Publications by authors named "Yanping Du"

SC1011 (sufenidone) is a novel pyridone derivative with therapeutic potential for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Two Phase 1 studies evaluated the safety and pharmacokinetics of single (SAD) and multiple ascending doses (MAD) of SC1011 immediate-release (IR) and modified-release (MR) oral formulations in healthy adult subjects. In Phase 1a, subjects were randomized to receive oral SC1011 IR or placebo in SAD (50 mg-300 mg) or MAD (100 mg and 200 mg) twice daily for 7 days.

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Introduction: Steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head (SONFH) is a debilitating condition with no specific treatment. Inhibiting osteocyte apoptosis may be a promising therapeutic approach. Shengxue Busui Decoction (SBD) has shown protective effects against SONFH, but its mechanisms are not fully understood.

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Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy, safety, and feasibility of medical thoracoscopy combined with fibrinolytic therapy for the treatment of complicated parapneumonic effusions and empyema, with a focus on therapeutic outcomes and recovery duration.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted involving 108 patients treated at Zhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, between January 2015 and May 2024. Patients were categorized into two groups: the medical thoracoscopy group (n = 33) and the traditional treatment group (n = 75).

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Nowadays, hydrothermal post treatment is a promising method for the modification of g-CN. This paper illustrates the post-treatment modification of g-CN achieved by using a continuous hydrothermal system (CHS) with high heating rates (25-50 °C/s), short residence time (25.2-50.

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is characterized by frequent intrahepatic and distant metastases, resulting in a poor prognosis for patients. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays a pivotal role in this process. However, the expression of NOP2/Sun RNA methyltransferase 5 (NSUN5) in HCC and its role in mediating EMT remain poorly understood.

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  • The paper presents the design of a flexural Mikaelian lens using conformation transformation, aiming to enhance the propagation characteristics of flexural waves.
  • Through simulations and experimental tests, the study confirms the self-focusing abilities of the lens and highlights its nearly diffraction-free Talbot effect for flexural waves.
  • The research suggests the potential for encoding flexural waves with active interference, which could benefit various applications in communication, including structural health monitoring and data transmission in robotics.
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Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of antibiotic bone cement combined with the vacuum sealing drainage (VSD) technique for repairing sacrococcygeal pressure ulcer wounds.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on data from 136 patients treated at Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical College between May 2020 and June 2022. The cases were devided into a control group and a study group according to their treatment regimen.

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  • The study aimed to investigate the relationship between acute-phase reactions (APRs) from the first-time use of zoledronate (ZOL) and its effectiveness in improving bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.* -
  • It involved 108 women, focusing on demographic data, APRs, blood markers, and BMD, and found no direct link between APRs and BMD, but noted that body temperature changes after ZOL treatment correlated positively with BMD improvements at 12 months.* -
  • The research concluded that an increase in body temperature after ZOL administration could indicate better BMD outcomes, with specific temperature thresholds being useful for predicting clinically significant changes in bone density.*
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Immunosuppression characterizes the tumour microenvironment in HCC, and recent studies have implicated RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) in the development of HCC. Here, we conducted a screen and identified RBM12 as a key protein that increased the expression of PD-L1, thereby driving immune evasion in HCC. Furthermore, RBM12 was found to be significantly upregulated in HCC tissues and was associated with a poor prognosis for HCC patients.

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  • Elderly people who inhale foreign objects into their airways often show unusual symptoms, making it hard for doctors to diagnose them correctly.
  • In a study of older patients, most had common symptoms like cough and difficulty breathing, and many foreign objects were food items, especially in the left lung.
  • The doctors achieved a high success rate (96.7%) in removing these objects with a bronchoscope, but some patients needed special techniques or more than one procedure for removal.
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Chinese drug registration laws and regulations have always reserved a place for the new traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) drugs for syndromes, but so far no such new drugs have been approved for registration. This paper expounded on the relevant policies, regulations, and technologies of new TCM drugs for syndromes in China and pointed out that the application of the animal model of TCM syndromes to carry out pharmacodynamics research and clinical efficacy evaluation criteria of TCM syndromes were the main technical difficulties in the research and development of new TCM drugs for syndromes. Not all syndromes are suitable for developing new drugs, and the indications for new TCM drugs should be constant syndromes.

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In practical engineering, the working conditions of gearbox are complex and variable. In varying working conditions, the performance of intelligent fault diagnosis model is degraded because of limited valid samples and large data distribution differences of gearbox signals. Based on these issues, this research proposes a gearbox fault diagnosis method integrated with lightweight channel attention mechanism, and further realizes the cross-component transfer learning.

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Herein, the typical components of blast furnace gas, including HO and O, were introduced to improve the NH-SCR activity of the sulfated CeO-OS catalyst during the gas-phase sulfation of organic COS + CS at 50 °C. The characterization results demonstrate that the introduction of O or HO during gas-phase sulfation enhances the conversion of organic COS + CS on a cubic fluorite CeO surface and reduces the formation of sulfur and sulfates in the catalyst, but decreases the BET surface area and pore volume of the sulfated CeO-OS catalyst. However, the introduction of O or HO during the gas-phase sulfation increases the molar ratios of Ce/(Ce + Ce) and O/(O + O + O) on the sulfated CeO-OS catalyst surface, thus promoting the formation of surface oxygen vacancies and chemisorbed oxygen, and these properties of the catalyst are further enhanced by the co-existence of O and HO.

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We investigated the effect of eldecalcitol on disuse muscle atrophy. C57BL/6J male mice aged 6 weeks were randomly assigned to control, tail suspension (TS), and TS-eldecalcitol-treated groups and were injected intraperitoneally twice a week with either vehicle (control and TS) or eldecalcitol at 3.5 or 5 ng for 3 weeks.

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High dose intravenous vitamin C (IVC) has been proposed as a pro-oxidant anticancer agent. However, there is a lack of biomarkers that are specific for this treatment. Here, we explored profiles of gene expression responding to IVC treatment in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells as an effort for potential biomarker discovery.

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  • * Despite over 20 years of integrating evidence-based methods into TCM, the overall quality of clinical research evidence remains low, and TCM guidelines based on this evidence face poor acceptance among practitioners.
  • * The article suggests developing "clinical syndrome-based medicine" tailored to TCM practices, emphasizing optimal clinical experience and advocating for real-world research methods to better capture TCM's efficacy and safety.
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The human use experience of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) is of great significance for the development of new traditional Chinese medicine. In 2023, the National Medical Products Administration(NMPA) issued the Special Regulations on Registration Management of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which explicitly encouraged the conduct of high-quality human use experience research on TCM clinical practice to obtain sufficient evidence for registration support. It also required that human use experience research should comply with relevant requirements and undergo registration verification.

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Objective: Abundant angiogenesis in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is critical in its malignant course; however, its mechanism is incompletely understood. Meanwhile, the corresponding roles of PIK3R6 molecules in HCC have not been investigated. This study aims to explore the intrinsic mechanism of PIK3R6 and provide theoretical reference for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.

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Because of its long running time, complex working environment, and for other reasons, a gear is prone to failure, and early failure is difficult to detect by direct observation; therefore, fault diagnosis of gears is very necessary. Neural network algorithms have been widely used to realize gear fault diagnosis, but the structure of the neural network model is complicated, the training time is long and the model is not easy to converge. To solve the above problems and combine the advantages of the ResNeXt50 model in the extraction of image features, this paper proposes a gearbox fault detection method that integrates the convolutional block attention module (CBAM).

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  • High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) is studied for its effects on patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) compared to noninvasive ventilation (NIV).
  • Seven randomized controlled trials involving 481 patients showed no significant differences in arterial gas measurements (PaCO, PaO, SpO), mortality, or intubation rates between HFNC and NIV groups.
  • However, the HFNC group exhibited a lower respiratory rate and fewer complications than the NIV group, suggesting HFNC may be a safer option in managing these patients.
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Background: Exploring reliable prediction scoring systems is valuable for the poor prognosis of patients after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Herein, we explored and compared the predictive performance of vasoactive-inotropic score (VIS), vasoactive-ventilation-renal (VVR) score, and modified VVR (M-VVR) score in the poor prognosis of patients undergoing CABG.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed in Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, and data of 537 patients were collected from January 2019 to May 2021.

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Catalyst sintering caused by high temperature operating conditions during ethanol steam reforming (ESR) is a common issue for traditional catalysts with low Tammann temperature metals. In recent years, high entropy oxides have been popular in thermal catalysis due to their special thermodynamics and kinetics characteristics, which is expected to be a suitable approach for enhancing catalyst stability. This paper first reports the application of HEO in ESR and the characterization.

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Ethnic medicine has a rich history of application. Because of the large number of ethnic groups, wide geographical distribution, and unique medical systems in China, the research on the human use experience(HUE) of ethnic medicine should combine the characteristics of ethnic medicine, be based on practical experience, and respect folk practice and tradition. The clinical positioning of ethnic medicine should consider three factors, i.

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Background: Factor (F)XI contributes to thrombosis development while it plays a limited role in normal hemostasis. FXI targeting has the potential for preventing and treating thrombosis with little bleeding risk.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to develop novel antibody therapeutics against FXI for the treatment of thrombosis-related diseases.

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The degree of hemodynamic support by vasoactive drugs in critically ill patients is often considered one of the markers of disease severity. The sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA), European system for cardiac operative risk evaluation II (EuroScore II), and other scores only roughly quantify the drug support of cardiovascular system. When patients need large doses of vasoactive drugs, the mortality increases accordingly.

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