104 results match your criteria: "The Affiliated Kangning Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University[Affiliation]"

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder, with amyloid-beta (Aβ) aggregation playing a key role in its pathogenesis. Aβ-induced oxidative stress leads to neuronal damage, mitochondrial dysfunction, and apoptosis, making antioxidative strategies promising for AD treatment. This study investigates the effects of hydrogen-rich water (HRW) in a zebrafish AD model.

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Antibiotics are widely used to prevent healthy animals from getting diseases in livestock industries. Such practice has greatly contributed to the increase in antibiotic-resistant pathogens in animals and in the environment, which poses severe health threats to humans. This study aims to investigate consumers' purchase intention towards meat produced without preventive antibiotic use, and to identify key factors influencing this purchase intention.

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Background: After the lifting of epidemic control measures in China at the end of 2022, the number of COVID-19 infections has increased dramatically. Such an upsurge may intensify people's health anxiety and raise concerns about the risk of reinfection. While numerous studies have shown the correlation between them during the COVID-19, research on their underlying mechanism remains limited.

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Introduction: Anxiety diagnoses have surged recently during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Lorazepam is widely recognized for its efficacy in treatment of anxiety, as well as insomnia, etc. However, the long-term safety profile of lorazepam in extensive patient populations has not been thoroughly established.

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Ethanol can directly or indirectly lead to cognitive and mental disorders. The long-term intake of alcohol can directly affect the distribution of gut microbiota. Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) is a natural bacterium isolated from healthy human intestines that has the function of preventing cytokine-induced cell apoptosis and protecting cell barriers.

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Who can benefit more from its twelve-week treatment: A prospective cohort study of blonanserin for patients with schizophrenia.

World J Psychiatry

November 2024

Department of Psychiatry, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, National Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha 410011, Hunan Province, China.

Background: Blonanserin (BNS) is a well-tolerated and effective drug for treating schizophrenia.

Aim: To investigate which types of patients would obtain the most benefit from BNS treatment.

Methods: A total of 3306 participants were evaluated in a 12-week, prospective, multicenter, open-label post-marketing surveillance study of BNS.

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Background: Since the emergence of COVID-19, China has taken strict prevention and control measures against the disease. At the end of 2022, when the government optimized and relaxed the COVID-19 prevention and control policy, a new wave of the epidemic appeared. This paper reports an outbreak of COVID-19 among inpatients in a psychiatric hospital in Wenzhou, China.

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  • - LEAP2 acts as a natural inhibitor of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor, countering the effects of ghrelin, which boosts growth hormone secretion; previous studies show that knocking out LEAP2 leads to increased GH levels.
  • - Researchers used mutant zebrafish created via CRISPR-Cas9 to study LEAP2's role in early development, employing various molecular techniques to measure GH expression during embryonic development.
  • - The findings revealed that zebrafish lacking LEAP2 showed enhanced growth metrics, such as hatching rate and body size, alongside increased GH expression, indicating that LEAP2 plays a significant role in regulating growth during early developmental stages.
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  • Researchers studied the toxicity of 6PPD-Q, an antioxidant used in rubber production, on zebrafish larvae at varying concentrations, finding that while hatchability remained normal, there were significant reductions in body length and swimming distance.
  • At the highest tested concentration, 6PPD-Q negatively affected the development of dopaminergic neurons and altered neurotransmitter levels, highlighting potential impacts on neurological function.
  • The study also indicated that ghrelin's upregulation could mitigate some of the behavioral deficits caused by 6PPD-Q, suggesting a possible therapeutic pathway to address its toxic effects.
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  • This study looked at teenagers with major depressive disorder (MDD) to see how often they also have psychotic symptoms, which can make them see or hear things that aren't there.
  • They found that about 22.6% of these teens had psychotic symptoms, and certain factors like age and hormone levels were linked to this.
  • The researchers suggest that doctors should pay closer attention to hormone levels, like prolactin and thyroid hormones, in depressed teens who show psychotic symptoms.
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Background: This study was designed to assess stress levels and related factors during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic among individuals in centralized quarantine camps in Wenzhou, China.

Methods: The survey was conducted using a questionnaire. The questionnaire included questions on sociodemographic characteristics, life events related to the COVID-19 and stressful situations, as well as Perceived Stress Scale-14.

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Background: Antibiotics have been widely used in feed and drinking water for food animals to prevent them from getting sick. Such preventive use of antibiotics has become a contributor to increasing antibiotic resistance and thus poses threats to human health. However, consumers have little knowledge about this practice and the associated health risks of increasing transmission of antibiotic residues and antibiotic resistant bacteria.

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Objectives: COVID-19 epidemics often lead to elevated levels of depression. To accurately identify and predict depression levels in home-quarantined individuals during a COVID-19 epidemic, this study constructed a depression prediction model based on multiple machine learning algorithms and validated its effectiveness.

Methods: A cross-sectional method was used to examine the depression status of individuals quarantined at home during the epidemic via the network.

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Abnormal longitudinal changes of structural covariance networks of cortical thickness in mild traumatic brain injury with posttraumatic headache.

Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry

July 2024

Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, Zhejiang, China; Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Structural and Functional Imaging, Wenzhou 325027, Zhejiang, China. Electronic address:

Background: It is widely acknowledged that mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) leads to either functionally or anatomically abnormal brain regions. Structural covariance networks (SCNs) that depict coordinated regional maturation patterns are commonly employed for investigating brain structural abnormalities. However, the dynamic nature of SCNs in individuals with MTBI who suffer from posttraumatic headache (PTH) and their potential as biomarkers have hitherto not been investigated.

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Abnormal structural covariance networks in young adults with recent cannabis use.

Addict Behav

August 2024

School of Mental Health, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China; The Affiliated Kangning Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Provincial Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorder, Wenzhou 325007, China. Electronic address:

Background: Recent cannabis use (RCU) exerts adverse effects on the brain. However, the effect of RCU on structural covariance networks (SCNs) is still unclear. This retrospective cross-sectional study aimed to explore the effects of RCU on SCNs in young adults in terms of whole cerebral cortical thickness (CT) and cortical surface area (CSA).

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Heavy cannabis use (HCU) exerts adverse effects on the brain. Structural covariance networks (SCNs) that illustrate coordinated regional maturation patterns are extensively employed to examine abnormalities in brain structure. Nevertheless, the unexplored aspect remains the developmental alterations of SCNs in young adults with HCU for three years, from the baseline (BL) to the 3-year follow-up (FU).

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Objective: Increasing evidence indicated that schizophrenia and obesity are associated with altered mitochondrial and immune function. In this study, we investigated the levels of CRP (C-reactive protein) and mitochondrial lymphocytes in chronically treated schizophrenia patients with atypical antipsychotic medications and further explored the relationship between mitochondrial lymphocyte and weight gain as well as cognitive function in these patients.

Methods: We evaluated the mitochondrial lymphocyte count of 97 patients (53 overweight, 44 non-overweight) and 100 healthy controls using mitochondrial fluorescence staining and flow cytometry (NovoCyte, Agilent Technologies, US).

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Altered functional connectivity in patients with post-stroke fatigue: A resting-state fMRI study.

J Affect Disord

April 2024

School of Mental Health, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China; Peking University Institute of Mental Health (Sixth Hospital), Beijing, China; National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders and Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Peking University, Beijing, China; Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory for Translational Research on Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia, Beijing, China. Electronic address:

Background: Post-stroke fatigue (PSF) was a common complication after stroke. This study aimed to explore the neuroimaging mechanism of PSF, which was rarely studied.

Methods: Patients with the first episode of ischemic stroke were recruited from the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University between March 2021 and December 2022.

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Introduction: One of the most common mental disorders in the perinatal period is depression, which is associated with impaired emotional functioning due to alterations in different cognitive aspects including thought and facial emotion recognition. These functional impairment may affect emerging maternal sensitivity and have lasting consequences for the dyadic relationship. The current study aimed to investigate the impact of depressive symptoms on the attention bias of infant stimuli during pregnancy.

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Background: Sleep disorders are prevalent among patients with schizophrenia and are associated with several negative consequences. Although, researchers have recently suggested that sleep disorders have a close correlation with alexithymia, and schizophrenia also has a strong correlation with alexithymia, there have been few studies on the relationships between schizophrenia, sleep disorders and alexithymia. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the relationships between psychiatric symptoms, alexithymia and sleep problems in patients with schizophrenia so as to provide a reference for the clinical treatment of this comorbidity.

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Mental health problems of various populations during the COVID-19 pandemic have received high attention, but there is little research on the mental health of Chinese civil servants. The present study investigated occupational stress, mental health problems (i.e.

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Endogenous ligand of the APJ receptor Apelin-13 inhibits cell apoptosis and oxidative stress of cardiomyocytes.

Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand)

November 2023

Department of Internal Medicine, The Affiliated Kangning Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Provincial Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorder, Wenzhou, China.

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of Apelin-13 on nicotine-induced injuries of cardiomyocytes. To establish an H9c2 cell model of nicotine-induced apoptosis, H9c2 cells were divided into the control group, nicotine group, and Apelin-13+nicotine group. The apoptosis rate of H9c2 cells was then detected by flow cytometry.

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