Publications by authors named "Yu-Hung Hsieh"

This study assessed the effects of concurrent intra-articular injection and Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy (TPLO) plate surface treatment with leukoreduced platelet rich plasma (lPRP) on outcomes of dogs undergoing TPLO. A retrospective study of medical records for cases presenting from January 2018 to December 2020 was performed. Client-owned dogs with naturally occurring cranial cruciate ligament rupture that underwent TPLO surgery were divided into two groups.

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The genome consists of non-B-DNA structures such as G-quadruplexes (G4) that are involved in the regulation of genome stability and transcription. Telomeric-repeat containing RNA (TERRA) is capable of folding into G-quadruplex and interacting with chromatin remodeler ATRX. Here we show that TERRA modulates ATRX occupancy on repetitive sequences and over genes, and maintains DNA G-quadruplex structures at TERRA target and non-target sites in mouse embryonic stem cells.

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  • ALT (Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres) uses a recombination mechanism to maintain telomere length without telomerase, though the initiation of ALT is still not fully understood.
  • Research shows that depleting TERRA, a type of RNA found at telomeres, impacts the formation and maintenance of ALT structures like PML bodies and telomere length.
  • TERRA interacts with DNA repair proteins, particularly XPF, which is crucial for activating a DNA damage response that facilitates homologous recombination and telomere lengthening in ALT cells.
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The objective of this report is to describe the use and outcome of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for treatment of pheochromocytomas in 8 dogs. Pheochromocytomas are an uncommon but challenging tumour to manage. Adrenalectomy is the standard of care for treatment of pheochromocytomas in both animals and humans; however, unpredictable catecholamine secretion from the tumour and vascular and local invasion of the tumour and thrombi can pose life-threatening perioperative and anaesthetic risks.

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What Is Your Diagnosis?

J Am Vet Med Assoc

December 2021

In collaboration with the American College of Veterinary Radiology.

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More than 90% of the human genome is transcribed into noncoding RNAs, but their functional characterization has lagged behind. A major bottleneck in the understanding of their functions and mechanisms has been a dearth of systematic methods for identifying interacting protein partners. There now exist several methods, including identification of direct RNA interacting proteins (iDRiP), chromatin isolation by RNA purification (ChIRP), and RNA antisense purification, each previously applied towards identifying a proteome for the prototype noncoding RNA, Xist.

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Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), direct bandgap materials with an atomically thin nature, are promising materials for electronics and photonics, especially at highly scaled lateral dimensions. However, the characteristically low total absorption of photons in the monolayer TMD has become a challenge in the access to and realization of monolayer TMD-based high-performance optoelectronic functionalities and devices. Here, we demonstrate gate-tunable plasmonic phototransistors (photoFETs) that consist of monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS) photoFETs integrated with the two-dimensional plasmonic crystals.

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  • Plasmonics have been widely studied for photodetectors in the IR and visible light ranges, but UV applications have been limited due to poor optical materials.
  • A new UV photodetector is created using a single-crystalline aluminum film on gallium nitride, featuring a patterned array of nanoholes that enhances performance, achieving maximum responsivity and detectivity at the UV wavelength of 355 nm.
  • The design allows for a fast response time and a broader detection range, making it one of the best-performing GaN-based photodetectors reported so far.
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Lead halide perovskite materials have recently received considerable attention for achieving an economic and tunable laser owing to their solution-processable feature and promising optical properties. However, most reported perovskite-based lasers operate with a large lasing-mode volume, resulting in a high lasing threshold due to the inefficient coupling between the optical gain medium and cavity. Here, we demonstrate a continuous-wave nanolasing from a single lead halide perovskite (CsPbBr) quantum dot (PQD) in a plasmonic gap-mode nanocavity with an ultralow threshold of 1.

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Protein and DNA have been considered as the major components of chromatin. But beyond that, an increasing number of studies show that RNA occupies a large amount of chromatin and acts as a regulator of nuclear architecture. A significant fraction of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) prefers to stay in the nucleus and cooperate with protein complexes to modulate epigenetic regulation, phase separation, compartment formation, and nuclear organization.

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