Publications by authors named "Rongxuan Xu"

Background: Chronic hepatitis B often progresses silently toward hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Early detection of HCC is crucial, yet challenging.

Aim: To investigate the role of dynamic changes in alkaline phosphatase to prealbumin ratio (APR) in hepatitis B progression to HCC.

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common gastrointestinal malignancies in the world. With the rapid pace of life and changes in diet structure, the incidence and mortality of CRC increase year by year posing a serious threat to human health. As the most complex and largest microecosystem in the human body, intestinal microecology is closely related to CRC.

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Background: Colorectal cancer has a high incidence and mortality rate due to a low rate of early diagnosis. Therefore, efficient diagnostic methods are urgently needed.

Purpose: This study assesses the diagnostic effectiveness of Carbohydrate Antigen 19-9 (CA19-9), Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA), Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), and Cancer Antigen 125 (CA125) serum tumor markers for colorectal cancer (CRC) and investigates a machine learning-based diagnostic model incorporating these markers with blood biochemical indices for improved CRC detection.

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Background: Osteoporosis is becoming more common worldwide, imposing a substantial burden on individuals and society. The onset of osteoporosis is subtle, early detection is challenging, and population-wide screening is infeasible. Thus, there is a need to develop a method to identify those at high risk for osteoporosis.

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Article Synopsis
  • Cancer immune escape is linked to how tumor cells and their surroundings alter metabolism, particularly fatty acid metabolism, which is critical for cancer progression.
  • The study identified 121 differentially expressed fatty acid metabolism-related genes and built an FMGsScore to evaluate their influence on immune response and survival in breast cancer patients.
  • Patients with a low FMGsScore showed better outcomes, including heightened immune responses and improved sensitivity to immunotherapy, suggesting FMGsScores could help predict treatment effectiveness.
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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have immense potential due to their utilization of synaptic plasticity and ability to take advantage of temporal correlation and low power consumption. The leaky integration and firing (LIF) model and spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) are the fundamental components of SNNs. Here, a neural device is first demonstrated by zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) as an essential part of the synaptic transistor to simulate SNNs.

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Background: Immunotherapy, represented by immune checkpoint inhibitors, has made significant progress in the treatment of cancer. Numerous studies have demonstrated that antitumor therapies targeting cell death exhibit synergistic effects with immunotherapy. Disulfidptosis is a recently discovered form of cell death, and its potential influence on immunotherapy, similar to other regulated cell death processes, requires further investigation.

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