Publications by authors named "Kairong Xiong"

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  • Microplastics and triclosan (TCS) are common pollutants in water that can harm aquatic life, but there’s limited research on their combined effects.
  • A study on Xenopus tropicalis tadpoles found that aged polyethylene microplastics (aPE-MPs) enhance the accumulation and toxicity of TCS, leading to greater oxidative stress and neurotoxicity than either substance alone.
  • The experiment showed that the interaction between TCS and specific proteins increases harmful effects, highlighting the dangers of dual exposure to aged microplastics and contaminants.
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Immunotherapy showed remarkable efficacy in several cancer types. However, the majority of patients do not benefit from immunotherapy. Evaluating tumor heterogeneity and immune status before treatment is key to identifying patients that are more likely to respond to immunotherapy.

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Selenium (Se) is an ideal doping agent to modulate the structure of carbon materials to improve their sodium storage performance but has been rarely investigated. In the present study, a novel Se-doped honeycomb-like macroporous carbon (Se-HMC) is prepared by a surface crosslinking method using diphenyl diselenide as the carbon source and SiO nanospheres as the template. Se-HMC has a high Se weight percentage above 10%, with a large surface area of 557 m g.

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Zn powder (Zn-P)-based anodes are considered ideal candidates for Zn-based batteries because they enable a positive synergistic integration of safety and energy density. However, Zn-P-based anodes still experience easy corrosion, uncontrolled dendrite growth, and poor mechanical strength, which restrict their further application. Herein, a mixed ionic-electronic conducting scaffold is introduced into Zn-P to successfully fabricate anti-corrosive, flexible, and dendrite-free Zn anodes using a scalable tape-casting strategy.

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Background: For the reason that many studies have been inconclusive on the effect of humidity on respiratory disease, we examined the association between absolute humidity and respiratory disease mortality and quantified the mortality burden due to non-optimal absolute humidity in Guangzhou, China.

Methods: Daily respiratory disease mortality including total 42,440 deaths from 1 February 2013 to 31 December 2018 and meteorological data of the same period in Guangzhou City were collected. The distributed lag non-linear model was used to determine the optimal absolute humidity of death and discuss their non-linear lagged effects.

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Background: this paper is based upon work from COST Action ICSHNet. Industrially contaminated sites (ICSs) are a serious problem worldwide and there is growing concern about their impacts on the environment and public health. Health risk assessment methods are used to characterize and quantify the health impacts on nearby populations and to guide public health interventions.

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Functional nanonetwork-structured polymers and carbons with silver nanoparticle yolks (∼20 nm) were successfully fabricated via hypercrosslinking chemistry. Benefiting from the hierarchical porous nanonetwork structure and high surface areas (up to 566 m g), the as-prepared nanocomposites demonstrated superior long-term antibacterial performances (e.g.

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In order to use the technique of Randomized Terminal Linker-dependent PCR(RDPCR) to detect DNA lesions of specific gene in vivo, rats were administered with potassium dichromate by i.p. injection and genomic DNA of lung were extracted.

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