Publications by authors named "Yichen Luo"

Social capital is closely intertwined with neighborhood environments and facility provisions. It is a vital resource for supporting residents' happiness and satisfaction. In the context of urban stock development and the concentrated construction of community public service facilities, it remains unclear whether the spontaneous construction of facilities follows a colocation model and how facility-related construction affects residents' quality of life.

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Swine hepatitis E (HEV) is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by the swine hepatitis E virus (SHEV). Open reading frame 3 (ORF3) is a key virulence factor in swine HEV, playing a crucial role in the release of viral particles, the modulation of the host innate immune response, and regulation of autophagy and apoptosis, etc. However, its main function and pathogenic mechanism remain incompletely understood.

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is a potential bacterial pathogen that affects chickens. We present 22 complete genome sequences of clinical isolates to facilitate the genomic analysis and the development of diagnostic tools.

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Identifying a suitable mating partner is an ancient and critical biological problem. How a fruit fly distinguishes a fly of the same species from flies of innumerable related species remains unclear. We analyze the Ir52 receptors, expressed in taste neurons on the fly legs and encoded by a cluster of genes.

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Hepatitis E (Hepatitis E, HE) is an acute and chronic infectious hepatitis caused by hepatitis E virus (Hepatitis E Virus, HEV) infection, which is responsible for most acute hepatitis in the world and is a significant public health problem. The pathogen, HEV, has three Open Reading Frames (ORFs) ORF1, ORF2, and ORF3, each of which has a different function. Most of the current research is focused on ORF1 and ORF2, while the research on ORF3 is still relatively small.

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The tumor microenvironment (TME) assumes a pivotal role in the treatment of oncological diseases, given its intricate interplay of diverse cellular components and extracellular matrices. This dynamic ecosystem poses a serious challenge to traditional research methods in many ways, such as high research costs, inefficient translation, poor reproducibility, and low modeling success rates. These challenges require the search for more suitable research methods to accurately model the TME, and the emergence of 3D bioprinting technology is transformative and an important complement to these traditional methods to precisely control the distribution of cells, biomolecules, and matrix scaffolds within the TME.

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  • Lung cancer consists of different subtypes, and various immune cells may influence the development of lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) and lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), though their exact causal relationship remains unclear.
  • This study analyzed 731 immune phenotypes using Mendelian randomization to explore their potential links with LUSC and LUAD, ensuring findings were robust through various statistical analyses and exclusion of confounding factors.
  • The results showed that certain immune phenotypes significantly impact LUSC, with some increasing risk while others seemingly decrease it, yet no significant links were found for LUAD.
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Cardiac tissue engineering has emerged as a promising approach for restoring the functionality of damaged cardiac tissues following myocardial infarction. To effectively replicate the native anisotropic structure of cardiac tissues , this study focused on the fabrication of micropatterned gelatin methacryloyl hydrogels with varying geometric parameters. These substrates were evaluated for their ability to guide induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (CMs).

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Statement Of Problem: Digital scanning is gradually replacing conventional impression making, but consensus on how tooth preparation influences the accuracy of intraoral scanning is lacking.

Purpose: The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate the effect of substrate material and abutment geometry on the accuracy of digital casts obtained by intraoral scanning.

Material And Methods: The height and total occlusal convergence (TOC) angle were measured in 5 different groups that contained 5 specimens of different materials: natural tooth, cobalt chromium alloy, titanium, zirconium dioxide ceramic, and resin.

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Purpose: Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is considered as an alternative to metal material for removable partial denture (RPD). However, the retentive force is not strong as a metal RPD. This study investigated the retention and fatigue performance of PEEK clasps with different proportions of clasp arm engaging the undercut to verify a new strategy to improve their clinical performance.

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  • The study investigated the link between the weight-adjusted-waist index (WWI) and diabetic kidney disease in people with type 2 diabetes.
  • Comprehensive data from a national survey involving over 10,000 diabetic individuals revealed a correlation where higher WWI increased the risk for kidney disease, particularly highlighting gender differences.
  • WWI was found to be a better predictor of diabetic kidney disease than body mass index (BMI), suggesting it could be a valuable tool for assessing kidney health in diabetic patients.
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Controlling arms and legs requires feedback from proprioceptive sensory neurons that detect joint position and movement. Proprioceptive feedback must be tuned for different behavioral contexts, but the underlying circuit mechanisms remain poorly understood. Using calcium imaging in behaving , we find that the axons of position-encoding leg proprioceptors are active across behaviors, whereas the axons of movement-encoding leg proprioceptors are suppressed during walking and grooming.

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Objective: This investigation sought to elucidate the potential correlation between a recently characterized adiposity metric, termed the Weight-Adjusted-Waist Index (WWI) and hyperuricemia.

Methods: A cross-sectional design was employed in this study, featuring both hyperuricemic and non-hyperuricemic subjects with complete WWI data, sourced from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) spanning 2017 to March 2020. WWI was calculated utilizing the formula which involves the division of waist circumference (WC) by the square root of the body weight.

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Chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) or "chemo brain" is a devastating neurotoxic sequela of cancer-related treatments, especially for the elderly individuals. Here we show that PTPRO, a tyrosine phosphatase, is highly enriched in the hippocampus, and its level is tightly associated with neurocognitive function but declined significantly during aging. To understand the protective role of PTPRO in CRCI, a mouse model was generated by treating Ptpro-/- female mice with doxorubicin (DOX) because Ptpro-/- female mice are more vulnerable to DOX, showing cognitive impairments and neurodegeneration.

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Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor-type O (PTPRO) is a membrane-bound tyrosine phosphatase. Notably, epigenetically silenced PTPRO due to promoter hypermethylation is frequently linked to malignancies. In this study, we used cellular and animal models, and patient samples to demonstrate that PTPRO can suppress the metastasis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).

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(1) Background: The duration of adjuvant chemotherapy recommended by the NCCN guidelines is 6 months. However, patients are not compliant with intravenous chemotherapy for many reasons; therefore, one approach is to obtain a survival benefit by prolonging the duration of capecitabine monotherapy. (2) Methods: A total of 355 qualified colorectal cancer (CRC) patients from January 2010 to December 2020 at West China Hospital of Sichuan University were selected to receive capecitabine monotherapy for 6−9 months and >12 months.

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Background: Poor immunogenicity and extensive immunosuppressive T-cell infiltration in the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) have been identified as potential barriers to immunotherapy success in "immune-cold" breast cancers. Thus, it is crucial to identify biomarkers that can predict immunotherapy efficacy. Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type O (PTPRO) regulates multiple kinases and pathways and has been implied to play a regulatory role in immune cell infiltration in various cancers.

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Cancer vaccines critically rely on the availability of targetable immunogenic cancer-specific neoepitopes. However, mutation-based immunogenic neoantigens are rare or even non-existent in subgroups of cancer types. To address this issue, we exploited a cancer-specific aberrant transcription-induced chimeric RNA, designated A-P chiRNA, as a possible source of clinically relevant and targetable neoantigens.

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Salt taste is one of the most ancient of all sensory modalities. However, the molecular basis of salt taste remains unclear in invertebrates. Here, we show that the response to low, appetitive salt concentrations in Drosophila depends on Ir56b, an atypical member of the ionotropic receptor (Ir) family.

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Chimeric RNAs (chiRNAs) play many previously unrecognized roles in different diseases including cancer. They can not only be used as biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of various diseases but also serve as potential therapeutic targets. In order to better understand the roles of chiRNAs in pathogenesis, we inserted human sequences into mouse genome and established a knockin mouse model of the tamoxifen-inducible expression of antisense chimeric RNA (chiRNA).

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Background: The tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs) are produced in a nuclease-dependent manner in responses to variety of stresses that are common in cancers. We focus on a cancer-enriched tsRNA signature to develop a salivary exosome-based non-invasive biomarker for human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).

Methods: Cancer-enriched small RNAs were identified by RNA sequencing of salivary exosomes obtained from ESCC patients (n = 3) and healthy controls (n = 3) in a pilot study and further validated in discovery cohort (n = 66).

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To realize the selective catalytic reduction of NO at low-medium temperatures and avoid secondary pollution, a highly active catalyst Mn/Co-MOF-74 was synthesized. X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method, and scanning electron microscopy were employed to analyze the physicochemical properties of catalysts with different Mn/Co molar ratios and conjecture about the difference in the catalytic activity. Meanwhile, the effects of the molar ratio of Mn/Co, catalyst dosage, catalyst synthesis conditions, GHSV, and temperature on the NO conversion efficiencies were investigated and found that an optimal NO conversion efficiency of 93.

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Swine hepatitis E (SHE) is a new type of zoonotic infectious disease caused by swine hepatitis E virus (SHEV). Open reading frame 3 (ORF3) is a key regulatory and virulent protein of SHEV. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a special kind of non-coding RNA molecule, which has a closed ring structure.

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Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting has significant potential for addressing the global problem of organ shortages. Extrusion printing is a versatile 3D bioprinting technique, but its low accuracy currently limits the solution. This lack of precision is attributed largely to the complex thermal and dynamic properties of bioinks and makes it difficult to provide accurate estimations of the printed results.

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Gastric cancer is a global cancer with a high mortality rate. A growing number of studies have found the abnormal expression of lncRNA (long noncoding RNA) in many tumors, which plays a role in promoting or inhibiting cancer. Similarly, lncRNA abnormal expression plays an essential biological function in gastric cancer.

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