Publications by authors named "JianHui Xie"

Background: The aim of the study was to identify the post-traumatic growth status and influencing factors of parents with children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).

Methods: We adopted a cross-section survey study. Between February and December 2022, 181 parents responded to the survey including a participants' characteristics section, post-traumatic growth assessment scale, caregiver burden scale, and social support assessment scale.

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Background: Metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is a public health concern. Transforming growth factor-β1(TGF-β1) plays an important regulatory role in multiple MAFLD stages, as it can promote the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP9) and promote liver fibrosis. Sorting nexin protein-10 (SNX-10) may be involved in the occurrence and development of fatty liver disease.

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  • This study investigated the prevalence and risk factors of Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS) in hospitalized children with cancer and their parents, finding that 77.3% of parents and only 7.9% of children reported experiencing PTSS.
  • The research identified several risk factors for PTSS in parents, such as recent diagnosis, seeking financial help, rural living, and having a daughter with cancer, while children's PTSS was linked to factors like early diagnosis and low household income.
  • Importantly, no significant correlation was found between the PTSS of parents and their children, highlighting the need for targeted psychosocial support for families facing economic difficulties and those with newly diagnosed or relapsed children.
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  • This study explores the advantages of using massively parallel sequencing (MPS) over conventional capillary electrophoresis (CE) for analyzing short tandem repeats (STRs) in forensic genetics, especially by investigating both the core repeat regions and their flanking regions.
  • A new MPS system was developed that genotyped 350 male individuals from the Chinese Han population, focusing on 42 commonly used autosomal and Y-chromosomal STRs, and categorized them based on various sequence and length metrics.
  • The findings indicated that sequence variations, particularly in A-STRs, significantly enhance identification capabilities, with 58 observed variations in the flanking regions mostly affecting A-STR analysis; the concordance between MPS and CE methods
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Berberine (BBR) is a major active component of traditional Chinese medicine Rhizoma Coptidis and Cortex Phellodendri, which have been frequently used to treat liver diseases. Oxidative stress and inflammation are two pivotal hepatic pathological hallmarks. This study aimed to explore the potential effect and underlying mechanism of BBR on fructose-induced rat liver injury model, and hepatocyte damage in HepG2 and BRL-3A cells.

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The interactions between dietary cholesterol and intestinal microbiota strongly affect host health. Sulfonation is a major conjugating pathway responsible for regulating the chemical and functional homeostasis of endogenous and exogenous molecules. However, the role of cholesterol sulfonation metabolism in the host remains unclear.

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We report herein chemical and electrochemical ammonia oxidation (AO) catalyzed by a Ru complex, [Ru(HL)(pic)] [, HL = 6,6'-di(1H-pyrazol-3-yl)-2,2'-bipyridine, pic = 4-picoline], where HL is a tetradentate ligand with a bipyridyl unit connected to two pyrazoles. functions as an efficient electrocatalyst for the oxidation of NH to N, with a low overpotential of 0.51 V vs Fc and a Faradaic efficiency of 96%.

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Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Palmatine is a main bioactive alkaloid of Cortex Phellodendri, which has been commonly prescribed for the treatment of hyperuricemia (HUA) in China. The metabolites of palmatine were crucial to its prominent biological activity. 9-Hydroxy-8-oxypalmatine (9-OPAL) is a novel liver-mediated secondary oxymetabolite of palmatine.

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Natural products-based screening of active ingredients and their interactions with target proteins is an important ways to discover new drugs. Assessing the binding capacity of target proteins, particularly when multiple components are involved, presents a significant challenge for sensors. As far as we know, there is currently no sensor that can accomplish high-throughput quantitative analysis of natural product-target protein binding capacity based on Raman spectroscopy.

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  • Pirtobrutinib is a non-covalent Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor that helps overcome resistance to existing covalent BTK inhibitors in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), but its resistance mechanisms are not fully understood.
  • Researchers created resistant cell models using CRISPR-Cas9 and prolonged drug exposure to evaluate pirtobrutinib resistance, identifying key protein expression changes through advanced analysis techniques.
  • The study found that the PI3K/AKT pathway is significantly activated in resistant cells, and using inhibitors targeting this pathway (like CAL101 and MK2206) effectively reduced cell growth and induced cancer cell death, suggesting a potential treatment strategy against resistance.
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Uric acid nephropathy (UAN), caused by a common metabolic disorder resulting from hyperuricemia (HUA), has an increasing incidence. Previous studies have shown that berberine (BBR) has clear urate-lowering and anti-inflammatory effects in UAN mice, but its mechanism needs to be further clarified. Therefore, Potassium Oxonate (PO) combined with hypoxanthine (HX) induced UAN mice model and MSU induced THP-1 cells polarization model were adopted to investigate the mechanism of BBR on UAN in terms of tissue distribution and molecular pharmacology.

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Background: Gastric cancer (GC) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) contribute to each other, but the interaction mechanisms remain undiscovered. The goal of this research was to explore shared genes as well as crosstalk mechanisms between GC and T2D.

Methods: The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database served as the source of the GC and T2D datasets.

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Objective: Limited evidence on home care and need for long-term individualized follow-up highlight the importance of developing an Internet-based follow-up platform to support caregivers of children with Bronchiolitis Obliterans (BO). This Study aims to explore and test the potential benefits of this platform by comparing family management, medication compliance and clinical systems.

Study Design And Methods: A two-arm, single-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted on 168 children with BO and their families from January 2022 to October 2022.

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Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a prevalent cardiovascular disease with high morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. Pyroptosis is an inflammatory form of programmed cell death that has been linked to various pathological conditions. However, its exact contribution to the onset and progression of heart injury in AMI has not yet fully elucidated.

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  • This study evaluated the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Intrahospital Transport Safety Scale (IHTSS) among critical care nurses in China, addressing a gap since the scale has not been previously introduced in the country.
  • Using a sample of 544 nurses from 25 ICUs across 10 hospitals, the researchers conducted statistical analyses to confirm the scale's construct validity, achieving high internal consistency and strong factor structures.
  • Results showed excellent psychometric properties for the Chinese IHTSS with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.976, supporting its effectiveness as a tool for assessing the safety of intrahospital transport of critically ill patients.
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Target discovery of natural products is a key step in the development of new drugs, and it is also a difficult speed-limiting step. In this study, a traditional Chinese medicine microspheres (TCM-MPs) target fishing strategy was developed to discover the key drug targets from complex system. The microspheres are composed of FeO magnetic nanolayer, oleic acid modified layer, the photoaffinity group (4- [3-(Trifluoromethyl)-3H-diazirin-3-yl] benzoic acid, TAD) layer and active small molecule layer from inside to outside.

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Background: Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that is more likely to be diagnosed in children. The main treatment involves long-term use of anti-epileptic drugs and above all, home care is of great importance. As there has not been a widely accepted home care protocols, simulating a home care environment is necessary for caregivers to develop skills of proper home care.

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Identity by descent (IBD) segments, uninterrupted DNA segments derived from the same ancestral chromosomes, are widely used as indicators of relationships in genetics. A great deal of research focuses on IBD segments between related pairs, while the statistical analyses of segments in irrelevant individuals are rare. In this study, we investigated the basic informative features of IBD segments in unrelated pairs in Chinese populations from the 1000 Genome Project.

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DNA 4 mC plays a crucial role in the genetic expression process of organisms. However, existing deep learning algorithms have shortcomings in the ability to represent DNA sequence features. In this paper, we propose a 4 mC site identification algorithm, DNABert-4mC, based on a fusion of the pruned pre-training DNABert-Pruning model and artificial feature encoding to identify 4 mC sites.

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Ruthenium-oxo species with high coordination numbers have long been proposed as active intermediates in catalytic oxidation chemistry. By employing a tetradentate bipyridine-bipyrazole ligand, we herein reported the synthesis of a seven-coordinate (CN7) ruthenium(IV) oxo complex, [Ru(tpz)(pic)(O)] () (tpz = 6,6'-di(1-pyrazol-1-yl)-2,2'-bipyridine, pic = 4-picoline), which exhibits high activity toward the oxidation of alkylaromatic hydrocarbons. The large kinetic isotope effects (KIE) for the oxidation of DHA/DHA- (KIE = 10.

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(licorice) is extensively employed in traditional Chinese medicine, and serves as a crucial raw material in industries such as food and cosmetics. The quality of licorice from different origins varies greatly, so classification of its geographical origin is particularly important. This study proposes a technique for fine structure recognition and segmentation of hyperspectral images of licorice using deep learning U-Net neural networks to segment the tissue structure patterns (phloem, xylem, and pith).

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The use of metal-acylperoxo complexes as oxidants has been little explored. Herein we report the synthesis and characterization of the first seven-coordinate Ru-acylperoxo complex, [Ru(bdpm)(pic)(CPBA)] (Hbdpm = [2,2'-bipyridine]-6,6'-diylbis(diphenylmethanol); pic = 4-picoline; HCPBA = -chloroperbenzoic acid). This complex is a highly reactive oxidant for C-H bond activation and O-atom transfer reactions.

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Insertion/deletion polymorphisms (InDels) are a category of highly prevalent markers in the human genome, characterized by their distinctive attributes, including short amplicon sizes and low mutation rates, which have shown great potential in forensic applications. Multi-allelic InDel and multi-InDel markers, collectively abbreviated as MM-InDels, were developed to enhance polymorphism by the introduction of novel alleles. Nevertheless, the relatively low mutation rates of InDels, coupled with the founder effect, result in distinct allele frequency distributions among populations.

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Caring for children with cancer is stressful for parents and leads to psychological distress, which is mainly manifested as depressive symptoms and anxiety. This study explored the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between stress and psychological distress in parents of children with cancer. We recruited 258 parents of children with cancer in three tertiary hospitals in Mainland China.

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The exploration of efficient heterogeneous catalysts for persistent organic pollutant removal is extremely attractive. In the present work, MnO/MnO photo-Fenton catalysts were designed by a facile hydrothermal route to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) under visible light irradiation for organic pollutant degradation. The optimized MnO/MnO heterojunction shows excellent Rhodamine B (RhB) removal efficiency, whose apparent kinetic constant is 11.

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