Publications by authors named "Yamei Xiao"

Background: Traditional nursing care often fails to meet the complex needs of hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage patients. Limited evidence exists on the efficacy of structured nursing frameworks such as the Omaha System in postoperative care for these patients.

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of Omaha-based extended nursing care in improving patients' outcomes.

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GCN2-eIF2α signaling pathway plays crucial roles in cell growth,development, and protein synthesis. However, in polyploid fish, the function of this pathway is rarely understood. In this study, genes associated with the GCN2-eIF2α pathway (pkr, pek, gcn2, eif2α) are founded lower expression levels in the triploid crucian carp (3nCC) muscle compared to that of the red crucian carp (RCC).

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  • * Researchers used zebrafish, a common lab fish, to study how certain tiny molecules called miRNAs affect male reproductive issues and found 36 miRNAs that were different in unhealthy fish.
  • * One specific miRNA, labeled NC_007115.7.998413, was linked to lower sperm counts and poor fertilization rates by affecting a gene called spata2, helping to understand male fish reproduction better.
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Pluripotency is a transient state in early embryos, which is regulated by an interconnected network of pluripotency-related genes. The pluripotent state itself seems to be highly dynamic, which leads to significant differences in the description of induced pluripotent stem cells from different species at the molecular level. With the application of cell reprogramming technology in fish, the establishment of a set of molecular standards for defining pluripotency will be important for the research and potential application of induced pluripotent stem cells in fish.

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The technique of induced pluripotent stem cells has significant application value in breeding and preserving the genetic integrity of fish species. However, it is still unclear whether the chemically induced pluripotent stem cells can be induced from non-mammalian cells or not. In this article, we first verify that fibroblasts of fish can be chemically reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells.

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In our previous research, SP600125 (Anthrapyrazolone) was used to induce autotetraploid of crucian carp cells (SP4N cells), and tetraploid fry was generated from the SP4N cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer technique. However, it is still unclear about biological characteristics of the SP4N cells. In this article, the cytological characteristic and gene expression profiles of the SP4N cells are investigated in comparison with the crucian carp cells (2N cells) and the tetraploid crucian carp cells (CC4N cells).

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Previous research has indicated that triploid crucian carp (3n fish) have preferential resistance to cadmium (Cd) compared to . (2n fish). In this article, comparative research is further conducted between the 2n and 3n fish in terms of the immune response to Cd-induced stress.

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Previous studies have suggested that 1,9-Pyrazoloanthrone, known as SP600125, can induce cell polyploidization. However, what is the phase of cell cycle arrest caused by SP600125 and the underlying regulation is still an interesting issue to be further addressed. Research in this article shows that SP600125 can block cell cycle progression at the prometaphase of mitosis and cause endomitosis.

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Background: Reference genes are usually stably expressed in various cells and tissues. However, it was reported that the expression of some reference genes may be distinct in different species. In this study, we intend to answer whether the expression of reported traditional reference genes changes or not in the polyploid fish RESULTS: By retrieving the mRNA sequencing data of three different ploidy fish from the NCBI SRA database, we selected 12 candidate reference genes, and examined their expression levels in the 10 tissues and in the four cell lines of three different ploidy fish by real-time PCR.

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Previous studies have suggested that artificially induced triploid zebrafish are exclusively male-biased. Owing to greatly inhibited gonadal development for the artificially induced triploid fish, they are regarded to be sterile in general. In this article, partially fertile bisexual triploid zebrafish are produced by suppressing extrusion of the second polar body by heat shock.

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Polyploidization often leads to "transcriptome shock," and is considered an important factor in evolution of species. Analysis of the cell cycle, which is associated with survival in polyploidy, has proved useful in investigating polyploidization. Here, we used mRNA sequencing to investigate global expression (in cultured cells) and (in fin and liver tissues) in both the diploid and tetraploid red var.

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It has been shown that reciprocal cross allodiploid lineage with sub-genomes derived from the cross of (BSB) × (TC) generates the variations in phenotypes and genotypes, but it is still a challenge to deeply mine biological information in the transcriptomic profile of this lineage owing to its genomic complexity and lack of efficient data mining methods. In this paper, we establish an optimization model by non-negative matrix factorization approach for deeply mining the transcriptomic profile of the sub-genomes in hybrid fish lineage. A new so-called spectral conjugate gradient algorithm is developed to solve a sequence of large-scale subproblems such that the original complicated model can be efficiently solved.

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Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells provide a powerful platform for the study of development, regeneration, and disease. Although many stable iPS cell lines have been established for mammals, few attempts have been made to induce iPS cells in nonmammalian species. Because of technical advantages over other vertebrates on stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells from fish could be of value for research.

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Background: Cadmium is a major heavy metal pollutant. Even at low concentrations in waste water Cadmium can accumulate in algae and sediments, and it is absorbed by both plants and aquatic animals, like shellfish and fish. Triploid crucian carp is an important economic fish, and have been farmed on a large scale in China.

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Previous research has indicated that the small compound, SP600125, could induce polyploidy of fish cells, and has established a stable tetraploid cell line from diploid fish cells. In order to explore how fish cells maintain homeostasis under SP600125-stress in vitro, this study investigates impacts of SP600125-stress on intracellular pathways, as well as on regulation of the cellular homeostasis feedback in fish cells. Transcriptomes are obtained from the SP600125-treated cells.

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  • Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is typically inherited maternally, with paternal mtDNA usually eliminated after fertilization to prevent complications in embryo development.
  • A study compared the behavior of fertilization-delivered and microinjected paternal mtDNA in goldfish and zebrafish embryos, finding that mtDNA from different sources (sperm, heart, liver) persisted and was transcribed when microinjected, unlike fertilization-delivered sperm mtDNA which exhibited early elimination.
  • The research suggests that the method of delivery plays a crucial role in the fate of paternal mtDNA and may be influenced by specific factors from sperm, shedding light on mitochondrial inheritance and its implications for embryonic development in fish.
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Background: Crucian carp is a popular ornamental strain in Asia with variants in body color. To further explore the genetic mechanisms underlying gray and red body color formation in crucian carp, the skin transcriptomes and partial DNA methylation sites were obtained from red crucian carp (RCC) and white crucian carp (WCC). Here, we show significant differences in mRNA expression and DNA methylation sites between skin tissues of RCC and WCC.

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Red crucian carp (Carassius auratus red var.) is an ornamental fish with vivid red/orange color. It has been found that the adult body color of this strain forms a gray-to-red change.

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Background: The gene encodes an 18-kD subunit of mitochondria complex I, and mutations in this gene lead to the development of a severe neurodegenerative disease called Leigh syndrome (LS) in humans. To investigate the disease phenotypes and molecular mechanisms of Leigh syndrome, the knockout (KO) mouse has been widely used as a novel animal model. Because the homozygotes cannot survive beyond child-bearing age, whether and mitochondrial complex I influence early embryonic development remains unknown.

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Melanocyte stem cells are a population of immature cells which sustain the self-renewal and replenish the differentiated melanocytes. In this research, a light-colored region (LCR) is observed at the heel of caudal fin in juvenile crucian carp. By cutting off the caudal fin, the operated caudal fin can regenerate in accordance with the original pigment pattern from the retained LCR.

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Polyploidy has many advantages over diploidy, such as rapid growth, sterility, and disease resistance, and has been extensively applied in agriculture and aquaculture. Though generation of new polyploids via polyploidization has been achieved in plants by different ways, it is comparatively rare in animals. In this article, by a chemical compound, SP600125, polyploidization is induced in fish cells in vitro, and a stable autotetraploid cell line has been generated from diploid fibroblast cells of crucian carp.

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Background: The establishment of the bisexual fertile fish hybrid lineage including the allodiploid and allotetraploid hybrids, from interspecific hybridization of red crucian carp (Carassius auratus red var. 2n = 100, 2n = AA) (♀) × common carp (Cyprinus carpio L. 2n = 100, 2n = BB) (♂), provided a good platform to investigate genetic relationship between the parents and their hybrid progenies.

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The rat is an important animal model in biomedical research, but practical limitations to genetic manipulation have restricted the application of genetic analysis. Here we report the derivation of rat androgenetic haploid embryonic stem cells (RahESCs) as a tool to facilitate such studies. Our approach is based on removal of the maternal pronucleus from zygotes to generate androgenetic embryos followed by derivation of ESCs.

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The rat is an important animal model for human disease research. Using inhibitors of glycogen synthase kinase 3 and MAPK signaling pathways, rat embryonic stem cells and rat induced pluripotent stem cells (riPSCs) have been derived. However, unlike rat embryonic stem cells, germ line competent riPSCs have only been derived from Wistar rats at low efficiency.

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c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) is one of the mitogen-activated protein kinases. Previous studies showed that the JNK is involved in signaling pathways initiating cell cycle, and eventually, causing apoptosis through persistent activation in mammals. In this article, it is further revealed that the jnk1 gene is closely related with the embryonic development and organogenesis in zebrafish.

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