Publications by authors named "Beilei Zhu"

Exogenous gaseous formaldehyde (FA) is recognized as a significant indoor air pollutant due to its chemical reactivity and documented mutagenic and carcinogenic properties, particularly in its capacity to damage DNA and impact human health. Despite increasing attention on the adverse effects of exogenous FA on human health, the potential detrimental effects of endogenous FA in the brain have been largely neglected in current research. Endogenous FA have been observed to accumulate in the aging brain due to dysregulation in the expression and activity of enzymes involved in FA metabolism.

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Purpose: To explore the predictive value of nutritional risk for all-cause death and functional outcomes among elderly acute stroke patients.

Patients And Methods: A total of 479 elderly acute stroke patients were enrolled in this study. The nutritional risk of patients was screened by the GNRI and NRS-2002.

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia are the most worrying health problems faced by people globally today. Although the pathological features of AD consisting of amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques in the extracellular space (ECS) and intracellular tau tangles are well established, the developed medicines targeting these two proteins have not obtained the expected clinical effects. Photobiomodulation (PBM) describes the therapeutic use of red light (RL) or near-infrared light (NIR) to serve as a noninvasive neuroprotective strategy for brain diseases.

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Background: Poor sleep quality and vitamin D deficiency are common in stroke patients. Our aim was to evaluate the possible association between vitamin D and sleep quality in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients.

Methods: A total of 301 AIS patients were screened and completed 1-month follow-up.

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Background: Stroke is a leading cause of death and functional impairment in older people. To assess the prospective association between fasting blood glucose-to-glycated hemoglobin ratio and all-cause mortality and poor prognosis in stroke patients.

Methods: A total of 971 Chinese inpatients with acute stroke (mean age of 65.

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Introduction: Endothelial dysfunction (ED) is associated with the progression of sepsis. Ruscogenin (RUS) has shown considerable efficacy in treating ED and sepsis. In the current study, the effects of RUS on sepsis-induced ED were assessed, and the mechanism was explored by focusing on the interactions of RUS with miRs.

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Post-stroke anxiety (PSA) is serious psychosomatic comorbidity among patients with stroke, but whether obesity could be positively associated with PSA is currently unknown. The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential association between obesity and subsequent anxiety risk in patients with stroke. A total of 441 patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) onset were consecutively recruited within 7 days, and PSA and post-stroke depression (PSD) were evaluated by using a 14-item Hamilton anxiety scale (HAMA) and 17-item Hamilton depression scale (HAMD) at the end of 1-month follow-up.

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Background And Aims: Malnutrition is prevalent among individuals with acute ischaemic stroke (AIS) and may worsen clinical outcomes. There is no consensus on the best tool for nutritional screening in this population. The present study compared four screening tools and one diagnostic tool in terms of their prognostic significance in predicting short-term and long-term outcomes in AIS patients.

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Background: Malnutrition is confirmed to be associated with poor outcomes in stroke patients. The present study aimed to confirm that being at risk of malnutrition assessed by Nutritional Risk Screening Tool 2002 (NRS-2002) and the Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score predicts poor outcomes at 3 months in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients.

Methods: In total, 682 patients with AIS were recruited within 7 days of stroke onset consecutively and 110 were dropped out.

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Primary central nervous system lymphoma, a rare primary intracranial tumor, is highly malignant and usually associated with poor prognosis. Recent years, owing to the remarkable progress in intervention techniques, survival time reported has been significantly prolonged. Strategies targeting alleviation and remission are primarily depended on the early diagnosis.

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Background And Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the role of DL-3-n-butylphthalide (NBP) in cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury (CIRI) mice model. The involvement of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling pathway was also investigated.

Methods: All mice were divided into five groups: sham-operated group, CIRI group, NBP pretreatment group, NBP treatment group, and NBP pretreatment + treatment group.

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Whether leukoaraiosis burden retards short-term recovery after minor stroke is unclear. We investigated the association between leukoaraiosis and early recovery of neurological function after a first minor ischemic stroke in 217 acute stroke patients (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score ≤5). Leukoaraiosis severity was graded according to the Fazekas scale and categorized into none to mild (0-2; n = 143) or severe (3-6; n = 74) groups.

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Post-stroke depression (PSD) is a common psychiatric complication of stroke that is associated with a poor outcome in stroke patients. Our aim was to assess the association between the serum magnesium levels and the presence of PSD in Chinese patients. Two hundred nine stroke patients were included in the study.

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Low levels of serum vitamin D are common in patients with mood disorders and stroke. It has been shown that low levels of serum vitamin D indicate a risk of depression in post-stroke subjects. Our aim was to determine the relationship between vitamin D and post-stroke anxiety (PSA).

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To assess the value of bulbocavernosus reflex (BCR) and pudendal nerve somatosensory-evoked potential (SSEP) in the topical diagnosis of central and peripheral nervous system diseases in female patients. Neuroelectrophysiologic technique was adopted to determine both BCR and SSEP of 41 healthy adult females (control group), 30 female patients with spinal cord lesions (central group), and 50 female patients with peripheral nerve lesions (peripheral group), including nine female patients with acute cauda equina syndrome. The abnormality rates of BCR were 8.

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