Publications by authors named "XiangHong Zhang"

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  • - Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a harmful mycotoxin classified as a possible human carcinogen that can lead to DNA damage, genomic instability, and cell cycle disruptions.
  • - A study on immortalized human gastric epithelial cells (GES-1) revealed that OTA exposure triggers G phase arrest and enhances the expression of DNA repair protein hMLH1, along with phosphorylation of p53 and p21.
  • - Inhibiting hMLH1 with siRNA prevented the activation of the p53-p21 signaling pathway and reversed the G phase arrest caused by OTA, highlighting the critical role of the hMLH1-p53-p21 pathway in this process.
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  • Type II congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) is a rare lung problem that usually needs surgery, but some medicines can help too.
  • The study looks at genes related to CPAM by comparing lung tissue from patients who had surgery, using special techniques to find important genes.
  • They found over 2,600 genes that might be linked to CPAM, and certain cells in the lungs were found to communicate a lot, which could help understand and treat this condition better.
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  • - This study investigates the resistance levels of the spider mite Tetranychus cinnabarinus to the pesticide fenpropathrin in various field populations in China, highlighting the difference between indoor and outdoor resistance cases.
  • - It finds minimal significant resistance in field populations compared to documented cases indoors and emphasizes the limitations of traditional methods in detecting early resistance, advocating for a combination of bioassays and advanced genetic analysis techniques.
  • - The research suggests that a 5% mutation frequency is critical for resistance development, and while a specific mutation is detected at low rates, the study proposes RNA interference as a promising, environmentally friendly pest control strategy to combat rising resistance threats in agriculture.
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Neuromorphic visual systems can emulate biological retinal systems to perceive visual information under different levels of illumination, making them have considerable potential for future intelligent vehicles and vision automation. However, the complex circuits and high operating voltages of conventional artificial vision systems present great challenges for device integration and power consumption. Here, bioinspired synaptic transistors based on organic single crystal phototransistors are reported, which exhibit excitation and inhibition synaptic plasticity with time-varying.

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Background: Circular ribose nucleic acids (circRNAs), an abundant type of noncoding RNAs, are widely expressed in eukaryotic cells and exert a significant impact on the initiation and progression of various disorders, including different types of cancer. However, the specific role of various circRNAs in colorectal cancer (CRC) pathology is still not fully understood.

Methods: The initial step involved the use of quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) to assess the expression levels of circRNAs and messenger RNA (mRNA) in CRC cell lines and tissues.

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In the era of the Internet and the Internet of Things, display technology has evolved significantly toward full-scene display and realistic display. Incorporating "intelligence" into displays is a crucial technical approach to meet the demands of this development. Traditional display technology relies on distributed hardware systems to achieve intelligent displays but encounters challenges stemming from the physical separation of sensing, processing, and light-emitting modules.

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Bone is one of the most frequent sites for metastasis in breast cancer patients. Bone metastasis significantly reduces the survival time and the life quality of breast cancer patients. Germacrone (GM) can serve humans as an anti-cancer and anti-inflammation agent, but its effect on breast cancer-induced osteolysis remains unclear.

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Inspired by the retina, artificial optoelectronic synapses have groundbreaking potential for machine vision. The field-effect transistor is a crucial platform for optoelectronic synapses that is highly sensitive to external stimuli and can modulate conductivity. On the basis of the decent optical absorption, perovskite materials have been widely employed for constructing optoelectronic synaptic transistors.

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Sarcoma is a malignant tumor that originates from mesenchymal tissue. The common treatment for sarcoma is surgery supplemented with radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, patients have a 5-year survival rate of only approximately 60%, and sarcoma cells are highly resistant to chemotherapy.

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Reservoir computing has attracted considerable attention due to its low training cost. However, existing neuromorphic hardware, focusing mainly on shallow-reservoir computing, faces challenges in providing adequate spatial and temporal scales characteristic for effective computing. Here, we report an ultra-short channel organic neuromorphic vertical transistor with distributed reservoir states.

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Controllable fluorocarbon chain elongation (CFCE) is a promising yet underdeveloped strategy for the well-defined synthesis of structurally novel polyfluorinated compounds. Herein, the direct and efficient trifluorovinylation and pentafluorocyclopropylation of aldehydes are described by using TMSCFBr (TMS = trimethylsilyl) as the sole fluorocarbon source, accomplishing the goals of CFCE from C to C and from C to C, respectively. The key to the success of these CFCE processes lies in the unique and diversified chemical reactivity of TMSCFBr, which can serve as two different precursors, namely, a TMSCF radical precursor and a difluorocarbene precursor.

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Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a mycotoxin commonly found in several food commodities worldwide with potential nephrotoxic, hepatotoxic and carcinogenic effects. We previously showed for the first time that OTA treatment enhanced glycolysis in human gastric epithelium (GES-1) cells in vitro. Here, we found that OTA exposure activated inflammatory responses, evidenced by increasing of NF-κB signaling pathway-related protein (p-p65 and p-IκBα) expressions and elevating of inflammatory cytokine (IL-1β and IL-6) mRNA expressions in GES-1 cells.

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In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, China has long adhered to the "Dynamic Zero COVID-19" strategy till the end of 2022. To understand the mechanism of this strategy, we used the case of the Yangzhou summer outbreak in 2021 and a multi-stage dynamical model incorporating city-wide and key area testing-trace-isolation (TTI) strategies. We defined two time-varying indexes for measuring the disease transmission risk and the public health prevention and control force, respectively, which allowed us to explore the mechanisms of TTI policies.

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Anoikis is a specific form of programmed cell death induced by the loss of cell contact with the extracellular matrix and other cells, and plays an important role in organism development, tissue homeostasis, disease development and tumor metastasis. We comprehensively investigated the expression patterns of anoikis-related genes (ARGs) in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) from public databases. Anoikis-related prognostic signatures were established based on four ARGs expression, in which KIRC patients were assigned different risk scores and divided into two different risk groups.

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Synaptic devices that mimic biological synapses are considered as promising candidates for brain-inspired devices, offering the functionalities in neuromorphic computing. However, modulation of emerging optoelectronic synaptic devices has rarely been reported. Herein, a semiconductive ternary hybrid heterostructure is prepared with a D-D'-A configuration by introducing polyoxometalate (POM) as an additional electroactive donor (D') into a metalloviologen-based D-A framework.

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Objectives: To investigate the risk factors of postoperative neuro-developmental abnormalities in neonates with critical congenital heart disease (CCHD).

Methods: Clinical data of 50 neonates with CCHD admitted in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine from November 2020 to December 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. Neurological assessment was performed with cranial ultrasonography, CT/MRI, video electroencephalogram and clinical symptoms before and after surgical treatment for all patients, and neurodevelopmental abnormalities were documented.

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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has achieved great success in cancer treatment. Despite its great promise, the efficacy of photodynamic immunotherapy can be limited by the hypoxia in solid tumors which is closely related to the abnormal tumor vasculature. These abnormal vasculatures are a hallmark of most solid tumors and facilitate immune evasion.

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Rapid economic development has led to increasingly serious air quality problems. Accurate air quality prediction can provide technical support for air pollution prevention and treatment. In this paper, we proposed a novel encoder-decoder model named as Enhanced Autoformer (EnAutoformer) to improve the air quality index (AQI) prediction.

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  • Researchers have developed a bilayer 2D molecular crystal (2DMC) heterojunction to enhance bidirectional synaptic behaviors in optoelectronic devices used for neuromorphic vision systems.
  • The device demonstrates ambipolar properties and high responsivity to weak light, successfully enabling excitatory and inhibitory synaptic behaviors through varying gate voltages.
  • Additionally, this technology shows promising applications in motion detection, achieving over 90% accuracy in recognizing vehicles, which could advance intelligent bionic devices and future artificial vision systems.
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Aflatoxin G (AFG), a member of the aflatoxin family with cytotoxic and carcinogenic properties, is one of the most common mycotoxins occurring in various agricultural products, animal feed, and human foods and drinks worldwide. Epithelial cells in the gastrointestinal tract are the first line of defense against ingested mycotoxins. However, the toxicity of AFG to gastric epithelial cells (GECs) remains unclear.

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Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer. We recently reported that inflammation-driven lung adenocarcinoma (IDLA) originates from alveolar type (AT)-II cells, which depend on major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II to promote the expansion of regulatory T cells. The MHC class II-associated invariant chain (CD74) binds to the macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), which is associated with promoting tumor growth and invasion.

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TSC-mTORC1 inhibition-mediated translational reprogramming is a major adaptation mechanism upon many stresses, such as low-oxygen, -ATP, and -amino acids. But how cancer cells hijack the adaptive pathway to survive under low-lactate stress when targeting glycolysis-related signaling remains uncertain. ETV4 is an oncogenic transcription factor frequently dysregulated in human cancer.

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Devices with sensing-memory-computing capability for the detection, recognition and memorization of real time sensory information could simplify data conversion, transmission, storage, and operations between different blocks in conventional chips, which are invaluable and sought-after to offer critical benefits of accomplishing diverse functions, simple design, and efficient computing simultaneously in the internet of things (IOT) era. Here, we develop a self-powered vertical tribo-transistor (VTT) based on MXenes for multi-sensing-memory-computing function and multi-task emotion recognition, which integrates triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) and transistor in a single device with the simple configuration of vertical organic field effect transistor (VOFET). The tribo-potential is found to be able to tune ionic migration in insulating layer and Schottky barrier height at the MXene/semiconductor interface, and thus modulate the conductive channel between MXene and drain electrode.

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  • The text discusses the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and oxidative stress in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) as a precursor for immunogenic cell death (ICD), crucial for cancer immunotherapy.
  • Researchers have developed nanoparticles (NP-I-CA-TPP) designed to target mitochondria, which play a significant role in cellular stress signaling and ICD induction.
  • These nanoparticles enhance ROS effects in cancer cells, leading to mitochondrial oxidative stress, increased cancer cell apoptosis, and the activation of the immune response against tumors.
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Selective attention is an efficient processing strategy to allocate computational resources for pivotal optical information. However, the hardware implementation of selective visual attention in conventional intelligent system is usually bulky and complex along with high computational cost. Here, programmable ferroelectric bionic vision hardware to emulate the selective attention is proposed.

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