Publications by authors named "Chun Yu Hou"

The dynamics of soil arthropod communities in annual monoculture grasslands is still unclear, which restricts the understanding of the degradation mechanism of cultivated grasslands. We cultivated two annual gramineae species, and , separately in Hongyuan County, located on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, in April 2019. We investigated soil arthropods, plant communities and soil properties in the cultivated grasslands and natural grassland in the late September every year from 2019 to 2022.

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  • Aristolochic acids (AAs) are linked to an increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) due to their ability to influence cell death processes.
  • The study revealed that AAs interact with the p53 protein in liver cancer cells, disrupting its normal function, specifically affecting ferroptosis and the regulation of key genes like GADD45A and NRF2.
  • This interaction leads to down-regulation of GADD45A and up-regulation of NRF2, ultimately promoting tumor growth by inhibiting ferroptosis, suggesting that targeting NRF2 could be a potential therapeutic strategy for liver cancer.
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Bevacizumab is a recombinant humanized monoclonal immunoglobulin (Ig) G1 antibody of VEGF, and inhibits angiogenesis and tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Ferroptosis, a new form of regulated cell death function independently of the apoptotic machinery, has been accepted as an attractive target for pharmacological intervention; the ferroptosis pathway can enhance cell immune activity of anti-PD1 immunotherapy in HCC. In this study we investigated whether and how bevacizumab regulated ferroptosis and immune activity in liver cancer.

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Lymphocyte activation gene 3 (LAG3), an immune checkpoint molecule expressed on activated T cells, functions as a negative regulator of immune responses. Persistent antigen exposure in the tumor microenvironment results in sustained LAG3 expression on T cells, contributing to T cell dysfunction. Fibrinogen-like protein 1 (FGL1) has been identified as a major ligand of LAG3, and FGL1/LAG3 interaction forms a novel immune checkpoint pathway that results in tumor immune evasion.

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Heat shock protein family A member 8 (HSPA8) participates in the folding or degradation of misfolded proteins under stress and plays critical roles in cancer. In this study, we investigated the function of HSPA8 in the development of liver cancer. By analyzing the TCGA transcriptome dataset, we found that HSPA8 was upregulated in 134 clinical liver cancer tissue samples, and positively correlated with poor prognosis.

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A number of studies have shown that aspirin, as commonly prescribed drug, prevents the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Ferroptosis as a dynamic tumor suppressor plays a vital role in hepatocarcinogenesis. In this study we investigated whether aspirin affected ferroptosis in liver cancer cells.

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Three new triazine compounds [Co(HTDPAT)(HO)]·6HO (), [Co(TCPT)(μ-HO)]·OH (), and [Ni(TCPT)]·3OH () were designed and synthesized via the reaction of the symmetrical triazine ligand connected by C-N-C and C-O-C bonds with triazine poly(carboxylic acid)s ligands as the side arms: HTDPAT (HTDPAT = 2,4,6-tris(3,5-dicarboxylphenylamino)-1,3,5-triazine) and HTCPT (HTCPT = 2,4,6-tris(4-carboxyphenoxy)-1,3,5-triazine) as well as the corresponding metal salts under the solvothermal condition. Three triazine polycarboxylate frameworks were characterized by elemental analysis, infrared spectroscopy, ultraviolet spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray powder diffraction, and solid fluorescent spectra in detail. The structural analysis results showed that the three-dimensional porous cage framework of compound was constructed by three different polyhedral cages connected with [Co(COO)(HO)] building blocks.

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Aspirin as a chemopreventive agent is able to restrict the tumor growth. Phosphoglycerate mutase 1 (PGAM1) is a key enzyme of glycolysis, playing an important role in the development of cancer. However, the underlying mechanism by which aspirin inhibits the proliferation of cancer cells is poorly understood.

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In recent years, the area of herbal medicine planting is rapidly increasing. The effects of planting herbal medicines on soil invertebrate communities are still unclear. To reveal the effects of planting different herbal medicines on the soil microarthropod communities, soil microarthropods in two fields of planting and for 3-year and 5-year, respectively, were investigated in Pengzhou Chengdu in July 2020.

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