Ludan Zhang

• Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

Correction for ‘Acceptor–donor–acceptor-type molecules with large electrostatic potential difference for effective NIR photothermal therapy’ by Kexin Fan et al. , J. Mater. Chem. B , 2024, 12 , 5140–5149, https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TB00187G.

Single‐atom nanozymes (SAzymes), with their superior enzyme‐like catalytic activity, have emerged as promising candidates for oncology therapeutics. The well‐defined structures of SAzymes make them well predictable by experiences and theoretical calculation. However, the effects of metal center species and coordination environments on enzyme‐like a...

Effective intratumoral drug penetration is pivotal for successful cancer treatment. However, due to the disrupted capillary networks and poor perfusion in solid tumors, there exist challenges to realize autonomous directional drug penetration and controlled drug release within the tumor. Considering the specificity of glucose within tumor tissue, w...

Due to the inadequate photothermal conversion efficiency (PCE), most photothermal agents (PTAs) have to be used under high‐power near‐infrared (NIR) irradiation, which significantly exceeds medical safety standards, for achieving effective photothermal therapy (PTT) in antitumor treatment. This significantly hinders practical PTT application. Herei...

Introduction Venetoclax plus hypomethylating agents (VEN-HMAs) has been approved for the first-line treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and shown excellent efficacy. The standard duration of Venetoclax in VEN-HMAs is 28 days and the recommended bone marrow evaluation is approximately 21st to 28th day after stopping therapy. However, some pati...

Introduction: Traditional induction therapy regimens for elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) often show low efficacy (33.3%) and high early mortality rates (10.6%). The 5-year overall survival (OS) rate of AML patients aged 60 to 65 years is <25%. According to guidelines, the treatment options of standard chemotherapy or VEN-HMAs for...

Effective intratumoral drug penetration is pivotal for successful cancer treatment. However, due to the disrupted capillary networks and poor perfusion in solid tumors, there exist challenges to realize autonomous directional drug penetration and controlled drug release within the tumor. Considering the specificity of glucose within tumor tissue, w...

Three new species of the genus Belisana Thorell, 1898 are described from karst caves in Guangxi, China: Belisana langping Zhang, Li & Yao, sp. nov. (♂♀), B. lingui Zhang, Li & Yao, sp. nov. (♂♀), and B. tianyang Zhang, Li & Yao, sp. nov. (♂♀). In addition, a list of all Belisana species from Guangxi is also provided.

Conventional phototherapeutic agents are typically used in either photodynamic therapy (PDT) or photothermal therapy (PTT). However, efficacy is often hindered by hypoxia and elevated levels of heat shock proteins in the tumor microenvironment (TME). To address these limitations, a formylated, near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing and heavy‐atom‐free Aza‐B...

Background The genus Khorata Huber, 2005 contains 51 species. It is distributed in the Indo-Malayan Region. Nine species have been recorded from Vietnam. New information Khorata ninhbinh sp. nov. is described as a new species from Vietnam. In addition, a list of all Khorata species from Vietnam is also provided.

Purpose This study, grounded in Social Information Processing Theory, integrates emotional warmth and harsh discipline into a unified model to investigate their differential effects on adolescents’ internalized and externalized problem behaviors, as well as to explore the potential divergences in the mediating role of inhibitory control. Patients...

In this study, eight new species are described from the subtropical parts of Yunnan Province in southwestern China: Belisana honghe Zhang, Li & Yao, sp. nov. (♂♀), B. jiuxiang Zhang, Li & Yao, sp. nov. (♂♀), B. lincang Zhang, Li & Yao, sp. nov. (♂♀), B. luxi Zhang, Li & Yao, sp. nov. (♂♀), B. tengchong Zhang, Li & Yao, sp. nov. (♂♀), B. tongi Zhang...

Genomic imbalance in aneuploidy is often detrimental to organisms. To gain insight into the molecular basis of aneuploidies in humans, we analyzed transcriptome data from several autosomal and sex chromosome aneuploidies. The results showed that in human aneuploid cells, genes located on unvaried chromosomes are inversely or proportionally trans-mo...

The misuse of antibiotics leads to emergence of drug‐resistant bacteria. Developing artificial nanozymes with high stability and excellent catalytic performance is desirable to substitute for antibiotics, but still remains huge challenge. Herein, the study reports a new strategy for cascaded enhanced peroxidase (POD) reaction driving antibacterial...

Although acceptor-donor-acceptor (A-D-A)-type molecules show advantages in constructing NIR absorbing photothermal agents (PTAs) due to their strong intramolecular charge transfer and molecular planarity, their applications in photothermal therapy (PTT) of...

Introduction Current clinical research has reported the effectiveness and safety of venetoclax in combination with hypomethylating agents (VEN-HMA) in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML). Thus, this study aimed to examine the effectiveness and safety of VEN-HMA therapy in patients with MDS and CM...

Multifunctional drug delivery systems (DDS) are in high demand for effectively targeting specific cells, necessitating excellent biocompatibility, precise release mechanisms, and sustained release capabilities. The hollow multishelled structure (HoMS) presents a promising solution, integrating structural and compositional design for efficient DDS d...

Urbanization has altered natural landscapes and serves as an environmental filter that selects species with specific traits. Coloration is an important trait associated with biotic interactions and thermoregulation, enabling species’ survival and reproductive success. However, few studies have focused on how species coloration changes in response t...

Microvalves play a crucial role in manipulating fluid states within a microfluidic system and are finding widespread applications in fields such as biology, medicine, and environmental preservation. Leveraging the characteristics and features of microvalves enables the realization of various complicated microfluidic functions. Continuous advancemen...

Diabetic hyperglycemia induces dysfunctions of arterial smooth muscle, leading to diabetic vascular complications. The CaV1.2 calcium channel is one primary pathway for Ca²⁺ influx, which initiates vasoconstriction. However, the long-term regulation mechanism(s) for vascular CaV1.2 functions under hyperglycemic condition remains unknown. Here, Spra...

A new species of pholcid spiders, Pholcus fengmeii Zhang, He & Yao, sp. nov. (♂♀), is described from Liaoning Province, China. The new species belongs to the speciose phungiformes species group. Taxonomic keys to four closely related species are provided.

The reaction system of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) catalyzed by nanozyme has a broad prospect in antibacterial treatment. However, the complex catalytic activities of nanozymes lead to multiple pathways reacting in parallel, causing uncertain antibacterial results. New approach to effectively regulate the multiple catalytic activities of nanozyme is i...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a high prevalence in males. Most studies are based on the sample of male ASD individuals, which may lead to a bias in understanding female ASD individuals. Not only in the diagnostic characteristics but also the social cognitive performance, gender differences have been found in t...

Aim: Notwithstanding talk of a “taxonomic impediment” over the past 30 years, the exponential growth in the global number of newly described spider species during the 1975–2000 period has continued unabated. This paper focuses on the advances in taxonomic studies of spiders in 2022 worldwide, with detailed statistical analyses of new taxa, type loc...

Intestinal fibrosis is a common complication of inflammatory bowel disease and is characterized by tissue stiffening and luminal narrowing. Dihydromyricetin (DHM) can alleviate liver fibrosis and renal interstitial fibrosis by inducing autophagy. However, whether DHM can alleviate intestinal fibrosis remains unclear. This study is aimed at evaluati...

Periodontal tissue infection is a chronic destructive inflammatory disease caused by bacteria including anaerobes and facultative anaerobes. Traditional mechanical debridement and antibiotic treatments are not effective at removing biofilm from the root surface, resulting in recurrent disease. Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) is a promisin...

Aneuploidy can globally affect the expression of the whole genome, which is detrimental to organisms. Dosage-sensitive regulators usually have multiple intermolecular interactions, and changes in their stoichiometry are responsible for the dysregulation of the regulatory network. Currently, studies on noncoding genes in aneuploidy are relatively ra...

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) play a pivotal role in local natural conservation and management; however, they frequently remain overlooked by policymakers due to challenges in their definition and quantification. These services are particularly relevant to Asia's indigenous populations. Shangyong and Mengla, two tropical forest reserves in the...

Recently, single‐atom nanozymes have made significant progress in the fields of sterilization and treatment, but their catalytic performance as substitutes for natural enzymes and drugs are far from satisfactory. Here, we report a method to improve enzyme activity by adjusting the spatial position of a single‐atom site on the nanoplatforms. We synt...

The phenomenon of polarized development among regional cities has sparked extensive contemplation and indicated a need for research on multi-source regional networks. However, such research faces two obstacles: the absence of quantitative measurement of differences in network structures and the lack of a thorough examination of the degree of city c...

The article presents an analytical analysis of the linguosemiotic features of the female portrait in the folklore fund of the linguocultures of Russia, the North Caucasus and China in the aspect of the intergender dichotomy "male-female" as the implementation of the policy of "soft power" of the ethnos to preserve its vitality. Hypothesis: The dich...

‘Sleeell’ (sleep well) is an application designed to solve users' sleep problems. Our goal is to help users solve the problem of difficulty falling asleep and help users develop the habit of going to bed early. We plan to focus on the difficulty of falling asleep among female college students. (Software emphasizes the benefits of different types of...

Genomic imbalance in aneuploidy is often detrimental to organisms. To gain insight into the molecular basis of aneuploidies in humans, we analyzed transcriptome data from several autosomal and sex chromosome aneuploidies. The results showed that in human aneuploid cells, genes located on unvaried chromosomes are inversely or proportionally trans-mo...

Building an efficient human resource management system is the key to enhancing the core competitiveness of real estate enterprises. This article aims to explore how to enhance the core competitiveness of real estate enterprises through effective human resource management. In today's fiercely competitive market environment, human resources are one o...

Urbanization has rapidly increased, leading to a wide range of significant disruptions to the global ecosystem. Road construction has emerged as the primary catalyst for such ecological degradation. As a result, it is imperative to develop efficient technological approaches for quantifying and tracking alterations in the ecological environment. Add...

Objective: Intestinal fibrosis is a common complication of inflammatory bowel disease and is characterized by tissue stiffening and luminal narrowing. Dihydromyricetin (DHM) can alleviate liver fibrosis and renal interstitial fibrosis by inducing autophagy. However, whether DHM can alleviate intestinal fibrosis remains unclear. This study aimed to...

Floods are one of the most frequent global natural hazards resulting in significant human and economic losses. Therefore, assessing and mapping flood hazard levels is essential to reduce the severity of future flood disasters. This study developed an integrated methodology to evaluate flood risk using an improved Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) an...

Bacterial infections pose a severe threat to human health due to the exacerbation of antibiotic resistance and intracellular bacterial infections. Research suggests that oligo(p-phenylene vinylene) (OPV), commonly employed in the manufacture of organic solar batteries, can help address this issue. This study demonstrates the ability of OPV to targe...

New solid electrolytes are crucial for the development of all-solid-state lithium batteries with advantages in safety and energy densities over current liquid electrolyte systems. While some of the best solid-state Li+-ion conductors are based on sulfides, their air sensitivity makes them less commercially attractive, and attention is refocusing on...

Aim: STING agonists in immunotherapy show great promise and are currently in clinical trials. Combinations of STING agonists with other therapies remain underexplored. This study aimed to combine STING agonist-mediated immunotherapy with photodynamic therapy to treat breast cancer. Methods: STING agonist (ADU-S100)-functionalized porphyrin-based na...

Traditional, satellite mission is a relatively popular project in the space industry. Nevertheless, the development and application of Cubesat which is a nanosatellite have also attracted attention and flourished in recent years (Chen 2018) [4]. In this report, the design, material selection and manufacturing process were presented in detail. Moreo...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and fatal lung disease of unknown etiology with no cure. A better understanding of the disease processes and identification of druggable targets will benefit the development of effective therapies for IPF. We previously reported that MDM4 promoted lung fibrosis through the MDM4-p53-dependent path...

In modern media, the names of fairy-tale and mythological images are used to convey certain emotions and connotations. The aim of the study is to analyze the characteristic associative strategies presented with the mythological images of a dragon, a paper tiger and a chimera in news texts of European and Chinese mass media. In this article, the met...

Objective: To explore the feasibility of applying graphical menu labeling. Methods: To design a radar chart menu label. From October 2020 to April 2021, convenience sampling was adopted to recruit 1407 research subjects(986 females and 421 males) through the online platform nationwide to complete the questionnaire and simulate ordering. The surv...

With the development of a low-carbon economy, corporate carbon emission performance has become an important premise for green financing. Compared with high-carbon industries, companies in low-carbon industries have their own carbon advantages and receive less attention. In order to highlight the value of carbon emission performance in low-carbon in...

Non-invasive light-based antibacterial therapy has a good prospect in non-surgical treatment of peri-implant infections. However, its applications are severely limited by poor penetration of light into human tissues, leading to unsatisfying outcomes. Moreover, as an essential prerequisite for traditional light therapy, lasers can no longer meet the...

Background: Antimicrobial blue light (aBL) kills a variety of bacteria, including Porphyromonas gingivalis. However, little is known about the transcriptomic response of P. gingivalis to aBL therapy. This study was designed to evaluate the selective cytotoxicity of aBL against P. gingivalis over human cells and to further investigate the genetic r...

Skin and soft tissue infection (SSTI) is an inflammatory condition caused by bacteria, and the eradication of biofilms is an important problem when treating such infections. Because of the low dispersibility and biofilm permeability of magnetic antibacterial materials, biofilm removal is difficult and infection persists. To solve these problems, in...

Voluntary corporate carbon information disclosure not only meets the carbon information needs of investors, but also enhances the legitimacy of organizations. Building a green image may increase the public consumption of products and be conducive to reducing the cost of debt. As a part of creditors’ assessment of debtors’ solvency, operational effi...

High environmental performance of enterprises may reduce financing costs, while good environmental performance can promote sustainable development of enterprises. Therefore, this paper examines the impact mechanism of China’s corporate environmental performance on financing costs, and whether corporate sustainable development plays a regulatory rol...

Background Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a rare biliary adenocarcinoma related to poor clinical prognosis. Crowberry is an herbal medicine used to control inflammatory diseases and reestablish antioxidant enzyme activity. Although crowberry shows significant therapeutic efficacy in various tumors and diseases, its anticancer effects and specific mole...

As a promising candidate of current solid-state electrolytes with various advantages, such as broad electrochemical stability window, high thermal stability, and chemical stability, garnet-type solid-state electrolyte Li 7 La 3 Zr 2 O 12 (LLZO) attracts extensive research attention. Researchers usually use the element doping method to improve the l...

Osteoarthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by cartilage degeneration. Anti‐inflammatory therapy has limited effects, and effective reduction of cartilage wear through lubrication is essential. In vivo stability and lubricity of commercial lubricants are insufficient, leading to failure of lubricating treatment and progression of...

Aim: Spiders are the most common and abundant predators in terrestrial ecosystems. Regularly summarizing the new taxa of the Araneae will help disseminate recent achievements in the field of spider diversity. The aim of this paper is to provide a global tally of new spider taxa published in 2021. Progresses: A total of 975 new taxa (including speci...

Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, is the main metabolite of phenacetin and is a derivative of acetanilide. It is a commonly used antipyretic and analgesic drug. Acetaminophen is rapidly and completely absorbed orally in body fluids Evenly distributed in the medium, but inappropriate doses can lead to serious side effects - liver toxicity. W...

Cashmere goat from Inner Mongolia is an excellent local breed in China, and the related cashmere product is a kind of precious textile raw material with high price. Cashmere is generated from secondary hair follicles, which has obvious annual periodicity and includes three different stages: anagen, catagen, and telogen. Therefore, we investigated s...

The Inner Mongolia cashmere goat is an excellent local breed in China. According to the characteristics of wool quilts, the Inner Mongolia cashmere goat can be divided into three types: a long-hair type (hair length of >22 cm), a short-hair type (hair length of ≤13 cm), and an intermediate type (hair length of >13 cm and ≤22 cm). It is found that h...

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been identified as key regulators of gene expression and participate in many vital physiological processes. Chromatin remodeling, being an important epigenetic modification, has been identified in many biological activities as well. However, the regulatory mechanism of lncRNA in chromatin remodeling remains uncle...

In the tumor microenvironment (TME) in certain cancer patients, the lack of tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) and low antigen presentation ability of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) limit the systemic immune effect of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy, which fails to elicit a persistent immune response. In this study, we used an important imm...

ZnO nanowires (ZnO NWs) were grown on p-Si (100) substrates by hydrothermal method to construct n-ZnO NWs/p-Si self-powered ultraviolet photodetectors (UVPDs). As the growth time increases, the axial/lateral growth rate ratio of ZnO NWs increases, whereas their density and orientation consistency decrease for the competitive growth between vertical...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract with unknown etiology and pathogenesis. In the intestinal tissues of IBD patients, dysregulation of macrophages results in persistent intestinal inflammation. Macrophages are highly adaptable...

Objective: To study the distribution of the polyphenols of Opuntia ficus-indica(L. ) Mill, and study its antioxidant and the inhibition of sugar digestive enzyme activities by vitro experiments. Methods: Using ethanol as solvent, free polyphenols, esterified polyphenols, and insoluble bonded polyphenols were extracted from the peel, pulp and see...

In order to effectively realize the management of educational correction for problem teenagers, improve the security and reliability of encrypted storage of educational correction information for problem teenagers, and shorten the encrypted storage time of educational correction information for problem teenagers, educational correction management f...

There are many patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, which has caused concern. When it occurs, the nasal airflow disappears, and the breathing action of the chest and abdomen still exists. Therefore, we propose a multimodal imaging system in tandem with binary code alignment to remotely and automatically detect the obstructive sleep apnea...

Background: Ultrasound is a critical non-invasive test for preoperative diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Deep learning is making advances in image-recognition tasks; therefore, we aimed to develop a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) model that automates evaluation of ultrasound images and to facilitate a more accurate diagnosis of ovarian cance...

Wearable supercapacitors based on carbon materials have been emerging as an advanced technology for next-generation portable electronic devices with high performance. However, the application of these devices cannot be realized unless suitable flexible power sources are developed. Here, an effective electrospinning method was used to prepare the on...

Objective: To explore the effect of down-regulation of retinol binding protein 2 (RBP2) expression on the biological characteristics of ovarian cancer cells and its mechanism. Methods: Knockdown of RBP2 and cisplatin (DDP)-resistant ovarian cancer cell line SKOV3/DDP-RBP2i was established, the negative control group and blank control group were als...

The aim of the study is to determine the discursive markers of the implementation of aggressive verbal behaviour in the news media space in Russia and China. The scientific originality of the research lies in a comprehensive description of the discursive parameters of speech aggression implementation in order to achieve the message sender’s communi...

Oral cancer is a common malignant tumor in the maxillofacial region. Surgical resection is the preferred treatment, but the severe functional impairment after surgery forces us to look for noninvasive treatments. As a promising noninvasive treatment method, photodynamic therapy (PDT) has received widespread attention in the field of cancer therapy,...

Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time reversal (PT) or anti-PT symmetry have attracted a wide range of interest owing to their unique characteristics and counterintuitive phenomena. One of the most extraordinary features is the presence of an exceptional point, across which a phase transition with spontaneously broken PT symmetry takes place. We i...

Background: Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a rare biliary adenocarcinoma related to poor clinical prognosis. Crowberry is an herbal medicine used to control inflammatory diseases and reestablish antioxidant enzyme activity. Although crowberry shows significant therapeutic efficacy in various tumors and diseases, its anticancer effects and specific mol...

Macrophages are widely distributed in a variety of tissues, and the different state of macrophages polarization is closely related to the occurrence, development, and prognosis of inflammation, including periodontitis, a chronic inflammatory disease leading to tooth loss worldwide. Periodontal ligament stem cells (PDLSCs) play a key role in immune...

Background Since 2013, China launched descending resources reform, which is a new attempt to correct unbalanced allocation of health resources through human capital spillovers and brand implantation from high-level hospitals. The purpose of this paper is to explore the patients’ hospital selection response to this reform with the focus of low-level...

Background: The prognosis of replanted teeth is depended on the vitality of periodontal ligament cells residual on the root surface. Photobiomodulation has photobiological effects that can promote cell vitality. The study aimed to explore the effect of photobiomodulation on the periodontal ligament cells under inflamed or starved conditions mimicki...

Aneuploidy, which disrupts the genetic balance due to partial genome dosage changes, is usually more detrimental than euploidy variation. To investigate the modulation of gene expression in aneuploidy, we analyzed the transcriptome sequencing data of autosomal and sex chromosome trisomy in Drosophila. The results showed that most genes on the varie...

The inverse dosage effect caused by chromosome number variations shows global consequences in genomic imbalance including sexual dimorphism and an X chromosome-specific response. To investigate the relationship of the MSL complex to genomic imbalance, we over-expressed MSL2 in autosomal and sex chromosomal aneuploids, and analyzed the different tra...

Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$) or anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry have attracted a wide range of interest owing to their unique characteristics and counterintuitive phenomena. One of the most extraordinary features is the presence of an exception point (EP), across which a phase transition with spontaneously broken $\...

Efficient antimicrobials are urgently needed for the treatment of bacterial biofilms due to their resistance to traditional drugs. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a new strategy that has been used to combat bacteria and biofilms. Cationic photosensitizers, particularly cationic photodynamic nanoagents, are usually chosen to enhance photodynamic antim...

Background and Aims: Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels are at risk of disease progression. Currently, liver biopsy is suggested to identify this population. We aimed to establish a non-invasive diagnostic model to identify patients with significant liver inflammation. Method: A total of 504 CHB pat...

Objective: Pre-eclampsia (PE) is a major complication of pregnancy, but its pathogenesis is unclear. This study explored the role of LINC01128 in the progression of PE, and its interaction with miR-16 on the behaviors of trophoblasts. Methods: The mRNA levels of LINC01128 and miR-16 in placental tissues and HTR-8/SVneo cells were analyzed by quanti...

Background: Since 2013, China launched descending resources reform, which is a new attempt to correct unbalanced allocation of health resources through human capital spillovers and brand implantation from high-level hospitals. The purpose of this paper is to explore the patients’ hospital selection response to this reform with the focus of low-leve...

Ceramics based on AgNbO3 show field-induced phase transitions from antiferroelectric (AFE) to ferroelectric (FE) phases which are of interest for high power energy storage in dielectric capacitors. AgNbO3 shows complex phase behaviour, with the so-called M-phases showing little obvious differences in average structure, but significant differences i...

Bi/vacancy incorporation in sodium niobate, NaNbO 3 , induces relaxor-like behaviour leading to higher recoverable energy storage density and efficiency, with potential use in energy storage capacitors.

The development of lead-free ferroelectric ceramics exhibiting a high Curie point is regarded as a key aspect of improving the overall performance of high temperature sensing devices. Two-layer Dion-Jacobson phases have great potential for these applications, but the dielectric properties of many of these compounds have not been investigated and se...

Objective: We developed an implantable wireless blue micro light-emitting diode (micro-LED) device and evaluated the utility of continuous antimicrobial blue light (aBL) irradiation emitted from this micro-LED for root canal disinfection. Methods: An implantable wireless blue micro-LED device (peak wavelength: 410 nm, maximum power: 15 mW) was dev...