The role of miRNA‑155 in monocrotaline‑induced pulmonary arterial hypertension through c‑Fos/NLRP3/caspase‑1

Shou‑Dong Chai,Zhen‑Kun Li,Rui Liu,Tao Liu,Ming‑Feng Dong,Pei‑Zhe Tang,Jian‑Tang Wang,Sheng‑Jun Ma 대한독성 유전단백체 학회 2020 Molecular & cellular toxicology Vol.16 No.3

Background Nisoldipine can effectively suppress pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cell proliferation and c-Fos expression. Objective To identify the mechanism of the anti-inflammatory effects in monocrotaline-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), focusing on the c-Fos/NLRP3/caspase-1 pathway. Results In a mice model of monocrotaline-induced PAH, miRNA-155 expression was increased. In an in vitro model, overexpression of miRNA-155 promoted inflammation and induced c-Fos, NLRP3, and caspase-1 protein expression. The inhibition of c-Fos reduced the effects of miRNA-155 on inflammation in an in vitro model of monocrotaline-induced PAH. The inhibition of NLRP3 reduced the effects of miRNA-155 on inflammation in an in vitro model of monocrotaline-induced PAH. Conclusions miRNA-155 increased inflammation in monocrotaline-induced PAH through c-Fos/NLRP3/caspase-1.

Proteomic Profiles of Mouse Neuro N2a Cells Infected with Variant Virulence of Rabies Viruses

( Wang Xiao Hu ),( Shou Feng Zhang ),( Cheng Long Sun ),( Zi Guo Yuan ),( Xian Fu Wu ),( Dong Xia Wang ),( Zhuang Ding ),( Rong Liang Hu ) 한국미생물 · 생명공학회 2011 Journal of microbiology and biotechnology Vol.21 No.4

We characterized the proteomes of murine N2a cells following infection with three rabies virus (RV) strains, characterized by distinct virulence phenotypes (i.e., virulent BD06, fixed CVS-11, and attenuated SRV9 strains), and identified 35 changes to protein expression using twodimensional gel electrophoresis in whole-cell lysates. The annotated functions of these proteins are involved in various cytoskeletal, signal transduction, stress response, and metabolic processes. Specifically, a-enolase, prx-4, vimentin, cytokine-induced apoptosis inhibitor 1 (CIAPIN1) and prx-6 were significantly up-regulated, whereas Trx like-1 and galectin-1 were down-regulated following infection of N2a cells with all three rabies virus strains. However, comparing expressions of all 35 proteins affected between BD06-, CVS-11-, and SRV9-infected cells, specific changes in expression were also observed. The up-regulation of vimentin, CIAPIN1, prx-4, and 14-3-3 θ/δ, and downregulation of NDPK-B and HSP-1 with CVS and SRV9 infection were ≥2 times greater than with BD06. Meanwhile, Zfp12 protein, splicing factor, and arginine/serine-rich 1 were unaltered in the cells infected with BD06 and CVS- 11, but were up-regulated in the group infected with SRV9. The proteomic alterations described here may suggest that these changes to protein expression correlate with the rabies virus`` adaptability and virulence in N2a cells, and hence provides new clues as to the response of N2a host cells to rabies virus infections, and may also aid in uncovering new pathways in these cells that are involved in rabies infections. Further characterization of the functions of the affected proteins may contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms of RV infection and pathogenesis.

Local conversion of four Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen photon pairs into four-photon polarization-entangled decoherence-free states with non-photon-number-resolving detectors.

Wang, Hong-Fu,Zhang, Shou,Zhu, Ai-Dong,Yi, X X,Yeon, Kyu-Hwang Optical Society of America 2011 Optics express Vol.19 No.25

<P>We propose a linear-optics-based scheme for local conversion of four Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen photon pairs distributed among five parties into four-photon polarization-entangled decoherence-free states using local operations and classical communication. The proposed setup involves simple linear optical elements and non-photon-number-resolving detectors that can only distinguish between the presence and absence of photons, and no information on the exact number of photons can be obtained. This greatly simplifies the experimental realization for linear optical quantum computation and quantum information processing.</P>

An Improved Interval AHP Method for Assessment of Cloud Platform-based Electrical Safety Monitoring System

Wang, Shou-Xiang,Ge, Lei-Jiao,Cai, Sheng-Xia,Zhang, Dong The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers 2017 Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology Vol.12 No.2

Electrical safety monitoring System (ESMS) is a critical component in modern power systems, which is characterized by large-scale access points, massive users and versatile requirements. For convenience of the information integration and analysis, the software development, maintenance, and application in the system, the cloud platform based ESMS is established and assessed in this paper. Firstly the framework of the system is proposed, and then the assessment scheme with a set of evaluation indices are presented, by which the appropriate cloud product can be chosen to meet the requirements of a specific application. Moreover, to calculate the weights of the evaluation indices under uncertainty, an improved interval AHP method is adopted to take into consideration of the fuzziness of expert scoring, the qualitative consistency test, and the two normalizations in the process of eigenvectors. Case studies have been made to verify the feasibility of the assessment approach for ESMS.

An Improved Interval AHP Method for Assessment of Cloud Platform-based Electrical Safety Monitoring System

Shou-Xiang Wang,Lei-Jiao Ge,Sheng-Xia Cai,Dong Zhang 대한전기학회 2017 Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology Vol.12 No.2

Electrical safety monitoring System (ESMS) is a critical component in modern power systems, which is characterized by large-scale access points, massive users and versatile requirements. For convenience of the information integration and analysis, the software development, maintenance, and application in the system, the cloud platform based ESMS is established and assessed in this paper. Firstly the framework of the system is proposed, and then the assessment scheme with a set of evaluation indices are presented, by which the appropriate cloud product can be chosen to meet the requirements of a specific application. Moreover, to calculate the weights of the evaluation indices under uncertainty, an improved interval AHP method is adopted to take into consideration of the fuzziness of expert scoring, the qualitative consistency test, and the two normalizations in the process of eigenvectors. Case studies have been made to verify the feasibility of the assessment approach for ESMS.

Expression and Significance of TSGF, CEA and AFP in Patients Before and after Radical Surgery for Colon Cancer

Hu, Yi,Wang, Jing-Liang,Tao, Hai-Tao,Wu, Bai-Shou,Sun, Jin,Cheng, Yao,Dong, Wei-Wei,Li, Rui-Xin Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2013 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.14 No.6

Objective: To explore the expression and significance of tumor specific growth factor (TSGF), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and alpha fetoprotein (AFP) in cancer tissue and serum of patients with colon cancer. Materials and Methods: Radical surgery for colon cancer was performed on 43 patients with laparoscopu under conditions of general anesthesia. The Elisa method was used to detect the levels of serum TSGF, CEA and AFP before and after radical operation, and cancer tissue underwent TSGF, CEA and AFP immunohistochemistry staining after laparoscopic surgery. The decreased conditions of serum TSGF, CEA and AFP in patients with colon cancer at different levels of differentiation and clinical stagings were analyzed, and the relationships of expression rates between histological types, colon cancer morphology, lymph node metastasis and TSGF, CEA as well as AFP in cancer tissue were assessed. Results: Compared with before radical surgery, the levels of serum TSGF, CEA and AFP decreased notably in patients after operations (p<0.01). The decreased degree of TSGF and CEA was the largest in patients with poorly differentiated cancer tissue (p<0.01), while that of AFP was noted in patients with moderately differentiated cancer tissue (p<0.01). The decreased degree of TSGF and AFP was the largest in patients at phase Dukes A (p<0.01), while that of CEA in patients at phase Dukes C (p<0.01). There were no significant differences among the positive expression rates of TSGF, CEA and AFP with different histological types and colon cancer morphologies (p>0.05). The positive expression rates of TSGF and CEA in patients with lymph node metastasis were significantly higher than those without lymph node metastasis (p<0.01). Conclusions: TSGF, CEA and AFP can be used to evaluate the effect of radical operation for colon cancer, and the changed levels of different markers are associated with tumor differentiation, clinical stating and presence or absence of lymph node metastasis.

Analysis on the Characteristics and Prognosis of Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Tumors

Wu, Bai-Shou,Hu, Yi,Sun, Jing,Wang, Jin-Liang,Wang, Peng,Dong, Wei-Wei,Tao, Hai-Tao,Gao, Wen-Juan Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.5

Objective: To retrospectively review the clinical characteristics and analyze the prognostic factors of Chinese patients with pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors. Materials and Methods: The clinical data of 176 patients with pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors in Chinese PLA General Hospital from Mar., 2000 to Oct., 2012 were retrospectively analyzed. The parameters were evaluated by univariate and multivariate analysis, including the gender, age, smoking history, family history, TNM staging, localization (central or peripheral), tumor size, nodal status, histological subtype and treatment (operation or non-operation). Results: There were 23 patients with typical carcinoids (TC) (13.1%), 41 with atypical carcinoids (AC) (23.3%), 10 with large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) (5.7%) and 102 with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) (57.9%). The median follow-up time was 64.5 months for AC, 38 months for LCNEC and 27 months for SCLC. The typical carcinoid censored data was 18 (more than 50% of the patients), so the median follow-up time was not obtained, and actuarial 5-year survivals for TC, AC, LCNEC and SCLC were 75.1%, 51.7%, 26.7% and 38.8%, respectively. COX univariate analysis revealed that the age (P=0.001), histological subtype (P=0.005), nodal status (P=0.000), treatment (P=0.000) and TNM staging (P=0.000) were the prognostic factors of the patients with pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors, whereas its multivariate analysis showed that only the age(P=0.001), TNM staging (P=0.002) and treatment (P=0.000) were independent prognostic factors. Conclusions: Radical surgery remains the treatment of choice, and is the only curative option. The age, TNM staging and treatment are confirmed to be the independent prognostic factors in multivariable models for pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors.

Predictors and Dynamic Nomogram to Determine the Individual Risk of Malignant Brain Edema After Endovascular Thrombectomy in Acute Ischemic Stroke

Qian-mei Jiang,Shuai Yu,Xiaofeng Dong,Huai-shun Wang,Jie Hou,Zhi-chao Huang,Zhi-liang Guo,Shou-jiang You,Guo-dong Xiao 대한신경과학회 2022 Journal of Clinical Neurology Vol.18 No.3

Background and Purpose This study aimed to construct an optimal dynamic nomogram for predicting malignant brain edema (MBE) in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients after endovascular thrombectomy (ET). Methods We enrolled AIS patients after ET from May 2017 to April 2021. MBE was defined as a midline shift of >5 mm at the septum pellucidum or pineal gland based on follow-up computed tomography within 5 days after ET. Multivariate logistic regression and LASSO (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator) regression were used to construct the nomogram. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and decisioncurve analysis were used to compare our nomogram with two previous risk models for predicting brain edema after ET. Results MBE developed in 72 (21.9%) of the 329 eligible patients. Our dynamic web-based nomogram (https://successful.shinyapps.io/DynNomapp/) consisted of five parameters: basal cistern effacement, postoperative National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score, brain atrophy, hypoattenuation area, and stroke etiology. The nomogram showed good discrimination ability, with a C-index (Harrell’s concordance index) of 0.925 (95% confidence interval=0.890–0.961), and good calibration (Hosmer-Lemeshow test, p=0.386). All variables had variance inflation factors of <1.5 and tolerances of >0.7, suggesting no significant collinearity among them. The AUC of our nomogram (0.925) was superior to those of Xiang-liang Chen and colleagues (0.843) and Ming-yang Du and colleagues (0.728). Conclusions Our web-based dynamic nomogram reliably predicted the risk of MBE in AIS patients after ET, and hence is worthy of further evaluation.

Longissimus lumborum muscle transcriptome analysis of Laiwu and Yorkshire pigs differing in intramuscular fat content

Wei Chen,Guo‑feng Fang,Shou‑dong Wang,Hui Wang,Yong‑qing Zeng 한국유전학회 2017 Genes & Genomics Vol.39 No.7

The pig provides meat products for human consumption on a large scale. High-throughput sequencing technology provides a powerful approach for the characterization of the muscle transcriptome of pigs. Despite many studies using high-throughput technologies, the functional complexity of porcine muscle transcriptome is not fully elucidated. Therefore, the aim of this study was to gain insight into the longissimus lumborum muscle transcriptome between two pig breeds with distinct phenotypes, Laiwu pig, a Chinese indigenous pig breed, and Yorkshire pig, a Western breed. RNA-seq was applied to sample transcripts of the longissimus lumborum muscle between the two pig breeds to gain insights into wholegenome transcription profiles. For the Laiwu and Yorkshire libraries, we obtained a total of 40,498,476 and 59,072,892 high quality reads, respectively. Moreover, the resulting data set provided expression patterns for many annotated, predicted and novel pig genes. 178 significantly differentially expressed genes were identified between the Laiwu and Yorkshire pigs, with 98 up-regulated and 80 downregulated genes in Laiwu pig compared with Yorkshire pig. Gene expression results of the RNA-seq data were validated by qRT-PCR for twelve genes. Genes that were differentially expressed were involved in lipid metabolism and were more highly expressed in Laiwu pigs. The present study provides a comprehensive view of differences in the muscle transcriptome between two pig phenotypes. These results expand our knowledge of the genes transcribed in the skeletal muscle of two breeds and provide a basis for future research of the molecular mechanisms underlying the phenotypic differences on meat quality.

Characterization and differential expression of microRNA in skeletal muscle of Laiwu and Yorkshire pig breeds

Wei Chen,Guo-Feng Fang,Shou-Dong Wang,Hui Wang,Yong-Qing Zeng 한국유전학회 2017 Genes & Genomics Vol.39 No.2

The domestic pig is an important agricultural animal used as a source of meat worldwide. As an important resource, Laiwu pig has some special characteristics compared with Yorkshire pig. It is necessary to identify the differentially expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) in skeletal muscle between two pig breeds. Therefore, we herein performed a comprehensive investigation for miRNA transcriptome of skeletal muscle from the two pig breeds. On average, we obtained approximately 13,493,607 clean reads in Laiwu pig and 12,938,257 clean reads in Yorkshire pig in this study. Totally, 265 known miRNAs were identified, and among these, 229 miRNAs were expressed in all the six pigs. From the 265 known miRNAs, 19 of these miRNAs were found significantly differentially expressed (q\0.05). Of these significantly expressed miRNAs, seven miRNAs were significantly upregulated and 12 miRNAs were down-regulated in Laiwu pig compared with Yorkshire pig. Among the significantly expressed miRNAs, ssc-miR-194-5p has the largest foldchange (6.35-fold). Ten differentially expressed miRNAs selected from high throughput sequencing were confirmed by real-time RT-PCR (RT-qPCR), and the results indicated that the expression patterns were consistent with sequencing results. Our results not only present a comprehensive miRNA transcriptome profile of skeletal muscle between two pig breeds with distinct phenotypes, but also could be useful for investigating the functions of differentially expressed miRNAs associated with the phenotype traits.