Marein Prevented LPS-Induced Osteoclastogenesis by Regulating the NF-κB Pathway In Vitro

( Yuling Li ),( Jing Zhang ),( Caiping Yan ),( Qian Chen ),( Chao Xiang ),( Qingyan Zhang ),( Xingkuan Wang ),( Ke Jiang ) 한국미생물생명공학회 2022 Journal of microbiology and biotechnology Vol.32 No.2

Many bone diseases such as osteolysis, osteomyelitis, and septic arthritis are caused by gramnegative bacterial infection, and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a bacterial product, plays an essential role in this process. Drugs that inhibit LPS-induced osteoclastogenesis are urgently needed to prevent bone destruction in infective bone diseases. Marein, a major bioactive compound of Coreopsis tinctoria, possesses anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory, anti-hypertensive, antihyperlipidemic, and anti-diabetic effects. In this study, we measured the effect of marein on RAW264.7 cells by CCK-8 assay and used TRAP staining to determine osteoclastogenesis. The levels of osteoclast-related genes and NF-κB-related proteins were then analyzed by western blot, and the levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines were quantified by ELISA. Our results showed that marein inhibited LPS-induced osteoclast formation by osteoclast precursor RAW264.7 cells. The effect of marein was related to its inhibitory function on expressions of pro-inflammatory cytokines and osteoclast-related genes containing RANK, TRAF6, MMP-9, CK, and CAII. Additionally, marein leads to markedly inhibited NF-κB signaling pathway activation in LPS-induced RAW264.7 cells. Concurrently, when the NF-κB signaling pathway was inhibited, osteoclast formation and proinflammatory cytokine expression were decreased. Collectively, marein could inhibit LPS-induced osteoclast formation in RAW264.7 cells via regulating the NF-κB signaling pathway. Our data demonstrate that marein might be a potential drug for bacteria-induced bone destruction disease. Our findings provide new insights into LPS-induced bone disease.

Supercapacitors based on a nitrogen doped hierarchical porous carbon fabricated by self-activation of biomass: excellent rate capability and cycle stability

Zhang Zhijian,He Jingjing,Tang Xingchang,Wang Yuling,Yang Binbin,Wang Kunjie,Zhang Deyi 한국탄소학회 2019 Carbon Letters Vol.29 No.6

Energy and environmental are always two major challenges for the sustainable development of the modern human being. For avoiding the serious environmental pollution caused in the fabrication process of porous carbon, a popular energy storage material, we reported a facile, green and activating agent free route hereby directly carbonizing a special biomass, Glebionis coronaria. A nitrogen doped hierarchical porous carbon with a specific surface area of up to 1007 m2 g−1 and a N doping content of up to 2.65 at.% was facilely fabricated by employing the above route. Benefiting from the peculiarly hierarchical porous morphology, enhanced wettability and improved conductivity, the obtained material exhibits superior capacitance performance, which capacitance reaches up to 205 F g−1 under two-electrode configuration, and no capacitance loss is observed after 5000 cycles. Meanwhile, the capacitance retention of the obtained material arrives up to 95.0% even under a high current density of 20 A g−1, illuminating its excellent rate capability. The fabricated nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous carbon with larger capacitance than commercial activated carbon, excellent rate capability and cycle stability is an ideal cost-efficient substitution of commercial activated carbon for supercapacitor application.

Unequal Error Protection in Image Transmission Based on LDPC Codes

Yuling Zhang,Xia Li,Hongyong Yang 보안공학연구지원센터 2016 International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Vol.9 No.3

This paper investigates the performance of image transmission with unequal error protection (UEP) schemes based on irregular Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. Firstly, the UEP is achieved by mapping different bits of the image bytes to different positions of LDPC codes, i.e. the more important bits in the image are mapped to the variable node with higher degrees in irregular LDPC codes, after the channel coding, we map the information bits into a power efficient QAM constellation and map the parity check bits into a spectral efficiency 16QAM constellation. Simulation results show that the UEP scheme is effective.

Supercapacitors based on a nitrogen doped hierarchical porous carbon fabricated by self‑activation of biomass: excellent rate capability and cycle stability

Zhijian Zhang,Jingjing He,Xingchang Tang,Yuling Wang,Binbin Yang,Kunjie Wang,Deyi Zhang 한국탄소학회 2019 Carbon Letters Vol.29 No.6

Energy and environmental are always two major challenges for the sustainable development of the modern human being. For avoiding the serious environmental pollution caused in the fabrication process of porous carbon, a popular energy storage material, we reported a facile, green and activating agent free route hereby directly carbonizing a special biomass, Glebionis coronaria. A nitrogen doped hierarchical porous carbon with a specific surface area of up to 1007 m2 g−1 and a N doping content of up to 2.65 at.% was facilely fabricated by employing the above route. Benefiting from the peculiarly hierarchical porous morphology, enhanced wettability and improved conductivity, the obtained material exhibits superior capacitance performance, which capacitance reaches up to 205 F g−1 under two-electrode configuration, and no capacitance loss is observed after 5000 cycles. Meanwhile, the capacitance retention of the obtained material arrives up to 95.0% even under a high current density of 20 A g−1, illuminating its excellent rate capability. The fabricated nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous carbon with larger capacitance than commercial activated carbon, excellent rate capability and cycle stability is an ideal cost-efficient substitution of commercial activated carbon for supercapacitor application.

A national survey on how to improve traditional Chinese medicine learning internationally: Perceptions from both teachers and students

Zhu Yu-Hang,Yan Wu,Hao Zhang,Yanfei Zhao,Yule Ren,Wei Hu,Pan Li,Huiyi Wang,Ying Wang,Boda Zhang,Yujie Wang,Hongwen Yuan,Jiping Zhang,Wenqiang Li,Yufang Zhao,Jie Zhao,Yedong Shi,Yanye Shu,Xiao Zhang,Ya 한국한의학연구원 2022 Integrative Medicine Research Vol.11 No.4

Background With the increasing popularity of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) by the global community, how to teach basic knowledge of TCM to international students and improve the teaching quality are important issues for teachers of TCM. The present study was to analyze the perceptions from both students and teachers on how to improve TCM learning internationally. Methods A cross-sectional national survey was conducted at 23 universities/colleges across China. A structured, self-reported on-line questionnaire was administered to 34 Chinese teachers who taught TCM course in English and to 1016 international undergraduates who were enrolled in the TCM course in China between 2017 and 2021. Results Thirty-three (97.1%) teachers and 900 (88.6%) undergraduates agreed Chinese culture should be fully integrated into TCM courses. All teachers and 944 (92.9%) undergraduates thought that TCM had important significance in the clinical practice. All teachers and 995 (97.9%) undergraduates agreed that modern research of TCM is valuable. Thirty-three (97.1%) teachers and 959 (94.4%) undergraduates thought comparing traditional medicine in different countries with TCM can help the students better understand TCM. Thirty-two (94.1%) teachers and 962 (94.7%) undergraduates agreed on the use of practical teaching method with case reports. From the perceptions of the undergraduates, the top three beneficial learning styles were practice (34.3%), teacher's lectures (32.5%), case studies (10.4%). The first choice of learning mode was attending to face-to-face teaching (82.3%). The top three interesting contents were acupuncture (75.5%), Chinese herbal medicine (63.8%), and massage (55.0%). Conclusion To improve TCM learning among international undergraduates majoring in conventional medicine, integration of Chinese culture into TCM course, comparison of traditional medicine in different countries with TCM, application of the teaching method with case reports, and emphasization of clinical practice as well as modern research on TCM should be fully considered.

IMC-based Design for Teleoperation Systems with Time Delays

Yuling Li,Yixin Yin,Dezheng Zhang 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2018 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.16 No.2

The presence of time delays in communication introduces a limitation to the stability of bilateral teleoperation systems. In this study, we address the design of Internal Model Control (IMC)-based controllers for teleoperation systems with arbitrary time delays. The two degrees of freedom IMC structure is utilized for the master and the slave respectively and thus the passivity-assumption on the external forces is not required. The stability of the overall system is analyzed by regarding the whole system as a multivariable system. A performance-oriented controller design process which guarantees the delayed tracking between the master and the slave is also given. Finally, an example is given to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

CHARACTERIZATIONS OF GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES OF BANACH SPACES USING ψ-DIRECT SUMS

Zhang, Zhihua,Shu, Lan,Zheng, Jun,Yang, Yuling Korean Mathematical Society 2013 대한수학회보 Vol.50 No.2

Let X be a Banach space and ${\psi}$ a continuous convex function on ${\Delta}_{K+1}$ satisfying certain conditions. Let $(X{\bigoplus}X{\bigoplus}{\cdots}{\bigoplus}X)_{\psi}$ be the ${\psi}$-direct sum of X. In this paper, we characterize the K strict convexity, K uniform convexity and uniform non-$l^N_1$-ness of Banach spaces using ${\psi}$-direct sums.

Ground type-I collagen—a focused study on its fibrillogenesis behavior and bioactivity in vitro

Yuling Xu,Lei Dai,Ke Li,Jialin Liu,Haibo Wang,Lang He,Chengzhi Xu,Benmei Wei,Juntao Zhang 한국고분자학회 2023 Macromolecular Research Vol.31 No.1

Take bovine tendon type-I collagen as the raw material, we pretreated it by freezing and then grinding the macromolecule at a low temperature (4–10 °C). Effects of the grinding process on the molecular structure, water solubility, fibrillogenesis behavior in vitro and biological activity of collagen were systematically prospected. Sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS–PAGE) results revealed that the collagen had typical structural characteristics of type-I collagen; moreover, grinding treatment gave rise to partially degraded collagen molecules which took on continuous bands with lower molecular weights different from α1 and α2. More strikingly, the degradation degree positively corresponded to the grinding duration. Circular dichroism (CD) analysis manifested that with extended grinding, intensities of both the positive and negative peaks for collagen samples shrunk. Interestingly, grinding also contributed to improved water solubility of collagen. The water solubility of the sample ground for 20 min (COL20) was 1.91 mg/mL, which is about 6 times higher than that of the natural collagen sample (0.28 mg/mL). Amid the study concerning the fibrillogenesis behavior, turbidity and rheological data collaboratively demonstrated that with prolonged grinding time, the assembly rate and degree of the sample plunged. Assembled gel from the ground collagen with finer fibrils was also observed in scanning electron microscope (SEM), which further embraced the conclusion aforementioned in fibrillogenesis kinetics. Cell experiments corroborated that the grinding process can be harnessed to manipulate the cell proliferation promoting ability of collagen. Simultaneously, further dissection of COL20 with the best biological activity clarified that the water-soluble part and water-insoluble part of COL20 had distinct aptitudes as to promoting cell proliferation as well as inhibiting the growth of liver cancer cells.

Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Minimal Energy Control with Guaranteed Convergence Rate of Linear Systems

Kai Zhang,Suoliang Ge,Yuling Ge 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2019 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.17 No.12

The traditional linear quadratic optimal control can be summarized as finding the state feedback controller, so that the closed-loop system is stable and the performance index is minimum. And it is well known that the solution of the linear quadratic optimal control problem can be obtained by algebraic Riccati equation (ARE) with the standard assumptions. However, results developed for the raditional linear quadratic optimal control problem cannot be directly applied to solve the problem of minimal energy control with guaranteed convergence rate (MECGCR), because the standard assumptions cannot be satisfied in the MECGCR problem. In this paper, we mainly consider the problem of MECGCR and prove that ARE can be applied to solve the MECGCR problem under some conditions. Furthermore, with the assumption that the system dynamics is unknown, we propose a policy iteration (PI) based adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) algorithm to iteratively solve the ARE using the online information of state and input, without requiring the a priori knowledge of the system matrices. Finally, a numerical example is worked out to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

A Dynamic Model of the Accumulation and Distribution of Dry Matter for Black Walnut (Juglans hindsii) Seedlings

Jixiang Zhang,Yuling Yue,Zhiquan Mao,Huairui Shu 한국원예학회 2006 한국원예학회 기타간행물 Vol.- No.-