Publications by authors named "Jiapeng Xu"

Red teaming, the practice of adversarially exposing unexpected or undesired model behaviors, is critical towards improving equity and accuracy of large language models, but non-model creator-affiliated red teaming is scant in healthcare. We convened teams of clinicians, medical and engineering students, and technical professionals (80 participants total) to stress-test models with real-world clinical cases and categorize inappropriate responses along axes of safety, privacy, hallucinations/accuracy, and bias. Six medically-trained reviewers re-analyzed prompt-response pairs and added qualitative annotations.

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() infection is the most common risk factor for gastric cancer (GC). The effect of the antioxidase manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD2) in gastric tumorigenesis remains unclear. We explored the molecular mechanisms of links between , inflammation, and SOD2 in GC.

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Introduction: Cervical dystonia (CD) is characterized by involuntary neck muscle spasms that lead to abnormal head movements or postures. It is associated with somatosensory (tactile and proprioceptive) dysfunction. Here we tested whether vibro-tactile stimulation (VTS) of the cervical muscles constitutes a non-invasive form of neuromodulation of the somatosensory system that can provide temporary symptom relief for people with CD.

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The increasing prevalence of cancer has been linked to various environmental factors associated with modern industrial and societal advancements. Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), a commonly used plasticizer, is one such environmental contaminant with potential carcinogenic effects. While epidemiological studies have suggested a positive association between DEHP exposure and cancer risk, the specific role of DEHP in cancer initiation and progression requires further clarification.

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Formulating a consistent standard for ecosystem service value (ESV) estimation and incorporating it into government decision-making is an important way to achieve balanced ecological-economic development. Taking the ecologically vulnerable areas in Northwest China as an example, this paper uses the value transfer method to estimate the ESV of cropland, forest, grassland, waters, and unused land; analyzes the spatio-temporal characteristics of the increment of ESV (△ESV) and ecological-economic harmony (EEH) index in each city; as well as identifies their key influential factors. The results suggest that value transfer is a feasible approach to developing a consistent standard for ESV estimation.

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Mutations in influenza virus neuraminidase (NA) can lead to viral resistance to NA inhibitors (NAIs). To update global influenza NA mutations and resistance to NAIs, we investigated epidemic information from global regions for NAIs-resistant influenza strains and analyzed their NA mutations. Drug-resistant mutations in NA, especially new mutations occurred in 2016-2024, were updated.

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Objectives: Unexplained chronic cough (UCC) is common and has significant impacts on quality of life. Ongoing cough can sensitize the larynx, increasing the urge to cough and perpetuating the cycle of chronic cough. Vibrotactile stimulation (VTS) of the larynx is a noninvasive stimulation technique that can modulate laryngeal somatosensory and motor activity.

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Decoupling of crop-livestock systems increases the risks of pollution, waste of nutrient resources, and biodiversity loss. Crop-livestock integration (CLI) is an effective solution to these problems, and motivating farmers to adopt CLI is the key. Many countries have implemented environmental regulations (ER) aiming to influence farmers' CLI adoption decisions.

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Introduction: Rapid identification of infected individuals through viral RNA or antigen detection followed by effective personal isolation is usually the most effective way to prevent the spread of a newly emerging virus. Large-scale detection involves mass specimen collection and transportation. For biosafety reasons, denaturing viral transport medium has been extensively used during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

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Article Synopsis
  • Cervical dystonia (CD) often causes significant neck pain, which negatively affects patients' quality of life, and its mechanisms are not fully understood.
  • A proof-of-concept study involving 44 CD patients tested vibro-tactile stimulation (VTS) on neck muscles to see if it could alleviate pain.
  • Results showed that a majority of participants experienced pain reduction during VTS, with many continuing to feel relieved for up to 20 minutes after treatment, suggesting VTS could be a promising new non-invasive treatment option for neck pain in CD patients, though further research is needed.
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Importance: Unexplained chronic cough is common and has substantial negative quality-of-life implications, yet its causes are not well understood. A better understanding of how peripheral and central neural processes contribute to chronic cough is essential for treatment design.

Objective: To determine if people with chronic cough exhibit signs of abnormal neural processing over laryngeal sensorimotor cortex during voluntary laryngeal motor activity such as vocalization.

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Background: Orthosiphon stamineus Benth is a dietary supplement and traditional Chinese herb with widespread clinical applications, but a comprehensive understanding of its active compounds and polypharmacological mechanisms is lacking. This study aimed to systematically investigate the natural compounds and molecular mechanisms of O. stamineus via network pharmacology.

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Developing analytical methods for the chemical components of natural medicines remains a challenge due to its diversity and complexity. Miao-Fu-Zhi-Tong (MFZT) granules, an ethnic Yi herbal prescription, comprises 10 herbs and has been clinically applied for gouty arthritis (GA) therapy. Herein, a series of chemical profiling strategies including in-house library matching, molecular networking and MS/MS fragmentation behavior validation based on ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) were developed for qualitative analysis of MFZT granules.

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Accurately assessing the impact of low-carbon urban construction on green economic development has great significance for achieving economic development with environmental protection, and for building an ecological civilization and a beautiful China. Based on panel data for 271 cities in China from 2004 to 2019, multi-period and spatial difference-in-difference econometric models were used to comprehensively investigate the impact of three batches of low-carbon city pilot policies on green economic development, finding the following: The contribution of low-carbon urban construction on urban green economic development is significant and positive, and still holds under a series of robustness tests. Parallel trend tests also show a lag in the policy effect, and the effect is strengthened over policy implementation time.

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Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a highly contagious disease in children caused by a group of enteroviruses. HFMD currently presents a major threat to infants and young children because of a lack of antiviral drugs in clinical practice. Drug repositioning is an attractive drug discovery strategy aimed at identifying and developing new drugs for diseases.

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Dysregulation of microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) is implicated in the development of gastric cancer (GC), which is possibly related to their roles in targeting tumor-suppressive or tumor-promoting genes. Herein, the current study was intended to ascertain the function of miR-488 and its modulatory mechanism in GC. Initially, human GC cells were assayed for their in vitro malignancy after miRNA gain- or loss-of-function and RNA interference or overexpression.

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Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) improve overall survival in patients with advanced gastric cancer (GC). However, the molecular characterization of GC in ICIs responders is unclear. A total of 288 advanced GC patients were included in this study.

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Finger position sense is a proprioceptive modality highly important for fine motor control. Its developmental time course is largely unknown. This cross-sectional study examined its typical development in 138 children (8-17 years) and a group of 14 healthy young adults using a fast and novel psychophysical test that yielded objective measures of position sense acuity.

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Although the spin Hall effect provides a pathway for efficient and fast current-induced manipulation of magnetization, application of spin-orbit torque magnetic random access memory with low power dissipation is still limited to spin Hall materials with low spin Hall angles or very high resistivities. This work reports a group of spin Hall materials, Pt (TiO ) nanocomposites, that combines a giant spin Hall effect with a low resistivity. The spin Hall angle of Pt (TiO ) in an yttrium iron garnet/Pt (TiO ) double-layer heterostructure is estimated from a combination of ferromagnetic resonance, spin pumping, and inverse spin Hall experiments.

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Tumor protein D52-like 2 or simply TPD52L2 belongs to the TPD52 family which has been implicated in a variety of human carcinomas. However, the TPD52L2 function in the gastric carcinoma oxaliplatin (OXA) resistance remains elusive. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the TPD52L2 effect in OXA-resistant gastric carcinoma cells .

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Autophagy has an important role in regulating tumor cell survival. However, the roles of autophagy-related genes (ARGs) during colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) progression and their prognostic value have remained elusive. The present study aimed to identify the correlation between ARGs and the progression of COAD, as well as the prognostic significance of ARGs.

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Circular RNA is a kind of RNA with a covalently closed loop, which has a complex ability to modulate genes in the process of tumorigenesis and metastasis. Nevertheless, how circular RNA functions in gastric cancer (GC) remains unclear. The effect of circHIPK3 was studied here.

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Gastric cancer (GC) remains one of the most frequent cancers worldwide. Previous studies have shown that E3 ubiquitin ligase E3C (UBE3C) promotes the progression of multiple types of cancer. However, little is known about the expression and molecular mechanism of UBE3C in GC.

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Background: What is the optimal neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) regimen for locally advanced gastric cancer (LAGC) remains debatable. The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of docetaxel+oxaliplatin+S-1 (DOS) vs oxaliplatin+S-1 (SOX) as NAC for LAGC.

Methods: Data of 248 LAGC patients who received either DOS or SOX as NAC in our hospital between January 2010 and January 2018 were reviewed retrospectively.

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Introduction: It is worldwide accepted that lncRNA PTCSC3 is a tumor suppressor in glioma and thyroid cancer, whereas its role in the recurrence of gastric cancer is unknown.

Patients And Methods: We recruited 80 GC patients (46 males and 34 females, 44 to 68 years, 56.3±6.

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