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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Gu, Y, et al.
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Quick Hot Shot & Young Surgeon Presentation
- 2015
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Ingår i: Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery. - 1248-9204. ; 19 Suppl 1, s. S77-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Li, Y., et al.
(författare)
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Effects of thermal pretreatment on degradation kinetics of organics during kitchen waste anaerobic digestion
- 2017
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Ingår i: Energy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0360-5442 .- 1873-6785. ; 118, s. 377-386
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The influence of thermal pretreatment on degradation properties of organics in kitchen waste (KW) was investigated. The kinetics results showed that thermal pretreatment could enhance the degradation efficiency of crude protein (CP), fat, oil and grease (FOG), volatile solid (VS) and volatile fatty acids (VFA). Thermal pretreatment showed no significant difference in the final concentration of protein but could decrease the FOG degradation potential (7–36%), while increased the lag phase for degradation of protein and FOG respectively by 35–65% and 11–82% compared with untreated KW. Cumulative biogas yield increased linearly and exponentially with the removal efficiency of VS and other organics (CP and FOG) respectively. Additionally, the reduction of CP increased exponentially with FOG removal efficiency. The calculating methods of biogas yield, organics reduction and corresponding appropriate digestion retention based on FOG and CP reduction amount and pretreatment parameters were suggested.
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- Nie, M, et al.
(författare)
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PD-1/PD-L Pathway Potentially Involved in ITP Immunopathogenesis
- 2019
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Ingår i: Thrombosis and haemostasis. - : Georg Thieme Verlag KG. - 2567-689X .- 0340-6245. ; 119:5, s. 758-765
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The binding of programmed death 1 (PD-1) to its ligands PD-L1 and PD-L2 on antigen-presenting cells turns off autoreactive T cells and induces peripheral tolerance. Aberrant PD-1/PD-L signalling could result in a breakdown of peripheral tolerance and lead to autoimmune diseases. In this study, we detected PD-1 and PD-L expression on T cells and dendritic cells (DCs) in immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) patients with active disease by flow cytometry. The effects of PD-L1-Fc fusion protein (PD-L1-Fc) on T cells and on secretion of interferon-γ (IFN-γ) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) were detected by flow cytometry and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, respectively. Compared with healthy controls, PD-1 expression was significantly increased in CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells from patients with active ITP. However, PD-L1 expression on monocyte-derived DCs was lower in patients with active ITP than in healthy controls. In vitro assays revealed that PD-L1-Fc increased T cell apoptosis, inhibited activation and proliferation of CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells and decreased IFN-γ and IL-2 secretion in patients with active ITP. These results suggest that the aberrant PD-1/PD-L negative co-stimulatory pathway may play a role in ITP. Enhancing PD-1/PD-L signalling might be a promising therapeutic approach for ITP patients by enhancing T cell apoptosis, inhibiting T cell activation and proliferation and reducing secretion of inflammatory factors.
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- Yang, X. M., et al.
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Overexpression of Rac GTPase Activating Protein 1 Contributes to Proliferation of Cancer Cells by Reducing Hippo Signaling to Promote Cytokinesis
- 2018
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Ingår i: Gastroenterology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-5085. ; 155:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND & AIMS: Agents designed to block or alter cytokinesis can kill or stop proliferation of cancer cells. We aimed to identify cytokinesis-related proteins that are overexpressed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells and might be targeted to slow liver tumor growth. METHODS: Using the Oncomine database, we compared the gene expression patterns in 16 cancer microarray datasets and assessed gene enrichment sets using gene ontology. We performed immunohistochemical analysis of an HCC tissue microarray and identified changes in protein levels that are associated with patient survival times. Candidate genes were overexpressed or knocked down with small hairpin RNAs in SMMC7721, MHCC97H, or HCCLM3 cell lines; we analyzed their proliferation, viability, and clone-formation ability and their growth as subcutaneous or orthotopic xenograft tumors in mice. We performed microarray analyses to identify alterations in signaling pathways and immunoblot and immunofluorescence assays to detect and localize proteins in tissues. Yeast 2-hybrid screens and mass spectrometry combined with co-immunoprecipitation experiments were used to identify binding proteins. Protein interactions were validated with co-immunoprecipitation and proximity ligation assays. Chromatin immunoprecipitation, promoter luciferase activity, and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analyses were used to identify factors that regulate transcription of specific genes. RESULTS: The genes that were most frequently overexpressed in different types of cancer cells were involved in cell division processes. We identified 3 cytokinesis-regulatory proteins among the 10 genes most frequently overexpressed by all cancer cell types. Rac GTPase activating protein 1 (RACGAP1) was the cytokinesis-regulatory protein that was most highly overexpressed in multiple cancers. Increased expression of RACGAP1 in tumor tissues was associated with shorter survival times of patients with cancer. Knockdown of RACGAP1 in HCC cells induced cytokinesis failure and cell apoptosis. In microarray analyses, we found knockdown of RACGAP1 in SMMC7721 cells to reduce expression of genes regulated by yes-associated protein (YAP) and WW domain containing transcription regulator 1 (WWTR1 or TAZ). RACGAP1 reduced activation of the Hippo pathway in HCC cells by increasing activity of RhoA and polymerization of filamentous actin. Knockdown of YAP reduced phosphorylation of RACGAP1 and redistribution at the anaphase central spindle. We found transcription of the translocated promoter region, nuclear basket protein (TPR) to be regulated by YAP and coordinately expressed with RACGAP1 to promote proliferation of HCC cells. TPR redistributed upon nuclear envelope breakdown and formed complexes with RACGAP1 during mitosis. Knockdown of TPR in HCC cells reduced phosphorylation of RACGAP1 by aurora kinase B and impaired their redistribution at the central spindle during cytokinesis. STAT3 activated transcription of RACGAP in HCC cells. CONCLUSIONS: In an analysis of gene expression patterns of multiple tumor types, we found RACGAP1 to be frequently overexpressed, which is associated with shorter survival times of patients. RACGAP1 promotes proliferation of HCC cells by reducing activation of the Hippo and YAP pathways and promoting cytokinesis in coordination with TPR.
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- Li, Y., et al.
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VIP: an integrated pipeline for metagenomics of virus identification and discovery
- 2016
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2045-2322. ; 6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Identification and discovery of viruses using next-generation sequencing technology is a fast-developing area with potential wide application in clinical diagnostics, public health monitoring and novel virus discovery. However, tremendous sequence data from NGS study has posed great challenge both in accuracy and velocity for application of NGS study. Here we describe VIP ("Virus Identification Pipeline"), a one-touch computational pipeline for virus identification and discovery from metagenomic NGS data. VIP performs the following steps to achieve its goal: (i) map and filter out background-related reads, (ii) extensive classification of reads on the basis of nucleotide and remote amino acid homology, (iii) multiple k-mer based de novo assembly and phylogenetic analysis to provide evolutionary insight. We validated the feasibility and veracity of this pipeline with sequencing results of various types of clinical samples and public datasets. VIP has also contributed to timely virus diagnosis (similar to 10 min) in acutely ill patients, demonstrating its potential in the performance of unbiased NGS-based clinical studies with demand of short turnaround time. VIP is released under GPLv3 and is available for free download at: https://github.com/keylabivdc/VIP.
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- Ren, WC, et al.
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Genetic landscape of hepatitis B virus-associated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
- 2018
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Ingår i: Blood. - : American Society of Hematology. - 1528-0020 .- 0006-4971. ; 131:24, s. 2670-2681
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is endemic in some parts of Asia, Africa, and South America and remains to be a significant public health problem in these areas. It is known as a leading risk factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma, but epidemiological studies have also shown that the infection may increase the incidence of several types of B-cell lymphoma. Here, by characterizing altogether 275 Chinese diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients, we showed that patients with concomitant HBV infection (surface antigen positive [HBsAg+]) are characterized by a younger age, a more advanced disease stage at diagnosis, and reduced overall survival. Furthermore, by whole-genome/exome sequencing of 96 tumors and the respective peripheral blood samples and targeted sequencing of 179 tumors from these patients, we observed an enhanced rate of mutagenesis and a distinct set of mutation targets in HBsAg+ DLBCL genomes, which could be partially explained by the activities of APOBEC and activation-induced cytidine deaminase. By transcriptome analysis, we further showed that the HBV-associated gene expression signature is contributed by the enrichment of genes regulated by BCL6, FOXO1, and ZFP36L1. Finally, by analysis of immunoglobulin heavy chain gene sequences, we showed that an antigen-independent mechanism, rather than a chronic antigenic simulation model, is favored in HBV-related lymphomagenesis. Taken together, we present the first comprehensive genomic and transcriptomic study that suggests a link between HBV infection and B-cell malignancy. The genetic alterations identified in this study may also provide opportunities for development of novel therapeutic strategies.
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- Cao, S., et al.
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3D Porous Pyramid Heterostructure Array Realizing Efficient Photo-Electrochemical Performance
- 2019
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Ingår i: Advanced Energy Materials. - : Wiley-VCH Verlag. - 1614-6832 .- 1614-6840.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Direct photo-electrochemical (PEC) water splitting is of great practical interest for developing a sustainable energy systems, but remains a big challenge owing to sluggish charge separation, low efficiency, and poor stability. Herein, a 3D porous In2O3/In2S3 pyramid heterostructure array on a fluorine-doped tin oxide substrate is fabricated by an ion exchange–induced synthesis strategy. Based on the synergistic structural and electronic modulations from density functional theory calculations and experimental observations, 3D porous In2O3/In2S3 photoanode by the protective layer delivers a low onset potential of ≈0.02 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE), the highest photocurrent density of 8.2 mA cm−2 at 1.23 V versus RHE among all the In2S3 photoanodes reported to date, an incident photon-to-current efficiency of 76% at 400 nm, and high stability over 20 h for PEC water splitting are reported. This work provides an alternative promising prototype for the design and construction of novel heterostructures in robust PEC water splitting applications.
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- Liu, H., et al.
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Formation and autocatalytic nucleation of co-zone {101¯2} deformation twins in polycrystalline Mg : A phase field simulation study
- 2018
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Ingår i: Acta Materialia. - : Elsevier. - 1359-6454 .- 1873-2453. ; 153, s. 86-107
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A phase-field model is developed to study the formation and autocatalytic nucleation of {101¯2} twins in polycrystalline Mg. The twins are found to nucleate most favourably in grains with the most negative interaction energy. Within such grains, the energetically most favoured nucleation site is determined by stresses concentrated near the grain boundaries that are related to the elastic anisotropy of the material. Furthermore, in a structure consisting of three lamellar grains with an incoming twin in the central grain, the simulation results show that before autocatalytic nucleation, the incoming twin often has a lenticular shape. The stress field around the tip of the incoming twin plays the major role in the autocatalytic nucleation. After a twin has nucleated in the neighbouring grain, the incoming and the outgoing twins evolve simultaneously, and the shape of the incoming twin gradually changes from lenticular to parallel-sided plate. Under the condition that the crystallographic orientation of the central grain and the applied strain remains unchanged, the driving force for twin nucleation decreases with increasing misorientation (up to 90°) across the grain boundary. It is further derived that the interaction energy values between the pre-existing stress field of the polycrystalline structure and the eigenstrain of the to-be-nucleated twin is mathematically related to the resolved shear stress of twins. © 2018 Acta Materialia Inc.
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- Luo, J., et al.
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Accurate targeting in robot-assisted TCM pulse diagnosis using adaptive sensor fusion
- 2019
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Ingår i: Periodicals of engineering and natural sciences. - : International University of Sarajevo. - 2303-4521. ; 7:1, s. 381-387
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Accurate targeting plays an important role in the study of human-robot interaction under dynamic environments. Especially for robot-assisted Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) pulse diagnosis, the localization and accuracy of diagnose positions at wrist needs to be addressed. In this work, imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG) which measures the physiological changes of blood flow in artery is used as an extra modal information in addition to computer vision at localization, to alleviate the effect of approaching distance varying during the robot arm movement. Both computer vision and iPPG are fed into an adaptive fusion expert of convolutional neural networks (CNN) architecture, and this boosts the accuracy at targeting of TCM radial artery at wrist. A coherence weight of their contributions was calculated and reflected the adaptation of the CNN to distance varying.
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