Publications by authors named "Hanqi Xie"

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease and the integrity of CXCR1 synovial macrophage barrier significantly impacts its progression. However, the mechanisms driving the dynamic changes of this macrophage barrier remain unclear. Traditional drug therapies for RA have substantial limitations.

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  • After cutaneous wounds heal, skin cells called keratinocytes lose their epithelial traits during the healing process, which can lead to scar tissue with persistent mesenchymal-like characteristics.
  • The study identified the regulatory factor GRHL2 as critical in this process, showing that when GRHL2 is low, keratinocytes undergo a transition to a mesenchymal state, but can revert back to their epithelial state when GRHL2 is overexpressed.
  • Interfering with GRHL2 in wound areas resulted in thicker scars and more fibrosis, highlighting its importance for proper healing and suggesting that targeting GRHL2 could help improve wound recovery and minimize scarring.
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The epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays significant roles in the progression of cancer and fibrotic disease. Moreover, this process is reversible, resulting in mesenchymal epithelial transition (MET), which plays an important role in cancer metastasis. There is a lack of methods to trace and target EMT cells using synthetic biology circuits, which makes it difficult to study the cell fate or develop targeted treatments.

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Unlabelled: Cancer progression is highly dependent on the ability of cancer cell tumor formation, in which epigenetic modulation plays an essential role. However, the epigenetic factors promoting breast tumor formation are less known. Screened from three-dimensional (3D)-sphere tumor formation model, HMGN5 that regulates chromatin structures became the candidate therapeutic target in breast cancer, though its role is obscure.

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Tryptophan, an essential amino acid, has been reported that it has the potential to regulate depression-like behavior. Meanwhile, Chronic stress-induced depression also has a close relationship with gut microbiota structure and composition. In the current research, we demonstrated that a tryptophan-rich diet (0.

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Although ultra-small nanoclusters (USNCs, < 2 nm) have immense application capabilities in biomedicine, the investigation on body-wide organ responses towards USNCs is scant. Here, applying a novel strategy of single-cell mass cytometry combined with Nano Genome Atlas of multi-tissues, we systematically evaluate the interactions between the host and calcium phosphate (CaP) USNCs at the organism level. Combining single-cell mass cytometry, and magnetic luminex assay results, we identify dynamic immune responses to CaP USNCs at the single cell resolution.

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