Publications by authors named "De-jin Wang"
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- Ezetimibe combined with statins significantly reduces total atheroma volume (TAV) in patients with coronary artery disease compared to statin therapy alone.
- Efficacy was assessed through a meta-analysis of 11 studies and included various outcomes measured by advanced imaging techniques.
- Despite the reduction in TAV, the combination therapy did not show improvements in other factors such as lumen volume, lumen area, or minimum fibrous cap thickness.
Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) have received increasing attention worldwide recently because of potential risk to aquatic environment and living organisms. Herein, occurrence and spatial distributions of 17 selected PFCs were investigated in surface water adjacent to potential industrial emission categories in Shanghai. The results showed the distributions of PFCs in the ambient rivers were greatly affected by those industrial sources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe wished to elucidate a potential role of the tumor necrosis factor-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK)/fibroblast growth factor-inducible molecule 14 (Fn14) axis in myocardial fibrosis. Stimulation of neonatal rat cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) with TWEAK could increase CFs numbers and collagen synthesis. Conversely, when CFs were pretreated with siRNA against Fn14, induction of cell proliferation and collagen synthesis by TWEAK were inhibited.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRedox effector factor (Ref-1) is a sensitive marker for oxidative cellular injury. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of acupuncture on hippocampal Ref-1 expression in cerebral multi-infarction rats. The rats with reference memory impairment were randomly allocated to three groups: impaired group, acupuncture group and placebo acupuncture group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To explore the physiologic mechanism of immediate analgesic effect of acupuncture in primary dysmenorrhea patients.
Methods: Forty primary dysmenorrhea patients were randomized into the Sanyinjiao (SP6) acupuncture group, Xuanzhong (GB39) control group, nonacupoint control group, or no acupuncture group. Patients in the 3 acupuncture groups were treated with electroacupuncture at assigned points lasting 30 minutes, whereas patients in no acupuncture group did not receive any acupuncture intervention.