Publications by authors named "Tao Tang"

Background: The oral bioavailability and blood-brain barrier permeability of many herbal products are too low to explain the significant efficacy fully. Gut microbiota and liver can metabolize herbal ingredients to more absorbable forms. The current study aims to evaluate the ability of a novel biotransformation-integrated network pharmacology strategy to discover the therapeutic mechanisms of low-bioavailability herbal products in neurological diseases.

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  • - Blood immune changes after spinal cord injury (SCI) can aid in diagnosing and treating the condition, but research on this in humans is limited.
  • - A study analyzed human blood data to identify immune-related genes and their associated functions, discovering significant differences in immune cell types between SCI patients and healthy controls, as well as varying levels in different SCI grades.
  • - Specific biomarkers, including CKLF, EDNRB, FCER1G, SORT1, and TNFSF13B, were identified for SCI, with certain ones showing diagnostic sensitivity for different grades of injury, suggesting potential for improved clinical applications.
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Background: It is essential to develop better biomarkers for diagnosis, prediction, and treating glioma patients to ensure successful clinical outcomes. The clinical application of Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins (IGFBPs) for glioma is yet to be investigated.

Methods: Cohorts were obtained from TCGA, GTEx, CGGA, HPA, Oncomine, CancerSEA, TISCH, etc.

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Methyl orange dye (MO) is one of the azo dyes, which is not only difficult to degrade but also hazardous to human health, therefore, it is necessary to develop an efficient photocatalyst to degrade MO. In this paper, a facile and low-cost elemental doping method was used for the surface modification of TiC MXene, i.e.

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BACKGROUND Multi-segment herniation of lumbar intervertebral discs is a complex lumbar spine disease, and it is difficult to identify the responsible segment using only magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The present study screened 47 patients with multi-segment lumbar disc herniation (MSLDH) to evaluate coronal magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) of three-dimensional fast-field echo with water-selective excitation to identify the responsible segment of multi-segment lumbar disc herniation (MSLDH) and to assess the accuracy and utility of CMRI. MATERIAL AND METHODS This retrospective study included 44 patients with low back pain or lower-extremity symptoms from January 2019 to December 2021.

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Maintenance of stable mitochondrial respiratory chains could enhance adaptability to high temperature, but the potential mechanism was not elucidated clearly in plants. In this study, we identified and isolated a TrFQR1 gene encoding the flavodoxin-like quinone reductase 1 (TrFQR1) located in mitochondria of leguminous white clover (Trifolium repens). Phylogenetic analysis indicated that amino acid sequences of FQR1 in various plant species showed a high degree of similarities.

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Social and organizational innovations are one of the most effective ways to gain social collaboration for effective, rapid, and coordinated interventions. An analysis of the relationship among organizational performance (OP), social innovations (SI) and organizational innovation (OI) in social organizations (SOs) is little discussed in the literature and much less with main component analysis. This paper is an effort to provide some empirical evidences about social and organizational innovations that social organizations in China have implemented to address the social issues of the society.

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The adverse effects of NO on the environment and human health promote the development of high-performance gas sensors to address the need for monitoring. Two-dimensional (2D) metal chalcogenides have been considered an emerging group of NO-sensitive materials, while incomplete recovery and low long-term stability are the two major hurdles for their practical implementation. The transformation into oxychalcogenides is an effective strategy to alleviate these drawbacks, but usually requires multiple-step synthesis and lacks controllability.

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diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform (DRIFT) spectroscopy was developed for the first time to observe the hydrogen isotope separation behavior at active Cu sites within Cu-MFU-4, and clear evidence of the preferential adsorption of D over H was directly captured. More importantly, our results show direct spectral proof to clarify the chemical affinity quantum sieving mechanism of hydrogen isotope separation within porous adsorbents.

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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) carry out the cellular processes of all living organisms. Experimental methods for PPI detection suffer from high cost and false-positive rate, hence efficient computational methods are highly desirable for facilitating PPI detection. In recent years, benefiting from the enormous amount of protein data produced by advanced high-throughput technologies, machine learning models have been well developed in the field of PPI prediction.

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Introduction: The bulb of , a traditional cough and expectorant medicine, is usually harvested from June to September according to traditional cultivation experience, without practical scientific guidance. Although steroidal alkaloid metabolites have been identified in , the dynamic changes in their levels during bulb development and their molecular regulatory mechanisms are poorly understood.

Methods: In this study, integrative analyses of the bulbus phenotype, bioactive chemical investigations, and metabolome and transcriptome profiles were performed to systematically explore the variations in steroidal alkaloid metabolite levels and identify the genes modulating their accumulation and the corresponding regulatory mechanisms.

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Prostaglandins (PGs) are critically important signaling molecules that play key roles in normal and pathophysiological processes. Many endocrine-disrupting chemicals have been found to suppress PG synthesis; however, studies about the effects of pesticides on PGs are limited. The effects of two known endocrine disrupting herbicides, acetochlor (AC) and butachlor (BC), on PG metabolites in zebrafish () females and males were studied using widely targeted metabolomics analysis based on ultraperformance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS).

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Purpose: To explore the possibility of a combination of dabrafenib and SHP2 inhibitor in the treatment of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma and to provide a new therapeutic strategy for the treatment of anaplastic thyroid cancer.

Patients And Methods: Firstly, a drug resistance model was established, and the expression levels of related RTK were detected by qPCR. Western blot was used to detect the protein expression levels of Akt and MAPK signaling pathways in the control group, single-drug group and two-drug combination group.

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Microcystis aeruginosa causes cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cHABs) in various freshwater environments. Due to global climate change, the cHABs have even spread to estuaries and coasts. Plant-derived flavones have been reported as allelochemicals that efficiently inhibit the growth of M.

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An improved YOLOv5 algorithm for the efficient recognition and detection of asparagus with a high accuracy in complex environments was proposed in this study to realize the intelligent machine harvesting of green asparagus. The coordinate attention (CA) mechanism was added to the backbone feature extraction network, which focused more attention on the growth characteristics of asparagus. In the neck part of the algorithm, PANet was replaced with BiFPN, which enhanced the feature propagation and reuse.

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Structural coloration as the most possible way to realize the ecofriendly dying process for textiles or fabrics has attracted significant attention in the past decades. However, photonic crystals (PCs) are a typical example of materials with structural color usually located on the surface of the fabrics or textiles, which make them not stable when rubbed, bent, or washed due to the weak interaction between the PC coatings and fabrics. Here, double networks were constructed between the PC coatings and the fabrics for the first time via a hydrogen bond by introducing tannic acid (TA) and dynamic cross-linking with 2-formylphenylboronic acid to increase the wash resistance of the structural colored fabrics.

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Introduction: In this study, a new carbon quantum dots-NO (CQDs-NO) that is based on spermidine trihydrochloride and can be used as a nitric oxide donor was prepared using a two-step hyperthermia-intermittent ultrasonic method, after which its healing effect on deep partial-thickness burn wounds was tested in rats.

Materials And Methods: CQDs-NO were prepared by a two-step hyperthermia-intermittent ultrasonic method. NO-released rate and biocompatibility of CQDs-NO were tested.

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A 70-day feeding trial was conducted to study the effects of dietary nucleotide, yeast cell wall (containing 20% β -glucan) and their combination on growth performance, feed utilization and immune response of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) with 69.97 ± 0.05 g of initial body weight.

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Background: To investigate ocular biological characteristics for myopic children with axial length (AL) reduction during orthokeratology (Ortho-K) treatment and provide clinical clues for better myopia control effects.

Methods: Changes in ocular parameters and treatment zone (TZ) in 75 subjects who completed one-year Ortho-K treatment were retrospectively reviewed. The subjects were divided into two groups according to one-year AL change: the AL reduction group (n = 37) and the AL elongation group (n = 38).

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  • - The study investigates the expression profiles of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) and mRNAs after spinal cord injury (SCI) in rats, identifying 5,465 lncRNAs and 8,366 mRNAs that are significantly altered compared to controls.
  • - A support vector machine algorithm was used to pinpoint 40 key lncRNAs and establish a coexpression network with 230,951 lncRNA-mRNA pairs, where many correlate positively, indicating potential regulatory roles.
  • - Functional enrichment analysis highlighted significant pathways related to immune inflammation and nerve cell function, suggesting that dysregulated lncRNAs and mRNAs contribute to the biological processes affected by SCI.
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The blood-brain barrier breakdown, as a prominent feature after traumatic brain injury, always triggers a cascade of biochemical events like inflammatory response and free radical-mediated oxidative damage, leading to neurological dysfunction. The dynamic monitoring the status of blood-brain barrier will provide potent guidance for adopting appropriate clinical intervention. Here, we engineer a near-infrared-IIb AgTe quantum dot-based Mn single-atom catalyst for imaging-guided therapy of blood-brain barrier breakdown of mice after traumatic brain injury.

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  • The study investigates the impact of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification on the immune microenvironment in ligamentum flavum hyperplasia (LFH), a condition affecting the spine.
  • Using RNA analysis from patient samples, researchers identified significant gene changes and explored associations between m6A regulators and immune factors.
  • Ultimately, they discovered key genes related to immune responses in LFH and developed predictive models to assess disease progression based on these findings.
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Femtosecond-laser-assisted cell manipulation, as one of the high throughput cell sorting techniques, is tailored for single-step multiple sorting based on controllable impulsive force. In this paper, femtosecond laser pulses are focused within a pocket structure and they induce an impulse force acting on the flowing objects. The impulsive force is shown to be controllable by a new method to adjust the femtosecond pulse properties.

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Background: The whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) is one of the most economically important pests that cause serious damage to agricultural production by transmitting plant pathogenic viruses. Approximately 90% of the virus species transmitted by the whitefly are members of the genus begomovirus. Ramie mosaic virus (RaMoV) is a new bipartite begomovirus that causes severe damage to ramie and several other economic crops in China.

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A 66 years old male was admitted to our hospital after a serious car accident. The patient presented with severe shock after admission. After the examination, the patient was diagnosed with hemopneumothorax and myocardial contusion, accompanied by spleen rupture.

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