Publications by authors named "Xiao-Qiang Wang"

Introduction: Opioid addiction is a significant public health issue, with existing treatments such as buprenorphine and methadone exhibiting limitations, including side effects and insufficient prevention of relapse. Novel therapeutic strategies are needed to address these challenges. This study investigates the potential of dezocine in reducing addiction-related behaviors and preventing relapse.

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  • Viral diseases, particularly the sweet potato virus 2 (SPV2), are major threats to sweet potato crops globally, with SPV2 being a primary pathogen.
  • Researchers detected a new isolate of SPV2 (SPV2-LN) in a plant called Ipomoea nil in China, analyzing its complete genome and comparing it to existing isolates.
  • The study found that the SPV2-LN genome has specific characteristics and similarities to another isolate, which could help in understanding and managing sweet potato viral diseases better.
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Water-stable organic radicals are promising photothermal conversion candidates for photothermal therapy (PTT). However, organic radicals are usually unstable in biological environments, which greatly hinders their wide application. Here, we have developed a chaotropic effect-based and photoinduced water-stable supramolecular radical (MB-2) for efficient antibacterial PTT.

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  • The study introduces a new hydrogel called SFT-B Gel, designed to detect and treat deep-seated bacterial infections (DBIs) using near-infrared photothermal therapy (NIR-II PTT).
  • SFT-B Gel is created using a silk fibroin solution and a chaotropic effect, allowing it to change color in response to bacteria, indicating the presence of DBIs.
  • This hydrogel shows strong abilities to absorb NIR-II light and effectively kill bacteria through generated heat, showcasing its potential as an innovative tool for combating tough infections.
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The exploitation of novel wound healing methods with real-time infection sensing and high spatiotemporal precision is highly important for human health. Pt-based metal-organic cycles/cages (MOCs) have been employed as multifunctional antibacterial agents due to their superior Pt-related therapeutic efficiency, various functional subunits and specific geometries. However, how to rationally apply these nanoscale MOCs on the macroscale with controllable therapeutic output is still challenging.

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Whole-cell biosensors could be helpful for in situ disease diagnosis. However, their use in analyzing biological samples has been hindered by unstable responses, low signal enhancement, and growth inhibition in complex media. Here, we offered a solution by building a visual whole-cell biosensor for urinary mercury determination.

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Malachite green (MG), a toxic antibacterial agent, is widely used in the farming industry. Effectively regulating the biotoxicity of this highly water-soluble cationic dye is challenging. Here, we present a novel strategy to reduce the biotoxicity of MG through the self-assembly of MG and the -dodecaborate cluster ([BH]) driven by the chaotropic effect.

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  • SARS-CoV-2 infects not just the lungs but also the heart and blood vessels, leading to systemic inflammation and severe complications, especially in individuals with pre-existing cardiovascular diseases (CVD).
  • The ongoing threat of COVID-19, including long-COVID and its variants, suggests it will drastically impact health-related risks and disease management for years to come.
  • There is an urgent need to shift towards precision medicine that offers a holistic understanding of CVD in the context of COVID-19, combining medical knowledge with a new disease taxonomy to improve diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
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Background: A femoral neck fracture is a common and frequently reported issue in orthopedics, with a greater rate of incidence among the elderly. Due to their advanced age and the presence of some primary diseases, both anesthesia and surgery are increasingly difficult in elderly patients with a femoral neck fractures. In fact, general anesthesia can easily induce complications such as cognitive dysfunction, which is not conducive to postoperative recovery.

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Objective: To investigate the clinical efficacy and advantages of Tianji orthopedic robot assisted cannulated screw internal fixation for femoral neck fracture.

Methods: The clinical data of 41 patients with femoral neck fracture who underwent internal fixation with cannulated screws from January 2019 to January 2022 were retrospectively analyzed. According to different surgical methods, they were divided into Tianji robot group and traditional cannulated screw fixation group (traditional operation group).

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  • Bacterial infections are a serious public health issue, prompting the development of various antibacterial agents, though improving their effectiveness while minimizing side effects is challenging.
  • A new supramolecular antibacterial agent, combining cucurbit[7]uril (CB[7]) and chlorhexidine (CHX), was created, which showed significantly higher antibacterial activity than CHX alone.
  • The study demonstrated that the CB[7] complex enhances the interaction with bacterial membranes and reduces toxicity and irritation associated with CHX, suggesting a new approach to drug design using supramolecular chemistry.
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Background: Pediatric liver transplantation is an important modality for treating biliary atresia. The overall survival (OS) rate of pediatric liver transplantation has significantly improved compared with that of 20 years ago, but it is still unsatisfactory. The anesthesia strategy of maintaining low central venous pressure (CVP) has shown a positive effect on prognosis in adult liver transplantation.

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When ordinary wounds are infected, the skin's self-healing capacity declines; thus appropriate dressings with both antibacterial ability and healing ability for bacteria-associated wounds are indispensable. In this work, multifunctional chitin/ZnO composite hydrogels have been designed as an infected full-thickness skin wound-healing material. The hydrogels are fabricated by a facile one-pot strategy through the sequential addition of commercial ZnO powders into aqueous alkaline chitin solutions, crosslinking and regeneration.

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Perchlorotrityl radical (PTM), tris (2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) methyl radical (TTM), (3,5-dichloro-4-pyridyl) bis (2,4,6 trichlorophenyl) methyl radical (PyBTM), (N-carbazolyl) bis (2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) methyl radical (CzBTM), and their derivatives are stable organic radicals that exhibit light emissions at room temperature. Since these triarylmethyl radicals have an unpaired electron, their electron spins at the lowest excited state and ground state are both doublets, and the transition from the lowest excited state to the ground state does not pose the problem of a spin-forbidden reaction. When used as OLED layers, these triarylmethyl radicals exhibit unique light-emitting properties, which can increase the theoretical upper limit of the OLED's internal quantum efficiency (IQE) to 100%.

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Radical-containing frameworks (RCFs) have emerged as promising functional materials in various fields due to the combination of the highly ordered frame structure and the fascinating property of organic radicals. Here, the first example of radical-containing supramolecular organic frameworks (SOFs) fabricated by the chaotropic effect between closo-dodecaborate cluster (B H ) and 2,4,6-tri(4-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazine (TPT ) is presented. The SOFs can be easily synthesized by stirring the B H and the TPT in aqueous solution through self-assembly.

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A cheap iron-catalyzed C-C bond cleavage/thiolation and selenylation of cycloalkyl hydroperoxides are presented. This redox-neutral protocol provides efficient access to diverse distal keto-functionalized thioethers and selenium compounds. Remarkably, only some amounts of disulfides are required for this transformation.

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  • The study investigates how VEGF-C and VEGFR-3 signaling affect nitric oxide (NO) production and the expression of iNOS in human osteosarcoma MG63 cells.
  • It was found that VEGF-C increased both NO production and iNOS levels, while inhibitors of iNOS (AG) and VEGFR-3 (MAZ51) reduced these effects.
  • Co-culturing HUVECs with MG63 cells and VEGF-C significantly boosted HUVEC proliferation, but this effect was diminished by treatments with AG or MAZ51.
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Background: Studies suggested that remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) may effectively lessen the harmful effects of ischemia reperfusion injury during organ transplantation surgery.

Aim: To investigate the protective effects of RIPC on living liver donors and recipients following pediatric liver transplantation.

Methods: From January 2016 to January 2019 at Renji Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 208 donors were recruited and randomly assigned to four groups: S-RIPC group (no intervention; = 55), D-RIPC group (donors received RIPC; = 51), R-RIPC group (recipients received RIPC, = 51) and DR-RIPC group (both donors and recipients received RIPC; = 51).

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Free radicals were generally regarded as highly reactive, transient and harmful species. In fact, some of the free radicals can also be inactive, long-lived and beneficial for our health. These properties of free radicals provide future possibilities for their application in various fields.

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A series of novel -alkyl-1-deoxynojirimycin derivatives were synthesised and evaluated for their in vitro α-glucosidase inhibitory activity to develop α-glucosidase inhibitors with high activity. All twenty compounds exhibited α-glucosidase inhibitory activity with IC values ranging from 30.0 ± 0.

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Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a common chronic inflammatory disease of the upper respiratory tract. Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is a widely used plasticizer and belongs to environmental endocrine disruptors (EDCs). It can be entered the human body which is harmful to health.

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A new polyketide derivative, nafuredin C (), a novel heterocyclic dipeptide, trichodermamide G (), together with four known biogenetically related compounds nafuredin A (), trichodermamide A (), aspergillazin A (), and peniisocoumarin H (), were isolated from the mangrove-derived fungus D13. Their structures, including their absolute configurations, were determined by spectroscopic analysis and time-dependent density functional theory-electronic circular dichroism (ECD) calculations. Trichodermamide G was found to be a novel epithiodiketopiperazine derivative with an unprecedented cyclic system containing a sulfur bridge, and nafuredin C represented the third nafuredin derivative of these homologous compounds.

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