Publications by authors named "Xinli Shi"

The road traffic volumes are constantly increasing worldwide, leading to significant challenges in maintaining asphalt pavements. Vehicular loads and environmental changes impact asphalt pavements, necessitating suitable predictive models. The International Roughness Index (IRI), a key indicator of road smoothness, requires IRI prediction models for performance analysis.

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The Hippo signaling pathway plays a pivotal role in regulating cell growth and organ size. Its regulatory effects on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) encompass diverse aspects, including cell proliferation, invasion and metastasis, tumor drug resistance, metabolic reprogramming, immunomodulatory effects and autophagy. Yes‑associated protein 1 (YAP1), a potent transcriptional coactivator and a major downstream target tightly controlled by the Hippo pathway, is influenced by various molecules and pathways.

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Background: Dihydroartemisinin (DHA), a derivative of Artemisia annua, has been shown to possess anti-inflammatory properties. Besides, Yes-associated protein 1 (YAP1) plays a crucial role in maintaining liver homeostasis.

Methods: This study used , Albumin-Cre mice with hepatocyte-specific knockout (referred to as ) and their control mice ( , referred to as ).

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Objective: Hepatocellular carcinoma, characterized by high mortality rates, often exhibits limited responsiveness to conventional treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Therefore, identifying a sensitizer for cisplatin has become crucial. Dihydroartemisinin, known for its potent role of tumor treatment, arises as a prospective candidate for cisplatin sensitization in clinical settings.

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In the realm of fully cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), effective communication can induce implicit cooperation among agents and improve overall performance. In current communication strategies, agents are allowed to exchange local observations or latent embeddings, which can augment individual local policy inputs and mitigate uncertainty in local decision-making processes. Unfortunately, in previous communication schemes, agents may potentially receive irrelevant information, which increases training difficulty and leads to poor performance in complex settings.

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Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is experiencing a concerning rise in both incidence and mortality rates. Current therapeutic strategies are limited in their effectiveness, largely due to the complex causes of the disease and significant levels of drug resistance. Given the latest developments in human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs) research, there is a debate over the continued use of stem cell transplantation for treating tumors.

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The Warburg effect, also called aerobic glycolysis, refers to tumor cells that metabolize glucose through glycolysis even in the presence of oxygen. This rapid breakdown of glucose fuels the fast development, growth, and migration of tumor cells. Lactate, the final product of aerobic glycolysis, contributes to an acidic environment within the tumor, promoting the formation of an immunosuppressive microenvironment and accelerating tumor progression by impeding anti-tumor immunity.

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Aerobic glycolysis is a hallmark of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Dihydroartemisinin (DHA) exhibits antitumor activity towards liver cancer. Our previous studies have shown that DHA inhibits the Warburg effect in HCC cells.

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Liver cancer is the third leading of tumor death, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are yielding much for sufferers to hope for patients, but only some patients with advanced liver tumor respond. Recent research showed that tumor microenvironment (TME) is critical for the effectiveness of ICIs in advanced liver tumor.

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Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a common and severe adverse drug reaction that can result in acute liver failure. Previously, we have shown that Lycium barbarum L. (wolfberry) ameliorated liver damage in acetaminophen (APAP)-induced DILI.

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Through the effective application of (EP), to continuously improve the corresponding management tools to ensure the safety and effectiveness of medical device in the quality management system, risk management system, evaluation of safety and effectiveness for the supervision departments and manufacturers. The current status of the application of EP and the application issues are analyzed in the study. Take artificial joint products for example, the idea of using EP in quality management system, risk management system and evaluation of safety and effectiveness is investigated, and several thoughts are proposed.

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We developed a multiplex single-molecule quantitative assay of intracellular telomerase that used target-triggered signal amplification to enhance sensitivity, substrate reaction to increase signal stability, and quantum dots to enhance signal-to-noise ratio, obtaining an LOD of 5 × 10 IU for intracellular telomerase and LOD of 3 cells for multiple cancer cells.

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Recombinant collagen is a pivotal topic in foundational biological research and epitomizes the application of critical bioengineering technologies. These technological advancements have profound implications across diverse areas such as regenerative medicine, organ replacement, tissue engineering, cosmetics and more. Thus, recombinant collagen and its preparation methodologies rooted in genetically engineered cells mark pivotal milestones in medical product research.

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The application of immunotherapy in tumor, especially immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), has played an important role in the treatment of advanced unresectable liver cancer. However, the efficacy of ICIs varies greatly among different patients, which has aroused people's attention to the regulatory mechanism of programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) in the immune escape of liver cancer. PD-L1 is regulated by multiple levels and signaling pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), including gene variation, epigenetic inheritance, transcriptional regulation, post-transcriptional regulation, and post-translational modification.

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A colored traveling salesman problem (CTSP) is a generalization of the well-known multiple traveling salesman problem, which introduces colors to distinguish the accessibility of its cities to salesmen. This work proposes a city/customer-centric model called cumulative capacitated CTSP (C2-CTSP) to tackle some practical problems with fast response requirements. Its hypergraph and mathematical programming formulations are developed for the first time.

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The ossicular replacement prosthesis should have good biocompatibility, stability, easy to install, and excellent sound transmission capacity. In this study, the characteristics of ideal materials for the ossicular replacement prosthesis were analyzed by searching the types of materials used in clinical practice and comparing the advantages and disadvantages of various materials and structures. At the same time, in combination with the current evaluation requirements and evaluation experience, the focus of the performance research project of ossicular replacement prosthesis in the process of registration is discussed to clarify the performance evaluation requirements of these products, so as to provide reference for the future work of manufacturers and regulators.

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DNA nanomachines could initiate the cascade reaction in an autonomous mode under the drive of triggers, which achieve the signal amplification for the bioimaging of intracellular biomarkers. Compared with the "always-on" nanomachine that possibly produces false-positive signals, a controllable nanomachine with the on-site activation could be better for accurate tumor imaging and precise tumor therapy. Till now, the endogenous and exogenous triggers have been developed to design the controllable nanosensors.

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This paper considers a class of multi-agent distributed convex optimization with a common set of constraints and provides several continuous-time neurodynamic approaches. In problem transformation, l and l penalty methods are used respectively to cast the linear consensus constraint into the objective function, which avoids introducing auxiliary variables and only involves information exchange among primal variables in the process of solving the problem. For nonsmooth cost functions, two differential inclusions with projection operator are proposed.

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Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is frequently induced by high dose of acetaminophen (APAP) and is concomitant with disturbances of gut flora. Akkermansia muciniphila is beneficial for the repair of liver injury. Lycium barbarum polysaccharide, yam polysaccharide, and chrysanthemum polysaccharide all have anti-inflammatory and antioxidation effects.

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In recent years, new orthopaedic implantable devices continue to emerge, which require higher requirements for technical evaluation. Animal study is an important part of the research and development process for the new orthopedic implantable devices, which provides relevant evidence for product design and stereotyping. By introducing the purpose of animal study, and the application of 3R principle (replacement, reduction, refinement) in this field, we summarize the concern on the animal study, in order to provide reference for the development and research of new orthopedic implantable devices and biomaterials.

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This study aimed to investigate the clinical significance, biological functions, and underlying mechanisms of CXCL genes in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRcc) based on patient datasets and pan-cancer analysis. The interaction between CXCL genes in ccRcc and immune components, particularly in relation to neutrophil recruitment and polarization mechanisms, was also evaluated. Furthermore, a risk score was developed using a signature for neutrophil polarization.

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This study briefly introduces the revised content of () compared to the original guidance, mainly including the principles of dividing registration unit, main performance indicators of standard specification, physical and mechanical performance research, and clinical evaluation. At the same time, in order to provide some references for the registration of metallic bone plate internal fixation system, this study analyzes the main concerns in the review process of these products based on the accumulation of experience combining with the current review requirements.

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The application of neural network models to solve combinatorial optimization has recently drawn much attention and shown promising results in dealing with similar problems, like Travelling Salesman Problem. The neural network allows to learn solutions based on given problem instances, using reinforcement learning or supervised learning. In this paper, we present a novel end-to-end method to solve routing problems.

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The effect of anti-programmed cell death 1 (anti-PD-1) immunotherapy is limited in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Yes-associated protein 1 (YAP1) expression increased in liver tumor cells in early HCC, and Akkermansia muciniphila abundance decreased in the colon. The response to anti-PD-1 treatment is associated with A.

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