Publications by authors named "Peipei Gao"

Quality detection is critical in the development of prepared dishes, with distributional uniformity playing a significant role. This study used hyperspectral imaging (HSI) and Moran's I to quantify distributional uniformity, employing pizza as case. Pizza ingredients' spectra were collected, pre-processed with Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA), Savitzky-Golay (SG) and Standard Normal Variate (SNV), and down-scaled with Principal Component Analysis (PCA).

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Plastics and paper are common components of municipal solid waste (MSW), making an in-depth understanding of their interactions essential for MSW thermal conversion. In this study, the co-pyrolysis behavior of plastic and paper was investigated. Firstly, the thermal decomposition characteristics were analyzed.

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the predominant metabolic liver disorder and currently lacks effective and safe pharmaceutical interventions. Daphnetin (DA), a natural coumarin derivative with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities, is a promising agent for NAFLD treatment. In this study, we evaluated the effects and mechanisms of DA on hepatic lipid metabolism in ob/ob mice.

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Multiple types of omics data contain a wealth of biomedical information which reflect different aspects of clinical samples. Multi-omics integrated analysis is more likely to lead to more accurate clinical decisions. Existing cancer diagnostic methods based on multi-omics data integration mainly focus on the classification accuracy of the model, while neglecting the interpretability of the internal mechanism and the reliability of the results, which are crucial in specific domains such as precision medicine and the life sciences.

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Numerous studies have indicated a close association between gut microbiota dysbiosis, inflammation, and cognitive impairment, highlighting their crucial role in the aging process. 2-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)ethyl 3-hydroxybutanoate (HTHB), a novel derivative of hydroxytyrosol, known for its metabolic and anti-inflammatory properties, was investigated for its effects on memory, inflammation, and gut microbiota in senescence-accelerated mouse prone 8 mice. The study employed behavioral testing, biochemical detection, and 16S RNA analysis.

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Background: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), a prevalent neurological disorder, is associated with hippocampal oxidative stress and inflammation. A recent study reveals that the long noncoding RNA ILF3 divergent transcript (ILF3-AS1) level is elevated in the hippocampus of TLE patients; however, the functional roles of ILF3-AS1 in TLE and underlying mechanisms deserve further investigation. Hence, this study aimed to elucidate whether ILF3-AS1 is involved in the pathogenesis of TLE by regulating oxidative stress and inflammation and to explore its underlying mechanism in vitro.

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  • Short-beak and dwarf syndrome (SBDS) in ducks is caused by novel goose parvovirus (NGPV) and leads to economic losses in farming.
  • Research focused on using isolated lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from duck feces to alleviate SBDS, showing no harmful effects on bone metabolism and reducing inflammation in both duck embryos and live ducks.
  • LAB treatment significantly decreased NGPV viral load, improved intestinal health, and reduced bone resorption in infected ducks, suggesting its potential as a probiotic treatment for preventing and treating NGPV-related issues.
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Minimization of cadmium (Cd) accumulation in wheat grain (Triticum aestivum L.) is an important way to prevent Cd hazards to humans. However, little is known about the mechanisms of varietal variation of Cd accumulation in wheat grain.

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Background: Adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction (AEGJ) with a specific pathological profile and poor prognosis has limited therapeutic options. Previous studies have found that TILs exhibit distinct characteristics in different tumors and are correlated with tumor prognosis. We established cellular training sets to obtain auto-quantified TILs in pathological images.

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Lead (Pb) contamination in wheat grain is of great concern, especially in North China. Atmospheric deposition is a major contributor to Pb accumulation in wheat grain. Screening low Pb accumulating wheat varieties has been an effective method for addressing Pb contamination in wheat grain.

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Heavy metal contamination of soil has become a hot issue of social concern due to its impact on the safety of agricultural products in recent years. Wheat is one of the most dominant staple food crops worldwide and has become a major source of toxic metals in human diets. Foliar application was considered to be a more efficient and economical method of heavy metal remediation.

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Two new terpenoids were isolated from the branches and leaves of L., named as rhodayritions A () and B (), together with five known compounds which were identified litseachromolaevane A (), 11--dihydrodehydrocostus lactone (), (+)-9-hydroxyeudesma-4,11(13)-dien-12-al (), macrostachyoside B () and aglaiabbreviatin E (), respectively. The structures of isolated compounds were determined by UV, HR-ESI-MS, NMR analysis and X-Ray.

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  • - The study examined how chlorine is released during the pyrolysis of municipal plastic waste (MPW), focusing on its behavior and migration at different temperatures using thermogravimetry-Fourier transform infrared (TG-FTIR) analysis and fast pyrolysis experiments.
  • - Findings revealed that chlorine mainly released between 241 and 353°C as HCl or chloroesters, with the majority ending up in pyrolytic gas (around 74-83%) and char (10-21%), while its release was hindered before 350°C due to melting of the waste.
  • - Notably, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) significantly contributed to organic chlorinated compounds during pyrolysis, and the presence of H
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Cd and As accumulation in staple crops poses potential risks to food safety and human health. Rhizo-microbial communities are involved in their behaviors from soil to crops. However, the responses of rhizo-microbial communities to different Cd and As co-contaminated soils in wheat‒maize rotation are still unclear.

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The migration process of chlorine during municipal solid waste (MSW) pellets pyrolysis was studied in a fixed bed reactor. Distribution and speciation changes of chlorine at different pyrolysis temperatures were determined by ion chromatography (IC) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses. Results showed that chlorine was mainly distributed in pyrolysis char (42.

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Dysregulation of the urea cycle (UC) has been detected in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the impact of the UC's end product, urea, on CRC development remains unclear. We investigated the association between serum urea and CRC risk based on the data of 348 872 participants cancer-free at recruitment from the UK Biobank.

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Lysozyme is used as a food preservative, biological medicine, and infant food additive as a natural anti-infective chemical having bactericidal activity and abundantly secreted in mammals' milk, saliva, etc. We systematically analyzed the 16 coding LYZ genes (C and G-type) in buffalo and cattle to elucidate their evolutionary perspective thoroughly by evaluating an evolutionary relationship, motif patterning, physicochemical attributes, gene, and protein structure, as well as the functional role of the mammary gland-specific expressed buffalo and cattle LYZ genes precisely while considering expression levels difference and the interaction sites variation with bacteria envisaged the potential ability of buffalo LYZ protein with enhanced antibacterial effect. Thus, we speculated that the buffalo mammary glands expressed lysozyme has good antibacterial activity.

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Senile and disuse osteoporosis have distinct bone turnover status and lack effective treatments. In this study, senescence-accelerated mouse prone 8 (SAMP8) and hindlimb unloading mouse models were used to explore the protective effects of daphnetin on these two types of osteoporosis, and primary osteoblasts and bone marrow monocyte-derived osteoclasts, as well as pre-osteoblast MC3T3-E1, and osteoclast precursor RAW264.7 cells were used to investigate the underlying mechanisms.

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The accumulation of arsenic (As) in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis) has recently been a source of concern for a potential risk to human health. It is unknown whether natural variations of As accumulation in different genotypes of Chinese cabbage are related to rhizobacterial characteristics.

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Atmospheric fine particulate matter (PM) mainly contributes to Pb accumulation in the edible leaves of Chinese cabbage in North China. It was found that a low-Pb-accumulation (LPA) genotype of Chinese cabbage contained less Pb in leaves than high-Pb-accumulation (HPA) genotype exposed to PM-Pb. However, there are no data on the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms of foliar PM-Pb uptake by Chinese cabbage.

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Nano-selenium has a greater potential than inorganic selenium in preventing selenium-deficiency diseases due to its higher safety. In this study, spherical nano-selenium particles (53.8 nm) were prepared using sodium selenite, ascorbic acid and chitosan.

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Human papillomavirus (HPV) integration and high expression of HPV oncogenes (E6 and E7) are important mechanisms for HPV carcinogenesis in cervical cancer. However, the relationship between HPV integration and HPV E6 spliced transcripts, as well as the underlying mechanisms of HPV integration in carcinogenesis after HPV E6 splicing remains unclear. We analyzed HPV-coiled-coil domain containing 106 (CCDC106) integration samples to characterize the roles of HPV integration, E6 spliceosome I (E6*I), and high CCDC106 expression in cervical carcinogenesis.

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Due to the complexity of clinical manifestations and the lack of standardized diagnostic criteria, it is still difficult to distinguish the etiological types of congenital edentulousness corresponding to genetic defects. This paper studies the application of deep learning image processing and digital image processing in medical images in detail and analyzes the functions of congenital edentulous hotspot genes. The cases in the control group and the study group were collected, and the gene mutations of direct sequence MSX1, PAX9, AXIN2, and BMP were analyzed, and new pathogens were found.

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