Publications by authors named "Shixian Cao"

Background: The use of network pharmacology and blood metabolomics to study the pathogenesis of violent aggression in patients with schizophrenia and the related drug mechanisms of action provides new directions for reducing the risk of violent aggression and optimizing treatment plans.

Aim: To explore the metabolic regulatory mechanism of olanzapine in treating patients with schizophrenia with a moderate to high risk of violent aggression.

Methods: Metabolomic technology was used to screen differentially abundant metabolites in patients with schizophrenia with a moderate to high risk of violent aggression before and after olanzapine treatment, and the related metabolic pathways were identified.

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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is pivotal for mitochondrial morphology and function. Upon mtDNA damage, mitochondria undergo quality control mechanisms, including fusion, fission, and mitophagy. Real-time monitoring of mtDNA enables a deeper understanding of its effect on mitochondrial function and morphology.

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Imaging-guided photodynamic therapy (PDT) holds great potential for tumor therapy. However, achieving the synergistic enhancement of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation efficiency and fluorescence emission of photosensitizers (PSs) remains a challenge, resulting in suboptimal image guidance and theranostic efficacy. The hypoxic tumor microenvironment also hinders the efficacy of PDT.

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Recently, convolution neural networks have been widely used in hyperspectral image classification and have achieved excellent performance. However, the fixed convolution kernel receptive field often leads to incomplete feature extraction, and the high redundancy of spectral information leads to difficulties in spectral feature extraction. To solve these problems, we propose a nonlocal attention mechanism of a 2D-3D hybrid CNN (2-3D-NL CNN), which includes an inception block and a nonlocal attention module.

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There is increasing interest in the production and consumption of tea ( L.) processed from purple-leaved cultivar due to their high anthocyanin content and health benefits. However, how and why seasonal changes affect anthocyanin accumulation in young tea leaves still remains obscured.

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The effect of acceptor unit order on the photophysical properties of two distinct donor-acceptor-acceptor conjugated fluorescent acrylonitriles, TPA-AN-PhBT and TPA-BT-ANPh, was systematically investigated. Compared with faintly emissive TPA-AN-PhBT in solution, TPA-BT-ANPh showed strong red-shifted fluorescence. TPA-AN-PhBT and TPA-BT-ANPh exhibited enhanced green and deep red emissions with remarkable fluorescence quantum yields up to 44% in the solid state.

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Wuyi Rock tea, well-recognized for rich flavor and long-lasting fragrance, is a premium subcategory of oolong tea mainly produced in Wuyi Mountain and nearby regions of China. The quality of tea is mainly determined by the chemical constituents in the tea leaves. However, this remains underexplored for Wuyi Rock tea cultivars.

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New therapies are urgently required for the treatment of patients with melanoma. Here we describe the generation and preclinical evaluation of 3 new recombinant ALVAC(2) poxviruses vCP2264, vCP2291, and vCP2292 for their ability to induce the desired cellular immune responses against the encoded melanoma-associated antigens. This was done either in HLA-A2/K transgenic mice or using in vitro antigen-presentation studies.

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