Publications by authors named "Zi Zhang"

In the past decade, navigation technology-assisted bone tunnels positioning for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) has received great attention. The purpose of this review is to summarize the navigation technologies applied in ACLR, describe the tunnel positioning accuracy of these technologies, and summarize their advantages and disadvantages, providing a basis for navigation technology to assist ACLR. This review discusses the limitations of traditional bone tunnel positioning methods in ACLR and further introduces various navigation techniques, focusing on their positioning accuracy and postoperative outcomes for patients.

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Purpose: Compare the reduction and recovery of breast cancer screening and diagnostic services in urban versus suburban communities during the COVID-19 pandemic to identify opportunities for advancing equitable breast cancer detection.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study used the Montage™ data mining system to analyze percent change in the number of screening and diagnostic mammograms, breast biopsies, and breast cancer diagnoses at a single mid-Atlantic institution with urban and suburban sites centered in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1/1/2019 to 12/31/2022, with urban-suburban subset comparison from 1/1/2019 to 12/31/2021.

Results: In 2020, screening mammogram volume dropped 23.

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Background: Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) is essential for maintaining redox homeostasis and regulating energy metabolism. Abnormal expression of UCP2 has been associated with various tumors, including leukemia. Genipin (GEN), a specific inhibitor of UCP2, has a long history of use in traditional Chinese medicine.

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Objectives: Given the unclear etiology and treatment mechanisms of depression, we aim to explore the metabolic differences between patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and the healthy population, as well as before and after treatment with escitalopram (ESC).

Methods: Recruit first-episode drug-naïve MDD (DN-MDD) patients and healthy controls (HCs). Clinical data and serum samples from all subjects were collected at baseline and patients' samples were collected again after ESC monotherapy for four weeks.

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  • Researchers discovered a protozoan parasite in a specific species of marine organism using a specialized culture medium called ARFTM, which revealed hypnospores ranging from 8 to 27 μm in size.
  • The prevalence of this parasite was found to be 25% via ARFTM and 12.5% through PCR testing, with PCR results showing 100% genetic similarity to a known protozoan species, establishing it as a new host in the East China Sea.
  • Histological examinations indicated the presence of the parasite in various tissues of the host organism, causing inflammation and damage to digestive structures, which negatively impacts the health of farmed species and warrants further investigation.
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Besides sulfate-induced diarrhea, recent studies have emphasized that groundwater sulfate drives the release of arsenic in groundwater and accelerates water pipeline corrosion. Despite its impact on public health and urban infrastructure, sulfate has been overlooked in water supply research. Here, we used a random forest model to develop a 1 km global map depicting the probability of sulfate exceeding 250 mg/L in groundwater based on the World Health Organization's guidelines.

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Background: Diabetes has emerged as a critical global public health issue. The burden of diabetes is escalating in developing countries, including China. For individuals with diabetes, making informed and rational decisions regarding health-seeking behaviour is crucial to prevent or delay the occurrence of complications.

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Medicine remains the preferred primary treatment for depression, although some patients show remarkable individual variations in achieving satisfactory clinical outcomes during medication. Genetic polymorphisms cause approximately 40 % of individual differences in treatment response. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a technique to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with the metabolism, effectiveness, and side effects of antidepressant medications in Chinese patients.

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Purpose: Hip arthroscopy is effective in treating bordline developmental dysplasia of the hip (BDDH), but there are only a few clinical reports in China, and its postoperative failure rate is still a problem that cannot be ignored. The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical effect of hip arthroscopy in BDDH treatment in China and to explore the risk factors influencing the efficacy of hip arthroscopy in BDDH treatment.

Methods: All of 22 cases of BDDH treated with arthroscopy in our hospital from November March 2017 to February 2022 were analyzed retrospectively, including ten males and 12 females, with an average age of 34.

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Aims: To propose a new method for evaluating paediatric radial neck fractures and improve the accuracy of fracture angulation measurement, particularly in younger children, and thereby facilitate planning treatment in this population.

Methods: Clinical data of 117 children with radial neck fractures in our hospital from August 2014 to March 2023 were collected. A total of 50 children (26 males, 24 females, mean age 7.

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Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is a critical post-transcriptional process that generates mRNA isoforms with distinct 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs), thereby regulating mRNA localization, stability, and translational efficiency. Cell-type-specific APA extensively shapes the diversity of the cellular transcriptome, particularly during cell fate transition. Despite its recognized significance, the precise regulatory mechanisms governing cell-type-specific APA remain unclear.

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  • The study aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics and cytokine levels in patients with drug-induced liver injury (DILI) from various drug categories, assessing how these factors correlate with clinical indicators.
  • A total of 73 patients were categorized based on the type of drug causing DILI, revealing significant differences in liver enzyme levels between groups, particularly higher alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) in NSAIDs users compared to those using Chinese herbal medicines.
  • The findings suggest older patients are more susceptible to DILI, and higher levels of inflammation markers (IL-6 and TNF-α) in NSAIDs patients could be linked to more severe liver damage.
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Mosquitoes, notorious as the deadliest animals to humans due to their capacity to transmit diseases, pose a persistent challenge to public health. The primary prevention strategy currently in use involves chemical repellents, which often prove ineffective as mosquitoes rapidly develop resistance. Consequently, the invention of new preventive methods is crucial.

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Two undescribed cladosporol derivatives, cladosporols J-K (1-2), and three previously unreported spirobisnaphthalenes, urnucratins D-F (3-5), as well as eleven known cladosporols (6-16), were characterized from Cladosporium cladosporioides (Cladosporiaceae), a common plant pathogen isolated from the skin of Chinese toad. Cladosporols J-K (1-2) with a single double bond have been rarely reported, while urnucratins D-F (3-5) featured an unusual benzoquinone bisnaphthospiroether skeleton, contributing to an expanding category of undiscovered natural products. Their structures and absolute configurations were determined using extensive spectroscopic methods, including NMR, HRESIMS analyses, X-ray single crystal diffraction, as well as through experimental ECD analyses.

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Coastal regions, home to more than half of the global population and contributing over 50% to the global economy, possess vast renewable resources, such as seawater and solar energy. The effective utilization of these resources, through the seawater-cooled district cooling system (SWDCS), seawater toilet flushing (SWTF), and rooftop solar photovoltaic system (RTPV), has the potential to significantly reduce carbon emissions. However, implementing these technologies in different geographic contexts to achieve the desired carbon and economic outcomes at the city level lacks a clear roadmap.

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Resource recovery is a pivotal facet of waste activated sludge treatment, particularly within the framework of carbon neutrality and the circular economy. Polysaccharides are emerging as a valuable resource from waste activated sludge, and the choice of extraction method affects the properties of the polysaccharides, which is of utmost importance for subsequent application. This investigation examined the effects of six extraction methods (i.

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  • Sertraline is a commonly used SSRI for depression, noted for its effectiveness and favorable safety compared to other medications, but there’s limited data on its pharmacokinetics in the Chinese population.
  • A study analyzed data from 140 Chinese patients to identify factors influencing sertraline drug exposure, using advanced modeling techniques to assess the impact of covariates like age on drug clearance.
  • The research concluded that sertraline clearance decreases with age, highlighting an optimal daily dose for adolescents and recommending specific dosage regimens to manage serum concentration effectively.
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Objective: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic accelerated trends in remote radiology work. We evaluated the opinions of Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) members regarding remote and in-person breast imaging work.

Methods: An institutional review board-exempt anonymous survey was distributed to SBI members.

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Trichinellosis is a zoonotic parasitic disease that poses threats to human health, the meat industry, food safety, and huge financial losses. The critical stage of Trichinella spiralis (T. spiralis) infection is the invasion of intestinal larvae into the host's intestinal epithelial cells (IECs).

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Background: PD-L1 staining using long-stored paraffin sections may not be consistent with the true PD-L1 expression of patients. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the expression of PD-L1(SP142) in paraffin sections of invasive breast cancer with different storage times and the optimal storage temperature for unstained paraffin sections.

Methods: The study included 71 cases of PD-L1(SP142) positive breast cancer.

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Sleep, an essential component of health and overall well-being, often presents challenges for older individuals who frequently experience sleep disorders characterized by shortened sleep duration and fragmented patterns. These sleep disruptions also correlate with an increased risk of various illnesses in the elderly, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and psychological disorders. Unfortunately, existing drugs for sleep disorders are associated with significant side effects such as cognitive impairment and addiction.

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The ultrasonic guided lamb wave approach is an effective non-destructive testing (NDT) method used for detecting localized mechanical damage, corrosion, and welding defects in metallic pipelines. The signal processing of guided waves is often challenging due to the complexity of the operational conditions and environment in the pipelines. Machine learning approaches in recent years, including convolutional neural networks (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM), have exhibited their advantages to overcome these challenges for the signal processing and data classification of complex systems, thus showing great potential for damage detection in critical oil/gas pipeline structures.

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Background: Genetic polymorphism has been proven to have an important association with depression, which can influence the risk of developing depression, the efficacy of medications, and adverse effects metabolic and neurological pathways. Nonetheless, aspects of the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms and depression have not been systematically investigated by bibliometric analysis.

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the current status and trends of single nucleotide polymorphism research on depression through bibliometric and visual analysis.

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Purpose: The Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC) open data commons was launched to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to help address the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to quantify longitudinal representativeness of the demographic characteristics of the primary MIDRC dataset compared to the United States general population (US Census) and COVID-19 positive case counts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Approach: The Jensen-Shannon distance (JSD), a measure of similarity of two distributions, was used to longitudinally measure the representativeness of the distribution of (1) all unique patients in the MIDRC data to the 2020 US Census and (2) all unique COVID-19 positive patients in the MIDRC data to the case counts reported by the CDC.

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