Publications by authors named "Yunfan Gu"

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  • The study aimed to evaluate the long-term effectiveness and safety of a single dose of rituximab in treating children with steroid-dependent minimal-change nephrotic syndrome (SD-MCNS) over two years.
  • Out of 77 children (average age ~8 years), rituximab showed a high efficacy rate of 90.91%, although 78.33% experienced relapses; certain factors like age and T-cell counts influenced treatment outcomes.
  • The findings suggest that while rituximab is effective, patients who are older and have lower steroid dosages have better responses, while younger males with higher IgE levels are at higher risk for relapse.
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Objective: To explore the association between circadian syndrome (CircS) and Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) with psoriasis. Compare the performance of MetS and CircS in predicting psoriasis.

Methods: An observational study used data from the NHANES surveys conducted in 2005-2006 and 2009-2014.

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Background: Numerous inflammatory skin diseases are associated with the gut microbiota. Studies of the association between gut microbiota and inflammatory skin diseases have yielded conflicting results owing to confounding factors, and the causal relationship between them remains undetermined.

Methods: Two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) was used to examine the association between gut microbiota and four common inflammatory skin diseases: acne, psoriasis, urticaria and atopic dermatitis.

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Ischemia/reperfusion (IR)-induced acute lung injury (ALI) has a high mortality rate. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a crucial role in causing cellular damage and death in IR-induced ALI. In this work, we developed a biomimetic lung-targeting nanoparticle (PC@MB) as an antioxidative lung protector for treating IR-induced ALI.

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The Fangji Dihuang formulation (FJDHF) is a widely recognized Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) formula that consists of five plant drugs: Stephaniae Tetrandrae Radix, Cinnamomi Ramulus, Rehmanniae Radix, Saposhnikoviae Radix, and Glycyrrhiza Urensis Fisch. This formulation has been known to exhibit clinical therapeutic effects in the treatment of inflammatory skin diseases. However, there is a lack of pharmacological research on its anti-atopic dermatitis (AD) activity.

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Context: Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection has become a global public-health problem, and people living in low-resource settings may be more likely to be infected because of unhealthy life habits, poor sanitary conditions, and overuse of antibiotics without a prescription.

Objectives: The study intended to assess the susceptibility of H.

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With the intensification of the aging process of the world, Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is the main type of senile dementia, has become a primary problem in the present society. Lots of strategies have been used to prevent and treat AD in animal models and clinical trials, but most of them ended in failure. Panax notoginseng saponins (PNS) contain a variety of monomer compositions which have been separated and identified.

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