Incidence, Survival and Prevalence of Esophageal and Gastric Cancer in Linzhou City from 2003 to 2009

Liu, Shu-Zheng,Wang, Bing,Zhang, Fang,Chen, Qiong,Yu, Liang,Cheng, Lan-Ping,Sun, Xi-Bin,Duan, Guang-Cai Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2013 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.14 No.10

This study describes recent trends in incidence, survival and prevalence of subgroups of esophageal and gastric cancer in Linzhou city between 2003 and 2009. Data of esophageal and gastric cancer for the period of interest were extracted from the Linzhou Cancer Registry. Using information on tumor morphology or anatomical site, data were divided into six groups; esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, esophageal adenocarcinoma, other and unspecified types of esophageal cancer, and cardia, non-cardia, and unspecified anatomical site of stomach cancer. Incidence, survival and prevalence rates for each of the six cancer groups were calculated. The majority of esophageal cancers were squamous cell carcinomas (82%). Cardiac cancer was the major gastric cancer group (64%). The incidence of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and gastric cardiac cancer increased between 2003 and 2009. Both esophageal and gastric cancer had a higher incidence in males compared with females. Overall survival was poor in all sub-groups with 1 year survival ranging from 45.9 to 65.6% and 5 year survival ranging from 14.7 to 30.5%. Prevalence of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and gastric cardiac cancer was high (accounting for 80% overall). An increased focus on prevention and early diagnosis, especially in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and gastric cardiac cancer, is required.

Endothelin-1 enhances the melanogenesis via MITF-GPNMB pathway

Ping Zhang,Wei Liu,Xiaoying Yuan,Dong Guang Li,We Ijie Gu,Tian Wen Gao 생화학분자생물학회(구 한국생화학분자생물학회) 2013 BMB Reports Vol.46 No.7

Application of rare earth as mordant for the dyeing of ramie fabrics with natural dyes

Guang Hong Zheng,Hong Bin Fu,Guang Ping Liu 한국화학공학회 2011 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.28 No.11

Selecting appropriate metallic compounds as mordants is essential for dyeing with natural dyes. This paper presents the application of rare earth compounds as mordant for the dyeing of ramie fabrics with four kinds of natural dyes. The influences of pre-mordanting, simultaneous mordanting, and post-mordanting on the dyeing effect were explored. The post-mordanting was proved to give rise to the highest dye uptake. The effects of dyeing conditions including dyeing temperature and time, dyeing bath pH and the concentration of rare earth on the dye uptake were investigated systematically. The fabrics dyed with natural dyes in presence of rare earth as mordant exhibited high color shade stability in the baths with pH varying from being acidic to neutral and alkaline. Employing rare earth as mordant apparently raised the color fastness to washing, rubbing and light of the ramie fabrics dyed with the natural extracts. In comparison with the commonly used metallic salts, using rare earth chlorides as mordants can greatly reduce the ionic concentration employed in natural dyeing. This study proved that rare earth would be a kind or promising environmentally friendly mordant in natural dyeing.

新興宗敎與"邪敎"的比較硏究 -中國經驗論

류평 ( Ping Liu ),이홍광 ( Hong Guang Li ) 한국중국학회 2011 國際中國學硏究 Vol.14 No.-

In the past 100 years, "New Religion" has become an important component of the world``s religion circle. Because of the frequently cult events in the late 20th century, the concepts of "New Religion" and "Evil Cult" are usually mixed together. In China, people even regard the two concepts as the same. However, the relationship between the two concepts is far more complicated, we cannot simply distinguish them by integrity or evil, religious or non-religious. While comparing them, we discovered that "New Religion" and "Evil Cult" are two different concepts, with an essential distinction. So when we do research on them and discuss the relevant problems, we should treat them in different ways. In this paper, we preliminary discussed the living situation of the Chinese "New Religion". We find out that the new religion such as Baha``ism has not been totally accepted in the mainl and, although it seems that it has already played an accepted organization role. Besides, Chinese "Underground Church" and "House Church" are also developing constantly. In the modern world, religion secularization and pluralism have made the traditional religion on the decline. Moreover, the special national conditions also stopped its religious function from going well. The beneficial values and moral principles, namely the functions of social stabilizers in the new religion, such as eleemosynary relief and spiritual comfort, are what truly in demand now. As the Chinese government is now advocating promoting greater cultural development and prosperity, as well as constructing a harmonious society, the coexistence of the diverse national culture and belief culture is becoming an inexorable 226 國際中國學硏究 第14輯 trend.

Genetic Analysis and Molecular Mapping of Gene Associated with Dominant Genic Male Sterility in Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.)

Jun Liu,Deng Feng Hong,Wei Lu,Ping Wu Liu,Qing Biao He,Guang Sheng Yang 한국유전학회 2008 Genes & Genomics Vol.30 No.6

Rs1046AB is a dominant genic male sterility (DGMS) line derived from a spontaneous mutant in Brassica napus. The sterility of this mutant was previously regarded as to be conditioned by the interaction of a dominant male sterility gene Ms and its non-allelic dominant restorer gene Mf (or Rf in previous reports). Recent genetic analyses, however, indicated that Ms and Mf may be allelic. In this research, we confirmed that a multiple allele model should be more appropriate to elucidate the heredity of DGMS line Rs1046AB. Based on this result, the present study emphasized on identifying DNA markers linked to Ms/Mf in an F2 population constructed by crossing Rs1046A with a double haploid (DH) restorer line (19514A). Twenty amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers linked to the Ms/Mf locus were identified by combination of bulked segregant analysis (BSA) with AFLP technique. The target locus was detected to be co-segregating with the marker S05T05 and bracketed by two nearest markers, E14M01 and E01M02, with a genetic distance of 0.1 cM and 1.2 cM, respectively. Furthermore, we successfully converted two AFLP markers into sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers. These findings provided direct molecular marker proofs on the inheritance model of this DGMS line, and the high density molecular markers linkage map around the Ms/Mf locus will be more informative for both marker-assisted selection (MAS) of elite male sterile lines and isolation of the Ms/Mf genes by positional cloning in future.

Structures, biomimetic synthesis, and anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity of two pairs of enantiomeric phenylpropanoid-conjugated protoberberine alkaloids from the rhizomes of Corydalis decumbens

Jing-Guang Lu,Yingwei Wang,Ming-Rong Yang,Cai-Yun Wang,Jieru Meng,Jiazheng Liu,Zifeng Yang,Kongsong Wu,Li-Ping Bai,Guo-Yuan Zhu,Zhi-Hong Jiang 대한약학회 2022 Archives of Pharmacal Research Vol.45 No.9

(±)-Decumicorine A ( 1 ) and (±)- epi -decumicorine A ( 2 ), two pairs of enantiomeric isoquinoline alkaloids featuring a novel phenylpropanoid-conjugated protoberberine skeleton, were isolated and purifi ed from the rhizomes of Corydalis decumbens . The separation of (±)- 1 and (±)- 2 was achieved by chiral HPLC to produce four optically pure enantiomers. The structures and absolute confi gurations of compounds (−)- 1 , (+)- 1 , (−)- 2 , and (+)- 2 were elucidated by spectroscopic analysis, ECD calculations, and X-ray crystallographic analyses. The two racemates were generated from a Diels-Alder [4 + 2] cycloaddition between jatrorrhizine and ferulic acid in the proposed biosynthetic pathways, which were fully verifi ed by a biomimetic synthesis. Moreover, compound (+)- 1 exhibited an antiviral entry eff ect on SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus by blocking spike binding to the ACE2 receptor on HEK-293T-ACE2 h host cells.

Effect of Temperature on Resistivity of CFRP Materials with Added Carbon Powder or Nano-silica

Dan Liu,Jie Yin,Rong-gui Liu,Shu Ping,Hui-guang Yin,Gui-hua Xie 대한토목학회 2019 KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Vol.23 No.4

This paper presents an experimental investigation on the effect of temperature on resistivity of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) materials. A series of tests were conducted on three types of CFRP materials, namely pure CFRP material, CFRP with carbon powder (4% in weight) and CFRP with nano-silica (4% in weight). Test results showed that adding carbon powder into the epoxy resin decreases the initial electric resistance R0 and initial volume resistivity ρ0 while adding nano-silica increases R0 and ρ0 compared to pure CFRP material. Preheating cycle test results showed that the volume resistivity of all three types of specimens linearly increases with increasing temperature. CFRP with added nano-silica exhibits higher temperature sensitivity than CFRP with added carbon powder compared to the lowest temperature sensitivity for pure CFRP material. In addition, temperature cycle test results showed that CFRP specimens have approximately stable values of volume resistivity. Both CFRP specimens with added carbon powder or nano-silica exhibit a recognizable trend of first decrease and then increase in volume resistivity with increasing temperature both during heating and cooling cycles. CFRP with added carbon powder mainly shows Negative Temperature Coefficient (NTC) effect in the temperature range of −40 to 40oC and Positive Temperature Coefficient (PTC) effect from 40 to 80oC. CFRP with added nano-silica mainly exhibits PTC effect in the temperature domain of −15 to 80oC and NTC effect from −40 to −15oC. A mathematical-physical model with respect to the thermal effect was presented based on the Eshelby-Mori-Tanaka (EMT) approach and mesomechanics method. The results obtained with the model agree well with the test results considering the temperature domain of PTC effect, which indicates that the proposed model is effective in characterizing the variation of fractional change in resistance (ΔR/R0) at varying temperature.

Identification and expression analysis of grape LRK10L-2 genes during grape fruit development

Ma Jin-Ping,Yin Xue-Ren,Wei Tong-Lu,Liu Hai-Nan,Pei Mao-Song,Yang Sheng-Di,Jin Hui-Ying,He Guang-Qi,Guo Da-Long 한국식물생명공학회 2022 Plant biotechnology reports Vol.16 No.1

LRK10L-2 is known to be related to the plant disease response, little information is available about the relationship of LRK10L-2 and fruit ripening. The protein physicochemical properties, conserved domains, gene structures, subcellular locali- zation, expression patterns during grape fruit development and promoter activity of the members of grape LRK10L-2 gene family were explored in this study. A total of 109 LRK10L-2 family gene members were identified, and mainly distributed on chromosome 16. Almost all of them were located in the plasma membrane. Most of the LRK10L-2 genes contain four or five motifs, ranging from 0 to 5 introns and have the cis-acting elements related to hormones in their promoter regions. There were 20 pairs of tandem duplicates and 293 pairs of segmental duplication in LRK10L-2 family genes. It was proved that the expression of LRK10L-2 gene varied at the different fruit development stages of 'Kyoho' and its early-ripening bud mutant, ‘Fengzao’. The subcellular localization of VIT_16s0098g00160 and VIT_16s0098g00400 were in the plasma membrane, and had a significant enrichment of the GUS signal in N.benthamiana leaves for the promoter. The results lay a solid basis for the further functional researches of the LRK10L-2 genes for grape fruit ripening.

Risk Factors for the Rupture of Bifurcation Intracranial Aneurysms Using CT Angiography

Li Wen,Guang-xian Wang,Dong Zhang,Zhi-ping Wang,Liu-qing Yang,Lei Zhang 연세대학교의과대학 2016 Yonsei medical journal Vol.57 No.5

Purpose: To investigate the clinical and morphological characteristics in relation to risk of bifurcation intracranial aneurysm rupture. Materials and Methods: Data from 202 consecutive patients with 219 bifurcation aneurysms (129 ruptured and 90 unruptured) managed at the authors’ facility between August 2011 and July 2014 were retrospectively reviewed. Based on their clinical records and CT angiographic findings, the ability of risk factors to predict aneurysm rupture was assessed using statistical methods. Results: Age, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and cerebral atherosclerosis were negatively correlated with aneurysm rupture. Aneurysms located in the middle cerebral artery, daughter artery ratio, lateral angle ratio (LA ratio), and neck width were negativelycorrelated with rupture. Aneurysms located in the anterior communicating artery, irregularity, with daughter sac, depth, width, maximum size, aspect ratio (AR), depth-to-width ratio, and bottleneck factor were significantly and positively correlated with rupture. Binary logistic regression model revealed that irregular shape [odds ratio (OR) 6.598] and AR (OR 3.507) strongly increasedthe risk of bifurcation aneurysm rupture, while age (OR 0.434), cerebral atherosclerosis (OR 0.125), neck width (OR 0.771), and LA ratio (OR 0.267) were negatively correlated with rupture (p<0.05). Receiver operating characteristic analysis revealedthe threshold values of AR and LA ratio to be 1.18 and 1.50, respectively. Conclusion: Age (≥60 yr), cerebral atherosclerosis, and aneurysms with a larger neck width and larger LA ratio are protective factorsagainst bifurcation aneurysm rupture. An aneurysm with an irregular shape and an increased AR reflect the greater likelihoodof a rupture.

A Highly Active Alpha Amylase from Bacillus Licheniformis: Directed Evolution, Enzyme Characterization and Structural Analysis

( Yi Han Liu ),( Shu Ai Fan ),( Xiao Guang Liu ),( Zhi Meng Zhang ),( Jian Ling Wang ),( Zheng Xiang Wang ),( Fu Ping Lu ) 한국미생물 · 생명공학회 2014 Journal of microbiology and biotechnology Vol.24 No.7

The stability of Bacillus licheniformis alpha-amylase (BLA) under acid condition was enhanced through direct evolution using the error-prone polymerase chain reaction. One beneficial mutation site, H281I, was obtained in BLA. The specific activity of H281I was 161/352 U/mg, which was 62.6/27.5% higher than that of the wild-type (WT) (99/276 U/mg) at pH 4.5/6.5 and 95°C. The pH optimum for H281I was decreased about 1 unit, whereas no significant changes of optimum temperature and thermostability were observed compared with the wild type (WT). The kcat/Km value of H281I was 1.7-/1.4-fold higher at pH 4.5/6.5, respectively, than that of WT. The structure model analysis indicated that the H281I mutation altered the predicted interaction between the amino acid residues at 281 and 273, thus creating a conducive local environment for substrate binding, as reflected by its decreased Km, and consequently increased the specific activity.