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  1. Article: Rhizopus microsporus and Mucor racemosus coinfection following COVID-19 detected by metagenomics next-generation sequencing: A case of disseminated mucormycosis.

    Hai, Lihan / Li, Peihong / Xiao, Zheng / Zhou, Jinxia / Xiao, Bo / Zhou, Luo

    Heliyon

    2024  Volume 10, Issue 4, Page(s) e25840

    Abstract: Mucormycosis is an invasive opportunistic fungal infection, which may be lethal and mostly affects patients with immunodeficiency or diabetes mellitus. Among Mucorales fungi, Rhizopus spp. is the most common cause of mucormycosis, followed by genera such ...

    Abstract Mucormycosis is an invasive opportunistic fungal infection, which may be lethal and mostly affects patients with immunodeficiency or diabetes mellitus. Among Mucorales fungi, Rhizopus spp. is the most common cause of mucormycosis, followed by genera such as Mucor and Lichtheimia. Here we report a patient with severe COVID-19 infection who developed nasal pain, facial swelling, prominent black eschar on the nasal root. CT scan revealed pansinusitis along the maxillary, ethmoidal, and sphenoid sinuses. Mixed mold infection with Rhizopus microsporus and Mucor racemosus was detected by blood metagenomics next-generation sequencing (mNGS) and later nasal mucosa histological investigation confirmed mucormycosis. Severe COVID-19 infection led to the patient's thrombocytopenia and leukopenia. Later disseminated mucormycosis aggravated the infection and sepsis eventually resulted in death. It is the first case report of mucormycosis in which R. microsporus and M. racemosus as the etiologic agents were found simultaneously in one patient. COVID-19 infection combined with disseminated mucormycosisis can be fatal and mNGS is a fast, sensitive and accurate diagnostic method for fungi detection.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-03
    Publishing country England
    Document type Case Reports
    ZDB-ID 2835763-2
    ISSN 2405-8440
    ISSN 2405-8440
    DOI 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25840
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  2. Article ; Online: Genetic causal association between physical activities and epilepsy: A Mendelian randomization study.

    Li, Peihong / Li, Jiaxin / Xiao, Zheng / Sheng, Dandan / Liu, Weiping / Xiao, Bo / Zhou, Luo

    Brain and behavior

    2024  Volume 14, Issue 3, Page(s) e3463

    Abstract: Background: Despite numerous investigations into the relationship between physical activities (PA) and epilepsy, the causal effects remain contentious. Thus, we conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study to assess the potential causality.! ...

    Abstract Background: Despite numerous investigations into the relationship between physical activities (PA) and epilepsy, the causal effects remain contentious. Thus, we conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study to assess the potential causality.
    Methods: Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) predisposed to self-reported moderate and vigorous physical activities (MPA and VPA) and overall acceleration average (OAA) calculated through wrist-worn accelerometers were selected as exposure instrumental variables. Five subtypes of epilepsy, including all epilepsy, focal epilepsy and generalized epilepsy (with or without each other), focal epilepsy-strict definition and generalized epilepsy-strict definition (without overlap), were chosen as the outcomes. The MR study utilized the inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method as the primary analytical tool, supplemented by MR-Egger, simple mode, weighted mode, and weighted median methods. Cochran's Q and MR-Egger intercept tests were employed to assess heterogeneity and pleiotropy, while MR pleiotropy residual sum and outlier and leave-one-out analyses were conducted to identify potential SNP outliers.
    Results: The study indicated that OAA was genetically linked to a decreased risk of both focal epilepsy (OR = 0.812, 95% CI: 0.687-0.960, p = .015, IVW) and focal epilepsy-strict definition (OR = 0.732, 95% CI: 0.596-0.900, p = .003, IVW; OR = 0.749, 95% CI: 0.573-0.979, p = .035, Weighted median). Genetically predicted MPA and VPA did not exhibit a causal association with all epilepsy or its subtypes (p>.05). No evidence of heterogeneity, pleiotropy, or SNP outlier was observed.
    Conclusions: Our findings suggested that PA with accelerometer monitoring may potentially reduce the risk of focal epilepsy, while there is no evidence supporting causal association between self-reported MPA or VPA and either focal or generalized epilepsy.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Mendelian Randomization Analysis ; Epilepsy/genetics ; Epilepsies, Partial ; Epilepsy, Generalized ; Exercise
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-06
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2623587-0
    ISSN 2162-3279 ; 2162-3279
    ISSN (online) 2162-3279
    ISSN 2162-3279
    DOI 10.1002/brb3.3463
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  3. Article ; Online: Episodic symptoms caused by neurovascular conflict of vagus nerve due to hemilateral anterior inferior cerebellar artery.

    Lv, Hui / Li, Peihong / Long, Xiaoyan / Xiao, Zheng / Zhou, Luo

    Journal of neurology

    2023  Volume 270, Issue 12, Page(s) 6163–6165

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Basilar Artery ; Vagus Nerve ; Cerebellum/diagnostic imaging ; Cerebellum/blood supply ; Nerve Compression Syndromes
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-04
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Letter
    ZDB-ID 187050-6
    ISSN 1432-1459 ; 0340-5354 ; 0012-1037 ; 0939-1517 ; 1619-800X
    ISSN (online) 1432-1459
    ISSN 0340-5354 ; 0012-1037 ; 0939-1517 ; 1619-800X
    DOI 10.1007/s00415-023-11975-w
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  4. Article: [The changes in subjective visual vertical after otolith reduction in patients with BPPV].

    Li, Peihong / Liu, Qiang / Wang, Wei / Chen, Taisheng

    Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology, head, and neck surgery

    2022  Volume 36, Issue 11, Page(s) 816–821

    Abstract: Objective: ...

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    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Otolithic Membrane/physiology ; Semicircular Canals ; Face
    Language Chinese
    Publishing date 2022-11-08
    Publishing country China
    Document type English Abstract ; Journal Article
    ISSN 2096-7993
    ISSN 2096-7993
    DOI 10.13201/j.issn.2096-7993.2022.11.002
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  5. Article ; Online: Identification of bidirectional causal links between gut microbiota and narcolepsy type 1 using Mendelian randomization.

    Sheng, Dandan / Li, Peihong / Xiao, Zheng / Li, Xinru / Liu, Jing / Xiao, Bo / Liu, Weiping / Zhou, Luo

    Sleep

    2024  Volume 47, Issue 3

    Abstract: Study objectives: Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1), characterized by cataplexy and orexin deficiency, is a rare and frequently debilitating neurological disorder. It has been noted to have connections with the gut microbiota, yet the exact causal relationships ... ...

    Abstract Study objectives: Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1), characterized by cataplexy and orexin deficiency, is a rare and frequently debilitating neurological disorder. It has been noted to have connections with the gut microbiota, yet the exact causal relationships remain unclear.
    Methods: We conducted a comprehensive bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR) study to rigorously investigate the causal links between the gut microbiota and NT1, utilizing genetic datasets from the MiBioGen consortium and FinnGen consortium, respectively. The inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method was employed to obtain the primary MR estimates, supplemented by several alternative methods as well as sensitivity analyses including Cochran's Q, MR-Egger, MR pleiotropy residual sum and outlier, leave-one-out, and genetic colocalization.
    Results: Our findings indicated that an increased relative abundance of five genera including Blautia (p = 4.47E-5), Collinsella (p = 0.036), Gordonibacter (p = 0.047), Hungatella (p = 0.015), and Lachnospiraceae UCG010 (p = 0.027) may be associated with a decreased risk of NT1. Conversely, an increased relative abundance of class Betaproteobacteria (p = 0.032), genus Alloprevotella (p = 0.009), and genus Ruminiclostridium6 (p = 0.029) may potentially heighten the risk of NT1. The onset of NT1 may lead to a decrease in the relative abundance of genus Eubacterium eligens group (p = 0.022), while a increase in the family Family XI (p = 0.009), genus Hungatella (p = 0.005), genus Prevotella (p = 0.013), and unknown genus id.2001 (p = 0.019). These findings remained robust under all sensitivity analyses.
    Conclusions: Our results offer robust evidence for the bidirectional causal links between particular gut microbial taxa and NT1, underscoring the significance of the microbiota-gut-brain axis in the pathological process of NT1.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Gastrointestinal Microbiome/genetics ; Mendelian Randomization Analysis ; Narcolepsy/genetics ; Cataplexy ; Genome-Wide Association Study
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-03
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 424441-2
    ISSN 1550-9109 ; 0161-8105
    ISSN (online) 1550-9109
    ISSN 0161-8105
    DOI 10.1093/sleep/zsae004
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  6. Article ; Online: Remaining Useful Life Prognostics of Bearings Based on a Novel Spatial Graph-Temporal Convolution Network.

    Li, Peihong / Liu, Xiaozhi / Yang, Yinghua

    Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

    2021  Volume 21, Issue 12

    Abstract: As key equipment in modern industry, it is important to diagnose and predict the health status of bearings. Data-driven methods for remaining useful life (RUL) prognostics have achieved excellent performance in recent years compared to traditional ... ...

    Abstract As key equipment in modern industry, it is important to diagnose and predict the health status of bearings. Data-driven methods for remaining useful life (RUL) prognostics have achieved excellent performance in recent years compared to traditional methods based on physical models. In this paper, we propose a novel data-driven method for predicting the remaining useful life of bearings based on a deep graph convolutional neural network with spatiotemporal domain convolution. This network uses the average sliding root mean square (ASRMS) as the health factor to identify the healthy and degraded states, and then uses correlation coefficient analysis on the hybrid features of the degraded data to construct a spatial graph according to the strength of the correlation between the obtained features. In the time domain, we introduce historical data as the input to the temporal convolution. After the data are processed by the spatial map and the temporal dimension, we perform the prediction of the remaining useful life. The experimental results show the accuracy of the method.
    MeSH term(s) Models, Theoretical ; Neural Networks, Computer ; Prognosis
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-19
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2052857-7
    ISSN 1424-8220 ; 1424-8220
    ISSN (online) 1424-8220
    ISSN 1424-8220
    DOI 10.3390/s21124217
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  7. Article ; Online: Open-loop analog programmable electrochemical memory array.

    Chen, Peng / Liu, Fenghao / Lin, Peng / Li, Peihong / Xiao, Yu / Zhang, Bihua / Pan, Gang

    Nature communications

    2023  Volume 14, Issue 1, Page(s) 6184

    Abstract: Emerging memories have been developed as new physical infrastructures for hosting neural networks owing to their low-power analog computing characteristics. However, accurately and efficiently programming devices in an analog-valued array is still ... ...

    Abstract Emerging memories have been developed as new physical infrastructures for hosting neural networks owing to their low-power analog computing characteristics. However, accurately and efficiently programming devices in an analog-valued array is still largely limited by the intrinsic physical non-idealities of the devices, thus hampering their applications in in-situ training of neural networks. Here, we demonstrate a passive electrochemical memory (ECRAM) array with many important characteristics necessary for accurate analog programming. Different image patterns can be open-loop and serially programmed into our ECRAM array, achieving high programming accuracies without any feedback adjustments. The excellent open-loop analog programmability has led us to in-situ train a bilayer neural network and reached software-like classification accuracy of 99.4% to detect poisonous mushrooms. The training capability is further studied in simulation for large-scale neural networks such as VGG-8. Our results present a new solution for implementing learning functions in an artificial intelligence hardware using emerging memories.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-04
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2553671-0
    ISSN 2041-1723 ; 2041-1723
    ISSN (online) 2041-1723
    ISSN 2041-1723
    DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-41958-4
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  8. Article: Interaction between soy protein isolate and surfactant at the interface of antibacterial nanoemulsions loaded with riboflavin tetra butyrate

    Fang, Qiangsheng / Li, Rui / Li, Peihong / Yuan, Yuan / Zhuang, Hong / Zhang, Chunling

    International journal of food science & technology. 2022 Feb., v. 57, no. 2

    2022  

    Abstract: Riboflavin tetra butyrate (RTB) is an effective antimicrobial photosensitiser that poses a challenge for long‐term preservation and application due to its hydrophobicity and instability. To overcome this problem, a series of nanoemulsions loaded with ... ...

    Abstract Riboflavin tetra butyrate (RTB) is an effective antimicrobial photosensitiser that poses a challenge for long‐term preservation and application due to its hydrophobicity and instability. To overcome this problem, a series of nanoemulsions loaded with photosensitiser RTB was prepared in this study by using soy protein isolate (SPI) as an emulsifier and small molecule surfactant (X) as co‐emulsifier. The interaction mechanism of SPI+X co‐emulsifier and its influence on the stability of emulsion and photosensitiser were explored, and the photodynamic bactericidal effect of the prepared RTB emulsion on S. aureus was studied. SPI and four types of surfactants were present in the form of synergistic (Tween 80, T80) or competition (Span 80, S80 and lecithin, LEC) adsorption or formation of Pickering emulsion (Sodium dodecyl sulphate, SDS) at the oil–water interface. The experimental results revealed that the stable encapsulation ability of RTB emulsions for photosensitisers and their preservation ability can be drastically improved. This work verified that all RTB emulsions could inactive S. aureus under blue light, with an antibacterial ratio of more than 70%. Therefore, the emulsion‐based delivery system effectively improved the water dispersibility and chemical stability of RTB. These results demonstrate that RTB emulsion has the potential to be used as a food‐grade antibacterial emulsion.
    Keywords adsorption ; antibacterial properties ; blue light ; butyrates ; dispersibility ; emulsifiers ; encapsulation ; food science ; hydrophobicity ; lecithins ; oil-water interface ; photosensitizing agents ; polysorbates ; riboflavin ; sodium dodecyl sulfate ; soy protein isolate ; surfactants
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-02
    Size p. 931-941.
    Publishing place John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
    Document type Article
    Note JOURNAL ARTICLE
    ZDB-ID 883561-5
    ISSN 0950-5423
    ISSN 0950-5423
    DOI 10.1111/ijfs.15424
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  9. Article ; Online: Thermally induced and physically cross-linked hydrogel doped with graphene oxide for controlled release.

    Li, Peihong / Dai, Xueyan / Sui, Yanlong / Li, Rui / Zhang, Chunling

    Soft matter

    2021  Volume 17, Issue 13, Page(s) 3664–3671

    Abstract: Graphene oxide (GO) is an ideal hydrogel material because of its water solubility, non-toxicity, and excellent mechanical properties. Here, we added GO to oligo(lysine)-modified F127 to prepare a series of FLGO composite hydrogels. The FLGO hydrogel was ... ...

    Abstract Graphene oxide (GO) is an ideal hydrogel material because of its water solubility, non-toxicity, and excellent mechanical properties. Here, we added GO to oligo(lysine)-modified F127 to prepare a series of FLGO composite hydrogels. The FLGO hydrogel was thermally induced, stable and injectable. And the content of GO would affect the sol-gel transition, rheological properties and glass transition temperature of the FLGO hydrogel. GO was connected to the matrix through electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bonds. The cross-linking effect of GO enhanced the FLGO hydrogel. We also studied the release properties of the FLGO hydrogel loaded with anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil. Compared with F127 hydrogel, the FLGO hydrogel showed a linear, slower and stable release pattern within one week. The release rate of FLGO hydrogel could be adjusted by the pH and it was faster under acidic conditions. Therefore, the FLGO hydrogel is expected to be used as a drug release system in the field of biomedicine.
    MeSH term(s) Delayed-Action Preparations ; Drug Liberation ; Graphite ; Hydrogels
    Chemical Substances Delayed-Action Preparations ; Hydrogels ; graphene oxide ; Graphite (7782-42-5)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-05
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2191476-X
    ISSN 1744-6848 ; 1744-683X
    ISSN (online) 1744-6848
    ISSN 1744-683X
    DOI 10.1039/d1sm00151e
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  10. Article: Case Report: Anti-NF186+ CIDP After Receiving the Inactivated Vaccine for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).

    Wen, Shirui / Huang, Kailing / Zhu, Haoyue / Li, Peihong / Zhou, Luo / Feng, Li

    Frontiers in neurology

    2022  Volume 13, Page(s) 838222

    Abstract: Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the novel coronavirus disease, is now a global pandemic. Vaccination can significantly reduce the mortality rate caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome of coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). There are currently ... ...

    Abstract Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the novel coronavirus disease, is now a global pandemic. Vaccination can significantly reduce the mortality rate caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome of coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). There are currently several effective vaccines that have been introduced. Inactivated COVID-19 vaccine is one of these options and is generally considered safe. Neurofascin (NF) plays an important role in keeping the functionality of the node of Ranvier. We report here a rare case of anti-NF186+ chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) in a 23-year-old male patient who was vaccinated with inactivated COVID-19 vaccine prior to the onset. This report adds a new possible rare side effect of a COVID-19 vaccine and provides a case for the clinical effectiveness of rituximab (RTX) in patients with anti-NF186+ CIDP.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-14
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Case Reports
    ZDB-ID 2564214-5
    ISSN 1664-2295
    ISSN 1664-2295
    DOI 10.3389/fneur.2022.838222
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