1.The impact of immunotherapy on pulmonary function and its prognostic significance in patients with non-small cell lung cancer
Chinese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2025;52(16):860-864
Non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC)is the most common form of lung cancer,and patients with advanced disease generally have a poor prognosis.In recent years,immune checkpoint inhibitors(ICIs)have been approved as first-line therapy for patients with NSCLC lacking actionable driver mutations.Emerging evidence indicates that ICIs reduce tumor burden in some patients and may affect pulmonary ventila-tion and diffusion capacity,which are associated with clinical outcomes.This review summarizes baseline pulmonary function characteristics in advanced NSCLC,outlines in the impact of ICI therapy on lung function,and discusses potential mechanisms through which immunother-apy can influence pulmonary function,with the aim of guiding lung function monitoring and individualized management during ICI treat-ment.
2.Integrating biogravimetric analysis and machine learning for systematic studies of botanical materials: From bioactive constituent identification to production area prediction.
Sinan WANG ; Huiru XIANG ; Xinyuan PAN ; Jianyang PAN ; Lu ZHAO ; Yi WANG ; Shaoqing CUI ; Yu TANG
Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis 2025;15(10):101222-101222
In general, bioassay-guided fractionation and isolation of bioactive constituents from botanical materials frequently ended up with the reward of a single compound. However, botanical materials typically exert their therapeutic actions through multi-pathway effects due to the intrinsic complex nature of chemical constituents. In addition, the content of bioactive compounds in botanical materials is largely dependent on humidity, temperature, soil, especially geographical origins, from which rapid and accurate identification of plant materials is pressingly needed. These long-standing obstacles collectively impede the deep exploitation and application of these versatile natural sources. To address the challenges, a new paradigm integrating biogravimetric analyses and machine learning-driven origin classification (BAMLOC) was developed. The biogravimetric analyses are based on absolute qHNMR quantification and in vivo zebrafish model-assisted activity index calculation, by which bioactive substance groups jointly responsible for the bioactivities in all fractions are pinpointed before any isolation effort. To differentiate origin-different botanical materials varying in the content of bioactive substance groups, principal component analysis, linear discriminant analysis, and hierarchical cluster analysis in conjunction with supervised support vector machine are employed to classify and predict production areas based on the detection of volatile organic compounds by E-nose and GC-MS. Expanding BAMLOC to Codonopsis Radix enables the identification of polyacetylenes and pyrrolidine alkaloids as the bioactive substance group for immune restoration effect and accurately determines the origins of plants. This study advances the toolbox for the discovery of bioactive compounds from complex mixtures and lays a more definitive foundation for the in-depth utilization of botanical materials.
3.Predicting epileptic seizures based on a multi-convolution fusion network.
Xueting SHEN ; Yan PIAO ; Huiru YANG ; Haitong ZHAO
Journal of Biomedical Engineering 2025;42(5):987-993
Current epilepsy prediction methods are not effective in characterizing the multi-domain features of complex long-term electroencephalogram (EEG) data, leading to suboptimal prediction performance. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel multi-scale sparse adaptive convolutional network based on multi-head attention mechanism (MS-SACN-MM) model to effectively characterize the multi-domain features. The model first preprocesses the EEG data, constructs multiple convolutional layers to effectively avoid information overload, and uses a multi-layer perceptron and multi-head attention mechanism to focus the network on critical pre-seizure features. Then, it adopts a focal loss training strategy to alleviate class imbalance and enhance the model's robustness. Experimental results show that on the publicly created dataset (CHB-MIT) by MIT and Boston Children's Hospital, the MS-SACN-MM model achieves a maximum accuracy of 0.999 for seizure prediction 10 ~ 15 minutes in advance. This demonstrates good predictive performance and holds significant importance for early intervention and intelligent clinical management of epilepsy patients.
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Epilepsy/physiopathology*
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Algorithms
4.Research progress on the mechanism of antimicrobial peptide modulation of bacterial drug resistance
Pin LU ; Huiru ZHOU ; Jing ZHAO ; Xue ZHANG ; Yajun JIAO ; Liqin ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology 2025;35(11):1749-1755
The problem of drug resistance resulting from the long-term use of antimicrobials is a serious threat to global health,and the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria,in particular,has greatly limited therapeutic op-tions.Therefore,the development of new or alternative antimicrobial agents has become an urgent need.Antimi-crobial peptides(AMPs)have been regarded as good alternatives to antibacterial drugs due to their strong antibac-terial activity and unique mechanism of action.At present,some AMPs have completed preclinical studies on drug-resistant bacterial infections and entered the clinical trial stage,while their stability and targeting have been signifi-cantly improved through the optimisation of amino acid modification,nano-delivery system and other technolo-gies,which have gradually become a research hotspot in this field.Therefore,this paper discusses the importance of AMPs in bacterial drug resistance from the biological properties of AMPs,the mechanism of regulating bacteri-al drug resistance and the application of AMPs in the treatment of drug-resistant bacterial infections,with a view to providing a reference for the development of drugs against drug-resistant bacteria and clinical application.
5.The impact of immunotherapy on pulmonary function and its prognostic significance in patients with non-small cell lung cancer
Chinese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2025;52(16):860-864
Non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC)is the most common form of lung cancer,and patients with advanced disease generally have a poor prognosis.In recent years,immune checkpoint inhibitors(ICIs)have been approved as first-line therapy for patients with NSCLC lacking actionable driver mutations.Emerging evidence indicates that ICIs reduce tumor burden in some patients and may affect pulmonary ventila-tion and diffusion capacity,which are associated with clinical outcomes.This review summarizes baseline pulmonary function characteristics in advanced NSCLC,outlines in the impact of ICI therapy on lung function,and discusses potential mechanisms through which immunother-apy can influence pulmonary function,with the aim of guiding lung function monitoring and individualized management during ICI treat-ment.
6.Research progress on the mechanism of antimicrobial peptide modulation of bacterial drug resistance
Pin LU ; Huiru ZHOU ; Jing ZHAO ; Xue ZHANG ; Yajun JIAO ; Liqin ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology 2025;35(11):1749-1755
The problem of drug resistance resulting from the long-term use of antimicrobials is a serious threat to global health,and the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria,in particular,has greatly limited therapeutic op-tions.Therefore,the development of new or alternative antimicrobial agents has become an urgent need.Antimi-crobial peptides(AMPs)have been regarded as good alternatives to antibacterial drugs due to their strong antibac-terial activity and unique mechanism of action.At present,some AMPs have completed preclinical studies on drug-resistant bacterial infections and entered the clinical trial stage,while their stability and targeting have been signifi-cantly improved through the optimisation of amino acid modification,nano-delivery system and other technolo-gies,which have gradually become a research hotspot in this field.Therefore,this paper discusses the importance of AMPs in bacterial drug resistance from the biological properties of AMPs,the mechanism of regulating bacteri-al drug resistance and the application of AMPs in the treatment of drug-resistant bacterial infections,with a view to providing a reference for the development of drugs against drug-resistant bacteria and clinical application.
7.Construction of diagnostic model of depression in insomnia patients based on polysomnography data
Ning CAO ; Huiru ZHANG ; Liwei NIU ; Rui ZHAO
Chinese Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 2024;50(11):661-667
Objective To establish a diagnostic model for depression in insomnia patients by mining polysomnography (PSG) data of insomnia patients with machine learning algorithms,and to provide a scientific basis for the diagnosis of depression in insomnia patients. Methods According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria,2162 insomnia inpatients and outpatients who attended the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Mental Health Center from January to December 2023 and underwent polysomnographic monitoring were included,and depression was diagnosed using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems,10th version (ICD-10). The general condition and PSG data of the patients were collected. Six algorithms—logistic regression (LR),Support vector machines (SVM),Random forest (RF),Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost),Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and Naive Bayes (NB)—were used to build the diagnostic model of depression in insomnia patients after the patients' general condition and PSG data were gathered. Results Among the enrolled patients with insomnia,40.1% had comorbid depression. Among the six models,LR and RF exhibited the highest values of area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic (ROC),at 0.825 and 0.823,respectively,indicating superior overall classification performance. Conclusion Logistic regression and random forest modeling have good diagnostic efficacy in the population of insomniacs with depression.
8.Construction of diagnostic model of depression in insomnia patients based on polysomnography data
Ning CAO ; Huiru ZHANG ; Liwei NIU ; Rui ZHAO
Chinese Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 2024;50(11):661-667
Objective To establish a diagnostic model for depression in insomnia patients by mining polysomnography (PSG) data of insomnia patients with machine learning algorithms,and to provide a scientific basis for the diagnosis of depression in insomnia patients. Methods According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria,2162 insomnia inpatients and outpatients who attended the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Mental Health Center from January to December 2023 and underwent polysomnographic monitoring were included,and depression was diagnosed using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems,10th version (ICD-10). The general condition and PSG data of the patients were collected. Six algorithms—logistic regression (LR),Support vector machines (SVM),Random forest (RF),Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost),Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and Naive Bayes (NB)—were used to build the diagnostic model of depression in insomnia patients after the patients' general condition and PSG data were gathered. Results Among the enrolled patients with insomnia,40.1% had comorbid depression. Among the six models,LR and RF exhibited the highest values of area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic (ROC),at 0.825 and 0.823,respectively,indicating superior overall classification performance. Conclusion Logistic regression and random forest modeling have good diagnostic efficacy in the population of insomniacs with depression.
9.Synthesis and biological evaluation of moscatilin analogs as anti-inflammatory agents
GUAN Li ; WANG Chunyang ; ZHAO Huiru ; LI Weize ; FENG Feng
Journal of China Pharmaceutical University 2021;52(2):171-176
Using syringaldehyde as raw material, the phosphine ylide intermediate was efficiently synthesized through acetylated hydroxyl protection, aldehyde group reduction, chlorination and reaction with triphenylphosphine. On this basis, moscatilin (MST) and its 12 analogs (MST-1-MST-12) were synthesized by wittig reaction, deacetylation and double bond reduction. All the structures were confirmed by 1H NMR, 13C NMR and ESI-MS. Bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced mouse macrophage RAW264.7 inflammation model was used to conduct preliminary anti-inflammatory activity tests in vitro for the target compounds. Results showed that all compounds could inhibit the production of inflammatory factor NO, and that MST-5 exhibited the strongest anti-inflammatory activity (IC50= 0.428 μmol/L).Further exploration is expected for the study of the anti-inflammatory mechanism of MST-5.
10.Radiotherapy for and prognosis of breast cancer patients with isolated chest wall recurrence after mastectomy
Liang XUAN ; Xuran ZHAO ; Huiru SUN ; Jun YIN ; Yu TANG ; Hao JING ; Hui FANG ; Yongwen SONG ; Jing JIN ; Yueping LIU ; Hua REN ; Bo CHEN ; Shunan QI ; Ning LI ; Yuan TANG ; Ningning LU ; Yong YANG ; Shikai WU ; Yexiong LI ; Shulian WANG ; Bing SUN
Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology 2021;30(9):898-902
Objective:To investigate the radiation field and dose selection of patients with isolated chest wall recurrence (ICWR) after modified radical mastectomy, and analyze the prognostic factors related to subsequent chest wall recurrence.Methods:Clinical data of 201 patients with ICWR after mastectomy admitted to the Fifth Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital from 1998 to 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. None of the patients received postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy. After ICWR, 48 patients (73.6%) underwent surgery and 155 patients (77.1%) received radiotherapy. Kaplan-Meier method was used to calculate the post-recurrence progression-free survival (PFS) rates and the difference was compared by log-rank test. Multivariate analysis was performed using Cox regression model. Competing risk model was adopted to estimate the subsequent local recurrence (sLR) rates after ICWR and the difference was compared with Gray test. Multivariate analysis was conducted using F&G analysis. Results:With a median follow up of 92.8 months after ICWR, the 5-year PFS rate was 23.2%, and the 5-year sLR rate was 35.7%. Multivariate analysis showed that patients with surgery plus radiotherapy and recurrence interval o F>12 months had a lower sLR rate. Patients with recurrence interval o F>48 months, local plus systemic treatment and surgery plus radiotherapy had a higher PFS rate. Among the 155 patients who received chest wall radiotherapy after ICWR, total chest wall irradiation plus local boost could improve the 5-year PFS rate compared with total chest wall irradiation alone (34.0% vs. 15.4%, P=0.004). Chest wall radiation dose (≤60 Gy vs.>60 Gy) exerted no significant effect upon the sLR and PFS rates (both P>0.05). In the 53 patients without surgery, the 5-year PFS rates were 9.1% and 20.5%( P=0.061) with tumor bed dose ≤60 Gy and>60 Gy, respectively. Conclusions:Local radiotherapy is recommended for patients with ICWR after modified radical mastectomy of breast cancer, including total chest wall radiation plus local boost. The radiation dose for recurrence should be increased to 60 Gy, and it should be above 60 Gy for those who have not undergone surgical resection. In addition, patients with ICWR still have a high risk of sLR, and more effective treatments need to be explored.

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