Publications by authors named "Wuwen Zhang"

Accurately understanding the critical elements influencing college students' professional commitment is both an urgent practical requirement and a critical theoretical proposition in today's intensely competitive job market. In order to provide new light on career development in the context of higher education, this study intends to investigate the complex interactions among college students between perceived organizational justice, academic stress, and professional commitment. Using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, regression analysis, and structural equation modeling, we carried out a thorough investigation of H University's full-time undergraduate students in Central China in order to thoroughly examine our hypothesis.

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Background: This study aims to accelerate revision surgery and treatment using X-ray imaging and deep learning to identify shoulder implant manufacturers in advance.

Methods: A feature engineering approach based on principal component analysis and a k-means algorithm was used to cluster shoulder implant data. In addition, a pre-trained DenseNet201 combined with a capsule network (DenseNet201-Caps) shoulder implant classification model was proposed.

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Many clinical studies have shown that embryos of fertilization (IVF) are often prone to developmental arrest, which leads to recurrent failure of IVF treatment. Early embryonic arrest has always been an urgent clinical problem in assisted reproduction centers. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying early embryonic development arrest remain largely unknown.

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The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the differential expression of peptides within the follicular fluid of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) patients normal women by using peptidomics techniques. The underlying mechanisms involved in PCOS pathogenesis will be explored, together with screening and identification of potential functional peptides via bioinformatics analysis. A total of 12 patients who underwent fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) at the Reproductive Medicine Center of Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from 1 September 2022 to 1 November 2022 were included in this study.

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Background: Herein, we aimed to analyse the effects of body mass index (BMI) on the treatment outcomes of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in a cohort of women undergoing their first IVF cycle.

Methods: A total of 2311 cycles from 986 women undergoing their first IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycle with fresh/frozen embryo transfer between January 2018 and December 2021 at the Center of Reproductive Medicine, Shuguang Hospital affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, were considered in this retrospective cohort study. First, the included patients were classified into four groups based on their BMI: underweight (BMI < 18.

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Our previous study had demonstrated that Runx1 promoted LPS-induced macrophage inflammatory response, however, the role of Runx1 in M2 macrophage polarization still remains largely unknown. This study was conducted to investigate the role of Runx1 in IL-4/IL-13-induced M2 macrophage polarization and its potential regulatory mechanism. We found that exposure of macrophages to IL-4/IL-13 induced a remarkable increasement in Runx1 expression level.

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Objective: To observe the effects of electroacupuncture (EA) on ovarian reaction, egg and embryo quality, as well as pregnancy rate in poor ovarian response (POR) patients of kidney essence deficiency and undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET).

Methods: Ninety-six patients who met the inclusion criteria were randomly divided into an EA group and a control group, with 48 cases in each group. Before IVF-ET, the patients in the EA group received EA, once daily, 2 or 3 treatments a week for 12 weeks.

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Around 60% of in vitro fertilized (IVF) human embryos irreversibly arrest before compaction between the 3- to 8-cell stage, posing a significant clinical problem. The mechanisms behind this arrest are unclear. Here, we show that the arrested embryos enter a senescent-like state, marked by cell cycle arrest, the down-regulation of ribosomes and histones and down-regulation of MYC and p53 activity.

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Exosomes play a vital role in cell-cell communication within the cancer microenvironment. Exosomal long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are important regulators in cancer development and are involved in multiple processes, including cancer cell proliferation, angiogenesis, metastasis, drug resistance, and immunomodulation. Changes in the levels of exosomal lncRNAs often appear with the occurrence and development of cancer.

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Study Question: Is CDC26 a key factor in human oocyte aging?

Summary Answer: The lack of CDC26 disrupts the oocytes maturation process, leading to oocyte aging, but these defects could be partially rescued by overexpression of the CDC26 protein.

What Is Known Already: Age-related oocyte aging is the main cause of female fertility decline. In mammalian oocytes, aberrant meiosis can cause chromosomal abnormalities that might lead to infertility and developmental disorders.

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Human embryos of in vitro fertilization (IVF) are often susceptible to developmental arrest, which greatly reduces the efficiency of IVF treatment. In recent years, it has been found that protein arginine methyltransferase 7 (PRMT7) plays an important role in the process of early embryonic development. However, not much is known about the relationship between PRMT7 and developmentally arrested embryos.

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Oocyte ageing is a key bottleneck and intractable challenge for in vitro fertilization treatment of aged female patients. The underlying molecular mechanisms of human oocyte ageing remain to be elucidated. Hence, this study aims to investigate the key genes and relevant biological signalling pathways involved in human oocyte ageing.

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A couple diagnosed as carriers for lamellar ichthyosis, an autosomal recessive rare disease, encountered two pregnancy losses. Their blood samples showed the same heterozygous c.607C>T mutation in the TGM1 gene.

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This article investigated the effects of the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) herbal recipe, Bushen Yutai, on fertilization (IVF) patients subjected to mild ovarian stimulation. Two hundred nineteen infertile patients were randomly divided into 2 groups: the control group and herbal treatment group. By studying, we found estrogen levels (E) on the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) triggering day were significantly lower in the control group ( < 0.

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Sulforaphane (SFN) is a compound derived from cruciferous plants shown to be effective in cancer prevention and suppression. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are known to inhibit anti-tumor immunity; however, whether SFN regulates the anti-tumor activity of MDSCs in breast cancer is still unknown. In the current study, we found that SFN blocked prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) synthesis in parental and doxorubicin (DOX)-resistant breast cancer 4T1 cell lines by activating NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2).

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most frequent cancers occurring in developed countries. Distant CRC metastasis causes more than 90% of CRC-associated mortality. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a key role in regulating tumor metastasis and could be potential diagnostic biomarkers in CRC patients.

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The protein phosphorylation status of exosomes can regulate the activity and function of proteins related to cancer development, and it is highly possible to diagnose cancers through analyzing the protein phosphorylation status. However, monitoring the protein phosphorylation status with a simple and label-free method is still clinically challenging. Here, inspired by beehives, we developed an Au-coated TiO macroporous inverse opal (MIO) structure with an engineered "slow light effect" and thus with outstanding surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) performance.

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This study aimed to excavate the roles of in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A comprehensive strategy of microarray data mining, computational biology and experimental verification were adopted to assess the clinical significance of and identify related pathways. was upregulated in HCC and its expression was positively associated with both tumor, node, metastasis and worse survival rate in patients with HCC.

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α-Fetoprotein is commonly used in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the diagnostic significance of α-fetoprotein has been questioned because a number of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma are α-fetoprotein negative. It is therefore necessary to develop novel noninvasive techniques for the early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma, particularly when α-fetoprotein level is low or negative.

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To investigate the potential biomarkers for venous metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and briefly discuss their target genes and the signaling pathways they are involved in. The dataset GSE6857 was downloaded from GEO. Significantly differentially expressed miRNAs were identified using the R package "limma," After that, the survival analysis was conducted to discover the significance of these up-regulated miRNAs for the prognosis of HCC patients.

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Epiboly spreads and thins the blastoderm over the yolk cell during zebrafish gastrulation. Despite of its fundamental function, little is known about the molecular mechanisms that control this coordinated cell movement. In this study, we investigated protein arginine methyltransferase 7 (Prmt7) morphants with an epibolic delay defect in zebrafish.

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Human in vitro fertilization (IVF) embryos usually have developmental block at 4-8 cell stages, in which only 30%-50% percent of IVF embryos develop to blastocyst stage. This is the main cause for low efficiency and repeated treatment failure in human fertility therapy. Transcription factor CDX2 is one of the key genes in human early embryonic development, which decides the differentiation from blastomere to trophoblastic lineage.

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miRNAs dysregulate in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), showing promise for diagnostic biomarkers which may be found through exploration of differentially expressed miRNAs when comparing HCC and normal liver tissues. In the present research, candidate miRNAs were selected and verified using screening dataset GSE12717 and training dataset GSE10694, respectively. A miRNA combination was constructed using stepwise logistic regression analysis and validated using two datasets GSE74618 and TCGA.

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