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  1. Article: Cross-border acquisition or greenfield investment? The role of investor sentiment.

    Dong, Li / Chen, Jinlong

    Frontiers in psychology

    2023  Volume 13, Page(s) 1085286

    Abstract: When a firm invests in a foreign market, it has to choose between cross-border acquisition and greenfield investment. The impact of investor sentiment on the establishment mode of firm outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has not been investigated by ...

    Abstract When a firm invests in a foreign market, it has to choose between cross-border acquisition and greenfield investment. The impact of investor sentiment on the establishment mode of firm outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has not been investigated by previous literature. Based on the data of Chinese listed companies between 2007 and 2019, this paper finds that firms prefer cross-border acquisition over greenfield investment when investor sentiment is high, and equity issuance and catering to sentiment are transmission channels. Cross-sectional test results show that the impact of investor sentiment on the establishment mode is concentrated in non-state-owned enterprises, and is stronger in non-eastern province firms and in technology-intensive OFDI. After various robustness tests, the main conclusion remains unchanged. This paper not only finds a new determinant that affects the establishment mode of OFDI but also enriches the research on the economic consequences of investor sentiment, which helps understand the role of investor sentiment in firms' internationalization decisions.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-09
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2563826-9
    ISSN 1664-1078
    ISSN 1664-1078
    DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1085286
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  2. Article ; Online: Research on U-shaped relationship between short-term debt for long-term use and supply chain enterprise default risk: Evidence from Chinese listed firms.

    Shen, Huaqiao / Chen, Jinlong

    PloS one

    2023  Volume 18, Issue 10, Page(s) e0293284

    Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the impact mechanism of short-term debt for long-term use and the default risk of supply chain firms with the data of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2007 to 2021. The study shows that there is a significant U-curve ... ...

    Abstract This paper empirically investigates the impact mechanism of short-term debt for long-term use and the default risk of supply chain firms with the data of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2007 to 2021. The study shows that there is a significant U-curve relationship between short-term debt for long-term use and supply chain firms' default risk, and too high or too low a level of short-term loans and long-term investments will worsen firms' default risk. In addition, firm performance plays an mediating effect in the process of short-term debt for long-term investment affecting the default risk of supply chain firms. Finally, customer effect and firm heterogeneity play a moderating role in the impact of short-term loans and long-term investments on the default risk of supply chain firms, and the U-shaped relationship will be strengthened under the high-intensity customer effect. This study has important theoretical and practical significance for analyzing the impact of default risk contagion in supply chain enterprises.
    MeSH term(s) China ; Investments/economics ; Commerce/economics ; Industry/economics
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0293284
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  3. Article: Relationship Between Mechanoreceptors in the Posterior Cruciate Ligament and Patient Age or Osteoarthritis Severity.

    Chen, Jinlong / Chen, Shirong

    Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine

    2023  Volume 11, Issue 6, Page(s) 23259671231168894

    Abstract: Background: Mechanoreceptors in the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) can produce proprioception, which is an important reason why patients choose cruciate-retaining total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The number of mechanoreceptors in the PCL of patients ... ...

    Abstract Background: Mechanoreceptors in the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) can produce proprioception, which is an important reason why patients choose cruciate-retaining total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The number of mechanoreceptors in the PCL of patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) is unknown.
    Purpose: To provide a theoretical basis for estimating the number of mechanoreceptors in the PCL by evaluating the relationship between this number and patient age or OA severity.
    Study design: Cross-sectional study; Level of evidence, 3.
    Methods: An overall 28 PCLs from patients with knee OA were collected at the time of TKA and grouped according to patient age (group A, 60-69 years [n = 8]; group B, 70-79 years [n = 12]; group C, ≥80 years [n = 8]) and OA based on Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) score (group I, ≤80 [n = 8]; group II, 81-120 [n = 10]; group III, >120 [n = 10]). Hematoxylin and eosin and S-100 immunohistochemical staining were performed on the slices near the tibial attachment of the PCL, and the number of mechanoreceptors in each slice was counted. Multifactor analysis of variance was used to evaluate the relationship between the number of mechanoreceptors and patient age or WOMAC score.
    Results: The number of mechanoreceptors (mean ± SD) in groups A, B, and C was 24.00 ± 15.19, 30.92 ± 11.41, and 23.38 ± 11.39, respectively, with no significant between-group differences. The number of mechanoreceptors in groups I, II, and III was 43.50 ± 4.99, 25.00 ± 5.27, and 15.20 ± 5.61, with significant differences between groups I and II, groups I and III, and groups II and III (
    Conclusion: In patients with knee OA, age had no significant effect on mechanoreceptor count, but the number of mechanoreceptors in the PCL decreased significantly with higher (worse) WOMAC score. These findings suggest that in patients of any age with high WOMAC scores, there may be little value as it relates to knee proprioception in performing a PCL-retaining TKA.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2706251-X
    ISSN 2325-9671
    ISSN 2325-9671
    DOI 10.1177/23259671231168894
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  4. Article ; Online: No potential causal link between HP infection and IBD: A 2way Mendelian randomization study.

    Yang, Kaiqi / Ding, Yuchen / Chen, Jinlong / Sun, Xiujing

    Medicine

    2024  Volume 103, Issue 8, Page(s) e37175

    Abstract: Recent epidemiological research suggests a possible negative correlation between Helicobacter pylori infection and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, conflicting studies have provided unclear evidence regarding these causal relationships. ... ...

    Abstract Recent epidemiological research suggests a possible negative correlation between Helicobacter pylori infection and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, conflicting studies have provided unclear evidence regarding these causal relationships. Therefore, recommending specific prevention and treatment strategies for H. pylori infection and IBD is challenging. We used various antibodies (anti-H. pylori IgG, VacA, and GroEl) related to H. pylori infection as indicators. We acquired relevant genetic variants from public databases within the Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) dataset using IBDs tool variables from 2 different GWAS datasets. We thoroughly examined the data and screened for IVs that fulfilled these criteria. Subsequently, Bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR) was conducted to predict the potential causality between the 2. To ensure the accuracy and robustness of our results, we conducted a series of sensitivity analyses. Based on our comprehensive MR analysis, no potential causal relationship was observed between H. pylori infection and IBD. Across various methodologies, including IVW, MR-Egger, and weighted median, our findings showed P values > .05. The only exception was observed in the reverse MR analysis using the MR-Egger method, which yielded a P value of < .05. However, because the IVW method is considered the most statistically significant method for MR, and its P value was > .05, we do not believe that a potential causal relationship exists between them. Our sensitivity analysis did not suggest significant horizontal pleiotropism. Although heterogeneity was detected in the analysis of IBD (IIBDGC source) versus H. pylori GroEL antibody levels (MR-Egger, Qp = 0.038; IVW, Qp = 0.043), the results remained reliable because we selected IVW as a random-effects model in our MR analysis method. Based on our MR research, no direct correlation was observed between H. pylori infection and IBD risk. This implies that eradicating H. pylori may not provide substantial benefits in preventing or treating regional IBD, and vice versa. Nevertheless, the use of H. pylori serological index substitution has limitations, and further research using histological diagnosis and additional MR studies is required to comprehensively assess the link between H. pylori infection and IBD.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Genome-Wide Association Study ; Helicobacter Infections/complications ; Helicobacter Infections/epidemiology ; Helicobacter Infections/genetics ; Helicobacter pylori ; Mendelian Randomization Analysis ; Antibodies, Bacterial ; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases/genetics
    Chemical Substances Antibodies, Bacterial
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 80184-7
    ISSN 1536-5964 ; 0025-7974
    ISSN (online) 1536-5964
    ISSN 0025-7974
    DOI 10.1097/MD.0000000000037175
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  5. Article: Epstein-Barr Virus Infection-Associated Facial Swelling: A Case Report.

    Zhang, Yue / Chen, Jinlong / Chen, Liangrui / Tang, Wei

    Cureus

    2024  Volume 16, Issue 4, Page(s) e57635

    Abstract: Maxillofacial soft tissue swelling is a common clinical symptom with various etiologies. While odontogenic space infection is the most common cause, it is crucial not to overlook maxillofacial swellings caused by specific pathogenic infections and other ... ...

    Abstract Maxillofacial soft tissue swelling is a common clinical symptom with various etiologies. While odontogenic space infection is the most common cause, it is crucial not to overlook maxillofacial swellings caused by specific pathogenic infections and other local factors. This paper reports the case of an adult patient with right-sided swelling of his face, persistent oral mucosal ulcers, and recurrent hyperthermia for 30 days. He had received various antibiotics for the initial diagnosis of "right buccal space infection," but the antibiotics did not have any effect on his symptoms. None of the blood tests, histological examinations, bone marrow biopsies, and immune-related tests produced diagnostic findings. A diagnosis of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection was finally confirmed by biopsy tissue genomics sequencing and quantitative analysis of EBV nucleic acid. In this report, we describe the diagnosis and treatment process for this patient and suggest that facial swelling could be an important clinical symptom of EBV infection.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-04
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Case Reports
    ZDB-ID 2747273-5
    ISSN 2168-8184
    ISSN 2168-8184
    DOI 10.7759/cureus.57635
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  6. Article ; Online: Occurrence of Leaf Spot Caused by Stemphylium vesicarium on Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) in China

    Chen, Jinlong / Wang, Zhaoyu / Choi, Joon-Ho

    Plant Disease. 2023 Sept. 01, v. 107, no. 9 p.2887-

    2023  

    Abstract: Red clover (Trifolium pratense) is becoming increasingly important in grassland systems (sheep and beef) due to its high productivity, protein content, and nitrogen-fixing ability, which allows lower N fertilizer use (Murray et al. 2007). In June 2021, ... ...

    Abstract Red clover (Trifolium pratense) is becoming increasingly important in grassland systems (sheep and beef) due to its high productivity, protein content, and nitrogen-fixing ability, which allows lower N fertilizer use (Murray et al. 2007). In June 2021, an unidentified foliar disease occurred seriously in experimental fields of red clover (25.61°N, 102.48°E) in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China. Disease incidence was approximately 55% with an average disease severity of 41.1% in the fields (about 1.5 ha). Initially, the symptoms consisted of circular to oval leaf spots with dark brown edges. In severely diseased plots, the diseased spots continued to expand and fuse along the leaf veins, forming long and narrow leaf spots, and the middle parts of the leaves were decayed and hollow. To isolate the pathogen, small pieces (3 × 3 mm) from the margin of infected lesions were surface sterilized in 75% ethanol solution for 30 s and 1% NaClO solution for 90 s, rinsed three times with sterilized distilled water, air dried, and plated onto potato dextrose agar (PDA). The same fungus was isolated in 90% of the samples and purified by transferring the hyphal tip from the edge of colonies to fresh PDA plates. The colonies produced relatively dense light-grayish aerial mycelium in the early stage, which turned grayish upon maturation, and then dark brown on the back of the colonies with dense small black patches. Conidiophores were unbranched, straight, or flexuous, accompanied by slight or obvious swelling of their apical cells. Conidia were olive brown and irregularly round, had 1 to 3 transverse septa with 0 to 2 longitudinal or oblique septa, and measured 16.0 to (24.8) to 30.1 × 13.9 to (21.4) to 28.6 μm (n = 50). Morphological characteristics were consistent with those described for Stemphylium vesicarium (Simmons 1967). For molecular identification, total genomic DNA was isolated from mycelia collected from 6-day-old colonies of the three representative isolates LZQF-1 to LZQF-3 using the Omega D3195 fungal genomic DNA extraction kit. Fragments of three genes, including those encoding the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of rDNA, calmodulin (cmdA) gene, and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gpd) regions of the isolates LZQF-1 to LZQF-3, were amplified by the primers described previously (Woudenberg et al. 2017) and sequenced. Resulting sequences of the representative strain LZQF-1 were deposited in GenBank with accession numbers OL615093 (ITS), OL624541 (cmdA), and OL624538 (gpd), respectively. A nucleotide BLAST search revealed ITS, cmdA, and gpd sequences to be 100, 100, and 99.0% similar to the corresponding sequences (accession nos. KU850563.1, KU850853.1, and KU850710.1) of the ex-type strain CBS 370.51 of S. vesicarium. The three locus datasets were combined by SequenceMatrix 1.8 (Vaidya et al. 2011), and the strains LZQF-1 to LZQF-3 and S. vesicarium (CBS 192.86, CBS 370.51, and CBS 205.82) formed a subclade with 99% bootstrap support. Pathogenicity tests were performed on LZQF-1 in a greenhouse at 18 to 26°C with 75% relative humidity. Three pots each containing three 50-day-old red clover were sprayed with the conidial suspension (3 × 10⁵ conidia/ml) while another three pots were sprayed with sterile water as a control. Two weeks later, the inoculated leaves showed oval leaf spots with dark brown edges, a distinctive symptom of S. vesicarium infection. S. vesicarium was reisolated and confirmed by morphological and molecular features. There were no symptoms on the control leaves. S. vesicarium as a pathogen causing leaf spot disease has been reported on red clover in Canada (Jasalavich et al. 1995) and in Russia (Babuschkina et al. 1995). To our knowledge, this is the first report of leaf spot of red clover caused by S. vesicarium in China. The identification of Stemphylium leaf spot lays the groundwork for future investigations into epidemiology and management of S. vesicarium on red clover.
    Keywords DNA ; Russia ; Stemphylium vesicarium ; Trifolium pratense ; air ; beef ; calmodulin ; conidia ; conidiophores ; culture media ; data collection ; disease incidence ; disease severity ; ethanol ; fertilizer application ; foliar diseases ; fungi ; genes ; glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase ; grasslands ; greenhouses ; hyphae ; internal transcribed spacers ; leaf spot ; leaves ; loci ; mycelium ; nitrogen fertilizers ; nitrogen fixation ; olives ; pathogenicity ; pathogens ; protein content ; relative humidity ; sheep ; Canada ; China ; field crops ; pathogen detection
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2023-0901
    Publishing place The American Phytopathological Society
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 754182-x
    ISSN 0191-2917
    ISSN 0191-2917
    DOI 10.1094/PDIS-12-22-2929-PDN
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  7. Article: Occurrence of leaf spot caused by

    Chen, Jinlong / Wang, Zhaoyu / Choi, Joon Ho

    Plant disease

    2023  

    Abstract: Red clover ( ...

    Abstract Red clover (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-14
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 754182-x
    ISSN 0191-2917
    ISSN 0191-2917
    DOI 10.1094/PDIS-12-22-2929-PDN
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  8. Article ; Online: High-accuracy optical coherence elastography digital volume correlation methods to measure depth regions with low correlation.

    Lin, Xianglong / Chen, Jinlong / Sun, Cuiru

    Journal of biophotonics

    2023  Volume 17, Issue 1, Page(s) e202300094

    Abstract: The decreasing correlation of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images with depth is an unavoidable problem for the depth measurement of the digital volume correlation (DVC) based optical coherence elastography (OCE) method. We propose an OCE-DVC method ...

    Abstract The decreasing correlation of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images with depth is an unavoidable problem for the depth measurement of the digital volume correlation (DVC) based optical coherence elastography (OCE) method. We propose an OCE-DVC method to characterize biological tissue deformation in deeper regions. The method proposes a strategy based on reliability layer guided displacement tracking to achieve the OCE-DVC method for the deformation measurement in deep regions of OCT images. Parallel computing solves the computational burden associated with the OCE-DVC method. The layer-by-layer adaptive data reading methods are used to guarantee the parallel computing of high-resolution OCT images. The proposed method shown in this study nearly doubles the depth of quantitative characterization of displacement and strain. At this depth, the standard deviation of displacement and strain measurements is reduced by nearly 78%. Under nonuniform deformation field, OCE-DVC method tracked the displacement with large strain gradient in depth region.
    MeSH term(s) Elasticity Imaging Techniques/methods ; Reproducibility of Results ; Tomography, Optical Coherence/methods
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-09
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2390063-5
    ISSN 1864-0648 ; 1864-063X
    ISSN (online) 1864-0648
    ISSN 1864-063X
    DOI 10.1002/jbio.202300094
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  9. Article: LncRNA HAGLR absorbing miR-214-3p promotes BMP2 expression and improves tibial fractures.

    Chen, Jinlong / Yang, Yishan

    American journal of translational research

    2021  Volume 13, Issue 10, Page(s) 11065–11080

    Abstract: Objective: To determine whether long-chain non-coding RNA (lncRNA) HAGLR can regulate BMP2 by absorbing microRNA-214-3p (miR-214-3p), and to explore its role and mechanism in tibial fracture (TF) healing.: Methods: The HAGLR, miR-214-3p, and BMP2 ... ...

    Abstract Objective: To determine whether long-chain non-coding RNA (lncRNA) HAGLR can regulate BMP2 by absorbing microRNA-214-3p (miR-214-3p), and to explore its role and mechanism in tibial fracture (TF) healing.
    Methods: The HAGLR, miR-214-3p, and BMP2 expression levels in TF and in adjacent normal tissues were measured using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). MC3T3-E1 osteoblasts were used to construct the
    Results: Compared with the adjacent normal tissues in the TF patients, the HAGLR and BMP2 expressions decreased but the miR-214-3p expressions increased in the TF tissues (
    Conclusion: lncRNA HAGLR can regulate BMP2 to play a protective role in TF by absorbing miR-214-3p, and it is related to promoting the osteoblast proliferation, inhibiting apoptosis, and up-regulating the serum ALP and OPG levels to accelerate bone healing.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-15
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2471058-1
    ISSN 1943-8141
    ISSN 1943-8141
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  10. Article ; Online: SIRT3/6: an amazing challenge and opportunity in the fight against fibrosis and aging.

    Wei, Wenxin / Li, Tian / Chen, Jinlong / Fan, Zhen / Gao, Feng / Yu, Zhibiao / Jiang, Yihao

    Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS

    2024  Volume 81, Issue 1, Page(s) 69

    Abstract: Fibrosis is a typical aging-related pathological process involving almost all organs, including the heart, kidney, liver, lung, and skin. Fibrogenesis is a highly orchestrated process defined by sequences of cellular response and molecular signals ... ...

    Abstract Fibrosis is a typical aging-related pathological process involving almost all organs, including the heart, kidney, liver, lung, and skin. Fibrogenesis is a highly orchestrated process defined by sequences of cellular response and molecular signals mechanisms underlying the disease. In pathophysiologic conditions associated with organ fibrosis, a variety of injurious stimuli such as metabolic disorders, epigenetic changes, and aging may induce the progression of fibrosis. Sirtuins protein is a kind of deacetylase which can regulate cell metabolism and participate in a variety of cell physiological functions. In this review, we outline our current understanding of common principles of fibrogenic mechanisms and the functional role of SIRT3/6 in aging-related fibrosis. In addition, sequences of novel protective strategies have been identified directly or indirectly according to these mechanisms. Here, we highlight the role and biological function of SIRT3/6 focus on aging fibrosis, as well as their inhibitors and activators as novel preventative or therapeutic interventions for aging-related tissue fibrosis.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Sirtuin 3 ; Liver ; Sirtuins ; Fibrosis
    Chemical Substances Sirtuin 3 (EC 3.5.1.-) ; Sirtuins (EC 3.5.1.-) ; SIRT3 protein, human (EC 3.5.1.-)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-31
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1358415-7
    ISSN 1420-9071 ; 1420-682X
    ISSN (online) 1420-9071
    ISSN 1420-682X
    DOI 10.1007/s00018-023-05093-z
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