Publications by authors named "Yingli Xie"

Background: Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) are prone to insulin resistance and malnutrition, both of which are significant prognostic factors for CHF. However, the combined effect of the triglyceride-glucose index (TyG index) and prognostic nutritional index (PNI) on the mortality risk in patients with CHF and type 2 DM has not yet been studied.

Methods: We enrolled 3,315 patients with CHF and type 2 DM.

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Background: Metabolic disorders and overweight or obesity are highly prevalent and intricately linked in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). However, it remains unclear whether there is an interactive effect between these conditions and the prognosis of heart failure, and whether such an interaction is influenced by stratification based on age and sex.

Methods: A total of 4,955 patients with CHF were enrolled in this study.

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  • The METS-IR score is a simple way to check for insulin resistance, which is related to heart health issues, specifically heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
  • This study involved over 4,700 people with HFpEF and looked at how their METS-IR scores affected their chances of dying from heart problems or other causes.
  • Results showed that higher METS-IR scores were linked to a greater risk of death, and adding this score to other patient information helped doctors predict outcomes better.
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  • Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is a serious health issue worldwide, with recent studies showing that RNA modifications, particularly N6-methyladenosine (m6A), play a key role in cancer development.
  • This study focuses on a long non-coding RNA called HOXA10-AS, which is linked to poor patient prognosis and enhances the tumor's ability to resist oxidative stress by acting as a competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA).
  • The findings reveal a complex signaling mechanism involving HOXA10-AS, miR-29b-3p, and the Integrin subunit alpha 6 (ITGA6), which contributes to cancer progression and suggests that targeting this molecular pathway could lead to new
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Myosin superfamily, a large and diverse family of molecular motors important for cell motility and migration, has been illustrated to play contradictory roles during the development of several kinds of tumors. However, the function and prognostic values of MYOs in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) still remain largely unknown. In the current manuscript, the expression levels and clinical data of MYOs in HNSCC were investigated by online databases, including Oncomine, GEPIA, GEO, TCGA, HPA, UALCAN, Kaplan-Meier plotter, and CancerSEA; we found that the expression levels of MYO1B, MYO5A, and MYO10 were significantly elevated in HNSCC tissues, which were also correlated with the unfavorable overall survival (OS) of the patients.

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Hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (HSCC) is highly malignant and extremely aggressive, making it one of the worst prognoses among all kinds of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC); therefore, gaining insight into molecular mechanisms of HSCC is of profound significance. In the current manuscript, we revealed the elevated expression of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) LEF1-AS1 in HNSCC which was associated with the poor prognosis by bioinformatic analysis. Moreover, we noticed that LEF1-AS1 dramatically accelerated the proliferation, migration, invasion, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process in HSCC cell line FaDu.

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The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) serves as a critical hub for the anxiety and pain perception. The large-conductance Ca-activated potassium channels, or BK channels, are ubiquitously expressed throughout the central nervous system including the cingulate cortex. However, what changes of cortical BK channels undergo in the ACC remains unknown in pain-related anxiety.

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Purpose: Increased glycemic variability has been related with poor prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, whether diabetic status or subtype of CAD could affect the association remains unknown. We performed a meta-analysis to systematically evaluate the association between the mean amplitude of glycemic excursions (MAGE) on continuous glucose monitoring and the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in CAD patients.

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Background: Whether antisense noncoding RNA in the INK4 locus (ANRIL) polymorphisms are associated with the likelihood of coronary artery disease (CAD) remains controversial. Therefore, we performed this study to explore correlation between ANRIL polymorphisms and CAD.

Methods: Literature retrieve was conducted in PubMed, Medline and Embase.

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Macrophages play essential roles in the generation and resolution of inflammation. Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) triggers a systemic inflammatory response and leads to cellular injury and organ failure. During surgical procedures of the liver, such as hepatic resection and liver transplantation, IRI leads to the dysfunction of the liver.

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Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is an inheritable neuropsychological disease caused by expansion of the CGG trinucleotide repeat affecting the fmr1 gene on X chromosome, resulting in silence of the fmr1 gene and failed expression of FMRP. Patients with FXS suffer from cognitive impairment, sensory integration deficits, learning disability, anxiety, autistic traits, and so forth. Specifically, the morbidity of anxiety in FXS individuals remains high from childhood to adulthood.

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An increasing body of neuroimaging and electrophysiological studies of the brain suggest that the insular cortex (IC) integrates multimodal salient information ranging from sensation to cognitive-affective events to create conscious interoception. Especially with regard to pain experience, the IC has been supposed to participate in both sensory-discriminative and affective-motivational aspects of pain. In this review, we discuss the latest data proposing that subregions of the IC are involved in isolated pain networks: the posterior sensory circuit and the anterior emotional network.

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