Publications by authors named "Huijuan Yang"

The family Streblidae is a significant grouping of dipteran insects within the superfamily Hippoboscoidea, which parasitizes the body surface of bats. With the global spread of bat-related pathogens in recent years, Streblidae has gained increasing attention due to its potential for pathogen transmission. A sample of was sequenced on the were obtained, compared with available Streblidae mitogenomes, and the phylogeny of Hippoboscoidea was reconstructed.

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Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy may be considered for patients with ovarian cancer (OC) whose tumors are deemed unlikely to be completely cytoreduced to no gross residual disease (R0) or who are poor surgical candidates. This Ib/II study was designed to assess the efficacy and safety of nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel (nab-paclitaxel) plus carboplatin as neoadjuvant chemotherapy for stages III-IV, unresectable OC.

Methods: Eligible patients with stage III-IV, unresectable OC were enrolled in this phase Ib/II study.

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  • Estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancers often recur due to undetectable persister cancer cells that survive endocrine treatments, necessitating new strategies to target these cells and prevent recurrence.
  • Researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 screening to discover that these persister cells rely on mitochondrial respiration instead of glycolysis for energy, indicating a unique metabolic mechanism.
  • A clinical trial revealed that tumors with residual cells after endocrine therapy showed increased mitochondrial content, suggesting that targeting mitochondrial metabolism could enhance treatment effectiveness against these resilient cancer cells.
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The sweetness of apple fruit is a key factor in the improvement of apple varieties, with fructose being the sweetest of the soluble sugars, playing a crucial role in determining the overall sweetness of the apple. Therefore, uncovering the key genes controlling fructose accumulation and deciphering the regulatory mechanisms of fructose are vitally important for the improvement of apple varieties. In this study, through BSA-seq and transcriptome analysis of the 'Changfu 2' × 'Golden Delicious' F1 hybrid population, MdNAC5 was identified as a key regulatory gene for fructose content.

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The occurrence of heat stress in poultry houses is inevitable and leads to oxidative stress in the birds. Lycopene, a natural hydrocarbon carotenoid, possesses potent antioxidant properties. This study aimed to investigate the impact of lycopene on growth performance, meat quality, cecal microflora, and liver metabolome in broilers subjected to heat stress.

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CRF01_AE and CRF07_BC are predominant circulating HIV-1 subtypes in China. In this study, we report two novel HIV-1 CRF01_AE/CRF07_BC recombinant forms isolated from one man who has sex with men (MSM) (BDD027) and one mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) case (BDL123) in Baoding City, Hebei Province, China. The recombination breakpoint analysis showed that the recombination pattern of the near-full-length genome of BDD027 consisted of two CRF07_BC fragments inserted into a CRF01_AE backbone, while the recombination pattern of the near-full-length genome of BDL123 consisted of one CRF01_AE fragment inserted into a CRF07_BC backbone.

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Insomnia is a common sleep disorder, associated with multiple health concerns. Current medications for insomnia are associated with higher safety risks if clinical practice guidelines or monograph recommendations are not followed. This study aims to understand real-world prescribing practices among patients with insomnia in Canada, including medication utilization, potentially inappropriate medication use, cost incurred, and lines of treatment.

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  • * A study analyzed 148 IMN patients through renal biopsies and grouped them by treatment type—60 on rituximab, 42 on calcium-phosphate inhibitors, and 46 on cyclophosphamide—monitoring key health metrics over 18 months.
  • * Initial findings showed no significant differences in patient characteristics, but the CNI group had better remission rates than RTX and CTX groups by 12 months, despite stable protein quantification
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CO poisoning in Pt-based anode catalysts significantly hampers the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) performance. Despite great advances in CO-tolerant catalysts, their effectiveness is often limited to fundamental three-electrode systems, which is inadequate for practical PEMFC applications. Herein, we present a straightforward thermal oxidation strategy for constructing a Ru oxide blocking layer on commercial PtRu/C through a one-step Ru-segregation-and-oxidation process.

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Flesh firmness is a critical breeding trait that determines consumer selection, shelf life, and transportation. The genetic basis controlling firmness in apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) remains to be fully elucidated.

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Breastfeeding by mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been shown to reduce maternal insulin demands and diminish the risks of diabetes in infants, leading to improved long-term health outcomes. Milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) proteins play a crucial role in influencing the immunity and cognitive development of infants. Understanding the alterations in MFGM proteins in breast milk from mothers with GDM is essential for enhancing their self-efficacy and increase breastfeeding rates.

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Aedes albopictus is an important vector of arboviruses and prefers small containers of stagnant water as oviposition sites. One of the mechanisms mosquitoes use to search for suitable oviposition sites is relying on odor cues from prospective sites and their surroundings. The genetic and molecular bases of this behavior are not known for Ae.

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Objective: Serum-specific antibodies as a non-invasive means to effectively diagnose idiopathic membranous nephropathy and assess clinicopathology.

Methods: Immunofluorescence of anti-PLA2R and THSD7A antibodies and kidney tissue PLA2R, THSD7A and IgG4 expression in IMN and non-IMN (2020-2021) was detected to assess the efficacy of diagnosing IMN. IMN patients were divided into two groups, anti-PLA2R antibody positive (161 cases) and negative (26 cases), and two groups, kidney tissue PLA2R (40 cases) and PLA2R+THSD7A (6 cases), to compare the clinical and pathological features, and to carry out a prognostic analysis of THSD7A-positive patients, with a focus on correlation with malignancy.

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Background: Empirical chemotherapy remains the standard of care in patients with unfavourable cancer of unknown primary (CUP). Gene-expression profiling assays have been developed to identify the tissue of origin in patients with CUP; however, their clinical benefit has not yet been demonstrated. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of site-specific therapy directed by a 90-gene expression assay compared with empirical chemotherapy in patients with CUP.

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Objective: To systematically comparison of the relative effects of different types and times of physical activity on cognitive function among children with obesity or overweight.

Methods: From the establishment of the database to September 2023, the relative effects of different types and times of physical activity on cognitive function among children with obesity or overweight published in Embase, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, China Wanfang, HowNet, Chinese Biomedical Literature, and VIP were retrieved. A study of marker correlations.

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  • The 2023 FIGO staging system for endometrial cancer incorporates factors like histology, lympho-vascular space invasion, and molecular classification to enhance clinical utility and prognostic significance in China.
  • A retrospective study analyzed data from 547 patients who underwent surgeries and genetic testing, revealing that nearly 27% had stage shifts when restaged using the 2023 criteria compared to the previous 2009 guidelines.
  • The study found improved progression-free survival (PFS) rates for early-stage diseases under the new staging, indicating it serves as a better predictor of outcomes, particularly highlighted by differences in PFS rates across various stages.
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Birnessite-type MnO (δ-MnO) exhibits great potential as a cathode material for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs). However, the structural instability and sluggish reaction kinetics restrict its further application. Herein, a unique protons intercalation strategy was utilized to simultaneously modify the interlayer environment and transition metal layers of δ-MnO.

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Leg disorders have become increasingly common in broilers, leading to lower meat quality and major economic losses. This study evaluated the effects of dietary supplementation with Clostridium butyricum (C. butyricum) and 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OH-D) on bone development by comparing growth performance, tibial parameters, Ca and P contents of tibial ash, bone development-related indicators' level, and cecal short-chain fatty acids in Cobb broilers.

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Designing bifunctional catalysts to reduce the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) reaction barriers while accelerating the reaction kinetics is perceived to be a promising strategy to improve the performance of Zinc-air batteries. Unsymmetric configuration in single-atom catalysts has attracted attention due to its unique advantages in regulating electron orbitals. In this work, a seesaw effect in unsymmetric Fe-Co bimetallic monoatomic configurations is proposed, which can effectively improve the OER/ORR bifunctional activity of the catalyst.

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Surgery for platinum-sensitive, relapsed ovarian cancer (PSROC) is widely practiced but had contradictory survival outcomes in previous studies. In this multicenter, open-label, phase 3 trial, women with PSROC, and having had one previous therapy and no platinum-based chemotherapy (platinum-free interval) of 6 months or more, were randomly assigned to either the surgery group (182 patients) or the no-surgery group (control) (175 patients). Patients with resectable diseases were eligible according to the international model (iMODEL), combined with a positron emission tomography-computed tomography imaging.

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Problem: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are a common pregnancy disease. NANOG and Cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1) are essential for regulating the function of cell proliferation and apoptosis. However, the mechanism of action in HDP is yet unclear.

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In the digital economy era, leveraging digital media to foster tourists' pro-environmental behavioral intention (TPEBI) has become crucial in the field of sustainable tourism. While existing studies have mainly focused on the driving mechanism of TPEBI within physical tourism contexts, the correlation between digital media information sharing and TPEBI remains unclear. Our study employs the cognitive-affective-conative framework to construct a theoretical model, considering eco-guilt and empathy with nature as mediating variables.

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Graphitic carbon nitride (g-CN or GCN) shows promise in photocatalytic water splitting, despite facing the challenge of rapid electron-hole recombination. In this study, we investigated the influence of boron/oxygen codoping on the photocatalytic performance of GCN systems for hydrogen generation. First-principles calculations and nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) simulations were employed to reveal that the recombination time of photogenerated carriers could be increased by 16% to 64% in the codoped systems compared to the pristine GCN.

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