Publications by authors named "Chang Qu"

Polar 3D organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites (OIHPs) with the bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) have important application value in self-driven X-ray detection, due to their excellent semiconductor properties. However, A-site cations are limited by the tolerance factor, making it difficult to construct ABX-type polar 3D perovskites. Therefore, it is necessary to explore polar 3D perovskitiods with excellent semiconductor properties for self-driven X-ray detection.

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Intramuscular fat content is one of the most important factors affecting beef quality. However, the role of alternative polyadenylation (APA) in intramuscular fat deposition remains unclear. We compared APA events in muscle samples from high and low intramuscular fat (IMF) cattle, based on RNA-seq data.

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Beef quality is a critical factor in evaluating the effectiveness of beef cattle production. Fiber types play key roles in determining muscle growth and meat quality characteristics. FHL3 is de novo expressed in skeletal muscle and is responsible for MyHC isoform expression in C2C12 cells.

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Butyric acid as a short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) is one of the key microbial metabolites of ruminants. Numerous studies indicate that butyrate is crucial in muscle growth and development, and plays an important molecular regulatory role mainly by inhibiting histone deacetylation. DNA methylation, a major epigenetic modification, is involved in cell differentiation.

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Keymessage The study revealed the major biological processes occurred at three developmental stages and identified candidate genes involved in primary vein development of birch plants. Vascular tissues usually mirror the surrounding leaf shape and its development plays a fundamental role in plant performance. However, the information of vascular development in birch trees, especially primary vein development, remains unclear.

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cGAS/STING pathway, which is highly related to tumor hypoxia, is considered as a potential target for remodeling the immunosuppressive microenvironment of solid tumors. Metal ions, such as Mn, activate the cGAS/STING pathway, but their efficacy in cancer therapy is limited by insufficient effect on immunogenic tumor cell death of a single ion. Here, we evaluate the association between tumor hypoxia and cGAS/STING inhibition and report a polymetallic-immunotherapy strategy based on large mesoporous trimetal-based nanozyme (AuPdRh) coordinated with Mn (Mn@AuPdRh) to activate cGAS/STING signaling for robust adaptive antitumor immunity.

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Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection continues to be a prominent cause of liver fibrosis and end-stage liver disease in China, necessitating the development of effective therapeutic strategies. This study investigated the potential of targeting TGR5 to alleviate liver fibrosis by impeding the activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), which play a pivotal role in fibrotic progression. Using the human hepatic stellate cell line LX-2 overexpressing hepatitis B virus X protein (HBX), this study revealed that TGR5 activation through INT-777 inhibits HBX-induced LX-2 cell activation, thereby ameliorating liver fibrosis, which is associated with the attenuation of mitochondrial fission and introduces a novel regulatory pathway in liver fibrosis.

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Background: Gut microbiota may influence the development of acute pancreatitis (AP), a serious gastrointestinal disease with high morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to identify a causal link by investigating the relationship between gut microbiota and AP.

Methods: Mendelian randomization (MR) and a nested case-control study were used to explore associations between gut microbiota composition and AP.

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Asymmetric electronic environments based on microscopic-scale perspective have injected infinite vitality in understanding the intrinsic mechanism of polarization loss for electromagnetic (EM) wave absorption, but still exists a significant challenge. Herein, Zn single-atoms (SAs), structural defects, and Co nanoclusters are simultaneously implanted into bimetallic metal-organic framework derivatives via the two-step dual coordination-pyrolysis process. Theoretical simulations and experimental results reveal that the electronic coupling interactions between Zn SAs and structural defects delocalize the symmetric electronic environments and generate additional dipole polarization without sacrificing conduction loss owing to the compensation of carbon nanotubes.

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Metal halide perovskites have outperformed conventional inorganic semiconductors in direct X-ray detection due to their ease of synthesis and intriguing photoelectric properties. However, the operational instability caused by severe ion migration under a high external electric field is still a big concern for the practical application of perovskite detectors. Here, we report a 2D (BPEA)PbI (BPEA = -1-(4-bromophenyl)ethylammonium) perovskite with Br-substituted aromatic spacer capable of introducing abundant interactions, e.

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can cause localized infections such as abscesses and pneumonia, as well as systemic infections such as bacteremia and sepsis. Especially, methicillin-resistant often presents multidrug resistance, which becomes a major clinical challenge. One of the most common reasons for methicillin-resistant antibiotic resistance is the presence of biofilms.

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Gut dysbiosis, a well-known risk factor to triggers the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD), is strongly associated with metabolic disturbance. Trimethylamine -oxide (TMAO), produced in the dietary choline metabolism, has been found to accelerate neurodegeneration in AD pathology. In this study, the cognitive function and gut microbiota of TgCRND8 (Tg) mice of different ages were evaluated by Morris water maze task (MWMT) and 16S rRNA sequencing, respectively.

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The high mortality rate and postoperative recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) contribute to the burden on society and healthcare. The prognostic value and underlying mechanisms of cellular senescence and tumor microenvironment (TME) in HCC remain unclear. Bulk transcriptomic data were obtained from 368 HCC samples in The Cancer Genome Atlas-liver hepatocellular carcinoma cohort and 64 samples from the GSE116174 dataset.

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Deciphering the pivotal components of nutrient metabolism in compost is of paramount importance. To this end, ecoenzymatic stoichiometry, enzyme vector modeling, and statistical analysis were employed to explore the impact of exogenous ore improver on nutrient changes throughout the livestock composting process. The total phosphorus increased from 12.

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Ether-à-go-go (EAG) potassium channels play a crucial role in the regulation of neuronal excitability and cancer progression, rendering them potential drug targets for cancer therapy. However, the scarcity of information regarding the selection sites on hEAG1 has posed a challenge in the discovery of new hEAG1 inhibitors. In this study, we introduced a novel natural product, corydaline, which selectively inhibits the hEAG1 channel without sensitivity to other KCNH channels.

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  • - Successful blinding in clinical trials is crucial for reducing biases and improving the reliability of results, but it's particularly challenging in studies involving traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
  • - This study introduces a framework and a specific protocol for assessing blinding in TCM clinical trials, including a checklist for reporting and a method for evaluating assessment outcomes.
  • - By enhancing the blinding assessment process, the aim is to raise awareness among researchers, standardize practices, and ultimately improve the quality and accuracy of TCM clinical trial results.
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Lead halide hybrid perovskites have made great progress in direct X-ray detection and broadband photodetection, but the existence of toxic Pb and the demand for external operating voltage have severely limited their further applications and operational stability improvements. Therefore, exploring "green" lead-free hybrid perovskite that can both achieve X-ray detection and broadband photodetection without external voltage is of great importance, but remains severely challenging. Herein, using centrosymmetric (BZA)BiI (1, BZA = benzylamine) as a template, a pair of chiral-polar lead-free perovskites, (BZA)(R/S-PPA)BiI (2-R/S, R/S-PPA = (R/S)-1-Phenylpropylamine) are successfully obtained by introducing chiral aryl cations of (R/S)-1-Phenylpropylamine.

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Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in the world and one of the leading causes of cancer death, which is a heterogeneous disease involving genetic and environmental factors. Breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) are the main players in the aggressiveness of different tumors, at the same time, these cells are the main challenge for cancer treatment. There are multiple treatment options for breast cancer (BC) patients and the lack of understanding of prognostic and predictive biomarkers for breast cancer is a potential research direction for us to develop better treatments in the future.

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Propose: Berberine (BBR) is extensively studied as an outstanding anti-hyperuricemia drug. However, the clinical application of BBR was limited due to its poor absorption and low bioavailability. Therefore, there is an urgent necessity to find a novel drug formulation to address the issues of BBR in clinical application.

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With the rapid development of self-supervised learning (e.g., contrastive learning), the importance of having large-scale images (even without annotations) for training a more generalizable AI model has been widely recognized in medical image analysis.

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Background: The number of people with small pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) (tumors with a diameter less than or equal to 2 cm) is gradually increasing, but the selection of treatment strategy is still controversial. Our aim was to characterize small pNETs with a poor prognosis and to define the impact of aggressive small pNETs on survival and the risk factors for the development of invasive disease.

Methods: Patients with pNETs diagnosed between 2004 and 2019 and a tumor diameter of 2 cm or less were selected from the SEER Registry.

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The development of novel antibacterial nano-materials with synergistic biological effects has attracted extensive interest of the researchers. In the study, 0.5 mol% Ag and 0.

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Objective: To clarify the incidence of colonic complications in patients with NP and their impact on prognosis.

Methods: The clinical data of NP patients admitted to the Department of General Surgery of Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University from January 2014 to December 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were grouped according to the presence or absence of colonic complications, and the clinical prognosis of the two groups was analyzed after matching using a 1:1 propensity score, The primary study endpoint was patient mortality during hospitalization.

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  • A randomized, double-blind, phase 2 trial assessed the safety and effectiveness of a new vaccine, NVSI-06-09, as a booster for UAE adults previously vaccinated with BBIBP-CorV.
  • * The trial involved 516 participants who received either NVSI-06-09 or continued with BBIBP-CorV, showing a similar low incidence of mild adverse reactions in both groups.
  • * Results indicated that NVSI-06-09 produced significantly higher neutralizing antibody levels against various SARS-CoV-2 variants, including significantly better responses against Omicron strains compared to BBIBP-CorV.
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Leaves are one of the vegetative organs of plants that are essential for plant growth and development. () gene is an indoleacetic acid (IAA) transporter that plays a critical role in leaf development. To determine the function of in leaf polarity formation in , the transgenic lines with overexpression (OE) and reduced expression (RE) were analyzed using the -mediated method.

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