Publications by authors named "Jianpeng Zhao"

Article Synopsis
  • - Intestinal stem cells (ISCs) play a key role in gut health and recovery from damage, and research showed that Gelsolin KO mice experience more damage and fewer ISCs after radiation exposure.
  • - The study found that the absence of Gelsolin leads to decreased function of ISCs and shuts down the IL-17 signaling pathway, which is crucial for the differentiation of Th17 cells.
  • - Gelsolin supports Th17 cell functionality through the p-STAT3/RORγt pathway, enhancing ISC regeneration and providing protection against various intestinal injuries, not just radiation-induced ones.
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Intestinal stem cells (ISCs) play a crucial role in maintaining the equilibrium and regenerative potential of intestinal tissue, thereby ensuring tissue homeostasis and promoting effective tissue regeneration following injury. It has been proven that targeting Toll-like receptors (TLRs) can help prevent radiation-induced damage to the intestine. In this study, we established an intestinal injury model using IR and evaluated the effects of CL429 on ISC regeneration both in vivo and in vitro.

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The decoupling of control and forwarding layers brings Software-Defined Networking (SDN) the network programmability and global control capability, but it also poses SDN security risks. The adversaries can use the forwarding and control decoupling character of SDN to forge legitimate traffic, launching saturation attacks targeted at SDN switches. These attacks can cause the overflow of switch flow tables, thus making the switch cannot forward benign network traffic.

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Identifying new targets for overcoming radioresistance is crucial for improving the efficacy of lung cancer radiotherapy, given that tumor cell resistance is a leading cause of treatment failure. Recent research has spotlighted the significance of Musashi2 (MSI2) in cancer biology. In this study, we first demonstrated that MSI2 plays a key function in regulating the radiosensitivity of lung cancer.

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Background: In traditional Chinese medicine, Jintiange capsules are frequently used to treat metabolic bone diseases and strengthen bones and tendons. The main component of Jintiange capsules is bionic tiger bone powder. However, the active ingredients and proteins are derived from other animal bones, with chemical profiles similar to that of natural tiger bone.

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Nanoscale air channel transistors (NACTs) have received significant attention due to their remarkable high-frequency performance and high switching speed, which is enabled by the ballistic transport of electrons in sub-100 nm air channels. Despite these advantages, NACTs are still limited by low currents and instability compared to solid-state devices. GaN, with its low electron affinity, strong thermal and chemical stability, and high breakdown electric field, presents an appealing candidate as a field emission material.

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Intestinal stem cells (ISCs) are responsible for intestinal tissue homeostasis and are important for the regeneration of the damaged intestinal epithelia. Through the establishment of ionizing radiation (IR) induced intestinal injury model, we found that a TLR2 agonist, Zymosan-A, promoted the regeneration of ISCs in vivo and in vitro. Zymosan-A improved the survival of abdominal irradiated mice (81.

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Accidental radiation exposure is a threat to human health that necessitates effective clinical diagnosis. Suitable biomarkers are urgently needed for early assessment of exposure dose. Existing technologies being used to assess the extent of radiation have notable limitations.

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Background: Severe ionizing radiation (IR)-induced intestinal injury associates with high mortality, which is a worldwide problem requiring urgent attention. In recent years, studies have found that the PHD-HIF signaling pathway may play key roles in IR-induced intestinal injury, and we found that FG-4592, the PHD inhibitor, has significant radioprotective effects on IR-induced intestinal injury.

Methods: In the presence or absence of FG-4592 treatment, the survival time, pathology, cell viability, cell apoptosis, and organoids of mice after irradiation were compared, and the mechanism was verified after transcriptome sequencing.

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A photonic method to generate pulse trains with double repetition rate in FM actively mode-locked fiber-optic parametric oscillator (FOPO) has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Pulse trains can exist at either of the two extremums of phase modulation, which can be controlled by tuning an intra-cavity polarization controller (PC) before a phase modulator. Moreover, the pulse formation and spectral characteristics of the proposed FOPO are investigated.

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The output characteristics of a fiber optic parametric oscillator (FOPO) based on multiple four-wave mixing (multi-FWM) processes are investigated numerically and demonstrated experimentally. The theoretical model of a FOPO based on multi-FWM processes is presented. It is proved that the output signal starts to saturate when the high-order parametric products are generated in the multi-FWM processes of FOPOs.

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Novel triphenylethylene-coumarin hybrid derivatives containing different amounts of amino side chains were designed and synthesized in good yields under microwave radiation. The derivatives 5b-d which possessed two amino side chains (except morpholinyl) showed a broad-spectrum and good anti-proliferative activity against five tumor cells and low cytotoxicity in osteoblast. UV-vis, fluorescence, and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopies and thermal denaturation exhibited that compounds 10 c, 5c, and 13c bearing amino side chain (except morpholinyl) on 4-phenyl had significant interactions with Ct-DNA by the intercalative mode of binding.

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Novel pseudonucleosides with benzylamino group on 5'-position (4) were synthesized by using the microwave-assisted one-pot tandem Staudinger/aza-Wittig/reduction reaction in good yields of 55.2-71.7%.

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