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Traditional medicine for post-viral olfactory dysfunction: A systematic review
Zou, Xiang-yun,Liu, Xue-han,Lu, Chun-li,Jin, Xin-yan,He, Bai-xiang,Liao, Yi-lei,Liu, Ting,Dai, Yi-dan,Qi, Shi-hao,Sheng, Zhu-jun,Yan, Zhan-feng,Yang, Guo-Yan,Stub, Trine,Liu Jian-Ping 한국한의학연구원 2024 Integrative Medicine Research Vol.13 No.2
Background: Post-viral olfactory dysfunction (PVOD) is the common symptoms of long COVID, lacking of effective treatments. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is claimed to be effective in treating olfactory dysfunction, but the evidence has not yet been critically appraised. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of TCM for PVOD. Methods: We searched eight databases to identified clinical controlled studies about TCM for PVOD. The Cochrane risk of bias tools and GRADE were used to evaluate the quality of evidence. Risk ratio (RR), mean differences (MD), and 95 % confidence interval (CI), were used for effect estimation and RevMan 5.4.1 was used for data analysis. Results: Six randomized controlled trials (RCTs) (545 participants), two non-randomized controlled trials (non-RCTs) (112 participants), and one retrospective cohort study (30 participants) were included. The overall quality of included studies was low. Acupuncture (n = 8) and acupoint injection (n = 3) were the mainly used TCM therapies. Five RCTs showed a better effect in TCM group. Four trials used acupuncture, and three trials used acupoint injection. The results of two non-RCTs and one cohort study were not statistically significant. Two trials reported mild to moderate adverse events (pain and brief syncope caused by acupuncture or acupoint injection). Conclusions: Limited evidence focus on acupuncture and acupoint injection for PVOD and suggests that acupuncture and acupoint injection may be effective in improving PVOD. More well-designed trials should focus on acupuncture to confirm the benefit. Protocol registration: The protocol of this review was registered at PROSPERO: CRD42022366776.
Xiang Gao,Wen-Li Ai,Huan Gong,Li-Juan Cui,Bo-Xia Chen,Hong-Yi Luo,Zhong-Chun Zhang,Bao-Sheng Qiu 한국식물생명공학회 2016 Plant biotechnology reports Vol.10 No.2
Transgenic research was preformed by transferring a cyanobacterial (Nostoc flagelliforme) iron superoxide dismutase gene (NfFeSOD) into heavy metal hyperaccumulator Sedum alfredii via Agrobacterium-mediated method. Beyond expectation, NfFeSOD-overexpressing S. alfredii plants exhibited profound impairments, including plant growth retardation, abnormal root architecture, and reduced leaf greenness, photosynthetic efficiency and metal accumulation efficiency. Although transgenic plants appeared physiologically sensitive to high temperature, a higher relative biomass growth was still observed under long-term high temperature and osmotic stresses. Further investigation found that reactive oxygen species (ROS) homeostasis of transgenic plants was significantly affected, being ~50 % reduction of H2O2 level relative to wild-type plants. Gene transcription including ROS responsive genes was overall attenuated in transgenic plants, being more significant at normal temperature than at high temperature. In addition, ascorbate peroxidase (APX) activity was increased nearly twofolds in transgenic plants as compared to wild-type control. It may be inferred that ectopic NfFeSOD overexpression gives rise to a substantial increase of APX activity and leads to a sharp reduction of H2O2 level, thus impairing basal ROS signaling and plant growth. Specific genetic background of S. alfredii may be responsible for this sharp reduction of H2O2 level induced by NfFeSOD overexpression. S. alfredii plant has acclimated to elevated levels of ROS induced by heavy metals in native habitats and should require high ROS levels for basal signaling. We thus suppose that a sustained disturbance of high basal ROS signaling in metal hyperaccumulators may instead incur very sensitive response and thus result in profound growth impairments.
( Ssu-yi Lu ),( Xiang-guan Deng ),( Sheng-shu Huang ),( Chun-yu Tsai ),( Chyung Ay ) 한국농업기계학회 2018 한국농업기계학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.23 No.1
With the pressure of society and the large population of insomnia, the sleep problem is becoming more and more serious as the population ages. This study hopes to replace medicines with music and enable patients to relax and enter sleep more quickly. According to clinical experiments, hemi-sync can relax the body and mind and improve the difficulty of sleep. In this experiment, 3.4Hz binaural beats with three different styles of our own sleeping piano music were tested on college students. Emotiv 14-channel wireless EEG device was used to measure and record, analyze the experimental data and present as the spectrogram. For each music beats style, 30 students were selected to perform listening experiments. Calculated the success rate of hemi-sync generated by EEG device, and compared the degree of influence of the three music pieces on the listeners and the differences of frequency band in EEG. The experiment results showed that the hemi-sync appear, with a success rate of more than 40%. Different styles of binaural beats piano music and hemi-sync provide a variety of styles of self-created beats piano music for the public to choose, to shorten the time required to get into sleep and solve the problem of insomnia. In addition, we must observe the feasibility of hemi-sync to the subjects. Using the machine learning algorithm, it was found that in the F7 of the brain area, the accuracy of using the RF algorithm can reach 70.1%, while using XGB it reaches 70.4%, which means that the detection of correlation of hemi-sync and F7 in EEG can improve the verification of the influence of binaural beats on EEG. It shows a clear picture in the future that the beats music can influence the brain, so that people with insomnia can be treated with the most suitable music.
Construction and Cloning of the Rc/CMV-GFP Fluorescence Expression Vector
Wang, Yi-Xiang,Li, Sheng-lin,Fu, Jia,Zhang, Kui-hua Korean Academy of Oral Biology and the UCLA Dental 2000 International Journal of Oral Biology Vol.25 No.1
A plasmid that can express fluorescence in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, RC/CMV-GFP was constructed by cloning the green fluorescent protein gene〔gfp〕into the Rc/CMV expression vector. The green fluorescent protein 〔GFP〕was expressed in E. coli JM109〔Rc/CMV-FGP〕, and green light was emitted under UV irradiation. Thus, this vector can be used to label oral microorganisms or tumor cells for studies of their biological behavior.
Prediction of postoperative pancreatic fistula using a nomogram based on the updated definition
Cheng-Xiang Guo,Yi-Nan Shen,Qi Zhang,Xiao-Zhen Zhang,Jun-Li Wang,Shun-Liang Gao,Jian-Ying Lou,Ri-Sheng Que,Tao Ma,Ting-Bo Liang,Xue-Li Bai 대한외과학회 2020 Annals of Surgical Treatment and Research(ASRT) Vol.98 No.2
Purpose: The International Study Group on Pancreatic Fistula’s definition of postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) has recently been updated. This study aimed to identify risk factors for POPF in patients having pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) and to generate a nomogram to predict POPF. Methods: Data on 298 patients who underwent PD from March 2012 to October 2017 was retrospectively reviewed and POPF statuses were redefined. A nomogram was constructed using data from 220 patients and validated using the remaining 78 patients. Independent risk factors for POPF were identified using univariate and multivariate analyses. A predictive nomogram was established based on the independent risk factors and was compared with existing models. Results: Texture of the pancreas, size of the main pancreatic duct, portal vein invasion, and definitive pathology were the identified risk factors. The nomogram had a C-index of 0.793 and was internally validated. The nomogram performed better (C-index of 0.816) than the other most cited models (C-indexes of 0.728 and 0.735) in the validation cohort. In addition, the nomogram can assign patients into low- (less than 10%), intermediate- (10% to 30%), and high-risk (equal or higher than 30%) groups to facilitate personalized management. Conclusion: The nomogram accurately predicted POPF in patients having PD.
Zhao, Bao-Sheng,Liu, Shang-Guo,Wang, Tian-Yun,Ji, Ying-Hua,Qi, Bo,Tao, Yi-Peng,Li, Han-Chen,Wu, Xiang-Nan Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2013 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.14 No.1
Patients at the same pathological stage of esophageal cancer (EC) that received the same surgical therapy by the same surgeon may have distinct prognoses. The current study aimed to explore the possibility of differentially-expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) underlying this phenomenon. Samples were collected from EC patients at the same tumor node metastasis (TNM) stage but with different prognoses. Paracancerous normal tissues were taken as controls. The specimens were histopathologically analyzed. Differentially-expressed miRNAs were analyzed using real-time quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Compared with patients with poor prognosis, those with good prognosis exhibited 88 two-fold or more than two-fold increased miRNA fragments and 4 half-decreased miRNAs. The most noticeably up-regulated miRNAs included hsa-miR-31, hsa-miR-196b, hsa-miR-652, hsa-miR-125a-5p, hsa-miR-146b, hsa-miR-200c, hsa-miR-23b, hsa-miR-29a, hsa-miR-186, hsa-miR-205, hsa-miR-376a, hsa-miR-410, hsa-miR-532-3p, and hsa-miR-598, whereas the most significantly-downregulated miRNAs were hsa-let-7e, hsa-miR-130b, and hsa-miR-103. EC patients at same TNM stage but with different prognoses show differentially-expressed miRNAs.
Association of CDKN2B-AS1 rs1333049 with Brain Diseases: A Case-control Study and a Meta-analysis
Jikuang Zhao,Xizheng Wu,Sheng Nie,Xiang Gao,Jie Sun,Keqin Li,Tiefeng Zhang,Yi Huang 대한정신약물학회 2017 CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE Vol.15 No.1
Objective: CDKN2B-AS1 polymorphisms were shown to associate with the risk of stroke in European. The goal of this study was to evaluate the contribution of CDKN2B-AS1 rs1333049 to the risk of hemorrhagic stroke (HS) and brain tumor (BT) in Han Chinese. Methods: A total of 142 HSs, 115 BTs, and 494 controls were included in the current association study. The genotyping test was performed using the melting temperature shift method. Results: We failed to validate the association of CDKN2B-AS1 rs1333049 with the risk of brain disease. Significantly higher levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) (p=0.027), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) (p<0.001) and total cholesterol (TC) (p<0.001) were found in HSs in the genotype GG/GC carriers, but not the genotype CC carriers (p>0.05). The meta-analysis of 10 studies among 133,993 individuals concluded that rs1333049 of CDKN2B-AS1 gene was likely to increase a 16% incidence rate of cerebrovascular disease (CD) among various populations (odds ratio 1.16, 95% confidence interval 1.08-1.25; p<0.0001, random-effect method). Conclusion: Our case-control study identified rs1333049 genotypes showed different association with the concentration of the LDL-C, HDL-C and TC in the HS patients. Meta-analysis supported the association between rs1333049 and CD risk in various populations, although we were unable to observe association between rs1333049 and the risk of HSs in Han Chinese.
Weng, Ling-Ling,Xiang, Jian-Feng,Lin, Jin-Bo,Yi, Shang-Hui,Yang, Li-Tao,Li, Yi-Sheng,Zeng, Hao-Tao,Lin, Sheng-Ming,Xin, Dong-Wei,Zhao, Hai-Liang,Qiu, Shu-Qi,Chen, Tao,Zhang, Min-Guang Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.24
Liver cancer is one of leading digestive malignancies with high morbidity and mortality. There is an urgent need for the development of novel therapies for this deadly disease. It has been proven that asparagus polysaccharide, one of the most active derivates from the traditional medicine asparagus, possesses notable antitumor properties. However, little is known about the efficacy of asparagus polysaccharide as an adjuvant for liver cancer chemotherapy. Herein, we reported that asparagus polysaccharide and its embolic agent form, asparagus gum, significantly inhibited liver tumor growth with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) therapy in an orthotopic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumor model, while significantly inhibiting angiogenesis and promoting tumor cell apoptosis. Moreover, asparagine gelatinous possessed immunomodulatory functions and showed little toxicity to the host. These results highlight the chemotherapeutic potential of asparagus polysaccharide and warrant a future focus on development as novel chemotherapeutic agent for liver cancer TACE therapy.
Li Tao,Qin Sheng,Sun Xia,Zhang Kai-xiang,Ding Xin-yi,Wang Xue-yang,Li Muwang 한국응용곤충학회 2022 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.25 No.3
Baculoviruses are enveloped rod-shaped viruses that with circular double-stranded and large DNA genome. Baculoviruses successfully invade by using the host factors, especially at the process of establishing early infection. In this study, we investigated the different resistant strains of silkworm in response to AcMNPV early infection by RNA-sequencing. Our data revealed that the genes involved in innate immunity and ribosomal proteins were suppressed and cytoskeleton were induced in susceptible strain p50, thus facilitating the viral replication. However, in resistant strain C108, the genes participated in endocytosis and RNA transport were down-regulated, while up-regulation of ribosomal proteins and energy metabolic to inhibit the infection of the virus. These data provide a new sight of the initial host transcriptional responses to viral infection in silkworm.