Publications by authors named "YuJun Zhang"

Background: Major abdominal surgery is a kind of high-risk surgery type for postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) among non-cardiac surgeries. Despite dexmedetomidine exerts significant renal protective effects in cardiac surgeries and animal studies, whether it is associated with a lower incidence of AKI in major abdominal surgeries remains unclear.

Methods: From January 2019 to July 2021, patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery in West China Hospital were enrolled.

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A complete scalp avulsion injury is rare but extremely challenging to treat. Because of the dense blood vessel bundles in the scalp, replantation failure may occur if there is a subcutaneous hematoma. The method of scalp fixation is crucial for replantation to be successful.

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Objective: To investigate the clinical efficacy of posterior unilateral biportal endoscopic(UBE) cervical discectomy for cervical radiculopathy under general anesthesia.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of 35 patients with cervical disc herniation uderwent posterior UBE cervical discectomy under general anesthesia from March 2021 to March 2023 was performed, including 17 males and 18 females, with an average age of (56.00±7.

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  • Serratia marcescens Nuclease A (SmNucA) is commonly used in biopharmaceutical manufacturing to remove nucleotide impurities, but its effectiveness drops significantly in high-salt environments (up to 500 mM).
  • Researchers developed a variant called HighSalt NucA, which has four Lys mutations to enhance its ability to bind nucleic acids under these salty conditions, also revealing a new catalytic mechanism.
  • Additional experiments showed that other mutations (involving Arg and various hydrophobic or polar residues) also contribute to salt tolerance, allowing HighSalt NucA to maintain its activity and broaden its application potential in nucleic acid removal processes.
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  • The text discusses the difficulty in accurately detecting rice seed germination rates due to the similarity between germinated and non-germinated seeds.
  • It introduces a new model called Rice Seed Germination-YOLOV8 (RSG-YOLOV8), which utilizes advanced techniques like CSPDenseNet, a dynamic attention mechanism, and structured feature fusion to enhance detection efficiency and accuracy.
  • Experimental results show that RSG-YOLOV8 achieves a mAP50 score of 0.981, surpassing the previous standard set by YOLOv8 by 4%, establishing a new benchmark in the field.
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The decline in biodiversity poses a serious threat to natural ecosystems and has become one of the most pressing global environmental issues. Establishing conservation priorities for protected areas (PAs) is one of the most direct and effective biodiversity conservation measures. However, conservation gaps arise as a result of existing problems in spatial layout of PAs, including overlapping protection scopes, artificial fragmentation of natural ecological regions, as well as "over-protection" and "over-exploitation.

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The increasing number of infections caused by pathogenic bacteria has severely affected human society. More and more deaths were originated from Gram-positive methicillin-resistant (MRSA) infection each year. The potential and excellent bacteriostatic activity and resistance to biofilm formation of pillar[5]arene with different functional groups attract important attention to further study the relationship between antimicrobial activity and cytotoxicity by varying the length of the hydrophobic chain, the number of positive charges, and the hydrophobic/hydrophilic balance of the molecule.

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  • * Research involved analyzing liver samples from grafted rats to investigate the role of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in causing bile duct injury through mechanisms like the PIEZO1/SRC pathway.
  • * Increasing hepatic arterial blood flow with Verapamil can suppress NET extravasation, presenting a potential treatment to mitigate biliary complications after liver transplants.
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Objective: Stress concentration and excessive wear on the opposite jaw teeth are the main problems that lead to the failure of all-ceramic crown restoration. The objectives of this study were to: (1) Synthesize the biomimetic gradient zirconia/resin composites. (2) Control the porosity and structure so that the mechanical properties of the biomimetic gradient zirconia/resin composites are close to enamel and dentin.

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Symmetry engineering is explicitly effective to manipulate and even create phases and orderings in strongly correlated materials. Flexural stress is universally practical to break the space-inversion or time-reversal symmetry. Here, by introducing strain gradient in a centrosymmetric antiferromagnet Sr_{2}IrO_{4}, the space-inversion symmetry is broken accompanying a nonequivalent O p-Ir d orbital hybridization along the z axis.

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Real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) remains the most prevalent molecular detection technology for sewage analysis but is plagued with numerous disadvantages, such as time consumption, high manpower requirements, and susceptibility to false negatives. In this study, an automated robot-driven photoelectrochemical (PEC) biosensing platform is constructed, that utilizes the CRISPR/Cas12a system to achieve fast, ultrasensitive, high specificity detection of biological loads in sewage. The Shennong-1 robot integrates several functional modules, involving sewage sampling and pretreatment to streamline the sewage monitoring.

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  • Observational studies link serum uric acid to cardiovascular disease (CVD), but biases can affect their reliability, prompting the use of a more rigorous two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) approach for better clarity on causation.
  • The study sourced genome-wide association data related to serum uric acid and several types of CVD, employing various statistical methods to ensure result reliability.
  • Results indicate that genetically higher serum uric acid levels significantly increase the risk of several cardiovascular issues, highlighting the need for proactive management of elevated uric acid to reduce these risks.
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Artemisinin, a potent antimalarial compound, is predominantly derived from Artemisia annua. The uniqueness of artemisinin production in A. annua lies in its complex biochemical pathways and genetic composition, distinguishing it from other plant species, even within the Asteraceae family.

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Background And Aims: Patients with aggressive HCC have limited therapeutic options. Therefore, a better understanding of HCC pathogenesis is needed to improve treatment. Genomic studies of HCC have improved our understanding of cancer biology.

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  • The study investigates the relationship between cartilage endplate (CEP) degeneration and intervertebral disc degeneration from a biomechanical perspective.
  • Four advanced finite element models were developed to assess the impact of CEP degradation through various loading tests.
  • Findings indicate that while daily loading affects disc degeneration significantly, CEP degeneration has a minor effect, highlighting the importance of glycosaminoglycan content and CEP permeability in disc biomechanics.
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Background: Oxidative stress is closely associated with hypertensive outcomes. The oxidative balance score (OBS) measures oxidative stress exposure from dietary and lifestyle elements. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between OBS and mortality in hypertensive patients.

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is the major fungus that causes blue mold and produces patulin, threatening human health. Due to health and environmental pollution concerns, chitosan (CS) has attracted more and more attention as a safer alternative to synthetic fungicides for the control of blue mold. In the present study, four different benzimidazole groups were introduced onto CS by the acylation reaction to obtain benzimidazole-based chitosan derivatives (R1b-R4b).

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Background: The objective of this investigation was to explore the correlation between the visceral adiposity index (VAI) and depression, and to analyze how type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) may influence this relationship.

Methods: This study included data of 12,378 participants sourced from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005-2018. Utilizing multivariate logistic regression and restricted cubic spline (RCS) regression, we examined the correlation between VAI and depression.

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Thermoelectrics converting heat and electricity directly attract broad attentions. To enhance the thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, one of the key points is to decouple the carrier-phonon transport. Here, we propose an entropy engineering strategy to realize the carrier-phonon decoupling in the typical SrTiO-based perovskite thermoelectrics.

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Purpose: To summarize the abdominal computed tomography (CT) imaging and clinicopathological data of patients with SPNs of the pancreas and analyze the accuracy of preoperative CT diagnosis and features.

Materials And Methods: Between June 2006 and June 2023, CT images of 120 histopathologically proven SPNs in the pancreas were retrospectively reviewed. Fifteen features, including age, sex, and CT-determined features, were included in a multiple stepwise regression analysis.

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Background: With the popularization of computed tomography, more and more pulmonary nodules (PNs) are being detected. Risk stratification of PNs is essential for detecting early-stage lung cancer while minimizing the overdiagnosis of benign nodules. This study aimed to develop a circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) methylation-based, non-invasive model for the risk stratification of PNs.

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This study investigated the antibacterial effects of S-nitroso-N-acetylcysteine (SNAC) and sodium nitrite (NaNO) against and their application in beef sausages. Both SNAC and NaNO demonstrated pH-responsive antibacterial activity, with SNAC showing greater efficacy than NaNO ( < 0.05) at the same pH (3, 5, and 7).

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Objective: Sarcopenia, as a condition of muscle mass loss and functional decline typically diagnosed in elderly individuals, severely affects human physical activity, metabolic homeostasis, and quality of life. Gui Qi Zhuang Jin Decoction (GQZJD), an approved hospital-based prescription with years of clinical application, has been demonstrated to have a notable therapeutic effect on sarcopenia. However, its potential mechanism of action in the treatment of sarcopenia remains uncertain.

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With global climate change leading to increasing intensity and frequency of droughts, as well as the growing problem of soil salinization, these factors significantly affect crop growth, yield, and resilience to adversity. Oats are a cereal widely grown in temperate regions and are rich in nutritive value; however, the scientific literature on the response of oat to drought and salt stress has not yet been analyzed in detail. This study comprehensively analyzed the response of oat to drought stress and salt stress using data from the Web of Science core database and bibliometric methods with R (version4.

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