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  1. Article ; Online: Comparison of efficacy between endoscope-assisted anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and open ACDF in the treatment of single-segment cervical spondylotic myelopathy.

    Wu, Zhi-Peng / Wei, Zhao-Yong / Song, Xiao-Lei

    Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research

    2024  Volume 19, Issue 1, Page(s) 35

    Abstract: Background: In this study, we compared the clinical efficacy of endoscope-assisted anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with open ACDF in the treatment of single-segment cervical spondylotic myelopathy.: Methods: A retrospective analysis ... ...

    Abstract Background: In this study, we compared the clinical efficacy of endoscope-assisted anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with open ACDF in the treatment of single-segment cervical spondylotic myelopathy.
    Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on 52 patients with single-segment cervical spondylotic myelopathy between June 2021 and February 2022, including 33 males and 19 females, with a mean age of 58.42 ± 9.26) years. Among them, 28 patients were treated with endoscope-assisted ACDF (Group A), including 2 cases of C4/5 segment, 16 cases of C5/6 segment, and 10 cases of C6/7 segment; 24 patients were treated with open ACDF (Group B), including 4 cases of C4/5 segment, 11 cases of C5/6 segment, and 9 cases of C6/7 segment. The operation time, intraoperative blood loss, hospital stay, and complications were recorded and compared between the two groups. The Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) score were used for clinical evaluation during the follow-up in the 1st month and 3rd month after surgery, and at the final follow-up.
    Results: The 52 patients were followed up on average for 13.04 months (12-17 months). The operation time in Group A and Group B was (105.18 + 8.66) minutes and (81.88 + 6.05) minutes, the intraoperative blood loss was (84.29 + 13.45) mL and (112.92 + 17.81) mL, and the hospital stay was (6.75 + 1.29) days and (7.63 + 1.41) days, respectively. The difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The VAS and JOA scores in the 1st month and the 3rd month after surgery and the last follow-up significantly improved in both groups compared with those before surgery (P < 0.05). The VAS and JOA scores of Group A in the 1st month, 3rd month after surgery, and the last follow-up were better than those in Group B (P < 0.05). The complication rate in Group A was 7% (2/28), which was not significantly different from the 17% (4/24) in Group B (P > 0.05).
    Conclusion: Both endoscope-assisted ACDF and open ACDF can achieve satisfactory clinical efficacy in the treatment of single-segment cervical spondylotic myelopathy. Although the operation time of endoscope-assisted ACDF is prolonged, it has the advantages of clear vision, thorough decompression, less blood loss, and reduced risk of nerve damage, and is worthy of clinical promotion and application.
    MeSH term(s) Female ; Male ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Aged ; Blood Loss, Surgical ; Retrospective Studies ; Spinal Cord Diseases/diagnostic imaging ; Spinal Cord Diseases/surgery ; Diskectomy ; Endoscopes
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-05
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2252548-8
    ISSN 1749-799X ; 1749-799X
    ISSN (online) 1749-799X
    ISSN 1749-799X
    DOI 10.1186/s13018-023-04514-w
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  2. Article: Personality traits and their influence on Echo chamber formation in social media: a comparative study of Twitter and Weibo.

    Song, Xiaolei / Guo, Siliang / Gao, Yichang

    Frontiers in psychology

    2024  Volume 15, Page(s) 1323117

    Abstract: The echo chamber effect on social media has attracted attention due to its potentially disruptive consequences on society. This study presents a framework to evaluate the impact of personality traits on the formation of echo chambers. Using Weibo and ... ...

    Abstract The echo chamber effect on social media has attracted attention due to its potentially disruptive consequences on society. This study presents a framework to evaluate the impact of personality traits on the formation of echo chambers. Using Weibo and Twitter as platforms, we first define an echo chamber as a network where users interact solely with those sharing their opinions, and quantify echo chamber effects through selective exposure and homophily. We then employ an unsupervised personality recognition method to assign a personality model to each user, and compare the distribution differences of echo chambers and personality traits across platforms and topics. Our findings show that, although user personality trait models exhibit similar distributions between topics, differences exist between platforms. Among 243 personality model combinations, over 20% of Weibo echo chamber members are "ynynn" models, while over 15% of Twitter echo chamber members are "nnnny" models. This indicates significant differences in personality traits among echo chamber members between platforms. Specific personality traits attract like-minded individuals to engage in discussions on particular topics, ultimately forming homogeneous communities. These insights are valuable for developing targeted management strategies to prevent the spread of fake news or rumors.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-08
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2563826-9
    ISSN 1664-1078
    ISSN 1664-1078
    DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1323117
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  3. Article ; Online: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin-induced kidney granulomas.

    Zhang, Xueyan / Lian, Huixiu / Song, Xiaolei / Li, Jun

    Kidney international

    2024  Volume 105, Issue 5, Page(s) 1131

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; BCG Vaccine/adverse effects ; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms ; Carcinoma, Transitional Cell ; Granuloma/chemically induced ; Kidney ; Adjuvants, Immunologic ; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
    Chemical Substances BCG Vaccine ; Adjuvants, Immunologic
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-22
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Case Reports
    ZDB-ID 120573-0
    ISSN 1523-1755 ; 0085-2538
    ISSN (online) 1523-1755
    ISSN 0085-2538
    DOI 10.1016/j.kint.2023.10.011
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  4. Article: The Impact of Negative Workplace Gossip on Employees' Organizational Self-Esteem in a Differential Atmosphere.

    Song, Xiaolei / Guo, Siliang

    Frontiers in psychology

    2022  Volume 13, Page(s) 854520

    Abstract: The level of organizational self-esteem of employees, whether on the production line or as managers or directors of enterprises, does not only correlate with individual performance but has also become a key factor in determining the completion of team ... ...

    Abstract The level of organizational self-esteem of employees, whether on the production line or as managers or directors of enterprises, does not only correlate with individual performance but has also become a key factor in determining the completion of team core tasks. Based on the theory of self-consistency, this study explores the correlation between negative workplace gossip and employees' organizational self-esteem by revealing the intermediary role of workplace exclusion and poor-order atmosphere. A survey of 228 employees from enterprises in Shandong and Shanghai showed that negative workplace gossip exerted a significant negative impact on employees' organizational self-esteem, suggesting that negative workplace gossip reduces employees' organizational self-esteem in the context of Chinese organizations. In addition, workplace exclusion exerted a complete intermediary effect between negative workplace gossip and employees' organizational self-esteem, and poor-order atmosphere perception played a partial intermediary role. This study uncovers the black box that negative workplace gossip affects employees' organizational self-esteem and has a strong enlightening significance for management practice.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-17
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2563826-9
    ISSN 1664-1078
    ISSN 1664-1078
    DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.854520
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  5. Article: Effects of emotion and sex difference on item-method directed forgetting.

    Song, Xiaolei / Hu, Xiaofei / Yi, Feng / Dong, Meimei

    Heliyon

    2023  Volume 9, Issue 6, Page(s) e16896

    Abstract: It is crucial to remember or forget others' faces in daily life. People can intentionally forget things they wish to forget, a phenomenon called directed forgetting (DF). This study examined the effects of stimuli's emotions and sex differences in ... ...

    Abstract It is crucial to remember or forget others' faces in daily life. People can intentionally forget things they wish to forget, a phenomenon called directed forgetting (DF). This study examined the effects of stimuli's emotions and sex differences in participants and stimuli on DF. We used happy and angry faces as the items in a typical item-method paradigm and conducted three behavioral experiments. In Experiment 1, we recruited 60 participants to examine how emotions of stimuli and sex differences in participants and stimuli affected DF. In Experiment 2, we recruited 60 female participants and manipulated the durations of items presented during the study phase to examine whether the selective rehearsal theory was held. In Experiment 3, we recruited 50 female participants and attached recognition cues to the items presented during the test phase to examine whether the inhibitory control theory was held. We treated the sex of participants in Experiment 1, the durations of items presented during the study phase in Experiment 2 as the between-subject factors, and emotion and sex of stimuli as the with-subject factors. We conducted the mixed-design ANOVA for corrected hit rate, sensitivity, and bias based on the signal detection theory. As a result, we found that DF occurred easily for male participants, whereas not for female participants because of females' superior memorial performances and stronger sensitivities. Furthermore, we found that female participants owned the best and worst recognition rates for angry female faces and happy male faces, respectively. Our results supported the selective rehearsal theory, suggesting manipulations during the study phase had the potential to help females forget what they wished to forget. We presumed that psychologists and therapists should pay attention to the roles of sex difference in twofold, self and others, when studying people's memory and forgetting. Furthermore, the sensitivity of self and the emotion of others should be considered as well.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-01
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2835763-2
    ISSN 2405-8440
    ISSN 2405-8440
    DOI 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16896
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  6. Article: Mussel oil is superior to fish oil in preventing atherosclerosis of ApoE

    Li, Kelei / Song, Xiaolei / Li, Huiying / Kuang, Xiaotong / Liu, Shiyi / Liu, Run / Li, Duo

    Frontiers in nutrition

    2024  Volume 11, Page(s) 1326421

    Abstract: Objectives: The present study aimed to explore the preventive effect of mussel oil (MO) on atherosclerosis and the potential mechanism in apolipoprotein E-null (ApoE: Methods: ApoE: Results: Compared with the CON group, obvious atherosclerotic ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: The present study aimed to explore the preventive effect of mussel oil (MO) on atherosclerosis and the potential mechanism in apolipoprotein E-null (ApoE
    Methods: ApoE
    Results: Compared with the CON group, obvious atherosclerotic plaque appeared at aorta and aortic sinus in the CO group. Compared with the CO group, MO but not FO had a significantly smaller atherosclerotic plaque area in the aorta. The aortic atherosclerotic plaque area was comparable in the MO, CON, and ASP groups. The MO group had a significantly smaller atherosclerotic plaque area, lower lipid deposition, lower contents of smooth muscle cell (SMC), and slightly lower contents of macrophage at the aortic sinus than the FO group. Serum concentrations of IL-1β, NF-κB, and VCAM-1 were comparable in the MO and FO groups and were significantly lower than the CO group. Compared with the CO group, the MO group but not FO group had significantly lower aortic protein levels of p65NF-κB, p38MAPK, and VCAM-1. The aortic protein levels of p-p65NF-κB and p-p38MAPK were significantly lower in the MO group than the FO group.
    Conclusion: In conclusion, MO is more potent than FO in preventing atherosclerosis, and the possible mechanism may be by downregulating p38MAPK/NF-κB signaling pathway, decreasing VCAM-1 and macrophage, and inhibiting proliferation and migration of SMC.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-12
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2776676-7
    ISSN 2296-861X
    ISSN 2296-861X
    DOI 10.3389/fnut.2024.1326421
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  7. Article ; Online: Free-breathing abdominal chemical exchange saturation transfer imaging using water presaturation and respiratory gating at 3.0 T.

    Chen, Zhensen / Liu, Chuyu / Wang, Yishi / Guo, Rui / Chen, Weibo / Wang, He / Song, Xiaolei

    NMR in biomedicine

    2024  , Page(s) e5134

    Abstract: Free-breathing abdominal chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) has great potential for clinical application, but its technical implementation remains challenging. This study aimed to propose and evaluate a free-breathing abdominal CEST sequence. ... ...

    Abstract Free-breathing abdominal chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) has great potential for clinical application, but its technical implementation remains challenging. This study aimed to propose and evaluate a free-breathing abdominal CEST sequence. The proposed sequence employed respiratory gating (ResGat) to synchronize the data acquisition with respiratory motion and performed a water presaturation module before the CEST saturation to abolish the influence of respiration-induced repetition time variation. In vivo experiments were performed to compare different respiratory motion-control strategies and B0 offset correction methods, and to evaluate the effectiveness and necessity of the quasi-steady-state (QUASS) approach for correcting the influence of the water presaturation module on CEST signal. ResGat with a target expiratory phase of 0.5 resulted in a higher structural similarity index and a lower coefficient of variation on consecutively acquired CEST S0 images than breath-holding (BH) and respiratory triggering (all p < 0.05). B0 maps derived from the abdominal CEST dataset itself were more stable for B0 correction, compared with the separately acquired B0 maps by a dual-echo time scan and B0 maps derived from the water saturation shift referencing approach. Compared with BH, ResGat yielded more homogeneous magnetization transfer ratio asymmetry maps at 3.5 ppm (standard deviation: 3.96% vs. 3.19%, p = 0.036) and a lower mean squared difference between scan and rescan (27.52‱ vs. 16.82‱, p = 0.004). The QUASS approach could correct the water presaturation-induced CEST signal change, but its necessity for in vivo scanning needs further verification. The proposed free-breathing abdominal CEST sequence using ResGat had an acquisition efficiency of approximately four times that using BH. In conclusion, the proposed free-breathing abdominal CEST sequence using ResGat and water presaturation has a higher acquisition efficiency and image quality than abdominal CEST using BH.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1000976-0
    ISSN 1099-1492 ; 0952-3480
    ISSN (online) 1099-1492
    ISSN 0952-3480
    DOI 10.1002/nbm.5134
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  8. Article ; Online: Highly-accelerated CEST MRI using frequency-offset-dependent k-space sampling and deep-learning reconstruction.

    Liu, Chuyu / Li, Zhongsen / Chen, Zhensen / Zhao, Benqi / Zheng, Zhuozhao / Song, Xiaolei

    Magnetic resonance in medicine

    2024  

    Abstract: Purpose: To develop a highly accelerated CEST Z-spectral acquisition method using a specifically-designed k-space sampling pattern and corresponding deep-learning-based reconstruction.: Methods: For k-space down-sampling, a customized pattern was ... ...

    Abstract Purpose: To develop a highly accelerated CEST Z-spectral acquisition method using a specifically-designed k-space sampling pattern and corresponding deep-learning-based reconstruction.
    Methods: For k-space down-sampling, a customized pattern was proposed for CEST, with the randomized probability following a frequency-offset-dependent (FOD) function in the direction of saturation offset. For reconstruction, the convolution network (CNN) was enhanced with a Partially Separable (PS) function to optimize the spatial domain and frequency domain separately. Retrospective experiments on a self-acquired human brain dataset (13 healthy adults and 15 brain tumor patients) were conducted using k-space resampling. The prospective performance was also assessed on six healthy subjects.
    Results: In retrospective experiments, the combination of FOD sampling and PS network (FOD + PSN) showed the best quantitative metrics for reconstruction, outperforming three other combinations of conventional sampling with varying density and a regular CNN (nMSE and SSIM, p < 0.001 for healthy subjects). Across all acceleration factors from 4 to 14, the FOD + PSN approach consistently outperformed the comparative methods in four contrast maps including MTR
    Conclusion: The combination of FOD sampling and PSN reconstruction enabled highly accelerated CEST MRI acquisition, which may facilitate CEST metabolic MRI for brain tumor patients.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-16
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 605774-3
    ISSN 1522-2594 ; 0740-3194
    ISSN (online) 1522-2594
    ISSN 0740-3194
    DOI 10.1002/mrm.30089
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  9. Article ; Online: Multifunctional Nanocarrier for Synergistic Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease by Inhibiting β-Amyloid Aggregation and Scavenging Reactive Oxygen Species.

    Wang, Chenchen / Song, Xiaolei / Li, Peng / Sun, Shihao / Su, Juan / Liu, Songqin / Wei, Wei

    ACS applied materials & interfaces

    2024  

    Abstract: The excessive depositions of β-amyloid (Aβ) and abnormal level of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are considered as the important pathogenic factors of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Strategies targeting only one of them have no obvious effects in clinic. In ... ...

    Abstract The excessive depositions of β-amyloid (Aβ) and abnormal level of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are considered as the important pathogenic factors of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Strategies targeting only one of them have no obvious effects in clinic. In this study, a multifunctional nanocarrier CICe@M-K that crosses the blood-brain barrier (BBB) efficiently was developed for inhibiting Aβ aggregation and scavenging ROS synchronously. Antioxidant curcumin (Cur) and photosensitizer IR780 were loaded in mesoporous silica nanomaterials (MSNs). Their surfaces were grafted with cerium oxide nanoparticles (CeO
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-05-15
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1944-8252
    ISSN (online) 1944-8252
    DOI 10.1021/acsami.4c02825
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  10. Article: Tensile Property of 7075 Aluminum Alloy with Strengthening Layer by Laser Remelting-Cladding Treatment.

    Sui, Qi / Hu, Ning / Su, Yingrui / Wang, Yan / Song, Xiaolei

    Micromachines

    2023  Volume 14, Issue 11

    Abstract: The Ni60-SiC- ... ...

    Abstract The Ni60-SiC-CeO
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-30
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2620864-7
    ISSN 2072-666X
    ISSN 2072-666X
    DOI 10.3390/mi14112017
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