Publications by authors named "Chen Jiong"

Disinfectants, such as bleaching powder, are widely employed in marine aquaculture worldwide to control the bacterial pathogens and eliminate antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Nevertheless, the rapid recovery of prokaryotic community compositions (PCCs) after disinfection may significantly influence the overall efficacy of disinfection. Presently, little is known about the rapid recovery mechanisms of PCCs and its impact on the removal of ARGs in seawater.

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  • Infection with a harmful bacterium can cause severe damage to shrimp's hepatopancreas, leading to high mortality rates, making their protection vital for disease resistance.
  • A study showed that supplementing the shrimp diet with the probiotic strain Ep-M17 helped reduce hepatopancreas damage from the bacterial infection E1 and improved immune function.
  • Results indicated that Ep-M17 not only boosted the activity of important enzymes and stimulated immune-related gene transcription but also increased beneficial metabolites, highlighting its potential as a dietary supplement for improving shrimp health in aquaculture.
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Protein arginine methyltransferase 7 (PRMT7), a type III methyltransferase responsible solely for arginine mono-methylation, plays a critical role in numerous physiological and pathological processes. Recent studies have highlighted its aberrant expression or mutation in various cancers, implicating it in tumorigenesis, cancer progression, and drug resistance. Consequently, PRMT7 has emerged as a promising target for cancer diagnosis and therapeutic intervention.

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In the last decade, research has clarified the binding interactions between immunoglobulin E (IgE) and its high-affinity receptor, the FcεRI alpha chain (FcεRI). The formation of the IgE-FcεRI complex is crucial in the context of atopic allergies, linking allergen recognition to cellular activation and disease manifestation. Consequently, pharmacological strategies that disrupt these interactions are vital for managing atopic conditions.

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Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative disease, where neuroinflammation significantly influences its pathophysiology by driving the disease's pathological cascade. As a pro-inflammatory regulator, miR-125b-5p contributes to AD progression, though its precise role and mechanisms remain unclear.

Objective: We aims to identify mRNAs significantly regulated by pro-inflammatory miR-125b-5p in AD and uncover key neuroinflammatory pathways.

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the most common cause of dementia, contributing to around 60-80% of cases. The main pathophysiology of AD is characterized by an abnormal accumulation of protein aggregates extracellularly (beta-amyloid plaques) and intracellularly (neurofibrillary tangles of hyperphosphorylated tau). However, an increasing number of studies have also suggested neuroinflammation may have a crucial role in precipitating the cascade reactions that result in the development of AD neuropathology.

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  • * Virtual screening of over 100,000 compounds identified 12 potential inhibitors, with compound 4 showing the most promise in blocking KDM7A's activity, leading to reduced breast cancer stem cells and cell cycle arrest.
  • * The research also highlights MKRN1 as a significant gene influenced by KDM7A, further revealing the potential of compound 4 as an effective treatment option for both drug-resistant and sensitive triple-negative breast cancer.
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Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer with high mortality and drug resistance and no targeted drug available at present. Compound , a staurosporine alkaloid derived from sp. NBU3142 in a marine sponge, exhibits potent anti-TNBC activity.

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Background: Brain ageing is highly heterogeneous, as it is driven by a variety of normal and neuropathological processes. These processes may differentially affect structural and functional brain ageing across individuals, with more pronounced ageing (older brain age) during midlife being indicative of later development of dementia. Here, we examined whether brain-ageing heterogeneity in unimpaired older adults related to neurodegeneration, different cognitive trajectories, genetic and amyloid-beta (Aβ) profiles, and to predicted progression to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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The white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) causes white spot disease (WSD), a severe condition in crustacean aquaculture, leading to significant economic losses. Our previous study demonstrated that C7 is an effective therapeutic agent against WSSV infection in aquaculture. It specifically blocked viral horizontal transmission and reduced shrimp mortality in a dose- and time-dependent manner.

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  • Alzheimer's disease (AD) exhibits varied brain atrophy patterns, identified through a semi-supervised learning technique (Surreal-GAN) that distinguishes between "diffuse-AD" (widespread atrophy) and "MTL-AD" (focal atrophy in the medial temporal lobe) dimensions in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD.
  • Only the "MTL-AD" dimension was linked to known AD genetic risk factors like APOE ε4, and both dimensions were later detected in asymptomatic individuals, revealing their association with different genetic and pathological mechanisms.
  • Aside from brain-related genes, up to 77 additional genes were identified in various organs, pointing to broader
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  • Micropterus salmoides rhabdovirus (MSRV) significantly impacts aquaculture, leading to economic losses, which prompted a study on palmatine, a plant-derived monomer, for its antiviral properties against this virus in largemouth bass.* -
  • Research showed that palmatine drastically reduced MSRV replication by 85% at safe levels and enhanced the antiviral capacity of exposed cells, while also improving survival rates in treated fish by 53% over 15 days.* -
  • Palmatine activates important immune genes and lowers the horizontal transmission of MSRV, suggesting its potential as a sustainable approach to boost fish health and manage viral outbreaks in aquaculture.*
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Jumonji domain-containing protein D3 (JMJD3) is a 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase that specifically removes transcriptional repression marks di- and tri-methylated groups from lysine 27 on histone 3 (H3K27me2/3). The erasure of these marks leads to the activation of some associated genes, thereby influencing various biological processes, such as development, differentiation, and immune response. However, comprehensive descriptions regarding the relationship between JMJD3 and inflammation are lacking.

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Spring viraemia of carp virus (SVCV) is a major threat to the aquaculture industry, causing severe economic losses and significantly impacting fish health. Despite this, no approved antiviral treatments are currently available for use in aquaculture, underscoring the urgent need for effective interventions. This study evaluated the antiviral and immunomodulatory potential of Schisandrin A (SA), a bioactive compound derived from the traditional Chinese medicinal herb Schisandra chinensis, against SVCV.

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The Penaeus vannamei aquaculture industry is facing a significant challenge in the form of hepatopancreatic microsporidiosis (HPM) caused by Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP), resulting in substantial economic losses. However, the extent of knowledge regarding the mechanisms by which shrimp resist EHP is limited. We screened resistant and susceptible shrimp and found that resistant shrimp had lower EHP load and less tissue damage.

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  • Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzyme 5 (UBC5) is being studied as a potential target for therapies related to various diseases, particularly cancers, due to its key roles in processes like apoptosis and DNA repair.
  • Research on UBC5 has been slower compared to other ubiquitin-coupled enzymes, yet it's shown to be crucial in ubiquitinating proteins linked to disease and cellular homeostasis.
  • Recent insights into the similarities between UBC5 and its homologues (UBC1 and UBC4) are improving our understanding of how UBC5 functions in protein degradation and cellular regulation, highlighting its importance in disease treatment strategies.
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NLRP3 inflammasome activation, essential for cytokine secretion and pyroptosis in response to diverse stimuli, is closely associated with various diseases. Upon stimulation, NLRP3 undergoes subcellular membrane trafficking and conformational rearrangements, preparing itself for inflammasome assembly at the microtubule-organizing center (MTOC). Here, we elucidate an orchestrated mechanism underlying these ordered processes using human and murine cells.

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Introduction: spp. are ubiquitous inhabitants of ecosystems, and many species are opportunistically pathogenic to humans and animals. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) species have been widely detected in hospitals, urban rivers, livestock, and aquatic animals.

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  • GroEL, a molecular chaperone from Lactobacillus plantarum, plays a key role in enhancing the intestinal barrier function of the shrimp Penaeus vannamei when exposed to high temperatures and oxidative stress.
  • The study confirmed that GroEL interacts with intestinal proteins and can bind to pathogens such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus, thereby decreasing inflammation and protecting gut integrity.
  • rGroEL treatment also suppressed inflammatory signaling pathways and increased the shrimp's immune responses, indicating its potential as a probiotic to combat bacterial infections in aquatic invertebrates.
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Introduction: One common and very upsetting side effect of burn injuries is scarring, which presents serious difficulties for patients and medical professionals alike.

Aim: To assess a new therapeutic approach for treating scars following burn repair procedures in terms of its clinical efficacy.

Material And Methods: This method administers Hirudoid under ultrasound guidance in addition to fractional CO laser treatment.

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is the most extensively cultured shrimp species globally, recognized for its scale, production, and economic value. However, its aquaculture is plagued by frequent disease outbreaks, resulting in rapid and massive mortality. etiological research often lags behind the emergence of new diseases, leaving the causal agents of some shrimp diseases unidentified and leading to nomenclature based on symptomatic presentations, especially in cases involving co- and polymicrobial pathogens.

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Many 3D mesh processing tasks revolve around generating and manipulating curves on surface meshes. While it is intuitive to explicitly model these curves using mesh edges or parametric curves in the ambient space, these methods often suffer from numerical instability or inaccuracy due to the projection operation. Another natural strategy is to adapt spline based tools, these methods are quite fast but are hard to be extended to more versatile constraints and need heavy manual interactions.

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  • - The study critiques common practices in brain connectomic analysis, particularly the mapping of functional networks (FNs) onto functional connectomes (FCs) without sufficient theoretical justification regarding their appropriateness.
  • - It introduces a framework based on Stochastic Block Models (SBMs) to evaluate the information-theoretic fitness of FNs when applied to individual FCs across different fMRI tasks, optimizing choices related to FC granularity, FN partition, and thresholding strategies.
  • - The research confirms that a commonly used threshold value of 0.25 is statistically valid for group-average FCs and suggests better methodologies for employing FNs and thresholding techniques in future individualized brain research.
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Displaying antigens on yeast surface as an oral vaccine has been widely explored, while its potential as an immersion vaccine has not been evaluated. Here, an immersion vaccine was prepared by displaying ORF25 of Cyprinid herpesvirus 2 (CyHV-2) on the surface of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Carassius auratus gibelio was immersion immunized by 2 × 10 CFU/mL yeast for 2 h, and reinforce the immunity using the same method 14 days after the first immunization.

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(EHP) is a parasite in shrimp farming. EHP mainly parasitizes the hepatopancreas of shrimp, causing slow growth, which severely restricts the economic income of shrimp farmers. To explore the pathogenic mechanism of EHP, the host subcellular construction, molecular biological characteristics, and mitochondrial condition of were identified using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), real-time qPCR, an enzyme assay, and flow cytometry.

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