Publications by authors named "Zhao-Qun Wang"
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- Scientists studied how anxiety from tumors in mice affects their cancer growth!
- They found that certain brain cells (CRH neurons) get super active when there's a tumor, which makes the mice more anxious!
- Using special techniques, they showed that reducing this brain activity can help lower both anxiety and tumor growth, and they even found that an antianxiety medicine might help slow down cancer!
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- The anterior auditory field (AAF) is important for tasks that involve distinguishing different sound frequencies, but the specific role of AAF corticostriatal neurons in this process was previously not well understood.
- Using various research techniques, the study showed that AAF pyramidal neurons become significantly more active during frequency discrimination tasks and that inhibiting these neurons impairs performance in these tasks.
- The findings highlight that AAF pyramidal neurons send strong signals to the striatum, and disrupting these connections also negatively affects the ability to discriminate frequencies, indicating their critical role in auditory processing.
Amylose derivatives chiral stationary phases (CSPs), some of which are commercially available, are well known for their powerful enantioseparation performance. However, due to the dissolution or swelling properties of amylose derivatives, this type of CSPs prepared by coating method exhibit poor solvent tolerance and stability. In order to overcome the defect as well as maintain the chiral recognition capability of amylose tris(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate), chitin bis(3-chloro-4-methylphenylcarbamate) with good stability and good chiral recognition capability was blended with the amylose derivative at different ratios, and the resulting blends were further coated onto 3-aminopropyl silica gel to obtain three biselector CSPs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDue to the low solubility and swelling properties of chitin bis(arylcarbamate) in most organic solvents, the chiral stationary phases (CSPs) prepared from chitin derivatives can be analyzed with a wide range of solvents. In order to develop new CSPs of chitin derivatives with halogen groups, chitin was derivatized with three different phenyl isocyanates to obtain chitin bis(4-trifluoromethoxyphenylcarbamate), chitin bis(3-chloro-4-methylphenylcarbamate) and chitin bis(4-chloro-3-trifluoromethylphenylcarbamate). Then, the three chitin derivatives were coated on macroporous 3-aminopropyl-functionalized silica gel to obtain three CSPs 1-3 respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCellulose tris(4-methylphenylcarbamate) (CMPC) and cellulose tris(4-chlorophenylcarbamate) (CCPC) are well known for their powerful chiral recognition capability, and the chiral columns prepared from these two polymers have been commercialized. However, the chiral stationary phases (CSPs) can be only used in the mobile phases containing no more than 20% ethanol (referring to CMPC) or cannot be used in ethanol-containing mobile phases (referring to CCPC). In order to overcome the defect and to study the enantioseparation characteristics of biselector CSPs, CMPC, cellulose tris(phenylcarbamate) (CPC) and CCPC were, respectively, mixed with amylose tris(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamte) (ADMPC) at a ratio of 1:1 (mol/mol) of glucose unit, and three new CSPs were prepared by coating the resulting blends on 3-aminopropyl silica gel.
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