Publications by authors named "Yi Li Zheng"

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  • Exercise has been shown to help reduce neuropathic pain (NP) through various mechanisms, including inflammation and neurochemical changes.
  • Neuroglia, which are cells that support and maintain neurons, play a significant role in the development of NP and can be influenced by exercise.
  • The article aims to provide insights into how understanding neuroglia’s role can inform effective exercise treatment strategies for managing NP.
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  • * Voltage-gated calcium ion channels (VGCCs), particularly the α2δ subunit, are crucial in the development and regulation of NP, impacting pain signaling and neuronal excitation.
  • * Although antiepileptic drugs like gabapentin and pregabalin target the α2δ subunit to manage NP, side effects limit their clinical use, highlighting the need for more research on effective treatments with fewer adverse reactions.
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  • - Neuropathic pain (NP), caused by issues in the somatosensory system, significantly affects function and quality of life, with neuroinflammation being a key factor in its persistence.
  • - Exercise is an effective non-drug treatment recommended for chronic NP, as it has been shown to reduce inflammation, although the precise ways it works are still not fully understood.
  • - Review findings indicate that exercise can positively alter neuroinflammation by reducing proinflammatory cytokines, enhancing anti-inflammatory responses, and modulating immune system activity, contributing to pain relief in NP models.
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To examine the associations between (i) various types of physical activity and the risk of back pain incidence, and (ii) the influence of substituting sedentary behaviours with physical activities on back pain incidence. A prospective cohort study. We analyzed UK Biobank data collected from 365,307 participants who were free of back pain at baseline.

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Background: The effect of physical therapy on pain and disability alleviation in patients with chronic low back pain (cLBP) has been demonstrated, but the risk factors for treatment failure remain unknown.

Aim: To explore the associations of baseline demographic and clinical characteristics with treatment failure after physical therapy intervention for cLBP.

Design: A secondary analysis of a single-blind randomized clinical trial.

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Low back pain (LBP) is a common symptom that can occur in all ages. It is the first common cause of disability globally and is associated with over 60 million disability-adjusted life-years in a single year. Motor control exercise (MCE) has obtained increasing attention in treating LBP.

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Finding new biomarkers and molecular targets to guide OA treatment remains a significant challenge. One of the most frequent forms of RNA methylation, N-methyladenosine (mA), can affect gene expression and RNA transcription, processing, translation, and metabolism. Osteoarthritis (OA) can cause disability and pain degenerative disease, reduce the quality of life of the elderly, and increase the social and economic burden.

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Diabetic neuropathic pain (DNP) is a common disease that affects the daily lives of diabetic patients, and its incidence rate is very high worldwide. At present, drug and exercise therapies are common treatments for DNP. Drug therapy has various side effects.

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  • Osteoporosis (OP) is a bone disease primarily affecting postmenopausal women, leading to weakened bones and high morbidity due to an imbalance in bone formation and resorption.
  • Factors like aging, estrogen deficiency, and lack of movement disrupt normal bone metabolism, causing increased bone resorption by osteoclasts.
  • Moderate exercise serves as a beneficial non-drug intervention for OP, promoting bone formation by influencing apoptosis, autophagy, and epigenetic processes, as well as stimulating mesenchymal stem cells to differentiate into bone-forming cells.
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Objective: To conduct a bibliometric analysis of trends and frontiers on exercise-based non-pharmacological treatments for movement disorders published between 2010 and 2021.

Methods: The Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection database was searched for articles published between 2010 and 2021. The CiteSpace software was used for in-depth analysis of the countries, institutions, journals, and collaboration networks among authors and their types of articles, developmental directions, references, and hot keywords of published articles.

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Background: Diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP) is a usual complication of diabetes with a high incidence and mortality. Many diabetes-related studies have been published in various journals. However, bibliometrics and visual analyses in the domain of DPNP research are still lacking.

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Exercise can help inhibition of neuropathic pain (NP), but the related mechanism remains being explored. In this research, we performed the effect of swimming exercise on the chronic constriction injury (CCI) rats. Compared with CCI group, the mechanical withdrawal threshold of rats in the CCI-Swim group significantly increased on the 21st and 28th day after CCI surgery.

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Neuropathic pain (NP) is poorly managed, and in-depth mechanisms of gene transcriptome alterations in NP pathogenesis are not yet fully understood. To determine microRNA-related molecular mechanisms of NP and their transcriptional regulation in NP, PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) were searched from inception to April 2021. Commonly dysregulated miRNAs in NP were assessed.

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Neuropathic pain (NP) results from a lesion or disease of the nervous system and accompanied by chronic pain, leading a serious public health issue and economic burden. In terms of the NP mechanisms remaining poorly understood, circular RNAs (circRNAs), owing to their high stability and evolutionary conservation, are expected to be used as potential therapeutic targets or diagnostic biomarkers. In this review, we concisely discuss the characteristics and biological functions of circRNAs.

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Crosstalk of circular RNAs (circRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) refers to the communication and co-regulation between them. circRNAs can act as miRNAs sponges, and miRNAs can mediate circRNAs. They interact to regulate gene expression and participate in the occurrence and development of various human diseases.

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Musculoskeletal degenerative diseases (MSDDs) are pathological conditions that affect muscle, bone, cartilage, joint and connective tissue, leading to physical and functional impairments in patients, mainly consist of osteoarthritis (OA), intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and circular RNAs (circRNAs) are novel regulators of gene expression that play an important role in biological regulation, involving in chondrocyte proliferation and apoptosis, extracellular matrix degradation and peripheral blood mononuclear cell inflammation. Research on MSDD pathogenesis, especially on RA and AS, is still in its infancy and major knowledge gaps remain to be filled.

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High-volume training followed by inadequate recovery may cause overtraining. This process may undermine the protective effect of regular exercise on the cardiovascular system and may increase the risk of pathological cardiac remodelling. We evaluated whether chronic overtraining changes cardiac-related microRNA profiles in the left and right ventricles.

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Objective: The objective of this study is to determine the effect of whole-body vibration (WBV) exercise on the anticipatory delay of core muscles in nonspecific low back pain (NSLBP) patients.

Methods: Forty participants with NSLBP were randomly divided into the WBV group and the control group. The sEMG signals of deltoid, erector spines (ES), multifidus (MF), rectus abdominis (RA), and transversus abdominus/internal oblique muscles (TrA/IO) were recorded before and after the intervention in the weight-shifting task.

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There is accumulating evidence showing that exercise therapy may play an active role in peripheral neuropathic pain (NP), but its mechanism is still unclear. Studies have found that microRNAs (miRNAs) may play a role in NP by regulating pain-related target genes. Therefore, we aimed to explore the changes of miRNA and mRNA of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) after NP in response to exercise with transcriptome technology.

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  • Up to 90% of the human genome produces Long-noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) that, while not coding for proteins, are crucial for various biological processes; their dysregulation is linked to many complex diseases.
  • A bibliometric analysis of the influential academic contributions in lncRNAs research, focusing on authors, journals, countries, and institutions, is needed as previous studies on the top 100 most-cited papers were lacking.
  • This study aims to identify key trends in lncRNAs literature, helping researchers understand impactful studies and fostering future collaborations in the field.
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As of May 5, 2020, the number of confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases has been more than 3.5 million with 243,540 deaths. We aimed to determine the associations between ageing population, median age, life expectancy at birth and COVID-19 mortality.

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Background: Researchers are highly interested in the study of nonspecific low back pain (NSLBP). However, few have attempted to collect global data, analyze the emerging trends, and conduct reviews from the perspectives of visualization and bibliometrics.

Purpose: We aimed to evaluate research situation and capture subsequent developmental dynamics regarding NSLBP via CiteSpace.

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: An imbalance between total training load and total recovery may cause overtraining (OT). The purpose of the present study was to verify the effects of OT on the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), its receptor tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB) and p75 and the dynamic expression patterns of brain-specific miR-34a and miR-124 or inflammation-related miR-21 and miR-132 in the mouse hippocampus. : Eight weeks old C57BL/6J mice were randomly assigned to the control (CON), normal training (NT) and OT groups.

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Background: Comorbid pain and depression occur with high prevalence in clinical observations, and published academic journals about them have been increasing in number over time. However, few studies used the bibliometric method to analyze the general aspects of scientific researches on the comorbidity of pain and depression. The aim of this study is to systematically provide global scientific research in the comorbidity of pain and depression from 1980 to 2018.

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