Publications by authors named "QiRui Zhang"

Background: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) are common complications after gynecological laparoscopic surgery. Pyridoxine has been recommended as a first-line drug to prevent and treat nausea and vomiting during pregnancy; however, its efficacy in preventing PONV remains unclear.

Methods: Patients of 18 to 65 years old, who received elective gynecological laparoscopic surgery under general anesthesia, were randomized into either the pyridoxine or control group.

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When multi-dynamic target UAVs escape, the uncertainty of the formation method and the external environment causes difficulties in rounding them up, so suitable solutions are needed to improve the roundup success rate. However, traditional methods can generally only enable the encirclement of a single target, and when the target is scattered and escaping, this will lead to encirclement failure due to the inability to sufficiently allocate UAVs for encirclement. Therefore, in this paper, a real-time roundup and dynamic allocation algorithm for multiple dynamic targets is proposed.

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  • - The liver is essential for maintaining metabolic balance, and chronic liver disorders can severely impact health.
  • - Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a significant role in the development of liver diseases, with lncRNA H19 being particularly influential through epigenetic changes.
  • - This review aims to explore how H19 regulates liver disease progression and suggests it could be a promising target for therapy, offering deeper insight into liver-related health issues.
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Activating and mutations commonly occur in leukemia with -gene rearrangements (-r). However, how these mutations cooperate with the -r to remodel the epigenetic landscape is unknown. Using a retroviral acute myeloid leukemia (AML) mouse model driven by , we show that , , and remodeled the chromatin accessibility landscape and associated transcriptional networks.

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Background And Objectives: Despite their temporal lobe pathology, a significant subgroup of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is able to maintain normative cognitive functioning. In this study, we identify patients with TLE with intact vs impaired neurocognitive profiles and interrogate for the presence of both normative and highly individual intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs)-all toward understanding the transition from impaired to intact neurocognitive status.

Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study included patients with TLE and matched healthy controls (HCs) from the Thomas Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.

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  • * A study using brain imaging of 505 Parkinson's patients and 167 healthy participants found that structural brain abnormalities vary by symptom, with apathy, impulse-compulsive behaviors, and hallucinations linked to changes in somatomotor and vision areas.
  • * The research suggests that while apathy, impulse-compulsive behaviors, and hallucinations may be directly related to damage in motor circuits, anxiety and depression result from a mix of Parkinson’s primary effects and psychosocial factors.
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Genetic generalized epilepsies (GGE) exhibit widespread morphometric alterations in the subcortical structures. Subcortical structures are essential for understanding GGE pathophysiology, but their fine-grained morphological diversity has yet to be comprehensively investigated. Furthermore, the relationships between macroscale morphological disturbances and microscale molecular chemoarchitectures are unclear.

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Reservoir computing (RC) has attracted considerable attention for its efficient handling of temporal signals and lower training costs. As a nonlinear dynamic system, RC can map low-dimensional inputs into high-dimensional spaces and implement classification using a simple linear readout layer. The memristor exhibits complex dynamic characteristics due to its internal physical processes, which renders them an ideal choice for the implementation of physical reservoir computing (PRC) systems.

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A highly intelligent system often draws lessons from the unique abilities of humans. Current humanlike models, however, mainly focus on biological behavior, and the brain functions of humans are often overlooked. By drawing inspiration from brain science, this article shows how aspects of brain processing such as sensing, preprocessing, cognition, obstacle learning, behavior, strategy learning, pre-action, and action can be melded together in a coherent manner with cognitive control architecture.

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  • Focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures (FBTCS) are a severe subtype of focal temporal lobe epilepsy that presents challenges in treatment; this study employs an edge-wise approach to analyze white matter pathways unique to FBTCS.
  • The research involved imaging 22 patients with focal seizures, 43 with FBTCS, and 65 healthy participants to examine structural connectivity changes and understand how these relate to seizure generalization.
  • Findings revealed that FBTCS patients had significant abnormalities in cross-hemispheric connections, particularly involving the contralateral amygdala and frontal lobe, with factors like aging and seizure frequency influencing connectivity effects.
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Since different disease grades require different treatments from physicians, i.e., the low-grade patients may recover with follow-up observations whereas the high-grade may need immediate surgery, the accuracy of disease grading is pivotal in clinical practice.

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Aims: Mapping progressive patterns of structural damage in epilepsies with idiopathic and secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures with causal structural covariance networks and multiple analysis strategies.

Methods: Patients with idiopathic generalized tonic-clonic seizures (IGTCS) (n = 114) and secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures (SGTCS) (n = 125) were recruited. Morphometric parameter of gray matter volume was analyzed on structural MRI.

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Mercury (Hg) is a serious metal environmental pollutant. HgCl exposure causes pyroptosis. When macrophages are severely stimulated, they often undergo M1 polarization and release inflammatory factors.

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Pharmacologic targeting of chromatin-associated protein complexes has shown significant responses in KMT2A-rearranged (KMT2A-r) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) but resistance frequently develops to single agents. This points to a need for therapeutic combinations that target multiple mechanisms. To enhance our understanding of functional dependencies in KMT2A-r AML, we have used a proteomic approach to identify the catalytic immunoproteasome subunit PSMB8 as a specific vulnerability.

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Scribble complex proteins can influence cell fate decisions and self-renewal capacity of hematopoietic cells. While specific cellular functions of Scribble complex members are conserved in mammalian hematopoiesis, they appear to be highly context dependent. Using CRISPR/Cas9-based genetic screening, we have identified Scribble complex-related liabilities in AML including LLGL1.

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Functional connectivity hierarchy is an important principle in the process of brain functional organization and an important feature reflecting brain development. However, atypical brain network hierarchy organization in Rolandic epilepsy have not been systematically investigated. We examined connectivity alteration with age and its relation to epileptic incidence, cognition, or underlying genetic factors in 162 cases of Rolandic epilepsy and 117 typically developing children, by measuring fMRI multi-axis functional connectivity gradients.

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Objectives: To assess the value of coordinatized lesion location analysis (CLLA), in empowering ROI-based imaging diagnosis of gliomas by improving accuracy and generalization performances.

Methods: In this retrospective study, pre-operative contrasted T1-weighted and T2-weighted MR images were obtained from patients with gliomas from three centers: Jinling Hospital, Tiantan Hospital, and the Cancer Genome Atlas Program. Based on CLLA and ROI-based radiomic analyses, a fusion location-radiomics model was constructed to predict tumor grades, isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) status, and overall survival (OS).

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Microplastics (MPs) have attracted widespread attention as an emerging environmental pollutant. Especially in aquatic ecosystems, the harm of MPs to aquatic animals has increasingly become a severe environmental problem. In this study, we constructed a carp polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) exposure model to explore the damage and mechanism of PS-MPs exposure to carp myocardial tissue.

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Background: The overall evidence base of anti-inflammatory therapies in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has not been systematically evaluated. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of anti-inflammatory therapies on glycemic control in patients with T2DM.

Methods: PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library were searched up to 21 September 2022 for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with anti-inflammatory therapies targeting the proinflammatory cytokines, cytokine receptors, and inflammation-associated nuclear transcription factors in the pathogenic processes of diabetes, such as interleukin-1β (IL-1β), interleukin-1β receptor (IL-1βR), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), and nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB).

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Microplastics have been recognized as a widespread new pollutant in nature and have induced an increase in the occurrence of a variety of diseases in carp. An animal model of microplastic ingestion was successfully established in an aqueous environment. The gut microbiota was analysed using a metagenomic approach.

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Polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) affect the immune defense function on carp (Cyprinus carpio). The PS-MPs model of carp was established by feeding with PS-MPs particle size of 8 µm and concentration of 1000 ng/L water. Hepatopancreas function test revealed the activities of AKP, ALT, AST and LDH abnormal increase.

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Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) is present in large quantities in the environment due to its widespread use. And TBBPA is capable of accumulating in animals, entering the ecological chain and causing widespread damage to organisms. TBBPA is capable of causing the onset of oxidative stress, which induces tissue damage and cell death, which in turn affects the physiological function of tissues.

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Background: Obesity increases the risk of obesity-related medical problems. Weight loss after metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) has been well studied. However, the effects of MBS on parathyroid function remain unclear.

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Aims: Generalised epilepsy is thought to involve distributed brain networks. However, the molecular and cellular factors that render different brain regions more vulnerable to epileptogenesis remain largely unknown. We aimed to investigate epilepsy-related morphometric similarity network (MSN) abnormalities at the macroscale level and their relationships with microscale gene expressions at the microscale level.

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Purpose: To perform a meta-analysis of the literature to evaluate the prevalence of cerebrovascular comorbidities between patients undergoing bariatric surgery and those not undergoing bariatric surgery.

Materials And Methods: Studies about the risk of cerebrovascular disease both before and after bariatric surgery were systematically explored in multiple electronic databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Embase, from the time of database construction to May 2022.

Results: Seventeen studies with 3,124,063 patients were finally included in the meta-analysis.

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