Publications by authors named "Yu Sheng Huang"

Type H vessels have been proven to couple angiogenesis and osteogenesis. The decline of type H vessels contributes to bone loss in the aging process. Aging is accompanied by the accumulation of advanced oxidation protein products (AOPPs).

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Graphene-supported organic iridium clusters (GSOICs) have been designed, prepared, characterized, and used for -alkylation of amines hydrogen borrowing reactions. Structural analysis data (including IR, XPS, TEM and EDS) show that organoiridium clusters are uniformly formed on the surface of graphene, and the grain size of GSOIC is between 1 and 3 nm. After being activated by the auxiliary ligand TMPP (tris(4-methoxyphenyl)phosphine), GSOIC showed excellent catalytic performance for hydrogen borrowing reaction, with its turnover frequency (TOF) reaching 13.

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  • This study evaluated a two-protein panel for mismatch repair (MMR) immunohistochemistry in endometrial cancer patients and compared its accuracy to a traditional four-protein panel.
  • Among 593 patients, the two-protein combination MSH6/PMS2 showed the highest sensitivity (99.32%) and negative predictive value (NPV of 99.78%), indicating it could effectively identify MMR deficiencies.
  • The findings suggest that using the two-protein panel could be a more cost-effective option without losing diagnostic accuracy compared to the four-protein standard.
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  • Myocardial infarction (MI) leads to significant health risks and increased mortality, with macrophage differentiation playing a key role in inflammatory injury and healing.
  • Nuanxinkang (NXK), an herbal treatment, shows potential in reducing cardiac damage by promoting the shift from pro-inflammatory (M1) to anti-inflammatory (M2) macrophages, thereby improving myocardial function.
  • The study used an MI mouse model and various techniques to assess cardiac function and macrophage polarization, revealing that NXK improves heart function and regulates the inflammatory response post-MI.
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Hyperalgesia is typified by reduced pain thresholds and heightened responses to painful stimuli, with a notable prevalence in menopausal women, but the underlying mechanisms are far from understood. β-Aminoisobutyric acid (BAIBA), a product of valine and thymine catabolism, has been reported to be a novel ligand of the Mas-related G protein coupled receptor D (MrgprD), which mediates pain and hyperalgesia. Here, we established a hyperalgesia model in 8-week-old female mice through ovariectomy (OVX).

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  • XYT (Xinyang Tablet) has been clinically used for heart failure for over two decades, but its molecular mechanisms are not well defined.
  • The study explored XYT's protective effects on heart function using both live mouse models and cardiomyocyte cell cultures under stress, particularly looking at mitochondrial health.
  • Results indicated that XYT significantly improved cardiac function and structure in mice with pressure overload by reducing mitochondrial damage and enhancing protein responses related to mitochondrial health.
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  • Heart failure (HF) is a complicated ongoing condition that involves issues with heart structure and function, with debates on how endothelial cells turn into myofibroblasts during cardiac fibrosis.
  • Researchers used single-cell RNA sequencing to discover a subset of endothelial cells with a temporary fibrotic-like profile (EndoFP) following a pressure overload, which has significant implications for heart tissue remodeling.
  • The study highlights that EndoFP influences cardiac dysfunction through mechanisms involving osteopontin and insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 5, suggesting potential therapeutic avenues for preventing early heart failure.
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  • Aging leads to decreased levels of melatonin (MT), which is associated with increased oxidative stress and greater osteoclastogenesis, contributing to bone loss in older mice.
  • Research showed that treating aged mice with MT improved antioxidant capacity and reduced the formation of osteoclasts, leading to less bone loss and better bone structure.
  • The findings indicate that lower MT levels disrupt the balance of oxidative stress, enhancing osteoclast production and suggest that MT could be a potential treatment to prevent age-related bone loss.
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Background: Bacteremia is a severe complication of infectious disease. Patients with a high bacteremia risk in the emergency department (ED) but misidentified would lead to the unscheduled revisits. This study aimed to develop a simplified scoring model to predict bacteremia in patients with unscheduled ED revisits.

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  • The study investigates the role of circular RNA (circRBM23) in the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) between bone-forming (osteogenic) and fat-forming (adipogenic) lineages, highlighting its link to osteoporosis (OP).
  • CircRBM23 is found to be down-regulated in OP patients, and when overexpressed, it promotes bone formation while inhibiting fat cell development by interacting with microRNA-338-3p.
  • The findings suggest that circRBM23 could serve as a potential target for therapies aimed at reversing the differentiation imbalance in MSCs associated with osteoporosis.
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Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) have been identified to transduce fibrogenic signals via inducing the activation of their receptor (RAGE)-mediated pathway. Recently, disrupting AGE-RAGE interaction has become a promising therapeutic strategy for chronic heart failure (CHF). Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) is close to the cardiac fibrosis pathological process.

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  • Cardiovascular diseases are highly prevalent in advanced chronic kidney disease patients, often leading to cardiac dysfunction due to issues like hypertrophy and fibrosis, highlighting the need for new therapies aimed at preserving heart function.
  • The study aimed to identify potential treatments for cardiorenal syndrome type 4 (CRS) through a combination of molecular phenotyping and various experimentation methods, including gene expression analysis and different staining techniques.
  • The findings revealed that Lobetyolin (LBT) improved cardiac dysfunction in animal models and that its mechanism involves the suppression of Osteopontin (OPN) through JNK signaling, indicating a potential therapeutic pathway for CRS.
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  • Cardiorenal syndrome type 4 (CRS type 4) poses significant health risks globally, and Zhen-Wu decoction has been traditionally used in East Asia for treating related cardiovascular and kidney diseases, though its mechanisms are not well-studied.
  • This study aimed to explore how Zhen-Wu decoction can affect uremic cardiomyopathy, providing insights for potential clinical treatments for CRS type 4.
  • Results showed that Zhen-Wu decoction improved heart function in mice and suggested that the Nrf2 signaling pathway is crucial for its protective effects against oxidative stress and inflammation in kidney-related conditions.
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  • The concept of osseointegration has traditionally been viewed as a stable relationship between titanium dental implants and bone, with peri-implantitis seen primarily as a plaque-induced inflammation leading to bone loss.
  • Recently, some researchers propose that osseointegration may be driven by inflammatory responses to foreign bodies (like implants), which could change our understanding of peri-implant bone loss.
  • The review assesses evidence regarding a persistent foreign body response due to implants and explores whether materials like titanium particles contribute to peri-implantitis, ultimately suggesting that current data supports the idea of osseointegration as a stable state rather than one characterized by ongoing foreign body reactions.
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Application experience in humans, a summary of the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM), serves as an important data source for evaluating the safety, effectiveness, and clinical value of drugs in the development of new Chinese medicine. The collected data serving as the evaluation evidence through statistical analysis are critical to the research on the application experience in humans. This article summarized and analyzed the data characteristics and statistical methodology of application experience of Chinese medicine in humans, and concluded the data types, outcome evaluation, bias evaluation, confounding factors, and missing values.

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The rapid discovery of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) quantum materials has led to heterostructures that integrate diverse quantum functionalities such as topological phases, magnetism, and superconductivity. In this context, the epitaxial synthesis of vdW heterostructures with well-controlled interfaces is an attractive route towards wafer-scale platforms for systematically exploring fundamental properties and fashioning proof-of-concept devices. Here, we use molecular beam epitaxy to synthesize a vdW heterostructure that interfaces two material systems of contemporary interest: a 2D ferromagnet (1T-CrTe) and a topological semimetal (ZrTe).

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Introduction: Although infection was the most common symptom in patients returning to the ED, whether intravenous antibiotic administration at the index visit could serve as an indicator of patients with infectious diseases at high risk for hospital admission after returning to the ED within a short period of time remains unclear. The study aimed to investigate the potential risk factors for hospital admission in patients returning to the ED within 72 hours with a final diagnosis of infectious diseases.

Material And Methods: This retrospective cohort study analyzed return visits to the ED from January to December 2019.

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  • Transformation to small cell lung cancer (SCLC) can occur as a resistance mechanism to EGFR-TKIs, but there are currently no standard treatments for it. Gastric metastasis from lung cancer is rare, so little is known about its behavior.
  • A 58-year-old male underwent treatment for EGFR-mutated adenocarcinoma, first with gefitinib and then osimertinib, but developed SCLC in the stomach 18 months later, indicating a treatment-induced transformation.
  • The patient was successfully treated with etoposide and platinum chemotherapy along with osimertinib maintenance, leading to a partial response after 4 cycles, highlighting the need for frequent biopsies to monitor for
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Artificial spin ice systems have opened experimental windows into a range of model magnetic systems through the control of interactions among nanomagnet moments. This control has previously been enabled by altering the nanomagnet size and the geometry of their placement. Here we demonstrate that the interactions in artificial spin ice can be further controlled by including a soft ferromagnetic underlayer below the moments.

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Aging is one of the most prominent risk factors for heart failure. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) accumulate in aged tissue and have been confirmed to be associated with various aging-related diseases. However, the role of MDSCs in the aging heart remains unknown.

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Aims: The goal of our study was to investigate the heterogeneity of cardiac macrophages (CMφs) in mice with transverse aortic constriction (TAC) via single-cell sequencing and identify a subset of macrophages associated with heart injury.

Methods And Results: We selected all CMφs from CD45+ cells using single-cell mRNA sequencing data. Through dimension reduction, clustering, and enrichment analyses, CD72hi CMφs were identified as a subset of pro-inflammatory macrophages.

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The most attractive aspect of perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) for optoelectronic applications is their widely tunable emission wavelength, but it has been quite challenging to tune it without sacrificing the photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY). In this work, we report a facile ligand-optimized ion-exchange (LOIE) method to convert room-temperature spray-synthesized, perovskite parent NCs that emit a saturated green color to NCs capable of emitting colors across the entire visible spectrum. These NCs exhibited exceptionally stable and high PLQYs, particularly for the pure blue (96%) and red (93%) primary colors that are indispensable for display applications.

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Although colloidal lead halide perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) exhibit desirable emitter characteristics with high quantum yields and narrow bandwidths, instability has limited their applications in devices. In this paper, we describe spray-synthesized CsPbI PQD quantum emitters displaying strong photon antibunching and high brightness at room temperature and stable performance under continuous excitation with a high-intensity laser for more than 24 h. Our PQDs provided high single-photon emission rates, exceeding 9 × 10 count/s, after excluding multiexciton emissions and strong photon antibunching, as confirmed by low values of the second-order correlation function (0) (reaching 0.

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  • Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are stable, non-coding RNAs that play multiple roles in liver cancer, influencing processes like growth, spread, and cell death.
  • The review outlines various functions of circRNAs in liver cancer, including aspects related to immune evasion, metabolism, and drug resistance.
  • CircRNAs contribute to immune escape mechanisms in liver cancer by affecting natural killer (NK) cell activity, suggesting potential targets for new immunotherapy approaches.
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