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  1. Article: Risk Factors and Prognosis in Patients With Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis Requiring Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation.

    Lin, Jingfang / Xiang, Qu / Liu, Xu / Li, Jinmei

    Frontiers in neurology

    2022  Volume 13, Page(s) 814673

    Abstract: Background: Mechanical ventilation (MV) is commonly used in anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis patients with serious conditions. However, little is known about the potential risk factors and long-term outcomes of anti-NMDAR ... ...

    Abstract Background: Mechanical ventilation (MV) is commonly used in anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis patients with serious conditions. However, little is known about the potential risk factors and long-term outcomes of anti-NMDAR encephalitis requiring MV, especially prolonged MV.
    Methods: The data collected prospectively from 305 patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis were retrospectively reviewed. The functional outcome was assessed using a modified Rankin scale (mRS) every 3 months.
    Results: We identified 62 (20.3%) patients who required MV. The most common reasons for MV were decreased consciousness and/or status epilepticus (SE). Among 60 patients analyzed, 27 patients required prolonged MV (>15 days). Prolonged MV primarily was based on the younger age, coma, tumor, and severe pneumonia. During the follow-up (median: 28 months, range: 3-87 months), 77% of patients required MV that exhibited a good outcome. In univariate analysis, prolonged MV, higher levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) were found to be associated with poor neurological outcome at 6 months. Although the prolonged MV group exhibited a longer time to achieve a good outcome as compared to the short MV group (median duration 6 months vs. 3 months,
    Conclusion: It is important to recognize that most anti-NMDAR encephalitis patients who required MV will achieve a favorable long-term outcomes, despite the longer duration of MV. Our results may help clinicians in the ventilator management of severe anti-NMDAR encephalitis patients.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-02-09
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2564214-5
    ISSN 1664-2295
    ISSN 1664-2295
    DOI 10.3389/fneur.2022.814673
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  2. Article ; Online: Engineered Tissue for Cardiac Regeneration

    Junjun Li / Li Liu / Jingbo Zhang / Xiang Qu / Takuji Kawamura / Shigeru Miyagawa / Yoshiki Sawa

    Bioengineering, Vol 9, Iss 605, p

    Current Status and Future Perspectives

    2022  Volume 605

    Abstract: Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of death worldwide. The most effective HF treatment is heart transplantation, the use of which is restricted by the limited supply of donor hearts. The human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC), including human embryonic ... ...

    Abstract Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of death worldwide. The most effective HF treatment is heart transplantation, the use of which is restricted by the limited supply of donor hearts. The human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC), including human embryonic stem cell (hESC) and the induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC), could be produced in an infinite manner and differentiated into cardiomyocytes (CMs) with high efficiency. The hPSC-CMs have, thus, offered a promising alternative for heart transplant. In this review, we introduce the tissue-engineering technologies for hPSC-CM, including the materials for cell culture and tissue formation, and the delivery means into the heart. The most recent progress in clinical application of hPSC-CMs is also introduced. In addition, the bottleneck limitations and future perspectives for clinical translation are further discussed.
    Keywords heart failure ; human induced pluripotent stem cells ; cardiac regeneration ; tissue engineering ; cardiomyocytes ; Technology ; T ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
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  3. Article ; Online: Weighted gene co expression network analysis (WGCNA) with key pathways and hub‐genes related to micro RNAs in ischemic stroke

    Xiang Qu / Shuang Wu / Jinggui Gao / Zhenxiu Qin / Zhenhua Zhou / Jingli Liu

    IET Systems Biology, Vol 15, Iss 3, Pp 93-

    2021  Volume 100

    Abstract: Abstract Ischemic stroke (IS) is one of the major causes of death and disability worldwide. However, the specific mechanism of gene interplay and the biological function in IS are not clear. Therefore, more research into IS is necessary. Dataset ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Ischemic stroke (IS) is one of the major causes of death and disability worldwide. However, the specific mechanism of gene interplay and the biological function in IS are not clear. Therefore, more research into IS is necessary. Dataset GSE110993 including 20 ischemic stroke (IS) and 20 control specimens are used to establish both groups and the raw RNA‐seq data were analysed. Weighted gene co‐expression network analysis (WGCNA) was used to screen the key micro‐RNA modules. The centrality of key genes were determined by module membership (mm) and gene significance (GS). The key pathways were identified by enrichment analysis with Kyoto Protocol Gene and Genome Encyclopedia (KEGG), and the key genes were validated by protein‐protein interactions network. Result: Upon investigation, 1185 up‐ and down‐regulated genes were gathered and distributed into three modules in response to their degree of correlation to clinical traits of IS, among which the turquoise module show a trait‐correlation of 0.77. The top 140 genes were further identified by GS and MM. KEGG analysis showed two pathways may evolve in the progress of IS. Discussion: CXCL12 and EIF2a may be important biomarkers for the accurate diagnosis and treatment in IS.
    Keywords Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 572
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Wiley
    Document type Article ; Online
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  4. Article ; Online: Real-time prediction of organ failures in patients with acute pancreatitis using longitudinal irregular data.

    Luo, Jiawei / Lan, Lan / Huang, Shixin / Zeng, Xiaoxi / Xiang, Qu / Li, Mengjiao / Yang, Shu / Zhao, Weiling / Zhou, Xiaobo

    Journal of biomedical informatics

    2023  Volume 139, Page(s) 104310

    Abstract: It is extremely important to identify patients with acute pancreatitis who are at high risk for developing persistent organ failures early in the course of the disease. Due to the irregularity of longitudinal data and the poor interpretability of complex ...

    Abstract It is extremely important to identify patients with acute pancreatitis who are at high risk for developing persistent organ failures early in the course of the disease. Due to the irregularity of longitudinal data and the poor interpretability of complex models, many models used to identify acute pancreatitis patients with a high risk of organ failure tended to rely on simple statistical models and limited their application to the early stages of patient admission. With the success of recurrent neural networks in modeling longitudinal medical data and the development of interpretable algorithms, these problems can be well addressed. In this study, we developed a novel model named Multi-task and Time-aware Gated Recurrent Unit RNN (MT-GRU) to directly predict organ failure in patients with acute pancreatitis based on irregular medical EMR data. Our proposed end-to-end multi-task model achieved significantly better performance compared to two-stage models. In addition, our model not only provided an accurate early warning of organ failure for patients throughout their hospital stay, but also demonstrated individual and population-level important variables, allowing physicians to understand the scientific basis of the model for decision-making. By providing early warning of the risk of organ failure, our proposed model is expected to assist physicians in improving outcomes for patients with acute pancreatitis.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Pancreatitis ; Acute Disease ; Length of Stay ; Neural Networks, Computer ; Algorithms
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-10
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2057141-0
    ISSN 1532-0480 ; 1532-0464
    ISSN (online) 1532-0480
    ISSN 1532-0464
    DOI 10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104310
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  5. Article ; Online: Changes of the gut microbiota composition and short chain fatty acid in patients with atrial fibrillation

    Lingzhi Chen / Jinxin Chen / Yuheng Huang / Yanran Wu / Junfeng Li / Weicheng Ni / Yucheng Lu / Zhenzhen Li / Chuhuan Zhao / Shuting Kong / Hao Zhou / Xiang Qu

    PeerJ, Vol 11, p e

    2023  Volume 16228

    Abstract: Background With the establishment of the cardiac-gut axis concept, increasing evidence has suggested the involvement and important regulatory role of the gut microbiota (GM) and short chain fatty acid (SCFA) in cardiovascular diseases. However, the ... ...

    Abstract Background With the establishment of the cardiac-gut axis concept, increasing evidence has suggested the involvement and important regulatory role of the gut microbiota (GM) and short chain fatty acid (SCFA) in cardiovascular diseases. However, the relationship between GM and atrial fibrillation (AF) is still poorly understood. Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate whether there were differences in GM and SCFA between AF patients and healthy controls. Methods In this study, we enrolled 30 hospitalized patients with AF and 30 matched patients with sinus rhythm (SR). GM species in fecal samples were evaluated through amplicon sequencing targeting the 16Sribosomal RNA gene. The feces SCFAs were describe step by step the quantitative analysis using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). GM species richness, diversity, differential abundance of individual taxa between AF and SR were analyzed. Results AF patients showed decreased species richness and α-diversity compared to SR patients, but there was no statistical difference. The phylogenetic diversity was significant decreased in AF group. The β-diversity indexes revealed significant differences in GM community structure between the AF group and the SR group. After investigated the individual taxa, AF group showed altered relative abundance in several taxa compared to the SR group. linear discriminant analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSe) analysis revealed, a significant decrease in Bifidobacterium and a greater abundance of Lactobacillus, Fusobacterium, Haemophilus in AF group compared with the SR group. The abundance of haemophilus was negative correlated with isovaleric acid and isobutyric acid. Conclusions In AF patients, the GM phylogenetic diversity and β-diversity decreased, the relative abundance altered in several taxa and the bacterial community structure changed as well as the SCFA level. GM and SCFA dysbiosis might play a crucial part in the occurrence and development of AF.
    Keywords Gut microbiota ; Atrial fibrillation ; Short chain fatty acid ; Medicine ; R ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher PeerJ Inc.
    Document type Article ; Online
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  6. Article ; Online: Prediction of the trajectories of depressive symptoms among children in the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study using machine learning approach.

    Xiang, Qu / Chen, Kai / Peng, Li / Luo, Jiawei / Jiang, Jingwen / Chen, Yang / Lan, Lan / Song, Huan / Zhou, Xiaobo

    Journal of affective disorders

    2022  Volume 310, Page(s) 162–171

    Abstract: Background: Depression often first emerges during adolescence and evidence shows that the long-term patterns of depressive symptoms over time are heterogeneous. It is meaningful to predict the trajectory of depressive symptoms in adolescents to find ... ...

    Abstract Background: Depression often first emerges during adolescence and evidence shows that the long-term patterns of depressive symptoms over time are heterogeneous. It is meaningful to predict the trajectory of depressive symptoms in adolescents to find early intervention targets.
    Methods: Based on the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, we included 4962 participants aged 9-10 who were followed-up for 2 years. Trajectories of depressive symptoms were identified by Latent Class Growth Analyses (LCGA). Four types of machine learning models were built to predict the identified trajectories and to obtain variables with predictive value based on the best performance model.
    Results: Of all participants, 536 (10.80%) were classified as increasing, 269 (5.42%) as persistently high, 433 (8.73%) as decreasing, and 3724 (75.05%) as persistently low by LCGA. Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM) model got the highest discriminant performance. Sleep quality, parental emotional state and family financial adversities were the most important predictors and three resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging functional connectivity data were also helpful to distinguish trajectories.
    Limitation: We only have depressive symptom scores at three time points. Some valuable predictors are not specific to depression. External validation is an important next step. These predictors should not be interpreted as etiology and some variables were reported by parents/caregivers.
    Conclusion: Using GBM combined with baseline characteristics, the trajectories of depressive symptoms with two years among adolescents aged 9-10 years can be well predicted, which might further facilitate the identification of adolescents at high risk of depressive symptoms and development of effective early interventions.
    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Brain/diagnostic imaging ; Child ; Cognition ; Depression/psychology ; Humans ; Machine Learning ; Parents
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-08
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 135449-8
    ISSN 1573-2517 ; 0165-0327
    ISSN (online) 1573-2517
    ISSN 0165-0327
    DOI 10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.020
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  7. Article: Distinguish bipolar and major depressive disorder in adolescents based on multimodal neuroimaging: Results from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study

    Liu, Yujun / Chen, Kai / Luo, Yangyang / Wu, Jiqiu / Xiang, Qu / Peng, Li / Zhang, Jian / Zhao, Weiling / Li, Mingliang / Zhou, Xiaobo

    Digital health

    2022  Volume 8, Page(s) 20552076221123705

    Abstract: Background: Major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder in adolescents are prevalent and are associated with cognitive impairment, executive dysfunction, and increased mortality. Early intervention in the initial stages of major depressive disorder ... ...

    Abstract Background: Major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder in adolescents are prevalent and are associated with cognitive impairment, executive dysfunction, and increased mortality. Early intervention in the initial stages of major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder can significantly improve personal health.
    Methods: We collected 309 samples from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, including 116 adolescents with bipolar disorder, 64 adolescents with major depressive disorder, and 129 healthy adolescents, and employed a support vector machine to develop classification models for identification. We developed a multimodal model, which combined functional connectivity of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and four anatomical measures of structural magnetic resonance imaging (cortical thickness, area, volume, and sulcal depth). We measured the performances of both multimodal and single modality classifiers.
    Results: The multimodal classifiers showed outstanding performance compared with all five single modalities, and they are 100% for major depressive disorder versus healthy controls, 100% for bipolar disorder versus healthy control, 98.5% (95% CI: 95.4-100%) for major depressive disorder versus bipolar disorder, 100% for major depressive disorder versus depressed bipolar disorder and the leave-one-site-out analysis results are 77.4%, 63.3%, 79.4%, and 81.7%, separately.
    Conclusions: The study shows that multimodal classifiers show high classification performances. Moreover, cuneus may be a potential biomarker to differentiate major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and healthy adolescents. Overall, this study can form multimodal diagnostic prediction workflows for clinically feasible to make more precise diagnose at the early stage and potentially reduce loss of personal pain and public society.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2819396-9
    ISSN 2055-2076
    ISSN 2055-2076
    DOI 10.1177/20552076221123705
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  8. Article ; Online: Factors that affect the false negative rate of sentinel lymph node mapping with methylene blue dye alone in breast cancer.

    Li, Huang / Jun, Zhang / Zhi-Cheng, Ge / Xiang, Qu

    The Journal of international medical research

    2019  Volume 47, Issue 10, Page(s) 4841–4853

    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Axilla/pathology ; Breast Neoplasms/surgery ; False Negative Reactions ; Female ; Humans ; Lymphatic Metastasis/pathology ; Methylene Blue/chemistry ; Middle Aged ; Multivariate Analysis ; Risk Factors ; Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
    Chemical Substances Methylene Blue (T42P99266K)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-09-11
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 184023-x
    ISSN 1473-2300 ; 0300-0605 ; 0142-2596
    ISSN (online) 1473-2300
    ISSN 0300-0605 ; 0142-2596
    DOI 10.1177/0300060519827413
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  9. Article ; Online: Effect on composition and quantity of extracellular polymeric substances in an innovative hybrid membrane bioreactor under different sludge retention times

    Ying Li / Wei Chen / Qiang Liu / Wei Xiang / Xing-Can Zheng / Ji-Xiang Qu

    Environmental Pollutants & Bioavailability, Vol 31, Iss 1, Pp 103-

    2019  Volume 111

    Abstract: This study investigated the influence of sludge retention time (SRT) in three hybrid membrane bioreactors to treat domestic wastewater at different SRTs (10, 20, and 40 d) simultaneously, based on extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) analysis. The ... ...

    Abstract This study investigated the influence of sludge retention time (SRT) in three hybrid membrane bioreactors to treat domestic wastewater at different SRTs (10, 20, and 40 d) simultaneously, based on extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) analysis. The results showed that significant positive correlation existed between SRT and humic acids quantity in TB-EPS, humic acids quantity in S-EPS, DNA quantity in S-EPS, and total quantity in TB-EPS, with the correlation coefficient 0.9992, 0.9980, 0.9973, 0.9821, respectively. Significant negative correlation existed in SRT and proteins in TB-EPS, proteins quantity in S-EPS, and polysaccharose in S-EPS, with the correlation coefficient 0.9993, 0.9107, 0.8552, respectively. A high logarithmic relationship existed between supernatant turbidity and SVI. The optimal SRT was 20 d and the corresponding operational cycle of the membrane module was 109 d.
    Keywords sludge retention time ; hybrid membrane bioreactors ; real wastewater ; extracellular polymeric substances ; Environmental pollution ; TD172-193.5 ; Environmental sciences ; GE1-350
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Taylor & Francis Group
    Document type Article ; Online
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  10. Article ; Online: Development and evaluation of a novel xeno-free culture medium for human-induced pluripotent stem cells

    Ying Hua / Kenji Yoshimochi / Junjun Li / Kazuhiro Takekita / Motoshi Shimotsuma / Lingjun Li / Xiang Qu / Jingbo Zhang / Yoshiki Sawa / Li Liu / Shigeru Miyagawa

    Stem Cell Research & Therapy, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2022  Volume 14

    Abstract: Abstract Background Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are considered an ideal resource for regenerative medicine because of their ease of access and infinite expansion ability. To satisfy the sizable requirement for clinical applications of ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Background Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are considered an ideal resource for regenerative medicine because of their ease of access and infinite expansion ability. To satisfy the sizable requirement for clinical applications of hiPSCs, large-scale, expansion-oriented, xeno-free, and cost-effective media are critical. Although several xeno-free media for hiPSCs have been generated over the past decades, few of them are suitable for scalable expansion of cultured hiPSCs because of their modest potential for proliferation and high cost. Methods In this study, we developed a xeno-free ON2/AscleStem PSC medium (ON2) and cultured 253G1 hiPSCs on different matrices, including iMatrix-511 and gelatin nanofiber (GNF) in ON2. Over 20 passages, we evaluated cell proliferation by doubling times; pluripotency by flow cytometry, immunofluorescence staining and qRT-PCR; and differentiation ability by three germ layer differentiation in vitro and teratoma formation in severe combined immunodeficiency mice, followed by histological analysis. In addition, we compared the maintenance effect of ON2 on hiPSCs with StemFit® AK02 (AK02N) and Essential 8™ (E8). Besides 253G1 hiPSCs, we cultivated different hiPSC lines, including Ff-l01 hiPSCs, ATCC® ACS-1020™ hiPSCs, and Down’s syndrome patient-specific ATCC® ACS-1003™ hiPSCs in ON2. Results We found that 253G1 hiPSCs in ON2 demonstrated normal morphology and karyotype and high self-renewal and differentiation abilities on the tested matrices for over 20 passages. Moreover, 253G1 hiPSCs kept on GNF showed higher growth and stemness, as verified by the shorter doubling time and higher expression levels of pluripotent markers. Compared to AK02N and E8 media, 253G1 hiPSCs grown in ON2 showed higher pluripotency, as demonstrated by the increased expression level of pluripotent factors. In addition, all hiPSC lines cultivated in ON2 were able to grow for at least 10 passages with compact clonal morphology and were positive for all detected pluripotent markers. ...
    Keywords Human-induced pluripotent stem cell ; Culture system ; Chemically defined medium ; Xeno-free ; Cost-effective ; Self-renewal ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920 ; Biochemistry ; QD415-436
    Subject code 571
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher BMC
    Document type Article ; Online
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