Publications by authors named "Tao Ju"

To study the spatial interactions among cancer and non-cancer cells, we here examined a cohort of 131 tumour sections from 78 cases across 6 cancer types by Visium spatial transcriptomics (ST). This was combined with 48 matched single-nucleus RNA sequencing samples and 22 matched co-detection by indexing (CODEX) samples. To describe tumour structures and habitats, we defined 'tumour microregions' as spatially distinct cancer cell clusters separated by stromal components.

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  • Breast cancer (BC) has distinct molecular subtypes influenced by different cell origins, yet the transcriptional networks for these subtypes are not well understood.
  • This study utilized advanced techniques on 61 samples from 37 BC patients to reveal how gene expression and chromatin accessibility connect BC subtypes to their likely cells of origin.
  • Key transcription factors BHLHE40 and KLF5 were found to play crucial roles in luminal and basal-like tumors, respectively, and exhausted CD8 T cells were linked to immune dysfunction in basal-like BC, showcasing the potential of single-cell level analysis in understanding cancer lineages.
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Aerial light detection and ranging (lidar) has emerged as a powerful technology for mapping urban archaeological landscapes, especially where dense vegetation obscures site visibility. More recently, uncrewed aerial vehicle/drone lidar scanning has markedly improved the resolution of three-dimensional point clouds, allowing for the detection of slight traces of structural features at centimetres of detail across large archaeological sites, a method particularly useful in areas such as mountains, where rapid deposition and erosion irregularly bury and expose archaeological remains. Here we present the results of uncrewed aerial vehicle-lidar surveys in Central Asia, conducted at two recently discovered archaeological sites in southeastern Uzbekistan: Tashbulak and Tugunbulak.

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  • The rise of 3D imaging techniques like X-ray CT is improving root phenotyping, yet analyzing the complex root structures remains a difficult computational task, especially for features like whorls and the soil line in maize roots.
  • TopoRoot+ is a new computational tool that enhances the existing TopoRoot software by allowing for the detection of whorls, nodal roots, and the identification of the soil line, thus providing more detailed architectural traits from 3D X-ray CT data.
  • The new algorithms in TopoRoot+ provide additional data on internode distances and specific root traits related to both above and below ground structures, and it has been validated with various field-grown maize
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Objective: To investigate the clinical efficacy of continuous veno-venous hemodia-filtration (CVVHDF) combined with hemoperfusion (HP) HA380 in the treatment of heat stroke patients with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).

Methods: A retrospective and observational study was conducted. A total of 15 patients with heat stroke combined with MODS who were admitted to the department of intensive care unit (ICU) of Suizhou Central Hospital/Hubei University of Medicine from July to September 2022 were selected as the study objects.

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Podocyte injury plays a vital role in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), and apoptosis is one of its mechanisms. The transient receptor potential channel 6 (TRPC6) is highly expressed in podocytes and mutations mediate podocyte injury. We found TRPC6 gene mutation (N110S) was a new mutation and pathogenic in the preliminary clinical work.

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In this article, we propose and demonstrate a probe-type multi-core fiber (MCF) sensor for the multi-parameter measurement of seawater. The sensor comprises an MCF and two capillary optical fibers (COFs) with distinct inner diameters, in which a 45° symmetric core reflection (SCR) structure and a step-like inner diameter capillary (SIDC) structure filled with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) are fabricated at the fiber end. The sensor is equipped with three channels for different measurements.

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Introduction: The pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 brings great challenge and threats to humans worldwide. Multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 tend to be epidemic, among which Omicron is highly infectious within China. The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical characteristics of children infected with SARS-CoV-2 variant B.

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Oxazines are an important class of compounds in oxazine ligands and medical chemistry. Here, we describe a linear-selective allylation of imines with allyl electrophiles via cross-electrophile coupling reactions, followed by cyclization with halogenated reagents, providing a new strategy to afford oxazine compounds with a tetrasubstituted carbon center. Mechanistic studies indicate that α-amino carbanion, generated by successive single-electron transfer processes, is a key intermediate for nucleophile attack on π-allylpalladium in photoredox/palladium catalysis.

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Background And Aim: Liver failure, which is predominantly caused by hepatitis B (HBV) can be improved by an artificial liver support system (ALSS). This study investigated the phenotypic heterogeneity of immunocytes in patients with HBV-related acute-on-chronic liver failure (HBV-ACLF) before and after ALSS therapy.

Methods: A total of 22 patients with HBV-ACLF who received ALSS therapy were included in the study.

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Comprehending endangered species' spatial distribution in response to global climate change (GCC) is of great importance for formulating adaptive management, conservation, and restoration plans. However, it is regrettable that previous studies mainly focused on geoclimatic species, while neglected climate-sensitive subterranean taxa to a large extent, which clearly hampered the discovery of universal principles. In view of this, taking the endemic troglophile riverine fish Onychostoma macrolepis (Bleeker, 1871) as an example, we constructed a MaxEnt (maximum-entropy) model to predict how the spatial distribution of this endangered fish would respond to future climate changes (three Global Climate Models × two Shared Socio-economic Pathways × three future time nodes) based on painstakingly collected species occurrence data and a set of bioclimatic variables, including WorldClim and ENVIREM.

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Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease, and treatment is guided by biomarker profiles representing distinct molecular subtypes. Breast cancer arises from the breast ductal epithelium, and experimental data suggests breast cancer subtypes have different cells of origin within that lineage. The precise cells of origin for each subtype and the transcriptional networks that characterize these tumor-normal lineages are not established.

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Background: Minimal change disease (MCD) is one of the most common primary glomerular disorders with high serum IgE levels. This study was aimed to investigate the clinical features of different serum IgE levels in pediatric MCD and evaluate the prognostic significance of serum IgE levels with regard to remission and relapse in pediatric cohort.

Methods: This study enrolled 142 new-onset children diagnosed with biopsy-proven MCD from January 2010 to December 2021 at the Jinling Hospital in Nanjing, China.

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Tree Recovery by Dynamic Programming.

IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell

December 2023

Tree-like structures are common, naturally occurring objects that are of interest to many fields of study, such as plant science and biomedicine. Analysis of these structures is typically based on skeletons extracted from captured data, which often contain spurious cycles that need to be removed. We propose a dynamic programming algorithm for solving the NP-hard tree recovery problem formulated by (Estrada et al.

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Background: C1q nephropathy is a relatively rare glomerulonephritis characterized by dominant mesangial deposition of C1q. Even though C1q nephropathy has been described for more than three decades, the clinicopathological features and renal outcomes remain unclear. C1q nephropathy may present diverse morphological patterns, including focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and, the notion of C1q nephropathy as a separate disease entity is still debated.

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Over the past centuries, freshwater fish introductions and extinctions have been the major environmental and ecological crises in various water bodies in China. However, consequences of such crises on freshwater fish biodiversity in China remain only partially or locally studied. Furthermore, identifications of relatively sensitive areas along with stressors (i.

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The morphological characteristics of the GaN nonpolar sidewalls with different crystal plane orientations were studied under various TMAH wet treatment conditions, and the effect of different morphological features on device carrier mobility was modeled and analyzed. After TMAH wet treatment, the morphology of the -plane sidewall presents multiplied zigzag triangular prisms along the [0001] direction, which consist of two adjacent plane and -plane on top. While along the [112̅0] direction, the -plane sidewall is represented by thin, striped prisms with three -plane and a -plane on the side.

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Background: Available data on primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) in children usually report on short follow-up and small samples. Furthermore, the application of the Columbia classification for FSGS in children has not yet been fully agreed. We aimed to confirm the prognosis and risk factors of FSGS in a large cohort of Chinese children.

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Introduction: Some patients with primary focal segmental sclerosis (FSGS) demonstrate complement 3 (C3) deposition in glomerular capillary loops (Cap-C3) and/or mesangial area (Mes-C3). The clinicopathological and prognostic significance of C3 deposition remains incompletely investigated, especially in the pediatric cohort.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 264 children of biopsy-proven primary FSGS between January 2003 and December 2020.

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Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) aim to detect associations between genetically predicted gene expression and complex diseases or traits through integrating genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping studies. Most current TWAS methods analyze one gene at a time, ignoring the correlations between multiple genes. Few of the existing TWAS methods focus on survival outcomes.

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Background: Minimal change disease (MCD) is the most common pathological subtype of pediatric idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS). It has been suggested that IgM deposition might predict kidney function deterioration in the course of MCD. However, the specific role of IgM deposition in the prognosis of MCD is still controversial.

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Background: HBV-related acute-on-chronic liver failure (HBV-ACLF) is the most common type of liver failure with high mortality. Artificial liver support system (ALSS) is an important mean to reduce the mortality of HBV-ACLF but lacking index to assess its effectiveness. The cytokines are closely related to the prognosis of HBV-ACLF patients with ALSS treatment, however, which is not fully understood.

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Transcriptome-wide association studies aim to integrate genome-wide association studies and expression quantitative trait loci mapping studies for exploring the gene regulatory mechanisms underlying diseases. Existing transcriptome-wide association study methods primarily focus on 1 gene at a time. However, complex diseases are seldom resulted from the abnormality of a single gene, but from the biological network involving multiple genes.

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