Publications by authors named "Xudong Luo"

Despite their efficacy, opioids have long been associated with risks of addiction, tolerance, and dependence, leaving an unmet clinical need for pain treatment. Efforts have been devoted to developing novel classes of pain-relieving medication that outperform current options in terms of pain relief, side-effect profiles, and potential for abuse, but with limited success. Recent advances in the neurobiology of pain have shed light on the potential of targeting non-opioid receptors involved in pain processing.

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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is well known as a coenzyme involved in many redox reactions in cellular energy metabolism, or as a substrate for many NAD-consuming enzymes, including those that generate the second messenger cyclic ADP-ribose or deacetylate proteins (e.g., histones).

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Coagulation factor XIa is a new serine-protease family drug target for next-generation anticoagulants. With the snake venom Kunitz-type peptide BF9 as the scaffold, we obtained a highly active XIa inhibitor BF9-N17K in our previous work, but it also inhibited the hemostatic target plasmin. Here, in order to enhance the selectivity of BF9-N17K toward XIa, four mutants, BF9-N17K-L19A, BF9-N17K-L19S, BF9-N17K-L19D, and BF9-N17K-L19K, were further designed using the P2' amino acid classification scanning strategy.

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To investigate the effect of the filter device on the cleanliness of molten steel and the flow field distribution within the tundish. The tundish filters were designed into five groups of pores with 20°, 25°, 30°, 35° and 40° elevation angles, and the flow field distribution and impurity removal rate of molten steel were calculated by Discrete Phase Model (DPM). The results showed that the removal rate of impurity in the molten steel could be significantly improved by using the tundish filter with elevation angle.

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Colonic barrier dysfunction and inflammation arising from dysbiosis gut microbiota (GM) are strongly associated with a high-fat diet (HFD). Yellow leaf green tea (YLGT), a novel variety of etiolated-green tea, improving the intestinal barrier and inflammation is related to the regulation of GM disorders. To explore the ameliorative mechanism of YLGT, mice were fed an HFD with or without YLGT at doses of 150, 300, and 450 mg kg for 12 weeks.

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  • Recent research suggests that the coagulation system in mammals helps defend against bacterial infections by trapping bacteria in clots and producing antimicrobial peptides.
  • A study identified a new bacterial exotoxin called F6W77, which contains five Kunitz-type domains that have similarities to animal but not plant proteins.
  • Evaluation of these Kunitz-domain peptides revealed that KABP1 and KABP5 effectively inhibit specific coagulation factors, indicating a new mechanism by which bacteria may evade the host's defense system.
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Thermally stable full-length scorpion toxin peptides and partially degraded peptides with complete disulfide bond pairing are valuable natural peptide resources in traditional Chinese scorpion medicinal material. However, their pharmacological activities are largely unknown. This study discovered BmKcug1a-P1, a novel N-terminal degraded peptide, in this medicinal material.

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With the rapid progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Pre-trained Language Models (PLM) such as BERT, BioBERT, and ChatGPT have shown great potential in various medical NLP tasks. This paper surveys the cutting-edge achievements in applying PLMs to various medical NLP tasks. Specifically, we first brief PLMS and outline the research of PLMs in medicine.

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A dendritic neuron model (DNM) is a deep neural network model with a unique dendritic tree structure and activation function. Effective initialization of its model parameters is crucial for its learning performance. This work proposes a novel initialization method specifically designed to improve the performance of DNM in classifying high-dimensional data, notable for its simplicity, speed, and straightforward implementation.

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The ESKAPE pathogen-associated antimicrobial resistance is a global public health issue, and novel therapeutic strategies are urgently needed. The short cationic antimicrobial peptide (AMP) family represents an important subfamily of scorpion-derived AMPs, but high hemolysis and poor antimicrobial activity hinder their therapeutic application. Here, we recomposed the hydrophilic face of Ctriporin through lysine substitution.

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Viruses are one of the leading causes of human disease, and many highly pathogenic viruses still have no specific treatment drugs. Therefore, producing new antiviral drugs is an urgent matter. In our study, we first found that the natural wasp venom peptide Protopolybia-MP III had a significant inhibitory effect on herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) replication by using quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR), Western blotting, and plaque-forming assays.

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Background: Yellow leaf green tea (YLGT) is a new variety of Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Ktze, which has yellow leaves and the unique qualities of 'three green through three yellow'.

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Background: Achieving endoscopic and histological remission is a critical treatment objective in ulcerative colitis (UC). Nevertheless, interobserver variability can significantly impact overall assessment performance.

Objectives: We aimed to develop a deep learning algorithm for the real-time and objective evaluation of endoscopic disease activity and prediction of histological remission in UC.

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  • Biologically active peptides, particularly mastoparans from wasp venom, show potential for drug development due to their various biological effects, but their hemolytic activity poses challenges for clinical use.
  • A study of 55 mastoparans revealed differing levels of hemolytic activity, with 18 exhibiting strong, 14 moderate, and 23 minimal hemolytic effects, highlighting molecular diversity among these peptides.
  • Further analysis indicated that hydrophobicity is key to hemolytic activity, and four specific mastoparans (Parapolybia-MP, Mastoparan-like peptide 12b, Dominulin A, and Dominulin B) were identified as promising
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Background: Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a serious chronic mental disorder. Our previous case-control genetic association study has shown that microRNA-137 (miR-137) may only protect females against SCZ. Since estrogen, an important female sex hormone, exerts neuroprotective effects, the relationship between estrogen and miR-137 in the pathophysiology of SCZ was further studied in this study.

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Our previous study data suggested that the synapse-associated protein 97 (SAP97) rs3915512 polymorphism is significantly related to clinical performance in schizophrenia. The cerebellum exhibits abundant expression of SAP97, which is involved with negative symptoms, cognition and emotion in schizophrenia. As functional dysconnectivity with the cortical-subcortical-cerebellar circuitry has been widely shown in patients with schizophrenia, cortical-subcortical-cerebellar dysconnectivity can therefore be considered a possible intermediate phenotype that connects risk genes with schizophrenia.

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To construct a strong classifier ensemble, base classifiers should be accurate and diverse. However, there is no uniform standard for the definition and measurement of diversity. This work proposes a learners' interpretability diversity (LID) to measure the diversity of interpretable machine learners.

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Recently, the pandemic caused by COVID-19 is severe in the entire world. The prevention and control of crimes associated with COVID-19 are critical for controlling the pandemic. Therefore, to provide efficient and convenient intelligent legal knowledge services during the pandemic, we develop an intelligent system for legal information retrieval on the WeChat platform in this paper.

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  • * The research identified and categorized 55 wasp mastoparan family peptides into four subfamilies, establishing a peptide library and assessing their ability to induce mast cell degranulation.
  • * Results showed variability in degranulation activity among the peptides, and the study highlighted the importance of amino acid composition and C-terminal modification in determining this activity, paving the way for future research and development.
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Background: Emerging evidence suggests that the DOCK4 gene increases susceptibility to schizophrenia. However, no study has hitherto repeated this association in Chinese, and further investigated the relationship between DOCK4 and clinical symptoms in schizophrenic patients using clinical scales and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Methods: In this study, we genotyped three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs2074127, rs2217262, and rs2074130) within the DOCK4 gene using a case-control design (including 1289 healthy controls and 1351 patients with schizophrenia).

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Background: Angiogenesis is an important mechanism of recovery from ischemic stroke. Recent studies have found that there is a close relationship between the VEGF/Notch pathway and angiogenesis. It is unknown whether EA can exert a brain protection effect and promote angiogenesis by acting on the VEGF/Notch signaling pathway after focal cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury (CIRI).

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Rationale: Zinner syndrome (ZS) is a rare congenital malformation of the urogenital tract that is associated with seminal vesicle cysts, ejaculatory duct obstruction, and ipsilateral renal agenesis. This unique condition was first reported by Zinner (1914). ZS is caused by malformation of the distal mesonephric duct during embryogenesis.

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Background: In recent years, more and more people suffer from depression and anxiety. These symptoms are hard to be spotted and can be very dangerous. Currently, the Self-Reported Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Self-Reported Depression Scale (SDS) are commonly used for initial screening for depression and anxiety disorders.

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There is little attention paid to stochastic tree networks in comparison with the corresponding deterministic analogs in the current study of fractal trees. In this paper, we propose a principled framework for producing a family of stochastic growth tree networks possessing fractal characteristic, where t represents the time step and parameter m is the number of vertices newly created for each existing vertex at generation. To this end, we introduce two types of generative ways, i.

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Schistosoma japonicum is a parasitic worm that lives in the mesenteric vein of its host and feeds on blood, suggesting that it might be a natural resource of novel anticoagulants. Here, by comprehensive analyses of the genomic sequences of Schistosoma japonicum, a new Kunitz-type gene precursor was identified. The Kunitz-type gene precursor codes for an 18-residue signal peptide and a 60-residue mature peptide.

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