Publications by authors named "Ge Yang"

Pancreatic cancer (PCa) is one of the malignant tumors with an extremely poor prognosis. Rare biomarkers exist for predicting the outcomes of PCa patients. This study aimed to develop a nomogram model based on serum microRNA-24 (miR-24) and clinicopathological factors to predict overall survival (OS) and treatment response to conventional adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT) in patients with PCa.

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Background: New anti-coronavirus drugs are continuously being developed to address the serious long-term challenge posed by numerous SARS-CoV-2 variants. The clinical immunosuppressants mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and mycophenolic acid (MPA) have been reported to have anti-coronavirus activities. However, systematic studies have not been conducted to evaluate their activities and mechanisms against pan-coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2.

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Hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) can lead to the disorder of gut microbiota in mice, resulting in the increase of endotoxin content. HTG can also aggravate the damage of intestinal barrier function and intestinal bacterial translocation in acute pancreatitis (AP) mice. Toll-like receptor 4 gene knockout can significantly reduce gut permeability and endotoxin invasion in AP mice.

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Background: Although smoking is considered the primary cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), there is a growing realization that there may be important secondary risk factors. Tuberculosis may lead to lung impairment; however, whether residual lung damage results in clinically significant, long-term outcomes, independent of smoking, has not been well studied. We aimed to investigate the association between tuberculosis and the subsequent development of COPD using a large, population-based cohort study.

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Despite the widespread use of dupilumab in atopic dermatitis (AD) treatment, evidence supporting its use in older patients with intrinsic AD (IAD) versus those with extrinsic AD (EAD) and in those with and without atopic comorbidities remains limited. We aimed to assess the clinical efficacy and safety of dupilumab treatment in elderly patients with IAD versus EAD and in those with and without atopic comorbidities. We enrolled 113 older patients with severe AD who received dupilumab for 48 weeks.

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Background: The role of functional connectivity (FC) changes in the prefrontal-thalamic-cerebellar circuit in schizophrenia has received widespread attention. Currently, domestic and international studies on this circuit have focused on adults, while the FC of this circuit in the brains of adolescent patients with schizophrenia (AOS) has been less reported.

Methods: We recruited 124 subjects who underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scans at baseline, using key brain regions in the prefrontal-thalamic-cerebellar circuit as seed regions, to investigate the FC in AOS versus healthy controls.

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Background: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common malignant primary brain tumor. Notwithstanding tremendous efforts having been put in multi-omics research to profile the dysregulated molecular mechanisms and cellular pathways, there is still a lack of understanding about the glycoproteomic of GBM. Glycosylation as one of the most important post-translational modifications is crucial in regulating cell proliferation and relevant oncogenic pathways.

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In many laboratory assay datasets, missing values due to a limit of detection (LOD) are not uncommon. We observed this issue in our CIVIC-UGAFLUVAC hemagglutination inhibition assay (HAI) dataset. The standard imputation method recodes these values as either equal to the LOD or LOD/2.

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The coupling between defects and extended critical degrees of freedom gives rise to the intriguing theory known as defect conformal field theory (CFT). In this work, we introduce a novel family of boundary and interface CFTs by coupling N Majorana chains with SYK_{q} interactions at the defect. Our analysis reveals that the interaction with q=2 constitutes a new marginal defect.

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Objective: Minor ginsenosides have demonstrated promising anticancer effects in previous reports. Total minor ginsenosides (TMG) were obtained through the fermentation of major ginsenosides with , and potential anticancer effects of TMGs on the mouse colon cancer cell line CT26.WT, and , were investigated.

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Background: The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a detrimental impact on the healthcare system. Patients with kidney failure and related kidney disease are notably vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it remains unclear how mortality trends associated with kidney failure have evolved over the past three years.

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Our previous study had found that cellular pseudokinase tribbles 3 (TRIB3) facilitates the infection of enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) via upregulating the protein level of EV-A71 receptor scavenger receptor class B member 2 (SCARB2). In the present study, we used metformin, which had been reported to down-regulate TRIB3 expression, to verify the potential of TRIB3 as an antiviral target. Here, we found that metformin can indeed impede the replication of EV-A71 and Coxsackievirus A16 (CVA16) through inhibiting the transcription of TRIB3 to indirectly down-regulate SCARB2 protein levels to block viral infection.

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Weaning is essential for foal growth and development. We determined the intestinal flora structure of donkey foals at the end of weaning (PreW_4d) and three stages after weaning (PostW_4d, PostW_8d, and PostW_15d) to explore the effects of weaning on intestinal development of donkey foals. The results showed that the main microbial flora in the gut of the donkey foal were Firmicutes and Bacteroides, and the proportion of Firmicutes gradually increased with weaning, which was an important reflection of the donkey foal's adaptability to the transition from lactose liquid feed to plant fiber solid feed.

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Single-bundle (SB) and double-bundle (DB) anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) have been compared for years, and long-term outcomes of the two techniques remain inconclusive. We compared the 10-year outcomes of SB and DB reconstruction, in terms of subjective scores, knee stability, graft failure, and osteoarthritis (OA). We searched MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials for relevant studies, without restrictions on study design, language, or publication date.

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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system primarily affecting middle-aged and elderly individuals, significantly compromising their quality of life. Neuroinflammation is now recognized as a key feature in the pathogenesis of PD. This study reviews recent advances in the identification of potential biomarkers associated with neuroinflammation in PD and their significance for therapeutic strategies.

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Motivation: Ensuring connectivity and preventing fractures in tubular object segmentation are critical for downstream analyses. Despite advancements in deep neural networks that have significantly improved tubular object segmentation, existing methods still face limitations. They often rely heavily on precise annotations, hindering their scalability to large-scale unlabeled image datasets.

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Objective: To establish morphological and radiomic models for early prediction of cognitive impairment associated with cerebrovascular disease (CI-CVD) in an elderly cohort based on cerebral magnetic resonance angiography (MRA).

Methods: One-hundred four patients with CI-CVD and 107 control subjects were retrospectively recruited from the 14-year elderly MRA cohort, and 63 subjects were enrolled for external validation. Automated quantitative analysis was applied to analyse the morphological features, including the stenosis score, length, relative length, twisted angle, and maximum deviation of cerebral arteries.

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Background: Older adults often mount a weak immune response to standard inactivated influenza vaccines. To induce a stronger response and better protection, a high-dose (HD) version of the inactivated Fluzone vaccine is recommended for individuals >65 years of age. While better immunogenicity and protection against the vaccine strain has been shown, it is not known if the HD vaccine also induces a robust antibody response to heterologous strains.

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In order to study the movement characteristics of coal particles in the coal loading process of spiral drums, the spiral drum of a certain type of shearer was taken as the research object, and the intrinsic parameters of the materials were calibrated through the determination results of coal sample properties, the relevant parameters of coal particle adhesion were determined, and a discrete element model of spiral drum coal loading was established. The distribution of coal particle movement subsequent to the fracture of the coal wall was derived through simulation. By spatially dividing the envelope region of the spiral drum along the radial and axial directions, the number and velocity distribution of coal particles in different envelope regions were obtained.

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As consumer demand for low-salt diets increases, the development of low-salt cheese has emerged as a prevailing trend. To gain a deeper insight into the effects of salt reduction on cheddar cheese, this study used cheddar cheese with a 2.0% salt concentration (full salt, FS) as the standard control, exploring the differences in quality and composition between cheddar cheese with a 1.

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Whey fermentation could produce bioactive substances with immunomodulatory effects, metabolic syndrome modulation, and antioxidant properties, thereby imparting functional characteristics to products and facilitating the development of novel foods with health-promoting potential. A non-targeted metabolomics approach using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) was employed to investigate changes in the metabolite profiles of whey fermented by strain KM812 over varying fermentation durations. The findings demonstrated a progressive enrichment of metabolites over time.

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Narrowband fluorescent emitters are receiving significant attention due to the great potential for creating ultrahigh-definition organic light-emitting diode displays (UHD-OLED). Unveiling innovative mechanisms to design new high-performance narrowband fluorescent emitters is a concerted endeavor in both academic and industrial circles. Theoretical calculations reveal that the centrosymmetric dianilido-bipyridine boron difluoride framework (-DAPBF) exhibits significantly reduced structural relaxation compared to previously reported asymmetric structures with monofluoroboron cores, creating new opportunities for the development of narrowband fluorescent emitters.

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