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Cereb Cortex ; 34(1)2024 01 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37950878

ABSTRACT

In this study, based on scalp electroencephalogram (EEG), we conducted cortical source localization and functional network analyses to investigate the underlying mechanism explaining the decision processes when individuals anticipate maximizing gambling benefits, particularly in situations where the decision outcomes are inconsistent with the profit goals. The findings shed light on the feedback monitoring process, wherein incongruity between outcomes and gambling goals triggers a more pronounced medial frontal negativity and activates the frontal lobe. Moreover, long-range theta connectivity is implicated in processing surprise and uncertainty caused by inconsistent feedback conditions, while middle-range delta coupling reflects a more intricate evaluation of feedback outcomes, which subsequently modifies individual decision-making for optimizing future rewards. Collectively, these findings deepen our comprehension of decision-making under circumstances where the profit goals are compromised by decision outcomes and provide electrophysiological evidence supporting adaptive adjustments in individual decision strategies to achieve maximum benefit.


Subject(s)
Gambling , Humans , Feedback , Decision Making/physiology , Electroencephalography , Frontal Lobe/physiology , Brain
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Neuroimage ; 285: 120472, 2024 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38007187

ABSTRACT

Dynamic functional networks (DFN) have considerably advanced modelling of the brain communication processes. The prevailing implementation capitalizes on the system and network-level correlations between time series. However, this approach does not account for the continuous impact of non-dynamic dependencies within the statistical correlation, resulting in relatively stable connectivity patterns of DFN over time with limited sensitivity for communication dynamic between brain regions. Here, we propose an activation network framework based on the activity of functional connectivity (AFC) to extract new types of connectivity patterns during brain communication process. The AFC captures potential time-specific fluctuations associated with the brain communication processes by eliminating the non-dynamic dependency of the statistical correlation. In a simulation study, the positive correlation (r=0.966,p<0.001) between the extracted dynamic dependencies and the simulated "ground truth" validates the method's dynamic detection capability. Applying to autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and COVID-19 datasets, the proposed activation network extracts richer topological reorganization information, which is largely invisible to the DFN. Detailed, the activation network exhibits significant inter-regional connections between function-specific subnetworks and reconfigures more efficiently in the temporal dimension. Furthermore, the DFN fails to distinguish between patients and healthy controls. However, the proposed method reveals a significant decrease (p<0.05) in brain information processing abilities in patients. Finally, combining two types of networks successfully classifies ASD (83.636 % ± 11.969 %,mean±std) and COVID-19 (67.333 % ± 5.398 %). These findings suggest the proposed method could be a potential analytic framework for elucidating the neural mechanism of brain dynamics.


Subject(s)
Autism Spectrum Disorder , COVID-19 , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods , Neural Pathways/physiology , Brain/physiology , Brain Mapping/methods , Communication
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J Am Chem Soc ; 146(1): 289-297, 2024 Jan 10.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38135454

ABSTRACT

Copper (Cu), with the advantage of producing a deep reduction product, is a unique catalyst for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 (CO2RR). Designing a Cu-based catalyst to trigger CO2RR to a multicarbon product and understanding the accurate structure-activity relationship for elucidating reaction mechanisms still remain a challenge. Herein, we demonstrate a rational design of a core-shell structured silica-copper catalyst (p-Cu@m-SiO2) through Cu-Si direct bonding for efficient and selective CO2RR. The Cu-Si interface fulfills the inversion in CO2RR product selectivity. The product ratio of C2H4/CH4 changes from 0.6 to 14.4 after silica modification, and the current density reaches a high of up to 450 mA cm-2. The kinetic isotopic effect, in situ attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared spectra, and density functional theory were applied to elucidate the reaction mechanism. The SiO2 shell stabilizes the *H intermediate by forming Si-O-H and inhibits the hydrogen evolution reaction effectively. Moreover, the direct-bonded Cu-Si interface makes bare Cu sites with larger charge density. Such bare Cu sites and Si-O-H sites stabilized the *CHO and activated the *CO, promoting the coupling of *CHO and *CO intermediates to form C2H4. This work provides a promising strategy for designing Cu-based catalysts with high C2H4 catalytic activity.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 132(4): 045001, 2024 Jan 26.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38335335

ABSTRACT

Laser wakefield acceleration is paving the way for the next generation of electron accelerators, for their own sake and as radiation sources. A controllable dual-wake injection scheme is put forward here to generate an ultrashort triplet electron bunch with high brightness and high polarization, employing a radially polarized laser as a driver. We find that the dual wakes can be driven by both transverse and longitudinal components of the laser field in the quasiblowout regime, sustaining the laser-modulated wakefield which facilitates the subcycle and transversely split injection of the triplet bunch. Polarization of the triplet bunch can be highly preserved due to the laser-assisted collective spin precession and the noncanceled transverse spins. In our three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, the triplet electron bunch, with duration about 500 as, six-dimensional brightness exceeding 10^{14} A/m^{2}/0.1% and polarization over 80%, can be generated using a few-terawatt laser. Such an electron bunch could play an essential role in many applications, such as ultrafast imaging, nuclear structure and high-energy physics studies, and the operation of coherent radiation sources.

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Analyst ; 149(2): 386-394, 2024 Jan 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38050732

ABSTRACT

The presence of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) in natural waters has become a significant concern recently because of its detrimental effects on human health and the ecological environment. To address this issue, it is of utmost urgency to develop a reliable method that can determine SMX at ultra-low levels. In our research, we utilized PVP-induced shape control of a hydrothermal synthesis method to fabricate layer-like structured VS2, and employed it as an electrode modification material to prepare an electrochemical sensor for the sensitive determination of SMX. Thus, our prepared VS2 electrodes exhibited a linear range of 0.06-10.0 µM and a limit of detection (LOD) as low as 47.0 nM (S/N = 3) towards SMX detection. Additionally, the electrochemical sensor presented good agreement with the HPLC method, and afforded perfect recovery results (97.4-106.8%) in the practical analysis. The results validated the detection accuracy of VS2 electrodes, and demonstrated their successful applicability toward the sensitive determination of SMX in natural waters. In conclusion, this research provides a promising approach for the development of electrochemical sensors based on VS2 composite materials.


Subject(s)
Anti-Bacterial Agents , Vanadium Compounds , Humans , Sulfamethoxazole , Electrochemical Techniques/methods , Electrodes , Limit of Detection
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Cereb Cortex ; 33(15): 9429-9437, 2023 07 24.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37328940

ABSTRACT

Risky decision-making is affected by past feedback, especially after encountering the beneficial loss in the past decision-making round, yet little is known about the mechanism accounting for the distinctive decision-making that different individuals may make under the past loss context. We extracted decision functional medial frontal negative (MFN) and the cortical thickness (CT) from multi-modality electroencephalography (EEG) and T1-weighted structural MRI (sMRI) datasets to assess the individual risky decision under the past loss context. First, concerning the MFN, the low-risk group (LRG) exhibits larger MFN amplitude and longer reaction time than the high-risk group (HRG) when making risky decisions under the loss context. Subsequently, the sMRI analysis reveals a greater CT in the left anterior insula (AI) for HRG compared with LRG, and a greater CT in AI is associated with a high level of impulsivity, driving individuals to make risky choices under the past loss context. Furthermore, for all participants, the corresponding risky decision behavior could be exactly predicted as a correlation coefficient of 0.523 was acquired, and the classification by combing the MFN amplitude and the CT of the left AI also achieves an accuracy of 90.48% to differentiate the two groups. This study may offer new insight into understanding the mechanism that accounts for the inter-individual variability of risky decisions under the loss context and denotes new indices for the prediction of the risky participants.


Subject(s)
Decision Making , Electroencephalography , Humans , Decision Making/physiology , Risk-Taking , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Electrophysiology
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Int J Mol Sci ; 25(7)2024 Mar 22.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38612390

ABSTRACT

Dormancy release and reactivation in temperate trees are mainly controlled by temperature and are affected by age, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are still unclear. In this study, we explored the effects of low temperatures in winter and warm temperatures in spring on dormancy release and reactivation in Larix kaempferi. Further, we established the relationships between cell-cycle genes and cambium cell division. The results showed that chilling accelerated L. kaempferi bud break overall, and the longer the duration of chilling is, the shorter the bud break time is. After dormancy release, warm temperatures induced cell-cycle gene expression; when the configuration value of the cell-cycle genes reached 4.97, the cambium cells divided and L. kaempferi reactivated. This study helps to predict the impact of climate change on wood production and provides technical support for seedling cultivation in greenhouses.


Subject(s)
Larix , Larix/genetics , Cambium , Genes, cdc , Cell Division , Climate Change
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Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi ; 41(6): 749-752, 2024 Jun 10.
Article in Zh | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38818563

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the clinical characteristics and genetic basis of a male patient with primary infertility caused by Acephalic spermatozoa syndrome. METHODS: A patient who had presented at the Henan Provincial People's Hospital on October 1, 2022 was selected as the study subject. Clinical data and results of laboratory exams and sperm electron microscopy were collected. The patient was subjected to whole exome sequencing (WES), and candidate variants were verified by Sanger sequencing and pathogenicity analysis. RESULTS: WES revealed that the patient has harbored compound heterozygous variants of the PMFBP1 gene, namely c.853del (p.Ala285Leufs*24) and c.1276A>T (p.Lys426X), which were both unreported previously. Sanger sequencing suggested that the c.853del (p.Ala285Leufs*24) variant has derived from his deceased mother, whilst the c.1276A>T (p.Lys426X) variant has derived from his father. Based on the guidelines from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), both variants were classified as pathogenic (PVS1+PM2_Supporting+PP4). CONCLUSION: The compound heterozygous variants of the PMFBP1 gene probably underlay the Acephalic spermatozoa syndrome in this patient. The discovery of the novel variants has also enriched the mutational spectrum of Acephalic spermatozoa syndrome.


Subject(s)
Spermatozoa , Humans , Male , Adult , Mutation , Exome Sequencing , Infertility, Male/genetics , Carrier Proteins/genetics , Genetic Testing , Teratozoospermia/genetics , Microfilament Proteins
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Zhongguo Yi Xue Ke Xue Yuan Xue Bao ; 46(2): 147-153, 2024 Apr.
Article in Zh | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38686709

ABSTRACT

Objective To screen out the biomarkers linked to prognosis of breast invasive carcinoma based on the analysis of transcriptome data by random forest (RF),extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost),light gradient boosting machine (LightGBM),and categorical boosting (CatBoost). Methods We obtained the expression data of breast invasive carcinoma from The Cancer Genome Atlas and employed DESeq2,t-test,and Cox univariate analysis to identify the differentially expressed protein-coding genes associated with survival prognosis in human breast invasive carcinoma samples.Furthermore,RF,XGBoost,LightGBM,and CatBoost models were established to mine the protein-coding gene markers related to the prognosis of breast invasive cancer and the model performance was compared.The expression data of breast cancer from the Gene Expression Omnibus was used for validation. Results A total of 151 differentially expressed protein-coding genes related to survival prognosis were screened out.The machine learning model established with C3orf80,UGP2,and SPC25 demonstrated the best performance. Conclusions Three protein-coding genes (UGP2,C3orf80,and SPC25) were screened out to identify breast invasive carcinoma.This study provides a new direction for the treatment and diagnosis of breast invasive carcinoma.


Subject(s)
Biomarkers, Tumor , Breast Neoplasms , Machine Learning , Humans , Breast Neoplasms/genetics , Female , Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics , Prognosis , Gene Expression Profiling
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J Cell Mol Med ; 27(20): 3107-3116, 2023 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37537752

ABSTRACT

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare autosomal-recessive disease manifested with recurrent infections of respiratory tract and infertility. DNAAF3 is identified as a novel gene associated with PCD and different mutations in DNAAF3 results in different clinical features of PCD patients, such as situs inversus, sinusitis and bronchiectasis. However, the sperm phenotypic characteristics of PCD males are generally poorly investigated. Our reproductive medicine centre received a case of PCD patient with infertility, who presented with sinusitis, recurrent infections of the lower airway and severe asthenozoospermia; However, no situs inversus was found in the patient. A novel homozygous mutation in DNAAF3(c.551T>A; p.V184E) was identified in the PCD patient by whole-exome sequencing. Subsequent Sanger sequencing further confirmed that the DNAAF3 had a homozygous missense variant in the fifth exon. Transmission electron microscopy and immunostaining analysis of the sperms from the patient showed a complete absence of outer dynein arms and partial absence of inner dynein arms, which resulted in the reduction in sperm motility. However, this infertility was overcome by intracytoplasmic sperm injections, as his wife achieved successful pregnancy. These findings showed that the PCD-associated pathogenic mutation within DNAAF3 also causes severe asthenozoospermia and male infertility ultimately due to sperm flagella axoneme defect in humans. Our study not only contributes to understand the sperm phenotypic characteristics of patients with DNAAF3 mutations but also expands the spectrum of DNAAF3 mutations and may contribute to the genetic diagnosis and therapy for infertile patient with PCD.

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Neurobiol Learn Mem ; 205: 107834, 2023 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37757954

ABSTRACT

Neurofeedback (NF) is a promising method to self-regulate human brain activity for cognition enhancement. Due to the unclear results of alpha NF training on working memory updating as well as the impact of feedback modality on NF learning, this study aimed to understand further the underlying neural mechanism of alpha NF training effects on working memory updating, where the NF learning was also compared between visual and auditory feedback modalities. A total of 30 participants were assigned to Visual NF, Auditory NF, and Control groups. Working memory updating was evaluated by n-back (n =2,3) tasks before and after five alpha upregulation NF sessions. The result showed no significant difference in NF learning performance between the Visual and Auditory groups, indicating that the difference in feedback modality did not affect NF learning. In addition, compared to the control group, the participants who achieved successful NF learning showed a significant increase in n-back behavioral performance and P3a amplitude in 2-back and a significant decrease in P3a latency in 3-back. Our results in n-back further suggested that successful alpha NF training might improve updating performance in terms of the behavioral and related event-related potential (ERP) measures. These findings contribute to the understanding of the effect of alpha training on memory updating and the design of NF experimental protocol in terms of feedback modality selection.


Subject(s)
Memory, Short-Term , Neurofeedback , Humans , Memory, Short-Term/physiology , Neurofeedback/methods , Neurofeedback/physiology , Electroencephalography/methods , Evoked Potentials/physiology , Learning/physiology
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Phys Rev Lett ; 131(17): 175101, 2023 Oct 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37955489

ABSTRACT

We put forward a novel method for producing ultrarelativistic high-density high-polarization positrons through a single-shot interaction of a strong laser with a tilted solid foil. In our method, the driving laser ionizes the target, and the emitted electrons are accelerated and subsequently generate abundant γ photons via the nonlinear Compton scattering, dominated by the laser. These γ photons then generate polarized positrons via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process, dominated by a strong self-generated quasistatic magnetic field B^{S}. We find that placing the foil at an appropriate angle can result in a directional orientation of B^{S}, thereby polarizing positrons. Manipulating the laser polarization direction can control the angle between the γ photon polarization and B^{S}, significantly enhancing the positron polarization degree. Our spin-resolved quantum electrodynamics particle-in-cell simulations demonstrate that employing a laser with a peak intensity of about 10^{23} W/cm^{2} can obtain dense (≳10^{18} cm^{-3}) polarized positrons with an average polarization degree of about 70% and a yield of above 0.1 nC per shot. Moreover, our method is feasible using currently available or upcoming laser facilities and robust with respect to the laser and target parameters. Such high-density high-polarization positrons hold great significance in laboratory astrophysics, high-energy physics, and new physics beyond the standard model.

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J Pathol ; 257(3): 262-273, 2022 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35170753

ABSTRACT

Mucosal immune regulation is considered a key aspect of immunopathogenesis of IgA nephropathy (IgAN). Direct experimental evidence clarifying the role of intestinal mucosa attributes in IgAN is lacking. In this study, a mouse model was established via multiple low-dose intraperitoneal injections of Lactobacillus casei cell wall extract (LCWE) emulsified with Complete Freund's Adjuvant (CFA). We found continuous and stable deposition of IgA in glomerular mesangial areas, accompanying high circulating levels of IgA and IgA-IgG complexes. Expression of the key extracellular matrix components collagen IV and fibronectin also increased in the mesangial areas of LCWE-induced mice. IgA+ B220+ B-cell proportion increased in the small intestine (SI), Peyer's patches, inguinal lymph nodes, spleen, and bone marrow. The intestinal barrier was dysfunctional in the LCWE-induced mice, and consistent with this, higher levels of serum zonulin (namely prehaptoglobin-2), a regulator of epithelial and endothelial barrier function, were observed in patients with IgAN. Hematoxylin and eosin staining results indicated that immune tissues such as liver, spleen, and lymph nodes showed an inflammatory response and focal lesions. Glucocorticoid methylprednisolone treatment could alleviate serum IgA and IgA-IgG complex levels and mesangial IgA deposition. Taken together, our results indicate that we have successfully constructed a mouse model with IgA deposition in the mesangial areas of the glomeruli and provide evidence for the connection between the intestinal barrier and elevated circulating IgA and IgA-IgG in IgAN. © 2022 The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.


Subject(s)
Glomerulonephritis, IGA , Lacticaseibacillus casei , Animals , Cell Extracts/therapeutic use , Cell Wall/metabolism , Cell Wall/pathology , Delayed-Action Preparations/therapeutic use , Glomerulonephritis, IGA/pathology , Humans , Immunoglobulin A/metabolism , Immunoglobulin G , Lacticaseibacillus casei/metabolism , Mice , Plant Extracts/therapeutic use
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Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) ; 69(11): 17-24, 2023 Nov 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38015513

ABSTRACT

Ischemic cerebrovascular diseases pose significant challenges due to their high mortality, disability rates, and recurrence risk, imposing substantial societal and healthcare burdens. Current treatment modalities, including medication and surgical interventions, have limitations. This study explores the therapeutic potential of anisodine hydrobromide, a neuroprotective compound, with a focus on its interaction with muscarinic receptors (M1-M5) in cerebral ischemic diseases, employing a middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) rat model, and microglial HM cells and astrocytes SVG12 as models. Immunohistochemistry comprehensively assessed M1-M5 receptor expression in cerebral arteries, hippocampus, and parenchymal tissues in MCAO rats before and after anisodine hydrobromide administration. Additionally, a hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) model validated our findings using SVG12 and HM cells. M receptor mechanisms under hypoxia, including calcium ion influx, reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, and aspartate expression were explored. Anisodine hydrobromide effectively reduced exacerbated M1, M2, M4, and M5 receptor expression in hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R)-treated brain tissues and M2 receptors in H/R-treated cells. Concentration-dependent inhibition of calcium ion influx and ROS levels was observed, elucidating its neuroprotective mechanisms. Under H/R conditions, HM cells exhibited decreased aspartate levels by anisodine hydrobromide, Atropine, and M2 inhibitor treatments. These findings shed light on the modulation of muscarinic receptors, particularly the M2 subtype, by anisodine hydrobromide in cerebral ischemia. The neuroprotective effects observed in this study highlight the promising clinical prospects of anisodine hydrobromide as a potential therapeutic agent for ischemic brain diseases, warranting further investigation into its mechanisms of action.


Subject(s)
Aspartic Acid , Calcium , Animals , Rats , Reactive Oxygen Species , Cerebral Infarction , Receptors, Muscarinic , Hypoxia/drug therapy
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Cell Mol Life Sci ; 79(6): 315, 2022 May 24.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35610381

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Overexpression of exogenous lineage-specific transcription factors could directly induce terminally differentiated somatic cells into target cell types. However, the low conversion efficiency and the concern about introducing exogenous genes limit the clinical application. With the rapid progress in genome editing, the application of CRISPR/dCas9 has been expanding rapidly, including converting somatic cells into other types of cells in vivo and in vitro. Using the CRISPR/dCas9 system, direct neuronal reprogramming could be achieved by activating endogenous genes. Here, we will discuss the latest progress, new insights, and future challenges of the application of the dCas9 system in direct neuronal reprogramming.


Subject(s)
CRISPR-Cas Systems , Gene Editing , CRISPR-Cas Systems/genetics , Cell Differentiation/genetics , Neurons/metabolism , Transcription Factors/genetics , Transcription Factors/metabolism
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Childs Nerv Syst ; 39(3): 593-601, 2023 03.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36662273

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Pediatric gliomas are the most common central nervous system (CNS) tumors in children and adolescents and show different clinical and histopathological characteristics from the adult. The prognostic factors were poorly defined in pediatric intracranial gliomas. METHODS: We collected pediatric intracranial glioma cases in our institution between February 2011 and June 2022. The patient clinical data, tumor growth characteristics, treatments, and follow-up data were analyzed by Cox regression analysis to identify impact factors on the prognosis of pediatric intracranial glioma patients. To corroborate our data, an independent cohort of pediatric intracranial glioma from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) database was analyzed. RESULTS: A total of 181 cases of pediatric low-grade glioma (PLGG) and 45 cases of pediatric high-grade glioma (PHGG) were included. In multivariate Cox regression analysis, tumor size > 59.5 mm (p = 0.006) and non-gross total resection (non-GTR; subtotal resection, STR, p = 0.042; biopsy, p = 0.012) were associated with decreased overall survival (OS) in PLGG patients. In PHGG patients, only chemotherapy (p = 0.023) was associated with OS while tumor size was marginally prognostic for OS (p = 0.051). Additional independent analysis of 2734 PLGG and 741 PHGG from the SEER database corroborated that larger tumor size was associated with decreased OS in LGG (p = 0.001) and HGG (p < 0.001) patients, separately. CONCLUSION: In this study, we found that tumor size was a significant prognostic factor for the OS of PLGG patients in our series. Besides the tumor size, the extent of resection also independently impacted the prognosis of PLGG patients. While in PHGG patients, only chemotherapy was associated with improved OS and tumor size was marginally prognostic.


Subject(s)
Brain Neoplasms , Glioma , Adult , Adolescent , Humans , Child , Brain Neoplasms/epidemiology , Brain Neoplasms/therapy , Glioma/epidemiology , Glioma/therapy , Prognosis , Neurosurgical Procedures , Biopsy , Retrospective Studies
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J Am Soc Nephrol ; 33(5): 918-935, 2022 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35172987

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: IgA nephropathy is a common primary glomerulonephritis caused by mesangial deposition of poly-IgA complexes. The disease follows a variable course of clinical progression, with a high risk of kidney failure. Although no specific therapy is available, enzymatic strategies to clear IgA deposits are being considered for the treatment of rapidly progressive IgA nephropathy. METHODS: We chose an IgA protease of commensal bacterium Clostridium ramosum, termed AK183, as the template for constructing a recombinant biologic. To extend the t1/2 in blood, we fused AK183 to the Fc segment of human IgG1. Activities of this Fc-AK183 fusion protein toward the cleavage and subsequent clearance of IgA were tested in mouse models. RESULTS: First, we discovered an autocleavage activity of AK183 that separates the N-terminal protease from its C-terminal autotransporter ß domain. Therefore, we grafted Fc to the N terminus of AK183 and demonstrated its week-long enzymatic activity in mice. In addition, the proteolytic fragments of IgA generated in the reaction with Fc-AK183 were effectively removed from circulation via kidney filtration. The combined actions of Fc-AK183-mediated cleavage and subsequent renal clearance of IgA resulted in a lasting obliteration of blood IgA, as demonstrated in a human IgA-injection model and in a humanized α1KI transgenic model. Fc-AK183 was also able to remove chronic IgA and associated complement C3 deposits in the glomerulus. CONCLUSION: We constructed a chimeric fusion of IgA protease with Fc and demonstrated its long-lasting efficacy as a promising targeted therapy for IgA nephropathy in mouse models.


Subject(s)
Glomerulonephritis, IGA , Animals , Disease Models, Animal , Female , Firmicutes , Glomerulonephritis, IGA/therapy , Humans , Immunoglobulin A/metabolism , Immunoglobulin G , Male , Mice , Receptors, Fc , Serine Endopeptidases
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Br J Neurosurg ; 37(5): 1220-1222, 2023 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33258701

ABSTRACT

We report an elderly patient with a symptomatic and growing arachnoid cyst. Physician should be cautious in counseling asymptomatic arachnoid cyst patients, regardless of their age, and inform them of the possibility, although rare, of growth and symptom development even in their late life.


Subject(s)
Arachnoid Cysts , Humans , Aged , Arachnoid Cysts/diagnostic imaging , Arachnoid Cysts/surgery
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Sensors (Basel) ; 23(7)2023 Mar 31.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37050690

ABSTRACT

Traffic flow prediction is one of the most important tasks of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) for traffic management, and it is also a challenging task affected by many complex factors, such as weather and time. Many cities adopt efficient traffic prediction methods to control traffic congestion. However, most of the existing methods of traffic prediction focus on urban road scenarios, neglecting the complexity of multivariate auxiliary information in highways. Moreover, these methods have difficulty explaining the prediction results based only on the historical traffic flow sequence. To tackle these problems, we propose a novel traffic prediction model, namely Multi-variate and Multi-horizon prediction based on Long Short-Term Memory (MMLSTM). MMLSTM can effectively incorporate auxiliary information, such as weather and time, based on a strategy of multi-horizon time spans to improve the prediction performance. Specifically, we first exploit a multi-horizon bidirectional LSTM model for fusing the multivariate auxiliary information in different time spans. Then, we combine an attention mechanism and multi-layer perceptron to conduct the traffic prediction. Furthermore, we can use the information of multivariate (weather and time) to provide interpretability to manage the model. Comprehensive experiments are conducted on Hangst and Metr-la datasets, and MMLSTM achieves better performance than baselines on traffic prediction tasks.

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Zhongguo Yi Xue Ke Xue Yuan Xue Bao ; 45(6): 867-885, 2023 Dec 30.
Article in Zh | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38173097

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the role and mechanism of eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1(EEF1) family members (EEF1D,EEF1A1,and EEF1A2) in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) based on public databases.Methods We examined EEF1 member expression levels in human LUAD samples via The Cancer Genome Atlas in the UCSC Xena browser and the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium.We analyzed the mRNA and protein levels of EEF1D,EEF1A1,and EEF1A2 and their correlations with pathological variables via the Mann-Whitney U test.The Kaplan-Meier curves were established to assess the prognostic values of EEF1D,EEF1A1,and EEF1A2.The single-sample gene set enrichment analysis algorithm was employed to explore the relationship between the expression levels of EEF1 members and tumor immune cell infiltration.Spearman and Pearson correlation analyses were performed to examine the relationship between the expression levels of EEF1 members and those of the genes in the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B signaling pathway.The immunohistochemical assay was employed to determine the expression levels of EEF1D,EEF1A1,and EEF1A2 in the LUAD tissue (n=75) and paracancer tissue (n=75) samples.Results The mRNA and protein levels of EEF1D,EEF1A1,and EEF1A2 showed significant differences between tumor and paracancer tissues (all P<0.001).The patients with high protein levels of EEF1A1 showed bad prognosis in terms of overall survival (P=0.039),and those with high protein levels of EEF1A2 showed good prognosis in terms of overall survival (P=0.012).The influence of the mRNA level of EEF1D on prognosis was associated with pathological characteristics.The expression levels of EEF1 members were significantly associated with the infiltration of various immune cells and the expression of key molecules in the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B signaling pathway.Conclusion EEF1D,EEF1A1,and EEF1A2 are associated with the progression of LUAD,serving as the candidate prognostic markers for LUAD.


Subject(s)
Adenocarcinoma of Lung , Lung Neoplasms , Humans , Peptide Elongation Factor 1/chemistry , Peptide Elongation Factor 1/genetics , Peptide Elongation Factor 1/metabolism , Proteomics , Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/metabolism , Carcinogenesis , RNA, Messenger/genetics , Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases , Prognosis
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