1.Three-dimensional finite element analysis of personalized orthodontic devices for 3D printed maxillary single-rooted rotated tooth
Yan ZHUANG ; Xinyu WANG ; Yilin CAO ; Yuanxin DING ; Jiaqi WANG ; Miao YU ; Chunyang LUAN ; Yuansheng DING
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2025;29(30):6409-6415
BACKGROUND:In orthodontic treatment,full-mouth treatment is usually used to treat single-root severely twisted teeth,and single-tooth treatment is less common.OBJECTIVE:To design a personalized orthodontic device based on biomechanical principles to address the rotation of teeth 11,12,13,21,22,and 23,and evaluate the device's impact on tooth movement using three-dimensional finite element method.METHODS:Based on the biomechanical principle of tooth rotation and movement,a personalized orthodontic device was made by digital design combined with three-dimensional printing,so that the personalized orthodontic device and the tooth formed an anchorage system.The absolute anchorage of the micro-implant was used to precisely control the single-root twisted tooth in the three-dimensional direction.The CBCT data of the maxillary alveolar bone and tooth tissue of a female volunteer were collected.The three-dimensional finite element models of the twisted tooth-periodontal ligament-maxillary bone-personalized orthodontic device were established using Mimics,Geomagic Wrap,SolidWorks,3-matic Research 15.0,and Ansys Workbench software.The equivalent stress distribution characteristics of the personalized orthodontic device,the movement trend of the tooth,and the equivalent stress distribution characteristics of the periodontal ligament were calculated under a thrust of 60 g.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:(1)The maximum equivalent stress observed on the personalized orthodontic device was 47.71 MPa.(2)The initial tooth displacement under the device demonstrated a rotational trend.The peak equivalent stress in the periodontal ligament was concentrated at the neck,while lower stress was observed in the apex region.(3)The safety and feasibility of the personalized orthodontic device designed in this study for severely rotated single-rooted teeth were preliminarily verified through finite element analysis.
2.Effect of natural drying method on umbilical care of neonates
Yue CHAI ; Jiaqi LI ; Chunmei YIN ; Jun LUAN ; Meng FANG ; Na DOU
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology 2025;35(10):1520-1523
OBJECTIVE To compare the effect on umbilical care of the neonates between the natural dying method and the traditional ethanol disinfection method so as to provide a better method of umbilical nursing for the neo-nates.METHODS A total of 212 healthy neonates who were given birth in the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital from Aug.2024 to Nov.2024 were recruited as the research subjects and were randomly divided into the natural drying method with 103 cases and the traditional ethanol disinfection method with 109 cases ac-cording to the method of umbilical care.The time of umbilical cord separation,rate of umbilical bleeding and inci-dence of umbilical secretions were observed and compared between the two groups of neonates.RESULTS There were 16 neonates with the healing time of umbilical cord separation no more than 7 days under the treatment of natural drying method,with 5 cases more than the neonates under the treatment of traditional ethanol disinfection method.The average healing time of umbilical cord separation was 11.69 days under the natural drying method,1.43 days shorter than 13.12 days under the traditional ethanol disinfection method,and there was significant difference(P<0.05).The rate of umbilical bleeding was 5.82%under the natural drying method,a reduction of 0.60%as compared with 6.42%under the traditional ethanol disinfection method;the incidence of umbilical se-cretions was 0.97%under the national drying method,a reduction of 1.78%as compared with 2.75%under the traditional ethanol disinfection method,but there were no significant differences.CONCLUSIONS As compared with the traditional ethanol disinfection method,the natural drying method can shorten the time of umbilical cord separation,reduce the risk of umbilical infection,and reduce the stress from the neonatal nursing.It is worthy to be promoted.
3.Effect of natural drying method on umbilical care of neonates
Yue CHAI ; Jiaqi LI ; Chunmei YIN ; Jun LUAN ; Meng FANG ; Na DOU
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology 2025;35(10):1520-1523
OBJECTIVE To compare the effect on umbilical care of the neonates between the natural dying method and the traditional ethanol disinfection method so as to provide a better method of umbilical nursing for the neo-nates.METHODS A total of 212 healthy neonates who were given birth in the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital from Aug.2024 to Nov.2024 were recruited as the research subjects and were randomly divided into the natural drying method with 103 cases and the traditional ethanol disinfection method with 109 cases ac-cording to the method of umbilical care.The time of umbilical cord separation,rate of umbilical bleeding and inci-dence of umbilical secretions were observed and compared between the two groups of neonates.RESULTS There were 16 neonates with the healing time of umbilical cord separation no more than 7 days under the treatment of natural drying method,with 5 cases more than the neonates under the treatment of traditional ethanol disinfection method.The average healing time of umbilical cord separation was 11.69 days under the natural drying method,1.43 days shorter than 13.12 days under the traditional ethanol disinfection method,and there was significant difference(P<0.05).The rate of umbilical bleeding was 5.82%under the natural drying method,a reduction of 0.60%as compared with 6.42%under the traditional ethanol disinfection method;the incidence of umbilical se-cretions was 0.97%under the national drying method,a reduction of 1.78%as compared with 2.75%under the traditional ethanol disinfection method,but there were no significant differences.CONCLUSIONS As compared with the traditional ethanol disinfection method,the natural drying method can shorten the time of umbilical cord separation,reduce the risk of umbilical infection,and reduce the stress from the neonatal nursing.It is worthy to be promoted.
4.Guideline-driven clinical decision support for colonoscopy patients using the hierarchical multi-label deep learning method.
Junling WU ; Jun CHEN ; Hanwen ZHANG ; Zhe LUAN ; Yiming ZHAO ; Mengxuan SUN ; Shufang WANG ; Congyong LI ; Zhizhuang ZHAO ; Wei ZHANG ; Yi CHEN ; Jiaqi ZHANG ; Yansheng LI ; Kejia LIU ; Jinghao NIU ; Gang SUN
Chinese Medical Journal 2025;138(20):2631-2639
BACKGROUND:
Over 20 million colonoscopies are performed in China annually. An automatic clinical decision support system (CDSS) with accurate semantic recognition of colonoscopy reports and guideline-based is helpful to relieve the increasing medical burden and standardize the healthcare. In this study, the CDSS was built under a hierarchical-label interpretable classification framework, trained by a state-of-the-art transformer-based model, and validated in a multi-center style.
METHODS:
We conducted stratified sampling on a previously established dataset containing 302,965 electronic colonoscopy reports with pathology, identified 2041 patients' records representative of overall features, and randomly divided into the training and testing sets (7:3). A total of five main labels and 22 sublabels were applied to annotate each record on a network platform, and the data were trained respectively by three pre-training models on Chinese corpus website, including bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT)-base-Chinese (BC), the BERT-wwm-ext-Chinese (BWEC), and ernie-3.0-base-zh (E3BZ). The performance of trained models was subsequently compared with a randomly initialized model, and the preferred model was selected. Model fine-tuning was applied to further enhance the capacity. The system was validated in five other hospitals with 3177 consecutive colonoscopy cases.
RESULTS:
The E3BZ pre-trained model exhibited the best performance, with a 90.18% accuracy and a 69.14% Macro-F1 score overall. The model achieved 100% accuracy in identifying cancer cases and 99.16% for normal cases. In external validation, the model exhibited favorable consistency and good performance among five hospitals.
CONCLUSIONS
The novel CDSS possesses high-level semantic recognition of colonoscopy reports, provides appropriate recommendations, and holds the potential to be a powerful tool for physicians and patients. The hierarchical multi-label strategy and pre-training method should be amendable to manage more medical text in the future.
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5.Research progress in the mechanism of Chinese materia medica in the treatment of viral pneumonia based on signaling pathway
Jiaqi SHANG ; Xin PENG ; Zheyu LUAN ; Yunfan WANG ; Yihao ZHANG ; Jihong FENG
International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2025;47(9):1332-1336
The research on the mechanism of Chinese materia medica in the treatment of viral pneumonia (VP) is mainly based on the monomer components of Chinese materia medica and TCM compounds. Among them, the monomer components are mainly polyphenols, flavonoids and anthraquinones, which have anti-inflammatory, antiviral, immunomodulatory and antioxidant pharmacological effects. The efficacy of TCM compounds is mainly based on clearing heat, and it has the functions of removing phlegm, removing blood stasis, removing dampness, moistening lung and so on. The intervention of Chinese materia medica in VP mainly involves NF-κB, MAPK, JAK/STAT, PI3K/Akt and other signaling pathways. The mechanism includes regulating oxidative stress, apoptosis, regulating immune function, inhibiting inflammatory response, etc., which can reduce the pathological damage of inflammatory cell infiltration and edema in lung tissue, and achieve the protective effect on lung tissue. The current research models exhibit unclear patterns of syndrome differentiation, and the mechanisms of Chinese materia medica involving multiple targets and pathways are poorly understood. Future research should integrate disease-syndrome combination models to further explore the mechanisms by which TCM regulates multiple targets and pathways, thereby providing insights and methodologies for the treatment of viral pneumonia with Chinese materia medica.
6.Three-dimensional finite element analysis of personalized orthodontic devices for 3D printed maxillary single-rooted rotated tooth
Yan ZHUANG ; Xinyu WANG ; Yilin CAO ; Yuanxin DING ; Jiaqi WANG ; Miao YU ; Chunyang LUAN ; Yuansheng DING
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2025;29(30):6409-6415
BACKGROUND:In orthodontic treatment,full-mouth treatment is usually used to treat single-root severely twisted teeth,and single-tooth treatment is less common.OBJECTIVE:To design a personalized orthodontic device based on biomechanical principles to address the rotation of teeth 11,12,13,21,22,and 23,and evaluate the device's impact on tooth movement using three-dimensional finite element method.METHODS:Based on the biomechanical principle of tooth rotation and movement,a personalized orthodontic device was made by digital design combined with three-dimensional printing,so that the personalized orthodontic device and the tooth formed an anchorage system.The absolute anchorage of the micro-implant was used to precisely control the single-root twisted tooth in the three-dimensional direction.The CBCT data of the maxillary alveolar bone and tooth tissue of a female volunteer were collected.The three-dimensional finite element models of the twisted tooth-periodontal ligament-maxillary bone-personalized orthodontic device were established using Mimics,Geomagic Wrap,SolidWorks,3-matic Research 15.0,and Ansys Workbench software.The equivalent stress distribution characteristics of the personalized orthodontic device,the movement trend of the tooth,and the equivalent stress distribution characteristics of the periodontal ligament were calculated under a thrust of 60 g.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:(1)The maximum equivalent stress observed on the personalized orthodontic device was 47.71 MPa.(2)The initial tooth displacement under the device demonstrated a rotational trend.The peak equivalent stress in the periodontal ligament was concentrated at the neck,while lower stress was observed in the apex region.(3)The safety and feasibility of the personalized orthodontic device designed in this study for severely rotated single-rooted teeth were preliminarily verified through finite element analysis.
7.Discussion on Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory and Pharmacological Mechanism of Xuanfei Baidu Prescription in Treatment of Viral Pneumonia
Yihao ZHANG ; Xin PENG ; Zheyu LUAN ; Yunfan WANG ; Jiaqi SHANG ; Jihong FENG
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2024;30(19):214-224
Viral pneumonia (VP) is an inflammatory disease caused by one or more viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract and spread downward. Causing varying degrees of pulmonary parenchymal damage, VP poses a serious threat to the society and public health. The treatment of VP now faces the dilemma of drug shortage, since Western medicine can only alleviate symptoms and lacks specific treatment methods. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), VP is assigned as an epidemic disease, with the etiology attributed to epidemic toxin and six excesses and the pathological factors of dampness, heat, toxin, deficiency, and stasis. The basic pathogenesis of VP is Yin-Yang imbalance, dysfunction of Zang-Fu organs, and healthy Qi deficiency. Accordingly, the treatment should follow the principle of replenishing healthy Qi and expelling pathogen. The treatment method of VP is mainly developed based on syndrome differentiation of six meridians, defense-Qi-nutrient-blood, and triple energizer. Xuanfei Baidu prescription (XFBD) is an effective prescription developed by Academician ZHANG Boli and Professor LIU Qingquan by literature research and selection of multi-component Chinese medicine. It is the product of modern research combined with TCM. XFBD is modified from Maxing Shigantang, Maxing Yigantang, Tingli Dazao Xiefeitang, Qianjin Weijingtang, and Buhuanjin Zhengqisan. It is mainly used to treat epidemic diseases with the syndrome of dampness toxin stagnating in the lung, with the effects of ventilating lung and resolving dampness, clearing heat and expelling pathogen, purging lung, and removing toxin, demonstrating the potential for the prevention and treatment of VP. This paper reviews the research progress of XFBD in combating VP in terms of the prescription composition, compatibility ideas, indications, and clinical new applications, as well as the pharmacological mechanisms of inhibiting virus, reducing inflammation, regulating immune system, ameliorating pulmonary fibrosis, and modulating intestinal flora. In addition, we put forward our thoughts and suggestions on the problems in the research, with a view to informing the clinical use of drugs and the basic research on the treatment of VP including COVID-19.
8.Immunoregulatory Effect of Jiedu Tongluo Shengjin Prescription on Sjögren's Syndrome Mice Based on Stability of Treg Cells
Dandan CHENG ; Yongming LI ; Jiaqi HOU ; Luan XUE
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2023;29(9):119-128
ObjectiveTo investigate the effect of different doses of Jiedu Tongluo Shengjin prescription (JTSP) on serum interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and forkhead box P3 (FoxP3) in submandibular gland of NOD/Ltj mice with Sjögren's syndrome, and to explore the mechanism of JTSP on immune regulation in NOD/Ltj mice. MethodThirty NOD/Ltj mice (eight weeks old) were randomly divided into model group, JTSP low-dose group, JTSP medium-dose group, JTSP high-dose group and hydroxychloroquine group, and were administrated with normal saline, JTSP 9, 18, and 36 g·kg-1, and hydroxychloroquine 60 mg·kg-1 daily, respectively from the age of 12 weeks. Six ICR mice were given an equal amount of normal saline by gavage as the control group. During the experiment, daily water consumption and saliva secretion of mice at the age of 9, 12, 16 weeks were recorded. After 4 weeks of administration, submandibular gland and spleen tissues were dissected to calculate corresponding indexes. The pathological morphology of submandibular gland was observed by hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining. Meso Scale Discovery (MSD) and immunohistochemistry were employed to detect the serum levels of IL-6, TNF-α and IL-10, and the expression and distribution of FoxP3 in submandibular gland, respectively. The protein expression of FoxP3 in mouse submandibular gland was determined by Western blot, and the mRNA expressions of FoxP3 and TNF-α were determined by real-time polymerase chain reaction (Real-time PCR). ResultCompared with the control group, the model group presented increased daily water consumption, decreased saliva secretion, lowered submandibular gland index, elevated pathological score of submandibular gland, up-regulated serum IL-6 and TNF-α and mRNA expression of TNF-α while down-regulated serum IL-10 and protein and mRNA expressions of FoxP3 in submandibular gland (P<0.05). Compared with the conditions in model group, daily water consumption in JTSP groups was reduced while saliva secretion was increased, especially in medium-dose and high-dose groups (P<0.05), and there was an increase in the submandibular gland index of JTSP medium-dose group (P<0.05) while a decrease in the spleen index of JTSP high-dose group (P<0.05). Additionally, JTSP groups had lower pathological score of submandibular gland than the model group (P<0.05), especially high-dose group, as well as lower serum IL-6 and TNF-α and mRNA expression of TNF-α while higher serum IL-10 (P<0.05). JTSP at medium and high doses up-regulated the protein and mRNA expressions of FoxP3 in submandibular gland (P<0.05). ConclusionJTSP may inhibit the secretion of inflammatory cytokines by regulating the stability of FoxP3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells, thus alleviating the systemic immune inflammation in Sjögren's syndrome.
9.Application status and research progress in perioperative chemoradiotherapy for T 3 rectal cancer
Xin JI ; Chunying LI ; Jinwei LUAN ; Yang ZHOU ; Jiaqi LI ; Xianglan LI
Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology 2023;32(11):1010-1014
T 3 rectal cancer patients are a heterogeneous group of populations. T 3 stage patients with good prognosis are similar to their T 2 stage counterparts, and T 3 stage patients with poor prognosis are similar to T 4 stage counterparts. Although small sample clinical trials, meta-analyses and retrospective analyses have been conducted, clinical guidelines are not completely consistent with the definition of risk factors and treatment recommendations for this group of populations. At present, the treatment strategy for T 3 rectal cancer is still controversial, especially the application of perioperative radiotherapy. In this article, current application status and research progress in perioperative chemoradiotherapy for T 3 rectal cancer were reviewed.
10.Current status of treatment for locally advanced middle-low rectal cancer with lateral lymph node metastasis
Chunying LI ; Xin JI ; Jinwei LUAN ; Yang ZHOU ; Jiaqi LI ; Xianglan LI
Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology 2023;32(12):1104-1108
The incidence of lateral lymph node metastases (LLN) of locally advanced middle-low rectal cancer (II-Ⅲ stage) is high and clinical prognosis is poor. At present, the treatment plan of LLN is controversial between the East and the West. Scholars from the East represented by Japan believe that LLN is a regional disease. Lateral pelvic lymph node dissection (LPLND) is recommended when the tumor is located under the peritoneal reflection and invades into the muscular layer, regardless of the presence or absence of LLN. However, European and American scholars believe that LLN is a systemic disease and recommend neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) combined with total mesorectal excision (TME). Nevertheless, recent studies have found that neither nCRT nor LPLND can significantly reduce the locoregional recurrence (LR) rate in patients with LLN, while nCRT combined with LPLND yields better prognosis. Some studies have also demonstrated that increasing the radiotherapy dose of metastatic lymph nodes can improve the local control rate. In this article, current treatment status of this population was reviewed, aiming to provide a basis for clinical treatment.

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