Publications by authors named "Ren Xiaoxu"

Objective: This study seeks to determine the association between serum uric acid (SUA) and accelerated aging among middle-aged and older adults in China, as well as assess the relationship between SUA trajectories and the risk of accelerated aging.

Methods: We utilized data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), selecting middle-aged and older participants who completed follow-ups between 2011 and 2015. Biological age was estimated using the Klemera-Doubal method, and accelerated aging was determined by calculating the difference between an individual's biological age and their chronological age.

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Current studies have not clarified the relationship between riboflavin intake and all-cause mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The aim of this study is to investigate whether there is an association between riboflavin intake and the risk of all-cause mortality in patients with CKD. This was a retrospective cohort study with data extracted from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

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Objectives: To enhance the utilization of reclaimed land, Sanyeqing (SYQ) has been extensively cultivated in Zhejiang province, China. However, the prevalence of anthracnose has significantly hindered SYQ growth, emerging as a primary obstacle to its production. This study aimed to elucidate SYQ's responses to anthracnose in reclaimed land environments by comprehensively analyzing root-zone bacterial community structure, metabolites, and soil properties.

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Background: Serum ferritin (SF) is clinically found to be elevated in many disease conditions, and our research examines serum ferritin in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) and its implication on the risk of short-term mortality in AKI.

Methods: Data were extracted from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV 2.2 (MIMIC-IV 2.

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Chinese cabbage, scientifically known as subsp is a highly popular vegetable in China for its delectable taste. However, the occurrence of bacterial soft rot disease poses a significant threat to its growth and overall development. Consequently, this study aimed to explore the defense mechanisms employed by Chinese cabbage against bacterial soft rot disease.

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Diels & Gilg (TDG) has been recently planted in reclaimed lands in Zhejiang Province, China, to increase reclaimed land use. Winter cold stress seriously limits the growth and development of TDG and has become the bottleneck limiting the TDG planting industry. To investigate the defense mechanisms of TDG toward winter cold stress when grown on reclaimed land, a combined analysis of soil bacterial communities, metabolites, and physicochemical properties was conducted in this study.

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Background: LL-37 (also known as murine CRAMP) is a human antimicrobial peptide that plays a crucial role in innate immune defence against sepsis through various mechanisms. However, its involvement in sepsis-induced lung injury remains unclear.

Objectives: This work investigates the impact of LL-37 on pyroptosis generated by LPS in alveolar epithelial cells.

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Deoxynivalenol (DON) is one of the most prevalent food-associated mycotoxins, and is known to cause a variety of adverse health effects on human and animals. Upon oral exposure, the intestine is the main target organ of DON. The current study unraveled that DON exposure (2 mg/kg bw/day or 5 mg/kg bw/day) can significantly reshape the gut microbiota in a mouse model.

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Background: Retromolar canal (RMC) arises from the mandibular canal (MC) behind the second or third molar and travels anterosuperiorly to a retromolar foramen (RMF). RMCs and RMFs have generally been ignored in anatomical textbooks and have rarely been reviewed or studied in the anatomical and dental literature until the last decades.

Objective: This study aimed to characterize RMF in a Chinese population concerning its incidence, origin, and classification via anatomical study and periapical radiography.

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Introduction: Pakchoi is an important leafy vegetable in China. Due to industrialization and urbanization, pakchoi has been cultivated in newly reclaimed mountainous lands in Zhejiang Province, China in recent years. However, immature soil is not suitable for plant growth and needs to be modified by the application of different organic fertilizer or microbial fertilizer based plant-growth-promoting microbe.

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Due to the development of urbanization and industrialization, a large amount of cultivated land resources has been occupied, while new reclamation land could expand the supply of usable land for food security. Organic fertilizers, such as crop residues, biosolids, sheep manure, mushroom residue, and biogas liquid, have been considered as an effective amendment in immature soil to improve its quality. Recently, two kinds of commercial organic fertilizers, pig manure and mushroom residue organic fertilizer (PMMR-OF), and sheep manure organic fertilizer (SM-OF), have been more regularly applied in agriculture production.

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Land reclamation may expand the supply of usable land for food security. Soil microorganisms have been considered as an amendment in immature soil to improve its quality. However, different microbial fertilizers' effects on plant growth in immature soil have largely been unexplored.

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This study investigated whether artemisinin (ART) exerts a neuroprotective effect against cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Hypoxia-glucose deprivation and reoxygenation (OGD/R) of SH-SY5Y cells were used as the I/R injury model . Cell viability was determined using 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay, and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release was measured.

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Objective: To compare the clinical efficacy of high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) and conventional mechanical ventilation (CMV) in the treatment of infants with severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) pneumonia.

Methods: A prospective randomized controlled trial was conducted. The infants with severe RSV pneumonia who received invasive mechanical ventilation admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) of Children's Hospital Affiliated to Capital Institute of Pediatrics from January 2018 to December 2019 were enrolled.

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Background: Understanding current hemodynamic monitoring (HM) practice patterns is essential to determine education and training strategies in China. The survey was to describe the practice of HM and management in children with septic shock in China.

Methods: We conducted an Email-based survey of members of sub-association of pediatric intensive care physicians.

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Background: This document represents the first evidence-based guidelines to describe best practices in nutrition therapy in critically ill children (> 1 month and < 18 years), who are expected to require a length of stay more than 2 or 3 days in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit admitting medical patients domain.

Methods: A total of 25,673 articles were scanned for relevance. After careful review, 88 studies appeared to answer the pre-identified questions for the guidelines.

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The aim of the current study was to test the hypothesis that forest bathing would be beneficial for elderly patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) as an adjunctive therapy. Two groups of participants with CHF were simultaneously sent to the forest or an urban control area for a four-day trip, respectively. Subjects exposed to the forest site showed a significant reduction of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) in comparison to that of the city group and their own baseline levels.

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Fyn, a member of the Src family of tyrosine kinases, is a key regulator in cytoskeletal remodeling in a variety of cell types. Recent studies have demonstrated that Fyn is responsible for nephrin tyrosine phosphorylation, which will result in polymerization of actin filaments and podocyte damage. Thus detailed involvement of Fyn in podocytes is to be elucidated.

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Objective: The mainstay of therapy in patients with septic shock is early and aggressive intravenous fluid resuscitation. However the type of intravenous fluid that would be ideal for managing septic shock has been intensely debated. In this study, the authors observed the effects of 3% hypertonic saline solution compared with normal saline solution as early fluid resuscitation in children with septic shock.

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Purpose: To establish the digital model about sagittal split ramus osteotomy and discuss the stress and displacement of 3 different fixation methods.

Methods: Three-dimensional reconstruction software Mimics and Geomagic were used to establish the three-dimensional entity model of mandible, and simulated sagittal split ramus osteotomy and fixation. Three-dimensional finite element model was established by mesh generation through ANSYS.

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Objective: To explore the clinical features of types 3 and 7 adenovirus pneumonia in children and compare the difference between two types.

Methods: A total of 47 patients with adenovirus pneumonia at our hospital from January 2009 to June 2011 were reviewed. According to the serological types, they were divided into two groups: type 3 (n = 19) and type 7 (n = 28).

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Objective: To evaluate the effect of fenestration and suction drainage in the treatment of large odontogenic mandibular cystic lesions.

Methods: From 2005 to 2009, 24 cases of large odontogenic mandibular cystic lesions were treated with fenestration and suction drainage. The clinical symptoms and radiographical findings were evaluated before the operation and at 1 month and 6 months after suction drainage.

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Objective: To analyze the clinical characteristics of acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill childhood patients with influenza A virus (H1N1) and enterovirus 71 (EV71), and to study the significance of the serum creatinine and urine output in diagnosis of AKI.

Method: The clinical data of AKI in critically ill children admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) with confirmed influenza A (H1N1) or enterovirus 71 infection (EV71 group) from Oct. 2009 to Oct.

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Objective: The novel influenza A (H1N1) virus firstly detected in April 2009 in Mexico rapidly spread to many countries including the United States and Canada where humans were infected with the H1N1 virus and deaths were reported. The pandemic virus strain had never been detected in specimen of human beings and swine. It was so highly contagious and widely spread that threatened life of humans globally.

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Objective: To evaluate chest radiographic findings of children with 2009 influenza (H1N1) virus infection.

Method: Data of 235 patients who had microbiologically confirmed H1N1 infection and available chest radiograph obtained between May 1(st) 2009 and Jan. 31(st) 2010 were retrospectively analyzed.

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