Publications by authors named "Qiping Zhu"
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- First-row transition metals, like Mn(II), play a significant role in acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling reactions, making it important to study their catalytic mechanisms for better catalyst design.
- This research utilized density functional theory (DFT) to analyze a novel dehydrogenation pathway involving a high-spin Mn(II) complex, where an external base (KOH) interacts with the metal center for the reaction.
- The study identified the hydride transfer as the rate-determining step with an energy barrier of 26.3 kcal/mol, while also highlighting how factors like small steric hindrance and strong orbital interactions of KOH influence the reaction's selectivity.
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- * Prognosis-related immune cells found to be significant included Follicular Helper T cells, Monocytes, and M2 Macrophages, with survival rates indicating that patients with high-risk profiles had worse outcomes compared to low-risk groups.
- * Key prognostic predictors identified were CD163 and CD4+CXCR5, with high expression of CD163 linked to poorer survival rates, while CD4+CXCR5 was associated with Follicular Helper T cells, further supporting its role in prognosis.
Acquired resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) is reportedly inevitable in lung cancers harboring epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations, emphasizing the need for novel approaches to predict EGFR-TKI resistance for clinical monitoring and patient management. This study identified a significant increase in eomesodermin (EOMES)CD8 T cells in the TKI-resistant patients, which was correlated with poor survival. The increase in EOMESCD8 T cells was further confirmed in both tissue samples and peripheral blood of patients with TKIs resistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAge-related habitat selection by brown forest skinks (Sphenomorphus indicus).
Dongwuxue Yanjiu
January 2015
In reptiles, habitat selection is the process whereby suitable habitat is selected that optimizes physiological functions and behavioral performance. Here, we used the brown forest skink (Sphenomorphus indicus) as a model animal and examined whether the frequency of active individuals, environmental temperature, illumination of activity area, and habitat type vary with different age classes. We surveyed the number of active individuals and measured environmental variables at Baiyunshan Mountain in Lishui, Zhejiang, China.
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