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**an-feng Li
Biomedicine
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Neural substrates for regulating self-grooming behavior in rodents
Grooming, as an evolutionarily conserved repetitive behavior, is common in various animals, including humans, and serves essential functions including, but not limited to, hygiene maintenance, thermoregulation...
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Navβ2 Intracellular Fragments Contribute to Aβ1-42-Induced Cognitive Impairment and Synaptic Deficit Through Transcriptional Suppression of BDNF
A pathological hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the region-specific accumulation of the amyloid-beta protein (Aβ), which triggers aberrant neuronal excitability, synaptic impairment, and progressive cog...
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GFPBW1, a β-glucan from Grifola frondosa as vaccine adjuvant: APCs activation and maturation
Adjuvants for vaccines with characteristics of improving adaptive immunity particularly via leverage of antigen presenting cells (APCs) are currently lacking. In a previous work we obtained a new soluble 300 k...
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Open AccessGram-negative bacterial infections in surgical intensive care unit patients following abdominal surgery: high mortality associated with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infection
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, a multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria (GNB), is an emerging nosocomial pathogen. This study assessed the clinical outcomes of GNB infections in surgical intensive care unit (S...
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Open AccessInvestigation of multiple nosocomial infections using a semi-Markov multi-state model
The prevalence of multiple nosocomial infections (MNIs) is on the rise, however, there remains a limited comprehension regarding the associated risk factors, cumulative risk, probability of occurrence, and imp...
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Open AccessSerum beta2-microglobulin acts as a biomarker for severity and prognosis in glioma patients: a preliminary clinical study
Gliomas are the deadliest malignant tumors of the adult central nervous system. We previously discovered that beta2-microglobulin (B2M) is abnormally upregulated in glioma tissues and that it exerts a range of...
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3D Visualization of Whole Brain Vessels and Quantification of Vascular Pathology in a Chronic Hypoperfusion Model Causing White Matter Damage
Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion is an important pathological factor in many neurodegenerative diseases, such as cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). One of the most used animal models for chronic cerebral hypo...
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Open AccessLink Brain-Wide Projectome to Neuronal Dynamics in the Mouse Brain
Knowledge about the neuronal dynamics and the projectome are both essential for understanding how the neuronal network functions in concert. However, it remains challenging to obtain the neural activity and th...
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Bevacizumab induces ferroptosis and enhances CD8+ T cell immune activity in liver cancer via modulating HAT1 and increasing IL-9
Bevacizumab is a recombinant humanized monoclonal immunoglobulin (Ig) G1 antibody of VEGF, and inhibits angiogenesis and tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Ferroptosis, a new form of regulated cel...
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Genomic variation in weedy and cultivated broomcorn millet accessions uncovers the genetic architecture of agronomic traits
Large-scale genomic variations are fundamental resources for crop genetics and breeding. Here we sequenced 1,904 genomes of broomcorn millet to an average of 40× sequencing depth and constructed a comprehensiv...
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Pharmacologically significant constituents collectively responsible for anti-sepsis action of XueBi**g, a Chinese herb-based intravenous formulation
Sepsis, a life-threatening health issue, lacks effective medicine targeting the septic response. In China, treatment combining the intravenous herbal medicine XueBi**g with conventional procedures reduces the...
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Insomnia-related rodent models in drug discovery
Despite the widespread prevalence and important medical impact of insomnia, effective agents with few side effects are lacking in clinics. This is most likely due to relatively poor understanding of the etiolo...
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Exosomes derived from induced cardiopulmonary progenitor cells alleviate acute lung injury in mice
Cardiopulmonary progenitor cells (CPPs) constitute a minor subpopulation of cells that are commonly associated with heart and lung morphogenesis during embryonic development but completely subside after birth....
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Lonicerin promotes wound healing in diabetic rats by enhancing blood vessel regeneration through Sirt1-mediated autophagy
Among the numerous complications of diabetes mellitus, diabetic wounds seriously affect patients’ quality of life and result in considerable psychological distress. Promoting blood vessel regeneration in wound...
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Open AccessPan-cancer analysis of NUP155 and validation of its role in breast cancer cell proliferation, migration, and apoptosis
NUP155 is reported to be correlated with tumor development. However, the role of NUP155 in tumor physiology and the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) has not been previously examined. This study comprehensivel...
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Cardiac-specific deletion of BRG1 ameliorates ventricular arrhythmia in mice with myocardial infarction
Malignant ventricular arrhythmia (VA) after myocardial infarction (MI) is mainly caused by myocardial electrophysiological remodeling. Brahma-related gene 1 (BRG1) is an ATPase catalytic subunit that belongs t...
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Open AccessImmune persistence after different polio sequential immunization schedules in Chinese infants
Trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (tOPV) has been withdrawn and instead an inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) and bivalent type 1 and type 3 OPV (bOPV) sequential immunization schedule has been implemented s...
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Open AccessLife and disease status of patients with Parkinson’s disease during and after zero-COVID in China: an online survey
Little is known about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) at different stages of the pandemic. This study aims to assess the lives and disease status of PD patients du...
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Open AccessGut microbiota-derived LCA mediates the protective effect of PEDV infection in piglets
The gut microbiota is a critical factor in the regulation of host health, but the relationship between the differential resistance of hosts to pathogens and the interaction of gut microbes is not yet clear. He...
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Intravenous immunoglobulin for treatment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients: an evidence map** and meta-analysis
The clinical efficacy and safety of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) treatment for COVID-19 remain controversial. This study aimed to map the current status and gaps of available evidence, and conduct a meta-...
