economic burden. Results Among 5990 hospital visitors over the period of time, 895 (14.94%) had hospital-acquired LRTIs. We analyzed 340 patients with LRTIs and 340 respective controls without infections. The median hospital costs for patients with ICU-acquired LRTIs were significantly higher than those without LRTIs in other wards ($12,301.17 vs. $4674.64, P < 0.01). The average attributable cost per patient was $2853.93 ($6916.48 vs. $4062.55, P < 0.01). Patients from hematology department had the longest LOS, at 15 days (25 days vs. 10 days, P < 0.01). An LRTI led to an attributable increase in LOS by 8 days on average ( P < 0.01). Western medicine, treatment and laboratory test were the dominant contributors to the growth in overall medical costs in hospital-acquired LRTIs. Conclusions Hospital-acquired LRTI imposed considerable economic burden on patients hospitalized in high risk wards in China. This study provides the first data for economic evaluation of LRTI, highlighting the urgent need to establish targeted preventive strategies to minimize the occurrence of this complication to reduce economic burden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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43. Prevalence and predictive factors of urinary tract infection among patients with stroke: A meta-analysis.
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Yan, Tianyuan, Liu, Chenxia, Li, Yingxia, Xiao, Wei, Li, Yating, and Wang, Shuhui
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Background Urinary tract infection (UTI) is thought to be a common complication of stroke and is regarded as a potential risk factor for poor stroke outcomes. However, there is a controversy among predictive factors of stroke-associated UTIs. We aim to estimate the prevalence and predisposing factors of UTIs among patients with stroke. Methods PubMed, EMBASE, and Elsevier Science Direct were searched by 2 independent researchers. Sixteen studies with a total of 13,513 patients were included to evaluate the prevalence and predictive factors of stroke-associated UTIs published from the earliest records to March 10, 2017. Pooled effect sizes were calculated using the fixed effect model or random effect model according to I 2 and P values. Results The pooled prevalence of UTI was 19.0% (95% confidence interval [CI], 15%-22%; P < .01). The predisposing factors for UTIs include female sex (odds ratio [OR], 1.93; 95% CI, 1.55-2.41), older age (OR, 1.28; 95% CI, 1.09-1.50), higher modified Rankin Scale score (OR, 1.90; 95% CI, 1.43-2.53), and postvoid residual volume >100 mL (OR, 3.69; 95% CI, 2.09-6.52). Conclusions Approximately one-fifth of patients with stroke contracted at least 1 UTI after cerebral apoplexy. Female sex, older age, higher modified Rankin Scale score, and postvoid residual volume >100 mL were associated with higher risk of UTI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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44. Evaluating the direct economic burden of health care–associated infections among patients with colorectal cancer surgery in China.
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Liu, Yunhong, Xiao, Wei, Wang, Shuhui, and Chan, Carmen W.H.
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Background Little is known about the direct economic burden associated with health care–associated infection (HAI) in patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery in China. This study aims to fill this knowledge gap. Methods This study was a prospective monitoring case-control study. The direct economic burden was presented as the median of the 1:1 pair differences of various hospitalization fees and hospital length of stay. Wilcoxon signed-rank tests were used to explore the differences in the direct economic burden. Results Out of 448 patients, 38 had acquired HAIs, with the infection incidence being 8.93%. The total direct economic burden of HAIs was $1,589.30 ( P < .05). Among various infection sites, deep surgical site infection had the highest direct economic burden of $8,654.44, followed by multisite infections ($5,946.52). When it comes to various hospitalization costs, the cost for Western medicine ($846.13) constituted the highest proportion of economic burden followed by treatment cost ($145.73) and bed charge ($126.75). On average, the length of hospital stay in the infection group was 6 days longer than that in the control group ( P < .05). Conclusions HAI was associated with considerable economic burden for patients who underwent colorectal cancer surgery in China. The study highlights the necessity of taking effective measures to decrease incidence of HAIs to reduce economic burden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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45. Coimmunocapture and Electrochemical Quantitation of Total and Phosphorylated Amyloid-β40Monomers
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Yin, Zhenzhen, Wang, Shuhui, Shen, Baochai, Deng, Chunyan, Tu, Qiuyun, Jin, Yan, Shen, Lu, Jiao, Bin, and Xiang, Juan
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Phosphorylated proteins play important roles in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The most abundant constituent in AD’s brain deposit is the amyloid-β40peptide (Aβ40). Based on it, the degree of phosphorylated Aβ40in body fluids (e.g., cerebrospinal fluid, CSF), which is defined by the ratio of phosphorylated Aβ40to total Aβ40(pAβ40/tAβ40), is anticipated to be an index for early diagnosis of AD. The major challenge in pAβ40/tAβ40detection is the large concentration difference between two Aβ40forms in the real samples, which usually requires multichannel equipment and complicated detection process. In this paper, we revealed the unexpected close affinities of the anti-Aβ40antibody to Aβ40(40.2 nM–1) and to pAβ40(42.3 nM–1). Based on it, a convenient coimmunocapture and electrochemical quantitation of tAβ40and pAβ40was achieved on an anti-Aβ40antibody immobilized Au electrode (anti-Aβ40/Au). Once Aβ40and pAβ40were synchronously captured on the anti-Aβ40/Au electrode, the tAβ40levels in CSF samples were quantified with electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. With the signal amplification from Cd2+/Ti4+-functionalized titanium phosphate nanospheres (Cd2+/Ti4+@TiP) which was selective conjugated to pAβ40, concentrations of low abundant pAβ40as low as 1 fM were readily measured by square wave voltammetry. Our results reveal that despite the concentrations of tAβ40and pAβ40fluctuate in each individual case, the concentration ratios of pAβ40/tAβ40in CSF samples from AD patients are significant larger than those from healthy donors. It demonstrates that the degree of phosphorylated Aβ40is hopeful to be an effective index for evaluating the AD progress and improving the accuracy of clinic AD diagnosis.
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46. Precise Control of Crystal Growth for Highly Efficient CsPbI2Br Perovskite Solar Cells
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Chen, Weijie, Chen, Haiyang, Xu, Guiying, Xue, Rongming, Wang, Shuhui, Li, Yaowen, and Li, Yongfang
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All-inorganic perovskite solar cells (pero-SCs) are attracting considerable attention due to their promising thermal stability, but their inferior power-conversion efficiency (PCE) and moisture instability are hindering their application. Here, we used a gradient thermal annealing (GTA) method to control the growth of α-CsPbI2Br crystals and then utilized a green anti-solvent (ATS) isopropanol to further optimize the morphology of α-CsPbI2Br film. Through this GTA-ATS synergetic effect, the growth of α-CsPbI2Br crystals could be precisely controlled, leading to a high-quality perovskite film with one-micron average grain size, low root-mean-square of 25.9 nm, and reduced defect density. Pero-SCs based on this CsPbI2Br film achieved a champion scan PCE of 16.07% (stabilized efficiency of 15.75%), which is the highest efficiency reported in all-inorganic pero-SCs. Moreover, the CsPbI2Br pero-SC demonstrates excellent robustness against moisture and oxygen, and maintains 90% of initial PCE after aging 120 hr under 100 mW/cm2UV irradiation.
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47. Roles of Phthalic Acid and Oleic Acid on Chemical Mechanical Polishing in Alkaline Slurries for Cobalt Interconnects
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Zhang, Lifei, Wang, Shuhui, Wang, Tongqing, and Lu, Xinchun
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Cobalt (Co) with its low resistivity, excellent resistance to electro-migration with co-deposition property and void-free seamless fill ability, pledges to transform the landscape of integrated circuits in many areas, especially in logic contacts and interconnects. Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP), which utilizes the synergistic action of chemical corrosion and mechanical wear, has been recognized as the exclusive manufacturing approach to achieve global and local planarization of wafer surfaces. In this work, we proposed an innovative hydrogen peroxide (HP) polishing slurry, applying phthalic acid as the complexing agent and oleic acid as the corrosion inhibitor at pH 10. From the results of appropriate material removal/static etching rates as well as the smooth surface morphologies, phthalic acid and oleic acid are identified to be qualified in HP-based slurries for heterogeneous materials of Co interconnects. Moreover, the mechanisms of complexation and inhibition have been revealed by electrochemical analysis and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy tests. It can be concluded that with the addition of complexing agent phthalic acid in HP-based slurries, the transformation of oxidization from low-valence compounds to high-valence was partially replaced by stronger complexing action, making the removal mechanism be attributed to the combined oxidization and complexation. When oleic acid is introduced, it could react with Co oxides to form a polymer protection layer adsorbing on Co films, achieving an inhibition effect to avoid Co excessive corrosion. Meanwhile, the oxidization of HP as well as the complexation of phthalic acid, combined with the protection of oleic acid play critical roles to maintain the appropriate removal rates and selection ratios.
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48. Nosocomial infections among acute leukemia patients in China: An economic burden analysis.
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Wu, Xiaohui, Yan, Tianyuan, Liu, Yunhong, Wang, Jingna, Li, Yingxia, and Wang, Shuhui
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Background The economic burden associated nosocomial infections (NIs) in patients with acute leukemia (AL) in China was unclear. A prospective study was conducted to quantify the medical cost burden of NIs among AL patients. Methods Nine hundred ninety-four patients diagnosed with AL between January 2011 and December 2013 were included. Relevant necessary information was extracted from the hospital information system and hospital infection surveillance system. The primary outcome was incidence of NIs and the secondary was economic burden results, including extra medical costs and prolonged length of stay (LOS). We estimated the total incremental cost of NIs by comparing all-cause health care costs in patients with versus without infections. Prolonged duration of stay was compared in patients with different infections. Results Of 994 patients with AL, 277 (27.9%) experienced NIs. NI was associated with a total incremental cost of $3,092 per patient ($5,227 vs $2,135; P < .01) and infected patients experienced a longer LOS (21 vs 10 days; P < .01). Patients with multisite infection had the highest total medical cost ($8,474.90 vs $2,209.90; P < .01) and the longest LOS (25 vs 15 days; P < .01). Western medicine was the main contributor to the rise of total cost in all kinds of infections. Conclusions NI was associated with higher medical costs, which imposed an economic burden on patients with AL. The study highlights the influence of NIs on LOS and health care costs and appeal to the establishment of prophylactic measures for NIs to reduce the unnecessary waste of medical resources in the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. HIV-1 Tat increases BAG3 via NF-κB signaling to induce autophagy during HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder
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Wu, Xiaoyan, Dong, Huaqian, Ye, Xiang, Zhong, Li, Cao, Tiantian, Xu, Qiping, Wang, Jun, Zhang, Yu, Xu, Jinhong, Wang, Wei, Wei, Qiang, Liu, Ying, Wang, Shuhui, Shao, Yiming, and Xing, Huiqin
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ABSTRACTThe human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) regulatory protein Tat plays an important role during HIV-1-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) by inducing neuronal autophagy. In this study, we used immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, western blot, qRT-PCR, and RNA interference to elucidate the involvement of Bcl-2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3) in the pathogenesis of HIV-1 Tat-induced autophagy during HAND. We found that BAG3 expression is elevated in astrocytes in frontal cortex of macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus-human immunodeficiency chimeric virus (SHIV). In addition, in human primary glioblastoma cells (U87), HIV-1 Tat upregulated BAG3 in an NF-κB-dependent manner to induce autophagy. Importantly, suppression of BAG3 or inhibition of NF-κB activity reversed the HIV-1 Tat-induced autophagy. These results indicate that HIV-1 Tat induces autophagy by upregulating BAG3 via NF-κB signaling, which suggests BAG3 and NF-κB could potentially serve as novel targets for HAND therapies.
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50. Fabrication and Characterization of β-Lactoglobulin-Based Nanocomplexes Composed of Chitosan Oligosaccharides as Vehicles for Delivery of Astaxanthin
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Liu, Chengzhen, Liu, Zhuzhu, Sun, Xun, Zhang, Shuaizhong, Wang, Shuhui, Feng, Fuxian, Wang, Dongfeng, and Xu, Ying
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Astaxanthin (Ax), a type of carotenoid, has limited use as a result of its poor water solubility, low bioavailability, and decomposition under harsh conditions. This study reports a delivery system for Ax through a simple affinity binding with β-lactoglobulin and then coated with chitosan oligosaccharides. Ax-loaded β-lactoglobulin nanocomplexes and chitosan oligosaccharide-coated nanocomplexes were successfully prepared. The nanocomplexes exhibited a smooth spherical shape with diameters of about 40 and 60 nm measured by transmission electron microscopy. Spectroscopic techniques (ultraviolet–visible, fluorescence, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy) combined with molecular docking were used to determine the binding mechanism of Ax and β-lactoglobulin. In comparison to native Ax, the nanocomplexes maintain the hydroxyl radical scavenging activity of Ax under the treatment of acid, high temperature, and ultraviolet radiation. The release experiment of nanocomplexes revealed that the encapsulation could provide prolonged release of Ax in simulated gastrointestinal juices. This study aimed to fabricate and characterize Ax−β-lactoglobulin nanocomplexes, which can improve the Ax stability and slow release.
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