Publications by authors named "K-F Wu"

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  • Acetochlor (ACT) is a persistent contaminant in soil that harms microbial communities and sensitive crops, prompting this study to explore phosphate-modified biochar (PBC-800) as a remediation solution.
  • The addition of 0.5% PBC-800 significantly improved the soil's ability to adsorb ACT and accelerated its degradation, reducing residual levels by up to 76.4% within 60 days.
  • PBC-800 not only enhanced microbial diversity and stability but also improved the health of maize and soybean plants by decreasing ACT residues and restoring plant growth indicators like biomass and leaf chlorophyll content.
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  • The KrCl* excimer lamp (UV222) is a mercury-free alternative to low-pressure mercury lamps (UV254) for UV-based advanced oxidation processes, offering higher photon energy and better performance.
  • A comprehensive study was conducted on various oxidants like hydrogen peroxide and persulfate, revealing that UV222 significantly enhances oxidant activation, with increased efficacy for degrading micropollutants compared to UV254.
  • PDS proved to be the most effective oxidant under UV222, achieving much higher rates of micropollutant elimination and requiring less energy, despite some interference from other water constituents.
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  • The BAD-study was a comprehensive analysis of branch atheromatous disease (BAD)-related strokes in 476 patients across 20 hospitals in China, focusing on demographic, clinical, and therapeutic aspects.
  • The study found that the majority of participants were middle-aged and male, with a higher occurrence of strokes linked to the lenticulostriate artery; 86.5% of patients had good outcomes by 90 days, despite 14.7% experiencing early neurological deterioration.
  • Key predictors of poor outcomes included higher stroke severity at admission and early deterioration, while extracranial artery stenosis was associated with better outcomes.
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Utilizing infrared spectroscopy coupled with batch equilibrium methods, the adsorption and desorption characteristics of the novel Insecticide fluchlordiniliprole were assessed in four different soil types. It was found that fluchlordiniliprole's adsorption and desorption in these soils were consistent with the Freundlich isotherm, exhibiting adsorption capacities (K) ranging from 8.436 to 36.

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Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are complex and heterogeneous compounds closely associated with various chronic diseases. The changes in N-carboxymethyllysine (CML), N-carboxyethyllysine (CEL), N-(5-hydro-5-methyl-4-imidazolon-2-yl)-ornithine (MG-H1), and fluorescent AGEs (F-AGEs) in fried shrimp during frying (170 °C, 0-210 s) were described by kinetic models. Besides,the correlations between AGEs contents and physicochemical indicators were analyzed to reveal their intrinsic relationship.

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The normal liver has an extraordinary capacity of regeneration. However, this capacity is significantly impaired in steatotic livers. Emerging evidence indicates that metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and liver regeneration share several key mechanisms.

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Benzovindiflupyr is a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor fungicide that targets mitochondrial function for disease control. In this study, we investigated the adsorption-desorption and leaching behavior of benzovindiflupyr in eight soil types using the batch equilibrium method and the soil column leaching method. A Freundlich model (r > 0.

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Hypertension remains a leading cause of cardiovascular and kidney diseases. Failure to control blood pressure with ≥ 3 medications or control requiring ≥ 4 medications is classified as resistant hypertension (rHTN) and new therapies are needed to reduce the resulting increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Here, we report genetic evidence that relaxin family peptide receptor 2 (RXFP2) is associated with rHTN in men, but not in women.

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We present cross sections for the reaction e^{+}e^{-}→K_{S}^{0}K_{L}^{0} at center-of-mass energies ranging from 3.51 to 4.95 GeV using data samples collected in the BESIII experiment, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 26.

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Returning carbon materials from biomass to soil is a potential technology to retard organic contaminants or dissolved organic matter (DOM) in soil by adsorption, as well as to store carbon in soil for carbon sequestration. However, DOM was widely reported to inhibit adsorption of organic contaminants on carbon materials by competition and by enhancing contaminants' solubility. In this study, a KOH activated carbon material (KAC), pyrolyzed from bamboo chips, with high surface area (3108 m/g), micropores volumes (0.

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G-quadruplex (G4) selective stabilizing ligands can regulate c- gene expression, but the kinetic basis remains unclear. Determining the effects of ligands on c- promoter G4s' folding/unfolding kinetics is challenging due to the polymorphic nature of G4s and the high energy barrier to unfold c- promoter G4s. Here, we used single-molecule magnetic tweezers to manipulate a duplex hairpin containing a c- promoter sequence to mimic the transiently denatured duplex during transcription.

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  • Noncoding DNA helps scientists understand how genes work and how they relate to diseases in humans.
  • Researchers studied the DNA of many primates to find specific regulatory parts that are important for gene regulation.
  • They discovered a lot of these regulatory elements in humans that are different from those in other mammals, which can help explain human traits and health issues.
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Background: The adult mammalian heart is incapable of regeneration, whereas a transient regenerative capacity is maintained in the neonatal heart, primarily through the proliferation of preexisting cardiomyocytes. Neonatal heart regeneration after myocardial injury is accompanied by an expansion of cardiac fibroblasts and compositional changes in the extracellular matrix. Whether and how these changes influence cardiomyocyte proliferation and heart regeneration remains to be investigated.

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Following viral infection, the human immune system generates CD8 T cell responses to virus antigens that differ in specificity, abundance, and phenotype. A characterization of virus-specific T cell responses allows one to assess infection history and to understand its contribution to protective immunity. Here, we perform in-depth profiling of CD8 T cells binding to CMV-, EBV-, influenza-, and SARS-CoV-2-derived antigens in peripheral blood samples from 114 healthy donors and 55 cancer patients using high-dimensional mass cytometry and single-cell RNA sequencing.

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In Alzheimer's disease (AD), sensome receptor dysfunction impairs microglial danger-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) clearance and exacerbates disease pathology. Although extrinsic signals, including interleukin-33 (IL-33), can restore microglial DAMP clearance, it remains largely unclear how the sensome receptor is regulated and interacts with DAMP during phagocytic clearance. Here, we show that IL-33 induces VCAM1 in microglia, which promotes microglial chemotaxis toward amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaque-associated ApoE, and leads to Aβ clearance.

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Context: Seriously ill patients are at higher risk for adverse surgical outcomes. Palliative care (PC) interventions for seriously ill surgical patients are associated with improved quality of patient care and patient-centered outcomes, yet, they are underutilized perioperatively.

Objectives: To identify strategies for improving perioperative PC integration for seriously ill Veterans from the perspectives of PC providers and surgeons.

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In this randomized phase 2 trial, blockade of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte protein 4 (CTLA-4) with continuation of programmed death protein 1 (PD-1) blockade in patients with metastatic melanoma who had received front-line anti-PD-1 or therapy against programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 and whose tumors progressed was tested in comparison with CTLA-4 blockade alone. Ninety-two eligible patients were randomly assigned in a 3:1 ratio to receive the combination of ipilimumab and nivolumab, or ipilimumab alone. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival.

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Background: Peripheral vascular disease remains a leading cause of vascular morbidity and mortality worldwide despite advances in medical and surgical therapy. Besides traditional approaches, which can only restore blood flow to native arteries, an alternative approach is to enhance the growth of new vessels, thereby facilitating the physiological response to ischemia.

Methods: The Actin/R26 Rainbow reporter mouse was used for unbiased in vivo survey of injury-responsive vasculogenic clonal formation.

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Omicron spike (S) encoding vaccines as boosters, are a potential strategy to improve COVID-19 vaccine efficacy against Omicron. Here, macaques (mostly females) previously immunized with Ad26.COV2.

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Pre-treatment (oxidation) may induce potential modifications to microplastics (MPs), further affecting their behaviors and removal efficiency in drinking water treatment plants. Herein, potassium ferrate(VI) oxidation was tested as a pre-treatment for MPs with four polymer types and three sizes each. Surface oxidation occurred with morphology destruction and oxidized bond generation, which were prosperous under low acid conditions (pH 3).

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Background: Whether pembrolizumab given both before surgery (neoadjuvant therapy) and after surgery (adjuvant therapy), as compared with pembrolizumab given as adjuvant therapy alone, would increase event-free survival among patients with resectable stage III or IV melanoma is unknown.

Methods: In a phase 2 trial, we randomly assigned patients with clinically detectable, measurable stage IIIB to IVC melanoma that was amenable to surgical resection to three doses of neoadjuvant pembrolizumab, surgery, and 15 doses of adjuvant pembrolizumab (neoadjuvant-adjuvant group) or to surgery followed by pembrolizumab (200 mg intravenously every 3 weeks for a total of 18 doses) for approximately 1 year or until disease recurred or unacceptable toxic effects developed (adjuvant-only group). The primary end point was event-free survival in the intention-to-treat population.

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Context: Palliative care (PC) interventions improve quality outcomes for surgical patients, yet they are underutilized in the perioperative period. Developing cross-disciplinary provider relationships increases PC consults. However, the attributes of collaborative relationships and how they evolve are unclear.

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Microplastic pollution has attracted mounting concerns worldwide. Microplastics may concentrate organic and metallic contaminants; thus, affecting their transport, fate and organismal exposure. To better understand organic contaminant-microplastic interactions, our study explored the sorption of selected polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), α-hexabromocyclododecane (α-HBCDD), and organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) on high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polyvinylchloride (PVC) microplastics under saline conditions.

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To define the multi-cellular epigenomic and transcriptional landscape of cardiac cellular development, we generated single-cell chromatin accessibility maps of human fetal heart tissues. We identified eight major differentiation trajectories involving primary cardiac cell types, each associated with dynamic transcription factor (TF) activity signatures. We contrasted regulatory landscapes of iPSC-derived cardiac cell types and their in vivo counterparts, which enabled optimization of in vitro differentiation of epicardial cells.

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  • Researchers are trying to find ways to detect stomach cancer early by studying proteins in urine.
  • They examined 255 people, with different stages of stomach issues, mainly in high-risk areas in China.
  • They found four specific proteins that can help predict how stomach problems might progress, and this could help catch stomach cancer sooner without needing invasive tests.
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