Publications by authors named "Huanhuan Zheng"

A high bacterial cellulose (BC) producing Komagataeibacter intermedius (KEI6 strain) was isolated from water kefir grains in Xinjiang, China. Under optimized culture conditions, the KEI6 strain was able to produce BC (KEI6-BC) up to 7.03 g/L dry weight.

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At the end of 2019, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) became prevalent worldwide, which brought a heavy medical burden and tremendous economic losses to the world population. In addition to the common clinical respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough and headache, patients with COVID-19 often have hematological diseases, especially platelet dysfunction. Platelet dysfunction usually leads to multiple organ dysfunction, which is closely related to patient severity or mortality.

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Background: Patients with obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) combined with resistant hypertension (RH) have a high risk of developing primary aldosteronism (PA). This study investigated the aldosterone-renin ratio (ARR), plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC), and plasma renin activity (PRA) to determine the optimal cutoff values for PA diagnosis in patients with OSAHS combined with RH.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with moderate and severe OSAHS combined with RH were recruited from the inpatient clinic of the Department of Endocrinology at Ji'an Central Hospital between October 2020 and April 2023.

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Juxtaglomerular cell tumor (JCT) is an endocrine tumor marked by elevated renin levels and high blood pressure. This case report presents the clinical findings of a 47-year-old woman with a history of recurrent hypokalemia, headaches, hypertension, and increased plasma renin activity (PRA). Dynamic enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a small nodule on the upper part of the right kidney.

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Background: To find a useful hypoxia non-invasive biomarker for evaluating early treatment response and prognosis to definitive chemoradiotherapy (dCRT) in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), using blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Methods: The R2* values were obtained pre- and 2-3 weeks post-dCRT in 28 patients with ESCC using BOLD MRI. Independent samples t-test (normality) or Mann-Whitney U test (non-normality) was used to compare the differences of R2*-related parameters between the complete response (CR) and the non-CR groups.

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Compared with young patients, elderly patients with gastric cancer usually have lower muscle mass, poorer nutritional status, lower immunity, and worse cardiopulmonary function. Therefore, how to improve the prognosis of elderly gastric cancer patients after laparoscopic-assisted radical gastrectomy is the focus and difficulty of clinician. The aim of our study was to investigate the risk factors for postoperative complications of these patients.

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COVID-19 has a high rate of infection in dialysis patients and poses a serious risk to human health. Currently, there are no dialysis centers in China that have analyzed the prevalence of COVID-19 infection in dialysis patients and the mortality rate. Although machine learning-based disease prediction methods have proven to be effective, redundant attributes in the data and the interpretability of the predictive models are still worth investigating.

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Background: The insect hemolymph (blood-equivalent fluid), composed of a large number of hemocytes (blood cells) and a variety of soluble immune effectors, is hostile for pathogens including fungi. In order to survive in the insect hemocoel (body cavity), the entomopathogenic fungus (EPF) has evolved two classical coping strategies, namely evasion and suppression of the host immune reactions. However, it remains unclear whether EPF has other ways of coping with host immunity.

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Recently, two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides/nitrides (MXenes) find applications in perovskite solar cells (PSCs), due to their high conductivity, tunable electronic structures, and rich surface chemistry, etc. However, the integration of 2D MXenes into PSCs is limited by their large lateral sizes and relatively-small surface volume ratios, and the roles of MXenes in PSCs are still ambiguous. In this paper, zero-dimensional (0D) MXene quantum dots (MQDs) with an average size of 2.

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We utilize the global natural experiment created by the COVID-19 outbreak to identify sovereign borrowing capacity in time of need and its determinants. First, we demonstrate that the pandemic creates exogeneous shocks to sovereign borrowing needs-governments borrowed more when hit by more severe pandemic shocks. Second, we show that credible fiscal rules enhance sovereign borrowing capacity, while unsustainable debts in terms of high debt-to-GDP ratio, rollover risk, and sovereign default risk weaken it.

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Objective: This is the first study to explore the risk factors for nephropathy caused by gadolinium-based contrast agents and establish a prediction model to identify high-risk patients.

Methods: A total of 1404 patients who received gadolinium-based contrast agents in our hospital were included. The participants were randomly assigned in a 7:3 ratio to the modeling and validation groups.

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In this paper, we investigate two solutions to urban water security challenges: plumbing and nudging. Using anonymized monthly billing data from 1.5 million accounts in Singapore over ten years, our staggered difference-in-differences estimates show that a nationwide Home Improvement Programme that improves the efficiency of plumbing reduces residential water consumption by 3.

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Integrins are transmembrane receptor heterodimers composed of α and β subunits. They are known to mediate extracellular signals to promote cell adhesion and spreading, and are therefore essential for cellular immunity. However, proteins that bind to integrin cytoplasmic domains and mediate intracellular signaling to promote cell adhesion require identification.

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Objective: This study aimed to identify a subset of patients with stage IA2 to IIA2 cervical cancer who are at low risk of lymph node metastasis (LNM) using pathological parameters including estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) and progesterone receptor (PR).

Methods: The clinical data of patients with stage IA2 to IIA2 cervical cancer who underwent radical surgery between 2014 and 2015 were retrospectively reviewed. Immunohistochemical staining was used to determine the expression of ERα and PR.

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is one of the phytopathogenic fungi causing cereal fusarium head blight worldwide. Flubeneteram (Flu) is a novel succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor (SDHI) which exhibits strong fungicidal activity against . In this study, four Flu-resistant (Flu) mutants were generated by fungicide domestication from the wildtype strain PH-1.

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Solanum lycopersicum phenylalanine ammonia-lyase 5 (SlPAL5) gene regulates the metabolism of phenolic compounds. The study of transcription factors that regulate the expression of SlPAL5 gene is of great significance to elucidate the regulatory mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of phenolic compounds in tomato fruit induced by UV-C irradiation. Here, yeast one-hybrid library of tomato fruit was constructed, and the yeast one-hybrid technology was used to screen the transcription factors that regulate the expression of SlPAL5, the key gene related to the synthesis of phenolic compounds in tomato fruit.

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In the past decade, organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have received significant attentions due to their high efficiencies and low costs. However, the commercialization of PSCs is stilled hindered by several issues such as device performance (especially for large-area cells) and stability. Recently, two-dimensional (2D) transition metal disulfides (TMDs) show great potentials in solving aforementioned problems due to their unique morphological structure and electrical properties.

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Tomato fruits contain much organic acids and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) during ripening which are beneficial to human health. The effects of 4 kJ/m UV-C treatment on the contents of organic acids and GABA, and the expression of related genes in tomato fruits during storage at 13 °C were investigated. The results showed that UV-C treatment significantly increased the organic acids and total soluble protein contents, whereas decreased the free amino acids and glutamate contents.

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Black spot, caused by , poses a severe threat to the industry of , a Chinese indigenous medicinal herb. Dicarboximide fungicides (DCFs) have been intensively used to control this disease for decades in China, and offer excellent efficacy. The resistance of phytopathogenic pathogens against DCFs are reportedly selected in fields; however, the DCF resistance of from is not well understood.

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Garlic leaf blight caused by was first reported in Jiangsu Province in China. The dicarboximide fungicide (DCF) procymidone is reported to possess broad-spectrum action in inhibiting filamentous fungi and is widely used to control leaf disease of various plants. Of 41 isolates collected in this study from commercial garlic farms in Pizhou and Dafeng counties of Jiangsu Province, eight isolates were resistant to procymidone.

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