Publications by authors named "Zhen Meng"

Background: Heart failure (HF) guidelines recommend routine testing for iron deficiency (ID) and, for those with ID, intravenous iron if the left ventricular ejection fraction is <50%. Guideline adherence to these recommendations by cardiologists in China is unknown.

Methods And Results: An independent academic web-based survey was designed and distributed via social networks to cardiologists across China.

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Objective: Evaluate the effect of white noise intervention on sleep quality and immunological indicators of patients with breast cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC).

Methods: From January 2020 to December 2022, 104 newly diagnosed female patients (the number of people who met the inclusion criteria) with breast cancer who were confirmed to be preoperative NAC by puncture pathology were selected for a randomised single-blind trial. The patients were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, with 52 cases in each group.

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Introduction: Hypoxia responses are critical for myriad physiological and pathological processes, such as development, tissue repair, would healing, and tumorigenesis. microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that exert their functions by inhibiting the expression of their target genes, and miR-210 is the miRNA universally and most conspicuously upregulated by hypoxia in mammalian systems. For its relationship to hypoxia, miR-210 has been studied extensively, yet no consensus exists on the roles and mechanisms of miR-210 in human physiological processes or diseases, and we know little about genuine miR-210 target genes in humans.

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  • The demand for advanced camouflage technology in military warfare is rising, particularly for materials that have multispectral compatibility and adaptive capabilities.
  • Achieving simultaneous multispectral functionality in one device is difficult due to the limitations in how electromagnetic waves respond across different wavelengths.
  • The integration of coding metamaterials with infrared electrochromic devices leads to a new type of metadevice that allows for adjustable infrared emissivity and significant microwave scattering reduction, presenting a promising approach for future multispectral camouflage solutions.
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Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), one of the most common types of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), is characterized by high incidence and mortality. PVT1 is a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) that plays an oncogenic role in various cancer types. This study aims to reveal the role and underlying molecular mechanism of PVT1 in OSCC progression.

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  • The study investigates the effects of indomethacin on slowing osteoarthritis (OA) progression by using chondrocyte cells treated with IL-1β, which simulates OA conditions.
  • It finds that IL-1β worsens inflammation and other adverse cellular processes in chondrocytes, while indomethacin counteracts these negative effects and inhibits a critical signaling pathway (PI3K/AKT/mTOR).
  • The conclusion suggests that indomethacin helps regulate inflammation and cellular processes, potentially slowing down the development of OA by acting on the signaling pathway involved.
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Objective: Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a moderately malignant soft tissue sarcoma with localized infiltrative growth. The extensive surgical scope and high recurrence rate of DFSP brings dysfunctional, aesthetic, psychological and economic problems to patients. The aim of this study is to explore the global publication characteristics, research hotspots and future trends of DFSP over the past 32 years via an intuitive visualized way.

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Purpose: There are few studies on early-onset and late-onset nasopharyngeal cancer (EONPC and LONPC, defined as cancers in those aged < 50 and ≥ 50 years, respectively). This study aimed to determine the clinical and survival characteristics of patients with NPC in these two age groups.

Methods: This study involved patients diagnosed with NPC between 2000 and 2018, as per the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database, and in our institution from 2014 to 2017.

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Background: Glutamine is an important nutrient for cancer cell growth that provides biological sources for nucleic acid and fatty acid synthesis, but the role of glutaminolysis in signal transduction and glioblastoma (GBM) progression remains little known.

Methods: Knockdown and overexpression cells were obtained to explore the functional roles of glutamate dehydrogenase 1 (GDH1) in cell proliferation, tumor formation, and aerobic glycolysis. RNA-seq, Chromatin immunoprecipitation, luciferase assay, and western blot were performed to verify the regulation of the EGFR-AKT pathway by the GDH1 (also known as GLUD1) and KDM6A.

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  • Ion exchange can effectively modify functional nanomaterials, but keeping their original shape and structure during anion exchange is challenging.
  • A new method was developed allowing anion exchange under mild conditions while revealing a unique exchange mechanism in semiconductor nanoplatelets.
  • The findings indicate that anion exchange primarily occurs on the polar surfaces, with a first-order kinetic process, helping improve the design of functional nanocrystals and understanding their optoelectronic properties.
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  • The study investigated the relationship between PSMD14 expression and cancer prognosis by analyzing data from public databases, including survival rates and clinicopathological features, until June 2023.
  • Results revealed that high levels of PSMD14 are associated with worse overall and disease-free survival in patients with various tumors, along with larger tumor sizes and increased metastasis.
  • PSMD14 is suggested as a potential biomarker for poor prognosis in multiple cancers, including lung cancer, breast cancer, and more.
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  • Understanding gene regulation across different species can greatly enhance our knowledge of life and improve clinical applications, but traditional research limits itself by focusing on single organisms without cross-species integration.
  • This study created a massive dataset of over 101 million single-cell transcriptomes from humans and mice, leading to the development of an AI model called GeneCompass, which incorporates various biological knowledge to improve gene regulation understanding.
  • GeneCompass not only performed better than existing models in single-species tasks but also facilitated new research avenues across species, identifying gene factors that can influence human embryonic stem cell differentiation into specific cell types.
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Hypopharyngeal carcinoma is one of the malignant tumors of the head and neck with a particularly poor prognosis. Recurrence and metastasis are important reasons for poor prognosis of hypopharyngeal cancer patients, and malignant proliferation, migration, and invasion of tumor cells are important factors for recurrence and metastasis of hypopharyngeal cancer. Therefore, elucidating hypopharyngeal cancer cells' proliferation, migration, and invasion mechanism is essential for improving diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.

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The escalating challenges in water treatment, exacerbated by climate change, have catalyzed the emergence of innovative solutions. Novel adsorption separation and membrane filtration methodologies, achieved through molecular structure manipulation, are gaining traction in the environmental and energy sectors. Separation technologies, integral to both the chemical industry and everyday life, encompass concentration and purification processes.

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Introduction: Human oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common type of oral cancer and has a poor survival rate. Cell-cell communication between OSCC cells and cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) plays important roles in OSCC progression. We previously demonstrated that CAFs promote OSCC cell migration and invasion.

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Herein, we developed a ligand-promoted Rh(III)-catalyzed C(sp)-H thiolation of 8-methylquinolines. The effect of ligands on improving the activity of the catalytic centers has been studied in detail and proven to be significant. Various substituents are well tolerated under this reaction condition to provide potential precursors for organic synthesis.

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  • Efficient oxygen electrocatalysts are crucial for improving the performance of rechargeable zinc-air batteries (ZABs), which are promising energy storage devices due to their high energy density and ecofriendliness.
  • The slow kinetics of key reactions, oxygen reduction (ORR) and oxygen evolution (OER), limit ZAB applications, but developing heterostructure-based electrocatalysts can mitigate these challenges.
  • The paper reviews recent advancements in creating these advanced catalysts through various engineering strategies, emphasizing future challenges and perspectives for enhancing ZAB performance.
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The surface quality of milled blade-root grooves in industrial turbine blades significantly influences their mechanical properties. The surface texture reveals the interaction between the tool and the workpiece during the machining process, which plays a key role in determining the surface quality. In addition, there is a significant correlation between acoustic vibration signals and surface texture features.

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In this study, titanium dioxide (TiO) nanofilms with nanoparticle structure were grown in situ on metallic aluminum (Al) sheets using a simple sol-hydrothermal method. Al sheets were chosen because they can form Schottky junctions with TiO during the calcination process, thus achieving a tight bonding between the nanoparticles and the solid substrate, which cannot be achieved with conventional glass substrates. The substrates synthesized with different contents of titanium butoxide [Ti(OBu)] were investigated using 4-mercaptobenzoic acid as a probe molecule, and the results showed that the substrate with 9 % of the total volume of Ti(OBu) had the highest surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) performance.

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Molding COFs into aerogels from monomers can establish interpenetrating spatial network structures on the centimeter scale that increase the accessibility of dominant pore channels and the convenience of real application, which radically gets rid of the difficult reprocessing problems of insoluble and non-fusible powder COFs. However, the construction of bulk COF structures and achieving crystallinity are often incompatible, especially with sp carbon-based COFs, whose powder synthesis has been quite demanding. Herein, for the first time, we report an efficient method to prepare sp carbon-linked π-conjugated DFB-TMTA-COF (DT-COF) aerogels by an ultrasound-assisted mild solvothermal technique and freeze-drying.

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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) represent a class of persistent synthetic chemicals extensively utilized across industrial and consumer sectors, raising substantial environmental and human health concerns. Epidemiological investigations have robustly linked PFAS exposure to a spectrum of adverse health outcomes. Altered metabolites stand as promising biomarkers, offering insights into the identification of specific environmental pollutants and their deleterious impacts on human health.

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Infrared electrochromic devices (IR-ECDs) are pivotal for dynamic thermal regulation. However, the quest for all-solid-state IR-ECDs with high stability and a broadly tunable range of emissivity remains a challenge. This study presents the development of an all-solid-state infrared electrochromic device (IR-ECD) with the structure of ITO/HWO/TaO/Pd/MgNi based on the hydrogen-induced metal-insulator transition of Mg-Ni alloy films.

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