Publications by authors named "Boyu Chu"

Oxidative stress in aging has attracted much attention; however, the role of reductive stress in aging remains largely unknown. Here, we report that the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) undergoes reductive stress during replicative senescence, as shown by specific glutathione and HO fluorescent probes. We constructed an ER-specific reductive stress cell model by ER-specific catalase overexpression and observed accelerated senescent phenotypes accompanied by disrupted proteostasis and a compromised ER unfolded protein response (UPR).

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The age-related loss of muscle mass and muscle function known as sarcopenia is a major public health problem among older people. Recent research suggests that activation of apoptotic signaling is a critical aspect of the pathogenesis of age-related sarcopenia. However, little information exists in the literature about the apoptotic mechanism of sarcopenia in aging.

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The redox balance of cells provides a stable microenvironment for biological macromolecules to perform their physiological functions. As redox imbalance is closely related to the occurrence and development of a variety of diseases, antioxidant therapies are an attractive option. However, redox-based therapeutic strategies have not yet shown satisfactory results.

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  • Recent studies show that MALDI-TOF MS can effectively detect superbugs like MRSA, prompting the development of a systematic classification pipeline for distinguishing between MRSA and MSSA using a large dataset of mass spectrometry spectra.
  • The study implemented a binning method to address issues with peak shifts in MS spectra, allowing for more effective clustering of data, and evaluated different bin sizes to identify key marker peaks.
  • Ultimately, using machine learning, particularly a random forest model, the research achieved a significant predictive performance, with an AUC of 0.8450, highlighting the advantages of large-scale data in enhancing classification accuracy between MRSA and MSSA.
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Obesity is a major risk factor for many metabolic diseases. To understand the genetic characteristics of obese individuals, single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) derived from next-generation sequencing (NGS) provide comprehensive insight into genome-wide genetic investigation. However, interpretation of these SNP data for clinical application is difficult given the high complexity of NGS data.

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Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) possess higher arterial stiffness index (SI) than the healthy population. This study aimed to clarify the effect of post-morbid duration on arterial stiffening change among SCI sufferers. Seventy-one SCI patients were recruited.

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