Publications by authors named "Hai-Bin Zhang"

Background/aims: Growing recognition identifies sessile serrated lesions (SSL) as colorectal cancer (CRC) precursors. However, the SSL detection rate remains debatable and lacks a definitive consensus. Additionally, understanding the influencing factors in SSL development is limited.

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  • Vertebral artery dissection (VAD) is a rare but serious condition caused by tearing in the vertebral artery, leading to symptoms like headache and dizziness, and requires timely diagnosis for better outcomes.
  • A young male patient experienced severe headache and seizures, and imaging revealed bilateral VAD and complications like brainstem infarcts, but digital subtraction angiography missed the dissection.
  • High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (HRMRI) successfully confirmed the diagnosis of VAD and supported the patient's treatment plan, ultimately leading to significant recovery after rehabilitation.*
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Background: Laparoscopic colorectal surgery has been proved to have similar oncological outcomes with open surgery. Due to the lack of tactile perception, surgeons may have misjudgments in laparoscopic colorectal surgery. Therefore, the accurate localization of a tumor before surgery is important, especially in the early stages of cancer.

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BACKGROUND : There remain concerns regarding the technical feasibility of endoscopic resection for large gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), mainly relating to the risk of tumor rupture and the adequacy of the resection margins. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and therapeutic outcomes of the newly developed no-touch endoscopic full-thickness resection (NT-EFTR) technique for GISTs. METHODS : In this retrospective study, 92 patients with gastric GISTs undergoing NT-EFTR were included.

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Background: An increasing number of studies have revealed the influencing factors of ferroptosis. The influence of immune cell infiltration, inflammation development and lipid metabolism in the tumor microenvironment (TME) on the ferroptosis of tumor cells requires further research and discussion.

Methods: We explored the relationship between ferroptosis-related genes and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) from the perspective of large sample analysis and multiomics, used multiple groups to identify and verify ferroptosis-related molecular patterns, and analyzed the sensitivity to ferroptosis and the state of immune escape between different molecular pattern groups.

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Background: Gastric cancer is a major public health problem worldwide. Social media has affected public's daily lives in ways no one ever thought possible. Both TikoTok and its Chinese version Douyin are the most popular short video posting platform.

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Background: Endoscopic resection approaches, including endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection (STER) and endoscopic full-thickness resection (EFTR), have been widely used for the treatment of submucosal tumors (SMTs) located in the upper gastrointestinal tract. However, compared to SMTs located in the esophagus or stomach, endoscopic resection of SMTs from the esophagogastric junction (EGJ) is much more difficult because of the sharp angle and narrow lumen of the EGJ. SMTs originating from the muscularis propria (MP) in the EGJ, especially those that grow extraluminally and adhere closely to the serosa, make endoscopic resection even more difficult.

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Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common malignancy of the hematological system, and there are currently a number of studies regarding abnormal alterations in energy metabolism, but fewer reports related to fatty acid metabolism (FAM) in AML. We therefore analyze the association of FAM and AML tumor development to explore targets for clinical prognosis prediction and identify those with potential therapeutic value.

Methods: The identification of AML patients with different fatty acid metabolism characteristics was based on a consensus clustering algorithm.

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Accumulated genetic mutations are an important cause for the development of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), but abnormal changes in the inflammatory microenvironment also have regulatory effects on AML. Exploring the relationship between inflammatory response and pathological features of AML has implications for clinical diagnosis, treatment and prognosis evaluation. We analyzed the expression variation landscape of inflammatory response-related genes (IRRGs) and calculated an inflammatory response score for each sample using the gene set variation analysis (GSVA) algorithm.

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Background: Imatinib (IM), a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), has markedly improved the survival and life quality of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients. However, the lack of specific biomarkers for IM resistance remains a serious clinical challenge. Recently, growing evidence has suggested that exosome-harbored proteins were involved in tumor drug resistance and could be novel biomarkers for the diagnosis and drug sensitivity prediction of cancer.

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Background: The adherence of oral anticoagulant (OAC) therapy among nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) in China during recent years was unclear, and the possible factors that influenced the initiation and persistent use of OAC were needed to be explored.

Methods: A total of 1085 NVAF patients, who experienced new-onset and nonfatal AIS from August 2011 to December 2020 during follow-ups in the China Atrial Fibrillation Registry (China-AF), were enrolled. Information including patients' demographic characteristics, medical history, medication usage, which were collected before and after the index stroke, were used in the analysis.

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  • Researchers studied 711 patients who had liver surgery for a type of cancer called ICC linked to hepatitis B virus to see how certain factors affected their long-term survival.
  • They looked at two main things: the status of the resection margin (RM) and whether there was microscopic vascular invasion (MVI).
  • The findings showed that both RM and MVI significantly affected patient survival rates, helping doctors to better plan treatment after surgery.
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Osteoarthritis (OA), one of the most common motor system disorders, is a degenerative disease involving progressive joint destruction caused by a variety of factors. At present, OA has become the fourth most common cause of disability in the world. However, the pathogenesis of OA is complex and has not yet been clarified.

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X-inactive-specific transcript (XIST) is a 19 kb noncoding RNA which is oncogenic in many cancers including gastric cancer. It is reported that XIST contributes to gastric cancer cells resistant to cisplatin, but specific mechanisms governing this resistance remain unclear. We firstly examined the XIST level in gastric cancer cells and tumor specimens.

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Imatinib mesylate (IM) resistance has become a major clinical problem for chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). It is known that Bcl-x splicing is deregulated and is involved in multiple malignant cancer initiation and chemotherapy resistance, including CML. The aim of the present study was to correct the abnormal splicing of Bcl-x in CML and investigate the subsequent malignant phenotype changes, especially response to IM.

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  • - Serum samples were tested for IgG antibodies, and a positive result was defined as being reactive at a dilution greater than 1:320; Chi-square tests and generalized linear models were used for statistical analysis of associated risk factors.
  • - Out of 1,260 samples, 122 (9.68%) tested positive for infection, with rates varying significantly from 0% to 30.43% across different age groups, particularly higher in individuals aged 50-59 years.
  • - The study found significant variations in seroprevalence across different sites in four provinces, and field workers had a notably higher infection rate compared to urban workers.
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The rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, produces natural rubber that serves as an essential industrial raw material. Here, we present a high-quality reference genome for a rubber tree cultivar GT1 using single-molecule real-time sequencing (SMRT) and Hi-C technologies to anchor the ∼1.47-Gb genome assembly into 18 pseudochromosomes.

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Accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in the articular cartilage is a major risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA). To determine the mechanistic basis of AGE action in OA, we treated human articular chondrocytes with AGEs, and found that they not only up-regulated the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1β and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, but also inhibited AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) phosphorylation and decreased sirtuin 1 (SIRT-1) levels in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. Pioglitazone, a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) agonist restored the inhibited AMPK and SIRT-1 by AGEs.

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Background: We aim to investigate the safety and efficacy of radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of solitary hepatocellular carcinoma (3-5 cm) in comparison with surgical resection.

Methods: Included in this study were 388 patients with primary and solitary hepatocellular carcinoma, of whom 196 patients underwent surgical resection and the other 192 patients received radiofrequency ablation. Clinicopathological characteristics, prognosis, post-treatment complications, hospital stay, and financial expenditures between the two groups were compared retrospectively.

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Inflammatory cells in atherosclerotic plaque exclusively originate from hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs). In this study, we investigated whether circulating HSPCs frequency related to coronary stenosis in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Coronary angiography was performed in 468 participants who were recruited at Cardiology Centre in LuHe Hospital from March 2016 to May 2017.

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Background: Immunotherapy is a promising method for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), in which CD8T cells play a key role. The influence of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) nuclear-enriched autosomal transcript 1(NEAT1) on the antitumor activity of CD8T cells was clarified in this study.

Methods: Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated from HCC patients, and the expressions of NEAT1 and Tim-3 were determined by qRT-PCR and western blot, respectively.

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The original version of this Article neglected to indicate that the study was supported by Anhui Natural Science Foundation Project (1608085MH201). This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.

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