Publications by authors named "Dai Xiaojun"

Soil salinization limits rice growth and is an important restriction on grain yield. Jacalin-related lectins are involved in multiple stress responses, but their role in salt stress responses and use as molecular markers for salt tolerance remain poorly understood. Salt stress treatments and RT-qPCR analyses of Sea Rice 86 (SR86), 9311, and Nipponbare (Nip) showed that and enhanced tolerance of salt stress in SR86.

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  • - Marine algal toxins are produced during toxic algal blooms and can accumulate in marine organisms, leading to contaminated seafood that poses health risks for humans when consumed.
  • - Despite their harmful effects, these toxins have unique structures and biological activities that interest chemists and pharmacologists for potential drug discovery and life science exploration.
  • - The review includes an overview of the chemistry and activities of marine algal toxins while also discussing shellfish poisoning incidents in China over the past 15 years to raise awareness about the dangers of these toxins.
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Identification of high consequence areas is an important task in pipeline integrity management. However, traditional identification methods are generally characterized by low efficiency, high cost and low accuracy. For this reason, this paper proposes a recognition method based on the improved algorithm Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Network.

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Effective capture and immobilization of volatile radioiodine from the off-gas of post-treatment plants is crucial for nuclear safety and public health, considering its long half-life, high toxicity, and environmental mobility. Herein, sulfur vacancy-rich Vs-BiS@C nanocomposites were systematically synthesized via a one-step solvothermal vulcanization of CAU-17 precursor. Batch adsorption experiments demonstrated that the as-synthesized materials exhibited superior iodine adsorption capacity (1505.

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The lymphoma incidence rate is on the rise, with invasive forms particularly prone to relapse following conventional treatment, posing a significant threat to human life and wellbeing. Numerous studies have shown that traditional Chinese botanical drug medicine offers promising therapeutic benefits for various malignancies, with previous experimental findings indicating that Celastrus orbiculatus extract effectively combats digestive tract tumors. However, its impact on lymphoma remains unexplored.

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Ethnopharmacological Relevance: With the rapid development of China's economic level, great changes have taken place in people's diet structure, gout has become a common disease that puzzles people's health, seriously affects the realization of China's "Healthy China" strategic goal. Gouty arthritis (GA) is a common joint disease caused by chronic purine metabolism disorder. Currently, drugs used to treat GA are allopurinol and colchicine.

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  • Banxia Xiexin decoction (BXD) is a traditional Chinese medicine used to treat various gastrointestinal diseases, but its effect on lncRNA TUC338 in gastric cancer is unclear.
  • The study aimed to explore BXD's ability to inhibit migration and invasion of gastric cancer cells (AGS) by regulating TUC338.
  • Key methods included analyzing BXD's chemical components, assessing its impact on AGS cell proliferation and TUC338 expression, and using assays to investigate the effects of TUC338 knockdown on cell behavior.
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Background: Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most widely cultivated grain crops in the world that meets the caloric needs of more than half the world's population. Salt stress seriously affects rice production and threatens food security.

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Background: Shenmai injection is frequently utilized in China to clinically treat granulocytopenia in oncology patients following chemotherapy. Despite this, the drug's therapeutic benefits remain a topic of contention, and its active components and potential treatment targets have yet to be established. The present study utilizes a network pharmacology approach to investigate the drug's active ingredients and possible therapeutic targets, and to evaluate the effectiveness of Shenmai injection in treating granulocytopenia through meta-analysis.

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Background: Signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) proteins, well-known cytoplasmic transcription factors, were found to be abnormally expressed in various cancers and play essential parts in the initiation, progression and therapy resistance of cancer. Nevertheless, the functions of different STATs in pancreatic cancer (PC) and their relationship to the prognosis and immune infiltration as well as drug efficacy in PC patients have not been systematically elucidated.

Methods: Expression, prognosis, genetic alterations and pathway enrichment analyses of the STAT family were investigated via Oncomine, GEPIA, Kaplan Meier-plotter, cBioPortal, Metascape and GSEA.

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High salinity is a major stress factor affecting the quality and productivity of rice ( L.). Although numerous salt tolerance-related genes have been identified in rice, their molecular mechanisms remain unknown.

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Salt stress seriously affects plant growth and development and reduces the yield of rice. Therefore, the development of salt-tolerant high-yielding rice cultivars through quantitative trait locus (QTL) identification and bulked segregant analysis (BSA) is the main focus of molecular breeding projects. In this study, sea rice (SR86) showed greater salt tolerance than conventional rice.

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Cancer is one of the greatest threats to human health. Gastric cancer (GC) is the fifth most common malignant tumor in the world. Invasion and metastasis are the major difficulties in the treatment of GC.

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Cultivated land is a fundamental factor related to the social stability and sustainable development of the whole country. However, the safety of quantity and quality of cultivated land has decreased year by year, resulting in great challenges to the sustainable development of cultivated land. Cultivated land productivity, site conditions, and soil health jointly determine the sustainable development potential of cultivated land.

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Ethnopharmacological Relevance: The traditional Chinese medicine herb Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb. is an important folk medicinal plant in China that has been used as an anti-inflammatory, antitumor, and analgesic in various diseases. Recent years, many studies have reported the significant effects of Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb.

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Objectives: Colorectal cancer(CRC) is a common malignant tumor. Recent studies have found that lncRNAs play an important role in the occurrence and development of colorectal cancer.

Methods: Based on high-throughput sequencing results of fresh CRC tissues and adjacent tissues, we identified lncRNA-ENST00000543604 (lncRNA 604) as the research object by qRT-PCR in CRC tissues and cells.

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Background: is an important medicinal fungus in traditional Chinese medicine. Poria acid (PA), a triterpenoid compound, is an effective component of traditional Chinese medicine . This experiment investigated the anti-gastric cancer biological activity of PA in vitro.

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  • This study introduces a novel method called the complexation-excessive impregnation modification for creating Ni-modified SAPO-11 molecular sieves, which were then used to develop efficient NiWS-supported catalysts for hydroisomerizing n-hexadecane.
  • The Ni-modification significantly altered the structural characteristics, acidity, and metal-support interactions of SAPO-11, resulting in enhanced catalyst performance.
  • By incorporating Ni into the SAPO-11 framework and reducing aluminum content, the new method improved the hydroisomerization yield of i-hexadecane by 39.3%, showcasing a promising strategy for catalyst enhancement.
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Subsequently to the publication of the above article, an interested reader drew to the authors' attention that a pair of data panels featured between Figs. 4 and 7 contained overlapping data such that the data were derived from the same original source where they were intending to depict the results from experiments performed under different experimental conditions, and a pair of the data panels featured in Fig. 8 for the β‑catenin data also appeared to show overlapping data.

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Yi-Fei-Jie-Du-Tang (YFJDT) is a traditional Chinese medicine formulation. Our previous studies have demonstrated that YFJDT can be used to treat non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but its protective effect against NSCLC and its mechanisms remain unclear. In the present study, we evaluated the protective effects and potential mechanisms of YFJDT on a tumor-bearing mouse lung cancer model and A549 cell model.

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Background: Gastric cancer is the fifth most common tumor and has the third-highest mortality rate among various malignant tumors, and the survival rate of patients is low. Celastrus orbiculatus extract (COE) has been shown to inhibit the activity of a variety of tumors. In this study, we examined the inhibition of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process in gastric cancer cells by COE through the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling pathway.

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SAPO-11 molecular sieves were modified with different Ni contents by the modification method. The Ni-modified SAPO-11 molecular sieves were used as the supports to prepare the corresponding NiW-supported catalysts for the hydroisomerization of n-hexadecane. The Ni-modified SAPO-11 and the corresponding NiW-supported catalysts were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, N adsorption-desorption, NH-temperature-programmed desorption, pyridine adsorbed infrared, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

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  • The study aimed to assess the impact of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), specifically Fuzheng Qingdu (FZQD) therapy, on the survival duration of patients with metastatic gastric cancer (GC).
  • After analyzing medical records of 432 stage IV GC patients, researchers used statistical methods to match participants receiving TCM with those not receiving it, to minimize bias.
  • Results indicated that TCM users had a significantly longer overall survival (16.53 months) and better progression-free survival compared to non-TCM users, highlighting the potential benefits of FZQD therapy in this patient population.
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A strategy is proposed to develop a stationary phase for hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) using the synergistic effect of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) and copolymer brushes. Octahedral octa-aminopropylsisesquioxane (8NH-POSS) was first bound to silica gel, followed by bromination to form a cubic initiator. Then, using acrylamide (AM) and dihydroxypropyl methacrylate (DPMA) as mixed monomers, surface initiated-atom transfer radical polymerization was conducted to prepare a stationary phase comprising cubic copolymer brushes with amide and diol groups.

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