Publications by authors named "Shengting Zhang"

This study aimed to evaluate the pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD), safety, and tolerability of SHR6508 injection, a new calcimimetic agent, in healthy Chinese subjects following single dose. This study utilized a placebo-controlled, single-dose, and dose-escalation design with four dose groups (0.5 mg, 2.

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  • This study investigates how hydrogel microrobots behave at the air-water interface when exposed to magnetic and light stimuli, focusing on their locomotion and interaction patterns.
  • Under a rotating magnetic field, these microrobots transition from working together to displaying complex movements, while near-infrared light changes their interactions from attraction to separation.
  • The research develops dynamic models to understand and modulate these behaviors influenced by factors such as magnetic particle concentration and light intensity, paving the way for advanced control of microrobots in biomedical and environmental applications.
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  • Skin-electronic interfaces are crucial for applications in diagnostics, health monitoring, and smart wearables but struggle with issues like adhesion in wet or dynamic environments.
  • The researchers drew inspiration from octopus suckers and snail slime to create a hydrogel interface that enhances adhesion and durability using ultrasound techniques.
  • Their newly developed patch, PAMS, is multifunctional, showing excellent sensitivity, flexibility, and biocompatibility, and successfully accelerates wound healing in experimental models.
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Background: Traumatic cartilage injury is an important cause of osteoarthritis (OA) and limb disability, and toll-like receptors (TLRs) mediated innate immune response has been confirmed to play a crucial role in cartilage injury. In the previous study, we found that the activation of TLR8 molecules in injured articular cartilage was more obvious than other TLRs by establishing an animal model of knee impact injury in rabbits, and the changes of TLR8 molecules could significantly affect the process of articular cartilage injury and repair.

Objective: To verify how mir-99a-5p regulates TLR8 receptor mediated innate immune response to treat traumatic cartilage injury.

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Gelatin methacrylate (GelMA) hydrogels have gained significant traction in diverse tissue engineering applications through the utilization of 3D printing technology. As an artificial hydrogel possessing remarkable processability, GelMA has emerged as a pioneering material in the advancement of tissue engineering due to its exceptional biocompatibility and degradability. The integration of 3D printing technology facilitates the precise arrangement of cells and hydrogel materials, thereby enabling the creation of in vitro models that simulate artificial tissues suitable for transplantation.

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Antiviral drug development is important for human health, and the emergence of novel COVID-19 variants has seriously affected human lives and safety. A bacteriophage-a bacterial virus with a small and simple structure-is an ideal experimental candidate for studying the interactions between viruses and their hosts. In this study, the effects and mechanisms of catecholamines on phages were explored, and dopamine (DA) was found to have general and efficient anti-infection effects.

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Prodigiosin (2-methyl-3-pentyl-6-methoxyprodiginine), a red-colored microbial pigment, is produced in large quantities by Serratia marcescens KMR-3. This bacterium can grow in a medium with a Cd concentration of 500 mg/L, but it does not produce prodigiosin when the Cd concentration in the medium is higher than 140 mg/L. Therefore, we investigated the mechanisms by which Cd inhibits prodigiosin synthesis.

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Intracellular Fe3+ amount is one of the critical determinants of human health. The development of simple and effective probes for the quantitative detection of Fe3+in vivo is of great significance for the early diagnosis of disease or disorder associated with iron deficiency or overload. In this study, remarkable carbon dots, which can serve as a biosensor for efficient intracellular Fe3+ detection, were synthesized by hydrothermal carbonization of Fusobacterium nucleatum, an anaerobic bacterium.

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There is still no satisfying method to treat colorectal cancer (CRC) currently. Inspired by cocktail therapy, the combination of 465 nm blue LED irradiation and two multi-target anticancer agents AT406 and Rocaglamide has been investigated as an innovative way to treat colorectal cancer cells in vitro. It showed a strong inhibitory effect on colorectal cancer cells, and its side effects on human normal cells are negligible.

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  • * Researchers constructed the hGLP-1R-tGFP cell line by fusing the GLP-1 receptor gene with a tGFP tag, confirming the expression of the protein and optimizing conditions for high-content screening with a specific system.
  • * Results showed that activation of the GLP-1 receptor by a specific peptide led to observable changes in fluorescence patterns in the cells, confirming the effectiveness and specificity of the new screening method for evaluating crude extracts from Chinese
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p-Nitrophenol (p-NP) pollutants are widely present in soil and aquatic environments and can seriously impair the health of living beings. Hence, a rapid, sensitive, and selective method for p-NP detection is urgently needed. Herein, for the first time, we successfully synthesized fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) from Bacillus cereus (BC) via a one-step hydrothermal process.

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Purpose: To evaluate the significance of hepatic functional reserve for the operation of liver cancer complicated with cirrhosis.

Methods: Fifty-six patients suffering from liver cancer complicated with cirrhosis were divided into three levels, A, B and C, according to Child-Pugh grading system. Based on indocyanine green retention rate at 15 min (ICGR15) value, patients were divided into three intervals, ≤15%, 15-25% and ≥25%.

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The cold-active bacteriophage VMY22, belonging to the Podoviridae family, was isolated from Mingyong Glacier in China. Sequence analysis revealed that the genome is 18,609 bp long, with an overall G + C content of 36.4 mol%, and 25 open reading frames (ORFs).

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Background: Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) represents the most common histological subtype of primary gastrointestinal lymphoma and is a heterogeneous group of disease. Prognostic characterization of individual patients is an essential prerequisite for a proper risk-based therapeutic choice.

Methods: Clinical and pathological prognostic factors were identified, and predictive value of four previously described prognostic systems were assessed in 101 primary gastrointestinal DLBCL (PG-DLBCL) patients with localized disease, including Ann Arbor staging with Musshoff modification, International Prognostic Index (IPI), Lugano classification, and Paris staging system.

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Objective: To evaluate the clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of patients with primary gastro-intestinal marginal zone lymphoma (MALT).

Methods: Retrospective analysis was performed in 90 patients diagnosed with primary gastro-intestinal MALT lymphoma clinical characteristics and survival analyses.

Results: Among 90 patients, 78 cases were originated from the stomach and 12 cases with extra-gastric origin.

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Mutational changes in p53 correlate well with tumorigenesis. Remarkably, however, relatively little is known about the role that p53 variations may play in environmental adaptation. Here we report that codon asparagine-104 (104N) and glutamic acid-104 (104E), respectively, of the p53 gene in the wild zokor (Myospalax baileyi) and root vole (Microtus oeconomus) are adaptively variable, meeting the environmental stresses of the Tibetan plateau.

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Our previous study revealed the particular expression patterns of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 1 (IGFBP1) in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau root vole (Microtus oeconomus) under hypoxic challenge. Here we report the molecular mechanisms of Igf gene regulation associated with adaptation to hypoxia. M.

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A novel series of quinolinone-based adenosine A(2B) receptor antagonists was identified via high throughput screening of an encoded combinatorial compound collection. Synthesis and assay of a series of analogs highlighted essential structural features of the initial hit. Optimization resulted in an A(2B) antagonist (2i) which exhibited potent activity in a cAMP accumulation assay (5.

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