Publications by authors named "Na Duan"

The current narrative review was planned to elucidate the interplay between acupuncture, a cornerstone of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the modulation of cellular mechanisms via Forkhead box O transcription factors, focussing on autophagy and cellular senescence. Autophagy, essential for cellular health, and cellular senescence, associated with aging and age-related diseases, are both significantly influenced by Forkhead box O transcription factors among other regulatory factors and pathways. These factors, known to diminish with age, play a pivotal role in promoting longevity.

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Objective: To determine the role of Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in improving pregnancy and adhesion recurrence outcomes in women who underwent hysteroscopic treatment of intrauterine adhesions.

Data Sources: A total of 3 databases: Google scholar, PubMed, and clinicaltrials.gov were searched extensively from inception until April 5, 2023, without any language restrictions.

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  • Desert shrubs are essential for combating desertification and enhancing plant growth, but their development is often hindered by drought conditions.
  • This research examined 19 desert shrub species from northern China to understand the hydraulic traits of their roots, stems, and leaves, focusing on how these organs work together under water stress.
  • Key findings revealed a trade-off between water uptake efficiency and stem embolism resistance, hydraulic differences between stems and leaves, and strong desiccation resistance in leaves, which helps maximize carbon gain during limited growing periods.
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  • Previous studies indicate that air and light pollution can harm various body systems, including the eyes, but the specific impact on tear film function has not been well understood.
  • This study examined how different environmental exposures in operating rooms affect tear film function in medical staff, focusing on four surgical groups: Da Vinci, Laparoscopic, Traditional, and Ophthalmic microsurgery.
  • Results showed significant changes in tear film function due to elevated pollution levels during surgeries, with specific correlations found between particulate matter and eye redness in Traditional surgery, as well as between operation time and tear film break-up times in Ophthalmic microsurgery.*
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The data input process for most chest pain centers is not intelligent, requiring a lot of staff to manually input patient information. This leads to problems such as long processing times, high potential for errors, an inability to access patient data in a timely manner and an increasing workload. To address the challenge, an Internet of Things (IoT)-driven chest pain center is designed, which crosses the sensing layer, network layer and application layer.

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Post-stroke anxiety (PSA) is a kind of affective disorder occurring after a stroke, with anxiety as the primary clinical manifestation. PSA's mechanism is unclear, and there are few prevention and treatment measures. Our previous study found that HDAC3 could activate NF-κB signaling through mediated p65 deacetylation, which further influenced microglia activation.

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Affected by the pressure and constraints of available resources, plant growth and development, as well as plant life history strategies, usually vary with environmental conditions. Plant buds play a crucial role in the life history of woody plants. is a common dominant woody species in desertified areas of northern China and its growth is critical to the desert ecosystem.

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To identify genes that respond to increased nitrogen and assess the involvement of the chlorophyll metabolic pathway and associated regulatory mechanisms in these responses, seedlings were subjected to four nitrogen concentrations (N0, N6, N36, and N60: 0, 6, 36, and 60 mmol·L nitrogen, respectively). The seedling leaf transcriptome was analyzed by high-throughput sequencing (Illumina HiSeq 4000), and 332,420 transcripts and 276,423 unigenes were identified. The numbers of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were 4052 in N0 vs.

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Background: Heteroplexis Chang is an endangered genus endemic to China with important ecological and medicinal value. However, due to the lack of genetic data, our conservation strategies have repeatedly been delayed by controversial phylogenetic (molecular) relationships within the genera. In this study, we reported three new Heteroplexis chloroplast (cp.

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Increasing food output while reducing agricultural carbon emissions (ACE) is a major challenge to achieving green agriculture in China. Previously unexplored research regarding the relationship between agricultural production outsourcing services (APOS) and ACE is investigated using household microsurvey data in China and econometric methods, and the influencing mechanism is also tested empirically. The results reveal that APOS increases the total ACE and reduces ACE per unit area.

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Background And Purpose: Heavy alcohol drinking-induced alcoholic fatty liver, steatohepatitis, and early-stage alcoholic liver fibrosis may progress to advanced-stage alcoholic liver fibrosis (AALF)/cirrhosis. The lack of non-invasive imaging techniques for the diagnosising collagenogenesis in activated hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) can lead to incurable liver fibrosis at the early reversible stage. Proline has been known as the most abundant amino acid of collagen type 1 synthesized by activated HSC with the transportation of proline transporter.

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Stress is well known to contribute to the development of both neurological and psychiatric diseases. In the central nervous system, a role for STING (stimulator of interferon genes) in modulating immunological responses has been widely suggested, and this protein possesses both neurotoxic and neuroprotective properties. However, the potential role of the STING signalling pathway and the underlying regulatory mechanism in chronic stress have not been well established.

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Objective: To systematically assess the clinical efficacy of the (JYW) formula in treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).

Methods: A multicenter, prospective, double-blind, double-dummy, randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted at four hospitals in China. A total of one hundred thirty-three patients with GAD were enrolled from 2017 to 2019.

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Mitochondrial redox imbalance has been recognized as a unifying cause for diabetic cognitive impairment. Currently, a robust method for the in vivo assessment of brain mitochondrial redox imbalance is still lacking. Here, we conducted a spectral study to assess brain mitochondrial redox imbalance in the process of diabetic cognitive impairment by using label-free resonance Raman spectroscopy (RRS).

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Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a useful non-invasive modality for observation of ovarian morphologic characteristics. Few studies have focused on the value of MRI-derived indexes in reproductive-aged women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Purpose: To assess the diagnostic value of MRI in women with PCOS.

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Elaeagnus mollis Diels (Elaeagnaceae) is a species of shrubs and/or dwarf trees that produces highly nutritious nuts with abundant oil and pharmaceutical properties. It is endemic to China but endangered. Therefore, to facilitate the protection of its genetic resources and the development of its commercially attractive traits we generated a high-quality genome of E.

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The aim of this work was to provide solid proofs regarding the achievement of "steady-state conditions", which means that the performance of the anaerobic digester is representative of the applied environmental conditions. For this reason, we investigated how, starting from different inoculum sources (i.e.

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(Dipterocarpaceae) is a rare and critically endangered species. Here, we first report and characterize its complete chloroplast genome sequence based on Illumina paired-end sequencing data. The complete plastid genome was 152,054 bp, which contained inverted repeats (IR) of 21,702 bp separated by a large single-copy (LSC) and a small single-copy (SSC) of 20,462 bp and 88,188 bp, respectively.

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Electroacupuncture (EA) pretreatment induces cerebral ischemic tolerance; however, the mechanism remains poorly understood. This study aimed to determine the participation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator-1α ()-mediated mitochondrial biogenesis in the neuroprotection of EA and whether cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1R) is involved in this mechanism. At 2 hours after EA pretreatment, adult male C57BL/6j mice were subjected to 60-minute right middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO).

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Pain relief is a major concern for patients who have undergone surgery, and it is an eternal pursuit for anesthesiologists. However, postoperative pain management is far from satisfactory, though the past decades have witnessed great progress in the development of novel analgesics and analgesic techniques. A Cochrane systematic review showed that patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) achieved better pain relief and greater patient satisfaction than traditional "on-demand" parenteral analgesia, suggesting that it might be the manner of analgesia implementation that matters for effective postoperative pain management.

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Ecological stoichiometry provides a new method for understanding the characteristics, driving forces and mechanisms of C, N and P coupled cycles. However, there are few reports on the variation in ecological stoichiometry of plants during their growth. In this study, we fitted the total elemental mass of different module based on the size of Nitraria tangutorum, and derived the ecological stoichiometry models of different module and whole ramet by measuring the biomass and nutrient concentrations of the current-year stems in 2017, 2-year-old stems, more than 2-year-old stems, leaves, roots and layerings of N.

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• Standards for perioperative supply and equipment precaution for COVID-19 have not been detailed. • Systematically introduces sufficiently preoperative and postoperative equipment precaution. • The sterilization of disassembled anesthesia machine according to high-temperature resistance.

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The direct use of digestate on farmlands as soil amendment is becoming an uneconomic option for farmers. Moreover, there are serious environmental concerns about its oversupply in regions with intensive biogas plants. Downstream technologies, offering innovative upcycling methods to handle huge amounts of digestate, have absorbed great interest in this context.

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Artemisinin is an endoperoxide sesquiterpene lactone from Artemisia annua L with multiple beneficial effects, including anti-inflammation, antioxidant, and vascular protection. Recent studies have found that inflammation along with autophagy deficiency in macrophages is the possible reason for foam cell accumulation in the intima, which leads to atherosclerotic plaque formation. The primary aims of this study were to explore the inhibiting effect of artemisinin on atherosclerosis in high-fat diet-fed ApoE mice and investigate the probable mechanism.

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