Publications by authors named "H-X Wang"

Background: Approximately half of the patients with acute ischemic stroke who receive intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) do not achieve an excellent outcome. Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) as a promising neuroprotective treatment may improve clinical outcomes in this population. This study aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of RIC in patients with IVT.

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Rationale And Objectives: To propose a novel MRI-based hyper-fused radiomic approach to predict pathologic complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) in breast cancer (BC).

Materials And Methods: Pretreatment dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI and ultra-multi-b-value (UMB) diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) data were acquired in BC patients who received NAT followed by surgery at two centers. Hyper-fused radiomic features (RFs) and conventional RFs were extracted from DCE-MRI or UMB-DWI.

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Objective: This study aimed to investigate the feasibility of diffusion-derived vessel density (DDVD) in characterizing tumor microvasculature in endometrial carcinoma (EC), and to explore the correlations with Ki-67 proliferation status and histological type based on DDVD values.

Methods: There were in total 81 EC patients. There were 64 cases of non-aggressive histological type, and 17 cases of aggressive histological type.

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  • The study focused on using machine learning and PET imaging to predict how long patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can expect to live without disease progression.
  • Researchers analyzed data from 234 patients and created a model that combined radiomic features from tumor and surrounding areas with clinical data, resulting in a highly accurate predictive tool for patient outcomes.
  • The findings indicated that certain imaging features can effectively distinguish between high-risk and low-risk patients, highlighting the importance of these radiomic signatures as independent markers for patient prognosis.
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Microsatellite instability (MSI) detection using tumor tissue is a well-established prognostic and predictive biomarker for certain types of cancers. However, tumor tissue samples are less convenient to obtain than blood plasma samples. The main challenge facing next-generation sequencing-based MSI detection in blood plasma samples is the ultralow signal/noise ratio in plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA).

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  • Understanding how climate, ecology, and human activities have impacted animal development is key for effective conservation strategies, with macaques in China serving as a useful model for research.
  • The study reconstructs the geographic distribution of macaques across various time periods (the last inter-glaciation, the Last Glacial Maximum, and the present) to predict their habitats in the 2050s, revealing a significant reduction in suitable environments over time.
  • As a result, the research highlights that over 94% of these potential habitats are not included in China's Protected Areas, emphasizing the urgent need to focus conservation efforts in mountainous regions of Southwest China where macaques are expected to migrate.
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At present, suture bridge is a feasible choice in the treatment of massive rotator cuff tears (MRCTs). However, high tension on the repair site and medial tension during suture tightening and after medial knotting are unavoidable problems in MRCT repair with a suture bridge. Arthroscopic V-shaped double-pulley suture-bridge repair is a pragmatic surgical technique for the repair of MRCTs.

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Double-bundle (DB) anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction has biomechanical advantages over single-bundle reconstruction. However, most studies perform the DB reconstruction with 2 femoral tunnels, which fails to provide an entire femoral footprint for ACL reconstruction. In this study, we describe a femoral double-bundle footprint technique for ACL reconstruction, named the tendon groove technique.

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Purpose: To explore the potential of growth hormone-releasing peptide 2 (GHRP-2) for tendon-bone healing in a rat rotator cuff tear (RCT) model.

Methods: The impact of GHRP-2 on M1 macrophage polarization in vitro was determined using real-time polymerase chain reaction, Western blot, and immunofluorescence staining. GHRP-2 was then applied in a rat RCT model, and the healing of the tendon-bone interface was systemically evaluated by histologic staining, radiologic assessments, gait analysis, and biomechanical tests.

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Background And Objectives: Randomized trials have proven the benefit of endovascular therapy (EVT) for acute large ischemic stroke. This study was to characterize the effect of time to treatment on benefit of EVT vs medical management (MM) among patients with large ischemic stroke.

Methods: This was a post hoc analysis of the Endovascular Therapy in Acute Anterior Circulation Large Vessel Occlusive Patients with a Large Infarct Core randomized trial.

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Background: Currently, validated biomarkers for assessing hemorrhagic transformation (HT) after intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) are lacking. We aimed to validate a test combining GFAP (glial fibrillary acidic protein) and UCH-L1 (ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1) to indicate the absence of HT after IVT.

Methods: We prospectively enrolled consecutive patients with stroke treated with IVT from 16 hospitals.

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Background And Purpose: The 10th week of gestational age (GA) is a critical period for evaluating brain development, but there is limited knowledge regarding the specific characteristics at this GA. This study is to map the brain structures at 10 weeks GA using 9.4T MRI and histological sections.

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Hypergraph Neural Networks (HGNNs) have been significantly successful in higher-order tasks. However, recent study have shown that they are also vulnerable to adversarial attacks like Graph Neural Networks. Attackers fool HGNNs by modifying node links in hypergraphs.

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Kaempferol has an anti-inflammatory effect on rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but the mechanism by which inflammatory reactions are relieved via pyroptosis is still unclear. In the present study, The bioinformatics technology was used to analyze the relationship between pyroptosis the hub genes and the downstream cytokines in RA from three the Gene Expression Omnibus (GSE12021, GSE1919 and GSE29746). Molecular docking analysis of kaempferol and caspase1 (CASP1) was executed with Autodock tools.

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High temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (HT-PEMFCs) have garnered significant attention due to their expanded range of hydrogen sources and simplified management systems. However, the frequent start-up and shut-down (SU/SD) caused fuel starvation operation condition seriously deteriorates the performance and lifetime of the fuel cell. In this manuscript, VO was incorporated in the anode to restrain fuel starvation of the electrode.

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Abundant residual heat from industrial emissions may provide energy resource for CO conversion, which relies on H gas and cannot be accomplished at low temperatures. Here, we report an approach to store electrons and hydrogen atoms in catalysts using sunlight and water, which can be released for CO reduction in dark at relatively low temperatures (150-300 °C), enabling on-demand CO conversion. As a proof of concept, a model catalyst is developed by loading single Cu sites on hexagonal tungsten trioxide (Cu/WO).

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Two-dimensional (2D) ion crystals may represent a promising path to scale up qubit numbers for ion trap quantum information processing. However, to realize universal quantum computing in this system, individually addressed high-fidelity two-qubit entangling gates still remain challenging due to the inevitable micromotion of ions in a 2D crystal as well as the technical difficulty in 2D addressing. Here we demonstrate two-qubit entangling gates between any ion pairs in a 2D crystal of four ions.

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  • Immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of cancer treatment, can cause serious side effects, including immune-related myocarditis (irMyocarditis), which can be fatal.
  • Researchers studied immune responses in the heart, tumor, and blood of 28 patients with irMyocarditis using advanced techniques like single-cell RNA sequencing and T-cell receptor (TCR) sequencing.
  • Their findings showed an increase in certain immune cells in the heart tissue of irMyocarditis patients and identified specific TCR clones associated with severe cases, shedding light on the disease's biology and potential biomarkers.
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Rationale And Objectives: Detection and diagnosis of architectural distortion (AD) on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is challenging. This study applied artificial intelligence (AI) using deep learning (DL) algorithms to detect AD, followed by radiomics for classification.

Materials And Methods: 500 cases with AD on DBT reports were identified; the earlier 292 cases for training, and the later 208 cases for testing.

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  • - This clinical trial compared the safety and effectiveness of an inhaled COVID-19 vaccine (Ad5-nCoV-IH) against an intramuscular vaccine (BNT-IM) in 540 vaccinated adults in Malaysia from September 2022 to May 2023.
  • - While Ad5-nCoV-IH exhibited lower immunogenicity (with a GMC ratio of 0.22) compared to BNT-IM, it resulted in fewer adverse drug reactions (39.26% vs. 64.68%) and no serious side effects were documented.
  • - Both vaccines demonstrated similar efficacy against COVID-19 variants, but the study concluded that Ad5-nCoV-IH did not meet the non
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Cysteine residues are crucial for the formation of conserved disulfide bonds in therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), which are essential for their folding and structural stability. The presence of free thiols in mAbs can indicate incomplete disulfide bond formation, potentially impacting the molecule's conformational stability. Free thiol quantitation has been achieved using labeling-based strategies such as maleimide and haloalkyl derivatives at both intact and peptide levels.

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PKD2 was first identified as the pathogenic protein for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and is widely recognized as an ion channel. Subsequent studies have shown that PKD2 is widely expressed in various animal tissues and plays a crucial role in tissue and organ development. Additionally, PKD2 is conserved from single-celled organisms to vertebrates.

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Vestibular hair cells are mechanoreceptors critical for detecting head position and motion. In mammals, hair cell loss causes vestibular dysfunction as spontaneous regeneration is nearly absent. Constitutive expression of exogenous ATOH1, a hair cell transcription factor, increases hair cell regeneration, however, these cells fail to fully mature.

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  • Time-dependent diffusion MRI is being studied for its potential to noninvasively predict tumor properties and patient outcomes in breast cancer, focusing on molecular subtypes and pathologic complete response (pCR).
  • A study involving 408 breast cancer participants analyzed microstructural parameters and ADC measurements to develop a predictive model, with results demonstrating the MRI technique's ability to identify different breast cancer subtypes effectively.
  • The predictive model showed high performance for HER2-enriched breast cancer (AUC 0.85) and better results compared to traditional ADC measurements, indicating its significance in clinical evaluations for breast cancer treatment.
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