Publications by authors named "Xiao-Ni Zhang"

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  • Living fossils are species that have undergone minimal changes over long periods, and this study focuses on the Eupteleaceae plant family to explore their molecular evolution.
  • By using advanced techniques in phylogenomics, comparative genomics, and ecological modeling, researchers created a detailed genome map for Euptelea pleiosperma, revealing its ancient lineage and unique genomic characteristics.
  • The study finds that Eupteleaceae shows the slowest molecular evolution among angiosperms, which is linked to its stable genome structure, ancient growth habits, and specific environmental needs, offering insights into plant adaptation amidst environmental changes.
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The progressive neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is caused by a decline in motor neuron function, resulting in worsened motor impairments, malnutrition, respiratory failure and mortality, and there is a lack of effective clinical treatments. The exact mechanism of motor neuronal degeneration remains unclear. Previously, we reported that ferroptosis, which is characterized by the accumulation of lipid peroxide and glutathione depletion in an iron-dependent manner, contributed to motor neuronal death in ALS cell models with the hSOD1 (human Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase) gene mutation.

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The industrial control data set has many features and large redundancy, which has a certain impact on the training speed and classification results of the neural network anomaly detection algorithm. However, features are independent of each other, and dimension reduction often increases the false positive rate and false negative rate. The feature sequencing algorithm can reduce this effect.

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Introduction: Multiple studies have suggested an association between cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and essential hypertension (EH). MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a critical role in the development of EH by regulating the expression of specific target genes. However, little is known about the role of miRNAs in CMV-induced EH.

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The rotation transmission system (RTS) made from co-axial multi-walled nanotubes (MWNTs) has the function of regulating the input rotation from a nanomotor. The mechanism for the regulation is that the friction among the tubes during rotation governs the rotation of the rotors in the nanosystem. By integrating a rotary nanomotor and a nanobearing into an MWNT-based RTS, it is discovered that the stator (outer tube) provides relatively greater friction on the rotors by penetrating the motor tube, which has a higher stable rotational frequency.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the phenotypic and molecular characterization of a novel plasmid-mediated AmpC-type β-lactamase in Klebsiella pneumoniae E701 isolated from Anhui province in China. In comparison with the ACT-1, sequence analysis revealed that there were 43 point mutations in the coding gene, and 10 of which led to amino-acid substitution. Resistance could be transferred by conjugation or transformation with plasmid DNA into E.

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