Cortical Morphometric Abnormality and Its Association with Working Memory in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Fei-Fei Si,Lu Liu,Hai-Mei Li,Li Sun,Qing-Jiu Cao,Hanna Lu,Yu-Feng Wang,Qiu-Jin Qian 대한신경정신의학회 2021 PSYCHIATRY INVESTIGATION Vol.18 No.7

Objective Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder in children and adolescents. The present study investigated the cortical morphology features and their relationship with working memory (WM). Methods In the present study, a total of 36 medication naïve children with ADHD (aged from 8 to 15 years) and 36 age- and gendermatched healthy control (HC) children were included. The digit span test was used to evaluate WM. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to examine the characteristics of cortical morphology. Firstly, we compared the cortical morphology features between two groups to identify the potential structural alterations of cortical volume, surface, thickness, and curvature in children with ADHD. Then, the correlation between the brain structural abnormalities and WM was further explored in children with ADHD. Results Compared with the HC children, the children with ADHD showed reduced cortical volumes in the left lateral superior temporal gyrus (STG) (p=6.67×10-6) and left anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) (p=3.88×10-4). In addition, the cortical volume of left lateral STG was positively correlated with WM (r=0.36, p=0.029). Conclusion Though preliminary, these findings suggest that the reduced cortical volumes of left lateral STG may contribute to the pathogenesis of ADHD and correlate with WM in children with ADHD.

Research on Enterprise Marketing Capability Measure Method based on Fuzzy Multi-attribute Analysis Model

Fei Lu 보안공학연구지원센터 2014 International Journal of u- and e- Service, Scienc Vol.7 No.6

Influenced by many factors, enterprise marketing capability is essential for improving the enterprise marketing competitiveness and its sustainable development. By studying the factors comprehensively and effectively, the enterprise can better recognize their marketing capability and the direction of improvement. This paper studies and analyzes the enterprise marketing capability measure methods and proposes a new one based on fuzzy multi-attribute analysis model. This model recognizes the marketing capability of marketing plans from different enterprises by providing the evaluation indicators of marketing capability measure, establishing related evaluation index system, conducting the membership analysis of different kinds of capability measure indicators, and calculating Euclidean distance and fuzzy subordinate degree of those indicators. Finally, the practicality and feasibility of the model and algorithm is proved by case analysis and verification of marketing plans from different enterprises.

Proposal of a Pretreatment Nomogram for Predicting Local Recurrence after Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy in T4 Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A Retrospective Review of 415 Chinese Patients

Lu-Lu Zhang,Yi-Yang Li,Jiang Hu,Guan-Qun Zhou,Lei Chen,Wen-Fei Li,Ai-Hua Lin,Jun Ma,Zhen-Yu Qi,Ying Sun 대한암학회 2018 Cancer Research and Treatment Vol.50 No.4

Purpose Local relapse-free survival (LRFS) differs widely among patients with T4 category nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). We aimed to build a nomogram incorporating clinicopathological information to predict LRFS in T4 NPC after definitive intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). Materials and Methods Retrospective study of 415 Chinese patients with non-metastatic T4 NPC treated with definitive IMRT with or without chemotherapy at our cancer center between October 2009 and September 2013. The nomogram for LRFS at 3 and 5 years was generated based on multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression, and validated using bootstrap resampling, assessing discriminative performance using the concordance index (C-index) and determining calibration ability via calibration curves. Results Five-year LRFS was 88.8%. We identified and incorporated four independent prognostic factors for LRFS: ethmoid sinus invasion, primary gross tumor volume, age, and pretreatment body mass index. The C-index of the nomogram for local recurrence was 0.732 (95% confidence interval, 0.726 to 0.738), indicating excellent predictive accuracy. The calibration curve revealed excellent agreement between nomogram-predicted and observed LRFS probabilities. Risk subgroups based on total point score cutoff values enabled effective discrimination of LRFS. Conclusion This pretreatment nomogram enables clinicians to accurately predict LRFS in T4 NPC after definitive IMRT, and could help to facilitate personalized patient counselling and treatment strategies.

Esophageal/Gastric Cancer Screening in High-risk Populations in Henan Province, China

Lu, Yu-Fei,Liu, Zhi-Cai,Li, Zhong-Hong,Ma, Wen-Hao,Wang, Fu-Rang,Zhang, Ya-Bing,Lu, Jian-Bang Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.3

Objective: To summarize the endoscopic screening findings in high-risk population of esophageal and gastric carcinoma and analyze influential factors related to screening. Methods: In seven selected cities and counties with high incidences of esophageal carcinoma, people at age of 40-69 were set as the target population. Those with gastroscopy contradictions were excluded, and all who were voluntary and willing to comply with the medical requirements were subjected to endoscopic screening and histological examination for esophageal, gastric cardia and gastric carcinoma in accordance with national technical manual for early detection and treatment of cancer. Results: In three years, 36,154 people were screened, and 16,847 (46.60%) cases were found to have precancerous lesions. A total of 875 cases were found to have cancers (2.42%), and among them 739 cases had early stage with an early diagnosis rate is 84.5%. Some 715 patients underwent prompt treatment and the success rate was 81.8%. Conclusions: In a high-risk population of esophageal and gastric carcinoma, it is feasible to implement early detection and treatment by endoscopic screening. Screening can identify potential invasive carcinoma, early stage carcinoma and precancerous lesions, improving efficacy through early detection and treatment. The exploratory analysis of related influential factors will help broad implementation of early detection and treatment for esophageal and gastric carcinoma.

A New Method for Context Prediction based on Markov Logic Network in Specific Situations

Lu Fei,Li Jian 보안공학연구지원센터 2016 International Journal of Hybrid Information Techno Vol.9 No.4

Context information in smart space are complex and uncertain, it increases the difficulty of information prediction. In order to increase the accuracy of information prediction, a new method is proposed in this paper. Firstly, first-order predicate logic is used to describe the context information and Markov logic network is used to achieve the unification of the first-order logic and probabilistic graphical models. Secondly Markov logic network model is established based on some particular scenes which were predicted by neural network, the purpose of this model is to realize the prediction of device information which is valuable for the task planning by relevant complex context information. At last, simulation test is done using the real data collected from our smart space laboratory, the experiment results show that method is effective.

Triangular angles parameterization for the correlation matrix of bivariate longitudinal data

Lu Fei,Xue Liugen,Wang Zhaoliang 한국통계학회 2020 Journal of the Korean Statistical Society Vol.49 No.2

Multivariate longitudinal data is often encountered in the jobs of statisticians and practitioners. It is challenging to model the covariance matrix due to the complex structure of correlations among multiple responses. For this modeling task, several effective Cholesky decomposition based methods have been studied. However, direct interpretation of the covariation structure among multiple responses is still less well investigated to the best of our knowledge. In this paper, we propose a joint meanvariance correlationmodelingmethod based on the triangular angles parameterization (TAP) for the correlation matrix of bivariate longitudinal data. The proposed unconstrained parameterization is able to automatically eliminate the positive definiteness constraint of the correlation matrix and leads to the aforementioned direct interpretation. Furthermore, the variance matrix is diagonal rather than block-diagonal, so the positive-definiteness constraint of this matrix can be easily satisfied. The entries of the proposed decomposition are modeled by regression models, and the maximum likelihood estimators of regression parameters are obtained. The resulting estimators are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal. Simulations and a study of poplar growth illustrate that the proposed method performs well.

Single-phased silicate-hosted phosphor with 660 nm-featured band emission for biological light-emitting diodes

Qi-fei Lu,Jian Li,Da-jian Wang 한국물리학회 2013 Current Applied Physics Vol.13 No.7

A single-phased (Ba,Sr)3MgSi2O8:Eu2þ, Mn2þ phosphor with 660 nm-featured dual band-emission is investigated upon optimizing composition to simulate the artificial photosynthetic action spectrum (PAS)for near-ultraviolet (NUV) biological light-emitting diodes (bio-LEDs). A specific composition range in Ba eSr binary solid solution of (Ba,Sr)3MgSi2O8 is found to be capable of obtaining single-phased host in the absence of an easily formed orthosilicate impurity, leading to a 660 nm-featured red band emission of Mn2+ induced by an efficient energy transfer from a co-doped blue-emitting Eu2+ sensitizer. This dual broad band emission phosphor has a 72 nm full width at half maximum (FWHM) for red band that covers fairly well to the absorption spectrum of chlorophyll and PAS for most plants, enabling a flexible option in the application of bio-illumination for artificial photosynthesis.

Dual Effect of Hepatic Macrophages on Liver Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury during Liver Transplantation

Tian-Fei Lu,Tai-Hua Yang,Cheng-Peng Zhong,Chuan Shen,Wei-Wei Lin,Guang-Xiang Gu,Qiang Xia,Ning Xu 대한면역학회 2018 Immune Network Vol.18 No.3

Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major complication in liver transplantation (LT) and it is closely related to the recovery of grafts' function. Researches has verified that both innate and adaptive immune system are involved in the development of IRI and Kupffer cell (KC), the resident macrophages in the liver, play a pivotal role both in triggering and sustaining the sterile inflammation. Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), released by the initial dead cell because of the ischemia insult, firstly activate the KC through pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) such as toll-like receptors. Activated KCs is the dominant players in the IRI as it can secret various pro-inflammatory cytokines to exacerbate the injury and recruit other types of immune cells from the circulation. On the other hand, KCs can also serve in a contrary way to ameliorate IRI by upregulating the anti-inflammatory factors. Moreover, new standpoint has been put forward that KCs and macrophages from the circulation may function in different way to influence the inflammation. Managements towards KCs are expected to be the effective way to improve the IRI.

Identification of novel rheumatoid arthritis-associated MiRNA-204-5p from plasma exosomes

Wu Long-Fei,Zhang Qin,Mo Xing-Bo,Lin Jun,Wu Yang-Lin,Lu Xin,He Pei,Wu Jian,Guo Yu-Fan,Wang Ming-Jun,Ren Wen-Yan,Deng Hong-Wen,Lei Shu-Feng,Deng Fei-Yan 생화학분자생물학회 2022 Experimental and molecular medicine Vol.54 No.-

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by infiltration of immune cells in the synovium. However, the crosstalk of immune cells and synovial fibroblasts is still largely unknown. Here, global miRNA screening in plasma exosomes was carried out with a custom microarray (RA patients vs. healthy controls = 9:9). A total of 14 exosomal miRNAs were abnormally expressed in the RA patients. Then, downregulated expression of exosomal miR-204-5p was confirmed in both the replication (RA patients vs. healthy controls = 30:30) and validation groups (RA patients vs. healthy controls = 56:60). Similar to the findings obtained in humans, a decreased abundance of exosomal miR-204-5p was observed in mice with collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). Furthermore, Spearman correlation analysis indicated that plasma exosomal miR-204-5p expression was inversely correlated with disease parameters of RA patients, such as rheumatoid factor, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and C-reactive protein. In vitro, our data showed that human T lymphocytes released exosomes containing large amounts of miR-204-5p, which can be transferred into synovial fibroblasts, inhibiting cell proliferation. Overexpression of miR-204-5p in synovial fibroblasts suppressed synovial fibroblast activation by targeting genes related to cell proliferation and invasion. In vivo assays found that administration of lentiviruses expressing miR-204-5p markedly alleviated the disease progression of the mice with CIA. Collectively, this study identified a novel RA-associated plasma exosomal miRNA-204-5p that mediates the communication between immune cells and synovial fibroblasts and can be used as a potential biomarker for RA diagnosis and treatment.

Protein-based soft micro-optics fabricated by femtosecond laser direct writing

Sun, Yun-Lu,Dong, Wen-Fei,Niu, Li-Gang,Jiang, Tong,Liu, Dong-Xu,Zhang, Lu,Wang, Ying-Shuai,Chen, Qi-Dai,Kim, Dong-Pyo,Sun, Hong-Bo Nature Publishing Group 2014 Light, science & applications Vol.3 No.1

<P>In this work, we report a novel soft diffractive micro-optics, called 'microscale kinoform phase-type lens (micro-KPL)', which is fabricated by femtosecond laser direct writing (FsLDW) using bovine serum albumin (BSA) as building blocks and flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) slices as substrates. By carefully optimizing various process parameters of FsLDW (e. g., average laser power density, scanning step, exposure time on a single point and protein concentration), the as-formed protein micro-KPLs exhibit excellent surface quality, well-defined three-dimensional (3D) geometry and distinctive optical properties, even in relatively harsh operation environments (for instance, in strong acid or base). Laser shaping, imaging and other optical performances can be easily achieved. More importantly, micro-KPLs also have unique flexible and stretchable properties as well as good biocompatibility and biodegradability. Therefore, such protein hydrogel-based micro-optics may have great potential applications, such as in flexible and stretchable photonics and optics, soft integrated optical microsystems and bioimplantable devices.</P>