Publications by authors named "Mingtao Yang"

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  • SCN1A channelopathy is a main cause of a serious brain condition called epileptic encephalopathy, which leads to different levels of symptoms in patients.
  • In a study in Taiwan, researchers looked at 16 patients with changes in the SCN1A gene to understand their symptoms, treatment response, and outcomes.
  • The results showed that many patients had learning and behavior problems, especially those with a severe type called Dravet syndrome, and some medications worked better for them than others.
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Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have difficulties in social interactions. Studying brain activity during social interactions is difficult with conventional artificial stimuli. This pioneering study examined the neural correlates of social perception in children with ADHD and matched controls using naturalistic stimuli.

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This study aimed to develop a satisfactory essential oil (EO) nano-emulsion through high pressure microjet technology and explore its physiochemical properties and synergistic coating effects on grass carp fillets. The optimal conditions for oregano/litsea cubeba (6:4, wt%/wt%) nano-emulsion were shown to be 80 s high pressure microjet pretreatment time, 9000 lb per square inch pretreatment pressure, 6 % oil phase, and 3:2 Km (mass ratio of surfactant to co-surfactant). The obtained nano-emulsion exhibited 100.

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The discovery of non-precious catalysts for replacing the precious metal of ruthenium in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) represents a key step in reducing the cost of green hydrogen production. The 2D d-MHOFs, a new 2D materials with controllable oxygen vacancies formed by controlling the degree of coordination bridging between metal hydroxyl oxide and BDC ligands are synthesized at room temperature, exhibit excellent OER properties with low overpotentials of 207  mV at 10 mA cm. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy images and density functional theory calculations demonstrate that the introduction of oxygen vacancy sites leads to a lattice distortion and charge redistribution in the catalysts, enhancing the OER activity of 2D d-MHOFs comprehensively.

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  • The study aimed to establish the best MRI classification for assessing adenomyosis severity and to identify factors linked to symptoms like dysmenorrhea (painful periods) and menorrhagia (heavy periods).
  • Researchers analyzed patient data before focused ultrasound surgery and found that the Kobayashi H classification (classification 4) was the most effective for evaluating disease severity and its associated symptoms.
  • Results showed that age and external phenotypes significantly influenced the presence of dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia, indicating that certain classifications could help in diagnosing and treating patients better.
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Dravet syndrome (DS), also known as severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy, is a rare and drug-resistant form of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies, which is both debilitating and challenging to manage, typically arising during the first year of life, with seizures often triggered by fever, infections, or vaccinations. It is characterized by frequent and prolonged seizures, developmental delays, and various other neurological and behavioral impairments. Most cases result from pathogenic mutations in the sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 1 () gene, which encodes a critical voltage-gated sodium channel subunit involved in neuronal excitability.

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Background: Hydrocephalus is a brain abnormality frequently encountered in neonates. There are several known etiologies of hydrocephalus, which can be classified as either congenital or acquired. Occlusion of the foramen of Monro (FOM) is a cause of hydrocephalus and can be either congenital or secondary to various disorders.

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Background: A referenced MRI-based classification associated with focused ultrasound ablation surgery (FUAS) outcomes is lacking in adenomyosis.

Purpose: To identify an MRI-based classification system for informing the FUAS outcomes.

Study Type: Retrospective.

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Objective: To explore the association between CA125 and dysmenorrhea in adenomyosis, and the factors affecting CA125 in adenomyosis.

Methods: Patients were grouped a the presence of dysmenorrhea. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was applied to assess the utility of CA125 for dysmenorrhea.

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Quercetin, a flavonoid that is present in vegetables and fruits, has been found to have anti-inflammatory effects. However, the mechanism by which it inhibits colitis is uncertain. This study aimed to explore the effect and pharmacological mechanism of quercetin on dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced ulcerative colitis (UC).

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Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that presents as recurrent, unprovoked seizures. Pharmacotherapy is the main treatment for epilepsy, but at least 30% of patients with epilepsy have pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Therefore, non-pharmacological treatments are still required.

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Objective: To compare the return to work (RTW) time between single-port laparoscopic surgery (SPLS) and multiport laparoscopic surgery (MPLS) for benign ovarian tumors.

Methods: A cross-sectional cohort study was conducted, which consisted of 335 women of reproductive age with benign ovarian tumors and who were keen on returning to work as early as possible. Surgical outcomes, postoperative pain score, postoperative satisfaction with the cosmesis score (CS), and the RTW time of the SPLS group were compared with those of the MPLS group.

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Objective: To investigate the relationship between sleep problems and development in preschool children with suspected developmental delay.

Methods: A total of 192 preschool children (mean age 4 years; 131 males, 61 females) were recruited from the Child Development Clinic, including 98 preterm children and 94 age- and sex-matched full-term children. All participants underwent evaluation of gross motor, fine motor and speech performance.

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Objectives: To investigate the relationship between preoperative CA125 and symptom recurrence in adenomyosis after ultrasound-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation surgery (FUAS).

Methods: A total of 502 adenomyosis patients after FUAS in Affiliated Nanchong Central Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College from June 2017 to March 2021 were reviewed. Factors associated with symptom recurrence of adenomyosis were analyzed by binary logistic regression model.

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Recognizing why an infant cries is challenging as babies cannot communicate verbally with others to express their wishes or needs. This leads to difficulties for parents in identifying the needs and the health of their infants. This study used deep learning (DL) algorithms such as the convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) to recognize infants' necessities such as hunger/thirst, need for a diaper change, emotional needs (e.

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Growing levels of mercury pollution has made countries urgently need a suitable mercury treatment technology. Among various technologies, heterogeneous oxidative mercury removal via different modified V/Ti-based SCR catalysts is considered as a promising approach due to excellent economic value and removal efficiency. Although various related modification experiments have been worked in recent years, the research on the performance, including activity and resistance, and mechanism of catalysts still needs to be improved, so it is necessary to summarize these experiments to guide further work.

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This study was to analyze the relationships between lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) alone or combined with serum CA125 (COLC) and advanced stage of ovarian cancer (OC). The receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves of LMR, CA125, and COLC staging OC were constructed by a retrospective study. Furthermore, a binary logistic regression model was used to assay the independent risk factors for OC staging.

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Collagen Type I derived from fish is mainly limited by its poor physicochemical properties for further applications. In this study, we developed epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) cross-linked collagen hydrogels (EC hydrogels) to realize physicochemical improvements, basing on the interaction mechanism between collagen and EGCG. The integrity of collagen framework with slight secondary structure change in the presence of EGCG was confirmed.

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Individuals with Rett syndrome (RTT) commonly demonstrate Parkinsonian features and dystonia at teen age; however, the pathological reason remains unclear. Abnormal iron accumulation in deep gray matter were reported in some Parkinsonian-related disorders. In this study, we investigated the iron accumulation in deep gray matter of RTT and its correlation with dystonia severity.

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Neurocritical monitoring is important in caring for patients in the neurological intensive care unit. Although clinical neurologic examination is standard for neurocritical monitoring, changes found during the examination are often late signs and insufficient to detect and prevent secondary brain injury. Therefore, various neuromonitoring tools have been developed to monitor different physiologic parameters, such as cerebral oxygenation, cerebral blood flow, cerebral pressure, cerebral autoregulation, cerebral electric activity, and cerebral metabolism.

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This work aimed to improve yield of collagen from the grass carp skin by employing different strategies (acid-acid method, pepsin-pepsin method and acid-pepsin method, denoted as A-A, P-P, A-P, respectively). And further to conduct quantitative characterization on structural properties, self-assembly kinetics and gelation properties of these collagens. Herein, a two-step collagen extraction method (pepsin-pepsin) was established with the high yield.

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We previously reported that SSB, a highly conserved single-stranded DNA-binding protein from spp., was secreted through the type III secretion system (T3SS) and functioned as a harpin-like protein to elicit the hypersensitive response (HR) in the non-host plant, tobacco. In this study, we cloned gene from pv.

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