Publications by authors named "Xiaozhou Jia"

Introduction: Astragali Complanati, known in Chinese as Shayuanzi, is a common medicinal material in traditional Chinese medicine, mainly used for tonifying the kidney, supporting yang, consolidating essence, reducing urine and other diseases.

Objective: The UPLC fingerprint of Astragali Complanati Semen (ACS) was established, and the Q-markers of ACS were analyzed by network pharmacology.

Method: First, the UPLC fingerprint detection method was established for ACS, and the common peaks were identified by UPLC-MS/MS.

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Objective: To explore correlation between lipid levels at different stages of pregnancy and outcomes and complications of pregnancy.

Methods: The clinical data of 1000 parturients were retrospectively analyzed. The incidence of perinatal complications was counted, and the blood lipid levels of pregnant women with and without complications during pregnancy were compared.

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Background: Hantaan virus (HTNV) infection can cause severe hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). Inflammatory monocytes (iMOs) are involved in early antiviral responses. Previous studies have found that blood iMOs numbers increase in the acute phase of HFRS.

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Women with polycystic ovary syndrome are prone to develop gestational diabetes mellitus, a disease which may have significant impact on the postpartum health of both mother and infant. We performed a retrospective cohort study to develop and test a model that could predict gestational diabetes mellitus in the first trimester in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Our study included 434 pregnant women who were referred to the obstetrics department between December 2017 and March 2020 with a diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome.

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Objective To investigate the relationship between disease courses and severity and monocyte subsets distribution and surface CD31 intensity in patients of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). Methods Peripheral blood samples from 29 HFRS patients and 13 normal controls were collected. The dynamic changes of classical monocyte subsets (CD14CD16), intermediated monocyte subsets (CD14CD16) and non-classical monocyte subsets (CD14CD16) and the mean fluorescent intensity (MFI) of CD31 on monocyte subsets were detected by multiple-immunofluorescent staining and flow cytometry.

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Introduction: Hantaan virus (HTNV) can cause endothelium injury in hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) patients. Bystander activation of CD8+ T cells by virus infection has been shown that was involved in host injury, but it is unclear during HTNV infection. This project aimed to study the effect of bystander-activated CD8+ T cell responses in HTNV infection.

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Hantaan virus (HTNV) infection causes an epidemic of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) mainly in Asia. Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are innate-like T lymphocytes known to play an important role in innate host defense during virus infection. However, their roles and phenotypes during HTNV infection have not yet been explored.

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  • Hantaan virus (HTNV) leads to hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), predominantly affecting Asia, and the study investigates the role of double positive T (DP T) cells in the immune response to this virus.
  • Researchers found that HTNV infection increases the number of DP T cells in the blood, with their levels linked to the progression of the disease.
  • The study utilized advanced techniques like flow cytometry and scRNA-seq to profile DP T cells, revealing their anti-viral functions similar to cytotoxic T cells (CTL), and highlighted their potential role in fighting the infection.
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Background: Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) induced by Hantaan virus infection and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) are associated with symptoms such as thrombocytopenia and thrombosis. However, related molecules, such as anti-platelet factor 4 (PF4)/heparin antibodies, in patients with HFRS have not been evaluated.

Objectives: To test plasma levels of anti-PF4/heparin antibodies and study the possible role of these antibodies in HFRS pathogenesis.

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This study was to explore the value of the deep dictionary learning algorithm in constructing a B ultrasound scoring system and exploring its application in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of pernicious placenta previa (PPP). 60 patients with PPP were divided into a low-risk group (severe, implantable) and high-risk group (adhesive, penetrating) according to their clinical characteristics, B ultrasound imaging characteristics, and postpartum pathological examination results. Under PPP ultrasonic image information using the deep learning algorithm, the B ultrasound image diagnostic scoring system was established to predict the depth of various types of placenta accreta.

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  • Hantaan orthohantavirus (HTNV) causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), leading to acute kidney injury and hemorrhaging; the role of neutrophils, the body's primary immune cells, in HFRS is still under investigation.
  • In this study, researchers measured plasma levels of myeloperoxidase (MPO) and MPO-DNA in HFRS patients, finding that plasma MPO levels significantly increased during the acute phase and in severe cases, while MPO-DNA levels remained unchanged.
  • Additionally, higher plasma MPO levels correlated with various inflammatory and kidney injury indicators, and neutrophil-platelet aggregates (NPAs) were found to be elevated in both acute
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  • * Researchers isolated peripheral blood mononuclear cells from HFRS patients and used single-cell RNA sequencing, revealing that many RBCs were actually nucleated red blood cells (NRBCs) and that higher NRBC counts correlated with more severe disease.
  • * The study suggested that issues with the folate pathway might explain the presence of NRBCs and marked the first observation that HTNV infection disrupts RBC maturation, enhancing our understanding of HFRS pathology.
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Objectives: Preeclampsia is one of the most feared complications of pregnancy, which can progress rapidly to serious complications such as death of both mother and fetus. To present, the leading cause of preeclampsia is still debated. The purpose of this article was to explore the clinical significance of S100B protein, a kind of Ca2+ -sensor protein, in the early-onset severe preeclampsia.

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Ethnopharmacological Relevance: In China, Hordei Fructus Germinatus (HFG) is the germinated and dried fruit of Hordeum vulgare L, which is commonly used in clinical Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory holds that HFG can be both medicinal and edible, which means that it is derived from food medicine. Raw HFG and roasted HFG are used to treat hypogalactia, hyperprolactinemia and indigestion.

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