Publications by authors named "XD Fang"

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  • Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a condition marked by high blood sugar levels due to inadequate insulin production, requiring patients to undergo long-term treatment with existing hypoglycemic drugs, which are often ineffective for managing the disease.
  • Traditional weight loss surgeries, like gastric bypass, have strict BMI requirements and can lead to complications such as hypoglycemia and dumping syndrome, reducing their effectiveness for DM treatment.
  • Jejunoileostomy is a newer surgical option showing promise for improving glucose and lipid metabolism without altering the gastrointestinal structure, resulting in fewer complications and better management of DM-related issues, supported by clinical consensus on its surgical and postoperative management.
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The individualized precision management of hereditary pheochromocytoma (PHEO) and paraganglioma (PGL) syndromes (PPGLs) based on molecular diagnosis and molecular subtype is becoming more popular. The newly discovered germline mutation-associated PPGLs are autosomally dominant and rare. To raise awareness and explore the effective management of individual diagnosis and treatment, the relevant literature published between January 2011 and February was systematically reviewed.

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Gout is a self-limiting inflammation disease triggered by deposition of monosodium urate with a variety of comorbidities. With the improvement of living standards, the global incidence of gout is increasing year by year, which seriously affects people's health. As an effective tool to study diseases, omics technology has been widely used to discover potential biomarkers and risk factors of gout.

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  • * Research identifies two main causes of this resistance: inherent characteristics of CRC cells that change during treatment and the suppressive nature of the tumor microenvironment (TME).
  • * Nanotechnology shows promise in overcoming these challenges by improving drug delivery, enhancing the effectiveness of treatments, and reducing side effects, making it a potentially game-changing approach in CRC therapy.
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Background: Primary seminoma of the prostate (PSP) is a rare type of extragonadal germ cell tumour that is easily misdiagnosed, owing to the lack of specific clinical features. It is therefore necessary for clinicians to work toward improving the accuracy of PSP diagnosis.

Case Summary: A 59-year-old male patient presenting with acute urinary retention was admitted to a local hospital.

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Background: Renal interstitial fibrosis (RIF) seriously threatens the health of individuals. MiRNAs regulate the progression of fibrosis. Nevertheless, the detailed function of miR-449a in RIF is largely unknown.

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Purpose: This study aimed to assess the feasibility of synchronous bilateral laparoscopic or open cortical-sparing adrenalectomy (SB-LCSA or SB-OCSA) for bilateral pheochromocytomas (bPHEOs) in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN2).

Methods: Altogether, 31 patients (54.8% were women) were diagnosed with MEN2-related bPHEOs, and 29 of them underwent varying specific adrenalectomies.

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Objectives: To investigate the correlation between the histopathology of the kidney and clinical indicators in patients with lupus nephritis (LN) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Methods: A total 50 female participants were enrolled in the study. Thirty patients with LN were divided into types 2, 3, 4, and 5, according to their pathological features.

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Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common subtype of renal cancer. The top four mutant genes affecting the occurrence and progression of ccRCC are , and , respectively. Tyrosine kinase/mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors (TKI/mTORis) with or without immunotherapy are the standard and effective therapy to metastatic ccRCC.

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Triploids are rare in nature because of difficulties in meiotic and gametogenic processes, especially in vertebrates. The Carassius complex of cyprinid teleosts contains sexual tetraploid crucian carp/goldfish (C. auratus) and unisexual hexaploid gibel carp/Prussian carp (C.

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[Zn(3-tba)], 1, a 1-D coordination polymer synthesised as 1 DMA, 1α, transformed to a nonporous form, 1β, upon activation. 1β underwent further transformation to the dimeric complex [Zn(3-tba)(HO)], 2, above 40% RH. The reverse transformations, 2 to 1β and 1β to 1α, were accomplished by heating and exposure to DMA, respectively, and were single-crystal-to-single-crystal phase changes.

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Plant rhabdoviruses heavily rely on insect vectors for transmission between sessile plants. However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms of insect attraction and transmission of plant rhabdoviruses. In this study, we used an arthropod-borne cytorhabdovirus, Barley yellow striate mosaic virus (BYSMV), to demonstrate the molecular mechanisms of a rhabdovirus accessory protein in improving plant attractiveness to insect vectors.

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  • Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) helps create special structures in cells without membranes, and this study looks at how host proteins affect this process in viruses.
  • Researchers used a virus called BYSMV to show that a host protein called CK1 controls the phase behavior of a viral protein, which can affect how the virus spreads.
  • When the viral protein is not modified by CK1, it forms dense blobs that help the virus replicate, but when modified, it spreads out and doesn’t work as well for the virus.
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The authors aim to investigate the function of circPlekha7 in renal fibrosis. Human renal tissues from chronic kidney disease patients, kidney cell line and primary cultured renal tubular epithelial cells were used. TGF-β1-treated human kidney 2 cells/tubular epithelial cells and a unilateral ureteral obstruction mouse model were employed to study renal fibrosis.

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Recently, reverse genetics systems of plant negative-stranded RNA (NSR) viruses have been developed to study virus-host interactions. Nonetheless, genetic rescue of plant NSR viruses in both insect vectors and monocot plants is very limited. Northern cereal mosaic virus (NCMV), a plant cytorhabdovirus, causes severe diseases in cereal plants through transmission by the small brown planthopper (SBPH, Laodelphax striatellus) in a propagative manner.

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Introduction: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the leading cause of kidney failure worldwide. To explore the pathogenesis and effective biological target of DN is beneficial to seeking novel treatment strategies.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the role of the lncRNA Dlx6os1/SOX6/EZH2 axis in DN progression.

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The brown planthopper (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens), the small brown planthopper (SBPH, Laodelphax striatellus), and the white-backed planthopper (WBPH, Sogatella furcifera) are problematic insect pests and cause severe yield losses through phloem sap-sucking and virus transmission. Barley yellow striate mosaic virus (BYSMV), a plant cytorhabdovirus, has been developed as versatile expression platforms in SBPHs and cereal plants. However, bio-safe overexpression vectors based on recombinant BYSMV (rBYSMV) remain to be developed and applied to the three kinds of planthoppers.

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In recent years, plant virus-based vectors have been widely applied to express heterologous proteins for genomic studies and commercial production. Among these versatile RNA viral vectors, the barley yellow striate mosaic virus (BYSMV)-based expression vector system has outstanding capability to express large and multiple heterologous proteins. Here we describe a detailed protocol for expression of heterologous proteins using BYSMV expression systems in monocot plants and insects.

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With the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technology and computer science, the amount of large omics data has increased exponentially, the advantages of multi-omics analysis have gradually emerged, and the application of artificial intelligence has become more and more extensive. In this review, we introduce the application progress of multi-omics data analysis and artificial intelligence in the medical field in recent years, and also show the cases and advantages of their combined application. Finally, we briefly explain the current challenges of multi-omics analysis and artificial intelligence in order to provide new research ideas for the medical industry and to promote the development and application of precision medicine.

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Intestinal obstruction is one of the most common diseases in abdominal surgery, and its prevention and treatment is a clinical difficulty. Although surgical operation can solve the symptoms of obstruction, there are many postoperative complications, and it is easy to develop re-obstruction due to postoperative abdominal adhesion. The internal fixation of small intestine with obstruction catheter provides a new idea for the prevention of postoperative adhesive bowel obstruction.

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  • - MEN 2A is primarily linked to a specific mutation (RET codon C634) and can lead to Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (MTC), pheochromocytoma (PHEO), and hyperparathyroidism; early diagnosis and treatment are crucial for better outcomes.
  • - A study of 32 family members found that 31.3% had the RET C634Y mutation, with significant differences in MTC diagnosis ages and tumor aggression based on whether symptoms were present or not.
  • - The study concludes that proactive RET screening and careful surgical approaches improve the likelihood of successful treatment in MEN2A patients, recommending laparoscopic adrenal-sparing surgery before total thyroidectomy for PHEO cases.
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Objective: To explore the bidirectional regulation of acupuncture based on a subgroup analysis of multicenter randomized controlled trial of acupuncture with for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Methods: A total of 519 patients were included in the analysis, including 137 patients with constipation type irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-C) (92 cases in the acupuncture group and 45 cases in the polyethylene glycol [PEG] group), and 382 patients with diarrhea type irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) (252 cases in the acupuncture group and 130 cases in the pinaverium group). The patients in the acupuncture group were given acupuncture at Baihui (GV 20), Yintang (GV 29), Tianshu (ST 25), Shangjuxu (ST 37), Zusanli (ST 36), Sanyinjiao (SP 6) and Taichong (LR 3) once every other day, 3 times a week.

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Chiral assemblies by combining natural biomolecules with plasmonic nanostructures hold great promise for plasmonic enhanced sensing, imaging, and catalytic applications. Herein, we demonstrate that human serum albumin (HSA) and porcine serum albumin (PSA) can guide the chiral assembly of gold nanorods (GNRs) with left-handed chiroptical responses opposite to those by a series of other homologous animal serum albumins (SAs) due to the difference of their surface charge distributions. Under physiological pH conditions, the assembly of HSA or PSA with GNRs yielded left-handed twisted aggregates, while bovine serum albumin (BSA), sheep serum albumin, and equine serum albumin behaved on the contrary.

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To explore the effect of perioperative chemotherapy on the prognosis of gastric cancer patients under real-world condition. A retrospective cohort study was carried out. Real world data of gastric cancer patients receiving perioperative chemotherapy and surgery + adjuvant chemotherapy in 33 domestic hospitals from January 1, 2014 to January 31, 2016 were collected.

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Objective: To compare the curative effect on diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) between acupuncture for regulating and strengthening spleen and pinaverium bromide, and explore the relevant mechanism of curative effect of acupuncture in view of polymorphism of 5-hydroxytryptamine transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR).

Methods: A total of 231 patients with IBS-D were randomized into an acupuncture group (154 cases) and a western medication group (77 cases) at the ratio of 2 to 1. In the acupuncture group, acupuncture was applied to acupoint regimen for regulating and strengthening spleen, i.

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