Publications by authors named "Zhenjun Liu"

In Caenorhabditis elegans, 6-PPD quinine (6-PPDQ) could cause several aspects of toxicity together with alteration in glucose metabolism. However, transgenerational alteration in glucose metabolism remains still unknown after 6-PPDQ exposure. In the current study, we further observed transgenerational increase in glucose content induced by 6-PPDQ (1-10 μg/L).

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  • COVID-19, while not deemed a public health emergency anymore, still requires accurate testing due to ongoing regional impacts, with a study assessing over 3,000 negative tests revealing consistently low pass rates across samples.
  • Analysis of 132 positive samples highlighted key factors affecting test quality, including the experience of samplers, the condition of the samples at various stages, and seasonal influences, with children's samples showing lower quality.
  • The study emphasizes the importance of standardized practices and quality control among sampling staff, noting that reliable internal references can help in identifying and minimizing factors that interfere with nucleic acid test results.
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  • Hyponatraemia, a common issue in critically ill patients, can worsen if low sodium levels are corrected too quickly using continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), risking osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS), which this study seeks to prevent through individualized treatment methods.
  • This retrospective case series involved four ICU patients with severe hyponatraemia and renal failure, where CRRT was used together with sterile water and regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA) to gradually correct sodium levels while monitoring for adverse effects.
  • Results showed a significant increase in sodium levels post-treatment, with no complications related to CRRT, suggesting that this protocol is a safe and effective way to address severe hyponatraemia, easily implementable by
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Phytic acid (IP6) and its degradation products lower myo-inositol phosphates exert different impacts on nutrient bioavailability and product quality characteristics. However, information regarding the occurrence of IP6 and its degradation products is scarce. In this work, simultaneous determination of IP6 and its degradation products in soybeans was developed, with emphasis on analysis by UPLC-MS/MS and a BEH Amide column both with hybrid surface technology.

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Glucose metabolism plays an important role for formation of normal physiological state of organisms. However, association between altered glucose metabolism and toxicity of 6-PPD quinone (6-PPDQ) remains largely unknown. In 1-100 μg/L 6-PPDQ exposed Caenorhabditis elegans, we observed increased glucose content.

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To explore the association and impact between viral myocarditis and mortality in patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome. A dynamic analysis was conducted between fatal group and nonfatal group regarding the daily epidemiology data, clinical symptoms, and electrocardiogram (ECG), echocardiogram, and laboratory findings. Outcomes of patients with and without viral myocarditis were compared.

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Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a formidable pathogen responsible for severe intracranial infections post-craniotomy, exhibiting a mortality rate as high as 71%. Tigecycline (TGC), a broad-spectrum antibiotic, emerged as a potential therapeutic agent for MDR A.

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Gel networks formed from biopolymers have intrigued rheological interest, especially in the food industry. Despite ubiquitous non-network biopolymer aggregation in real gel food systems, its fundamental rheological implications remain less understood. This study addresses this by preparing pectin-gelatin composite gels with dispersed or aggregated biopolymers and comparatively analyzing viscoelastic responses using rheometry.

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Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) commonly develops among traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients and causes poorer outcomes. We perform this study to explore the relationship between serum magnesium and the risk of AKI among TBI.

Methods: TBI patients recorded in the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-III database were eligible for this research.

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Background: There is a lack of convenient and accurate objective methods to evaluate the clinical efficacy of thigh liposuction.

Methods: This retrospective study involved the 3-dimensional images of 19 patients who underwent bilateral thigh liposuction. Data such as volume change and volume change rate before and after surgery, circumference change, and circumference change rate of 3 planes (upper, middle, and lower) were analyzed.

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Background: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a heterogeneous illness that has a high mortality rate. The role and predictive value of soluble thrombomodulin (sTM) in ARDS mortality is disputable, so the present study aimed to evaluate the association and predictive value of sTM for the in-hospital mortality of ARDS.

Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library, Chongqing VIP, WanFang, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and Chinese Biomedical Literature databases were searched for relevant literature published before October 10, 2022.

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Background: Postoperative pulmonary embolism (PE) is a severe complication leading to death and poor prognosis. The present study investigated the risk factors and potential predictors of PE in cancer patients undergoing thoracic and abdominopelvic surgery.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on the patients with cancer who underwent thoracic and abdominopelvic surgery in Sichuan Cancer Hospital from December 2016 to January 2022.

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A facile post-gelation soaking strategy for producing low-alkaline konjac glucomannan (KGM) gels was investigated in this work. The dealkalization kinetics of soaking alkali-induced gels in citric acid (CA) solutions was determined. A comparison of sensory, textural, and water holding properties was made between untreated and post-soaking gels.

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Understanding and predicting how species will respond to global environmental change (i.e., climate and land use change) is essential to efficiently inform conservation and management strategies for authorities and managers.

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Whereas water-ethanol hybrid gels present an opportunity to realize aroma enhancement, translating hypothesis into practice is limited by poorly defined viscoelastic characteristics of those gels. In this work, the linear and non-linear rheological properties of water-ethanol hybrid pectin gels (WEPGs) were studied. Those WEPGs are physical gels in nature and the WEPG of 28.

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Introduction: Abdominal cocoon is a unique peritoneal disease that is frequently misdiagnosed. The occurrence of the abdominal cocoon with a jejuno-ileo-colonic fistula has not been previously reported.

Case Presentation: We admitted a 41-year-old female patient with an abdominal cocoon and a jejuno-ileo-colonic fistula.

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Background: Gluteal ptosis is a common complication of circumferential liposuction of the thigh. The authors propose a novel concept of combining circumferential liposuction of the thigh with concomitant fat transplantation to the infragluteal/posterior thigh junction region to prevent postliposuction gluteal ptosis.

Methods: Patients underwent circumferential liposuction of the thigh with or without concomitant fat transplantation from 2015 to 2020 and were retrospectively reviewed.

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Overaggressive liposuction of the infragluteal region can lead to iatrogenic infragluteal fold deformity and result in esthetic defects in the gluteal contour. We report a case of using autologous fat transplantation to correct severe post-liposuction infragluteal fold deformity. In the process of reconstruction, the patient experienced fat graft overabsorption, fat graft translocation, and gluteal ptosis aggravation.

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The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) has been suggested to play an important role in cardiac remodeling after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We have confirmed that bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes (BMSC-EX) had similar types of repair like effects upon tissues as BMSC, but the mechanisms remain unknown. BMSC were cultured to the third generation and were induced to release exosomes.

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Background: The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become a global public health emergency.

Objective: To evaluate the characteristics and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 in Anhui and to identify predictors of viral clearance.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the data collected from discharged patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections.

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Lip deformities that occur after treatment of vascular anomalies treatment are often followed by serious local cicatricial adhesion and mucosa atrophy that can complicate reconstruction methods involving simple fat grafting or local flap transfer. To develop a novel technique that combines flap transfer with nanofat grafting that can be used to reconstruct the upper lip after treatment of vascular anomalies. A retrospective study of a consecutive series of 24 patients with upper lip deformities (13 female and 11 male) aged between 7 and 24 years old was conducted.

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Purpose: Protective loop ileostomy is an effective diversion measure often used to reduce the risk of anastomotic leakage. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the surgical outcomes of the one-stitch method (OM) of protective loop ileostomy in laparoscopic low anterior resection for BMI obesity patients with rectal cancer compared with the traditional method (TM).

Methods: The patients diagnosed as rectal adenocarcinoma cases by preoperative pathology were included in this retrospective study.

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Introduction: During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 global pandemic, maternal and newborn wellbeing has received much attention. Detailed reports of infected women breastfeeding their infants are uncommon. Due to incomplete information available, full data about those infants' outcomes are lacking, and evidence of infectivity through breastfeeding has not been documented.

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Background: Upper arm liposuction mainly focuses on the posterolateral region, which may lead to a lack of harmony between the aspirated and unaspirated areas. In addition, the treatment effect of arm liposuction is often evaluated only by preoperative and postoperative photograph comparison and simple measurement; quantitative research on this topic is still lacking.

Methods: The multi-positional circumferential arm liposuction (MCAL) technique was proposed and applied to a total of 34 females in our hospital from 2017 to 2019.

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