Publications by authors named "YuXiang Xu"

Background: Behavioral jet lags (social and eating jet lag), the difference in sleep and eating time between weekdays and weekends, are ubiquitous in modern society. However, evidence on the effects of behavioral jet lags on circadian rhythm is limited.

Methods: Social jet lag was assessed using wrist-worn accelerometers.

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Background: Light at night (LAN) has become a global concern. However, little is known about the effects of bedroom LAN exposure on glucose metabolism markers. We aimed to explore the association between intensity and duration of bedroom LAN exposure with glucose metabolism markers, and the role of circadian-dependent meal timing in these associations.

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Purpose: To investigate the potential associations between unhealthy chrononutrition behaviors (meal timing, frequency, and regularity) and their combined impact on cardiometabolic risk in adolescence.

Methods: Chrononutrition behaviors were assessed using a 7-day ecological momentary assessment (EMA). The unhealthy chrononutrition score (ranging from 0 to 8) was determined based on late meal timing, low meal frequency, and meal irregularity.

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A single-oral-dose, two-period cross-over study with a 5-day washout period under fed condition was conducted in six beagle dogs to explore the pharmacokinetic characteristics and relative bioavailability between sustained-release (SR) tablets and enteric-coated (EC) tablets of pentoxifylline (PTX) and its metabolite. The results showed that M5 exhibited the highest exposure level, while M1 demonstrated the lowest in both the SR and EC tablet groups. For PTX and M1, T were 0.

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Timing of food intake is an emerging aspect of nutrition; however, there is a lack of research accurately assessing food timing in the context of the circadian system. The study aimed to investigate the relation between food timing relative to clock time and endogenous circadian timing with adiposity and further explore sex differences in these associations among 151 young adults aged 18-25 years. Participants wore wrist actigraphy and documented sleep and food schedules in real time for 7 consecutive days.

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  • Furmonertinib (AST2818) is a TKI being developed for treating non-small cell lung cancer in patients with EGFR mutations, and its levels in plasma and CSF help assess its effectiveness in the CNS.
  • This paper outlines a UPLC-MS/MS method for measuring furmonertinib in human plasma and CSF, using a specific setup that allows for accurate detection and quantification.
  • The methods demonstrated high sensitivity, reliability, and accuracy, which are essential for determining furmonertinib's potential effectiveness and side effects in lung cancer treatment.
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Background: The detrimental effects of exposure to light at night (LAN) have received increasing attention. However, the effects of LAN exposure on depressive symptoms and underlying mechanism are less explored.

Objectives: To investigate the association between LAN exposure with new-onset and trajectories of depressive symptoms, and the potential mediating role of systemic inflammation.

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Objective: Pyrotinb has been approved for the treatment of HER2-positive advanced or metastatic breast cancer in China. However, the plasma concentration of pyrotinb in different patients varies greatly, and in the course of treatment, if patients have intolerable adverse reactions, the drug dosage will be reduced or even stopped. This study set out to establish an ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) for the determination of pyrotinb in human plasma, analyze the population pharmacokinetics (PPK) of pyrotinib and assess the influence of patient variables on PK of pyrotinib in patients with HER2 positive breast cancer.

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  • EGFR-TKIs like icotinib, osimertinib, and aumolertinib are effective treatments for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients with EGFR mutations, and anlotinib is used alongside them as an anti-angiogenic agent.
  • A new method using ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) has been developed to simultaneously measure the levels of these drugs in patient blood samples.
  • The assay has shown strong performance metrics such as selectivity, accuracy, and repeatability, confirming its reliability for clinical monitoring of these medications' concentrations in patients.
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Background: Exposure to light at night (LAN) has been associated with multiple adverse health outcomes. However, evidence is limited regarding the impacts of LAN exposure on human inflammation.

Objectives: To examine the association between real-ambient bedroom LAN exposure with systemic inflammation and circadian rhythm of inflammatory markers.

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  • The study investigated the relationship between sleep fragmentation (SF) and obesity in a young adult population over one year.
  • Each unit increase in the sleep fragmentation index (SFI) was linked to notable increases in body mass index, body fat percentage, fat mass, waist circumference, and visceral fat area at follow-up.
  • Results suggest that fragmented sleep raises the risk of general and abdominal obesity, positioning SF as a potential target for obesity prevention and management.
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Parkinson's disease (PD), as a neurologically implemented disease with complex etiological factors, has a complex and variable pathogenesis. Accompanying further research, neuroinflammation has been found to be one of the possible factors in its pathogenesis. Microglia, as intrinsic immune cells in the brain, play an important role in maintaining microenvironmental homeostasis in the brain.

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Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) can result in irreversible damage and lead to tuberculous destructive lung (TDL), a severe chronic lung disease that is associated with a high mortality rate. Additionally, pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a hemodynamic disorder that can be caused by lung diseases. The objective of this study is to investigate the risk factors associated with PH in active TB patients diagnosed with TDL.

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As a kind of biosurfactants, iturin A has attracted people's wide attentions due to their features of biodegradability, environmentally friendly, etc.; however, high production cost limited its extensive application, and the aim of this research wants to improve iturin A production in Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. Firstly, dual promoter was applied to strengthen iturin A synthetase expression, and its yield was increased to 1.

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Background: Light at night (LAN) have attracted increased research attention on account of its widespread health hazards. However, the underlying mechanism remains unknown. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of real-ambient bedroom LAN exposure on circadian rhythm among young adults and potential sex differences.

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  • Depression is complicated and hard to understand, which makes it tricky to treat with regular medications.
  • High-intensity interval training (HIIT) can help treat depression just as well as medication, and it doesn't have harmful side effects.
  • Studies showed that people doing HIIT had fewer signs of depression, and it helps in different ways, such as improving brain function and reducing stress.
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Light at night (LAN) is a significant but underappreciated risk factor contributing to cardiometabolic disease (CMD). We therefore conducted the review examining the relationship of LAN exposure with CMD in order to investigate the effects of LAN exposure on CMD. We searched PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Scopus for eligible studies published from database inception to August 17, 2023.

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Purpose: To develop an UPLC-MS/MS method for the quantitative analysis of pentoxifylline in beagle dog plasma and apply it to a pharmacokinetic study of food effect.

Methods: Sample separation was achieved using a Kinetex Phenyl-Hexyl column (50 × 2.1 mm, 1.

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Persistent oxidative stress and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress are the primary mechanisms of age-related cardiovascular diseases. Although exercise training is viewed as an effective anti-aging approach, further exploration is needed to identify the mechanisms and functional targets. In this study, the impact of resistance training (RT) on the expression of Smyd1, the levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the expression of ER stress-related protein in the hearts of mice of different ages were assessed.

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Cellular senescence and chronic inflammation in response to aging are considered to be indicators of brain aging; they have a great impact on the aging process and are the main risk factors for neurodegeneration. Reviewing the microglial response to aging and neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases will help understand the importance of microglia in neurodegenerative diseases. This review describes the origin and function of microglia and focuses on the role of different states of the microglial response to aging and chronic inflammation on the occurrence and development of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's chorea, and Parkinson's disease.

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Objective: Accelerated female reproductive events represent the early onset of reproductive events involving puberty, menarche, pregnancy loss, first sexual intercourse, first birth, parity, and menopause. This study aimed to explore the association between childhood adversity and accelerated female reproductive events.

Data Sources: PubMed, Web of Science, and Embase were systematically searched from September 22, 2022 to September 23, 2022.

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Purpose: To investigate the cross-sectional associations between real-world multiperiod bedroom light at night and sleep parameters among 365 Chinese young adults.

Methods: Bedroom light exposure was estimated at the individual level for two consecutive days using a portable illuminance meter. Subjective sleep parameters were measured with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and objective sleep parameters were assessed by wrist-worn ActiGraph accelerometers for seven consecutive days.

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Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease and has serious health and socio-economic consequences. Mitochondrial dysfunction is closely related to the onset and progression of PD, and the use of mitochondria as a target for PD therapy has been gaining traction in terms of both recognition and application. The disruption of mitochondrial proteostasis in the brain tissue of PD patients leads to mitochondrial dysfunction, which manifests as mitochondrial unfolded protein response, mitophagy, and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation.

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Background: Autosomal dominant lateral temporal epilepsy (ADLTE) is an inherited syndrome caused by mutations in the leucine-rich glioma inactivated 1 (LGI1) gene. It is known that functional LGI1 is secreted by excitatory neurons, GABAergic interneurons, and astrocytes, and regulates AMPA-type glutamate receptor-mediated synaptic transmission by binding ADAM22 and ADAM23. However, > 40 LGI1 mutations have been reported in familial ADLTE patients, more than half of which are secretion-defective.

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In Parkinson's disease (PD), neurotoxic microglia, Th1 cells, and Th17 cells are overactivated. Overactivation of these immune cells exacerbates the disease process and leads to the pathological development of pro-inflammatory cytokines, chemokines, and contact-killing compounds, causing the loss of dopaminergic neurons. So far, we have mainly focused on the role of the specific class of immune cells in PD while neglecting the impact of interactions among immune cells on the disease.

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