Publications by authors named "Mengzhuo Xu"

Importance: Nocturnal blood pressure is difficult to manage in clinical practice. Antihypertensive chronotherapy may offer a potential approach for better control. However, the clinical evidence supporting this approach remains controversial.

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Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease that leads to periodontal tissue damage and tooth loss. Therefore, controlling inflammatory bone loss and promoting osteogenesis is a crucial challenge clinically. MicroRNA (miRNA) based gene therapy has shown substantial prospects in recent years, but its application has been limited due to structural instability and easy degradation by enzymes.

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The human body's primary line of defense, the skin, is especially prone to harm. Although microRNA (miRNA)-based therapies have attracted increasing attention for skin wound healing, their applications remain limited owing to a range of issues. Tetrahedral framework DNA (tFNA), a nanomaterial possessing nucleic acid characteristics, exhibits an excellent biocompatibility, in addition to anti-inflammatory and transdermal delivery capabilities, and can accelerate skin wound healing.

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Introduction: Hypertension increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. Uncontrolled nocturnal blood pressure is prevalent in patients taking antihypertensive medication, with an incidence rate of 30-60%. Although chronotherapy with antihypertensive agents may provide a new direction for effective control of nocturnal blood pressure, the clinical evidence base remains controversial.

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To systematically assess the efficacy and safety of sacubitril/valsartan (SV) by comparison with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) for the treatment of heart failure caused by acute myocardial infarction (HF-AMI) based on current randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Several electronic databases were searched up to 27 May 2023. Primary endpoints were the efficacy including the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVEDD), N-terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and 6-min walk test (6MWT) and secondary endpoints were the safety including the major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) and adverse reaction (AE).

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