Publications by authors named "Yiwen Yao"

Background: Because cirrhosis is often unrecognized, we aimed to develop a stepwise screening algorithm for cirrhosis in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and assess this approach's feasibility and acceptability.

Methods: VHA hepatology clinicians ("champions") were invited to participate in a pilot program from June 2020 to October 2022. The VHA Corporate Data Warehouse was queried to identify Veterans with possible undiagnosed cirrhosis using Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) ≥ 3.

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Introduction: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), an increasing public health concern, remains challenging to diagnose and risk-stratify. We assessed the (i) prevalence of MASLD risk factors among veterans in Veterans Health Administration (VA) care, (ii) factors associated with MASLD diagnosis, and (iii) associations between MASLD diagnosis and receipt of care.

Methods: Veterans with MASLD risk factors, including obesity, prediabetes, diabetes, or dyslipidemia, were identified using International Classification of Diseases-10 codes and followed in 2019-2022.

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Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) prevention is a Veterans Affairs (VA) priority. Colonoscopy quality, especially adenoma detection rate (ADR), is critical for effective screening. Our research indicates considerable variation in ADR among VA providers.

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The in situ monitoring of dynamic covalent macromolecular boronate esters represents a difficult task. In this report, we present an in situ method using fluoride coordination and B NMR spectroscopy to determine the amount of boronate esters in a mixture of boronic acids and cis-diols. With fluoride coordination, the boronic acid and boronate esters afforded trifluoroborate and fluoroboronate esters, giving identical resonances at 3 and 9 ppm in the B NMR spectra.

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  • Impaired interaction between fibroblasts and AT2 pneumocytes contributes to chronic lung diseases like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), with Mucin 5B (MUC5B) being associated with the condition.
  • Research using an organoid model showed that fibroblasts with high fibrosis markers can alter STAT3 signaling in AT2 cells, leading to cystic growth and increased MUC5B expression, influenced by the cytokine IL-6.
  • The study also demonstrated that the drug dasatinib can block the formation of these cystic organoids, suggesting a potential avenue for drug development to address these interactions in IPF.
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Pseudallescheria boydii (P. boydii) is widely found in soil, sewage, decaying organic matter, and feces. Although it is associated with various clinical infections, no bloodstream infection has been reported.

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  • * This research identified 43 GH17 genes in the tomato genome, analyzing their structure, relationships, and expression patterns, which suggested involvement in stress responses and growth regulation.
  • * Using CRISPR/Cas9, knockout plants were created, revealing that the SlA6 gene impacts pollen development and fruit quality—mutants showed reduced pollen viability and fruit weight, but higher soluble solids content.
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  • Tomato plants are sensitive to cold, particularly during pollen development, making research on genetic factors for cold resistance crucial.
  • The study identifies the gene SlHB8, which regulates cold tolerance in tomato anthers by affecting programmed cell death in the tapetum under low temperatures.
  • SlHB8's interaction with other key genes suggests it plays a significant role in how tomatoes adapt to temperature changes, presenting potential targets for improving cold-resistant varieties.
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Background And Aims: Bladder cancer (BCa) is a highly aggressive malignancy of the urinary system. Timely detection is imperative for enhancing BCa patient prognosis.

Materials And Methods: This study introduces a novel approach for detecting long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) Mitochondrial RNA Processing Endoribonuclease (RMRP) in urine exosomes from BCa patients using the reverse transcription recombinase-aided amplification (RT-RAA) and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and associated Cas12a proteins (CRISPR/Cas12a) technique.

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Chronic lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis are incurable. Epithelial senescence, a state of dysfunctional cell cycle arrest, contributes to the progression of such diseases. Therefore, lung epithelial cells are a valuable target for therapeutic intervention.

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Infections caused by the Gram-negative pathogen are emerging worldwide as a major threat to human health. Conventional antibiotic monotherapy suffers from rapid resistance development, underlining urgent need for novel treatment concepts. Here, we report on a nontraditional approach to combat -derived infections by targeting its main virulence factor, the elastase LasB.

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Microvesicles known as exosomes have a diameter of 40 to 160 nm and are derived from small endosomal membranes. Exosomes have attracted increasing attention over the past ten years in part because they are functional vehicles that can deliver a variety of lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids to the target cells they encounter. Because of this function, exosomes may be used for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of many diseases.

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Alveolar type 2 and club cells are part of the stem cell niche of the lung and their differentiation is required for pulmonary homeostasis and tissue regeneration. A disturbed crosstalk between fibroblasts and epithelial cells contributes to the loss of lung structure in chronic lung diseases. Therefore, it is important to understand how fibroblasts and lung epithelial cells interact during regeneration.

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Introduction: The variation of organic carbon content in spoil heaps is closely related to improving soil structure, maintaining soil fertility, and regulating soil carbon cycling balance. Analyzing the soil organic carbon content and related driving factors during the natural vegetation restoration process of spoil heaps is of great significance for promoting the accumulation of soil organic carbon in the spoil heaps.

Methods: we selected spoil heaps with the same number of years of restoration to research the variations in soil organic carbon components under different vegetation types (grassland: GL, shrubland: SL, secondary forest: SF) and compared the results with those on bare land (BL).

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Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common male malignancies as well as one of the frequent causes of tumor-induced death. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are RNA transcripts that are more than 200 nucleotides in length, lack an open reading frame, and do not encode proteins. LncRNAs are abnormally expressed in most tumors including PCa and closely related to the recurrence, metastasis and prognosis of PCa.

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The role of HEV infection in AP remains unclear. 1000 patients with AP and 1000 HCs were enrolled, and pancreatitis was evaluated in HEV-infected rhesus macaques. The positive rates of anti-HEV IgG, IgM, and HEV RNA in the AP patients were significantly higher than HCs.

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Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death in both adults and children, with respiratory infections being the leading cause of death. A growing body of evidence suggests that bacterially released extracellular membrane vesicles play an important role in bacterial pathogenicity by targeting and (de)regulating host cells through the delivery of nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates. Among the many factors contributing to bacterial pathogenicity are the outer membrane vesicles produced by the bacteria themselves.

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Unlabelled: A study by Tsvetkov et al. recently published a proposed novel form of copper-induced cell death in ; however, few studies have looked into the possible mechanism in soft tissue sarcoma (STS). Herein, this study sought to investigate the function of cuproptosis-related genes (CRGs) in the development of tumor-associated immune cells and the prognosis of sarcoma.

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The underlying molecular mechanisms and evolutionary patterns of lung cancer metastasis remain unclear, resulting in a lack of effective indicators for early diagnosis of metastasis. We retrospectively analyzed 117 patients with primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) admitted to Tongji Hospital of Tongji University in 2021, of which 93 patients with tumor metastasis were set as the metastasis group. 24 patients without metastasis were set as the non-metastasis group.

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Dendrimers are appealing scaffolds for creating carbohydrate mimics with unique multivalent cooperativity. We report here novel bola-amphiphilic glycodendrimers bearing mannose and glucose terminals, and a hydrophobic thioacetal core responsive to reactive oxygen species. The peculiar bola-amphiphilic feature enabled stronger binding to lectin compared to conventional amphiphiles.

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Acute lung injury (ALI) is a severe form of sepsis that is associated with a high rate of morbidity and death in critically ill individuals. The emergence of ALI is the result of several factors at work. Case mortality rates might range from 40% to 70%.

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