Publications by authors named "Xie Ze Feng"

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) is a prevalent and aggressive malignancy in the digestive tract, requiring accurate prediction and effective treatment strategies. Recently, the discovery of disulfidptosis, a novel form of programmed cell death characterized by abnormal disulfide accumulation, has sparked interest in its role in PAAD. In this study, we aimed to investigate the involvement of disulfidptosis-related genes (DRGs) in PAAD.

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Plant autotoxicity is considered to be one of the important causes of continuous cropping obstacles in modern agriculture, which accumulates a lot of allelochemicals and xenobiotics and is difficult to solve effectively. To overcome tobacco continuous obstacles, a strain Pigmentiphaga kullae CHJ604 isolated from the environment can effectively degrade these compounds in this study. CHJ604 strain can degrade 11 types of autotoxicity allelochemicals and xenobiotics (1646.

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Lower-grade glioma (LGG), a prevalent malignant tumor in the central nervous system, requires accurate prediction and treatment to prevent aggressive progression. We aimed to explore the role of disulfidptosis-related genes (DRGs) in LGG, a recently discovered form of programmed cell death characterized by abnormal disulfide accumulation. Leveraging public databases, we analyzed 532 LGG tumor tissues (The Cancer Genome Atlas), 1,157 normal samples (Genotype-Tissue Expression), and 21 LGG tumor samples with 8 paired normal samples (GSE16011).

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Background: The utility of circulating tumor DNA to monitor molecular residual disease (MRD) has been clinically confirmed to predict disease recurrence in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients after radical resection. Patients with longitudinal undetectable MRD show a favorable prognosis and might not benefit from adjuvant therapy.

Patients And Methods: The CTONG 2201 trial is a prospective, multicenter, single-arm study (ClinicalTrials.

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignant primary tumor that is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage; thus, there is an urgent need for efficient and sensitive novel diagnostic markers to determine the prognosis and halt disease progression in patients with HCC. Disulfidptosis is a recently discovered form of programmed cell death, essentially an abnormal accumulation of intracellular bisulfides. Therefore, our study aimed to investigate the role of disulfidptosis-related genes (DRGs) in the pathogenesis of HCC.

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Aims: Pandoraea pnomenusa MCB032 completely degrades chlorobenzene, whose metabolic pathway is encoded by cbs and clc gene clusters. The putative regulatory factors ClcR and CbsR are predicted to regulate the cbs and clc gene clusters. This research aims to understand the function of ClcR and CbsR.

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The compound 3,5-xylenol is an essential precursor used in pesticides and industrial intermediate in the disinfectants and preservatives industry. Its widespread application makes it an important source of pollution. Microbial bioremediation is more environmentally friendly than the physicochemical treatment process for removing alkylphenols from a polluted environment.

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Background: Stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) contributes to high mortality rates in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH) populations. Accurate prediction and early intervention of SAP are associated with prognosis. None of the previously developed predictive scoring systems are widely accepted.

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Esophageal cancer (ESCA) is a common malignant tumor with poor prognosis. Accumulating evidence indicates an important role of lysosomal-associated membrane protein 2 (LAMP2) in the progression and development of various cancers. In this study, we obtained RNA-sequencing raw count data and the corresponding clinical information for ESCA samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas and Gene Expression Omnibus databases.

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  • Predatory stress activates the HPA axis, impacting stress hormone levels and immune responses in mice, with a focus on differences between left-pawed and right-pawed mice.
  • The study involved exposing mice to a cat, measuring their stress response through plasma hormones and gene expression analysis after acute and chronic exposure.
  • Results showed that chronic stress significantly elevated stress hormones and altered gene expression, with notable differences in response between the left-pawed and right-pawed mice, suggesting lateralization impacts stress resilience.
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Studies have shown that LPS-preconditioned tolerant state could protect against brain injury to subsequent challenges. We hypothesized astrocytes were directly involved in the readjustment to confer neuroprotective effects with LPS pretreatment. High-mobility group box 1(HMGB-1) from LPS-preconditioned astrocytes, presumably serving as a positive regulator, might contribute to the favorable preconditioned effects.

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In the study presented here, we first evaluated effect of CDDP on liver cancer cells SMMC-7721 apoptosis and motility capacity. Then, we evaluate inhibitory effect of CDDP on tumour growth and its possible molecular mechanism in liver cancer mice model. Results showed that the apoptosis rate of cells decreased with increasing CDDP.

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Background And Objectives: microRNAs (miRNAs), small non-coding RNAs, are always aberrantly expressed in many diseases including human cancers. The aim of this study was to examine and determine the clinical significance of hsa-miR-31, hsa-miR-142-3p, hsa-miR-338-3p, and hsa-miR-1261 expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).

Methods: Expression levels of four selected miRNAs, initially evaluated by microarray, were validated by qRT-PCR.

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Cofilin1 (CFL1) is an actin-modulating protein, which belongs to the ADF/Cofilin family. Neural Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (N-WASP) is the key regulator of the actin cytoskeleton, a member of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein family. They have been suggested to be involved in cancer cell invasion and metastasis.

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