Yanfang Zheng

Yanfang Zheng
Southern Medical University | FIMMU · Oncology Center

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Background: The incidence and mortality rate of lung cancer ranks first among malignant tumors. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common pathological type of lung cancer. Combined use of targeted therapy can enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy drugs while reduce the related side effects in clinical practice. Surufatinib is a potent, s...
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There is emerging evidence that immunogenic chemotherapy is not only cytotoxic toward tumor cells but also ameliorates the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment by inducing immunogenic cell death (ICD) to achieve long-lasting antitumor efficacy. However, comprehensive analysis of ICD inducers is lacking in lung cancer. We investigated the abilit...
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Although immunotherapy has improved the clinical treatment of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), many tumors have poor responses to immunotherapy. In this study, we confirmed that high expression of Cyclin‐Dependent Kinase 7 (CDK7) promoted an immunosuppressive macrophage phenotype and macrophage infiltration in LUAD. Thus, we have developed an internaliz...
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Background: Current prediction models of esophageal cancer (EC) are limited to predicting at a specific time point, and ignore changes in hazard ratios of predictive variables, known as time-varying effects. Our study aimed to investigate variables with time-varying effects in EC and to develop a prediction model that can update the 5-year predict...
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Background: Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most prevalent cancer worldwide. Tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a very important role in the cancer development. Thus, it is urgent to find the change of TME that contributes to NSCLC carcinogenesis and progression. Methods: The bioinformatics analysis approach was applied to evaluate the...
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Lung cancer is the most frequent malignant tumor, and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is responsible for substantial mortality worldwide. The small molecule SNX-2112 was recently shown to critically effect the proliferation and apoptosis of tumor cells. Nevertheless, the precise mechanism by which SNX-2112 affects NSCLC remains poorly understood...
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The efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T is still not optimal for solid tumors, partly due to the lack of T-cell infiltration to the tumor site. One promising strategy is to guide T cells through tumor-specific chemokines, provided that the matching chemokine receptors are expressed on T cells. Previous reports showed that, for non-small c...
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Increasing studies have found that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are aberrantly expressed and play important roles in the occurrence and development of human cancers. However, the function of circRNAs on environmental carcinogen-induced gastric cancer (GC) progression remains poorly elucidated. In the present study, hsa_circ_0110389 was identified as a...
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The application of traditional chemotherapy drugs for lung cancer has obvious limitations, such as toxic side effects, uncontrolled drug-release, poor bioavailability, and drug-resistance. Thus, to address the limitations of free drugs and improve treatment effects, we developed novel T7 peptide-modified nanoparticles (T7-CMCS-BAPE, CBT) based on c...
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Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) has high incidence and mortality rates worldwide; however, its detailed molecular pathology remains unclear. Although circRNAs have gradually been identified as molecules that are differentially expressed in tumors and play key roles in tumor progression, their role in LUAD is poorly understood. Through microarray analysi...
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Background Phospholipase C delta 1 (PLCD1) has been found to be abnormally expressed in various cancers. However, the potential roles of PLCD1 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) are still unknown.Methods Western blot and qPCR were used to explore PLCD1 expression in various ESCC cells. MTT, colony formation assays, wound-healing assay, an...
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Background: Although single-drug chemotherapy is still an effective treatment for esophageal cancer, its long-term application is limited by severe side-effects, poor bioavailability, and drug-resistance. Increasing attention has been paid to nanomedicines because of their good biological safety, targeting capabilities, and high-efficiency loading...
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The NF-E2–related factor 2 (referred to as NRF2) transcription factor binds antioxidant responsive elements within the promoters of cytoprotective genes to induce their expression. Next-generation sequencing studies in lung cancer have shown a significant number of activating mutations within the NRF2 signaling pathway. Mutations in components of t...
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Although single-drug chemotherapy is still an effective treatment for esophageal cancer, its long-term application is limited by severe side effects. Nanomedicines have increasingly attracted attention because of their good biological safety, targeting and high-efficiency loading of multiple drugs. Herein, we have developed a pH-responsive nanocarr...
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Babaodan capsule (BBD), a traditional Chinese (TCM) formula, has been widely used as an alternative remedy for multiple types of malignancies, clinically. However, the underlying mechanisms behind the efficacy of BBD remain poorly understood, particularly in regard to lung cancer. Herein, we demonstrate that BBD induced autophagic death in A549 and...
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Although an increasing number of findings have proven that glutathione peroxidase 3 (GPX3) is methylated and down-regulated in various cancers, the underlying mechanism of its occurrence in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) remains unknown. In the present study, we found that the methylation rate in advanced cancers was significantly higher...
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The drug/gene codelivery is a promising strategy for cancer treatment. Peptide HAIYPRH (T7), a transferrin receptor-specific peptide, was used to target the tumor cells expressing transferrin receptors. T7-conjugated redox sensitive amphiphilic micelles polyethylene glycol-polyethyleneimine-poly(caprolactone)-S-S-poly(caprolactone)-polyethyleneimin...
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Graphene oxide (GO) is a promising material for biomedical applications, particularly in drug delivery, due to its exceptional chemical and physical properties. In this work, an innovative GO-based carrier was developed by modifying GO with chitosan (CHI) to improve the biocompatibility, and followed by the conjugation of hyaluronic acid (HA), the...
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Gastric cancer is the fourth most common malignant disease and second leading cause of cancer‑associated mortalities worldwide. Previous studies revealed aberrantly expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) in various types of human cancer; these miRNAs play important roles in tumourigenesis and tumour development. miRNAs present a considerable potential for no...
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Fibronectin 1 (FN1) is a member of the glycoprotein family located on chromosome 2q35. It has been reported that FN1 is upregulated in many tumors, and its expression is negatively related to the prognosis and survival of cancer patients. Through data analysis, we found that FN1 is upregulated in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). This study aimed to...
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Occupational and environmental inhalation exposure to hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] compounds has been confirmed to cause respiratory system injury and cancer. The molecular mechanisms of chromium carcinogenesis still require further study. We established Cr(VI)-transformed cells (BEAS-2B-Cr) after chronic exposure of immortalized normal human bronc...
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Protein is important to the human body,and different sources of protein may have different effects on the risk of breast cancer. Thus,we conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the association between different dietary protein sources and breast cancer risk. PubMed and several databases were searched until December 2015. Relevant articles were ret...
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Repeated infection with high-risk HPV is a major cause for the development and metastasis of human cervical cancer, even though the mechanism of the metastasis is still not completely understood. Here, we reported that miR-218 (microRNA-218) was downregulated in cervical cancer tissues, especially in metastatic cancer tissues. We found that miR-218...
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Several studies demonstrated that microRNAs are stably detectable in plasma/serum and are potential biomarkers for some diseases. The expression of microRNA-218 (miR-218) is downregulated in esophageal cancer as reported in previous research. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether miR-218 can be served as a serum biomarker for esophage...
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Several studies have evaluated the association between smoking and p53 mutation in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), but the conclusions are inconsistent. The aim of the present study was to carry out a meta-analysis evaluating the relationship between smoking and p53 mutation in patients with ESCC. Eligible studies were identified throug...
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DNA methylation is a critical epigenetic mechanism involved in key cellular processes. Its deregulation has been linked to many human cancers including esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). This study was designed to explore the whole methylation status of ESCC and to identify potential plasma biomarkers for early diagnosis. We used Infinium M...
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Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is one of the most malignant tumors. The aim of this study was to investigate the biology characteristics of ESCC by analyzing microRNA and mRNA expression profile. We used BRB-array tools to analyze the deregulated microRNA and mRNA between esophageal squamous cell carcinomas and paired normal adjacent tis...
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The aim is to explore the molecular regulation mechanism of the pathogenesis of the esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. The expression data of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma were obtained from the GEO database. The differential expression genes were identified by the BRB-array tools and the pathway was analyzed by DAVID online tools. The class...
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Unlabelled: The SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex regulates gene expression and alters chromatin structures in an ATP-dependent manner. Recent sequencing efforts have shown mutations in BRG1 (SMARCA4), one of two mutually exclusive ATPase subunits in the complex, in a significant number of human lung tumor cell lines and primary non-small cell...
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NF-E2-related factor 2 (NRF2), negatively regulated by KEAP1, modulates induction of a battery of cytoprotective genes against oxidative stress via binding to the antioxidant responsive element (ARE) sequence. Recent NGS studies have shown a significant number of mutations in the KEAP1-NRF2-ARE signaling pathway, implicating aberrant activation of...
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Objective: This study aimed to determine the key genes that are associated with lung cancer risk for further study. Methods: Techniques in bioinformatics were applied in lung cancer risk genes that were obtained from clinical trials. Results: We obtained 312 lung cancer risk genes that are mainly related to cellular physiological processes, metabol...
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To develop a bioinformatics-based approach for analysis of cellular functions and pathways affected by differently expressed microRNAs in different ER status of breast cancers and explore the regulatory roles of microRNAs. By literature metrological methods, aberrant expressed microRNAs were collected. By target prediction algorithm TargetScan, Pic...
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Almost all viral pathogens utilize a cytoskeleton for their entry and intracellular transport. In HIV-1 infection, binding of the virus to blood resting CD4 T cells initiates a temporal course of cortical actin polymerization and depolymerization, a process mimicking the chemotactic response initiated from chemokine receptors. The actin depolymeriz...
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Persistence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) despite highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is a lasting challenge to virus eradication. To develop a strategy complementary to HAART, we constructed a series of Rev-dependent lentiviral vectors carrying diphtheria toxin A chain (DT-A) and its attenuated mutants, as well as human tumor necr...
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Previous studies demonstrated that the nef gene is a critical determinant of the pathogenicity of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in macaques. In the present study, we evaluated the effect of a spontaneous frameshift mutation in the C-terminus of the nef gene of the minimally pathogenic SIVsmH4i clone. This clone exhibited a single nucleotide d...
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We have previously demonstrated that binding of HIV-1 to the chemokine coreceptor, CXCR4, on resting CD4 T cells activates an actin-depolymerizing factor cofilin to promote the cortical actin dynamic critical for HIV latent infection [1]. The LIM domain kinase 1 (LIMK1) directly phosphorylates cofilin and regulates the actin cytoskeleton. Here, we...
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A nonintegrating mutant, SIVsmD116N, was derived from the infectious pathogenic SIVsmE543-3 clone by introducing an Asp (D) to Asn (N) mutation into the catalytic domain of integrase. Although SIVsmD116N generated all viral proteins following transfection, cell-free virus did not productively infect CEMx174 cells, macaque peripheral blood mononucle...
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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is related to more than 90% of cervical cancer. The virus is shown to be essential for the induction and maintenance of the malignant phenotype in cervical cancer. In this report, we designed a hammerhead ribozyme Rz170 to specifically target the HPV16 E6E7 transcripts, and our results demonstrated that Rz170 can cleave H...
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To study effect of Pill Fufang Zaofan together with radiotherapy and chemotherapy at same time. Treat group administrated Pill Fufang Zaofan from 1 week before radiotherapy and chemotherapy, to 4 weeks after radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Control group didn't administrate Pill Fufang Zaofan. Other agents of two groups are no difference. White blood...
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To investigate the effects of anti-HPV16E6-ribozyme (HRz) on phenotype and gene expression of a cervical cancer cell line. HRz was designed by computer programs. HRz's activity was identified by cleavage experiments in vitro. HRz and empty eukaryotic plasmids were transfected into CaSKi cells with lipofectin, then renamed CaSKi-R and CaSKi-P, respe...

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