Publications by authors named "Guang-Hui Yu"

Objective: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating mental health condition. Emerging evidence suggests exercise may be effective in alleviating PTSD symptoms. This systematic review and network meta-analysis aimed to identify the most effective types and dosages of exercise for managing PTSD in adults.

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  • Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) are crucial for fungal-mineral interactions, helping to form nanoscale minerals like iron nanominerals in natural environments where fungi grow on minerals.
  • Research on Trichoderma guizhouense NJAU 4742 shows that fungal biomineralization leads to the creation of EPS layers, with specific carbon groups being predominant in these layers.
  • The study reveals that interactions between fungi and minerals create oxygen vacancies on nanomineral surfaces, enhancing reactive oxygen species (ROS) activity, which may play a role in nutrient recycling and contaminant management in ecosystems.
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Understanding the fate of organic carbon in thawed permafrost is crucial for predicting climate feedback. While minerals and microbial necromass are known to play crucial roles in the long-term stability of organic carbon in subsoils, their exact influence on carbon persistence in Arctic permafrost remains uncertain. Our study, combining radiocarbon dating and biomarker analyses, showed that soil organic carbon in Alaskan permafrost had millennial-scale radiocarbon ages and contained only 10%-15% microbial necromass carbon, significantly lower than the global average of ~30%-60%.

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Fluctuations in water levels within coastal wetlands can significantly affect cadmium (Cd) cycling and behavior in sediments. Understanding the effects of drying-wetting cycles on Cd availability and binding mechanisms is crucial. However, information regarding this subject remains limited.

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  • In contaminated soils, the presence of both inorganic and organic pollutants poses risks to ecosystems and public health.
  • This study analyzed a soil profile to understand how co-contaminants like arsenic, cadmium, and PCBs interact with soil components at different depths.
  • Findings showed that inorganic contaminants accumulated deeper in the soil while PCBs concentrated near the surface, and there was a significant relationship between reactive iron, co-contaminants, and microbial communities.
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Fractal patterns have been shown to change in resting- and task-state blood oxygen level-dependent signals in bipolar disorder patients. However, fractal characteristics of brain blood oxygen level-dependent signals when responding to external emotional stimuli in pediatric bipolar disorder remain unclear. Blood oxygen level-dependent signals of 20 PBD-I patients and 17 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were extracted while performing an emotional Go-Nogo task.

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Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism for degrading and recycling various cellular components, functioning in both normal development and stress conditions. This process is tightly regulated by a set of autophagy-related (ATG) proteins, including ATG2 in the ATG9 cycling system and ATG5 in the ATG12 conjugation system. Our recent research demonstrated that autophagy-mediated compartmental cytoplasmic deletion is essential for pollen germination.

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Objective: To investigate the effects of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) on health-related quality of life (HRQOL), the relationship between disease activity and HRQOL, and potential factors affecting HRQOL in Chinese SLE patients.

Methods: This study recruited 1568 patients and 2610 controls to explore the effects of SLE on HRQOL. The association between disease activity and HRQOL, and the influencing factors of HRQOL were determined in 1568 patients.

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Soil organic carbon (C) is the largest active C pool of Earth's surface and is thus vital in sustaining terrestrial productivity and climate stability. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) form symbioses with most terrestrial plants and critically modulate soil C dynamics. Yet, it remains unclear whether and how AMF-root associations (i.

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The sequestration of organic carbon (OC) in wetland sediments is influenced by the presence of oxygen or lack thereof. The mechanisms of OC sequestration under redox fluctuations, particularly by the co-mediation of reactive iron (Fe) protection and thermodynamic limitation by the energetics of the OC itself, remain unclear. Over the past 26 years, a combination of field surveys and remote sensing images had revealed a strong decline in both natural and constructed wetland areas in Tianjin.

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  • Research on environmental emergency incidents in China from 1991 to 2018 shows a significant positive spatial correlation and increasing spatial agglomeration, indicating that these incidents are not randomly distributed across provinces.
  • The study highlights an unbalanced development pattern, revealing a shift in agglomeration from eastern and southern provinces to central and western ones over time.
  • Influencing factors, such as economic development and industrial structure, exhibit clear temporal and spatial heterogeneity, with varying impacts on environmental emergencies in different provinces and periods.
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  • Microbially mediated iron redox processes are essential for biogeochemical cycles, particularly involving soil organic matter (SOM), yet the impact of different SOM components on these processes is not fully understood.
  • In experiments with ferrihydrite and SOM components (fulvic acid, humic acid, humin) from different soil types, it was found that SOM generally inhibited the conversion of ferrihydrite to crystalline iron oxides while enhancing Fe(II) production.
  • Results indicated that fulvic acid increased iron production significantly, but humic acid reduced hydroxyl radical yield, highlighting the complex interplay between SOM fractions in microbial iron processes.
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Objective: Our present study intended to examine the associations of RPEL1 and miR-1307 gene polymorphisms (rs4917385 and rs7911488) with susceptibility, glucocorticoids (GCs) efficacy, anxiety, depression, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Chinese systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients.

Methods: Initially, 1000 participants (500 SLE cases and 500 controls) were recruited for the case-control study. Then, 429 cases who received GCs were followed through 12 weeks to explore GCs efficacy, depression, anxiety, and HRQoL.

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This study aimed to explore the role of mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn) in the risk, glucocorticoid (GC) effectiveness, and prognosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and its interactions with environmental factors and tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated protein 1 (TRAP1) genetic polymorphisms. We first conducted a case-control study of 1198 subjects (595 SLE patients and 603 healthy controls). Subsequently, we followed up with patients to assess the effectiveness of GC treatment and the prognosis of SLE.

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  • The study highlights the important but often overlooked role of reactive oxygen species (ROS), specifically hydroxyl radicals (HO), in influencing carbon and nutrient cycles at soil-water interfaces, particularly in anoxic conditions.
  • Researchers conducted controlled experiments with soil slurries and found that interactions between specific microbial communities and iron (Fe) minerals significantly boosted HO production, achieving levels up to approximately 100 nM over 21 days.
  • Key microbial genera, including Geobacter and Paucimonas in manured soils, and Rhodocyclaceae_K82 and Desulfotomaculum in mineral-fertilized soils, were identified as crucial players in this process, indicating that microbial activity and iron redox transformations are pivotal for generating HO in
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Fungal-mineral interactions can effectively alleviate cellular stress from organic pollutants, the production of which are expected to rapidly increase owing to the Earth moving into an unprecedented geological epoch, the Anthropocene. The underlying mechanisms that may enable fungi to combat organic pollution during fungal-mineral interactions remain unclear. Inspired by the natural fungal sporulation process, we demonstrate for the first time that fungal biomineralization triggers the formation of an ultrathin (hundreds of nanometers thick) exoskeleton, enriched in nanosized iron (oxyhydr)oxides and biomolecules, on the hyphae.

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Herein, a N-rich metal-organic framework (MOF) with four kinds of cages, Zn(ade)(TCA)(HO) (, Hade = adenine, HTCA = 4,4',4″-tricarboxytriphenylamine, NENU = Northeast Normal University), was prepared by the mixed-ligand strategy. Cationic dyes can be selectively absorbed by at proper concentrations, but not neutral and anionic dyes, which perhaps can be assigned to the N-rich neutral framework of . When was introduced to a relatively lower concentration of cationic dye solutions (e.

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  • Plant roots play a crucial role in transferring atmospheric carbon to soils through rhizodeposits and root exudates, impacting microbial activity and nutrient cycling.
  • Different root exudate types—amino acids, carboxylic acids, and sugars—have distinct effects on dissolved organic carbon (DOC) release and mineral interactions, influencing soil carbon dynamics.
  • Chemical composition of root exudates shapes bacterial communities in the rhizosphere, affecting carbon cycling and the overall microbial diversity in the soil.
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Fungal-mediated extracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) are essential for biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and contaminants in terrestrial environments. These ROS levels may be modulated by iron nanoparticles that possess intrinsic peroxidase (POD)-like activity (nanozymes). However, it remains largely undescribed how fungi modulate the POD-like activity of the iron nanoparticles with various crystallinities and crystal facets.

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Nitrogen (N) fixation in soils is closely linked to microbially mediated molybdenum (Mo) cycling. Therefore, elucidating the mechanisms and factors that affect Mo bioavailability is crucial for understanding N fixation. Here, we demonstrate that long-term (26 years) manure fertilization increased microbial diversity and content of short-range ordered iron (oxyhydr)oxides that raised Mo bioavailability (by 2.

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Removing pollutants and producing high value-added products are essential steps for sustainable disposal and utilization of biogas residues. Here, a coupled thermophilic composting and vermicomposting process was used to remove Cr from biogas residues, and the composting products were co-fermented with the plant growth-promoting fungus Trichoderma to produce high value-added biofertilizers. The results showed that thermophilic composting for 37 d markedly increased the total content of Cr but decreased the percentage of available Cr fractions.

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Fungal-mineral interactions can produce large amounts of biogenic nano-size (~ 1-100 nm) minerals, yet their influence on fungal physiology and growth remains largely unexplored. Using Trichoderma guizhouense NJAU4742 and magnetite (Mt) as a model fungus and mineral system, we have shown for the first time that biogenic Mt nanoparticles formed during fungal-mineral cultivation exhibit intrinsic peroxidase-like activity. Specifically, the average peroxidase-like activity of Mt nanoparticles after 72 h cultivation was ~ 2.

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The removal efficiency of Cd from biogas residues (BR) by earthworms (Eisenia fetida) during vermicomposting and the optimum addition of earthworm hydrolysates for production of Trichoderma guizhouense NJAU 4742 spores were determined. The results showed that vermicomposting could effectively remove Cd (up to 18.9%) from the BR.

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  • * This research demonstrates that fungi can form nanoparticles from hematite, which act as mimetic catalysts to manage oxidative stress by scavenging harmful hydrogen peroxide.
  • * The findings highlight the importance of biogenic nanomaterials in the relationship between biological organisms and minerals, suggesting a protective role for fungi while prompting further investigation into their impact on the evolution of minerals and life on Earth.
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Biogas residues (BR) contaminated with potentially toxic metals pose environmental risks to soils and food chains, and strategies are needed to decrease the concentration and bioavailability of potentially toxic metals in BR. Here, metal fractions and removal mechanisms were quantified by synchrotron radiation-based Fourier transform infrared and micro X-ray fluorescence spectromicroscopies on BR and earthworms subject to vermicomposting. Vermicomposting resulted in decreases in concentrations of potentially toxic metals in BR and increases in metal removal efficiencies due to uptake by earthworms.

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