Melatonin Attenuates Noise Stress-induced Gastrointestinal Motility Disorder and Gastric Stress Ulcer: Role of Gastrointestinal Hormones and Oxidative Stress in Rats

( Lei Zhang ),( Ji T Gong ),( Hu Q Zhang ),( Quan H Song ),( Guang H Xu ),( Lei Cai ),( Xiao D Tang ),( Hai F Zhang ),( Fang E Liu ),( Zhan S Jia ),( Hong W Zhang ) 대한소화기기능성질환·운동학회 2015 Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility (JNM Vol.21 No.2

Background/Aims There are increasing evidences for gastrointestinal motility disorder (GIMD) and gastric stress ulcer induced by noise stress. The present study was to investigate the reversed effect of melatonin on GIMD and gastric stress ulcer induced by noise stress and potential mechanism. Methods Noise stress was induced on rats, and melatonin (15 mg/kg) was administered to rats by intraperitoneal injection. Differences were assessed in gastric residual rate (GRR), small intestine propulsion rate (SPR), Guth injury score, cortisol, gastrointestinal hormones (calcitonin-gene-related peptide and motilin) and oxidative stress markers (superoxide dismutase and malondialde hyde) in blood plasma as well as gastric mucosa homogenate with or without melatonin. The pathological examination of gastric mucosa was also performed. Results The GRR and SPR were improved by noise stress compared with control (P < 0.05). The pathological examination and Guth injury score revealed gastric stress ulcer. Moreover, the levels of cortisol, motilin and malondialdehyde in blood plasma and malondialdehyde in gastric mucosa homogenate were increased by noise stress (P < 0.05). CGRP and superoxide dismutase activity in both of blood plasma and gastric mucosa homogenate were significantly decreased (P< 0.05). Furthermore, melatonin reversed changes in GRR, SPR, pathological examination, Guth injury score, cortisol, motilin, CGRP, superoxide dismutase activity and malondialdehyde (P < 0.05). Conclusions Melatonin is effective in reversing the GIMD and gastric stress ulcer induced by noise stress. The underlying mechanism may be involved in oxidative stress and gastrointestinal hormones. (J Neurogastroenterol Motil 2015;21:189-199)

A Novel Brain Tumor Segmentation Method for Multi-Modality Human Brain MRIs

Tianming Zhan,Shenghua Gu,Lei Jiang,Yongzhao Zhan 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Vol.10 No.11

Delineating brain tumor boundaries from multi-modality magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is a crucial step in brain cancer surgical and treatment planning. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic technique for brain tumor segmentation from multi-modality human brain MRIs. We first use the intensities of different modalities in MRIs to represent the features of both normal and abnormal tissues. Then, the multiple classifier system (MCS) is applied to calculate the probabilities of brain tumor and normal brain tissue in the whole image. At last, the spatial-contextual information is proposed by constraining the classified neighbors to improve the classification accuracy. Our method was evaluated on 20 multi-modality patient datasets with competitive segmentation results.

Overexpression of the AtSTK Gene Increases Salt, PEG and ABA Tolerance in Arabidopsis

Lei Bing,Cui-Cui Feng,Jing-Lan Li,Xiao-Xu Li,Baocun Zhao,Yin-Zhu Shen,Zhan-Jing Huang,Rong-Chao Ge 한국식물학회 2013 Journal of Plant Biology Vol.56 No.6

AtSTK (At5g02800), which is a serine-threonineprotein kinase gene of Arabidopsis thaliana, was cloned, andits function was studied. The study found that the overexpressionof AtSTK could significantly improve the ability of A. thaliana to tolerate salt, PEG, and ABA stresses. RT-PCRanalysis revealed that the expression of the AtSTK genecould be obviously induced by salt, PEG, and ABA. Theexamination of the physiological characteristics showed thatthe overexpression of AtSTK in Arabidopsis significantlyreduced the plasma membrane permeability, significantlyincreased the proline content, and decreased the MDA content. These changes may reflect the physiological mechanismsthrough which AtSTK overexpression improves stress resistancein Arabidopsis. In addition, the overexpression of the AtSTKgene significantly antagonised the inhibitory effect of highconcentrations of exogenous ABA on Arabidopsis seedgermination. The subcellular localisation results showed thatAtSTK is located in both the cytosol and the nucleus. Theexamination of its tissue-specific expression showed thatAtSTK is expressed in various Arabidopsis tissues and isparticularly strongly expressed in the vessels. The signallingpathway analysis indicated that AtSTK might transfer thesalt stress signal in Arabidopsis through the MAPK pathway.

A Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction Approach Based on Large Pre-trained Language Model and Adversarial Training

Zhan Tang,Xuchao Guo,Zhao Bai,Lei Diao,Shuhan Lu,Lin Li 한국인터넷정보학회 2022 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.16 No.3

Protein-protein interaction (PPI) extraction from original text is important for revealing the molecular mechanism of biological processes. With the rapid growth of biomedical literature, manually extracting PPI has become more time-consuming and laborious. Therefore, the automatic PPI extraction from the raw literature through natural language processing technology has attracted the attention of the majority of researchers. We propose a PPI extraction model based on the large pre-trained language model and adversarial training. It enhances the learning of semantic and syntactic features using BioBERT pre-trained weights, which are built on large-scale domain corpora, and adversarial perturbations are applied to the embedding layer to improve the robustness of the model. Experimental results showed that the proposed model achieved the highest F1 scores (83.93% and 90.31%) on two corpora with large sample sizes, namely, AIMed and BioInfer, respectively, compared with the previous method. It also achieved comparable performance on three corpora with small sample sizes, namely, HPRD50, IEPA, and LLL.

Weibo Disaster Rumor Recognition Method Based on Adversarial Training and Stacked Structure

Lei Diao,Zhan Tang,Xuchao Guo,Zhao Bai,Shuhan Lu,Lin Li 한국인터넷정보학회 2022 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.16 No.10

To solve the problems existing in the process of Weibo disaster rumor recognition, such as lack of corpus, poor text standardization, difficult to learn semantic information, and simple semantic features of disaster rumor text, this paper takes Sina Weibo as the data source, constructs a dataset for Weibo disaster rumor recognition, and proposes a deep learning model BERT_AT_Stacked LSTM for Weibo disaster rumor recognition. First, add adversarial disturbance to the embedding vector of each word to generate adversarial samples to enhance the features of rumor text, and carry out adversarial training to solve the problem that the text features of disaster rumors are relatively single. Second, the BERT part obtains the word-level semantic information of each Weibo text and generates a hidden vector containing sentence-level feature information. Finally, the hidden complex semantic information of poorly-regulated Weibo texts is learned using a Stacked Long Short-Term Memory (Stacked LSTM) structure. The experimental results show that, compared with other comparative models, the model in this paper has more advantages in recognizing disaster rumors on Weibo, with an F1_Socre of 97.48%, and has been tested on an open general domain dataset, with an F1_Score of 94.59%, indicating that the model has better generalization.

Phenolic features and anthocyanin profiles in winemaking pomace and fresh berries of grapes with different pedigrees

Lei Zhu,Xin Wu,Xixi Hu,Xinyue Li,Shanshan Lv,Chuan Zhan,Yunhua Chen,Changyuan Wang,Jingyu Xu 한국식품과학회 2023 Food Science and Biotechnology Vol.32 No.2

The total contents and antioxidant activities of phenolic compounds as well as anthocyanin profiles were analyzed and compared in fresh berries and fermented pomace of three grape cultivars with different pedigrees. The phenolic contents and antioxidant activities decreased significantly in skins (p < 0.05), while relatively large amounts of them were retained in seeds after fermentative maceration. Fermentative maceration also had a significant impact on the anthocyanin compositions. The proportions of anthocyanins with more stable structures, such as malvidin derivatives, methylated, diglucosides and nonacylated anthocyanins, increased significantly in the pomace skins (p < 0.05). There were obvious differences in phenolic features and anthocyanin profiles among the three cultivars. ‘NW196’, a wine hybrid of Vitis vinifera and V. quinquangularis, was characterized by the highest total anthocyanin contents and degree of diglucosylation. The results obtained in this study could contribute to the primary data for the development and utilization of winemaking pomace, especially from local non-Vitis vinifera grapes.

1-(2-Pyridylazo)-2-naphthol as a synergistic additive for improving throwing power of through hole copper electronic electroplating

Lei Jin,Zhao-Yun Wang,Zhuan-Yun Cai,Jia-Qiang Yang,An-Ni Zheng,Fang-Zu Yang,De-Yin Wu,Dongping Zhan 한국공업화학회 2023 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.125 No.-

In this work, we develop a novel 1-(2-Pyridylazo)-2-naphthol (PAN)-based acidic sulfate copper electronicelectroplating process for compact, homogeneous and conformal copper thickening of throughhole (TH). The adsorption characteristics, electrochemical properties and the interaction mechanismsof three additives (PEG, SPS and PAN) are studied in detail. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and opticalmicroscope (OM) reveal that PAN can make the copper coating in fine grains and high throwing powerof 90.35% in TH without an overhang phenomenon. Theoretical calculations illustrate that the bindingenergies between additive molecules and copper surface decrease in the order: PAN > SPS > PEG. Cyclic voltammetry experiments at rotating rates of 1200 and 200 r/min prove that PAN itself can accelerateand weakly suppress copper electrodeposition at the center and mouth of TH, respectively. PANbehaves respectively the synergistic and antagonistic effects with PEG at the mouth and center of TH,and the weakly synergistic effects with SPS both at the mouth and center of TH. The addition of PANto the virgin make-up solution (VMS) containing PEG and SPS causes decreasing the relative electriccharge (DQ) at high and low rotating rates from 18.52 ± 0.08% to 8.25 ± 0.05%, which satisfies the closercopper electronic electroplating rate at the center and mouth of TH. The effective and complicated synergisticeffects of the additives PEG, SPS and PAN can achieve compact, homogeneous and conformal copperthickening of TH.

Study and design of assembled CFDST column-beam connections considering column wall failure

Lei Guo,Jingfeng Wang,T.Y. Yang,Wanqian Wang,Binggen Zhan 국제구조공학회 2021 Steel and Composite Structures, An International J Vol.39 No.2

Currently, there is a lack of research in the design approach to avoid column wall failure in the concrete filled double skin steel tubular (CFDST) column-beam connections. In this paper, a finite element model has been developed and verified by available experimental data to analyze the failure mechanism of CFDST column-beam connections. Various finite element models with different column hollow ratios () were established. The simulation result revealed that with increasing  the failure mode gradually changed from yielding of end plate, to local failure of the column wall. Detailed parametric analyses were performed to study the failure mechanism of column wall for the CFDST column-beam connection, in which the strength of sandwiched concrete and steel tube and thickness of steel tube were incorporated. An analytical model was proposed to predict the moment resistance of the assembled connection considering the failure of column wall. The simulation results indicate that the proposed analytical model can provided a conservative prediction of the moment resistance. Finally, an upper bound value of  was recommend to avoid column wall failure for CFDST column-beam connections.

UML diagram-driven test scenarios generation based on the temporal graph grammar

( Zhan Shi ),( Xiaoqin Zeng ),( Tingting Zhang ),( Lei Han ),( Ying Qian ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2021 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.15 No.7

Model-based software architecture verification and test scenarios generation are becoming more and more important in the software industry. Based on the existing temporal graph grammar, this paper proposes a new formalization method of the context-sensitive graph grammar for aiming at UML activity diagrams, which is called the UML Activity Graph Grammar, or UAGG. In the UAGG, there are new definitions and parsing algorithms. The proposed mechanisms are able to not only check the structural correctness of the UML activity diagram but also automatically generate the test scenario according to user constraints. Finally, a case study is discussed to illustrate how the UAGG and its algorithms work.

Microstructure Formation Mechanism and Properties of AZ61 Alloy Processed by Melt Treatment with Vibrating Cooling Slope and Semisolid Rolling

Zhan Yong Zhao,Ren Guo Guan,Xiang Wang,Yang Li,Lei Dong,이종수,Chun Ming Liu 대한금속·재료학회 2013 METALS AND MATERIALS International Vol.19 No.5

A melt treatment with a vibrating cooling slope and a semisolid rolling process to produce an AZ61 alloy strip was proposed. The microstructure formation mechanism and the properties of the AZ61 alloy produced by the proposed process were investigated. Due to the high cooling rate and stirring action caused by the vibration cooling slope, the nucleation rate was greatly improved, which caused the formation of fine spherical or rosette primary grains. During the rolling process, the solid fraction increased from the entrance to the exit of the roll gap, and under the shearing action of the roller, the distribution of solute in the melt was homogenous, and the primary grains grew further. When the casting temperature was 680 °C,a strip with a cross section of 4 mm×160 mm was produced and a homogeneous microstructure was obtained. The ultimate tensile strength of the AZ61 alloy strip produced by the proposed method reached 242 MPa, and the corresponding elongation to failure was 4%, which were better than those achieved in previous similar studies.