Publications by authors named "Xinqi Cao"

Traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) is a severe injury to the central nervous system that is categorized into primary and secondary injuries. Among them, the local microenvironmental imbalance in the spinal cord caused by secondary spinal cord injury includes accumulation of cytokines and chemokines, reduced angiogenesis, dysregulation of cellular energy metabolism, and dysfunction of immune cells at the site of injury, which severely impedes neurological recovery from spinal cord injury (SCI). In recent years, single-cell techniques have revealed the heterogeneity of multiple immune cells at the genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic levels after tSCI, further deepening our understanding of the mechanisms underlying tSCI.

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Avian pathogenic (APEC), a widespread bacterium, results in serious economic losses to the poultry industry annually, and it poses a threat to human health due to the contaminated retail poultry meat and eggs. Recently, it has been demonstrated that long non-coding RNAs played important roles in regulating gene expression and the animal immune response. This study aimed to systematically explore the function of the novel long intergenic non-coding transcript, lincRNA-73240, upon APEC infection.

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Colibacillosis, a bacterial disease caused by avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC), is a prevalent condition in the poultry industry, resulting in substantial economic losses annually. Previously, we identified PTEN as a crucial candidate gene that may play a significant role in chicken's immune response to APEC infection.

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Avian pathogenic (APEC) causes localized and systemic infections and are a threat to human health. microRNAs (miRNAs) play critical roles in inflammation and immune regulation following pathogen invasion. However, the related regulatory mechanism remains unclear.

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Ammonia acts as a detrimental atmospheric pollutant, posing a sever threat to respiratory tract health and causing lung injury in humans and animals. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a distinctive class of non-coding RNA generated by back-splicing of linear RNA, implicated in various biological processes. However, their role in the immune response of chicken lungs to ammonia exposure remains unclear.

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Background: Avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) can cause localized or systemic infections, collectively known as avian colibacillosis, resulting in huge economic losses to poultry industry globally per year. In addition, increasing evidence indicates that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a critical role in regulating host inflammation in response to bacterial infection.

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The lipid matrix plays a key role in solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) embedding active ingredients. To investigate the influence of lipid matrix structure on arrangement, release, and stability of solid lipid nanoparticles, three phytosterols formulations with different carrier glycerides [glycerol monostearate (GMS), glycerol distearate (GDS), and glycerol tristearate (GTS)] were prepared and evaluated. X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry revealed the lowest crystallinity of phytosterols in the GMS matrix, corresponding to the maximum bioaccessibility (40.

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