Publications by authors named "Hui-min Zeng"

Cyclic compounds are appealing owing to their intrinsic porous structures and facile accessibility as building blocks (BBs) for fabricating high-order assemblies. Nevertheless, the modular synthesis of such molecular entities and their subsequent controlled assembly are still very challenging. Herein, we report the synthesis of a gigantic molybdenum blue (MB) wheel {Mo} (), featuring a skirt-shaped structure dimerized from {Mo}.

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Processing of Chinese medicinal materials is an important part in the Chinese medicine heritage, and the temperature control in the processing has a direct impact on the quality and efficacy of traditional Chinese medicines. However, the processing of Chinese medicinal materials has the problems of subjective temperature judgement, determination of the end point based on experience, unclear processing mechanism, unstable quality of products, and inconsistent processing standards. The temperature control in the processing is reflected in the appearance and internal quality of Chinese medicinal materials.

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  • Chemotherapy is the main treatment for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), but not all patients respond, especially those with refractory/relapse (R/R) disease or minimal residual disease (MRD) that comes back; CAR-T therapy offers a new option for these cases.
  • A clinical trial involving 115 patients aged 1-25 showed that 96.5% achieved complete remission within a month after CAR-T-19 infusion, with a median follow-up revealing 4-year survival rates of around 68.7% for leukemia-free survival and 70.7% overall.
  • The study concluded that CD19 CAR-T therapy is effective and safe for both R/R B-ALL and patients
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Introduction: The prognostic role of Wilms' tumor 1 (WT1) gene expression at diagnosis in children with B cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL) is still controversial.

Methods: We detected the WT1 transcript levels of 533 pediatric BCP-ALL patients using TaqMan-based real-time quantitative PCR and analyzed their clinical features.

Results: The WT1 transcript levels differed among the distinct molecularly defined groups, with the highest levels in the rearrangements () group.

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  • The study addresses the challenge of mimicking biomolecules to create homospiral structures using a blend of inorganic polyoxometalates (POMs) and organic cyclodextrin.
  • Chiral double-helical chains were successfully formed through a specific arrangement of complexes, allowing for chiral transfer from molecules to the larger superstructure.
  • This research enhances the understanding of POM-based materials and demonstrates their potential for selective interactions in chemical applications.
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Pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) has historically been associated with a poor prognosis. However, prognostic indicators and methods of treatment used for T-ALL remain controversial. A total of 136 children newly diagnosed with T-ALL between 2005 and 2018 were consecutively enrolled in this study.

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Molecular subtypes of breast cancer are important references to personalized clinical treatment. For cost and labor savings, only one of the patient's paraffin blocks is usually selected for subsequent immunohistochemistry (IHC) to obtain molecular subtypes. Inevitable block sampling error is risky due to the tumor heterogeneity and could result in a delay in treatment.

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The formation of high-nuclear silver(I) clusters remains elusive and their potential applications are still underdeveloped. Herein, we report an unprecedented gigantic Ag ([AgSCl(CCBu)](SbF)) cluster co-templated by Cl and S, which was well-defined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and high-resolution mass spectrometry. The cluster exhibits a hierarchical structure consisting of fused AgX kernel, AgX shell and "cluster of clusters assembling" of four pentagonal concave polyhedral {AgX} units.

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Structural transformations of nanoclusters provide a platform to tune their properties and understand the fundamental science due to their intimate structure-property correlation. Here, we present an alkynyl ligand-exchange induced growth of atomically precise silver(I) clusters, which are particularly of interest because of their luminescence response at room temperature. SCXRD and UV-vis map out the growth steps of the cluster from [AgS(CCBu)] featuring a pseudo- concave AgS to [AgS(CCPhBr)] with a pseudo- core-shell AgS@Ag@Ag, which is driven by a thermodynamic route under the disruption of ligands.

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In this paper, a pure 2D inorganic POM-based framework underwent a single crystal to single crystal conversion when soaked in organic solvents that are miscible with water, forming a more densely packed identical framework accompanying the formation of nanowires. The change in morphology is closely related to the surface tension of water, and the lower surface tension achieved by dehydration promotes the formation of nanowires, which is revealed by SXRD, PXRD, SEM, TGA and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS).

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Introduction: Residual disease (RD) detected using multiparametric flow cytometry (MFC) is an independent predictive variable of relapse in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). However, RD thresholds and optimal assessment time points remain to be validated.

Material And Methods: We investigated the significance of RD after induction therapy in paediatric AML with normal karyotype between June 2008 and June 2018.

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Objective: To explore the impact of induction treatment response on the prognosis of pediatric core binding factor-acute myeloid leukemia (CBF-AML).

Methods: The result of induce reaction and survival data of 157 pediatric CBF-AML patients in our hospital from September 2008 to December 2018 were retrospectively analyzed.The survival rate of the patients with different degrees of morphological remission after induction chemotherapy was comparative analyzed.

Results: Among the 157 children with CBF-AML, 113 (72.

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Background: In childhood B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the ETV6/RUNX1 fusion transcript is considered to have an excellent outcome. However, few studies of children with ETV6/RUNX1-positive ALL from China have been conducted. It is largely unknown whether clinical outcomes for patients with this genotype and important factors that influence such outcomes are similar to those reported in other countries.

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This study was aimed to explore the pathogenesis of type III familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL3) via susceptibility gene UNC13D involving in homologous recombination repair (HRR) of DNA double-strand break (DSB). By means of DNA homologous recombination repair, the change of homologous recombination repair rate of normal control cells and DR-U2OS cells after down-regulation of UNC13D was detected; the UNC13D gene related function was explored. The results showed that DR-U2OS cells displayed a significant reduction in homologous recombination repair of DNA DSB after siRNA knockdown of UNC13D, compared to its normal control cell counterparts (P < 0.

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Within the past few years, the invention of next-generation sequencing has revealed several new genes associated with tumor formation and development, for example DNMT3a. This gene is an independent prognostic factor for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The objective of this study was to analyze the DNMT3a mutation in childhood AML in a single center.

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This study was aimed to analyze the expression profiles of PI3K/AKT signaling pathway genes from bone marrow samples of AML and ALL patients and normal samples. AML, ALL and normal bone marrow samples were collected from 6 AML, 6 ALL patients and 4 normal persons. The expression of PI3K/AKT signaling pathway genes including PTEN, CCND1, mTOR, RICTOR, FOXO1 were detected by real-time fluorescent quantification RT-PCR while GAPDH gene expression was used as an internal reference.

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This study was purposed to assess the efficacy of stanozolol for treatment of childhood patients with acquired non-severe aplastic anemia (NSAA). The records of 114 children with acquired NSAA treated in hospital between January 1996 and January 2009 were analyzed retrospectively. All patients received stanozolol with the dose of 0.

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In order to investigate the epidemiology of childhood acute leukemia (CAL), such as onset age and time, risk factor, subtypes distribution and genetics, 1236 CAL patients admitted in blood disease hospital of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences for treatment from April 2004 to April 2010 were analyzed retrospectively. The results showed that the sex ratio of ALL and AML patients were 1.80:1 and 1.

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The posttranscriptional RNA editing by the type 1 adenosine deaminase acting on RNAs (ADAR1), expressed as p110 and p150 isoforms, is important for both physiological and pathological processes. Their expression and significance in leukemias remain unknown. Here, we investigated the expression of ADAR1 in Chinese pediatric acute leukemias by real-time PCR and Western blot.

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Acquired chromosomal translocations can be identified in nearly 50% of human acute myeloid leukemias. The common chromosomal translocation in this disease is t(8;21) (q22;q22). It involves the aml1 (runx1) gene on chromosome 21 and the eto (mtg8, runx1t1) gene on chromosome 8 generating the aml1/eto fusion gene.

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