Publications by authors named "Zhu Qing Feng"

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  • Fusarium mycotoxins, including Fusaric acid (FA) and others, are prevalent global contaminants that pose serious health risks.
  • CRISPR screening identified Malate dehydrogenase 2 (MDH2) and Pyruvate dehydrogenase E1 subunit beta (PDHB) as critical genes related to FA-induced cell death, particularly through their involvement in mitochondrial functions.
  • MDH2 was found to play a vital role in regulating the toxicity of various Fusarium toxins, suggesting potential targets for treatment strategies against their harmful effects.
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  • - The study explores the connection between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-(OH)D), vitamin B12, and cognitive frailty, using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
  • - Researchers found a negative correlation, showing that higher levels of 25-(OH)D are linked to a reduced risk of cognitive frailty in older adults, with a 12% risk reduction for each unit increase in vitamin D levels.
  • - While the findings suggest a significant relationship between vitamin D and cognitive frailty, the authors call for more detailed longitudinal studies to confirm these results.
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Obstructive azoospermia is a kind of common clinical disease, which often happens in epididymis, vas deferens and ejaculatory duct obstruction and accounts for male infertility. Azoospermia, which is caused by obstruction of the ejaculatory duct, is relatively rare. but the development of endoscopic technology now allows the disease to be resolved by surgery.

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Noncoding RNAs constitute a substantial portion of the transcriptome and play pivotal roles in plant growth and development. Among these processes, flowering stands out as a crucial trait, ensuring reproductive success and seed set, and is meticulously controlled by genetic and environmental factors. With remarkable advancements in the identification and characterization of noncoding RNAs in plants, it has become evident that noncoding RNAs are intricately linked to the regulation of flowering time.

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Coupled with the ageing population, frailty, characterized by high prevalence and difficult treatment, has progressively evolved into a significant public health concern. Frail individuals can often observe serious metabolic disorders and sleep-wake cycle disruption, which may be caused by the decline in physiological reserve and increased vulnerability. Moreover, sleep-wake cycle disruptions and metabolic dysfunctions associated with circadian rhythm disorders are considered to be a central part of the disorder.

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The precise timing of flowering plays a pivotal role in ensuring successful plant reproduction and seed production. This process is intricately governed by complex genetic networks that integrate internal and external signals. This study delved into the regulatory function of microRNA397 (miR397) and its target gene LACCASE-15 (OsLAC15) in modulating flowering traits in rice (Oryza sativa).

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Small peptides represent a subset of dark matter in plant proteomes. Through differential expression patterns and modes of action, small peptides act as important regulators of plant growth and development. Over the past 20 years, many small peptides have been identified due to technical advances in genome sequencing, bioinformatics, and chemical biology.

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  • The text discusses the growing focus on men's health, particularly the link between testicular microlithiasis (TM) and male infertility, highlighting TM as a rare condition marked by tiny calcifications in the testis.
  • Recent studies indicate a potential connection between TM and decreased male fertility, although opinions on this correlation vary internationally.
  • There is currently no effective treatment for TM related to male infertility, indicating a critical need for further research in both basic and clinical settings.
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Purpose: To evaluate and determine age-related changes in rat brains by studying the diffusion kurtosis imaging results among different age groups of rats.

Methods: Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats underwent conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion Kurtosis Imaging (DKI). Two diffusion values of mean kurtosis (MK) and kurtosis (K ) were measured and analyzed based on laterality, brain regions and age groups.

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This data article provides supporting information to a related research article "Identification of volatile organic compounds for the biocontrol of postharvest litchi fruit pathogen " (Zheng et al., 2019) [1]. The litchi downy blight (LDB) caused by is a major postharvest disease that can severely damage litchi trees and harvested litchi fruit.

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Infrared sky background level is an important parameter of infrared astronomy observations from the ground, particularly for a candidate site of an infrared capable observatory since low background level is required for such a site. The Chinese astronomical community is looking for a suitable site for a future 12 m telescope, which is designed for working in both optical and infrared wavelengths. However, none of the proposed sites has been tested for infrared observations.

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The homeobox-containing gene HOXB7 plays an important role in the pathogenesis and progression of many cancers, yet its role in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains unclear. This study comprehensively analyzed the expression and clinical significance of HOXB7 in HCC and explored its potential mechanism in tumor progression. We found HOXB7 was highly expressed in HCC cell lines with highly metastatic potential and cancerous tissues from patients with tumor recurrence.

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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation of von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor (VHL) mRNA expression and jade family PHD finger 1 (Jade-1) gene expression in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Another aim of this study was to analyze the relationship of these two genes with clinicalpathological features of the RCC patients.

Methods: A total of 75 RCC patients who received surgically therapy in our hospital were included.

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This study was conducted to design and synthetize highly efficient, specific, non-resistant small MEK inhibitors. Based on active small molecules which have been reported, we studied the action mode with MEK protein using Autodock 4.2, generated innovative and feasible design method, designed novel small MEK protein inhibitors with a reference to molecular modeling and docking.

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The occurrence of infectious diseases is related to heterogeneous protein interactions between a host and a microbe. Therefore, elucidating the host-pathogen interplay is essential. We previously revealed the protein interactome between Edwardsiella piscicida and fish gill cells, and the present study identified the protein interactome between E.

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Secretin, a gastrointestinal peptide, has been found to be expressed in mouse endometrial stromal cells (mESCs) during early pregnancy. In order to further investigate the function of secretin during embryo implantation, the expression levels of secretin, secretin receptor, cytosolic phospholipase A (cPLA) and membrane prostaglandin E synthase 1 (mPGEs-1) were detected in the mice uterus from day 4 to 8 of pregnancy by real-time PCR, ELISA and in situ hybridization. mESCs isolated and cultured from day 4 of pregnancy were transfected with secretin expression vectors or treated with H89, a PKA inhibitor.

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Objectives: To evaluate the classification and diameter of left gastric vein (LGV) in healthy Chinese adults with multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT).

Methods: MDCT angiography was performed in 234 healthy adults for the portal venous system. CT cross-sectional thin-layer reconstruction combined with maximum intensity projection, volume rendering and multiplanar reconstruction were applied.

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Curcumin, a yellow polyphenol extracted from the rhizome of turmeric root (Curcuma longa) has potent anti-cancer properties in many types of tumors with ability to reverse multidrug resistance of cancer cells. However, widespread clinical application of this agent in cancer and other diseases has been limited due to its poor aqueous solubility. The recent findings of polymeric nanoparticle formulation of curcumin (NFC) have shown the potential for circumventing the problem of poor solubility, however evidences for NFC's anti-cancer and reverse multidrug resistance properties are lacking.

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A great loss has been suffered by microbial infectious diseases under intensive shrimp farming in recent years. In this background, the understanding of shrimp innate immunity becomes an importantly scientific issue, but little is known about the heterogeneous protein-protein interaction between pathogenic cells and hosts, which is a key step for the invading microbes to infect internet organs through bloodstream. In the present study, bacterial outer membrane (OM) protein array and pull-down approaches are used to isolate both Vibrio parahaemolyticus OM proteins that bind to shrimp serum proteins and the shrimp serum proteins that interact with bacterial cells, respectively.

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Neural stem cell (NSC) transplantation has the potential to treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD). In this study, we investigated the effect of transplanted NSCs in a PD animal model. NSCs isolated from the subventricular zone (SVZ) of E14 rats were cultured in vitro to produce neurospheres, which were subsequently infected with recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV(2)) expressing enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP).

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Objective: To explore the role of bacteria in etiology of chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS), i.e., chronic prostatitis and the correlation between presence of bacterial signal of 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) gene and the response to antibiotics.

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Objective: To probe into the relationship between "Xinshu" (BL 15)-"Jueyinshu" (BL 14) of the Bladder Channel and the heart and the underlying mechanism of electroacupuncture (EA) in resisting acute myocardial ischemia (AMI) in rats.

Methods: A total of 24 male Wistar rats were randomly divided into control, model and EA groups with 8 cases in each group. AMI model was duplicated by intraperitoneal injection of 2% isoproterenol (ISO, 100 mg/kg).

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