Publications by authors named "Lujia Zhao"
High-Performance Telescope System Design for Space-Based Gravitational Waves Detection.
Sensors (Basel)
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detection utilizes the Michelson interferometry principle to create long baseline laser interferometers capable of sensing signals within a frequency range of 10-1 Hz.
- The paper introduces an advanced design using an off-axis four-mirror configuration that minimizes wavefront aberration and enhances stray light suppression, addressing background noise issues.
- This improved design achieves a wavefront error of less than λ/500 in the main field of view and can reach an error of less than λ/30 with a 92% probability, making it a strong candidate for future GW detection projects.
Article Synopsis
- Peptide transporter 1 (PepT1) is involved in transporting bacterial peptides that can inflame the gut, and nutritional peptides can compete with these harmful products.
- A study used rats to see how short-peptide-based enteral nutrition (SPEN) influenced gut damage from a bacterial peptide (MDP), showing that MDP leads to inflammation and mitochondrial damage in both gut and lung tissues.
- Findings reveal that SPEN can counteract the damaging effects of MDP, highlighting the role of the PepT1-NOD2-beclin-1 signaling pathway in promoting gut health and preventing inflammation.
Introduction: Intestinal flora and the translocation of its products, such as muramyl dipeptide (MDP), are common causes of sepsis. MDP is a common activator of the intracellular pattern recognition receptor NOD2, and MDP translocation can cause inflammatory damage to the small intestine and systemic inflammatory responses in rats. Therefore, this study investigated the effects of MDP on the intestinal mucosa and distant organs during sepsis and the role of the NOD2/AMPK/LC3 pathway in MDP-induced mitochondrial dysfunction in the intestinal epithelium.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLarge ureteral fibroepithelial polyp lacking epithelium due to ischemic infarction.
Kaohsiung J Med Sci
August 2012
We describe a woman with flank pain and hydronephrosis. Computed tomography (CT) urography and maximum intensity projection (MIP) reformatted images clearly showed that a long finger-like intraluminal filling defects mass in the left middle ureter. The pathologic biopsy by ureteroscopy revealed that the lesion mainly consists of benign fibrinoid necrosis.
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