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2. Regioselective Multisite Atomic-Chlorine Passivation Enables Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
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Jinpeng Wu, Ming-Hua Li, Jiang-Tao Fan, Zongbao Li, Xin-Heng Fan, Ding-Jiang Xue, and Jin-Song Hu
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Colloid and Surface Chemistry ,General Chemistry ,Biochemistry ,Catalysis - Published
- 2023
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3. Crystalline/amorphous CoP/MnOx heterostructure derived from phase separation for electrochemical catalysis of alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction
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Rui Yu, Ying-Xia Du, Heng-Fan Zhao, Fei-Fei Cao, Wang-Ting Lu, and Geng Zhang
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Fuel Technology ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology ,Condensed Matter Physics - Published
- 2023
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4. Enhanced migration and immunoregulatory capacity of BMSCs mediated by overexpression of CXCR4 and IL-35
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Chen, Tan, Songwei, Tan, Hao, Zhang, Man, Zhang, Heng, Fan, Zhen, Nan, Xingxing, Liu, Wenzhu, Wang, Lijuan, Zhang, Shuangjiao, Deng, Dongmei, Zuo, and Qing, Tang
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Receptors, CXCR4 ,Cell Movement ,Interleukins ,Stem Cells ,Immunology ,Immunity ,Humans ,Bone Marrow Cells ,Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation ,Molecular Biology ,Chemokine CXCL12 ,Autoimmune Diseases - Abstract
Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) have been widely studied for their applications in immunoregulation and tissue repair. However, the therapeutic effects of BMSCs in the body are limited, partly due to the low homing efficiency of BMSCs to affected parts. The stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1)/C-X-C chemokine receptor type 4 (CXCR4) axis is well known to play an essential role in the homing of BMSCs. Interleukin 35 (IL-35) is a newly discovered cytokine confirmed to inhibit overactivated immune function and have a good therapeutic effect on autoimmune diseases. In this study, we innovatively developed dual gene modification of BMSCs by transducing CXCR4 and IL-35 and found that the migration and immunomodulatory activity of genetically engineered BMSCs were significantly enhanced compared to their natural counterparts. These results suggest that BMSCs modified by dual overexpression of CXCR4 and IL-35 may provide a potential treatment strategy for autoimmune diseases.
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- 2022
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5. Extracellular vesicles produced by bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells overexpressing programmed death‐ligand 1 ameliorate dextran sodium sulfate‐induced ulcerative colitis in rats by regulating Th17/Treg cell balance through PTEN/PI3K/AKT/mTOR axis
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Hongxia He, Qianyun Chen, Heng Fan, Xue yuan Leng, Feng Zhu, Fei Gao, Qiaoli Zhou, Yalan Dong, and Jia Yang
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Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases ,Extracellular Vesicles ,Hepatology ,TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases ,PTEN Phosphohydrolase ,Gastroenterology ,Animals ,Th17 Cells ,Dextrans ,Mesenchymal Stem Cells ,T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory ,B7-H1 Antigen ,Rats - Abstract
Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) was involved in regulating Th17/Treg cell balance in ulcerative colitis (UC). Extracellular vesicles (EVs) from genetically modified bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) can serve as a stable delivery system to overexpress PD-L1. The study was designed to evaluate the therapeutic mechanism of BMSC-EVs overexpressing PD-L1 (PD-L1-EVs) on ulcerative colitis.Experimental model of UC was established in rats by drinking 5% dextran sulfate sodium (DSS). Apoptosis-related proteins, inflammatory response-related factors and oxidative stress related mediators were detected. Westernblot was used to detecte key proteins in the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway and its downstream effectors. The CD4PD-L1-EVs significantly alleviated the manifestations and pathological damage of UC rats by inhibiting the expression of IFN-γ, IL-1β, IL-8, IL-6, IL-2, BAX, NF-κB, TNF-α, MPO, and MDA, and up-regulating the expression of IL-4, BCL-2, SOD, and GSH. Furthermore, the proportions of Th17 cells were decreased and that of Treg cells were upregulated by PD-L1-EVs treatment. PTEN inhibitors (bpv) partially abolished the inhibitory effect of PD-L1-EVs on PI3K-AKT signaling and impaired the therapeutic efficacy of PD-L1-EVs.PD-L1-EVs mitigated colonal inflammation, apoptosis and oxidative stress through blocking the activation of PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway and regulating the balance of Th17/Treg cells.
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- 2022
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6. Quantum Simulation of Tunable Neuron Activation
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Wei‐Bin Yan, Ying‐Jie Zhang, Zhong‐Xiao Man, Heng Fan, and Yun‐Jie Xia
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General Physics and Astronomy - Published
- 2023
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7. Lycium Barbarum Glycopeptide alleviates neuroinflammation in spinal cord injury via modulating docosahexaenoic acid to inhibiting MAPKs/NF-kB and pyroptosis pathways
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Zhanfeng Jiang, Zhong Zeng, He He, Mei Li, Yuanxiang Lan, Jianwen Hui, Pengfei Bie, Yanjun Chen, Qian Han, Heng Fan, and Hechun Xia
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Background Lycium barbarum polysaccharides (LBP) is an activity ingredient extracted from Lycium barbarum, which has the effect of inhibiting neuroinflammation. Lycium Barbarum Glycopeptide (LbGp) is a glycoprotein with immunological activity that is further purified and isolated from LBP. Previous studies have shown that LbGp can regulate the immune microenvironment, but its specific mechanism of action is still unclear. Aims In this study, we aim to explore the mechanism of action of LbGp in the treatment of spinal cord injury through metabolomics and molecular experiments. Methods SD male rats were randomly assigned to three experimental groups, and after establishing the spinal cord hemisection model, LbGp was administered orally, and the spinal cord tissue was sampled on the seventh day after surgery for molecular and metabolomic experiments. In vitro, LbGp was administered to mimic the inflammatory microenvironment by activating microglia, and its mechanism of action in suppressing neuroinflammation was further elaborated by metabolomics and molecular biology techniques such as western blot, q-PCR. Results Through in vivo and in vitro experiments, it was found that LbGp can improve the inflammatory microenvironment by inhibiting the NF-kB and pyroptosis pathways. Furthermore, it was found that LbGp can induce the secretion of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) by microglia, and DHA can inhibit neuroinflammation through the MAPKs/NF-kB and pyroptosis pathways. Conclusions In summary, we believe that LbGp improves the inflammatory microenvironment by regulating the secretion of DHA in microglia, thereby inhibiting the MAPKs/NF-kB and pyroptosis pathways, promoting nerve repair and motor function recovery. This study provides a new direction for the treatment of spinal cord injury and elucidates the potential mechanism of action of LbGp.
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- 2023
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8. Syntheses, Structures, and Reactivities of N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Coordinated Aminoborane Complexes
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Ming-Yue Ju, Zi-Heng Fan, Yubin Ma, Yi Jing, Xi-Meng Chen, and Xuenian Chen
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Inorganic Chemistry ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry - Published
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9. Sequence Variation of Candida albicans Sap2 Enhances Fungal Pathogenicity via Complement Evasion and Macrophage M2‐Like Phenotype Induction
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Lan Lin, Moran Wang, Jingsi Zeng, Yehong Mao, Renjie Qin, Jun Deng, Xiaohu Ouyang, Xiaoshuang Hou, Chunyan Sun, Yadan Wang, Yaohua Cai, Mingyue Li, Chunxia Tian, Xi Zhou, Min Zhang, Heng Fan, Heng Mei, Alexey Sarapultsev, Huafang Wang, Gensheng Zhang, Peter F. Zipfel, Yu Hu, Desheng Hu, and Shanshan Luo
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General Chemical Engineering ,General Engineering ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,General Materials Science ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) - Published
- 2023
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10. Revealing inherent quantum interference and entanglement of a Dirac Fermion
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Wen Ning, Ri-Hua Zheng, Yan Xia, Kai Xu, Hekang Li, Dongning Zheng, Heng Fan, Zhen-Biao Yang, Shi-Biao Zheng, and Fan Wu
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Quantum Physics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Quantum Physics (quant-ph) - Abstract
The Dirac equation is critical to understanding the universe, and plays an important role in technological advancements. Compared to the stationary solution, the dynamical evolution under the Dirac Hamiltonian is less understood, exemplified by Zitterbewegung. Although originally predicted in relativistic quantum mechanics, Zitterbewegung can also appear in some classical systems, which leads to the important question of whether Zitterbewegung of Dirac Fermions is underlain by a more fundamental and universal interference behavior without classical analogs. We here reveal such an interference pattern in phase space, which underlies but goes beyond Zitterbewegung, and whose nonclassicality is manifested by the negativity of the phase-space quasiprobability distribution, and the associated pseudospin-momentum entanglement. We confirm this discovery by numerical simulation and an on-chip experiment, where a superconducting qubit and a quantized microwave field respectively emulate the internal and external degrees of freedom of a Dirac particle. The measured quasiprobability negativities well agree with the numerical simulation. Besides being of fundamental importance, the demonstrated nonclassical effects are useful in quantum technology., Comment: 18 pages, 15 figures
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11. Correction to: Lycium barbarum glycopeptide targets PER2 to inhibit lipogenesis in glioblastoma by downregulating SREBP1c
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Jian Yao, Jian-wen Hui, Yan-jun Chen, Dong-yang Luo, Jiang-shu Yan, Yi-fan Zhang, Yuan-xiang Lan, Xiu-rui Yan, Zhi-hua Wang, Heng Fan, and He-chun Xia
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Cancer Research ,Molecular Medicine ,Molecular Biology - Published
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12. Entanglement-interference complementarity and experimental demonstration in a superconducting circuit
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Xin-Jie Huang, Pei-Rong Han, Wen Ning, Shou-Bang Yang, Xin Zhu, Jia-Hao Lü, Ri-Hua Zheng, Hekang Li, Zhen-Biao Yang, Kai Xu, Chui-Ping Yang, Qi-Cheng Wu, Dongning Zheng, Heng Fan, and Shi-Biao Zheng
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Quantum Physics ,Computational Theory and Mathematics ,Computer Networks and Communications ,Computer Science (miscellaneous) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics ,Quantum Physics (quant-ph) ,Computer Science::Information Theory - Abstract
Quantum entanglement between an interfering particle and a detector for acquiring the which-path information plays a central role for enforcing Bohr's complementarity principle. However, the quantitative relation between this entanglement and the fringe visibility remains untouched upon for an initial mixed state. Here we find an equality for quantifying this relation. Our equality characterizes how well the interference pattern can be preserved when an interfering particle, initially carrying a definite amount of coherence, is entangled, to a certain degree, with a which-path detector. This equality provides a connection between entanglement and interference in the unified framework of coherence, revealing the quantitative entanglement-interference complementarity. We experimentally demonstrate this relation with a superconducting circuit, where a resonator serves as a which-path detector for an interfering qubit. The measured fringe visibility of the qubit's Ramsey signal and the qubit-resonator entanglement exhibit a complementary relation, in well agreement with the theoretical prediction., 19 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
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13. Observation of critical phase transition in a generalized Aubry-André-Harper model with superconducting circuits
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Hao Li, Yong-Yi Wang, Yun-Hao Shi, Kaixuan Huang, Xiaohui Song, Gui-Han Liang, Zheng-Yang Mei, Bozhen Zhou, He Zhang, Jia-Chi Zhang, Shu Chen, S. P. Zhao, Ye Tian, Zhan-Ying Yang, Zhongcheng Xiang, Kai Xu, Dongning Zheng, and Heng Fan
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Computational Theory and Mathematics ,Computer Networks and Communications ,Computer Science (miscellaneous) ,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics - Abstract
Quantum simulation enables study of many-body systems in non-equilibrium by mapping to a controllable quantum system, providing a powerful tool for computational intractable problems. Here, using a programmable quantum processor with a chain of 10 superconducting qubits interacted through tunable couplers, we simulate the one-dimensional generalized Aubry-André-Harper model for three different phases, i.e., extended, localized and critical phases. The properties of phase transitions and many-body dynamics are studied in the presence of quasi-periodic modulations for both off-diagonal hopping coefficients and on-site potentials of the model controlled respectively by adjusting strength of couplings and qubit frequencies. We observe the spin transport for initial single- and multi-excitation states in different phases, and characterize phase transitions by experimentally measuring dynamics of participation entropies. Our experimental results demonstrate that the recently developed tunable coupling architecture of superconducting processor extends greatly the simulation realms for a wide variety of Hamiltonians, and can be used to study various quantum and topological phenomena.
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14. Lycium barbarum glycopeptide targets PER2 to inhibit lipogenesis in glioblastoma by downregulating SREBP1c
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Jian Yao, Jian-wen Hui, Yan-jun Chen, Dong-yang Luo, Jiang-shu Yan, Yi-fan Zhang, Yuan-xiang Lan, Xiu-rui Yan, Zhi-hua Wang, Heng Fan, and He-chun Xia
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Cancer Research ,Molecular Medicine ,Molecular Biology - Abstract
Lycium barbarum polysaccharide (LBP) is a substance with various biological activities extracted from Lycium barbarum. LbGPs are peptidoglycans with a short peptide backbone and a complex, branched glycan moiety, which is further extracted and isolated from LBPs. Previous studies have shown that LbGP can inhibit cancer cell growth, but its specific mechanism is not completely clear. In this study, we found that LbGP could inhibit the proliferation of glioma cells and promote the expression of period 2 (PER2) through the PKA-CREB pathway. In addition, LbGP could inhibit the de novo synthesis of lipids by downregulating SREBP1c and its target genes, which depended on the expression of PER2. Moreover, PER2 negatively regulated the expression of SREBP1c via suppressing PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. In summary, LbGP may upregulate the expression of PER2 to reduce the expression of SREBP1c, inhibit lipid synthesis in glioblastoma, and inhibit glioblastoma cell proliferation. This study provides an alternative drug for the treatment of glioma and elucidates its potential mechanism.
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- 2023
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15. Extracellular vesicles derived from human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells stimulate angiogenesis in myocardial infarction via the microRNA-423-5p/EFNA3 axis
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Tianlin Gao, Heng Fan, Jiawen Wang, and Rui Wang
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Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine - Published
- 2022
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16. High performance achieved via core engineering and side-chain engineering in organic solar cells based on the penta-fused-ring acceptor
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Fengting Li, Yongjie Chen, Xin-Heng Fan, Cai-Yan Gao, Xiaozhang Zhu, and Lian-Ming Yang
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Materials Chemistry ,General Chemistry - Abstract
Compared with the thiophene-based acceptor, the pyrrole-based acceptor exhibits a strong red-shift and the related device efficiency is significantly improved.
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17. Berberine ameliorates DSS-induced intestinal mucosal barrier dysfunction through microbiota-dependence and Wnt/β-catenin pathway
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Yalan Dong, Heng Fan, Zhe Zhang, Feng Jiang, Mingyue Li, Haifeng Zhou, Weina Guo, Zili Zhang, Zhenyu Kang, Yang Gui, Zhexing Shou, Junyi Li, Rui Zhu, Yu Fu, Alexey Sarapultsev, Huafang Wang, Shanshan Luo, Ge Zhang, and Desheng Hu
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Inflammation ,Proteomics ,Berberine ,Colon ,Dextran Sulfate ,Cell Biology ,Colitis ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,Gastrointestinal Microbiome ,Disease Models, Animal ,Mice ,Animals ,Colitis, Ulcerative ,Intestinal Mucosa ,Wnt Signaling Pathway ,Molecular Biology ,beta Catenin ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Developmental Biology - Abstract
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an idiopathic, chronic inflammatory disorder of the colon, and it has become one of the world-recognized medical problems as it is recurrent and refractory. Berberine (BBR) is an effective drug for UC treatment. However, the underlying mechanism and targets remain obscure. In this study, we systematically investigated the therapeutic effect and its mechanism of BBR in ameliorating DSS-induced mouse colitis. Expectedly, the colon inflammation was significantly relieved by BBR, and microbiota depletion by antibiotic cocktail significantly reversed the therapeutic effect. Further studies showed that BBR can regulate the abundance and component of bacteria, reestablish the broken chemical and epithelial barriers. Meanwhile, BBR administration dramatically decreased ILC1 and Th17 cells, and increased Tregs as well as ILC3 in colonic tissue of DSS-induced mice, and it was able to regulate the expression of various immune factors at the mRNA level. Moreover, a proteomic study revealed that Wnt/β-catenin pathway was remarkably enhanced in colonic tissue of BBR-treated mice, and the therapeutic effect of BBR was disappeared after the intervention of Wnt pathway inhibitor FH535. These results substantially revealed that BBR restores DSS-induced colon inflammation in a microbiota-dependent manner, and BBR performs its protective roles in colon by maintaining the structure and function of the intestinal mucosal barrier, regulating the intestinal mucosal immune homeostasis and it works through the Wnt/β-catenin pathway. Importantly, these findings also provided the proof that BBR serves as a potential gut microbiota modulator and mucosal barrier protector for UC prevention and therapy.
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18. Terminal groups play an important role in enhancing the performance of organic solar cells based on non-fused electron acceptors
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Fengting Li, Xin-Heng Fan, Cai-Yan Gao, and Lian-Ming Yang
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Materials Chemistry ,General Chemistry ,Catalysis - Abstract
Acceptors (O-IC and O-IC2F) with different terminals have different effects when combined with the donor (D18) to form a device.
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19. Pulse Electrochemically Driven Multilayer Assembly of Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotube/Polypyrrole/Tellurium Composite Films for Ultra‐High‐Performance Flexible Thermoelectric Applications
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Yang Li, Cai‐Yan Gao, Xin‐Heng Fan, Hui‐Ping Li, and Lian‐Ming Yang
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Mechanics of Materials ,General Materials Science ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering - Published
- 2023
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20. Transferable Adversarial Attack on 3D Object Tracking in Point Cloud
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Xiaoqiong Liu, Yuewei Lin, Qing Yang, and Heng Fan
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- 2023
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21. Thermalization dynamics of a gauge theory on a quantum simulator
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Zi-Yong Ge and Heng Fan
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Multidisciplinary - Published
- 2022
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22. New progress in research of Th17 cells and related cytokines in inflammatory bowel disease
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Yu-Yi Yuan, Yu-Jin Liu, and Heng Fan
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- 2021
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23. Observation of entanglement transition of pseudo-random mixed states
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Tong Liu, Shang Liu, Hekang Li, Hao Li, Kaixuan Huang, Zhongcheng Xiang, Xiaohui Song, Kai Xu, Dongning Zheng, and Heng Fan
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Multidisciplinary ,General Physics and Astronomy ,General Chemistry ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - Abstract
Random quantum states serve as a powerful tool in various scientific fields, including quantum supremacy and black hole physics. It has been theoretically predicted that entanglement transitions may happen for different partitions of multipartite random quantum states, however, the experimental observation of these transitions is still absent. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the entanglement transitions witnessed by negativity on a fully connected 20-qubit superconducting processor. We apply the parallel entangling operations, that significantly decrease the depth of the pseudo-random circuits, to generate pseudo-random pure states of up to 15 qubits. By quantum state tomography of the reduced density matrix of six qubits, we measure the negativity spectra. Then, by changing the sizes of the environment and subsystems, we observe the entanglement transitions that are directly identified by logarithmic entanglement negativities based on the negativity spectra. In addition, we characterize the randomness of our circuits by measuring the distance between the distribution of output bit-string probabilities and the Porter-Thomas distribution. Our results show that the superconducting processor with all-to-all connectivity behaves a promising platform in generating random states and understanding the entanglement structure for multipartite quantum systems.
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24. Research and implementation of deception jamming based on FDA
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Hui Wang, Tao Zhang, Heng Fan, and Lei Zhao
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- 2022
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25. Probing Operator Spreading via Floquet Engineering in a Superconducting Circuit
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S. K. Zhao, Zi-Yong Ge, Zhongcheng Xiang, G. M. Xue, H. S. Yan, Z. T. Wang, Zhan Wang, H. K. Xu, F. F. Su, Z. H. Yang, He Zhang, Yu-Ran Zhang, Xue-Yi Guo, Kai Xu, Ye Tian, H. F. Yu, D. N. Zheng, Heng Fan, and S. P. Zhao
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Quantum Physics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Quantum Physics (quant-ph) - Abstract
Operator spreading, often characterized by out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs), is one of the central concepts in quantum many-body physics. However, measuring OTOCs is experimentally challenging due to the requirement of reversing the time evolution of systems. Here we apply Floquet engineering to investigate operator spreading in a superconducting 10-qubit chain. Floquet engineering provides an effective way to tune the coupling strength between nearby qubits, which is used to demonstrate quantum walks with tunable couplings, reversed time evolution, and the measurement of OTOCs. A clear light-cone-like operator propagation is observed in the system with multiple excitations, and has a nearly equal velocity as the single-particle quantum walk. For the butterfly operator that is nonlocal (local) under the Jordan-Wigner transformation, the OTOCs show distinct behaviors with (without) a signature of information scrambling in the near integrable system., 6+12 pages, 4 figures
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26. Casing Collapse Strength Analysis under Nonuniform Loading Using Experimental and Numerical Approach
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Shangyu Yang, Heng Fan, Fu Yu, Rui Wang, Dongfeng Li, and Xiangzhen Yan
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Materials science ,Critical load ,Article Subject ,Deformation (mechanics) ,Computer simulation ,Horizontal wells ,Shale gas ,General Mathematics ,General Engineering ,Collapse (topology) ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,Volume (thermodynamics) ,QA1-939 ,Geotechnical engineering ,TA1-2040 ,Casing ,Mathematics - Abstract
Multistage fracturing is the main means of shale gas development, and casing deformation frequently occurs during fracturing of shale gas horizontal wells. Fracturing fluid entering the formation will change in situ stress nearby the wellbore. The changes of in situ stress are mainly reflected in the following two aspects: one is the increase of in situ stress and the other is the nonuniformity of in situ stress along the wellbore. And it is for this reason that the production casing is more likely to collapse under the nonuniform in situ stress load. According to the service conditions of production casing in shale gas reservoir, this paper studied the casing deformation and the collapsing strength subjected to the nonuniform loading by the experimental and numerical simulation method. The results show that under the condition of nonuniform loading, (1) the diameter variation rate of the casing reduces with the increase in the ratio of sample to tooling length. When the ratio is less than 3, the casing collapse strength will be significantly reduced. And when the ratio is greater than 6, the impact of sample length on casing collapse strength can be ignored. (2) The increase in the applied loading angle will decrease the diameter variation rate. When the loading angle increases from 0° to 90°, the critical load value increases from 1600 kN to 4000 kN. (3) The increase in load unevenness coefficient will rapidly decrease the casing collapse strength. When the load unevenness coefficient n is 0.8, the casing collapse strength reduces to 60%, and when the load unevenness coefficient n is 0, the casing collapse strength reduces to 28%. The findings of this study can help for better understanding of casing damage mechanism in volume fracturing of shale gas horizontal well and guide the selection of multistage fracturing casing type and fracturing interval design.
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27. Simulating Chern insulators on a superconducting quantum processor
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Heng Fan, Zhongcheng Xiang, Kaixuan Huang, Yu-Ran Zhang, Tao Liu, Yun-Hao Shi, Cheng-Lin Deng, Tong Liu, Hao Li, Gui-Han Liang, Zheng-Yang Mei, Haifeng Yu, Guangming Xue, Ye Tian, Xiaohui Song, Zhi-Bo Liu, Kai Xu, Dongning Zheng, and Franco Nori
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The quantum Hall effect, fundamental in modern condensed matter physics, continuously inspires new theories and predicts emergent phases of matter. Analysing Chern insulators, a lattice version of the quantum Hall effect without external magnetic field, by testing the bulk-edge correspondence remains challenging on quantum simulation platforms. Here we experimentally demonstrate three types of Chern insulators with synthetic dimensions on a programable 30-qubit-ladder superconducting processor. Using a dynamic spectroscopic technique, we directly measure the band structures of the 2D Chern insulator along synthetic dimensions with various configurations of Aubry-André-Harper chains. By monitoring the quantum walks of an excitation initialised at the edge qubit, we observe dynamical localisation of the topologically protected chiral edge states. With these two signatures of topology, our experiments implement the bulk-edge correspondence in the synthetic 2D Chern insulator. Moreover, we simulate two different bilayer Chern insulators on the ladder-type superconducting processor. With the same periodically modulated on-site potentials for two coupled chains, we observe topologically nontrivial edge states with zero Hall conductivity. When the on-site potentials of two coupled chains have opposite signs, we probe a Chern insulator with higher Chern numbers. Our work shows the potential of using superconducting qubits for investigating different intriguing topological phases of quantum matter.
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28. In-situ Electrochemical Transformed Cu Oxide from Cu Sulfide for Efficient Upgrading of Biomass Derived 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural in Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyzer
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Heng‐Fan Zhao, Yu‐Ting Yue, Yi‐Lin Fan, Ji‐Xiang Wang, Wen‐Hui Li, Feng Wei, Min Liu, Yan‐Hua Yu, Wang‐Ting Lu, and Geng Zhang
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General Energy ,General Chemical Engineering ,Environmental Chemistry ,General Materials Science ,Oxides ,Sulfides - Abstract
The electrochemical transformation of biomass to high value-added products is attractive. Herein, Cu sulfide-mediated in-situ synthesis of Cu oxide was achieved for efficient electro-oxidation of biomass derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA). The copper foam-supported Cu sulfide (Cu-S/CF) was in-situ converted to Cu oxide during the electro-oxidation process. The in-situ formed Cu oxide presented high HMF conversion, FDCA yield, and faradaic efficiency in 1 m KOH with HMF concentration up to 100 mm. The oxidation of HMF on Cu oxide started with the formation of high-valence Cu species with the assistance of OH
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29. Exosomes derived from EphB2-overexpressing bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells regulate immune balance and repair barrier function
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Si Chu, Ting Yu, Wenzhu Wang, Hui Wu, Feng Zhu, Chunzhu Wei, Fei Gao, Chang Liu, and Heng Fan
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Bioengineering ,General Medicine ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,Biotechnology - Abstract
Background Disruption of intestinal barrier function and an imbalance in intestinal immunity are crucial for the occurrence and development of ulcerative colitis. Because of their important roles in regulating inflammation and immunity, exosomes (Exos) released from bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) may be useful for treating ulcerative colitis. The EphB/EphrinB signaling pathway plays a crucial role in the inflammatory process and the development and function of immune cells, and can mediate long-distance intercellular communication through extracellular vesicles. This study was conducted to explore the effects of pre-modified BMSC-Exos expressing EphB2 (EphB2-Exos) on immunoregulation in vitro. Methods We transfected a lentivirus vector encoding EphB2 into BMSCs and isolated EphB2-Exos from the culture supernatant. Inflammation and oxidative damage in the human colon adenocarcinoma cell line (Caco-2) were induced by dextran sulfate sodium/hydrogen peroxide. In addition, spleen CD4+ T lymphocytes of rats were sorted in vitro. We conducted a series of experiments to explore the biological functions of EphB2-Exos. Results EphB2-Exos were successfully isolated and were found to significantly protect the activity, proliferation, and migration of Caco-2 cells that were inhibited by dextran sulfate sodium. EphB2-Exos alleviated inflammation and apoptosis and increased the activity of antioxidant enzymes while inhibiting oxidative stress in Caco-2 cells. EphB2-Exos restored barrier function by inhibiting the RhoA/ROCK pathway and regulated the polarization of CD4+T cells. Conclusion EphB2-Exos enhanced intestinal barrier function and regulated the immune balance by inhibiting the RhoA/ROCK pathway in vitro. These findings suggest that EphB2-Exos can be applied as a cell-free therapy for ulcerative colitis.
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30. On-chip black hole: Hawking radiation and curved spacetime in a superconducting quantum circuit with tunable couplers
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Heng Fan, Yun-Hao Shi, Run-Qiu Yang, Zhongcheng Xiang, Zi-Yong Ge, Hao Li, Yong-Yi Wang, Kaixuan Huang, Ye Tian, Xiaohui Song, Dongning Zheng, Kai Xu, and Rong-Gen Cai
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Hawking radiation is one of the quantum features of a black hole that can be understood as a quantum tunneling across the event horizon of the black hole, but it is quite difficult to directly observe the Hawking radiation of an astrophysical black hole. Remarkable experiments of analogue black holes on various platforms have been performed. However, due to the experimental difficulty of accurately constructing curved spacetime and precisely measuring the thermal spectrum, Hawking radiation and its quantum nature, such as entanglement, have not been adequately investigated. Based on the recent architecture breakthrough of tunable couplers for superconducting processors, we experimentally realize an analogue black hole using our newly developed chip with a chain of 10 superconducting transmon qubits with interactions mediated by 9 transmon-type tunable couplers. By developing efficient techniques to engineer the couplings between qubits via tuning couplers, we achieve both flat and curved spacetime backgrounds. The quantum walks of quasi-particle in the curved spacetime reflect the gravitational effect near the black hole, resulting in the behavior of Hawking radiation. By virtue of the state tomography measurement of all 7 qubits outside the analogue event horizon, we show that Hawking radiation can be verified. In addition, an entangled pair is prepared inside the horizon and the dynamics of entanglement in the curved spacetime is directly measured. Our results would stimulate more interests to explore the related features of black holes using the programmable superconducting processor with tunable couplers.
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31. A hybrid measure for detecting quantum phase transitions
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Ming-Liang Hu and Heng Fan
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General Physics and Astronomy - Published
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32. Nasal carriage of CTX-M-55-producing Escherichia coli ST8369 in a healthy cohort in the city of Yangzhou, China
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Zhen-Yu Wang, Yue Jiang, Yi-Qiao Shao, Heng-Fan Lu, Meng-Jun Lu, Xinan Jiao, Qiu-Chun Li, and Jing Wang
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Microbiology (medical) ,Infectious Diseases ,Immunology ,Microbiology - Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and diversity of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli isolates from healthy individuals in a community and to elucidate their dissemination mechanism. Cefotaxime-resistant E. coli were isolated from 95 samples of healthy persons from one community in Yangzhou, China, and were tested for minimal inhibitory concentrations of 14 antimicrobial agents. The isolates were subjected to whole genome sequencing by Illumina Hiseq or PacBio single-molecule real-time sequencing. A total of 30 cefotaxime-resistant E. coli isolates were obtained, carrying blaCTX-M (n=29) or blaDHA (n=1), of which the blaCTX-M-55 (n=19) was the most predominant genotype. One novel blaCTX-M variant blaCTX-M-252 was identified. Thirteen CTX-M-55-producing E. coli isolates belonged to ST8369 from nasal (n=12) or faecal (n=1) samples shared the identical cgMLST type, resistance profiles, resistance genes, plasmid replicons, and a 5,053-bp blaCTX-M-55 structure ΔIS26-ΔISEcp1-blaCTX-M-55-Δorf477-ΔTn2. The blaCTX-M-55 gene was located on IncHI2/ST3 plasmid in E. coli ST8369. The lengths of blaCTX-M/blaDHA-carrying contigs in the remaining 17 E. coli strains ranged from 1,663 to 382,836 bp, located on chromosome (n=4) or plasmids (n=5); the location of the other eight contigs could not be determined due to incomplete assembly. The blaCTX-M was associated with ISEcp1 as previously reported. Nasal colonization of CTX-M-55-producing ST8369 E. coli strains has occurred among healthy individuals in one community. There is a potential risk of antimicrobial resistance dissemination between humans within one community through close contact or environment via aerosols or dust. Therefore, surveillance of nasal carriage of blaCTX-M in communities is warranted to further monitor the spread of the antimicrobial resistance genes in China.
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33. BAPO: A Large-Scale Multimodal Corpus for Ball Possession Prediction in American Football Games
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Ziruo Yi, Eduardo Blanco, Heng Fan, and Mark V. Albert
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34. Hypoxic mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes alleviate ulcerative colitis injury by limiting intestinal epithelial cells reactive oxygen species accumulation and DNA damage through HIF-1α
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Feng Zhu, Chunzhu Wei, Hui Wu, Bo Shuai, Ting Yu, Fei Gao, Yuyi Yuan, Dongmei Zuo, Xingxing Liu, Lijuan Zhang, and Heng Fan
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Pharmacology ,Immunology ,Immunology and Allergy ,Humans ,Colitis, Ulcerative ,Epithelial Cells ,Mesenchymal Stem Cells ,Exosomes ,Reactive Oxygen Species ,Hypoxia ,DNA Damage - Abstract
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory disease with a complex pathogenic mechanism. Mounting evidence suggests that UC pathogenesis is linked to excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and cellular DNA damage. Recent studies have shown that bone mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) mainly exert their therapeutic effects through paracrine exosomes, and oxygen concentration is extremely important to BMSCs and exosomes. The main objective of this study was to determine whether exosomes from BMSCs under hypoxic conditions (HP-Exos) exhibit a greater therapeutic effect on UC compared to exosomes under normoxic conditions (Exos) and to resolve the mechanism of HP-Exos. We observed that hypoxia enhances the activity and migration of BMSCs and inhibits BMSC apoptosis without changing their morphological characteristics. Furthermore, HP-Exos significantly relieved UC symptoms and pathological damage. In order to further understand the mechanism of HP-Exos in UC, findings from in vivo experiments demonstrated that HP-Exos reduces ROS production, DNA damage and apoptosis in intestinal epithelial cells. As hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) plays an important role in hypoxia, we knocked down HIF-1α in BMSCs. HIF-1α knockout reversed the effects of hypoxia on the activity, migration and apoptosis of BMSCs. Moreover, inhibition of HIF-1α expression also reversed the regulation of UC by HP-Exos. Therefore, we conclude that HP-Exos regulates ROS accumulation, DNA damage and immune homeostasis in intestinal epithelial cells via HIF-1α.
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35. Learning Target-aware Representation for Visual Tracking via Informative Interactions
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Mingzhe Guo, Zhipeng Zhang, Heng Fan, Liping Jing, Yilin Lyu, Bing Li, and Weiming Hu
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) ,Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Abstract
We introduce a novel backbone architecture to improve target-perception ability of feature representation for tracking. Specifically, having observed that de facto frameworks perform feature matching simply using the outputs from backbone for target localization, there is no direct feedback from the matching module to the backbone network, especially the shallow layers. More concretely, only the matching module can directly access the target information (in the reference frame), while the representation learning of candidate frame is blind to the reference target. As a consequence, the accumulation effect of target-irrelevant interference in the shallow stages may degrade the feature quality of deeper layers. In this paper, we approach the problem from a different angle by conducting multiple branch-wise interactions inside the Siamese-like backbone networks (InBN). At the core of InBN is a general interaction modeler (GIM) that injects the prior knowledge of reference image to different stages of the backbone network, leading to better target-perception and robust distractor-resistance of candidate feature representation with negligible computation cost. The proposed GIM module and InBN mechanism are general and applicable to different backbone types including CNN and Transformer for improvements, as evidenced by our extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks. In particular, the CNN version (based on SiamCAR) improves the baseline with 3.2/6.9 absolute gains of SUC on LaSOT/TNL2K, respectively. The Transformer version obtains SUC scores of 65.7/52.0 on LaSOT/TNL2K, which are on par with recent state of the arts. Code and models will be released., 9 pages, 6 figures
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36. GEO data mining and TCGA analysis reveal altered branched chain amino acid metabolism in pancreatic cancer patients
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Heng Fan, Jun Xiao, Qi Zhang, Haifeng Zhou, Junyi Li, Chunliang Yang, Fei Sun, Hui Chen, Min Gao, and Peng Zhou
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Aging ,endocrine system diseases ,Carcinogenesis ,Branched-chain amino acid ,Datasets as Topic ,pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma ,Kaplan-Meier Estimate ,medicine.disease_cause ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Valine ,Cell Line, Tumor ,Pancreatic cancer ,Databases, Genetic ,Genetic predisposition ,Humans ,BCAA uptake ,Medicine ,Pancreas ,branched chain amino acids ,business.industry ,Catabolism ,Gene Expression Profiling ,Muscles ,Lipid metabolism ,data mining ,Cell Biology ,medicine.disease ,digestive system diseases ,Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ,Pancreatic Neoplasms ,Survival Rate ,chemistry ,Cancer research ,Leucine ,business ,Amino Acids, Branched-Chain ,Metabolic Networks and Pathways ,Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal ,Signal Transduction ,Research Paper - Abstract
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly aggressive tumor of the digestive system which has a less than 1% 5-year survival rate. The pathogenesis of PDAC development is incompletely understood. Genetic predisposition, disease history of chronic pancreatitis and diabetes elevate the risk of PDAC while environmental and dietary factors including smoking, alcohol abuse, high fat/protein intake as well as air pollution exacerbate PDAC progression. BCAAs, consisting of leucine, isoleucine and valine are essential amino acids that are obtained from food and play versatile roles in carcinogenesis. Recent studies have demonstrated that BCAA metabolism affects PDAC development but the results are controversial. To explore the possible engagement of BCAA metabolism in PDAC, we took advantage of the GEO and TCGA database and discovered that BCAA uptake is closely related to PDAC development while BCAA catabolism is down-regulated in PDAC tissue. Besides, NOTCH and MYC are differentially involved in BCAA metabolism in tumor and muscle, and enhanced lipid synthesis is independent of BCAA catabolism. Altogether, we highlight BCAA uptake as a promising target for PDAC treatment.
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37. Different Bell Inequalities as Probes to Detect Quantum Phase Transitions
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Feng-Lin Wu, Si-Yuan Liu, Heng Fan, and Wen-Li Yang
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Quantum phase transition ,Physics ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Inequality ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,General Mathematics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Order (ring theory) ,Honeycomb (geometry) ,Quantum Physics ,01 natural sciences ,Nonlinear programming ,Theoretical physics ,Bell's theorem ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,010306 general physics ,media_common ,Spin-½ - Abstract
We introduce a method which based on Bell inequalities, to study quantum phase transitions. By using the non-linear programming, we compare two different kinds of Bell inequalities, the original Bell inequality and Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality. And we find that the original Bell inequality is more accurate in detecting the Bell non-locality. By defining the maximal violation of Bell inequalities, we calculate two kinds of transitions, the one is magnetic transition in the spin- $\frac {1}{2}$ XX model and the other is topological transition in the Kitaev honeycomb model. The critical points are detected successfully. Compared with traditional methods, our method requires no prior knowledge of order parameters and it is base-free.
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38. Letter to the Editor: 'Long-term physical impairments in survivors of COVID-19-associated ARDS compared with classic ARDS: A two-center study'
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Heng Fan and Jian-hua Zhu
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Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine - Published
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39. Progress in research of EZH2 in digestive system tumors
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Heng Fan and Xue-Yuan Leng
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Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,EZH2 ,medicine ,Biology - Published
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40. Progress in understanding of mechanism of dietary therapy for ulcerative colitis with regard to intestinal microbiota
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Hui Wu, Chang Liu, and Heng Fan
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Mechanism (biology) ,business.industry ,Immunology ,medicine ,Dietary therapy ,medicine.disease ,business ,Ulcerative colitis - Published
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41. A–D–C–D–A type non-fullerene acceptors based on the benzotriazole (BTA) unfused core for organic solar cells
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Xiaozhang Zhu, Cai-Yan Gao, Jinfeng Huang, Lian-Ming Yang, and Xin-Heng Fan
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chemistry.chemical_classification ,Fullerene ,Benzotriazole ,Organic solar cell ,Chemistry ,Stacking ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,Polymer ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,01 natural sciences ,Acceptor ,Catalysis ,0104 chemical sciences ,Crystallography ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Halogen ,Materials Chemistry ,0210 nano-technology ,Recombination - Abstract
It was well known that the “face-on” molecular orientation of acceptors is crucial for efficient charge transport in devices, but less is known about the role of the halogen atoms in controlling the molecular packing. In this article, a set of three acceptor materials with a benzotriazole-based unfused core, coded as BTC6-XF respectively with zero, two and four F atoms on the end groups, were designed and synthesized. Moreover, the effect of halogen atoms on the molecular alignment control was investigated. GIWAXS profiles show that BTC6-0F prefers the edge-on stacking, BTC6-2F adopts the mixed edge-on and face-on packing, and BTC6-4F tends to form the face-on molecular orientation. Additionally, it was found that BTC6-4F possessed more effective carrier transport and less charge recombination than BTC6-0F or BTC6-2F. As a result, the BTC6-4F-based OSC achieved the champion PCE of 11.23% when paired with the polymer donor PBDB-T, while the corresponding BTC6-2F and BTC6-0F based devices respectively gave 10.10% and 8.49% PCEs. This work sheds some light upon the design of small-molecule non-fullerene acceptors for efficient organic solar cells.
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42. Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite for low-cost and high-performance xerographic photoreceptors
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Wei-Min Gu, Caiyan Gao, Lian-Ming Yang, Chuanxi Wang, Xin-Heng Fan, and Ke-Jian Jiang
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chemistry.chemical_classification ,Materials science ,Fabrication ,business.industry ,General Chemical Engineering ,Iodide ,Photodetector ,General Chemistry ,Polyethylene glycol ,Laser ,law.invention ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Photosensitivity ,chemistry ,law ,Optoelectronics ,business ,Diode ,Perovskite (structure) - Abstract
Solution-processable organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites are being widely investigated for many applications, including solar cells, light-emitting diodes, photodetectors, and lasers. Herein, we report, for the first time, successful fabrication of xerographic photoreceptors using methylammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3) perovskite as a light-absorbing material. With the incorporation of polyethylene glycol (PEG) into the perovskite film, the ion migration inherent to the perovskite material can be effectively suppressed, and the resulting photoreceptor exhibits a high and panchromatic photosensitivity, large surface potential, low dark decay, and high environmental resistance and electrical cycling stability. Specifically, the energies required to photodischarge one half of the initial surface potential (E0.5) are 0.074 μJ cm−2 at 550 nm and 0.14 μJ cm−2 at 780 nm, respectively. The photosensitivites outmatch those of the conventionally used organic pigments having narrow spectral responses. Our findings inform a new generation of highly efficient and low-cost xerographic photoreceptors based on perovskite materials.
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43. Pseudo in situ construction of high-performance thermoelectric composites with a dioxothiopyrone-based D–A polymer coating on SWCNTs
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Wen-Qiang Qu, Xin-Heng Fan, Ping-Xia Zhang, Lian-Ming Yang, and Cai-Yan Gao
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In situ ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Materials science ,General Chemical Engineering ,Composite number ,General Chemistry ,Carbon nanotube ,Polymer ,Thermoelectric materials ,law.invention ,chemistry ,law ,Electrical resistivity and conductivity ,Seebeck coefficient ,Thermoelectric effect ,Composite material - Abstract
Organic polymer/inorganic particle composites with thermoelectric (TE) properties have witnessed rapid progress in recent years. Nevertheless, both development of novel polymers and optimization of compositing methods remain highly desirable. In this study, we first demonstrated a simulated in situ coagulation strategy for construction of high-performance thermoelectric materials by utilizing single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and a new D–A polymer TPO-TTP12 that was synthesized via incorporating dioxothiopyrone subunit into a polymeric chain. It was proven that the preparation methods have a significant influence on thermoelectric properties of the TPO-TTP12/SWCNT composites. The in situ prepared composite films tend to achieve much better thermoelectric performances than those prepared by simply mixing the corresponding polymer with SWCNTs. As a result, the in situ compositing obtains the highest Seebeck coefficient of 66.10 ± 0.05 μV K−1 at the TPO-TTP12-to-SWCNT mass ratio of 1/2, and the best electrical conductivity of up to 500.5 ± 53.3 S cm−1 at the polymer/SWCNT mass ratio of 1/20, respectively; moreover, the power factor for the in situ prepared composites reaches a maximum value of 141.94 ± 1.47 μW m−1 K−2, far higher than that of 104.68 ± 0.86 μW m−1 K−2 for the by-mixing produced composites. This indicates that the dioxothiopyrone moiety is a promising building block for constructing thermoelectric polymers, and the simulated in situ compositing strategy is a promising way to improve TE properties of composite materials.
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44. Robust and Efficient Graph Correspondence Transfer for Person Re-Identification
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Shibao Zheng, Qin Zhou, Hang Su, Hua Yang, Heng Fan, Shuang Wu, and Haibin Ling
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Context model ,Matching (graph theory) ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) ,Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Pattern recognition ,02 engineering and technology ,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design ,Graph ,Visualization ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Graph (abstract data type) ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Artificial intelligence ,Pattern matching ,business ,Software - Abstract
Spatial misalignment caused by variations in poses and viewpoints is one of the most critical issues that hinders the performance improvement in existing person re-identification (Re-ID) algorithms. To address this problem, in this paper, we present a robust and efficient graph correspondence transfer (REGCT) approach for explicit spatial alignment in Re-ID. Specifically, we propose to establish the patch-wise correspondences of positive training pairs via graph matching. By exploiting both spatial and visual contexts of human appearance in graph matching, meaningful semantic correspondences can be obtained. To circumvent the cumbersome \emph{on-line} graph matching in testing phase, we propose to transfer the \emph{off-line} learned patch-wise correspondences from the positive training pairs to test pairs. In detail, for each test pair, the training pairs with similar pose-pair configurations are selected as references. The matching patterns (i.e., the correspondences) of the selected references are then utilized to calculate the patch-wise feature distances of this test pair. To enhance the robustness of correspondence transfer, we design a novel pose context descriptor to accurately model human body configurations, and present an approach to measure the similarity between a pair of pose context descriptors. Meanwhile, to improve testing efficiency, we propose a correspondence template ensemble method using the voting mechanism, which significantly reduces the amount of patch-wise matchings involved in distance calculation. With aforementioned strategies, the REGCT model can effectively and efficiently handle the spatial misalignment problem in Re-ID. Extensive experiments on five challenging benchmarks, including VIPeR, Road, PRID450S, 3DPES and CUHK01, evidence the superior performance of REGCT over other state-of-the-art approaches., Tech. Report. The source code is available at http://www.dabi.temple.edu/~hbling/code/gct.htm. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1804.00242
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45. Neuroprotective effects of voluntary exercise and Yisaipu after traumatic brain injury in mice
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Tian-Tian, Gan, Qi, Liao, Ji-Hui, Wang, Zhi-Heng, Fan, Jian, Cao, Hui-Ju, Pan, Gao-Feng, Lou, Xue-Fen, Dong, and Wei, Ouyang
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Male ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Disease Models, Animal ,Mice ,Neuroprotective Agents ,Brain Injuries, Traumatic ,Animals ,Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors ,Recovery of Function - Abstract
The mechanisms underlying exercise-induced neuroprotective effects after traumatic brain injury (TBI) remained elusive, and there is a lack of effective treatments for TBI. In this study, we investigated the effects of an integrative approach of exercise and Yisaipu (TNFR-IgG fusion protein, TNF inhibitor) in a mouse TBI model. Male C57BL/6J mice were randomly assigned to a sedentary group or a group that followed a voluntary exercise regimen. The effects of 6-week prophylactic preconditioning exercise (PE) alone or in combination with post-TBI Yisaipu treatment on moderate TBI associated deficits were examined. The results showed that combined treatments of PE and post-TBI Yisaipu were superior to single treatments on reducing sensorimotor and gait dysfunctions in mice. These functional improvements were accompanied by reduced systemic inflammation largely via decreased serum TNF-α, boosted autophagic flux, and mitigated lesion volume after TBI. Given these neuroprotective effects, composite approaches such as a combination of exercise and TNF inhibitor may be a promising strategy for facilitating functional recovery from TBI and are worth further investigation.
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46. Nasal carriage of CTX-M-55-producing
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Zhen-Yu, Wang, Yue, Jiang, Yi-Qiao, Shao, Heng-Fan, Lu, Meng-Jun, Lu, Xinan, Jiao, Qiu-Chun, Li, and Jing, Wang
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Escherichia coli ,Humans ,Cefotaxime ,Microbial Sensitivity Tests ,Escherichia coli Infections ,beta-Lactamases ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,Plasmids - Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and diversity of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL)-producing
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47. Mechanism of HSP90 inhibitor in the treatment of DSS-induced colitis in mice by inhibiting MAPK pathway and synergistic effect of Compound Sophora decoction
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Heng Fan, Yuyi Yuan, Hui Wu, Bo Shuai, Chang Liu, Feng Zhu, Fei Gao, and Chunzhu Wei
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Pharmacology ,Drug Discovery - Abstract
Background: The mechanism of Heat Shock Protein 90 (HSP90) in Ulcerative Colitis (UC) has been studied, and mitogenic-activated protein kinases (MAPK) also contribute to the pathogenesis of UC. However, the effect of the HSP90/MAPK pathway in UC is still unclear. Therefore, the mainstay of this research is to explore the mechanism of action of this pathway in UC. Compound sophorae decoction (CSD), as a Chinese herbal decoction, can synergistically affect the above process. Objective: This study aimed to uncover the synergistic effects of HSP90 inhibitors regulating the MAPK pathway for treating DSS-induced colitis in mice and the synergistic effects of CSD. Methods: This experiment used oral administration of standard diets containing 3% dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) to establish an experimental colitis model in mice. The model was treated with HSP90 inhibitor, CSD, or dexamethasone. Mouse feces, mobility, body weight, colon length, and colon histopathology scores were recorded daily to assess the degree of colitis inflammation. Expression levels of HSP90 and MAPK pathway-related genes and proteins were evaluated by Western blot and qPCR. The evaluation of intestinal mucosal permeability was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), which could detect the protein level of D-Amino Acid Oxidase (DAO) and D-lactic acid (D-LA). The same went for downstream molecules AFT-2, p53, and apoptosis-related proteins BAX, BCL-2, Caspase3, and survivin in the MAPK pathway. Immunohistochemical measured p-38, p-JNK, and p-ERK expressions. JAM-A and claudin-1 connexin were tested by immunofluorescence staining. The TUNEL method was for measuring the apoptosis rate of colonic epithelial cells. CBA kit determined the level of inflammatory factors of colons. Results: HSP90 inhibitor can improve the degree of pathological damage in the colon of mice treated with DSS, increase the mice's weight and the length of the colon, and significantly reduce the disease activity index (DAI) score. Intraperitoneal injection of HSP90 inhibitor can reduce the expression of MAPK pathway markers P38, JNK, ERK, and their phosphorylation and decrease the content of AFT-2 and p53, which is downstream of the MAPK pathway. In addition, treatment of the HSP90 inhibitor up-regulated the expression of anti-apoptotic proteins BCL-2 and survivin, as well as down-regulated apoptotic protein caspase3, BAX in the colon of mice with colitis. Lower levels of inflammatory factors such as IL-6, MCP-1, IFN-γ, TNF, IL-12p70, and increased IL-10 were observed after HSP90 inhibitor therapy. Furthermore, the combination treatment of CSD can enhance the effect of the single HSP90 inhibitor treatment and play a synergistic effect. Conclusion: These data suggest that an HSP90 inhibitor is available to treat UC by inhibiting the MAPK signaling pathway. This axis can restore the intestinal mucosa barrier's function by reducing intestinal mucosa's permeability and inhibiting apoptosis of intestinal epithelial cells. The specific mechanism is that HSP90 inhibitor can reduce the pathological damage and inflammation levels of colitis mice, and reduce the apoptosis rate of colonic epithelial cells and the mucosal permeability, thereby restoring the mucosal barrier function. During this process, CSD works synergistically to improve the therapeutic effect of the HSP90 inhibitor.
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48. Protective effect of N-acetylcysteine on acute lung injury in septic rats by inhibiting inflammation, oxidation, and apoptosis
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Jian-Wei, Le, Min, Sun, Jian-Hua, Zhu, and Heng, Fan
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Acute lung injury (ALI) is a common comorbidity in patients with sepsis, and finding drugs that can effectively reduce its mortality is a hot spot in current research. The purpose of this study is to explore the protective mechanism of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on ALI in septic rats.We used NAC to intervene in septic rats to evaluate the plasma inflammatory factors and lung tissue pathological damage. Biochemical methods were used to determine the levels of oxidases in lung tissue, the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) proteins, and observed lung tissue cell apoptosis.NAC pretreatment decreased the mortality of septic rats, improved lung tissue pathological damage, reduced the levels of tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-1β, interleukin-6, interleukin-8, and malondialdehyde, and increased activity of superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, and catalase. Moreover, NAC pretreatment significantly decreased iNOS protein expression and increased eNOS protein expression in lung tissue. Meanwhile, NAC significantly decreased the number of apoptosis and the levels of Bax and Caspase-3 mRNA and increased the level of Bcl-2 mRNA in the lung tissue of septic rats.NAC protects ALI in septic rats by inhibiting inflammation, oxidative stress, and apoptosis.
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49. BMSCs improve TNBS-induced colitis in rats through inducing Tregs differentiation by expressing PD-L1
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Fei Gao, Dandan Cui, Heng Fan, Zhexing Shou, Dongmei Zuo, Jia Yang, Ting Yu, Yujin Liu, Si Chu, Feng Zhu, and Chunzhu Wei
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Objective: Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) are a kind of stem cells with high differentiation potential and immunomodulatory ability, which has a broad prospect in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. The aim of this study is to investigate whether BMSCs could improve TNBS-induced colitis in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats through inducing Tregs differentiation by expressing PD-L1.Methods: BMSCs were isolated and identified by flow cytometry before being transfected with PD-L1 siRNA recombinant plasmids. Then SD rats were randomly divided into 4 groups. Colitis induced by TNBS (sigma Aldrich) except normal group. On the fourth day of modeling, the rats in BMSCs control group and PD-L1 siRNA BMSCs group were injected with corresponding BMSCs through tail vein for 1 week, the dose was 5 × 106 cells. The normal group and model group were given the same volume of PBS.Results: PD-L1 siRNA BMSCs and BMSCs could reach colon tissue in TNBS-induced colitis. BMSCs control group significantly improved the clinical symptoms and histopathological severity of TNBS induced colitis, but PD-L1 siRNA BMSCs group did not. We found that the percentage of Tregs in spleen and mesenteric lymph nodes decreased, the expression of PD-L1, IL10, PTEN was down-regulated, and the expression of p-Akt and p-mTOR was up-regulated in colon tissue after PD-L1 siRNA intervention.Conclusion: This study suggested that BMSCs can induce the differentiation of Treg through inhibiting Akt/mTOR pathway by expressing PD-L1, which can significantly improve the symptoms and pathological damage of ulcerative colitis rats and affect the immune function.
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50. HSPA5 Inhibitor Meliorate DSS-Induced Colitis through HSPA1A/CHIP
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Fei Gao, Heng Fan, Linping Xue, Zhexing Shou, Feng Zhu, Ting Yu, Si Chu, Chunzhu Wei, Chang Liu, Dongbo Zuo, and Dongmei Zuo
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Article Subject ,Colon ,Biochemistry (medical) ,Clinical Biochemistry ,Dextran Sulfate ,General Medicine ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Disease Models, Animal ,Mice ,Genetics ,Animals ,Colitis, Ulcerative ,Molecular Biology ,Signal Transduction - Abstract
Objective. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is closely related to immune response, in which Treg cells (Tregs) suppress the autoimmune response of effector T cells to maintain homeostasis. As a marker of endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS), HSPA5 was highly expressed in the colon tissue of UC patients. This study is aimed at evaluating the therapeutic effect of HSPA5 inhibitor (HA15) on dextran sulfate sodium- (DSS-) induced ulcerative colitis in mice and explored the effect and related mechanism of HSPA5 inhibitor on the differentiation and function of Tregs. Methods. Thirty-two C57BL/6 mice were randomly divided into four groups (8 mice per group): normal control group, DSS model group, HSPA5 inhibitor (HA15) group (intraperitoneal injection), and dexamethasone (DXM) group (intraperitoneal injection). Except for the blank control group, the other groups were induced with 3% DSS for 7 days and then given corresponding intervention therapy for 7 days. Results. The disease activity index (DAI) score, colon length, histopathological changes, and scores of DSS-induced mice show that HA15 could significantly improve the degree of inflammation in ulcerative colitis. Moreover, HA15 can better inhibit the expression of HSPA5, HSPA1A, and CHIP in the colon and increase the level of FOXP3 mRNA. Finally, the content of Treg cells and the levels of IL-10 and TGF-β1 were significantly increased, and the levels of IL-6 were significantly reduced. Conclusions. HA15 can improve the differentiation and function of Treg cells by inhibiting the HSPA1A/CHIP pathway, thereby improving ulcerative colitis. Therefore, inhibiting the expression of HSPA5 may serve as a new approach to treat ulcerative colitis.
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