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Immature Fruit Recognition using Exposure Fusion and Machine Learning
( Yi-zhen Lin ),( Shih-fang Chen ) 한국농업기계학회 2018 한국농업기계학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.23 No.1
Labor shortage is one of the most serious issues in agriculture industry. During harvest season, a lack of manpower may delay the best time for harvesting and significantly affects the postharvest processes and its quality, especially for perishable products, e.g. fruit and vegetables. Mechanical harvesting provides a solution to alleviate the situation by integrating mechanism design and machine vision to perform automatic harvesting. Precise identification and localization algorithm for targeted crops are keys in the system. However, uneven field illumination and high color similarity between target and background perturb the object identification in machine vision. In this study, exposure fusion, a newly developed method to capture a scene with higher dynamic range, is applied to overcome the influence of light for target images. Eleven exposure values will be tested to obtain a best fused image for further analysis. Color space transformation and machine-learning approaches, such as support vector machine (SVM) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) are proposed to segment immature green fruits (e.g. cherry tomatoes and kumquats) from leafy background.
Shu Lin-Zhen,Zhang Xian-Lei,Ding Yi-Dan,Lin Hui 생화학분자생물학회 2024 Experimental and molecular medicine Vol.56 No.-
Neutrophils are emerging as an important player in skeletal muscle injury and repair. Neutrophils accumulate in injured tissue, thus releasing inflammatory factors, proteases and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) to clear muscle debris and pathogens when skeletal muscle is damaged. During the process of muscle repair, neutrophils can promote self-renewal and angiogenesis in satellite cells. When neutrophils are abnormally overactivated, neutrophils cause collagen deposition, functional impairment of satellite cells, and damage to the skeletal muscle vascular endothelium. Heterotopic ossification (HO) refers to abnormal bone formation in soft tissue. Skeletal muscle injury is one of the main causes of traumatic HO (tHO). Neutrophils play a pivotal role in activating BMPs and TGF-β signals, thus promoting the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells and progenitor cells into osteoblasts or osteoclasts to facilitate HO. Furthermore, NETs are specifically localized at the site of HO, thereby accelerating the formation of HO. Additionally, the overactivation of neutrophils contributes to the disruption of immune homeostasis to trigger HO. An understanding of the diverse roles of neutrophils will not only provide more information on the pathogenesis of skeletal muscle injury for repair and HO but also provides a foundation for the development of more efficacious treatment modalities for HO.
Gene Expression Profiles of HeLa Cells Impacted by Hepatitis C Virus Non-structural Protein NS4B
( Yi Zheng ),( Lin Bai Ye ),( Jing Liu ),( Wei Jing ),( Khalid A. Timani ),( Xiao Jun Yang ),( Fan Yang ),( Wei Wang ),( Bo Gao ),( Zhen Hui Wu ) 생화학분자생물학회 2005 BMB Reports Vol.38 No.2
By a cDNA array representing 2308 signal transductionrelated genes, we studied the expression profiles of HeLa cells stably transfected by Hepatitis C virus nonstructural protein 4B (HCV-NS4B). The alterations of the expression of four genes were confirmed by real-time quantitative RT PCR; and the aldo-keto reductase family 1, member Cl (AKR1C1) enzyme activity was detected in HCV-NS4B transiently transfected HeLa cells and Huh-7, a human hepatoma cell line. Of the 2,308 genes we examined, 34 were up-regulated and 56 were down-regulated. These 90 genes involved oncogenes, tumor suppressors, cell receptors, complements, adhesions, transcription and translation, cytoskeletion and cellular stress. The expression profiling suggested that multiple regulatory pathways were affected by HCV-NS4B directly or indirectly. And since these genes are related to carcinogenesis, host defense system and cell homeostatic mechanism, we can conclude that HCV-NS4B could play some important roles in the pathogenesis mechanism of HCV.
Lin, Chang-Ming,Ma, Ji-Min,Zhang, Li,Hao, Zong-Yao,Zhou, Jun,Zhou, Zhen-Yu,Shi, Hao-Qiang,Zhang, Yi-Fei,Shao, En-Ming,Liang, Chao-Zhao Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2015 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.16 No.10
Transient receptor potential melastain 7 (TRPM7) is a bifunctional protein with dual structure of both ion channel and protein kinase, participating in a wide variety of diseases including cancer. Recent researches have reported the mechanism of TRPM7 in human cancers. However, the correlation between TRPM7 and prostate cancer (PCa) has not been well studied. The objective of this study was to investigate the potential the role of TRPM7 in the apoptosis of PC-3 cells, which is the key cell of advanced metastatic PCa. In this study, we demonstrated the influence and potential function of TRPM7 on the PC-3 cells apoptosis induced by TNF-related apoptosis inducing-ligand (TRAIL). The study also found a novel up-regulated expression of TRPM7 in PC-3 cells after treating with TRAIL. Suppression of TRPM7 by TRPM7 non-specific inhibitors ($Gd^{3+}$ or 2-aminoethoxy diphenylborate (2-APB) ) not only markedly eliminated TRPM7 expression level, but also increased the apoptosis of TRAIL-treated PC-3 cells, which may be regulated by the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B (PI3K/AKT) signaling pathway accompany with up-regulated expression of cleaved Caspase-3, (TRAIL-receptor 1, death receptors 4) DR4, and (TRAIL-receptor 2, death receptors 5) DR5. Taken together, our findings strongly suggested that TRPM7 was involved in the apoptosis of PC-3 cells induced by TRAIL, indicating that TRPM7 may be applied as a therapeutic target for PCa.
Gene Expression Profiles of HeLa Cells Impacted by Hepatitis C Virus Non-structural Protein NS4B
Zheng, Yi,Ye, Lin-Bai,Liu, Jing,Jing, Wei,Timani, Khalid A.,Yang, Xiao-Jun,Yang, Fan,Wang, Wei,Gao, Bo,Wu, Zhen-Hui Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biol 2005 Journal of biochemistry and molecular biology Vol.38 No.2
By a cDNA array representing 2308 signal transduction related genes, we studied the expression profiles of HeLa cells stably transfected by Hepatitis C virus nonstructural protein 4B (HCV-NS4B). The alterations of the expression of four genes were confirmed by real-time quantitative RT-PCR; and the aldo-keto reductase family 1, member C1 (AKR1C1) enzyme activity was detected in HCV-NS4B transiently transfected HeLa cells and Huh-7, a human hepatoma cell line. Of the 2,308 genes we examined, 34 were up-regulated and 56 were down-regulated. These 90 genes involved oncogenes, tumor suppressors, cell receptors, complements, adhesions, transcription and translation, cytoskeletion and cellular stress. The expression profiling suggested that multiple regulatory pathways were affected by HCV-NS4B directly or indirectly. And since these genes are related to carcinogenesis, host defense system and cell homeostatic mechanism, we can conclude that HCV-NS4B could play some important roles in the pathogenesis mechanism of HCV.
MicroRNA-576-3p Inhibits Proliferation in Bladder Cancer Cells by Targeting Cyclin D1
Liang, Zhen,Li, Shiqi,Xu, Xin,Xu, Xianglai,Wang, Xiao,Wu, Jian,Zhu, Yi,Hu, Zhenghui,Lin, Yiwei,Mao, Yeqing,Chen, Hong,Luo, Jindan,Liu, Ben,Zheng, Xiangyi,Xie, Liping Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology 2015 Molecules and cells Vol.38 No.2
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, endogenous RNAs that play important gene-regulatory roles by binding to the imperfectly complementary sequences at the 3'-UTR of mRNAs and directing their gene expression. Here, we first discovered that miR-576-3p was down-regulated in human bladder cancer cell lines compared with the non-malignant cell line. To better characterize the role of miR-576-3p in bladder cancer cells, we over-expressed or down-regulated miR-576-3p in bladder cancer cells by transfecting with chemically synthesized mimic or inhibitor. The overexpression of miR-576-3p remarkably inhibited cell proliferation via G1-phase arrest, and decreased both mRNA and protein levels of cyclin D1 which played a key role in G1/S phase transition. The knock-down of miR-576-3p significantly promoted the proliferation of bladder cancer cells by accelerating the progression of cell cycle and increased the expression of cyclin D1. Moreover, the dual-luciferase reporter assays indicated that miR-576-3p could directly target cyclin D1 through binding its 3'-UTR. All the results demonstrated that miR-576-3p might be a novel suppressor of bladder cancer cell proliferation through targeting cyclin D1.
MicroRNA-576-3p Inhibits Proliferation in Bladder Cancer Cells by Targeting Cyclin D1
Liping Xie,Zhen Liang,Shiqi Li,Xin Xu,Xianglai Xu,Xiao Wang,Jian Wu,Yi Zhu,Zhenghui Hu,Yiwei Lin,Yeqing Mao,Hong Chen,Jindan Luo,Ben Liu,Xiangyi Zheng 한국분자세포생물학회 2015 Molecules and cells Vol.38 No.2
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, endogenous RNAs that play important gene-regulatory roles by binding to the imperfectly complementary sequences at the 3 -UTR of mRNAs and directing their gene expression. Here, we first discovered that miR-576-3p was down-regulated in human bladder cancer cell lines compared with the non-malignant cell line. To better characterize the role of miR-576-3p in bladder cancer cells, we over-expressed or down-regulated miR-576-3p in bladder cancer cells by transfecting with chemically synthesized mimic or inhibitor. The overexpression of miR-576-3p remarkably inhibited cell proliferation via G1-phase arrest, and decreased both mRNA and protein levels of cyclin D1 which played a key role in G1/S phase transition. The knock-down of miR-576-3p significantly promoted the proliferation of bladder cancer cells by accelerating the progression of cell cycle and increased the expression of cyclin D1. Moreover, the dual-luciferase reporter assays indicated that miR-576-3p could directly target cyclin D1 through binding its 3 -UTR. All the results demonstrated that miR-576-3p might be a novel suppressor of bladder cancer cell proliferation through targeting cyclin D1.
Wei Jin,Yu-Fei Lin,Zhen-Liang Xu,Ping-Ping Li,Jia-Yue Dai,Yi-Hao Tong,Xin Zhang 한국공업화학회 2023 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.122 No.-
Ultrafiltration (UF) membranes are commonly confronted with threats from pollutants during long-termoperation. The zwitterions with high hydrophilicity are expected to be the critical material to improve theanti-fouling and antibacterial abilities of membranes. Herein, a new zwitterionic polyethersulfone (PES)(zwitterionic PES - ZPES) was synthesized. The as-prepared ZPES was used to fabricate a zwitterionic UFmembrane via the non-solvent induced phase inversion (NIPS) method. Zwitterionic polymer skeletonenhanced the hydrophilicity, permeability and anti-fouling properties of the material. As a result, theZPES membrane exhibited doubled water flux growth (269.6 Lm2h1) compared with that of the PES(125.3 Lm2h1) and high protein rejection (98.6%). Besides, the ZPES membrane could maintain anexcellent flux recovery rate (94.1%) and antibacterial effect (more than 95%). Therefore, the excellentanti-fouling and antibacterial abilities of the ZPES membrane broaden its application scope further.