Publications by authors named "Long Yuan"

Mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) is a rare type of acute leukemia (AL), MPAL with BCR::ABL1 fusion is the main subtype of MPAL, mainly affecting adult males. It is an acute leukemia with unique clinical and biological characteristics that involve both the myeloid and lymphatic systems. Gene fusion plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, prognosis assessment, and treatment of leukemia.

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Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is an aggressive cutaneous malignancy with a poor prognosis. One of the major mechanisms of immune evasion in MCC involves downregulation of major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I). Anti-PD-1/programmed death ligand 1 checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized treatment for MCC, producing objective responses in approximately 50% of patients, and are now the standard of care; however, a substantial proportion of patients either fail to respond or develop resistance to checkpoint inhibitors.

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Small interfering RNA (siRNA) is a novel class of double-stranded oligonucleotide therapeutics rapidly growing in drug research and development. Accurate, sensitive, and reliable quantification of siRNA analytes in biological samples is required to study their pharmacokinetics, toxicokinetics, and biodistribution. Hybridization LC-MS/MS can achieve highly sensitive and specific bioanalysis of single-stranded oligonucleotides, e.

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  • Rice body formation is a rare inflammatory response often associated with conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and is typically diagnosed using MRI.
  • A unique case involved a 44-year-old woman with bursitis in her hip joint, who also had hip dysplasia and a pelvic fracture, leading to successful surgical intervention.
  • This case is noteworthy because rice body bursitis in the hip joint is uncommon, and there are no previous reports of such a case alongside hip dysplasia and pelvic fracture.
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  • Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) is a new way to treat cancer by using special immune cells called T cells.
  • The success of ACT relies on how healthy and 'young' these T cells are, making them more powerful against cancer.
  • Researchers created a simple method to grow these strong T cells from blood samples, which keeps them in a better state for attacking cancer cells.
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The significant volume of existing buildings and ongoing annual construction of infrastructure underscore the vast potential for integrating large-scale energy-storage solutions into these structures. Herein, we propose an innovative approach for developing structural and scalable energy-storage systems by integrating safe and cost-effective zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitors into cement mortar, which is the predominant material used for structural purposes. By performing air entrainment and leveraging the adverse reaction of the ZnSO electrolyte, we can engineer an aerated cement mortar with a multiscale pore structure that exhibits dual functionality: effective ion conductivity in the form of a cell separator and a robust load-bearing capacity that contributes to structural integrity.

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a common chronic disease with a complex etiology, characterized by body weight loss, intestinal barrier damage, and an imbalance of intestinal flora, posing a significant threat to people's health. In this work, we studied whether safer natural active agaro-oligosaccharides (AOSs) benefit mice with IBD and elucidated their underlying mechanisms. The findings indicated that oral administration of agarobiose (A2), agarotriose (A3), and agarotetraose (A4) contributed to alleviating body weight loss and colon shortening, as well as enhancing IL-10 levels while reducing IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α.

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Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) have emerged as the research hotspot due to their compelling merits, including high specific capacity (1675 mAh g1), theoretical energy density (2600 Wh kg1), environmental friendliness, and economic advantages. However, challenges still exist for further application due to their inherent issues such as the natural insulation, shuttle effect, and volume expansion of sulfur cathode during the continuous cycle processes. These factors obstruct the lithium ions (Li) transfer process and sulfur utilization, resulting in significant impedance and inducing inferior battery performance.

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Integrating hemoglobin, albumin, lymphocyte, and platelets (HALP) scores can simultaneously reflect systemic inflammation and nutritional status. Some evidence suggests its prognostic value in certain malignancies, however, the impact of HALP on individuals with osteoarthritis (OA) who are middle-aged and older remains unknown. This retrospective cohort study included 3566 individuals from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2018.

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Nanoparticles (NPs) can be designed for targeted delivery in cancer nanomedicine, but the challenge is a low delivery efficiency (DE) to the tumor site. Understanding the impact of NPs' physicochemical properties on target tissue distribution and tumor DE can help improve the design of nanomedicines. Multiple machine learning and artificial intelligence models, including linear regression, support vector machine, random forest, gradient boosting, and deep neural networks (DNN), were trained and validated to predict tissue distribution and tumor delivery based on NPs' physicochemical properties and tumor therapeutic strategies with the dataset from Nano-Tumor Database.

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  • The conventional agar extraction method is inefficient, resulting in high energy use, low yield, and potential harmful residues, limiting its use in advanced fields like biomedicine.
  • A new technique combining freezing, thawing, and high-temperature extraction improved agar yield by 10.6% and strength by 13.7% compared to traditional methods.
  • This innovative method reduces sulfate content and enhances the structural quality of agar, which improves its properties like water retention and thermal stability, paving the way for eco-friendly extraction and broader applications.
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Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) have been conjugated to various moieties, such as peptides, antibodies or Fab regions of antibodies, to enhance their delivery to target tissues. The quantitation of free ASO (ASO payload) is critical to characterize its pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) properties and biodistribution after delivery of the peptide/antibody/Fab ASO conjugates. We developed a hybridization-based LC-MS/MS methodology for quantification of free ASO in tissues in the presence of Fab-ASO and ASO with linker (ASO-linker).

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  • The 17th Workshop on Recent Issues in Bioanalysis (17 WRIB) occurred in Orlando from June 19-23, 2023, gathering over 1000 professionals from pharma, biotech, and regulatory agencies to discuss current bioanalysis topics.
  • The event featured 3 Main Workshops and 7 Specialized Workshops covering key issues like biomarkers, immunogenicity, and evolving regulations including the EU IVDR and US FDA remote assessments.
  • The outcomes of the workshop led to a comprehensive White Paper offering recommendations for improving bioanalytical practices and regulatory compliance, divided into three parts focusing on different aspects of bioanalysis.
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Background: Previous studies have shown that the addition of platinum to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) improved outcomes for patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). However, no studies have assessed the efficacy and safety of the combination of taxane and lobaplatin. In this study, we conducted a randomized controlled phase II clinical study to compare the efficacy and safety of taxane combined with lobaplatin or anthracycline.

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Background: Although the use of anti-PD-1 antibodies has fundamentally changed traditional cancer treatment, most patients are resistant to anti-PD-1 treatment. Glucocorticoids (GCs) play an important role in tumorigenesis and tumor progression, but the role of endogenous GCs in resistance to anti-PD-1 antibody therapy remains unclear.

Methods: Single cell-derived cell lines (SCDCLs) were generated from a colorectal cancer cell line (CT26) using limiting dilution.

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Due to the lack of treatment options, there remains a need to advance new therapeutics in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The traditional approach moves from initial molecular discovery through animal models to human trials to advance novel systemic therapies that improve treatment outcomes for patients with cancer. Computational methods that simulate tumors mathematically to describe cellular and molecular interactions are emerging as promising tools to simulate the impact of therapy entirely in silico, potentially greatly accelerating delivery of new therapeutics to patients.

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Purpose: Clinical application of immunotherapy represented by Programmed Death-1 (PD-1) monoclonal antibody has changed the treatment paradigm for colorectal cancer (CRC), and tumor-infiltrating T lymphocytes are critical for anti-PD-1 therapy in CRC. However, there are few studies on the relationship between the expression CXCR3 on T lymphocytes and the clinical aspects of CRC. In this study, we analyzed the expression levels of CXCR3 and PD-1 in CD8 and CD4 T lymphocytes in healthy donors (HDs) and patients with CRC.

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Objective: To assess the prognostic value of pre- and post-therapeutic changes in extracellular volume (ECV) fraction of liver metastases (LMs) for treatment response (TR) and survival outcomes in colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRLM).

Methods: 186 LMs were confirmed by pathology or follow-up (Training: 130; Test: 56). We analyzed the changes in ECV fraction of LMs before and after 2 cycles of chemotherapy combined with bevacizumab.

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Objective: We aimed to explore the correlation between routine computed tomography (CT) imaging features and programmed cell death ligand-1(PD-L1) expression status in gastric cancer and evaluate the predictive value of imaging parameters for this immunotherapy biomarker.

Materials And Methods: Patients with gastric adenocarcinoma who underwent abdominal CT three-stage enhanced scan and PD-L1 immunohistochemical testing before treatment were retrospectively examined. All diagnoses were confirmed through pathology.

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Background: Our previous work indicated that the addition of lobaplatin to combined therapy with taxane and anthracycline can improve the pathological complete response rate of neoadjuvant therapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and lengthen long-term survival significantly, but the therapeutic markers of this regimen are unclear.

Methods: Eighty-three patients who met the inclusion criteria were included in this post hoc analysis. We analyzed the association between platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) before neoadjuvant chemotherapy with the efficacy and prognosis after treatment with docetaxel, epirubicin, and lobaplatin neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimen.

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Inorganic thermochromic materials exhibit a tunable color gamut and a wide chromatic temperature range, indicating their potential for intelligent adaptive applications in thermal warning, temperature indication, thermal regulation, and interactive light-to-thermal energy conversion. However, most metal-oxide-based thermochromic materials show weak chromaticity adaption with the change of temperature, which needs further understanding of the microscopic principle to clarify the potential route to improve the contrast and identifiability for fabricating better thermochromic materials. Using perovskite-structure (AMO) alkaline earth metal stannate (BaSrSnO, 0.

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Controlled charge flows are fundamental to many areas of science and technology, serving as carriers of energy and information, as probes of material properties and dynamics and as a means of revealing or even inducing broken symmetries. Emerging methods for light-based current control offer particularly promising routes beyond the speed and adaptability limitations of conventional voltage-driven systems. However, optical generation and manipulation of currents at nanometre spatial scales remains a basic challenge and a crucial step towards scalable optoelectronic systems for microelectronics and information science.

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Development of high-performance metal sulfides anode materials is a great challenge for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). In this work, a cobalt-based imidazolate framework (ZIF-67) were firstly synthesized and applied as precursor. After the successive surface etching, ion exchange and sulfidation processes, the final cobalt-vanadium sulfide yolk-shell nanocages were obtained (CoS/VS@NC) with VS shell and CoS yolk encapsulated into nitrogen doped carbon frameworks.

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In the livestock production system, the evolution of porcine gut microecology is consistent with the idea of "The Hygiene Hypothesis" in humans. I.e.

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