Publications by authors named "Wan-Xia Huang"

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  • Distal pancreatectomy with En-bloc celiac axis resection (DP-CAR) is a complex surgical procedure used to treat advanced pancreatic cancer, particularly when there is tumor invasion of nearby blood vessels.
  • A systematic review of 11 high-quality studies (involving 1072 patients) found that DP-CAR has a lower rate of complete tumor removal (R0 resection) and three-year survival compared to standard distal pancreatectomy (DP), along with higher postoperative mortality and longer surgery and hospital stay times.
  • Despite its drawbacks, DP-CAR may provide better survival and quality of life than palliative treatments, suggesting it could be considered for patients who can handle the significant perioperative risks involved.
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Background: China has a high incidence rate and low survival rate of gastric cancer. Therefore, there is a great need to further identify novel oncogenes and clinically applicable molecular targets for the diagnosis and treatment of this disease.

Methods: Expressions of PRRX1, Smad2, epithelial phenotype marker E-cadherin, and interstitial phenotype vimentin protein in a sample of 64 gastric carcinoma and adjacent nontumorous tissues were detected by immunohistochemistry.

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Collapsing gully is a common phenomenon of hydraulic-gravity combined soil erosion in granite hilly area of south China. The study aimed to explore the relationship between soil hydraulics pro-perties and erosion mechanism and the intrinsic controlling factors. The active, semi-stable, and stable types of granite collapsing gullies in southeastern Guangxi were selected to examine the spatial variation of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity and identify the influencing factors.

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Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) was used to measure the information of water, the terahertz time-domain and frequency spectroscopy, absorbance, refractive index and the complex dielectric permittivity in the frequency range of 0.21-1 THz of various hydrated TiO2 samples with heating for different times. The result reveals that the absorbance of hydrated TiCO2 reduces with heating time increasing, and the location of the absorption peak is corresponded to the refractive index.

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Objectives: To determine whether phase-contrast X-ray imaging can be used to visualise directly the accumulated extracellular matrix proteins associated with liver fibrosis in common bile duct ligated mice.

Methods: Twenty-six-week-old C57BL female mice were randomised into three groups. In groups 1 (n = 5) and 2 (n = 10), common bile duct ligation was conducted to produce secondary biliary cirrhosis.

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Lanthanide-doped nano-TiO2 samples with different Ti/Ln (Ln = Ce, Nd, and Sm) were synthesized by sol-gel method. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction(XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). The results indicate that Ce, Nd, and Sm ions were uniformly dispersed into the TiO2; and the infrared activities of lanthanide-deped nano-TiO2 were much stronger than Undoped nano-TiO2, the refractive index of anatase TiO2 declines with frequency increasing in the frequency range of 0.

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The optical properties of a planar metamaterial with gammadion-shaped chiral symmetry breaking holes array have been investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The results indicate that the introduction of the chiral symmetry breaking causes the split of the transmission peak and exerts large influence on the optical rotation and circular dichroism. Our metamaterials might have potential applications in future design of plasmonic devices.

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We report the transmission anomaly in a modified slit grating, which is dressed, on the slit sidewalls, with the linear chains of metal bumps. An asymmetric lineshape, which is characteristic of the Fano resonance, has been found in a narrow frequency range of the spectrum. The effect can be attributed to the interference between nonresonant background transmission and resonant plasmonic wave excitation in the linear chains.

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Computed tomography of diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI-CT) is a novel x-ray phase-contrast computed tomography which is applied to inspect weakly absorbing low-Z samples. Refraction-angle images which are extracted from a series of raw DEI images measured in different positions of the rocking curve of the analyser can be regarded as projections of DEI-CT. Based on them, the distribution of refractive index decrement in the sample can be reconstructed according to the principles of CT.

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