Publications by authors named "Chenglong Luo"

Tilmicosin, an antibiotic widely used in animal husbandry to prevent and treat bacterial infections, raises concerns due to its residual accumulation, which impacts both animal health and food safety. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of tilmicosin clearance patterns in different tissues, assessed physiological impacts through blood biochemistry, and investigated changes in gut microbial composition with 16S rRNA sequencing of the tilmicosin-treated Silkie chickens. Initially, we observed rapid peaks in tilmicosin residues in all tissues within 1 day after treatment, but complete metabolism took longer, extending beyond 9 days.

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Contemporary societies exhibit delayed reproductive age and increased life expectancy. While the male reproductive system demonstrates relatively delayed aging compared to that of females, increasing age substantially impacts its function. A characteristic manifestation is age-induced testosterone decline.

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  • The study aimed to determine if CT imaging features can distinguish pancreatoblastoma (PB) from solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPN) in children by analyzing 18 cases of PB and 61 cases of SPN.
  • Qualitative and quantitative CT analyses were conducted, focusing on various tumor characteristics and comparing clinical data between the two types of tumors.
  • The findings revealed that PB has distinct features such as location in the body/tail, larger size, poorly defined margins, and higher levels of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), which, along with other factors, allowed for a model to effectively differentiate PB from SPN with high accuracy.
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  • Sexual motivation is the willingness to engage in sexual activity, which plays a key role in sexual health but is facing issues like low sexual desire in society.
  • The paper reviews various methods used to assess sexual motivation in male rats, categorizing them into male-female mating, competitive selection, and task acquisition, while discussing their pros and cons.
  • It emphasizes the importance of understanding sexual contact behavior as a clear indicator of sexual motivation and suggests further research should distinguish between sexual and social proximity.
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We previously identified a dark blue appearance through the skin of abdomen, especially the colored chicken breeds, called hyperpigmentation of the visceral peritoneum (HVP) which characterized by intense pigmentation of connective tissue in the visceral peritoneum. The HVP has recently garnered increasing attention due to its negative impact on carcass appearance, and been an important concern in the poultry industry, especially for the Chinese yellow-feathered broilers. In this study, we measured the in vivo HVP at different time points, and analyzed the correlation between the HVP in vivo and postmortem.

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Carbon based materials are widely used in the preparation of microwave absorption materials due to their low density, high attenuation loss and large specific surface area. However, their high conductivity usually leads to high reflection loss. In this study, multi-layer heterogeneous interfaces were constructed in liquid metal graphite hybrid powder to reduce reflection loss and enhance microwave absorption performance.

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Taekwondo has evolved from a traditional martial art into an official Olympic sport. This study introduces a novel action recognition model tailored for Taekwondo unit actions, utilizing joint-motion data acquired via wearable inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors. The utilization of IMU sensor-measured motion data facilitates the capture of the intricate and rapid movements characteristic of Taekwondo techniques.

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The incidence of erectile dysfunction (ED) has been reported to increase after COVID-19 infection, and it is common in COVID-19 patients during recovery. This paper presents a summary of the latest research progress on COVID-19-induced ED and explores the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnosis and treatment approach based on TCM theory and clinical experience. COVID-19 infection may lead to ED through endothelial dysfunction, testicular injury, hormonal imbalance, and psychological factors.

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  • - The study focused on developing and validating a new CT-based radiomics signature designed to predict microsatellite instability (MSI) and immunotherapy outcomes in gastric cancer (GC), involving 457 patients from various medical centers. - Using methods like LASSO and logistic regression, the researchers identified nine key radiomics features, achieving high diagnostic accuracy with AUC values of 0.851 for training and 0.816 for validation cohorts, indicating strong performance in predicting MSI. - The resulting radscore effectively predicted immunotherapy responses and overall survival rates, with patients showing lower radscore experiencing significant survival benefits, alongside findings of increased immune cell activity in those with favorable outcomes.
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Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm (SPN) is a rare tumor mostly occurring in the pancreas. They are low-grade malignant tumors of the exocrine pancreas that occasionally metastasize, usually to the liver or peritoneum. Additionally, multiple metastases of extrapancreatic SPN to the liver are extremely rare and have been reported before.

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Goats belong to a group of animals called small ruminants and are critical sources of livelihood for rural people. Genomic sequencing can provide information ranging from basic knowledge about goat diversity and evolutionary processes that shape genomes to functional information about genes/genomic regions. In this study, we exploited a whole-genome sequencing data set to analyze the genetic diversity, population structure and selection signatures of 44 individuals belonging to 5 Ethiopian goat populations: 12 Aberegalle (AB), 5 Afar (AF), 11 Begait (BG), 12 Central highlands (CH) and 5 Meafure (MR) goats.

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Issues of fairness and consistency in Taekwondo poomsae evaluation have often occurred due to the lack of an objective evaluation method. This study proposes a three-dimensional (3D) convolutional neural network-based action recognition model for an objective evaluation of Taekwondo poomsae. The model exhibits robust recognition performance regardless of variations in the viewpoints by reducing the discrepancy between the training and test images.

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Gram-negative bacterial infections pose a significant threat to public health. Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) recognizes bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and induces innate immune responses, autophagy, and cell death, which have major impacts on the body's physiological homeostasis. However, the role of TLR4 in bacterial LPS-induced autophagy and apoptosis in large mammals, which are closer to humans than rodents in many physiological characteristics, remains unknown.

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Defect inspection is important to ensure consistent quality and efficiency in industrial manufacturing. Recently, machine vision systems integrating artificial intelligence (AI)-based inspection algorithms have exhibited promising performance in various applications, but practically, they often suffer from data imbalance. This paper proposes a defect inspection method using a one-class classification (OCC) model to deal with imbalanced datasets.

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Purpose: To develop a noninvasive radiomics-based nomogram for identification of disagreement in pathology between endoscopic biopsy and postoperative specimens in gastric cancer (GC).

Materials And Methods: This observational study recruited 181 GC patients who underwent pre-treatment computed tomography (CT) and divided them into a training set (n = 112, single-energy CT, SECT), a test set (n = 29, single-energy CT, SECT) and a validation cohort (n = 40, dual-energy CT, DECT). Radiomics signatures (RS) based on five machine learning algorithms were constructed from the venous-phase CT images.

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Salmonella enterica is a food-borne pathogen that poses a severe threat to both poultry production and human health. Antibiotics are critical for the initial treatment of bacterial infections. However, the overuse and misuse of antibiotics results in the rapid evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the discovery and development of new antibiotics are declining.

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Reasonable heterointerface modification can effectively regulate and enhance the microwave absorption of electromagnetic materials. The surface of magnetic permalloy (PM) microparticles is modified herein by coating double-layer metal organic frameworks (MOF), which are composed of a 2-methylimidazole cobalt salt (ZIF-67) layer and a 2-methylimidazole zinc salt (ZIF-8) layer. A stable heterointerface structure with cobalt/carbon (Co/C) and zinc/carbon (Zn/C) layers is formed on the surface of PM microparticles after pyrolysis.

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Introduction: In Erectile dysfunction (ED) patients, phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors are considered as the first-line therapy. However, 30-50% of ED patients fail to follow this therapeutic option because of adverse events, lack of efficacy, or drug costs. Antioxidant supplementation is widely applied in clinical practice and viewed as a potential therapeutic option for ED.

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Carotenoid consumption decreases the risk of cancer, osteoporosis, or neurodegenerative diseases through interrupting the formation of free radicals. The deposition of carotenoids in chicken skin makes the skin color turn from white into yellow. The enzyme β-carotene oxygenase 2 (BCO2) plays a key role during the degradation process of carotenoids in skin.

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Chickens have been used as a valuable and traditional model for studies on basic immunology. B lymphocytes were first identified in the bursa of Fabricius (BF) of broilers. The microbiota is important for immune system development and function.

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The transition period is the stage of the high incidence of metabolic and infectious diseases in dairy cows. Improving transition dairy cows' health is crucial for the industry. This study aimed to determine the effects of dietary supplementation medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) on immune function, metabolic status, performance of transition dairy cows.

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  • - The study evaluated the impact of inbreeding on production traits in a long-term closed-line chicken population, focusing on residual feed intake (RFI) during specific growth periods, particularly between 7 to 10 weeks, where the highest heritability for RFI was observed.
  • - Divergent selection between high RFI (HRFI) and low RFI (LRFI) lines showed increasing differences in feed intake and conversion ratio over 13 generations, with differences in feed intake growing from 4% to 33%.
  • - By generation 13, LRFI chickens demonstrated better overall health metrics and meat yields despite consuming less feed, proving that long-term divergent selection for RFI is beneficial in enhancing production traits in
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The use of antibiotics leads to antibiotic residues in livestock and poultry products, adversely affecting human health. Ciprofloxacin (CFX) is a broad-spectrum antibiotic shared between animals and humans that is useful in treatments besides infections. However, changes in the gut microbiota caused by CFX and the possible link with the elimination of CFX residues have not been investigated.

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Background: This study aimed to assess the association between snoring frequency and male serum testosterone levels.

Methods: We analyzed data from the 2015 to 2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Snoring frequency was relied on self-report, and was divided into never, rarely (1-2 nights a week), occasionally (3-4 nights a week), or frequently (5 or more nights a week) groups.

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Delving into porcine embryonic myogenesis is the key to elucidate the complex regulation of breed-specific differences in growth performance and meat production. Increasing evidence proves that pigs with less meat production show earlier embryonic myogenesis, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms. In this study, we examine the longissimus dorsi muscle (LDM) by immunohistochemistry and confirm that the differentiation of myogenic progenitors is increased ( <0.

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