Publications by authors named "Jingjin Yang"

Objective: The aims of study was to analysis the current situation of talent team construction and development in the field of public health and identifying existing problems and their causes is of great practical significance for promoting the development of public health in Taizhou City, Zhejiang province (China).

Methods: Through the literature search, visit investigation and qualitative interview, the overall situation of the public health talents in Taizhou was analyzed, the problems existing in the development process of the public health talents at all levels at the grassroots level were investigated, the relevant influencing factors were discussed, and targeted optimization plans were put forward.

Results: The study revealed several problems, including the small number of grassroots public health personnel, low educational background, and diverse majors.

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Objective: To understand the contents of aflatoxins(AFs) in foods sold in Shanghai, and to assess the exposure assessment of and its potential health risk among residents over 15 years old in Shanghai.

Methods: A total of 8114 samples from 8 categories of food were collected in Shanghai from 2018 to 2023. The samples were detected by GB 5009.

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Introduction: Outcome-based education (OBE) leads to revolutionary change in medical education, but each medical school is acknowledged to develop suited framework based on specific positioning, educational philosophy and expected outcomes.

Methods: Based on the graduate outcomes of basic medical education in China released by Working Committee for the Accreditation of Medical Education (WCAME) which officially recognized by World Federation for Medical Education (WFME), Taizhou University re-documented the overall organization of the curriculum and classified the courses as "Crucial, Supporting and Associated (CSA)" categories to connect the graduate outcomes and course objectives.

Results: We redefined the standard for graduates in Taizhou University Medical School including 34 items in four domains and redesigned the curriculum with 76 courses classified as CSA.

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Background: Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is the impairment of the biological growth potential of the fetus and often leads to adverse pregnancy outcomes. The molecular mechanisms for the development of FGR, however, are still unclear. The purpose of this study is to identify critical genes associated with FGR through an integrated bioinformatics approach and explore the potential pathogenesis of FGR.

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Background: Osteoporosis (OP) associated with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is common in older men and postmenopausal women, and it is important to find reliable and effective treatments for this disease to improve joint function and bone metabolism in this population.

Objective: To clarify the clinical efficacy of glucosamine (GlcN) plus sodium hyaluronate (SH) for OP complicated by KOA (OP + KOA) and its influence on joint function and bone metabolic markers (BMMs).

Methods: Admitted from July 2019 to July 2021, 126 patients with OP + KOA were selected, including 76 cases (observation group) treated with GlcN plus SH and 50 cases (control group) given GlcN alone.

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Osteoporosis is a prevalent degenerative disease that is characterized by decreased bone density and strength, resulting in gradually increasing bone fragility. Osteoporosis is caused by an imbalance between osteoblastic bone formation and osteoclastic bone resorption. Recently, increasing evidence has suggested that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) participate in the occurrence and development of osteoporosis.

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Germline mosaicism should be suspected when the same de novo mutations are identified in a second pregnancy with asymptomatic parents. Our study aims to find a feasible approach to reveal the existence of germline mosaicism. Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification was performed on a Duchenne muscular dystrophy affected pedigree to detect deletion mutations.

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A diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is one of the most devastating complications of diabetes. It has been reported that lncRNA GAS5 plays a vital role in wound healing in DFUs. However, the specific mechanism remains unclear.

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BACKGROUND Circular RNAs (circRNAs), a class of noncoding RNAs, may act as biomarkers and therapeutic targets of various cancers. However, the effects of hsa_circ_0004458 in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) are still very much unclear. We aimed to demonstrate the potential roles of hsa_circ_0004458 in the progression of PTC.

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The lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-responsive beige-like anchor protein (LRBA) is a member of the WDL-BEACH-WD (WBW) gene family. Defects in this gene are associated with the disordered autoimmunity in various diseases, including pulmonary fibrosis. In this study, we investigated the association between the functional polymorphisms in and risk of coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) in a Chinese population.

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Silicosis is a kind of chronic, progressive and incurable lung fibrotic diseases with largely unknown and complex pathogenesis and molecular mechanisms. Mounting evidence suggests that microRNAs (miRNAs, miRs) are involved in the pathogenesis of silicosis. Our previous study based on miRNA microarray had shown that the expression levels of miR-503 were down-regulated in mouse lung tissues of silica-induced pulmonary fibrosis.

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Autophagy is an evolutionary conserved intracellular degradation/recycling system that is essential for cellular homeostasis. Dysregulation of this process leads to a number of disorders, including pulmonary fibrosis. However, the genetic association between singe nucleotide polymorphisms of autophagy related genes (ATGs) and the risk of coal workers' pneumoconiosis has not been reported yet.

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To investigate the mortality probability, life expectancy of coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), and related factors of life expectancy, a total of 495 patients with CWP were diagnosed and reported from 1963 to 2014 in a state-owned mine in the east of China. The life table method, log rank method, and Cox regression model were used for survival analysis. 95 out of 495 CWP died during this period.

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Background: Pneumoconiosis is a serious occupational disease worldwide, which is characterized by irreversible and diffuse lung fibrotic lesions. Laminin beta 1(LAMB1) is widely expressed in tissues and it is crucial for both lung morphogenesis and physiological function. In this study, we explored the association between LAMB1 rs4320486 and risk of pneumoconiosis in a Chinese population, as well as its mechanisms.

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Megavilli and Landolt's clubs were reported in the interreceptor matrix of the retina of the goldfish and neonatal rat for the first time. Megavilli encroach onto the inner or outer segments of photoreceptors and were different from microvilli. Landolt's clubs were not present in the adult rat but only in the adult goldfish.

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This review examines brain sites involved in sexual stimulation. New data on brain activation sites in individuals having erections concomitant with visual erotic stimulation were documented. The activation was chiefly at the midbrain around the cerebral peduncle, and in the pons centering on the tegmentum, they are indicated by blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) images captured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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This study reported the complete nucleotide sequence of the TN90 chloroplast (cp) genome. The cpDNA was 155 992 bp in length and contained 133 individual genes (79 protein encoding genes, 30 tRNA genes and four rRNA genes). Maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogenetic tree for 17 species with , and as an outgroup resulted in a single tree with - lnL =542 222.

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Silicosis is an occupational pulmonary fibrosis caused by inhalation of silica (SiO) and there are no ideal drugs to treat this disease. Earthworm extract (EE), a natural nutrient, has been reported to have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-apoptosis effects. The purpose of the current study was to test the protective effects of EE against SiO-induced pulmonary fibrosis and to explore the underlying mechanisms using both in vivo and in vitro models.

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Unlabelled: Silicosis is a fatal pulmonary fibrotic disorder characterized by accumulation of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts and deposition of extracellular matrix proteins. MiR-449a is a potential mediator of many cellular processes, including cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. We hypothesized that miR-449a may play a crucial role in the progression of pulmonary fibrogenesis.

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The H19 is a kind of long noncoding RNA, which has been implicated in multiple biological functions. However, the associations between genetic variants in H19 and susceptibility of coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) have been seldom reported. In the present study, three potential polymorphisms (rs2067051, rs217727, and rs2839702) in H19 were genotyped in a case-control study including 703 CWP cases and 705 controls.

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Silicosis is an incurable occupational disease associated with inflammation, fibroblast proliferation and the accumulation of extracellular matrix in lung tissues. The dysregulation of lncRNAs and miRNAs has been implicated in many complex diseases; however, the current understanding of their roles in fibrotic lung diseases, especially silicosis, remains limited. Our previous microRNA (miRNA, miR) microarray data have indicated decreased expression levels of miR-489 in lung tissues of silica-induced pulmonary fibrosis.

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Objective: To explore whether the tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within EPHX1 gene were involved in the genetic susceptibility to coal worker's pneumoconiosis (CWP) by case-control study.

Methods: This study consisted of 697 CWP patients and 694 controls. All the subjects were Han Chinese, underground coal miners and recruited from coal mines of Xuzhou Mining Business Group Co Ltd.

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Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) has been associated with abnormalities in the extracellular matrix remodeling, as well as aberrant matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in lung tissues. We investigated the association of three functional polymorphisms in MMP gene promoters (MMP1 rs1799750, MMP2 rs2285053 and MMP3 rs522616) with the risk of CWP. A total of 693 CWP cases and 690 controls were included in a case-control study.

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To identify microRNAs (miRNAs, miRs) with potential roles in lung fibrogenesis, we performed genome-wide profiling of miRNA expression in lung tissues from a silica-induced mouse model of pulmonary fibrosis using microarrays. Seventeen miRNAs were selected for validation via qRT-PCR based on the fold changes between the silica and the control group. The dysregulation of five miRNAs, including miR-21, miR-455, miR-151-3p, miR-486-5p and miR-3107, were confirmed by qRT-PCRs in silica-induced mouse model of pulmonary fibrosis and were also confirmed in a bleomycin (BLM)-induced mouse lung fibrosis.

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