1.Mental health and the related factors of Zangzu undergraduates in inland
Yuwen KANG ; Chuanzhao LI ; Shengjun XIE ; Ming MA ; Wei LIU
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2013;(6):556-558
Objective To explore the state of the mental health and related factors of Zangzu undergraduates in inland.Methods Two inland typical universities were chosen,according to random whole-class sampling principle from different grades,and 370 Zangzu undergraduates in inland were tested with Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90),Self-Esteem Scale(SES),Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ) and social support scales,and compared with norm and Hanzu undergraduates.Results The scores of the factors of compulsion,interpersonal relation sensitiveness,depression,anxiety,hostility of Zangzu undergraduates in inland in SCL-90 were higher than 2.The rate of their mental problems(the total average score was higher than 2) was 45.3%,among them the rate of mild mental problems was 42.0%,the rate of secondary mental problems was 3.3%,without undergraduates of serious mental problems.Scores of the 9 factors were higher than that of the norm,and differences were significant (P< 0.01).Scores of the 9 factors were higher than that of Hanzu undergraduates,and scores of somatization,compulsion,anxiety,hostility,terror were significantly higher than that of Hanzu undergraduates (P <0.01).Rate of their mild mental problems was significantly higher than that of Hanzu undergraduates(P<0.01).Scores of their self-esteem and positive coping styles were lower than that of Hanzu undergraduates,and differences were significant (P =0.000).The negative coping styles and self-esteem could predict the state of mental health of Zangzu undergraduates in a great extent.Conclusion Zangzu undergraduates in inland have more mild mental problems,which are correlated with their self-esteem and coping styles.
2.CRISPR/Cas-mediated DNA base editing technology and its application in biomedicine and agriculture.
Chuanzhao YU ; Jianxin MO ; Xin ZHAO ; Guoling LI ; Xianwei ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2021;37(9):3071-3087
In recent years, the genome editing technologies based on the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein (CRISPR/Cas) have developed rapidly. The system can use homologous directed recombination (HDR) to achieve precise editing that it medicated, but the efficiency is extremely low, which limits its application in agriculture and biomedical fields. As an emerging genome editing technology, the CRISPR/Cas-mediated DNA base editing technologies can achieve targeted mutations of bases without generating double-strand breaks, and has higher editing efficiency and specificity compared with CRISPR/Cas-mediated HDR editing. At present, cytidine base editors (CBEs) that can mutate C to T, adenine base editors (ABEs) that can mutate A to G, and prime editors (PEs) that enable arbitrary base conversion and precise insertion and deletion of small fragments, have been developed. In addition, glycosylase base editors (GBEs) capable of transitioning from C to G and double base editors capable of editing both A and C simultaneously, have been developed. This review summarizes the development, advances, advantages and limitations of several DNA base editors. The successful applications of DNA base editing technology in biomedicine and agriculture, together with the prospects for further optimization and selection of DNA base editors, are discussed.
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