Molecular Medicine Reports
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2019
·Vol. 20
·期 1
·332-340
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Lina Liu,Jing Yan,Fei Ge,Xiangtao Xu,Jun Lu,Huilian Shi,Shuihong Li,Yue Zhao,Changzheng Zhang
Saikosaponin‑D (SSD), which is the main bioactive component in the traditional Chinese medicine Chai Hu (Bupleurum falcatum L), possesses estrogen‑like properties and is widely used in treating estrogen‑related neurological disorders. The current study aimed to investigate the protective effects of SSD on the fear memory deficit in ovariectomized (OVX) rats and the potential underlying mechanism. SSD treatment significantly prolonged freezing time in OVX rats in a manner similar to that of estradiol (E2), whereas this effect was markedly suppressed by co‑administration of ICI182780, a non‑selective estrogen receptor (ER) inhibitor. The expression of ERα in the hippocampus of OVX rats was significantly elevated by SSD; however, Erβ expression and E2 synthesis were not markedly affected by SSD treatment. Collectively, this study demonstrated that SSD‑mediated fear memory improvement in OVX rats may be attributed not to E2 levels or ERβ activity, but to ERα activation in the hippocampus.
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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
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2016
·Vol. 37
·期 5
·869-877
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Shen Hui,Wang Jie,Jiang Dan,Xu Pei,Zhu Xiaolu,Zhang Yuanyuan,Yu Xing,Won Moo-Ho,Su Pei Qing,Yan Bing Chun
Some anticonvulsant drugs are associated with cognitive ability in patients; Topiramate (TPM) is well known as an effective anticonvulsant agent applied in clinical settings. However, the effect of TPM on the cognitive function is rarely studied. In this study, we aimed to observe the effects of TPM on cell proliferation and neuronal differentiation in the dentate gyrus (DG) of the d -galactose-induced aging mice by Ki-67 and doublecortin (DCX) immunohistochemistry. The study is divided into four groups including control, d -galactose-treated group, 25 and 50 mg/kg TPM-treated plus d -galactose-treated groups. We found, 50 mg/kg (not 25 mg/kg) TPM treatment significantly increased the numbers of Ki-67 + cells and DCX immunoreactivity, and improved neuroblast injury induced by d -galactose treatment. In addition, we also found that decreased immunoreactivities and protein levels of antioxidants including superoxide dismutase and catalase induced by d -galactose treatment were significantly recovered by 50 mg/kg TPM treatment in the mice hippocampal DG ( P < 0.05). In conclusion, our present results indicate that TPM can ameliorate neuroblast damage and promote cell proliferation and neuroblast differentiation in the hippocampal DG via increasing SODs and catalase levels in the d -galactose mice.
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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL NEUROANATOMY
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2020
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Hongqing Liu,Shiqi Li,Cuizhu Yang,Hui Jia,Ziting Gu,Xing Tu,Sumin Tian,Jing Liu,Guoying Li,Yuxin Ma
The senile plaque formed by β-amyloid (Aβ) deposition in the brain is one of the main pathological features of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling pathway plays an important role in the pathogenesis of AD. This study aimed to investigate that D-serine may ameliorate motor and cognitive impairment in Aβ injected mice by inhibiting JNK signaling pathway. Firstly, Kunming mice were injected intrahippocampally with Aβ 1-42 to build AD model. The mice were injected intraperitoneally with saline, D-serine, D-amino acid oxidase (DAAO), and Sodium benzoate (BE) for 10 consecutive days, respectively. Subsequently, the motor and cognitive functions of mice were detected by behavioral tests. The silver staining and immunohistochemical methods were used to detect the distributions of Aβ in the hippocampus of mice. 18 F-2-Fluro-D-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography ( 18 F-FDG PET/CT) scans were performed to detected glucose metabolism of Aβ 1-42 induced lesions. The expressions of relative JNK factors were detected by immunohistochemistry and Western blot methods. These results showed that Aβ severely impaired the motor and memory abilities of mice. The expressions of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α), N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor 1 (NMDAR1), phospho-JNK (p-JNK), p-c-Jun and activating transcription factor 2 (ATF2) increased significantly. After D-serine treatment, the abilities of movement and memory of mice were improved, and the clearance rate of Aβ was accelerated. The expressions of GFAP, TNF-α, NMDAR1, p-JNK, p-c-Jun and ATF2 decreased significantly. DAAO and BE were administered to further validate these results. Therefore, this study showed that D-serine could alleviate the cognitive impairment of Aβ 1-42 injected mice by inhibiting JNK signaling pathway. These results provide more evidences for the effect of D-serine on AD and relevant mechanism to treat AD.
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FUEL
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2024
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Youbin Zheng,Ze Li,Hao Guo,Cunyin Liu,Yuefeng Chen,Xiumei Han,Liang Dong,Jianbing Zang
Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is considered as an effective pathway for hydrogen production. Herein, to obtain efficient HER catalyst, density functional theory is employed to figure out the optimal candidate for nickel sulfide. Guided by the mechanistic screening, the highly active HER electrocatalyst, Co-substituted Ni 3 S 4 , is synthesized by one-step hydrothermal method, resembling a vesicle composed of a broken spherical membrane and encapsulated clusters of nanospheres. Cracks on membrane provide a rational entry for reactant molecules to be enclosed in the vesicle. Additionally, the enhanced intrinsic activity also attributes to the upward shift of the d-band center. From the reaction energy diagrams, the decomposition of H 2 O* is confirmed as the rate-determining step (RDS) and the energy required for the RDS is efficiently lowered by the elevated d-band center, which made the catalyst achieves 185 mV overpotential at 100 mA·cm −2 and 38 mV at 20 mA·cm −2 lower than utmost Co-Ni-S relative electrocatalyst.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2024
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Qiming Chen,Jinghan Zhang,Qicheng Zhang,Bin Chen,Wenchao Peng,Yang Li,Xiaobin Fan
The rational design of tailored surface properties by surface doping is an efficient yet challenging method for enhanced OER performance. Herein, we propose atom migration effect, induced by surface O-doping to precisely control surface compositions of FeNiS 2 (FNS). The FNS undergoes a surface sulfur/oxygen exchange to form FeNiS 2-x O x (FNSO) structure after surface O-doping, while the bulk phases remain unchanged. In contrast, the surface Ni/Fe ratio is significantly increased due to the accelerated atom migration of nickel during surface O-doping. At elevated temperatures, the bulk phase is prone to transition into complex phases of FeNiS and FeNiO, leading to the decreased surface Ni/Fe ratio. The optimized FNSO demonstrates superior OER performance with a low overpotential of 256 mV at 100 mA cm −2 , and the assembled anion exchange membrane water electrolyzer requires only 1.83 V at 1 A cm −2 with robust durability. Theoretical calculations reveal that this surface atom migration adjusts the d-band center level, optimizes surface adsorption/desorption behaviors, and expedites the OER kinetics. This work contributes to a deeper comprehension of surface modulation with desired surface properties of sulfides and other compounds for enhanced OER performance.
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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN OIL CHEMISTS SOCIETY
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2018
·Vol. 96
·期 1
·15-23
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Saisai Li,Yan Li,Nengbing Long,Ruifeng Zhang
Phospholipase D (PLD) was effectively immobilized on a nanocomposite support composed of ZnO nanowires and SiO 2 through in-situ co-cross-linking with poly-L-lysine (PLL). An anionic and long-chained bisepoxide cross-linker was electrostatically adsorbed on the surface of ZnO nanowires prior to co-cross-linking. Under the optimal pH, 6.5, the loading amount of PLD reached an average of 114 mg per g support for PLL concentrations in the range of 0–0.6 mg mL −1 . Co-cross-linking of PLD with PLL enhanced the activity of PLD remarkably. The highest specific activity of co-cross-linked PLD reached 25.8 U per mg protein , which was 1.62 times as high as that of the cross-linked PLD (15.9 U per mg protein ). (One unit of PLD activity [U] refers to the amount of PLD, which liberates 1 μmol of p-nitrophenol per min via hydrolysis of phosphatidyl-p-nitrophenol at pH 8.0 and 30 °C). Under the optimized conditions, the yield of phosphatidylglycerol (PtdGro) reached 98.6% within 80 min at 45 °C and pH 6.5. The co-cross-linked PLD not only exhibited good resistance to pH and heat inactivation but also improved storage stability and reusability. The yield of PtdGro remained ≥85.4% after 13 repeat uses.
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Materials Today Communications
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2022
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Yuanyang Zhang,Xiaoping Liang,Tao Jiang,Zishang Chen,Xiujie Ji
Waste water with boron is a widespread environmental problem. This work presents a kind of novel organic-inorganic composite boron adsorbent of NGN, N-methyl- D -glucamine (NMDG) @γ-glycidoxypropyl-trimethoxysilane (GPTMS) on the nonwoven basalt fibers (NBF), which is environmentally friendly, water resistance, non-toxicity and low cost. The effect of various parameters on the adsorption performance of NGN, such as pH value, boron concentration, contact time and different ion concentrations, was investigated. The optimum adsorption capacity of 1.64 mmol/g occurred in the vicinity of pH 9.0, and NGN possessed the fast adsorption equilibrium of boron within 40 min. In the presence of competing ions, Na + and Li + had little effect on the adsorption of boron, while Mg 2+ promoted the adsorption of boron. The features of NGN adsorption process were assessed by Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherms . The experimental data of NGN boron adsorbent was well described by using the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. In addition, after eight times adsorption-desorption cycles, NGN still featured excellent regeneration performance. All the experimental results illustrate that NGN could be efficiently utilized for separating and recycling boron from aqueous solutions.
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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
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2025
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Juan Li,Ming-Chun Lai,Ya-Meng Zhong,Ya-Ling Chen,Na Wu,Wei Chen,Hua-Ping Peng
Monitoring D-amino acids concentrations has essential implications for gastric cancer diagnosis and treatment, especially in the non-invasive detection of gastric cancer. However, it remains a challenge to establish a high-performance detection method for D-amino acids. Here, a highly sensitive and selective d -alanine (D-Ala) ECL assay strategy via a turn-off-on split-type electrochemiluminescence (ECL) platform has been proposed. We found that hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) could be used as an efficient etching agent to turn on the MnO 2 /gold nanocluster (AuNC)-based ECL nanoswitch platform. Based on abovementioned characteristics, we extended it to the D-amino acids assay since the enzymatic reaction between D-Ala and D-amino acid oxidase (DAAO) generates H 2 O 2 . Based on the abovementioned characteristics, this ECL sensing platform achieved a preferable linear-dependent curve in the detection range of 1.0 × 10 − 10 ∼1.0 × 10 − 3 mol L −1 , and realized the detection of D-Ala as low as 2.2 × 10 − 11 mol L −1 (S/N = 3). Furthermore, the proposed ECL biosensor showed excellent selectivity, stability, and reproducibility. Together with its powerful performance, this strategy could test D-Ala in saliva samples, which suggested that this ECL assay platform shows great prospect in disease diagnosis. We ascribe the high sensitivity and good anti-interference capability of the sensor to the combination of specific enzyme catalysis reaction, high-efficiency split-type AuNC probe-based ECL technique and the highly etching efficiency of H 2 O 2 to MnO 2 nanomaterials on electrode surface. In our perception, this H 2 O 2 mediated split-type ECL sensing platform provides a viable tool in ECL based bioananlysis. Therefore, our proposed approach not only provides a strategy for developing a high-performance platform for D-Ala detection, but also establishes a framework for the detailed design and development of ECL platform for other biological assays.
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2025
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Xingyu Zhao,Jiaping Shen,Huixuan Qi,Juan Sun,Bin Xu,Lei Tao,Wenhai Lin,Shengliang Li,Zhiyuan Zhong
Phototherapy including photothermal therapy (PTT) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) is widely used for cancer treatment because of its non-invasiveness, spatiotemporal controllability, and low side effects. However, the PTT and PDT capabilities of photosensitizers (PSs) compete so it’s still a crucial challenge to simultaneously enhance the PDT and PTT capabilities of PSs. In this work, donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A)-based boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) dyes were developed via molecular engineering and applied for enhanced phototherapy of triple-negative breast cancer. With thiophene engineering and iodine addition, D-π-A BDP dyes possessed a low energy gap between the singlet and triplet states (ΔE S1-T1 ). After the BDP dyes were prepared into nanoparticles (NPs), the BDP4 NPs showed increased generation of type I and II reactive oxygen species (ROS) as well as a high photothermal conversion efficiency (44 %). Furthermore, folate (FA)-modified BDP4 NPs achieved high tumor targeting via near-infrared bioimaging. With these advantages, BDP4 NPs with FA achieved total tumor eradication and tumor metastasis suppression via a single injection and 808 nm laser irradiation. This work provided a rational design of D-π-A PSs for simultaneously enhancing their photodynamic and photothermal performance, achieving efficient cancer therapy.
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Nature Communications
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2025
·Vol. 16
·期 1
·1-12
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Sang Zhiyuan,Qiao Yuqian,Chen Rui,Yin Lichang,Hou Feng,Liang Ji
Tailoring the electronic structure of electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) has been widely adopted to optimize their performance. However, the steric effect originating from the layered or crystal structure of a catalyst is often neglected. Herein, we demonstrate the importance of such steric effect in a one-dimensional π-d conjugated metal-organic framework with Ni-(NH) 4 nodes (Ni-BTA) for optimizing its electrocatalytic performance, where the activity and selectivity towards two-electron ORR for H 2 O 2 production are largely enhanced. Theoretical simulation and in-situ characterization demonstrate the formation of inter-layer H-bonds between *OOH intermediates and -N-H groups in the adjacent top layers of the Ni-sites, enhancing the *OOH binding energy to an optimum value. Thus, the as-prepared Ni-BTA catalyst exhibits an outstanding electrocatalytic 2e − -ORR performances under neutral and alkaline conditions (e.g., >85% H 2 O 2 selectivity from −0.1-0.4 V vs. RHE and >13.5 mol g −1 h −1 H 2 O 2 yield in neutral electrolytes), also showing great potential on water treatment and disinfection. Here, we highlight the alternative avenues for utilizing the non-coordinated structure to regulate the catalytic performance, thus providing opportunities for the design of catalysts and beyond.
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2022
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Xinyi Li,Jingjing Liu,Qinghai Cai,Ziwang Kan,Song Liu,Jingxiang Zhao
Modulating the microenvironment of single-metal active sites holds excellent promises for developing highly efficiently oxygen electrocatalysts. Herein, by combining theoretical predictions and experiments, we reported a general strategy to engineer the electronic properties of iron-nitrogen-carbon (FeN 4 /C) catalysts via the incorporation of the boron (B) atom for achieving improved catalytic activity in oxygen electrocatalysis. Our theoretical results revealed that B modulation effectively tunes the d-band center of the iron (Fe) active site to optimize its adsorption strength with oxygenated species, greatly enhancing oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reactions (OER) activity. Our experimental measurements then confirmed the above theoretical predictions: the as-synthesized B-doped FeN 4 /C (Fe-N 4 -B) material can perform as an eligible bifunctional catalyst for ORR and OER in alkaline media, and its catalytic activity even outperforms the commercial noble metal benchmarks. The present findings provide a promising strategy to further design the advanced catalysts for a wide range of electrochemical applications.
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CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS
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2025
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Wen Yang,Yunbo Tong,Yong Yang,Qianping Ran,Lei Dong
The application of corrosion inhibitors is a widely adopted strategy for protecting reinforcing steel against electrochemical degradation. However, conventional direct-addition approaches often lead to premature inhibitor depletion and lack controlled-release functionality. In this study, a novel sustained-release capsule-type inhibitor was developed to combat chloride-induced steel corrosion. Ethyl cellulose with high alkali resistance, controllable release and good mechanical properties was used as the shell material and D -sodium gluconate as the core, using a phase separation method and the preparation of the capsule was verified by TG, FT-IR and SEM. The experiment showed that the resulting capsules displayed a "pea-pod" shape (about 0.5–1.0 μm in length and 0.2 μm in diameter) with a compact core/shell structure and when the core/shell ratio was 1:5, the maximum encapsulation efficiency of the capsules was 73.3 %. When dispersed in simulated concrete pore solution, the capsules enabled sustained release of D -sodium gluconate over multiple days. EIS and LPR were used for electrochemical test. And the electrochemical analysis confirmed that the capsule-based inhibitor effectively suppressed corrosion and improved corrosion resistance. Specifically, a dosage of 0.05 % resulted in an inhibition efficiency of 90.7 ± 1.2 % after 7 days. The core-to-shell ratio was identified as a critical factor governing both the release kinetics and the overall protective performance, with the 1:5 formulation demonstrating optimal corrosion inhibition. This study offers a promising strategy for the design and application of intelligent corrosion inhibitors in reinforced concrete structures.
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