Ziwuliuzhu Acupuncture Modulates Clock mRNA, Bmal1 mRNA and Melatonin in Insomnia Rats

Huang Ao,Xiao Gefang,Chen Yiliu,Hu Zuying,Lee Pin-Hsuan,Huang Yusen,Zhuang Zifeng,Zhang Yuling,Qing Peng,Zhao Canghuan 사단법인약침학회 2023 Journal of Acupuncture & Meridian Studies Vol.16 No.3

Background: In clinics, Ziwuliuzhu acupuncture is widely considered an effective method of treating insomnia; however, there is currently limited information available regarding its possible mechanisms. Although the method of Ziwuliuzhu acupuncture possesses a unique rhythmic pattern. Objectives: In this study, we have creatively combined the traditional Chinese medicine of Ziwuliuzhu with a modern biological rhythm to investigate the internal mechanism of insomnia. Methods: Pathological tissue from the hypothalamus was analyzed using hematoxylin– eosin staining. The level of TNF (tumor necrosis factor)-α in the SCN (suprachiasmatic nucleus) area of the hypothalamus was detected in situ using the TUNEL fluorescence staining assay. The concentration of hypothalamic melatonin was detected using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The mRNA expression of Clock and Bmal1 was measured using RT-qPCR. Results: In the Ziwuliuzhu acupuncture groups, the structural damage in the hypothalamic neurons was alleviated compared to the model group and the expression of inflammatory factors was reduced. The mRNA expression levels of Clock and Bmal1 were significantly increased (p < 0.05). The concentration of melatonin was significantly increased (p < 0.001). Although there were no significant differences between the treatment groups (diazepam group, Nazi group, Najia group, and routine group) (p > 0.05). Conclusion: Ziwuliuzhu acupuncture alleviated neuronal damage and modulated the inflammatory reaction in the hypothalamus of rats with insomnia. Moreover, Ziwuliuzhu acupuncture increased the expression levels of Clock and Bmal1 mRNA, and MT content. This study has potentially highlighted one of

New-Onset Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes Following SARS-CoV-2 Protein Subunit Vaccine: A Case Report and Literature Review

Huang Lanhui,Liang Min,He Yuling 대한의학회 2023 Journal of Korean medical science Vol.38 No.24

The ravages of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) worldwide have sped up the development of relevant vaccines, which is accompanied by public concerns over possible adverse effects. We report a rare case of a 39-year-old woman who suffered from severe hyperglycemia and ketoacidosis with normal hemoglobin A1c four days after SARS-CoV-2 protein subunit vaccine, which is consistent with the diagnosis of fulminant type 1 diabetes (FT1D). She received insulin therapy and recovered after 24 days from onset of the symptoms. This is the first case of new-onset FT1D after SARS-CoV-2 protein subunit vaccination and one of only six that developed after any form of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. We hope to raise awareness of this potential adverse consequence and recommend careful monitoring after vaccination in patients even without a medical history of diabetes.

Prediction of long-term compressive strength of concrete with admixtures using hybrid swarm-based algorithms

Lihua Huang,Wei Jiang,Yuling Wang,Yirong Zhu,Mansour Afzal 국제구조공학회 2022 Smart Structures and Systems, An International Jou Vol.29 No.3

Concrete is a most utilized material in the construction industry that have main components. The strength of concrete can be improved by adding some admixtures. Evaluating the impact of fly ash (FA) and silica fume (SF) on the longterm compressive strength (CS) of concrete provokes to find the significant parameters in predicting the CS, which could be useful in the practical works and would be extensible in the future analysis. In this study, to evaluate the effective parameters in predicting the CS of concrete containing admixtures in the long-term and present a fitted equation, the multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) method has been used, which could find a relationship between independent and dependent variables. Next, for optimizing the output equation, biogeography-based optimization (BBO), particle swarm optimization (PSO), and hybrid PSOBBO methods have been utilized to find the most optimal conclusions. It could be concluded that for CS predictions in the long-term, all proposed models have the coefficient of determination (R²) larger than 0.9243. Furthermore, MARS-PSOBBO could be offered as the best model to predict CS between three hybrid algorithms accurately.

Effect of Wall Structures on Mechanical Properties of Small Caliber PHBHHx Vascular Grafts

Jing Gao,Zhenzhen Huang,Huiwen Guo,Shunzhu Tian,Lu Wang,Yuling Li 한국섬유공학회 2019 Fibers and polymers Vol.20 No.11

In order to analyze the effect of vascular wall structures on static and dynamic mechanical properties of vasculargrafts, small calibre PHBHHx (Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxhexanoate)) vascular grafts (inner diameter 6 mm) withvarious wall shapes and thicknesses were fabricated by changing electrospinning time and receiving molds. As spinning timeincreased, wall thickness of the vascular grafts increased and both circumferential tensile strength and suture retentionstrength improved significantly. When the wall thicknesses of straight grafts were about 120 μm, the great radial dynamiccompliance was exhibited, however, the tensile strength and suture retention strength of the straight tubes can’t reach therequirements of normal blood vessel grafting. With the wall thicknesses increasing above 250 μm, although thecircumferential tensile strength and suture retention strength gradually achieved the transplanting requirements, the dynamiccompliance of the straight tubes declined too sharply to adapt the blood radial shock. For corrugated grafts, the effect of wallthickness on radial dynamic compliance was little, and the radial dynamic compliance was close to that of the commercialvascular grafts. The circumferential tensile strength and suture retention strength of the corrugated grafts were also improvedto approach the commercial vessels’ performances with the wall thickness improving to about 425 μm. Elastic recovery ratesof all the prepared vascular grafts were superior to that of the commercial sample. Along with the wall thickness exceeding250 μm, the water permeabilities of both the straight and the corrugated grafts were less than 300 ml/(cm2·min).

Phenotypic Variations in External and Internal Fruit Quality Traits of Different Plum Accessions

Lehan Xia,Long Chen,Yuling Chen,Zhenyu Huang 한국원예학회 2023 원예과학기술지 Vol.41 No.5

The Predictive Value of Magnetic Resonance Imaging-based Texture Analysis in Evaluating Histopathological Grades of Breast Phyllodes Tumor

Yifei Mao,Zhongtang Xiong,Songxin Wu,Zhiqing Huang,Ruoxian Zhang,Yuqin He,Yuling Peng,Yang Ye,Tianfa Dong,Hui Mai 한국유방암학회 2022 Journal of breast cancer Vol.25 No.2

Purpose: Knowing the distinction between benign and borderline/malignant phyllodes tumors (PTs) can help in the surgical treatment course. Herein, we investigated the value of magnetic resonance imaging-based texture analysis (MRI-TA) in differentiating between benign and borderline/malignant PTs. Methods: Forty-three women with 44 histologically proven PTs underwent breast MRI before surgery and were classified into benign (n = 26) and borderline/malignant groups (n = 18 [15 borderline, 3 malignant]). Clinical and routine MRI parameters (CRMP) and MRI-TA were used to distinguish benign from borderline/malignant PT. In total, 298 texture parameters were extracted from fat-suppression (FS) T2-weighted, FS unenhanced T1-weighted, and FS first-enhanced T1-weighted sequences. To evaluate the diagnostic performance, receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was performed for the K-nearest neighbor classifier trained with significantly different parameters of CRMP, MRI sequence-based TA, and the combination strategy. Results: Compared with benign PTs, borderline/malignant ones presented a higher local recurrence (p = 0.045); larger size (p < 0.001); different time-intensity curve pattern (p = 0.010); and higher frequency of strong lobulation (p = 0.024), septation enhancement (p = 0.048), cystic component (p = 0.023), and irregular cystic wall (p = 0.045). TA of FS T2- weighted images (0.86) showed a significantly higher area under the curve (AUC) than that of FS unenhanced T1-weighted (0.65, p = 0.010) or first-enhanced phase (0.72, p = 0.049) images. The texture parameters of FS T2-weighted sequences tended to have a higher AUC than CRMP (0.79, p = 0.404). Additionally, the combination strategy exhibited a similar AUC (0.89, p = 0.622) in comparison with the texture parameters of FS T2-weighted sequences. Conclusion: MRI-TA demonstrated good predictive performance for breast PT pathological grading and could provide surgical planning guidance. Clinical data and routine MRI features were also valuable for grading PTs.

A review of the recent advances in design of corrugated plate packs applied for oil–water separation

Yunrui Han,Limin He,Xiaoming Luo,Yuling Lü,Kaiyue Shi,Jianheng Chen,Xin Huang 한국공업화학회 2017 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.53 No.-

The paper reviews the contradictions and problems existing on the oil–water separation technology in detail from the perspective of experiments, numerical simulation and coalescence mechanism analysis, and the future research directions are forecasted. The review points out that the law of droplet coalescence on the corrugated plates can be studied from the perspective of microscopic experiment and mechanism research, which are the theoretical bases for clarifying the coalescence mechanism of the corrugated plates and refining the droplet coalescence mathematical model. The further research topics are also clarified to promote future applications by combining the coalescence technology with surface bionic technology.

Diphenyl derivatives from coastal saline soil fungus Aspergillus iizukae

Desheng Liu,Ling Yan,Liying Ma,Yuling Huang,Xiaohong Pan,Weizhong Liu,Zhihua Lv 대한약학회 2015 Archives of Pharmacal Research Vol.38 No.6

Two new diphenyl derivatives, named iizukinesA (1) and B (2), along with nine known compounds wereisolated from coastal saline soil derived fungus Aspergillusiizukae. The structures were determined by extensivespectroscopic analysis. Their cytotoxicities were preliminarilyevaluated on HL-60, BEL-7402 and A-549 cell linesby the MTT assay.

A New Method of Gelatin Modified Collagen and Viscoelastic Study of Gelatin-Collagen Composite Hydrogel

Lang He,Sheng Li,Chengzhi Xu,Benmei Wei,Juntao Zhang,Yuling Xu,Beirong Zhu,Yang Cao,Xilin Wu,Zhijin Xiong,Rongrui Huang,Jian Yang,Haibo Wang 한국고분자학회 2020 Macromolecular Research Vol.28 No.9

Pure collagen materials are expensive with poor mechanical properties, which need modifications in most cases. As the degradation product of collagen, gelatin is cheap, degradable and biocompatible, but few literatures have reported the research about gelatin-collagen composite materials. This is because gelatin and collagen have different soluble temperatures—gelatin is soluble in hot water (≥30 oC) and swells in cold water. However, a low temperature (2-10 oC) is required to prepare and store collagen solution, and neutral collagen solution denatures quickly above the room temperature. In this study, gelatin was ground into powders and swelled in neutral bovine tendon pepsin-soluble collagen solution (BPSC) to form a homogeneous gelatin-collagen mixture, in light of the swelling characteristics of gelatin in cold water. The assembly properties and gel properties of this composite material were further studied. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) test results showed that the bovine tendon collagen had typical type-I collagen structural characterizations with two α chains of about 100 kDa and one β chain of about 200 kDa; while the SDS-PAGE pattern of gelatin displayed bands continuously distributed from 30 to 200 kDa. Amino acid composition analysis test indicated that the content of polar amino acids and the sum of acidic and base amino acids for gelatin were higher than that of BPSC. Studies on gel properties demonstrated that gelatin-collagen mixed solution had collagenlike assembly characteristics and assembly kinetics. The moduli of the assembled gel at 35 oC were equivalent to that of pure bovine tendon collagen system; moreover, the system moduli didn’t change with time with elastic moduli (G') of about 40 Pa. However, at 25 oC, the moduli of gelatin-collagen composite hydrogel increased with the extension of time, its G' increased about 18 times within 8 h, and the ratio of elastic modulus to viscous modulus (G'') increased 4.6 times, showing a significant aging effect of structural strength. Meanwhile, the mechanical strength of the composite hydrogel was also regulated by temperature—the gel was highly elastic (G'≈3,000 Pa, G'>>G'') at a low temperature (5 oC); as the temperature rose, the system moduli gradually decreased and the elastic gel transformed into waterlike fluid at 50 oC little by little. What’s more, gelatin-collagen composite hydrogel also had reversible sol-gel performances and self-healing capability similar to the gelatin hydrogel. This novel preparation method for preparing composite materials and the resultant composite hydrogel are expected to be used in the fields of natural food gels, injectable hydrogels, cell scaffolds, drug sustained-release materials and so on, and improve and promote the processing performances, price and large-scale production of collagen-based materials.

Enhanced Strength-Ductility Synergy in Mg-0.5 wt%Ce Alloy by hot Extrusion

Hui Yu,Yu Liu,Ya Liu,Dongliang Wang,Yuling Xu,Binan Jiang,Weili Cheng,Lixin Huang,Weineng Tang,Wei Yu 대한금속·재료학회 2023 METALS AND MATERIALS International Vol.29 No.7

The microstructure and mechanical properties of micro-alloyed Mg-0.5 wt%Ce alloys are investigated systemically in this study. It shows that Mg-Ce binary system is very sensitive to extrusion temperature. On the one hand, the high tensile yield strength (TYS) of 343 MPa was obtained by extrusion at 250 °C mainly due to the combined effects of profuse nano-precipitation phase, grain refinement, texture strengthening and high-density dislocation; On the other hand, the excellent elongation of 30% was acquired by extrusion at 300 °C resulting from the elimination of dislocations as well as the modification of texture.