Publications by authors named "Wenxiao Hu"

Medicine and food homology culture has a long history in China. With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, there has been a growing investment in health care, leading to significant development in the health industry. Medicinal and food homologous substances, receiving increasing attention, have become the breakthrough and mainstay of the health industry, with broad prospects for related industries.

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Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Goji berry is a general term for various plant species in the genus Lycium. Goji has long been historically used in traditional Chinese medicines. Goji is a representative tonic medicine that has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidney and benefiting the essence and eyesight.

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'Red Meat Honey Crisp (RMHC)' has been widely cultivated by growers in recent years due to its early maturity, and red meat type characteristics. As a bud variant of 'Super Red (SR)' peach, red flesh is the most distinctive characteristic of 'Red Meat Honey Crisp (RMHC)'. However, the mechanism of red flesh formation in 'RMHC' remains unclear.

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In recent years, the rapid progress in the field of GaN-based power devices has led to a smaller chip size and increased power usage. However, this has given rise to increasing heat aggregation, which affects the reliability and stability of these devices. To address this issue, diamond substrates with nanostructures were designed and investigated in this paper.

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The histone acetyltransferase (HAT) Gcn5 ortholog is essential for a variety of fungi. Here, we characterize the roles of Ada2 and Ada3, which are functionally linked to Gcn5, in the insect-pathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana. Loss of and led to severe hyphal growth defects on rich and minimal media and drastic decreases in blastospore yield and conidiation capacity, with abnormal conidia-producing structures.

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As an important chitin-modifying enzyme, chitin deacetylase (CDA) has been characterized in many fungi, but its function in the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana remains unclear. Three CDAs with conserved domains of the carbohydrate esterase 4 (CE-4) family were identified in B. bassiana.

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As a well-established technique, DNA synthesis offers interesting possibilities for designing multifunctional nanodevices. The micro-processing system of modern semiconductor circuits is dependent on strategies organized on silicon chips to achieve the speedy transmission of substances or information. Similarly, spatially localized structures allow for fixed DNA molecules in close proximity to each other during the synthesis of molecular circuits, thus providing a different strategy that of opening up a remarkable new area of inquiry for researchers.

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Introduction: The high glucose changes caused by diabetes mellitus (DM) can damage the vascular system. Astragaloside IV (AS-IV) can improve diabetes and promote angiogenesis. Exosomes (EXOs) help to carry specific drugs into cells efficiently.

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Background: Molecular logic gate always makes use of fluorescent dyes to realize fluorescence signals. The labeling of the fluorophore is relatively expensive, resulting in low yield, and singly labeled impurities affect the affinity between the target and the aptamer. Label-free fluorescent aptamer biosensor strategy has attracted widespread interest due to lower cost and simplicity.

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Herein, we designed a label-free fluorescent aptasensor based on triple-helix DNA and G-quadruplex for carbohydrate antigen (CA15-3) detection. The triplex-helix structure can be formed with inserted G-rich DNA (IG) and aptamer DNA (Apt), which like a "lock" to lock the G-rich sequences. The CA15-3 was the "key", which specifically combined with aptamer sequences of Apt, resulting in liberating IG from the triplex-helix "lock".

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The monitoring and control of mycotoxins has caused widespread concern due to their adverse effects on human health. In this research, a simple, sensitive and non-label fluorescent aptasensor has been reported for mycotoxin ochratoxin A (OTA) detection based on high selectivity of aptamers and amplification of non-enzyme hybridization chain reaction (HCR). After the introduction of OTA, the aptamer portion of hairpin probe H1 will combine with OTA to form OTA-aptamer complexes.

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Objective: To investigate the effects of Bushen Shugan Recipe (BSSGR), a compound traditional Chinese herbal medicine, in regulating the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian axis (HPOA) in a rat model of stress-induced anorexia.

Methods: Anorexia was induced in rats by the methods of separation, diet restriction and constraint. Rats were divided into 4 groups randomly: control group, untreated group, sham-operated group and BSSGR group.

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