Publications by authors named "Yingmei Fu"

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health issue. Early diagnosis of TB is still a challenge. Studies are seeking non-sputum biomarker-based TB test.

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  • - The study explores how exercise can help prevent cognitive deficits caused by morphine withdrawal, specifically focusing on the role of dynorphins.
  • - Researchers used male mice divided into groups to assess the effects of exercise on behavior and the expression of opioid peptides in the brain through various tests and techniques.
  • - Results showed that exercise improved memory and recognition abilities in mice experiencing morphine withdrawal by reducing specific dynorphin-related proteins in the brain, suggesting potential new drug targets.
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Background: Risperidone is one of the most reliable and effective antipsychotics for schizophrenia treatment. However, the mechanism of action of risperidone is not yet fully understood. Traf2 and Nck-interacting protein kinase (), a schizophrenia susceptibility gene, is associated with risperidone treatment response.

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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) as a foremost infectious disease adds massive burden to morbidity and mortality rate, despite of well-structured TB control programs around the globe. Inappropriate health care management system and poor implementation on standard in relevance to TB, remain some reasons causative to TB prevalence and its rising antimicrobial resistance. Health Care Workers (HCWs) laboring as a part of TB control system, are the vital warriors in achieving the goals of TB End Strategy by 2035.

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This review signifies the role of circular RNAs (circRNAs) in tuberculosis (TB) and lung cancer (LC), focusing on pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment. CircRNAs, a newly discovered type of non-coding RNA, have emerged as key regulators of gene expression and promising biomarkers in various bodily fluids due to their stability. The current review discusses circRNA biogenesis, highlighting their RNase-R resistance due to their loop forming structure, making them effective biomarkers.

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Relapse is a major challenge in the treatment of drug addiction, and exercise has been shown to decrease relapse to drug seeking in animal models. However, the neural circuitry mechanisms by which exercise inhibits morphine relapse remain unclear. In this study, we report that 4-week treadmill training prevented morphine conditioned place preference (CPP) expression during abstinence by acting through the nucleus accumbens (NAc)-ventral pallidum (VP) pathway.

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Physical inactivity is a global epidemic. People who take the initiative to exercise will feel pleasure during the exercise process and stick with it for a long time, while people who passively ask for exercise will feel pain and cannot stick with it. However, the neural mechanisms underlying voluntary and forced exercise remain unclear.

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Background: Depression is associated with circadian disturbances in which melanopsin was a key mechanism. Further studies have demonstrated that melanopsin gene variations are associated with some depressive disorders and aberrant light can impair mood through melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells (mRGCs). The goal of this study was to explore the direct relationship between depression and melanopsin.

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Background: Normalization of cell-free RNA (cf-RNA) concentration can be affected by variable experimental conditions and thus impact the performance of their diagnostic potential. Our study aimed to identify appropriate endogenous reference genes for cf-RNA biomarker evaluation in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB).

Methods: Subjects consisting of patients with TB with and without malignancy, patients with pneumonia, and healthy controls were recruited.

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Background: Sub-anesthetic ketamine has rapid-onset effects for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). However, the mechanism underlying ketamine's antidepressant properties remains unclear. Recent studies have reported an interrelationship between autophagy and the inflammasome, both of which are involved in the pathophysiology of MDD.

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Tuberculosis is a major public health issue in Yemen, a country located at the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, while the situation of tuberculosis had been further exacerbated since the war started in 2015. The objective of this study is to investigate the incidence of tuberculosis in Yemen before the outbreak of COVID-19, from 2006 to 2018. During the 13-year period, 92 482 patients were enrolled in the TB programme records from the 22 governorates.

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  • The study aimed to examine the relationship between specific genes and the effectiveness of risperidone treatment in a Chinese patient group.
  • A total of 148 patients were tested, with a focus on three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) through advanced genotyping technology.
  • Results showed that SNPs rs7627954 and rs2088885 were significantly linked to treatment response, indicating that certain genetic variations may influence how well individuals respond to risperidone.
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The global emergence of antibiotic resistance, especially in Gram-negative bacteria, is an urgent threat to public health. Inevitably, considering its extensive use and misuse, resistance toward ciprofloxacin has increased in almost all clinically relevant bacteria. This study aimed to investigate the transcriptome changes at a high concentration of ciprofloxacin in .

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Background: About 20-40 % of autistic people experience a phenomenon of regression. Retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4) plays an important role as an inflammatory neurotrophic adipokine and is a promising mediator of the fat-brain axis. Abnormal fatty acid metabolism and lipid mediators have been reported to be related to the etiological mechanism in autism, and amelioration of impaired lipid metabolism can be recognized as a treatment strategy for autism.

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RationaleTraf2- and Nck-interacting kinase (TNIK), a member of germinal center kinase (GCK) family, has been implicated as a risk factor in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as well as the action of antipsychotics. TNIK is an essential activator of Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway which has been identified involved in the mechanism underlying the effects of antipsychotics. Thus, the effects of TNIK on antipsychotics may be achieved by influencing Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway proteins.

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Background: Schizophrenia is a severe and complex psychiatric disorder that needs treatment based on extensive experience. Antipsychotic drugs have already become the cornerstone of the treatment for schizophrenia; however, the therapeutic effect is of significant variability among patients, and only around a third of patients with schizophrenia show good efficacy. Meanwhile, drug-induced metabolic syndrome and other side-effects significantly affect treatment adherence and prognosis.

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Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) sRNAs are abundant. However, the level of MTB sRNA in peripheral blood remains elusive.

Methods: Twenty MTB sRNAs annotated in the reference genome of H37Rv were detected in the plasma of 170 active pulmonary tuberculosis patients and 124 healthy people by qRT-PCR detection system.

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Objectives: Genome-wide association studies have identified a significant risk gene, , for schizophrenia. In this study, we comprehensively investigated a large set of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to identify the replicable risk alleles for schizophrenia and explore their biological functions.

Methods: One Jewish (1044 cases vs 2052 controls), one European (1350 cases vs 1378 controls) and one exploratory African American samples (98 cases vs 20 controls) were analyzed to identify replicable single-nucleotide polymorphism-schizophrenia associations.

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Background: There are great individual differences in the drug responses; however, there are few prognostic drug response biomarkers available. is one of the more extensively examined schizophrenia candidate genes. The purpose of this study was to determine whether can affect antipsychotics response in the Chinese population.

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Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have reported numerous associations between risk variants and major psychiatric disorders (MPDs) including schizophrenia (SCZ), bipolar disorder (BPD), major depressive disorder (MDD) and others. We reviewed all of the published GWASs, and extracted the genome-wide significant (p<10) and replicated associations between risk SNPs and MPDs. We found the associations of 6 variants located in 6 genes, including L type voltage-gated calcium channel (LTCCs) subunit alpha1 C gene (), that were genome-wide significant ( ) and replicated at single-point level across at least two GWASs.

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Background: Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs) have been widely studied as bactericidal reagents. However, it is still challenging to use ZnONPs as a root canal sealant to eliminate infecting microorganisms in the root canal system. This study aimed at understanding the antibacterial and biofilm effects of ZnONPs in the infected root canal and their effect on cell function.

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Objectives: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disease characterised by autoantibody production. This study aims to identify biomarkers involving citrullinated peptides that can be used for SLE diagnosis.

Methods: After a negative selection step with serum from healthy controls (HCs), a phage library of 12 peptides was used for three rounds of screening with sera from 30 SLE patients.

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