Publications by authors named "Pan Kong"

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  • The rise of antibiotic resistance is making current antibiotics less effective, creating a serious public health risk.
  • There is a pressing need for new antimicrobial solutions that can tackle multidrug-resistant pathogens, and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising candidates due to their wide-ranging effectiveness and lower chances of resistance.
  • The study focuses on two peptide compounds, YI12 and FK13, which show strong antibacterial properties against significant bacteria and work by disrupting bacterial membranes and generating harmful reactive oxygen species.
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The prediction of a stall precursor in an axial compressor is the basic guarantee to the stable operation of an aeroengine. How to predict and intelligently identify the instability of the system in advance is of great significance to the safety performance and active control of the aeroengine. In this paper, an aerodynamic system modeling method combination with the wavelet transform and gray wolf algorithm optimized support vector regression (WT-GWO-SVR) is proposed, which breaks through the fusion technology based on the feature correlation of chaotic data.

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The widespread antimicrobial resistance (AMR) calls for the development of new antimicrobial strategies. Antibiotic adjuvant rescues antibiotic activity and increases the life span of the antibiotics, representing a more productive, timely, and cost-effective strategy in fighting drug-resistant pathogens. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) from synthetic and natural sources are considered new-generation antibacterial agents.

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Pericytes are positioned between brain capillary endothelial cells, astrocytes and neurons. They degenerate in multiple neurological disorders. However, their role in the pathogenesis of these disorders remains debatable.

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PICALM is a highly validated genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). We found that reduced expression of PICALM in AD and murine brain endothelium correlated with amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology and cognitive impairment. Moreover, Picalm deficiency diminished Aβ clearance across the murine blood-brain barrier (BBB) and accelerated Aβ pathology in a manner that was reversible by endothelial PICALM re-expression.

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  • GLUT1 at the blood-brain barrier is crucial for glucose transport into the brain, and its reduction is linked to Alzheimer's disease progression.
  • GLUT1 deficiency in mice leads to significant brain blood flow issues, worse amyloid pathology, and increased neuron loss, indicating it accelerates Alzheimer’s-related deterioration.
  • Targeting GLUT1 could be a potential approach for treating the cognitive and vascular problems associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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Neural tube defects (NTDs) are severe birth malformations that affect one in 1,000 live births. Recently, mutations in the planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway genes had been implicated in the pathogenesis of NTDs in both the mouse model and in human cohorts. Mouse models indicate that the homozygous disruption of Sec24b, which mediates the ER-to-Golgi transportation of the core PCP gene Vangl2 as a component of the COPII vesicle, will result in craniorachischisis.

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