Publications by authors named "Sijin Zhu"

The incidence of cervical cancer has been increasing recently, becoming an essential factor threatening patients' health. Positron emission computed tomography (PET/CT) and positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) are multimodal molecular imaging methods that combine functional imaging (PET) and anatomical imaging (CT) with MRI fusion technology. They play an important role in the clinical management of patients with cervical cancer.

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  • Cold weather can be really bad for our health, causing problems like heart attacks and frostbite, so it's important to adapt to the cold.
  • Scientists wanted to find out which specific amino acids help our bodies adjust to cold temperatures.
  • They discovered that lysine is super important for helping the body stay warm when it’s cold and that it helps improve how our cells work in the cold.
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  • Patient delay in seeking treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in Yantai between 2013 and 2022 significantly contributes to increased morbidity and mortality, with a median delay time of 28 days and a delay rate of 69.5%.
  • Factors influencing patient delay included age, occupation, origin of the patient, area of residence, and presence of other health conditions, with older age groups and specific job statuses being associated with longer delays.
  • Logistic regression analysis identified risk factors for delayed care, including ages 20-39, 40-59, and 60+, domestic or unemployed occupations, being part of a mobile population, and positive pathogenic test results.
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Brown fat adipose tissue (BAT) is a therapeutic potential target to improve obesity, diabetes and cold acclimation in mammals. During the long-term cold exposure, the hyperplastic sympathetic network is crucial for BAT the maintain the highly thermogenic status. It has been proved that the sympathetic nervous drives the thermogenic activity of BAT via the release of norepinephrine.

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In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on the dynamics of material stock, that is, the basis of material flow in the entire ecosystem. With the gradual improvement of the global road network encryption project, the uncontrolled extraction, processing, and transportation of raw materials impose serious resource concerns and environmental pressure. Quantifying material stocks enable governments to formulate scientific policies because socio-economic metabolism, including resource allocation, use, and waste recovery, can be systematically assessed.

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Introduction: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most common gastrointestinal cancer and has a low overall survival rate. Tumor-node-metastasis staging alone is insufficient to predict patient prognosis. Autophagy and long noncoding RNAs play important roles in regulating the biological behavior of CRC.

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Introduction: Although intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) and tomotherapy (TOMO) are broadly applied for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), the best technique remains unclear. Therefore, this study was conducted to address this issue.

Methods: The priority-classified plan optimization model was applied to IMRT, VMAT and TOMO plans in forty NPC patients according to the latest international guidelines.

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Objective: To explore the efficacy and sensitivity of 3D gamma analysis and bio-mathematical model for cervical cancer in detecting dose changes caused by dose-calculation-grid-size (DCGS).

Methods: 17 patients' plans for cervical cancer were enrolled (Pinnacle TPS, VMAT), and the DCGS was changed from 2.0 mm to 5.

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Puerariae Radix (PR) serves as food and medicinal plant for thousands of years with explicit efficacy for heart diseases, while biological target specifically binding-oriented screening of the active components in PR remains a preliminary stage. Cell membrane chromatography (CMC) is newly developed approach where interactions between active components and certain biological targets can be effectively studied, Human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC) membrane, with its abundant receptors such as β and AT, is most eligible for constructing CMC. In this study, an HUVEC/CMC-LC-MS system was developed for screening active components in PR, 11 compounds were screened out and four of them were identified.

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