Publications by authors named "Qiulin Zhuang"

Background And Aims: Nutritional support after hospital discharge was found to enhance the nutritional condition of patients after cancer surgery. However, the effect of such support on long-term clinical outcomes is controversial. We thus investigated the effect of nutritional support after hospital discharge on long-term clinical outcomes in patients after gastric cancer surgery.

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Background: Cancer associated cachexia is characterized by the significant loss of adipose tissue, leading to devastating weight loss and muscle wasting in the majority of cancer patients. The effects and underlying mechanisms of degradation metabolites on adipocytes in cachectic patients remain poorly understood. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a comprehensive study combining lipidomic analysis of subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue with transcriptomics data from the database to investigate the mechanisms of lipid regulation in adipocytes.

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Objective: The current tools for evaluating cancer cachexia are either too simple to reflect the far-reaching effects of cachexia or too complicated to be used in daily practice. This study aimed to develop a cancer cachexia staging index (CCSI) that is both practical and comprehensive.

Methods: Patients with gastrointestinal cancers were prospectively included in the study.

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Cachexia is very common in cancer patients and predicts a poor prognosis; however, the molecular basis for progress in these individuals remains unclear, especially the effect of tumors on the hypothalamus energy regulation center. To investigate the regulatory pathway of tumors associated with hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons known as appetite-inhibiting neurons, we conducted observations both on patients and mice models. Results showed that the highly expressed exocrine semaphorin 3D (SEMA3D) both in cachexia patients and mice was positively related to the expression of POMC and its proteolytic peptide.

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Background: Cancer cachexia is prevalent in digestive tract cancer patients and has significant impacts on prognosis; it is vital to identify individuals who are at risk of cancer cachexia to allow for appropriate evaluation and treatment. This study evaluated whether digestive tract cancer patients with a risk of cancer cachexia and who had a risk of adverse survival could be identified before abdominal surgery.

Methods: This large-scale cohort study involved patients who underwent abdominal surgery between January 2015 and December 2020 to treat digestive tract cancer.

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Objectives: Malnutrition characterized by the involuntary loss of body weight and skeletal muscle can be the result of both aging and malignancy. As a result, geriatric patients could face an increased nutritional risk. This study aimed to investigate the nutritional and functional status of geriatric patients and their association with postoperative complications.

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Purpose: This study aimed to identify the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) that contributed to the different amount of fat loss between subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) among cachectic patients.

Methods: RNA sequencing was performed and bioinformatic tools were utilized to analyze the biological functions and construct regulation networks of DEGs. We presumed that iroquois homeobox 1 (IRX1) to be a hub gene and analyzed its clinical significance.

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Background: Skeletal muscle mass deterioration is common in gastric cancer (GC) patients and is linked to poor prognosis. However, information regarding the effect of skeletal muscle mass changes in the postoperative period is scarce. This study was to investigate the link between postoperative loss of skeletal muscle mass and survival following GC surgery.

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Background: Cancer-associated cachexia (CAC) is a syndrome characterized by skeletal muscle atrophy, and the underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Recent research studies have shed light on a noteworthy link between mitochondrial dynamics and muscle physiology. In the present study, we investigate the role of dynamin-related protein 1 (DRP1), a pivotal factor of mitochondrial dynamics, in myotube atrophy during cancer-associated cachexia.

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Background: Open abdominal surgery is frequently related to excessive inflammation and a compromised intestinal barrier, leading to poor clinical outcomes. The administration of beta-1 blocker has been shown to effectively reduce inflammation and preserve intestinal barrier function in patients with sepsis, shock, or other critical illnesses. The underlying mechanism of these effects may be associated with the autonomic nervous system's activation via cholecystokinin receptors.

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Background & Aims: Medium-chain triglycerides (TG) (MCT) and fish oil (FO) TG are incorporated as the core TG component into intravenous (IV) lipid emulsions for infusion in parenteral nutrition. Bolus injections of IV emulsions, on the other hand, have emerged as a novel therapeutic approach to treat various acute disorders. However, intravascular metabolism and organ delivery of acute IV injection of emulsions containing both MCT and FO are not fully defined, nor have they been characterized across common experimental animal models.

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Background & Aims: Guidelines on clinical nutrition recommend the use of appropriate nutritional support therapy for surgical cancer patients at risk of malnutrition both during hospital care and following discharge from the hospital. However, previous studies regarding nutritional interventions have mainly focused on patients during their hospital stay; there is limited evidence supporting the recommendation of nutritional interventions for post-discharge patients after cancer surgery, particularly those who underwent gastrointestinal cancer surgery and at high risk of malnutrition. To clearly address this issue, we designed and conducted two independent studies on two different groups of post-discharge patients at nutritional risk after gastrointestinal cancer surgery.

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Background & Aims: Malnutrition frequently occurs and deteriorates in patients after surgery for gastric cancer, especially after hospital discharge, which has been consistently associated with negative outcomes. However, information regarding the impact of post-discharge nutritional interventions is poorly described. The aim of this study was thus to evaluate the impact of post-discharge oral nutritional supplements (ONS) with dietary advice compared with dietary advice alone on nutritional outcomes, including body mass index (BMI) and skeletal muscle index (SMI), sarcopenia prevalence, chemotherapy tolerance, the 90-day readmission rate, and quality of life in patients at nutritional risk after surgery for gastric cancer.

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Background & Aims: Sarcopenia has been widely recognized as an important predictor of poor outcomes in patients with cancer after surgery, but the controversy remains, and its impact on surgical and oncologic outcomes in patients after abdominal surgery for digestive tract cancer is poorly described. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic impact of sarcopenia on surgical and oncologic outcomes in patients after abdominal surgery for digestive tract cancer.

Methods: Six thousand four hundred and forty-seven consecutive patients who underwent abdominal surgery for digestive tract cancer in our institution were prospectively included.

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Objective: To investigate the levels of serum inflammatory cytokines and Resolvin D1 (RvD1) and their association with pathological staging of colon cancer.

Methods: Clinical data of 50 colon cancer patients (colon cancer group) admitted to the General Surgery Department of Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University from January to December 2016 and 5 ml of whole blood specimen were collected at admission. During the same period, 50 healthy volunteers were enrolled (healthy volunteer group).

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A better understanding of breast cancer pathogenesis would contribute to improved diagnosis and therapy and potentially decreased mortality rates. Here, we found that the MORC family CW-type zinc finger 4 (MORC4) overexpression in breast cancer tissues is associated with poor survival, and the short-interfering RNA knockdown of MORC4 suppresses the growth of breast cancer cells by promoting apoptosis. To investigate the mechanisms associated with MORC4 upregulation, microRNAs potentially targeting MORC4 were analyzed, with miR-193b-3p identified as the regulator and a negative correlation between miR-193b-3p and MORC4 expression determined in both breast cancer cell lines and tissues.

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Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a well-known etiological factor of colitis-associated colorectal cancer (CAC) and has a significant role in CAC progression. In addition, hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) serves a primary role in the progression of CAC. However, the association between IL-6 and HIF-1α during the progression of CAC remains unclear.

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Cancer cachexia remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, despite extensive research and clinical trials. The prominent clinical feature of cancer cachexia is the continuous loss of skeletal muscle that cannot be fully reversed by conventional nutritional support, and that leads to progressive functional impairment. The mechanism underlying muscle loss in patients with cachexia is poorly understood.

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Introduction: The role of laparoscopic surgery in the repair for peptic ulcer disease is unclear. The present study aimed to compare the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic versus open repair for peptic ulcer disease.

Methods: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing laparoscopic versus open repair for peptic ulcer disease were identified from MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and references of identified articles and relevant reviews.

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Hypoxia has been proved to be a typical character of solid tumors. Tumor cells prefer to use glucose through the glycolysis pathway instead of aerobic respiration. However, the precise molecular mechanism underlying this so-called Warburg effect remains elusive.

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Chronic inflammation is a well-known etiological factor for colorectal cancer (CRC) and cancer cells are known to preferentially metabolize glucose through aerobic glycolysis. However, the connection between chronic inflammation and aerobic glycolysis in the development of CRC is largely unexplored. The present study investigated whether interleukin-6 (IL-6), a pro-inflammatory cytokine, promotes the development of CRC by regulating the aerobic glycolysis and the underlying molecular mechanisms.

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Background And Objectives: Consumption of dietary fat has been reported to be associated with gastric cancer risk, but the results of epidemiologic studies remain inconsistent. We conducted a meta-analysis to summarize the evidence regarding the association between dietary fat intake and gastric cancer risk.

Methods: A comprehensive search of PubMed and EMBASE was performed to identify observational studies providing quantitative estimates between dietary fat and gastric cancer risk.

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Muscle atrophy F-Box (MAFbx)/atrogin-1 and muscle ring-finger-1 (MuRF-1) have been identified as two muscle-specific E3 ubiquitin ligases that are highly expressed in skeletal muscle during muscle atrophy. However, the role of muscle-specific E3 ubiquitin ligases during the process of muscle atrophy of cancer cachexia remains largely unknown. In the present study, we analyzed the expression of atrogin-1 and MuRF-1 in the skeletal muscle of patients with malignant and benign disease.

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Objective: To investigate cachexia in hospitalized patients with digestive system cancer and evaluate its impact on clinical outcomes.

Methods: By analyzing the clinical data of 5118 hospitalized patients with digestive system cancer in Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University from January 2012 to December 2013, cachexia was investigated and clinical outcomes between cachexia patients and non-cachexia patients was compared.

Results: The total cachexia rate of hospitalized patients with digestive system cancer was 15.

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Article Synopsis
  • Scientists studied whether a protein called HER-2/neu affects how long people with colorectal cancer (CRC) survive.
  • They looked at 17 studies with a total of 2,347 patients and found that HER-2/neu overexpression didn't seem to help predict survival overall.
  • However, in some specific groups, like lower quality studies and certain regions, it looked like HER-2/neu might negatively impact survival.
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