The Dynamics of the Anisotropic Diffusion

Liyan, Fu,Yu, Yu Song 대한전자공학회 1994 ISPACS:Intelligent Signal Processing and Communica Vol.1 No.1

This paper analyzes the anisotropic defusion from the point of view of numerical analysis and dynamical system. The iteration functions defined by the numerical solution of the anisotropic diffusion define a dynamical system. It is shown that the immediate localization, the piecewise smooth and the edge enhancement property of the anisotropic diffusion results from the underlying characteristics of the iteration functions This leads to constraints for choosing the diffusion coefficient and a criterion for detecting edge.

The Dynamics of the Anisotropic Diffusion

Fu Liyan,Yu Song Yu 대한전자공학회 1994 대한전자공학회 Proceedings Vol.1994 No.-

Multicenter, randomized study of genetically modified recombinant human interleukin-11 to prevent chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy

Wu, Shikai,Zhang, Yang,Xu, Liyan,Dai, Yun,Teng, Yuee,Ma, Shanshan,Ho, Seong-Hyun,Kim, Jong-Mook,Yu, Seung Shin,Kim, Sunyoung,Song, Santai Springer-Verlag 2012 Supportive care in cancer Vol.20 No.8

KLF5-trancripted miR-125b-5p is involved in enhancing the radio-sensitivity of breast cancer cells by targeting BRCA1

Gong Ting,Jia Bin,Gu Liyan,Yu Tao 대한독성 유전단백체 학회 2022 Molecular & cellular toxicology Vol.18 No.1

Background A large number of clinical trials have proved that radiotherapy is an effective strategy for treating breast cancer (BC), but radioresistance is an urgent problem to be solved. Objective Herein, radio-tolerant BC cell lines named MDA-MB-231/R and MCF-7/R were successfully constructed, respectively, and it was shown that microRNA-125b-5p (miR-125b-5p) was lowly expressed in radio-tolerant cells, which was associated with poor prognosis of BC patients. Results Furthermore, miR-125b-5p over expression could hinder cell proliferation and strengthen radio-sensitivity. Mechanistically, Breast Cancer 1 (BRCA1) was identified as a downstream protein target of miR-125b-5p in BC cells, and Kruppellike factor 5 (KLF5) was identified as an upstream transcription factor involved in promoting miR-125b-5p expression. More importantly, over expression of KLF5 suppressed BC cell proliferation and increased its radiation sensitivity, which could be retained by miR-125b-5p downregulation. Conclusion In conclusion, these findings suggested that the KLF5/miR-125b-5p/BRCA1 axis may provide new information on radiation therapy for breast cancer.

Alkaline responsive self-healing nanocontainer composite reverse osmosis membrane by layer self-assembly: Enhanced permeable and chlorine resistance properties

Xiao Xie,Qian Yang,Qiong Sun,Na Song,Liyan Yu,Lifeng Dong 한국공업화학회 2022 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.113 No.-

Low water flux and poor chlorine resistance have become barriers to the applications of polyamidereverse osmosis (RO) membranes. Here, we design and develop a novel RO membrane with high permeabilityand self-healing chlorine resistance capability by doping alkaline-responsive polymer nanocontainersinto the polyamide layer. The nanocontainer is prepared through chemical adsorption andelectrostatic self-assembly with titanium dioxide (TiO2) as the core, calcium alginate (CA) and chitosan(CS) as the repair materials, and polyaspartic acid (PASP) as the responsive shell. In addition to increasingwater transport through the channels, the PASP shell of the nanocontainer reacts with alkali during conventionalalkaline cleaning and thereby the CA and CS are released to precisely repair the chlorinatedpolyamide and restore the NaCl rejection of the RO membrane. Upon release of the nanocontainer,TiO2 is also exposed to make the membrane antibacterial. The nanocontainer doping significantlyenhances surface roughness of the RO membrane, and the water permeability of the thin-film nanocompositemembrane doped with 0.005 wt% nanocontainers is increased by 43.71% to 5.03 L/m2 h bar comparedwith the blank membrane, while performing an excellent NaCl rejection of 98.02% and maintaining95.95% after 8000 ppm h active chlorine treatment and alkaline cleaning process.

Inhibition of Dll4/Notch1 pathway promotes angiogenesis of Masquelet’s induced membrane in rats

Qian Tang,Haimin Jin,Minji Tong,Gang Zheng,Zhongjie Xie,Shangkun Tang,Jialei Jin,Ping Shang,Huazi Xu,Liyan Shen,Yu Zhang,Haixiao Liu 생화학분자생물학회 2018 Experimental and molecular medicine Vol.50 No.-

The Masquelet’s induced membrane technique for repairing bone defects has been demonstrated to be a promising treatment strategy. Previous studies have shown that the vessel density of induced membrane is decreased in the late stage of membrane formation, which consequently disrupts the bone healing process. However, relatively little is known about certain mechanisms of vessel degeneration in the induced membrane tissue and whether promotion of angiogenesis in induced membranes can improve bone regeneration. Here, we showed that the Delta-like ligand 4/ Notch homolog 1 (Dll4/Notch1) pathway was relatively activated in the late stage of induced membrane, especially at the subcutaneous site. Then, DAPT, a classical γ-secretase inhibitor, was applied to specifically inhibit Notch1 activation, followed by up-regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) and CD31 expression. DAPTmodified induced membranes were further confirmed to contribute to bone regeneration after autogenous bone grafting. Finally, in vitro experiments revealed that knocking down Notch1 contributed to the functional improvement of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) and that DAPT-treated induced membrane tissue was more favorable for angiogenesis of EPCs compared with the vehicle group. In conclusion, the present findings demonstrate that Dll4/ Notch1 signaling is negatively associated with the vessel density of induced membrane. Pharmacological inhibition of Notch1 attenuated the vessel degeneration of induced membrane both in vitro and in vivo, which consequently improved bone formation at the bone defect site and graft resorption at the subcutaneous site.

Extraction of visual texture features of seabed sediments using an SVDD approach

Li, Yan,Liu, Shijie,Zhu, Puqiang,Yu, Jiancheng,Li, Shuo Pergamon Press 2017 Ocean engineering Vol.142 No.-

<P><B>Abstract</B></P> <P>Perception of the seabed environment is an important capability of autonomous underwater vehicles. This paper focuses on defining and extracting robust texture features from visual images that lead to useful and practical automated identification of the types of seabed sediments. The visual texture features are described by using a gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and fractal dimension, after which an unsupervised learning method, self-organizing map (SOM), is adopted to evaluate the validity of features descriptors on three types of seabed sediments. Subsequently, a kernel-based approach that exhibits robustness versus low numbers of high-dimensional samples, named support vector domain description (SVDD), is applied to classify the types of seabed sediments. In comparison with state-of-the-art classifiers, the experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the SVDD on the classification of seabed sediments.</P> <P><B>Highlights</B></P> <P> <UL> <LI> The visual images of seabed sediments are characterized by the texture features which are extracted based on the GLCM and fractal theory. </LI> <LI> A multi-class classification strategy for seabed sediments is proposed by adding a distance measure after SVDD implementation. </LI> <LI> The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed classification strategy is feasible in recognizing the type of seabed sediments. </LI> </UL> </P>

Hypoxia Induced High Expression of Thioredoxin Interacting Protein (TXNIP) in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer and its Prognostic Effect

Li, Yan,Miao, Li-Yun,Xiao, Yong-Long,Huang, Mei,Yu, Min,Meng, Kui,Cai, Hou-Rong Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2015 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.16 No.7

Although associations between thioredoxin interacting protein (TXNIP) and cancers have been recognized, the effects of TXNIP on non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) prognosis remained to be determined in detail. In addition, while hypoxia is a key characteristic of tumor cell growth microenvironment, the effect of hypoxia on TXNIP expression is controversial. In this study, formaldehyde fixed and paraffin embedded (FFPE) samples of 70 NSCLC patients who underwent resection between January 2010 and December 2011 were obtained. Evaluation of TXNIP and hypoxia inducible factor-$1{\alpha}$ ($HIF-1{\alpha}$) protein expression in FFPE samples was made by immunohistochemistry. By Kaplan-Meier method, patients with high TXNIP expression demonstrated a significantly shorter progression free survival (PFS) compared with those with low TXNIP expression (18.0 months, 95%CI: 11.7, 24.3 versus 23.0 months, 95%CI: 17.6, 28.4, P=0.02). High TXNIP expression level was also identified as an independent prognostic factor by Cox regression analysis (adjusted hazard ratio: 2.46; 95%CI: 1.08, 5.56; P=0.03). Furthermore, TXNIP expression was found to be significantly correlated with $HIF-1{\alpha}$ expression (Spearman correlation=0.67, P=0.000). To further confirm correlations, we established a tumor cell hypoxic culture model. Expression of TXNIP was up-regulated in all three NSCLC cell lines (A549, SPC-A1, and H1299) under hypoxic conditions. This study suggests that hypoxia induces increased TXNIP expression in NSCLC and high TXNIP expression could be a poor prognostic marker.