Publications by authors named "Pan Fang"

Nature efficiently produces a myriad of structurally diverse carbon ring frameworks from common linear precursors via cyclization reactions at specific olefinic sites in dienes or polyenes. In contrast, achieving the site-selective functionalization of diene or polyene substrates remains a formidable challenge in chemical synthesis. Herein, we report a pair of highly site-selective, regiodivergent carbocyclization reactions of dienallenes and trienallenes, enabling the efficient synthesis of -1,4-disubstituted cyclohexenes and -1,2-disubstituted cyclobutenes from a common precursor with high diastereoselectivity.

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Background: Enhancing the research abilities of clinical nurses is a pivotal aspect of nursing management. The purpose of this survey is to assess the current state of research abilities among pediatric nurses and to identify the associated influencing factors, thereby providing empirical support for the improvement of research competencies in pediatric nurses.

Methods: Pediatric clinical nurses at a tertiary children's hospital in Nanjing, China from May 1st to 31st, 2024 were included for survey.

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Purpose: This study examined the feasibility and acceptability of a three-session, psychological-based intervention to improve intimacy and sexuality outcomes among women with breast and gynaecologic cancer in Singapore.

Method: Patients from outpatient oncology clinics completed screeners for marital and sexual distress. Those who endorsed either marital or sexual distress were invited into the study, and were randomized to receive the intervention immediately or be waitlisted.

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Pathological neuropathic pain is a common complication following spinal cord injury. Due to its high incidence, prolonged duration, tenacity, and limited therapeutic efficacy, it has garnered increasing attention from both basic researchers and clinicians. The pathogenesis of neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury is multifaceted, involving factors such as structural and functional alterations of the central nervous system, pain signal transduction, and inflammatory effects, posing significant challenges to clinical management.

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Background: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a malignant infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV gradually destroys the body's immune system and weakens the body's ability to resist diseases. People living with HIV may have a higher incidence of coronary heart disease than people without HIV.

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  • Current metagenomic tools struggle to identify highly divergent RNA viruses, prompting the development of a deep learning algorithm called LucaProt to improve detection in diverse ecosystems.
  • LucaProt combines sequence and structural data to identify a significant number of RNA virus sequences, uncovering 161,979 potential species and 180 supergroups, including some with long and complex genomes.
  • The study not only confirmed some of these novel RNA viruses but also demonstrated their presence across various environments, showcasing the vast diversity of RNA viruses and enhancing our understanding and documentation of the global RNA virome.
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We investigated association between skin adverse events (AEs) and efficacy with dacomitinib in patients with -positive non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). analyses from ARCHER 1050 evaluated efficacy in patients who did and did not experience grade ≥2 skin AEs with dacomitinib. Landmark analyses were performed at 3 and 6 months.

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  • Myofascial treatment highlights a holistic approach to addressing fascial-related disorders like neck and back pain, particularly emphasizing Traditional Chinese rehabilitation exercises (TCRE) as a beneficial intervention.
  • Research supports TCRE techniques, such as Baduanjin, Wuqinxi, and Yijinjing, for improving limb function, flexibility, and reducing joint pain and stress.
  • Future research will explore TCRE’s impact on older adults and long-COVID syndrome while integrating robotic training for safer exercise options, marking it as a promising non-drug therapy for chronic pain management.
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  • Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and its receptor c-Met are important for understanding and treating gastric cancer (GC), a common type of cancer.
  • The HGF/c-Met signaling pathway helps cancer cells grow, move, and spread, making it a key focus for new treatments.
  • This review looks at the latest research on how HGF/c-Met works in GC and suggests new ways to target this pathway for better treatment options.
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Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common chronic joint disease that significantly affects an individual's quality-of-life and frailty has become one of the common complications in OA patients as the disease progresses. The relationship between dietary patterns is not clear.

Methods: All participants are from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and have been diagnosed with OA.

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Background: Intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) is very common in ICU patients. It is important to understand the status quo of knowledge, attitude and behavior of ICU nurses about ICU-AW. This survey aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude and behavior of ICU nurses about ICU-AW, to provide useful implications for clinical care.

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  • Finerenone has shown promise in reducing cardiovascular death and renal failure risk in patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes, prompting a study to investigate its molecular mechanisms using network pharmacology.
  • Researchers utilized several databases to identify targets of finerenone and analyzed their interactions with a focus on disease-related targets, employing protein-protein interaction networks and enrichment analysis techniques.
  • The study identified 111 potential cardiorenal targets and pointed to key mechanisms involving lipids, atherosclerosis, and diabetic complications, while confirming finerenone's protective effects through histopathological studies and protein expression analysis in diabetic mice.
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  • Biomolecular condensates are dynamic, membrane-less structures in eukaryotic cells that organize cellular functions, but such organization has not been observed in prokaryotic cells, which lack organelles.
  • The study develops a light-activated condensate system in prokaryotic cells, utilizing genetically engineered proteins that respond to blue light for quick and reversible cargo organization.
  • This system effectively controls the location of a cell division inhibitor, enabling adjustable cell shapes and offering a novel method to manipulate cellular processes in prokaryotes using light.
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Protein structure prediction is a longstanding issue crucial for identifying new drug targets and providing a mechanistic understanding of protein functions. To enhance the progress in this field, a spectrum of computational methodologies has been cultivated. AlphaFold2 has exhibited exceptional precision in predicting wild-type protein structures, with performance exceeding that of other methods.

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  • Protein function annotation has been a challenging area in biology, with traditional computational methods struggling due to an imbalance in annotated protein data (long-tail problem).
  • The new strategy called AnnoPRO aims to improve this by using advanced techniques like multi-scale protein representation and long short-term memory decoding for better protein function predictions.
  • Case studies show AnnoPRO outperforms existing methods, and its source code and models are available for public use online.
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  • The travel and tourism industry faces significant challenges from events like natural disasters, terrorism, and pandemics, prompting a focus on reviving tourism and fostering tourist loyalty post-pandemic.
  • Aesthetics, which includes factors like scenery and cleanliness, plays a crucial role in shaping tourist experiences and loyalty, yet research on this topic, particularly regarding memorability, is limited.
  • This study analyzes the effects of aesthetic qualities on tourist loyalty, finding that while some qualities don’t directly influence loyalty, they significantly impact memorability, which in turn enhances tourist loyalty.
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  • Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) need to balance high ionic conductivity with mechanical strength, while ionic liquids struggle to infiltrate common polyolefin separators used in supercapacitors.
  • This study introduces a novel SPE that combines polyethylene oxide, lithium salt, and ionic liquid in commercial microporous separators, achieving both strength and conductivity.
  • The resulting composite membrane (PLI(70)@PP) shows impressive ionic conductivity (2.9 × 10 S cm), excellent mechanical strength (128 MPa), and a specific capacitance of 158 F g in all-solid-state supercapacitors, making it suitable for high-volume roll-to-roll processing in engineering applications.
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There is a wide variety of cancer cells that can be linked to the presence of TPX2. However, there is not a lot of evidence regarding its role in the development and maintenance of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). In our study, bioinformatics analysis was performed to obtain differentially expressed mRNAs and miR-NAs in ccRCC.

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  • - The buried interface of the perovskite layer crucially impacts film morphology, defect formation, and aging resistance, affecting the quality and performance of perovskite solar cells, especially with FAPbI that tends to degrade from this interface early on.
  • - Introducing proline hydrochloride (PF), which has a structured design, serves as a medium at the buried interface, creating a stable α-phase FAPbI template and preventing degradation from phase transitions.
  • - This approach leads to a remarkable solar cell efficiency of 24.61% (with a certified 23.51%), setting a record for flexible perovskite solar cells, while also demonstrating excellent stability in both shelf-life and mechanical tests. *
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  • - The Stokes shift in two-dimensional (2D) CsPbBr perovskites is significant, changing from 26 to 41 meV with temperature, unlike in bulk perovskites where it is negligible.
  • - The differences in absorption and photoluminescence (PL) peaks are attributed to the exciton fine structure, where multiple bright excitons are involved in absorption but only the lowest level emits light.
  • - The observed characteristics, including PL decay and the splitting of excitons, are related to the unique anisotropic morphology of the 2D perovskite structure, suggesting that a large Stokes shift is an inherent trait of these materials.
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Introduction: The role of submucosal injection during cold snare polypectomy (CSP) remains uncertain. In this study, we investigated the impact of submucosal saline injection during CSP for colorectal polyps sized 3-9 mm.

Methods: This was a multicenter randomized controlled trial conducted in 6 Chinese centers between July and September 2020 (ChiCTR2000034423).

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Many tools are used to predict difficult airway, including bedside screening tests, radiological variables, and ultrasonography. However, the "gold standard" to identify difficult airway before intubation has not been established. The assessment and prediction of difficult airway is receiving increasing attention in clinical practice due to the devastating results of failed oxygenation or intubation.

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To improve the problem that self-synchronization and control synchronization of vibration systems are respectively restricted by their inherent characteristics and product cost, by combining them a multi-phase composite synchronization scheme is proposed for space far-resonant vibration system actuated by three vibrators. Based on the established mathematical model and sliding mode control (SMC) algorithm, controller of one vibrator is designed to implement the multi-phase control synchronization. Then self-synchronization mechanism of the other two vibrators is analyzed through small parameter average method and Routh-Hurwitz criterion.

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