Publications by authors named "Xiaojing Niu"

Glyphosate is an herbicide commonly used in agriculture, and its widespread use has adversely affected the survival of nontarget organisms. Among these organisms, bees in particular are important pollinators, and declining bee populations have severely affected crop yields around the world. However, the molecular mechanism by which glyphosate harms bees remains unclear.

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Background: The widespread use of glyphosate has many adverse effects on Apis cerana cerana. Due to the incomplete understanding of the molecular mechanisms of glyphosate toxicity, there are no available methods for mitigating the threat of glyphosate to Apis cerana cerana. Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) play an important role in resisting oxidative stress, but their mechanism of action in Apis cerana cerana remains unclear.

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Background: In patients with heart failure (HF), due to the relative deficiency of blood volume, neurohormone system activation leads to renal vasoconstriction, which affects the content of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine (Cr) in the body, while BUN and Cr are easily affected by other factors. Therefore, BUN/Cr can be used as another marker for the prognosis of HF.

Objective: Explore the prognosis of adverse outcome of HF in the high BUN/Cr group compared with the low BUN/Cr group across the full spectrum of ejection fraction.

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Tyrosine aminotransferase (TATN) is the first enzyme involved in the metabolic degradation of tyrosine, and it plays an important role in tyrosine detoxification and helps the body resist oxidative damage. However, the function of TATN in Apis cerana cerana (A. c.

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Background: To investigate the influence of blood pressure (BP) level on short-term prognosis of heart failure (HF), the effect of the BP level on clinical end point events 3 months after discharge was observed.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed on 1492 hospitalized HF patients. All patients were divided according to systolic blood pressure (SBP) per 20 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) per 10 mmHg.

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With the operation and development of social economy, the emergence of network technology has caused a series of changes in contemporary music media and people's conception of music. A series of transformations have occurred. The article focuses on music network communication and the public's music concept and elaborates on the transformation of its concept and its influence, aiming to lay a good foundation for the development of music network communication through the study of the problem.

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The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade pathway plays an important role in regulating stress responses. The function of the c-Jun NH -terminal kinase (JNK), a component of the MAPK cascade pathway, in Apis cerana cerana (Acc) remains unclear. Here, JNK was isolated and identified from Acc.

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Traditional Chinese medicine has certain advantages in the prevention and treatment of diabetic nephropathy (DN); thus, Chinese medicine therapy is considered as a promising strategy for treating DN. Here, the diabetic nephropathy model was established and intervened with Tangshen Decoction to explore its repair effect on diabetic kidney injury and the mechanism of autophagy. Different doses (10, 20 g·kg) of Tangshen Decoction (so-called Tangshen Jian, TSJ) or metformin were used to intervene for 16 weeks.

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