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    Infection with SARS-CoV-2 can cause pancreatic impairment

    Evidence suggests associations between COVID-19 patients or vaccines and glycometabolic dysfunction and an even higher risk of the occurrence of diabetes. Herein, we retrospectively analyzed pancreatic lesions...

    Wei Deng, Linlin Bao, Zhiqi Song, Ling Zhang in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (2024)

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    Efficacy and Safety of Spesolimab in Patients with Generalized Pustular Psoriasis: A Subgroup Analysis of Chinese Patients in the Effisayil 1 Trial

    Generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) is a rare and potentially life-threatening skin disease. The global Effisayil 1 study investigated the efficacy and safety of spesolimab, a humanized monoclonal antibody ta...

    Tsen-Fang Tsai, Min Zheng, Yangfeng Ding, Zhiqi Song in Dermatology and Therapy (2023)

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    Peroxisome proliferator-activator receptor γ and psoriasis, molecular and cellular biochemistry

    The pathophysiology of psoriasis is complex and has not been completely elucidated. Better understanding of the pathogenesis may contribute to further improvement of our therapeutic strategies controlling psor...

    **ran Lin, **anmin Meng, Zhiqi Song, **grong Lin in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (2022)

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    Sequential immunizations confer cross-protection against variants of SARS-CoV-2, including Omicron in Rhesus macaques

    Variants of concern (VOCs) like Delta and Omicron, harbor a high number of mutations, which aid these viruses in esca** a majority of known SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies (NAbs). In this study, Rhesus macaq...

    Wei Deng, Qi Lv, Fengdi Li, Jiangning Liu in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (2022)

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    sRAGE alleviates SARS-CoV-2-induced pneumonia in hamster

    **uqin Zhang, Dan Li, Rui Sun, **nli Hu in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (2022)

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    Integrated histopathological, lipidomic, and metabolomic profiles reveal mink is a useful animal model to mimic the pathogenicity of severe COVID-19 patients

    Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is transmitted on mink farms between minks and humans in many countries. However, the systemic pathological features of SARS-CoV-2-infected minks ar...

    Zhiqi Song, Linlin Bao, Wei Deng, Jiangning Liu in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (2022)

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    Efficacy and Safety of HLX03, an Adalimumab Biosimilar, in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Plaque Psoriasis: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase III Study

    Adalimumab has been used successfully in the treatment of psoriasis. The objective of the study is to compare the efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity between HLX03, an adalimumab biosimilar, and adalimumab in...

    Lin Cai, Linfeng Li, Hao Cheng, Yangfeng Ding, Zhenshu Biao in Advances in Therapy (2022)

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    SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood–brain barrier accompanied with basement membrane disruption without tight junctions alteration

    SARS-CoV-2 has been reported to show a capacity for invading the brains of humans and model animals. However, it remains unclear whether and how SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood–brain barrier (BBB). Herein, SARS-C...

    Ling Zhang, Li Zhou, Linlin Bao, Jiangning Liu in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (2021)

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    Sequential infection with H1N1 and SARS-CoV-2 aggravated COVID-19 pathogenesis in a mammalian model, and co-vaccination as an effective method of prevention of COVID-19 and influenza

    Influenza A virus may circulate simultaneously with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leading to more serious respiratory diseases during this winter. However, the influence of these viruses on disease outcome when both i...

    Linlin Bao, Wei Deng, Feifei Qi, Qi Lv in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (2021)

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    Ocular conjunctival inoculation of SARS-CoV-2 can cause mild COVID-19 in rhesus macaques

    Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is highly transmitted through the respiratory route, but potential extra-respiratory routes of SARS-CoV-2 transmission remain uncertain. Here we ino...

    Wei Deng, Linlin Bao, Hong Gao, Zhiguang **ang, Ya** Qu in Nature Communications (2020)

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    The pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 in hACE2 transgenic mice

    Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has become a public health emergency of international concern1. Angiotensin-converting enzym...

    Linlin Bao, Wei Deng, Baoying Huang, Hong Gao, Jiangning Liu, Lili Ren, Qiang Wei in Nature (2020)

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    Prion protein is essential for the RE1 silencing transcription factor (REST)-dependent developmental switch in synaptic NMDA receptors

    It is important that the correct amounts of GluN2 subunits are maintained, as they determine NMDAR functional properties, which are crucial to neuronal communication, synaptogenesis and cognitive function. The...

    Zhiqi Song, Wei Yang, Guangyu Cheng, **angmei Zhou, Lifeng Yang in Cell Death & Disease (2018)

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    Parkin Overexpression Ameliorates PrP106–126-Induced Neurotoxicity via Enhanced Autophagy in N2a Cells

    Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are caused by the accumulation of the abnormal prion protein scrapie (PrPSc). Prion protein aggregation, misfolding, and cytotoxicity in the brain are the major ca...

    Sher Hayat Khan, Deming Zhao, Syed Zahid Ali Shah in Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology (2017)

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    Death Receptor 6 and Caspase-6 Regulate Prion Peptide-Induced Axonal Degeneration in Rat Spinal Neurons

    Axonal degeneration is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative disorders including transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). However, the full complement of axonal degeneration triggers is not fully unders...

    Yunsheng Wang, Deming Zhao, Bo Pan, Zhiqi Song in Journal of Molecular Neuroscience (2015)

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    NRSF: an Angel or a Devil in Neurogenesis and Neurological Diseases

    The neuron-restrictive silencer factor (NRSF) a transcriptional regulator that function as a hub that coordinately regulates multiple aspects of neurogenesis, orchestrates neural differentiation, and preserves...

    Zhiqi Song, Deming Zhao, Huajia Zhao, Lifeng Yang in Journal of Molecular Neuroscience (2015)

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    Using Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification Generates a Highly Neurotoxic PrP Dimer Causing Neurodegeneration

    Under the “protein-only” hypothesis, prion-based diseases are proposed to result from an infectious agent that is an abnormal isoform of the prion protein in the scrapie form, PrPSc. However, since PrPSc is highl...

    **u** Yang, LiFeng Yang, **angMei Zhou in Journal of Molecular Neuroscience (2013)