Publications by authors named "Yanlian Tan"

Atrial septal defects (ASDs) are the most common types of cardiac septal defects in congenital heart defects. In addition to traditional therapy, interventional closure has become the main treatment method. However, the molecular events and mechanisms underlying the repair progress by occlusion device remain unknown.

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Immune escape is one of the hallmarks of cancer. While metabolic reprogramming provides survival advantage to tumor cancer cells, accumulating data also suggest such metabolic rewiring directly affects the activation, differentiation and function of immune cells, particularly in the tumor microenvironment. Understanding how metabolic reprogramming affects both tumor and immune cells, as well as their interplay, is therefore critical to better modulate tumor immune microenvironment in the era of cancer immunotherapy.

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The current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected >160 million individuals to date, and has caused millions of deaths worldwide, at least in part due to the unclarified pathophysiology of this disease. Identifying the underlying molecular mechanisms of COVID-19 is critical to overcome this pandemic. Metabolites mirror the disease progression of an individual and can provide extensive insights into their pathophysiological significance at each stage of disease.

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Introduction: The association between hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and the development of diabetes remains controversial. This study examined the effect of HBV infection on glucose homeostasis using a duck HBV (DHBV) model.

Methods: Plasma DHBV DNA was detected by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

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Objectives: To clone and characterize the squalene synthase from Siraitia grosvenorii (SgSQS).

Results: The gene encoding SgSQS was cloned. SgSQS has 417 amino acid residues with an pI of 7.

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