Publications by authors named "Wenguang Fu"

Background: Online health-related misinformation poses a serious threat to public health. As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic aggravated the spread of misinformation regarding COVID-19, relevant research has surged.

Objective: To systematically summarize Chinese and English articles regarding health-related misinformation about COVID-19 on social media and quantitatively describe research progress.

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Hyperlipidemia is a common cause of acute pancreatitis (AP), often leading to more severe clinical symptoms. The mortality factor 4-like protein 1 (MORF4L1, also called MRG15) plays a crucial role in regulating lipid metabolism. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the mechanism of MRG15 in hyperlipidemic acute pancreatitis (HAP).

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  • A concerned reader alerted the Editor about issues in a research paper regarding overlapping data in cell migration and invasion assays, suggesting the same data was used multiple times in different contexts.
  • Other compilation errors included failing to label protein data correctly, which further raised concerns about the paper's reliability.
  • As a result of these issues and unsatisfactory explanations from the authors, the Editor decided to retract the paper, apologizing to readers for any confusion caused.
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  • * Sixty male Wistar rats were divided into three groups: an experimental group exposed to diethylnitrosamine to induce HCC, a control group given saline, and a sham group with no treatment. After 12 weeks, HCC developed only in the experimental group.
  • * Analysis revealed that FXR expression was significantly lower in HCC tissue compared
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Oxidative balance plays a pivotal role in physiological homeostasis, and many diseases, particularly age-related conditions, are closely associated with oxidative imbalance. While the strategic role of oxidative regulation in various diseases is well-established, the specific involvement of oxidative stress in atherosclerosis remains elusive. Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by plaque formation within the arteries.

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  • * In mouse models of sepsis, MRG15 was found to increase under septic conditions and correlated with heightened lipid metabolism and inflammation, while knocking it down reduced liver injury.
  • * The findings suggest that inhibiting MRG15 can mitigate liver damage in sepsis by reducing lipid metabolism disruptions and inflammatory responses, highlighting the potential therapeutic role of MRG15 inhibitors like argatroban.
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Background: PDAC, also known as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, is often diagnosed at a late stage due to nonspecific symptoms and a distinct lack of reliable biomarkers for timely diagnosis. Ferroptosis, a novel non-apoptotic cell death mode discovered in recent years, is strongly linked to the progression of PDAC and the evasion of the immune system. The objective of this study is to discover a novel ceRNA biomarker associated with ferroptosis and investigate its possible molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential in PDAC.

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Scope: While probiotics-based therapies have exhibited potential in alleviating alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD), the specific role of postbiotics derived from Lactobacillus reuteri (L. reuteri) in ALD remains elusive. This study aims to investigate the impact of postbiotics on ameliorating alcohol-induced hepatic steatosis and the underlying mechanisms.

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Background: Biliary tract cancer (BTC) is an invasive adenocarcinoma affecting the hepatobiliary system, but high recurrence rates highlight the need for more effective adjuvant approaches. The modified Glasgow prognostic score (mGPS) has been explored as an independent prognostic indicator in patients with BTC. However, consensus on its prognostic value is lacking.

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common malignancy involving multiple cellular components. The CRC tumor microenvironment (TME) has been characterized well at single-cell resolution. However, a spatial interaction map of the CRC TME is still elusive.

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  • Pancreatic cancer (PDAC) has a poor prognosis and pancreatitis is a significant risk factor, highlighting the need for better biomarkers to aid in diagnosis and treatment.
  • Researchers used multiple datasets and advanced algorithms to identify E3 ubiquitin ligases related to pancreatic inflammation and created a risk score model for PDAC patients using LASSO regression.
  • The study found that FBXW11 levels increase with disease progression and are associated with immune cell infiltration, suggesting it may serve as a novel inflammatory biomarker linked to PDAC and pancreatitis.
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Liver fibrosis refers to the excessive buildup of extracellular matrix (ECM) components in liver tissue. It is considered a pathological response to liver damage for which there is no effective treatment. Aloin, an anthraquinone compound isolated from the aloe plant, has shown good pharmacological effects in the treatment of gastric cancer, ulcerative colitis, myocardial hypertrophy, traumatic brain injury, and other diseases; however, its specific impact on liver fibrosis remains unclear.

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Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and vascular endothelial dysfunction have been implicated in the development and progression of atherosclerosis. This study aimed to elucidate the role of iNOS in vascular endothelial dysfunction. Ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry combined with multivariate data analysis was used to characterize the metabolic changes in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) in response to different treatment conditions.

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignancy that is driven by multiple genes and pathways. The aim of this study was to investigate the role and specific mechanism of the actin-interacting protein zyxin (ZYX) in HCC. We found that the expression of ZYX was significantly higher in HCC tissues compared to that in normal liver tissues.

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  • Prolyl hydroxylase domain (PHD3) enzymes are influenced by fasting and help regulate gluconeogenesis (the production of glucose) in the liver by modifying CRTC2, a key protein involved in this process.* ! -
  • The activation of PHD3 leads to hydroxylation of specific proline residues on CRTC2, which is essential for its interaction with CREB (a transcription factor) and the promotion of gluconeogenic gene expression.* ! -
  • Mice lacking PHD3 or having a mutant form show lower levels of glucose production during fasting, indicating the importance of PHD3 in metabolic regulation, and this mechanism may provide new treatment strategies for diabetes and related conditions
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Previous retrospective studies have suggested that surufatinib is effective for treating advanced solid tumors; however, the efficacy and safety of this drug needs to be investigated further via high-quality evidence or randomized controlled trials. In the present study, a meta-analysis was carried out to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of surufatinib for patients with advanced solid tumors. Systematic, electronic literature searches were conducted using PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library and ClinicalTrials.

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Background: Treatment of ER breast cancer with intramuscular formulation of Formestane (4-OHA) shrinks the tumor within weeks. Since the tedious way of intramuscular administration and side effects are not suited for adjuvant treatment, Formestane was withdrawn from the market. A new transdermal formulation of 4-OHA cream may overcome the defects and retain the effect of shrinking the breast cancer tumor.

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Background: Laparoscopic hepatectomy with a small incision, light abdominal wall trauma and rapid postoperative recovery has been widely used in the surgical treatment of benign liver diseases. However, the occurrence of complications, such as deep-vein thrombosis, associated with laparoscopic techniques has raised concerns. This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing the development of a hypercoagulable state in patients following laparoscopic hepatic haemangioma resection.

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Despite the epidemiological association between intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, little is known about the relevant oncogenic effects. A cohort of 32 HBV-infected ICC and 89 non-HBV-ICC patients were characterized using whole-exome sequencing, proteomic analysis, and single-cell RNA sequencing. Proteomic analysis revealed decreased cell-cell junction levels in HBV-ICC patients.

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Background And Aims: NASH has emerged as a leading cause of chronic liver disease. However, the mechanisms that govern NASH fibrosis remain largely unknown. CREBZF is a CREB/ATF bZIP transcription factor that causes hepatic steatosis and metabolic defects in obesity.

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Liver fibrosis is a global health challenge with high morbidity and mortality rates, and diagnostic sensitivity of liver fibrosis tests can be increased using multimodal molecular agents. We designed cyclic arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (cRGD)-modified nanoparticles (NPs) using ultrasound (US)/computed tomography (CT)/magnetic resonance (MR) triple-modality imaging to evaluate liver fibrosis stages. and studies were conducted using primary hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) and a rat model of liver fibrosis induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl).

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Robust strategies to identify patients at high risk for tumor metastasis, such as those frequently observed in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC), remain limited. While gene/protein expression profiling holds great potential as an approach to cancer diagnosis and prognosis, previously developed protocols using multiple diagnostic signatures for expression-based metastasis prediction have not been widely applied successfully because batch effects and different data types greatly decreased the predictive performance of gene/protein expression profile-based signatures in interlaboratory and data type dependent validation. To address this problem and assist in more precise diagnosis, we performed a genome-wide integrative proteome and transcriptome analysis and developed an ensemble machine learning-based integration algorithm for metastasis prediction (EMLI-Metastasis) and risk stratification (EMLI-Prognosis) in ICC.

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Among the diseases of the digestive system, the incidence of acute pancreatitis (AP) has increased. Although the AP is primarily self-limited, mortality remains high when it progressed to severe acute pancreatitis (SAP). Despite significant advances in new drug development, treatments for AP are not ideal.

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Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is caused by alcohol abuse and can progress to hepatitis, cirrhosis, and even hepatocellular carcinoma. Previous studies suggested that ameliorates ALD, but the exact mechanisms are not fully known. This study created an ALD model in mice, and the results showed significantly alleviating lipid accumulation in the mice.

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Hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury (HIRI) is of common occurrence during liver surgery and transplantation. Pinocembrin (PIN) is a kind of flavonoid monomer extracted from the local traditional Chinese medicine Penthorum chinense Pursh (P. chinense).

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Synopsis of recent research by authors named "Wenguang Fu"

  • - Wenguang Fu's recent research primarily focuses on cancer pathology, emphasizing innovative therapeutic targets and mechanisms, particularly in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), through studies involving gene expression and redox signaling pathways.
  • - Notable findings include the identification of new prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets such as FXR, MRP-1, and the ferroptosis-related LINC02535/has-miR-30c-5p/EIF2S1 axis, which interplay with cancer progression and immune infiltration.
  • - Fu's studies also address the complex relationship between oxidative stress and chronic diseases, exploring the metabolic and inflammatory pathways contributing to conditions like atherosclerosis, liver injury, and cancer development.