Publications by authors named "Yan-Qin Zhu"

Objective: Frailty is a significant public health issue facing aging societies and can be reduced by physical activity (PA), but the dose-response relationship between PA and frailty is not clear. This systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis aimed to assess the effect of PA on frailty in adults by aggregating data from observational studies.

Methods: PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Scopus, SAGE Reference Online, SinoMed, CINAHL and CNKI were retrieved for articles published before May 2024.

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In spite of recent advances in understanding the mechanism of coelenterate bioluminescence, there is no consensus about which coelenteramide specie and/or state are the light emitter. In this study, a systematic investigation of the geometries and spectra of all possible light emitters has been performed at the TD ωB97XD/6-31+G(d) level of theory, including various fluorescent and chemiluminescent states in vacuum, in a hydrophobic environment and in aqueous solution. To deduce the most probable form of the fluorescent and chemiluminescent coelenteramide emitter, the equilibrium constants for the fluorescent and chemiluminescent states connecting the various species have been calculated.

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  • * The MTT assay revealed that tanshinone IIA significantly inhibited the proliferation of these cancer cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner.
  • * Results showed that tanshinone IIA can induce apoptosis in Ec-109 cells, increasing levels of Caspase-4 and CHOP, suggesting the involvement of the endoplasmic reticulum stress pathway in this process.
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The amidase of Nocardia sp. is one of important industrial enzymes. Based on DNA and protein sequence alignment from different strains, a new gene of amidase was successfully cloned from Nocardia YS-2002, which is widely used for industrial production of acrylamide in China.

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