Publications by authors named "Tiancheng Ma"

As research into the mechanisms of orthopedic diseases continues to deepen, the shortcomings of traditional single-target the-rapies are becoming increasingly apparent. Consequently, the search for multi-target drugs has become the mainstream research direction for orthopedics-related diseases. Artemisinin, a sesquiterpene lactone compound extracted from Artemisia annua, has led to the gradual synthesis of various derivatives such as dihydroartemisinin, artesunate, artemether, and arteether.

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Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Trollius chinensis Bunge has a long history of use in China as traditional Chinese medicine and functional tea for the treatment of respiratory infections, such as pharyngitis, tonsillitis and bronchitis. Pharyngitis can impact the entire throat and adjacent lymphoid tissues, and may lead to significant systemic complications. However, the active components and mechanism of Trollius chinensis Bunge for treating acute pharyngitis remains unclear.

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Background: Estrogen receptor (ER) signaling plays an important role in the development and functional differentiation of the breast and participates in the process of breast cancer. Activated ER can affect various aspects of the cell's behavior, including proliferation, via modulating the expression of many downstream target genes. Phosphorylation is one of the activation pathways of ER.

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Hormonal necrosis of the femoral head is caused by long-term use of glucocorticoids and other causes of abnormal bone metabolism, lipid metabolism imbalance and blood microcirculation disorders in the femoral head, resulting in bone trabecular fracture, bone tissue necrosis collapse, and hip dysfunction. It is the most common type of non-traumatic necrosis of the femoral head, and its pathogenesis is complex, while impaired blood circulation is considered to be the key to its occurrence. There are a large number of microvessels in the femoral head, among which H-type vessels play a decisive role in the "angiogenesis and osteogenesis coupling", and thus have an important impact on the occurrence and development of femoral head necrosis.

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Current treatments for orthopaedic illnesses frequently result in poor prognosis, treatment failure, numerous relapses, and other unpleasant outcomes that have a significant impact on patients' quality of life. Cell-free therapy has emerged as one of the most promising options in recent decades for improving the status quo. As a result, using exosomes produced from various cells to modulate ferroptosis has been proposed as a therapeutic method for the condition.

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Hecogenin (HCG), a steroidal sapogenin, possesses good antitumor properties. However, the application of HCG for cancer treatment has been hindered primarily by its moderate potency. In this study, we incorporated triphenylphosphonium cation (TPP) at the C-3 and C-12 positions through different lengths of alkyl chains to target mitochondria and enhance the efficacy and selectivity of the parent compound.

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Thermal feedback plays an important role in tactile perception, greatly influencing fields such as autonomous robot systems and virtual reality. The further development of intelligent systems demands enhanced thermosensation, such as the measurement of thermal properties of objects to aid in more accurate system perception. However, this continues to present certain challenges in contact-based scenarios.

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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the protective effects of cordymin on osteoporosis induced by hindlimb unloading(HLU) in rats and whether cordymin can prevent bone loss from HLU.

Materials And Methods: We employed the hindlimb suspension rats model to mimic physiological changes concomitant with space travel.The mechanical strength in the femoral neck,cancellous bone volume, gut microbiota structure,serum calcium and phosphorus contents, bone mineral content and bone mineral content can be changed after hindlimb unloading.

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Objectives: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is correlated with poor clinical outcomes in spinal surgery. However, the effect of it on screw stabilization has not been investigated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the screw loosening rate and postoperative outcomes in diabetic patients and to identify potential risk factors associated with loosening.

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MEMS gyroscopes are one of the core components of inertial navigation systems. The maintenance of high reliability is critical for ensuring the stable operation of the gyroscope. Considering the production cost of gyroscopes and the inconvenience of obtaining a fault dataset, in this study, a self-feedback development framework is proposed, in which a dualmass MEMS gyroscope fault diagnosis platform is designed based on MATLAB/Simulink simulation, data feature extraction, and classification prediction algorithm and real data feedback verification.

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Objective: To assess the clinical efficacy of three different surgical approaches in the treatment of thoracolumbar tuberculosis.

Methods: A total of 138 patients with thoracolumbar tuberculosis treated by open surgery were retrospectively analyzed. The surgical methods were divided into anterior, posterior and anterior-posterior combined.

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Article Synopsis
  • - This study investigates how Wei-Tong-Xin (WTX) affects the inflammatory response in macrophages initiated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and its impact on GLP-1 secretion in GLUTag cells.
  • - The research found that WTX reduces the polarization of macrophages to the inflammatory M1 type while increasing the anti-inflammatory M2 type, and it does this by inhibiting the TLR4/MyD88 signaling pathway.
  • - Ultimately, the findings suggest that WTX has anti-inflammatory effects by modulating macrophage polarization, which negatively influences GLP-1 secretion from GLUTag cells.
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Compressed hydrogen-rich compounds have received extensive attention as appealing contenders for superconductors. Here, we found several stable hydrides YZrH, YZrH, YZrH and YZrH, and a series of metastable clathrate hexahydrides in the systematic investigation of Y-Zr-H ternary hydrides under pressure. Electron-phonon coupling calculations indicate that they all exhibit high temperature superconductivity and perform better than the binary Zr-H system.

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Microphthalmia transcription factor (MITF) regulates melanocyte development and is the "lineage-specific survival" oncogene of melanoma. MITF is essential for melanoma initiation, progression, and relapse and has been considered an important therapeutic target; however, direct inhibition of MITF through small molecules is considered impossible, due to the absence of a ligand-binding pocket for drug design. Here, our structural analyses show that the structure of MITF is hyperdynamic because of its out-of-register leucine zipper with a 3-residue insertion.

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Scholars have used the experience economy to analyze the behavior of tourists. However, in the field of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) tourism, the relationship between the experience economy and the behavior intention of tourists has not been studied. Scholars also point out that the relationship between the four dimensions of the experience economy is not static, and that aesthetic experience may be predictive of other dimensions.

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Traditional chemical synthesis methods are cumbersome and inefficient. In this study, a novel antitumor molecule, 4-(4-(3-((6,7-bis(2-methoxyethoxy)quinazolin-4-yl)amino)phenyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)phenyl sulfurofluoridate (P19G1), was identified by screening a library of Erlotinib derivatives synthesized by modular click chemistry, and the antitumor activity and underlying mechanism of P19G1 were further revealed. A series of Erlotinib derivatives (840 compounds) were synthesized using a modular click-chemistry method, and then the thiazolyl blue (MTT) method was used to screen and evaluate the inhibitory effect of these compounds on the growth and metastasis of A549 lung adenocarcinoma cells.

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The World Health Organization predicts that over the next several years, depression will become the most important mental health issue globally. Growing evidence shows that the flower buds of Baroni () possess antidepressant properties. In the search for new anti-depression drugs, a total of 15 phenylpropanoids and 22 flavonoids were isolated and identified based on spectral data (1D and 2D NMR, HR-ESI-MS, UV) from .

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The government's development of eco-environmental policies can have a scientific foundation thanks to the fine particulate matter (PM) medium- and long-term change forecast. This study develops a STRIPAT-Scenario analysis framework employing panel data from 11 cities in Zhejiang Province between 2006 and 2020 to predict the changing trend of PM concentrations under five alternative scenarios. The results reveal that: (1) urbanization development (), economic development (), technological innovation investment () and environmental regulation intensity have a significant inhibitory effect on PM concentration in Zhejiang Province, while industrial structure, industrial energy consumption and the number of motor vehicles () have a significant increase on PM concentration.

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Ent-abietane diterpenoids are the main active constituents of . In the continuing search for new anti-breast cancer drugs, 11 ent-abietane diterpenoids (-) were isolated from . The structures of these compounds were clearly elucidated on the basis of 1D and 2D NMR spectra as well as HRESIMS data.

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Article Synopsis
  • Researchers isolated two new differential epimers, crenatosides A and B, and ten known phenylethanoid glycosides from the plant Cistanche tubulosa.
  • The structures of these compounds were determined using various advanced techniques, making them the first reported natural products with unique glycoside structures.
  • In biological assays, crenatosides A and B were found to significantly inhibit nitric oxide production in mouse microglial cells, showcasing their potential pharmacological effects with IC values of 5.62 μM and 6.30 μM, respectively.
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Background: Deficit irrigation (DI) is a feasible strategy to enhance crop WUE and also has significant compensation effects on yield. Previous studies have found that DI has great potential to maintain crop production as full irrigation (FI) does. Therefore, adopting DI to improve crop production and safeguard groundwater resources is of great importance in water scarce regions, e.

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Ethnopharmacological Relevance: The prescription of Wei-Tong-Xin (WTX) is improved based on the prescription "Wanyingyuan", a famous decoction documented in the book of Huatuozhongzangjing in the Han dynasty. Many years of clinical verification have demonstrated that WTX can be used to treat gastrointestinal diseases, especially gastric ulcer (GU). However, the potential pharmacological mechanism is undefined.

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CRISPR-based genome engineering tools are associated with off-target effects that constitutively active Cas9 protein may instigate. Previous studies have revealed the feasibility of modulating Cas9-based genome- and base-editing tools using protein or small-molecule CRISPR inhibitors. Here we screened a set of small molecule compounds with irreversible warhead, aiming to identifying small-molecule modulators of CRISPR-Cas9.

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