Publications by authors named "Jian-Xiang Yu"
Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.) is a tropical crop species, and its growth and development are severely affected by cold stress. Recent studies have identified a potential association between WRKY transcription factors and the cold response mechanism of crops.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Water shortage caused by global warming seriously affects the yield and quality of vegetable crops. β-carotene, the lipid-soluble natural product with important pharmacological value, is abundant in celery. Transcription factor MYB family extensively disperses in plants and plays regulatory roles in carotenoid metabolism and water scarcity response.
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- The study investigates the prognostic nutritional index (PNI) as a potential marker of malnutrition and its correlation with heart failure (HF) outcomes, despite existing debate on its reliability.
- A meta-analysis of 14 studies with a total of 19,605 HF patients found that lower PNI levels are significantly linked to higher risks of all-cause mortality and major adverse cardiac events (MACEs).
- The findings suggest that PNI could be a valuable, easy-to-calculate indicator of patient prognosis in heart failure, where lower values indicate a worse outcome.
Natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) in children and adolescents is a rare type of T/NK cell neoplasms. The aim of the present study was to analyze the clinicopathological and genetic features of this rare entity of lymphoma. We evaluated the clinical, histopathological and molecular features of 22 young people with NKTCL, including 15 males and 7 females, with a median age of 15 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSevere acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with unknown origin spread rapidly to 222 countries, areas or territories. To investigate the genomic evolution and variation in the early phase of COVID-19 pandemic in Guangdong, 60 specimens of SARS-CoV-2 were used to perform whole genome sequencing, and genomics, amino acid variation and Spike protein structure modeling analyses. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that the early variation in the SARS-CoV-2 genome was still intra-species, with no evolution to other coronaviruses.
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