Publications by authors named "Yongbo Song"

Purpose: With girls typically exhibiting higher rates of myopia than boys, however, the mechanisms behind this gender difference remain unclear. This study aims to investigate the gender disparities in the relationship between myopia, sleep duration, physical activity, and BMI.

Patients And Methods: A total of 3138 primary and secondary school students were included.

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Regarded as a superior urban stormwater management solution, rain gardens can effectively store rainfall runoff and purify water quality. However, the efficiency of traditional rain gardens (TRG) in regulating runoff and removing nitrogen and phosphorus varies under different hydrological conditions. In this study, the TRG was retrofitted to construct a two-stage tandem rain garden (TTRG).

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The ever-growing challenges of traditional antibiotic therapy and chronic wound healing have created a hot topic for the development and application of new antimicrobial agents. Silver nanoclusters (Ag NCs) with ultrasmall sizes (<2 nm) and antibacterial effects are promising candidates for next-generation antibiotics, particularly against multi-drug resistant strains. However, the biosafety in the clinical application of Ag NCs remains suboptimal despite some existing studies of Ag NCs for biomedical applications.

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The human voltage-gated sodium channel Na1.7 is a widely proven target for analgesic drug studies. ProTx2, a 30-residue polypeptide from Peruvian green tarantula venom, shows high specificity to activity against human Na1.

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Vibrational coherence has attracted considerable research interests because of its potential functions in light harvesting systems. Although positive signs of vibrational coherence in metal nanoclusters have been observed, the underlying mechanism remains to be verified. Here, we demonstrate that robust vibrational coherence with a lifetime of 1 ps can be clearly identified in Ag(SR) core-shell nanoclusters, in which an icosahedral Ag core is well protected by a dodecahedral Ag cage.

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Multimodal tumor therapy with nanotechnology is an effective and integrative strategy to overcome the limitations of therapeutic efficacy and possible side effects associated with monotherapy. However, the construction of multimodal treatment nanoplatforms often involves various functional components, leading to certain challenges, such as time-consuming synthesis processes, low product yield, and inadequate biocompatibility. To address these issues, we have developed a straightforward method for preparing ultrathin CuS nanosheets (NSs) with surface defects for photothermal/photodynamic/chemodynamic therapy.

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Elucidating the structure-property relationships of ultra-small metal nanocluster with basic nuclear is of great significance for understanding the evolution mechanism in both the structures and properties of polynuclear metal nanoclusters. In this study, an ultra-small copper hydride (CuH for short) nanocluster was simply synthesized with high yield, and the large-scale preparation was also achieved. Single crystal X-ray diffractometer (SC-XRD) analysis shows that this copper NC contains a tetrahedral Cu core co-capped by four PPhPy ligands and two Cl in which the existence of the central H atom in tetrahedron was further identified experimentally and theoretically.

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Nitrogen deposition and summer precipitation in eastern Inner Mongolia are predicted to increase in recent decades. However, such increases in nitrogen inputs and precipitation may not be continuous under the future new patterns of global change, with the direction and magnitude of which may change or weaken. The legacy effects of nitrogen and water addition after cessation on ecosystems are still unclear.

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Vanillin holds significant importance as a flavoring agent in various industries, including food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. The CoA-dependent pathway for the biosynthesis of vanillin from ferulic acid involved feruloyl-CoA synthase (Fcs) and enoyl-CoA hydratase/lyase (Ech). In this research, the Fcs and Ech were derived from sp.

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The bactericide benzalkonium bromide is widely used to kill which causes microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC). However, the extensive use of benzalkonium bromide will enhance bacterial drug resistance and cause environmental pollution. In this study, benzalkonium bromide combined with Cu-bearing 2205 duplex stainless steel (2205-Cu DSS) was used to kill ; the germicidal rate of the combination of benzalkonium bromide and 2205-Cu DSS was 24.

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Objective: To evaluate the effect of sleep deprivation on cognitive function in septic rats and its relationship with neuronal glycolysis isoenzyme phosphofructokinase-2/fructose-2, 6-diphosphatase 3 (PFKFB3).

Methods: Fifty-six healthy male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into 4 groups (n = 14): control group (Con group), sepsis group (LPS group), sepsis+sleep deprivation group (LPS+SD group), sepsis+sleep deprivation+glycolysis inhibitor 3-PO treatment group (LPS+SD+3-PO group). The sepsis model was established by intraperitoneal injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) 10 mg/kg.

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Combination chemotherapy has been proved to be an effective strategy in the clinic, and nanoformulations have drawn much attention in the field of drug delivery. However, conventional nanocarriers suffer from shortcomings such as inefficient coloading and undesired molar ratios of the combined drugs, preleakage of cargos during systemic circulation, and lack of cancer-selective drug release. To achieve tumor-specific codelivery of cisplatin (CDDP) and norcantharidin (NCTD) for synergistic treatment of liver cancer, a novel linear-dendritic polymer, termed as G1(PPDC), was designed and synthesized, where a prodrug consisting of cisplatin (CDDP) and norcantharidin (NCTD) was conjugated to PEG2000 ester bonds to fabricate linear polymer-drug conjugates, and the conjugates were subsequently grafted to the terminal hydroxyls of a dendritic polycarbonate core.

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Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs, or Na) are important determinants of action potential generation and propagation. Efforts are underway to develop medicines targeting different channel subtypes for the treatment of related channelopathies. However, a high degree of conservation across its nine subtypes could lead to the off-target adverse effects on skeletal and cardiac muscles due to acting on primary skeletal muscle sodium channel Na1.

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Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a common type of peripheral neuralgia in clinical practice, which is usually difficult to cure. Common analgesic drugs are difficult for achieving the desired analgesic effect. Syb-prII-1 is a β-type scorpion neurotoxin isolated from the scorpion venom of It has an important influence on the voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSCs), especially closely related to Nav1.

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Metallic-state gold nanorods are well known to exhibit strong longitudinal plasmon excitations in the near-infrared region (NIR) suitable for photothermal conversion. However, when the size decreases below ∼2 nm, Au nanostructures become nonmetallic, and whether the longitudinal excitation in plasmonic nanorods can be inherited is unknown. Here, we report atomically precise rod-shaped Au(SCHPh) with a hexagonal-close-packed Au kernel of aspect ratio as high as 6.

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The persistent progression of synovial inflammation and cartilage destruction contributes to the crosstalk between pro-inflammatory macrophages and activated fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs) in a synovial microenvironment. In this work, structurally well-defined Au nanoclusters were synthesized to induce phenotypic polarization of pro-inflammatory macrophages and apoptosis of activated FLSs for enhanced rheumatoid arthritis treatment. These ultra-small nanoclusters significantly modulated phenotypic polarization of a pro-inflammatory M1 phenotype to an anti-inflammatory phenotype M2 for relieving inflammation.

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Aberrant localization of proteins to mitochondria disturbs mitochondrial function and contributes to the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease (HD). However, the crucial factors and the molecular mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we found that heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) accumulates in the mitochondria of HD cell models, a YAC128 mouse model, and human striatal organoids derived from HD induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).

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BmK DKK13 (DKK13) is a mutated recombinant peptide, which has a significant antinociception in a rat model of the inflammatory pain. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the antinociceptive effect of DKK13 on trigeminal neuralgia (TN) in rats. Male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were treated with the chronic constriction injury of the infraorbital nerve (IoN-CCI) model to induce stable symptoms of TN.

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The growth of nanoparticles along one or two directions leads to anisotropic nanoparticles, but the nucleation (i.e., the formation of small seeds of specific shape) has long been elusive.

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Accomplishing optical activity in materials has long been a challenge. Achiral nanomaterials that crystallize in achiral point groups are generally optically inactive. Herein we report the surprising observation of optical activity in several achiral point groups for supercrystals assembled from anisotropic metal nanoclusters with atomic precision.

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The excited state dynamics of small-sized metal nanoclusters are dependent on their crystal structures, while the effect of the charge state remains largely unknown. Here, we report the influence of single electrons on the excited-state dynamics of non-superatom Au clusters by comparing the transient absorption isotropy and anisotropy dynamics of two rod-shaped Au nanoclusters protected by organic ligands. Two decay lifetimes (0.

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The hierarchical assemblies of well-defined structural nanoclusters can help to better understand those of biologically important molecules such as DNA and proteins. Herein, we disclose the synthesis and characterization of a new silver nanocluster, that is Ag(SR)(PPh) (Ag70-TPP). Directed by the ligands, Ag70-TPP nanoclusters undergo self-hierarchical assembly into a highly space-efficient complex secondary structure of a double helical 4H (DH4H) close packing pattern.

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Alloying is one of the most effective strategies to change the properties of inorganic-organic hybrid materials, but there are few reports of the alloying of one-dimensional nanowires with precise atomic structure due to the difficulties in obtaining the single crystals of nanowires themselves. Herein, we describe the synthesis and characterization of an alloyed one-dimensional Ag-Cu nanowire [AgCu(S-Adm)]. Compared with the unalloyed [Ag(S-Adm)], our novel alloyed nanowire exhibits good conductivity, and its resistivity (as a powder) was determined to be 107 Ω m by impedance analysis-consistent with that of a semiconductor.

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Karsch (K), is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which has been used for a long history for the treatment of many diseases, such as inflammation, pain and cancer. In this study, DKK-SP1/2/3 genes were screened and extracted from the cDNA library of K. The DKK-SP1/2/3 were expressed by using plasmid pSYPU-1b in BL21, and recombinant proteins were obtained by column chromatography.

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Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) holds promise in the renewable clean energy scheme. Crystalline Au and Ag are, however, poor in catalyzing HER, and the ligands on colloidal nanoparticles are generally another disadvantage. Herein, we report a thiolate (SR)-protected AuAg(SR) nanocluster with low coverage of ligands and a core composed of three icosahedral () units for catalyzing HER efficiently.

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