Publications by authors named "Jiajia Liang"

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  • - The study focuses on reprogramming synovial macrophages and creating an immune environment that supports bone and cartilage growth to address osteoarthritis (OA) effectively.
  • - Researchers developed a nanosystem using bioactive phosphorus dendrimers loaded with catalase (CAT) and quercetin (Que), which helps shift macrophages to a beneficial anti-inflammatory state and supports cell health.
  • - When tested on an OA mouse model, this system reduced cartilage damage, bone erosion, and inflammation, and it also showed potential in human-derived cells by promoting similar positive changes in macrophages from OA patients.
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  • The release of supersaturated total dissolved gas (STDG) from dams can cause gas bubble disease, threatening fish survival.
  • This study tested four types of aerators to determine which effectively promotes STDG release, with diaphragm aerators performing the best.
  • A prediction model based on experimental data was developed to improve aeration system accuracy, providing guidance for selecting aerators in STDG mitigation efforts.
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  • Passive smoking is a serious public health concern in China, and little research exists on its link to ischemic stroke.
  • A study involving 30,456 never-smokers showed that those exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS) daily had a 21% higher risk of ischemic stroke compared to those exposed less frequently.
  • The findings suggest that daily SHS exposure particularly affects women and certain groups, indicating the need for stronger tobacco control measures to protect never-smokers.
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  • A study investigated how spicy food consumption affects the risk of different types of stroke among 50,174 participants aged 30-79 over a median follow-up of 10.7 years.
  • Results indicated that those who consumed spicy food regularly had lower risks of experiencing a stroke and specifically ischaemic stroke (IS) compared to those who rarely or never consumed it.
  • The relationship showed a U-shaped dose–response, where consuming spicy food 3-5 days a week was linked to the lowest risk of IS, particularly for obese participants.
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The row scanning mechanism of a rolling shutter camera can be used to infer high-frequency information from a low-frame-rate video. Combining the high intensity of laser speckle and high row-sampling rate of a rolling shutter, extreme detectable vibration frequency limited by rolling shutter camera imaging is experimentally demonstrated. Using a commercially available industrial camera at a frame rate of 70 fps, a vibration signal with a frequency of 14.

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The different health effects between starch and whole flour from tubers are rarely studied. Here, we investigated the effects of cassava flour (CF), cassava starch (CS), potato flour (PF), and potato starch (PS) on gut health and gut microbiota of normal rats. Feed analysis showed that CF and PF diet provided significantly more slowly digestible and resistant starch, less rapidly digestible starch.

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Purpose: Noninvasive imaging of treatment-induced necrosis is important to distinguish early responders from patients resistant to the treatment plan, enabling the tailored-made therapeutic intervention. The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility of [Tc]EDDA-HYNIC-2C-rhein for early assessment of tumor response to treatment.

Procedures: In vitro necrosis avidity of [Tc]EDDA-HYNIC-2C-rhein was evaluated in human lung cancer A549 cells treated with hyperthermia.

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A rapid and accurate identification of necrotic tissues is of great importance to define disease severity, predict prognosis, and monitor responses to therapies. To seek necrosis-avid agents with clinically translational potential, we first evaluated the necrosis avidity of flavonoids in rodent models of muscular, myocardial, and tumoral necrosis. In this study, the necrosis avidity of eight radioiodinated 5,7-dihydroxyflavones was tested by ex vivo gamma counting, histochemical staining, and autoradiography in mouse models of ethanol-induced muscular necrosis.

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In this paper, an ultra high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometric (UPLC-ESI-MS/MS) method in positive ion mode was established to systematically identify and to compare the major aconitum alkaloids and their metabolites in rat plasma and urine after oral administration of Fuzi extract. A total twenty-nine components including twenty-five C19-diterpenoid alkaloids and four C20-diterpenoid alkaloids were identified in Fuzi extract. Thirteen of the parent components and five metabolites were detected in rat plasma and sixteen parent compounds and six metabolites in urine.

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A UPLC-MS/MS method based on metabonomic skills was developed to study the serum metabolic changes of rats after acute liver injury induced by CCl4 and to evaluate the action mechanism of Si-Ni-San. The integrated data were exported for principal components analysis (PCA) by using SIMCA-P software, in order to find the potential biomarkers. It showed that clear separation of healthy control group, model group, silymarin group, Si-Ni-San group was achieved by using the PCA method.

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This study was aimed to explore the expression of DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs) in adult acute leukemia and its correlation with clinical characteristics, karyotype and prognosis. Indirect immunofluorescent cytometry was used to detect the expression of DNA-PKcs in bone marrow mononuclear cells of 105 patients with acute leukemia before chemotherapy and 41 of them after 2 cycles of chemotherapy. Cytogenetic data were obtained from 26 of them by R band karyotypic analysis.

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A little is known about the specific marker on the surface of acute leukemia cells, leading to the lack of the specific diagnosis method for acute leukemia. Therefore, in this study, cell-systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (cSELEX) was performed to screen the aptamers binding to CD33(+)/CD34(+) cells from the patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) of M(2) subtype (AML-M₂) so as to provide the basis for finding the specific marker on the surface of AML-M(2) CD33(+)/CD34(+) cells. Firstly, AML-M₂ CD33(+)/CD34(+) cells were sorted and used as targeted cells, and normal CD33(+)/CD34(+)cells were used as counter-targeted cells; the aptamers binding to CD33(+)/CD34(+) cells from patients with AML-M₂ were screened from the single strand deoxyribonucleic acid (ssDNA) library by cSELEX.

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