1.Attentional bias of low trait anxiety college students with or without fear-induced mood to emotional faces
Guozhi LIN ; Guanghui DENG ; Min JING ; Xiao JIN
Journal of Third Military Medical University 1984;0(01):-
Objective To investigate the attentional bias for emotionally faces in subjects with low-trait anxiety when they are under normal or induce-fear emotion.Methods Trait anxiety inquiry(T-AI) were used to evaluate the mental health status of 480 freshman in a university,and 450 valid questionnaires were obtained.Among them,90 students were identified as low trait anxiety.Sixty students from them were randomized into 2 group(n=30) to receive a dot-probe task with emotional face as stimulus.They were asked to judge the target.The attentional bias under normal or fear-induced emotion to the emotionally faces was examined.Results Low trait anxious college students showed attentional avoidance to the negative faces when they were under normal emotion [D=(-11.09?25.40),t=-2.391,P=0.024],and the orientation was significant [OI=(-20.28?22.90),t=-4.850,P0.05].Conclusion Low trait anxious college students have attentional avoidance to negative faces because of orientation,but the avoidance will disappear when they are under fear emotion.
2.Research Progress in the Function of SUMOylation during Infection by the Influenza Virus.
Huimin LIU ; Wenqing LI ; Lijuan SU ; Guozhi ZHANG ; Yan LI ; Xiao LI ; Hongtao CHANG
Chinese Journal of Virology 2015;31(5):560-564
The influenza virus has evolved numerous mechanisms to overcome host defenses for its benefit. It can also manipulate the immune system to stop it monitoring and clearing the virus. Small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO)ylation is emerging as a key post-translational modification that plays an important part in virus replication. This brief review focuses on recent findings on the roles of SUMOylation during infection by the influenza virus. As such, it will aid understanding of the mechanism of action of infection by the influenza virus, and help to provide new strategies for anti-viral treatment.
Animals
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Humans
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Influenza, Human
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virology
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Orthomyxoviridae
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genetics
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metabolism
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Sumoylation
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Viral Proteins
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genetics
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metabolism
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Virus Replication
3.Roles of focal adhesion proteins in skeleton and diseases.
Sheng CHEN ; Tailin HE ; Yiming ZHONG ; Mingjue CHEN ; Qing YAO ; Di CHEN ; Zengwu SHAO ; Guozhi XIAO
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2023;13(3):998-1013
The skeletal system, which contains bones, joints, tendons, ligaments and other elements, plays a wide variety of roles in body shaping, support and movement, protection of internal organs, production of blood cells and regulation of calcium and phosphate metabolism. The prevalence of skeletal diseases and disorders, such as osteoporosis and bone fracture, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and intervertebral disc degeneration, increases with age, causing pain and loss of mobility and creating a huge social and economic burden globally. Focal adhesions (FAs) are macromolecular assemblies that are composed of the extracellular matrix (ECM), integrins, intracellular cytoskeleton and other proteins, including kindlin, talin, vinculin, paxillin, pinch, Src, focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and integrin-linked protein kinase (ILK) and other proteins. FA acts as a mechanical linkage connecting the ECM and cytoskeleton and plays a key role in mediating cell-environment communications and modulates important processes, such as cell attachment, spreading, migration, differentiation and mechanotransduction, in different cells in skeletal system by impacting distinct outside-in and inside-out signaling pathways. This review aims to integrate the up-to-date knowledge of the roles of FA proteins in the health and disease of skeletal system and focuses on the specific molecular mechanisms and underlying therapeutic targets for skeletal diseases.
4.Kindlin-2 loss in condylar chondrocytes causes spontaneous osteoarthritic lesions in the temporomandibular joint in mice.
Yumei LAI ; Wei ZHENG ; Minghao QU ; Christopher C XIAO ; Sheng CHEN ; Qing YAO ; Weiyuan GONG ; Chu TAO ; Qinnan YAN ; Peijun ZHANG ; Xiaohao WU ; Guozhi XIAO
International Journal of Oral Science 2022;14(1):33-33
The progressive destruction of condylar cartilage is a hallmark of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) osteoarthritis (OA); however, its mechanism is incompletely understood. Here, we show that Kindlin-2, a key focal adhesion protein, is strongly detected in cells of mandibular condylar cartilage in mice. We find that genetic ablation of Kindlin-2 in aggrecan-expressing condylar chondrocytes induces multiple spontaneous osteoarthritic lesions, including progressive cartilage loss and deformation, surface fissures, and ectopic cartilage and bone formation in TMJ. Kindlin-2 loss significantly downregulates the expression of aggrecan, Col2a1 and Proteoglycan 4 (Prg4), all anabolic extracellular matrix proteins, and promotes catabolic metabolism in TMJ cartilage by inducing expression of Runx2 and Mmp13 in condylar chondrocytes. Kindlin-2 loss decreases TMJ chondrocyte proliferation in condylar cartilages. Furthermore, Kindlin-2 loss promotes the release of cytochrome c as well as caspase 3 activation, and accelerates chondrocyte apoptosis in vitro and TMJ. Collectively, these findings reveal a crucial role of Kindlin-2 in condylar chondrocytes to maintain TMJ homeostasis.
Aggrecans/metabolism*
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Animals
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Cartilage, Articular/metabolism*
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Chondrocytes/pathology*
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Cytoskeletal Proteins/metabolism*
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Mice
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Muscle Proteins/metabolism*
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Osteoarthritis/pathology*
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Temporomandibular Joint/pathology*