1.History, Experience, Opportunities, and Challenges in Esophageal Cancer Prevention and Treatment in Linxian, Henan Province, A High Incidence Area for Esophageal Cancer
Lidong WANG ; Xiaoqian ZHANG ; Xin SONG ; Xueke ZHAO ; Duo YOU ; Lingling LEI ; Ruihua XU ; Jin HUANG ; Wenli HAN ; Ran WANG ; Qide BAO ; Aifang JI ; Lei MA ; Shegan GAO
Cancer Research on Prevention and Treatment 2025;52(4):251-255
Linxian County in Henan Province, Northern China is known as the region with the highest incidence and mortality rate of esophageal cancer worldwide. Since 1959, the Henan medical team has conducted field work on esophageal cancer prevention and treatment in Linxian. Through three generations of effort exerted by oncologists over 65 years of research on esophageal cancer prevention and treatment in Linxian, the incidence rate of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in this area has dropped by nearly 50%, and the 5-year survival rate has increased to 40%, reaching the international leading
2.Analysis of red blood cell transfusion reactions in China from 2018 to 2023
Bo PAN ; Xiaoyu GUAN ; Jue WANG ; Yunlong PAN ; Liu HE ; Haixia XU ; Xin JI ; Li TIAN ; Ling LI ; Zhong LIU
Chinese Journal of Blood Transfusion 2025;38(5):704-710
Objective: To analyze the demographic characteristics of patients with red blood cell transfusion reactions, the usage of red blood cell preparations, and the differences in the composition ratio of adverse reactions based on multi-center data from the Haemovigilance Network, in order to reveal the clinical characteristics of red blood cell transfusion and its underlying issues. Methods: Clinical data of patients who experienced transfusion reactions after red blood cell transfusion in the Haemovigilance Network from 2018 to 2023 were collected. The demographic characteristics of patients who experienced transfusion reactions with different types of red blood cell preparations, the utilization of these preparations, and the differences of the composition ratios of transfusion reactions were analyzed. Count data were expressed as numbers (n) or percentages (%), and comparisons between groups were performed using the Chi-square test. Results: Red blood cell transfusion reactions were more common in females (53.56%), with the majority of patients aged 50-69 years (35.54%). The Han polulation accounted for the vast majority of patients (92.77%), and patients in the hematology and obstetrics/gynecology departments had a relatively high proportion of transfusion reactions (13.26% and 14.26%, respectively). Leukocyte-reduced red blood cells and suspended red blood cells were the most common types of transfusion reactions reported among red blood cell preparations. Allergic reactions and non-hemolytic febrile reactions were the most common transfusion reactions, and there were significant differences in the composition ratios of allergic reactions (χ
=869.89, P<0.05) and non-hemolytic febrile reactions (χ
=812.75, P<0.05) across various types of red blood cell preparations. Conclusion: There are differences in the demographic characteristics and composition ratio of transfusion reactions among different red blood cell preparations. The management of red blood cell transfusion reactions should be tailored to patient characteristics and conditions, and the selection and use of blood products should be optimized to reduce or avoid the occurrence of transfusion reactions, such as considering the use of washed red blood cells for patients with a history of transfusion allergies or those prone to allergies.
3.Application of Classic Prescription Xiao Chaihutang in Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases in Gynecology: A Review
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2025;31(22):153-164
Xiao Chaihutang,an ancient classic prescription,originated from the Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases (hereinafter referred to as Treatise on Febrile Diseases) written by ZHANG Zhongjing in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a representative prescription for reconciling Shaoyang. It can strengthening the body resistance to eliminate pathogenic factors,clear away the evil heat,and harmonize the stomach Qi and can be used to treat various diseases caused by insufficient vital energy,lingering evil energy,dysregulation of ascending and descending,disharmony between the exterior and interior,and dysfunction of the liver,gallbladder,and stomach,such as liver-gallbladder damp heat syndrome,disharmony between the exterior and interior (intermittent chills and fever,malaria),abnormal ascending and descending (vomiting,thirst,irritability,constipation, and depression),and disharmony between Yin and Yang. The core point of the pathogenesis is that the lack of positive energy and the invasion of evil energy,with an unfavorable Shaoyang cardinal system,which is consistent with the pathophysiological characteristics of women. In gynecology,on the one hand,women are prone to Qi and blood deficiency,which affects the body's ability to fight off evil influences. On the other hand,women's liver function is the most important,and they are prone to the pathological manifestations of catharsis dysfunction,Qi stagnation,and loss of function. Therefore,Xiao Chaihutang is used in the treatment of various gynecological diseases such as menstruation,leukorrhea,childbirth,and lactation. The key to using ancient formulas lies in flexible application. As long as the additions and subtractions are appropriate,different diseases can be treated in the same way. If the clinical syndrome can be adjusted according to the changes,the ratio of monarch drug and ministerial drug group,the nature of cold and warm,and the ability to tonify and diarrhea,it can be widely used in the treatment of a variety of gynecological diseases based on the reconciliation of the pathogenesis of Shaoyang,the essence of the same treatment of different diseases,and flexible tailoring. This article aims to study the application of the classic prescription Xiao Chaihutang from the Treatise on Febrile Diseases in gynecology,summarize its characteristics of pathological mechanism integration,and help peers in the treatment of gynecological diseases.
4.Spatial transcriptomics reveals that metabolic characteristics define the tumor immunosuppression microenvironment via iCAF transformation in oral squamous cell carcinoma.
Zheqi LIU ; Zhen ZHANG ; Yu ZHANG ; Wenkai ZHOU ; Xu ZHANG ; Canbang PENG ; Tong JI ; Xin ZOU ; Zhiyuan ZHANG ; Zhenhu REN
International Journal of Oral Science 2024;16(1):9-9
Tumor progression is closely related to tumor tissue metabolism and reshaping of the microenvironment. Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), a representative hypoxic tumor, has a heterogeneous internal metabolic environment. To clarify the relationship between different metabolic regions and the tumor immune microenvironment (TME) in OSCC, Single cell (SC) and spatial transcriptomics (ST) sequencing of OSCC tissues were performed. The proportion of TME in the ST data was obtained through SPOTlight deconvolution using SC and GSE103322 data. The metabolic activity of each spot was calculated using scMetabolism, and k-means clustering was used to classify all spots into hyper-, normal-, or hypometabolic regions. CD4T cell infiltration and TGF-β expression is higher in the hypermetabolic regions than in the others. Through CellPhoneDB and NicheNet cell-cell communication analysis, it was found that in the hypermetabolic region, fibroblasts can utilize the lactate produced by glycolysis of epithelial cells to transform into inflammatory cancer-associated fibroblasts (iCAFs), and the increased expression of HIF1A in iCAFs promotes the transcriptional expression of CXCL12. The secretion of CXCL12 recruits regulatory T cells (Tregs), leading to Treg infiltration and increased TGF-β secretion in the microenvironment and promotes the formation of a tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment. This study delineates the coordinate work axis of epithelial cells-iCAFs-Tregs in OSCC using SC, ST and TCGA bulk data, and highlights potential targets for therapy.
Humans
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Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/metabolism*
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck
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Mouth Neoplasms/metabolism*
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Immunosuppression Therapy
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Transforming Growth Factor beta
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Head and Neck Neoplasms
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Gene Expression Profiling
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Tumor Microenvironment
5.Research progress on carrier-free and carrier-supported supramolecular nanosystems of traditional Chinese medicine anti-tumor star molecules
Zi-ye ZANG ; Yao-zhi ZHANG ; Yi-hang ZHAO ; Xin-ru TAN ; Ji-chang WEI ; An-qi XU ; Hong-fei DUAN ; Hong-yan ZHANG ; Peng-long WANG ; Xue-mei HUANG ; Hai-min LEI
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica 2024;59(4):908-917
Anti-tumor traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of clinic application, in which the star molecules have always been the hotspot of modern drug research, but they are limited by the solubility, stability, targeting, bioactivity or toxicity of the monomer components of traditional Chinese medicine anti-tumor star molecules and other pharmacokinetic problems, which hinders the traditional Chinese medicine anti-tumor star molecules for further clinical translation and application. Currently, the nanosystems prepared by supramolecular technologies such as molecular self-assembly and nanomaterial encapsulation have broader application prospects in improving the anti-tumor effect of active components of traditional Chinese medicine, which has attracted extensive attention from scholars at home and abroad. In this paper, we systematically review the research progress in preparation of supramolecular nano-systems from anti-tumor star molecule of traditional Chinese medicine, and summarize the two major categories and ten small classes of carrier-free and carrier-based supramolecular nanosystems and their research cases, and the future development direction is put forward. The purpose of this paper is to provide reference for the research and clinical transformation of using supramolecular technology to improve the clinical application of anti-tumor star molecule of traditional Chinese medicine.
6.Visual Analysis of Research Trends and Hotspots in Animal Models of Chronic Heart Failure
Kun LIAN ; Xin LI ; Siyuan HU ; Yuehang XU ; Ji OUYANG ; Zhixi HU
Traditional Chinese Drug Research & Clinical Pharmacology 2024;35(3):394-401
Objective To understand the research situation of animal model of chronic heart failure(CHF)based on visualization software and bibliometrics methods,and to explore the research hotspots of animal models of CHF and guide the design of animal experiments and scientific research.Methods Literature related to animal model of CHF included in Web of Science core collection from January 1,2001 to October 10,2022 were retrieved.After reading the full text and obtaining the final included literature,VOSviewer and CiteSpace software were used to analyze the contents of institutions,journals and co-cited journals,authors and co-cited authors,keywords.Results A total of 961 papers were included,and the number of published papers increased steadily.The United States and China are the main research countries.Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University are major research institutions.The most frequently published and cited journals are AM J PHYSIOL-HEART C and CIRCULATION,etc..Schultz Harold D and Sabbah Hani N are more influential in author selection."Myocardial infarction","cardiac hypertrophy",and"rat"are the most frequent keywords,10 clusters and 18 emergent words were formed.Conclusion The research in this field is numerous,high quality but scattered.Commonly used animal models are rodents and dogs.The main modeling methods are surgery and drugs.The main pathological mechanisms are mainly myocardial hypertrophy,oxidative stress,and myocardial fibrosis.
7.Study on the Application of Named Entity Recognition in Electronic Medical Records for Lymphedema Disease
Haocheng TANG ; Wanchun SU ; Xiuyuan JI ; Jianfeng XIN ; Song XIA ; Yuguang SUN ; Yi XU ; Wenbin SHEN
Journal of Medical Informatics 2024;45(2):52-58
Purpose/Significance The paper discusses the application of artificial intelligence technology to the key entity recognition ofunstructured text data in the electronic medical records of lymphedema patients.Method/Process It expounds the solution of model fine-tuning training under the background of sample scarcity,a total of 594 patients admitted to the department of lymphatic surgery of Beijing Shijitan Hospital,Capital Medical University are selected as the research objects.The prediction layer of the GlobalPointer model is fine-tuned according to 15 key entity categories labeled by clinicians,nested and non-nested key entities are identified with its glob-al pointer.The accuracy of the experimental results and the feasibility of clinical application are analyzed.Result/Conclusion After fine-tuning,the average accuracy rate,recall rate and Macro_F1 ofthe model are 0.795,0.641 and 0.697,respectively,which lay a foundation for accurate mining of lymphedema EMR data.
8.Spatial transcriptomics reveals that metabolic characteristics define the tumor immunosuppression microenvironment via iCAF transformation in oral squamous cell carcinoma
Liu ZHEQI ; Zhang ZHEN ; Zhang YU ; Zhou WENKAI ; Zhang XU ; Peng CANBANG ; Ji TONG ; Zou XIN ; Zhang ZHIYUAN ; Ren ZHENHU
International Journal of Oral Science 2024;16(1):110-121
Tumor progression is closely related to tumor tissue metabolism and reshaping of the microenvironment.Oral squamous cell carcinoma(OSCC),a representative hypoxic tumor,has a heterogeneous internal metabolic environment.To clarify the relationship between different metabolic regions and the tumor immune microenvironment(TME)in OSCC,Single cell(SC)and spatial transcriptomics(ST)sequencing of OSCC tissues were performed.The proportion of TME in the ST data was obtained through SPOTlight deconvolution using SC and GSE103322 data.The metabolic activity of each spot was calculated using scMetabolism,and k-means clustering was used to classify all spots into hyper-,normal-,or hypometabolic regions.CD4T cell infiltration and TGF-β expression is higher in the hypermetabolic regions than in the others.Through CellPhoneDB and NicheNet cell-cell communication analysis,it was found that in the hypermetabolic region,fibroblasts can utilize the lactate produced by glycolysis of epithelial cells to transform into inflammatory cancer-associated fibroblasts(iCAFs),and the increased expression of HIF1A in iCAFs promotes the transcriptional expression of CXCL12.The secretion of CXCL12 recruits regulatory T cells(Tregs),leading to Treg infiltration and increased TGF-β secretion in the microenvironment and promotes the formation of a tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment.This study delineates the coordinate work axis of epithelial cells-iCAFs-Tregs in OSCC using SC,ST and TCGA bulk data,and highlights potential targets for therapy.
9.Spatial transcriptomics reveals that metabolic characteristics define the tumor immunosuppression microenvironment via iCAF transformation in oral squamous cell carcinoma
Liu ZHEQI ; Zhang ZHEN ; Zhang YU ; Zhou WENKAI ; Zhang XU ; Peng CANBANG ; Ji TONG ; Zou XIN ; Zhang ZHIYUAN ; Ren ZHENHU
International Journal of Oral Science 2024;16(1):110-121
Tumor progression is closely related to tumor tissue metabolism and reshaping of the microenvironment.Oral squamous cell carcinoma(OSCC),a representative hypoxic tumor,has a heterogeneous internal metabolic environment.To clarify the relationship between different metabolic regions and the tumor immune microenvironment(TME)in OSCC,Single cell(SC)and spatial transcriptomics(ST)sequencing of OSCC tissues were performed.The proportion of TME in the ST data was obtained through SPOTlight deconvolution using SC and GSE103322 data.The metabolic activity of each spot was calculated using scMetabolism,and k-means clustering was used to classify all spots into hyper-,normal-,or hypometabolic regions.CD4T cell infiltration and TGF-β expression is higher in the hypermetabolic regions than in the others.Through CellPhoneDB and NicheNet cell-cell communication analysis,it was found that in the hypermetabolic region,fibroblasts can utilize the lactate produced by glycolysis of epithelial cells to transform into inflammatory cancer-associated fibroblasts(iCAFs),and the increased expression of HIF1A in iCAFs promotes the transcriptional expression of CXCL12.The secretion of CXCL12 recruits regulatory T cells(Tregs),leading to Treg infiltration and increased TGF-β secretion in the microenvironment and promotes the formation of a tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment.This study delineates the coordinate work axis of epithelial cells-iCAFs-Tregs in OSCC using SC,ST and TCGA bulk data,and highlights potential targets for therapy.
10.Spatial transcriptomics reveals that metabolic characteristics define the tumor immunosuppression microenvironment via iCAF transformation in oral squamous cell carcinoma
Liu ZHEQI ; Zhang ZHEN ; Zhang YU ; Zhou WENKAI ; Zhang XU ; Peng CANBANG ; Ji TONG ; Zou XIN ; Zhang ZHIYUAN ; Ren ZHENHU
International Journal of Oral Science 2024;16(1):110-121
Tumor progression is closely related to tumor tissue metabolism and reshaping of the microenvironment.Oral squamous cell carcinoma(OSCC),a representative hypoxic tumor,has a heterogeneous internal metabolic environment.To clarify the relationship between different metabolic regions and the tumor immune microenvironment(TME)in OSCC,Single cell(SC)and spatial transcriptomics(ST)sequencing of OSCC tissues were performed.The proportion of TME in the ST data was obtained through SPOTlight deconvolution using SC and GSE103322 data.The metabolic activity of each spot was calculated using scMetabolism,and k-means clustering was used to classify all spots into hyper-,normal-,or hypometabolic regions.CD4T cell infiltration and TGF-β expression is higher in the hypermetabolic regions than in the others.Through CellPhoneDB and NicheNet cell-cell communication analysis,it was found that in the hypermetabolic region,fibroblasts can utilize the lactate produced by glycolysis of epithelial cells to transform into inflammatory cancer-associated fibroblasts(iCAFs),and the increased expression of HIF1A in iCAFs promotes the transcriptional expression of CXCL12.The secretion of CXCL12 recruits regulatory T cells(Tregs),leading to Treg infiltration and increased TGF-β secretion in the microenvironment and promotes the formation of a tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment.This study delineates the coordinate work axis of epithelial cells-iCAFs-Tregs in OSCC using SC,ST and TCGA bulk data,and highlights potential targets for therapy.

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