Xianning City is a main tea producing area in Hubei Province,the capital of"border-selling tea"in China,and an important starting point for the Ten-Thousand-Mile Tea Road across the Eurasian continent.This p...Xianning City is a main tea producing area in Hubei Province,the capital of"border-selling tea"in China,and an important starting point for the Ten-Thousand-Mile Tea Road across the Eurasian continent.This paper studies the tea industry in Xianning from the aspects of top 100 counties of tea industry,important agricultural cultural heritage,famous Chinese historical and cultural villages,China’s time-honored brands,major brands,and designated production enterprises of border-selling tea.Besides,it introduces intellectual property resources of the tea industry from traditional knowledge,biological genetic resources,new plant varieties,patents,geographical indications,trademarks,etc.Then,it analyzes major problems in the inheritance,innovation and high-quality development of Xianning tea,especially the border-selling tea.Finally,it comes up with constructive recommendations of starting the cultural inheritance and development project and upgrade project of the tea industry to build the capital of China’s border-selling tea.展开更多
Engineered functional organs or tissues,created with autologous somatic cells and seeded on biodegradable or hydrogel scaffolds,have been developed for use in individualswith tissue damage suffered fromcongenital diso...Engineered functional organs or tissues,created with autologous somatic cells and seeded on biodegradable or hydrogel scaffolds,have been developed for use in individualswith tissue damage suffered fromcongenital disorders,infection,irradiation,or cancer.However,in those patients,abnormal cells obtained by biopsy fromthe compromised tissue could potentially contaminate the engineered tissues.Thus,an alternative cell source for construction of the neo-organ or functional recovery of the injured or diseased tissues would be useful.Recently,we have found stem cells existing in the urine.These cells are highly expandable,and have self-renewal capacity,paracrine properties,and multi-differentiation potential.As a novel cell source,urine-derived stem cells(USCs)provide advantages for cell therapy and tissue engineering applications in regeneration of various tissues,particularly in the genitourinary tract,because they originate from the urinary tract system.Importantly,USCs can be obtained via a non-invasive,simple,and low-cost approach and induced with high efficiency to differentiate into three dermal cell lineages.展开更多
Cryptorchidism-caused adult infertility is a common component of idiopathic reasons for male infertility.Retinoic acid(RA)has a vital effect on the spermatogenesis process.Here,we found that the expression of c-Kit,St...Cryptorchidism-caused adult infertility is a common component of idiopathic reasons for male infertility.Retinoic acid(RA)has a vital effect on the spermatogenesis process.Here,we found that the expression of c-Kit,Stra8,and Sycp3 could be up-regulated via the activation of retinoic acid receptorα(RARα)after RA supplementation in neonatal cryptorchid infertile rats.We also demonstrated that the protein expression of PI3K,p-Akt/pan-Akt,and p-mTOR/mTOR was higher in cryptorchid than in normal testes,and could be suppressed with RA in vivo.After RA treatment in infertile cryptorchid testis in vivo,the levels of the autophagy proteins LC3 and Beclin1 increased and those of P62 decreased.Biotin tracer indicated that the permeability of blood-testis barrier(BTB)in cryptorchid rats decreased after RA administration.Additionally,after blocking the RARαwith AR7(an RARαantagonist)in testicle culture in vitro,we observed that compared with normal testes,the PI3K-Akt-mTOR signaling pathway and the autophagy pathway was increased and decreased,respectively,which were coincident with cryptorchisd testes in vivo.Additionally,the appropriate concentrations of RA treatment could depress the PI3K-Akt-mTOR signaling pathway and improve the autophagy pathway.The results confirmed that RA can rehabilitate BTB function and drive key protein levels in spermatogonial differentiation through depressing the PI3K-Akt-mTOR signaling pathway via RARα.展开更多
This study aims to determine key genes and pathways that could play important roles in the spermatogenic process of patients with cryptorchidism.The gene expression profile data of GSE25518 was obtained from the Gene ...This study aims to determine key genes and pathways that could play important roles in the spermatogenic process of patients with cryptorchidism.The gene expression profile data of GSE25518 was obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus(GEO)database.Microarray data were analyzed using BRB-Array Tools to identify differentially expressed genes(DEGs)between high azoospermia risk(HAZR)patients and controls.In addition,other analytical methods were deployed,including hierarchical clustering analysis,class comparison between patients with HAZR and the normal control group,gene ontology(GO),Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes(KEGG)pathway enrichment analysis,and the construction of a proteineprotein interaction(PPI)network.In total,1015 upregulated genes and 1650 downregulated genes were identified.GO and KEGG analysis revealed enrichment in terms of changes in the endoplasmic reticulum cellular component and the endoplasmic reticulum protein synthetic process in the HAZR group.Furthermore,the arachidonic acid pathway and mTOR pathway were also identified as important pathways,while RICTOR and GPX8 were indentified as key genes involved in the spermatogenic process of patients with cryptorchidism.In present study,we found that changes in the synthesis of endoplasmic reticulum proteins,arachidonic acid and the mTOR pathway are important in the incidence and spermatogenic process of cryptorchidism.GPX8 and RICTOR were also identified as key genes associated with cryptorchidism.Collectively,these data may provide novel clues with which to explore the precise etiology and mechanism underlying cryptorchidism and cryptorchidism-induced human infertility.展开更多
基金Supported by Special Soft Science Research Project for Hubei Province Science and Technology Innovation Talents and Services(2022EDA060)。
文摘Xianning City is a main tea producing area in Hubei Province,the capital of"border-selling tea"in China,and an important starting point for the Ten-Thousand-Mile Tea Road across the Eurasian continent.This paper studies the tea industry in Xianning from the aspects of top 100 counties of tea industry,important agricultural cultural heritage,famous Chinese historical and cultural villages,China’s time-honored brands,major brands,and designated production enterprises of border-selling tea.Besides,it introduces intellectual property resources of the tea industry from traditional knowledge,biological genetic resources,new plant varieties,patents,geographical indications,trademarks,etc.Then,it analyzes major problems in the inheritance,innovation and high-quality development of Xianning tea,especially the border-selling tea.Finally,it comes up with constructive recommendations of starting the cultural inheritance and development project and upgrade project of the tea industry to build the capital of China’s border-selling tea.
基金The authors acknowledge funding support from NIH grant U01CA166886(X.Zhou)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81100415)and(No.81371704)+1 种基金Chongqing Natural Science Foundation of Committee of Science and Technology(No.CSTC,2010BB5377)Doctoral Program of the Ministry of Education(No.20115503120009).
文摘Engineered functional organs or tissues,created with autologous somatic cells and seeded on biodegradable or hydrogel scaffolds,have been developed for use in individualswith tissue damage suffered fromcongenital disorders,infection,irradiation,or cancer.However,in those patients,abnormal cells obtained by biopsy fromthe compromised tissue could potentially contaminate the engineered tissues.Thus,an alternative cell source for construction of the neo-organ or functional recovery of the injured or diseased tissues would be useful.Recently,we have found stem cells existing in the urine.These cells are highly expandable,and have self-renewal capacity,paracrine properties,and multi-differentiation potential.As a novel cell source,urine-derived stem cells(USCs)provide advantages for cell therapy and tissue engineering applications in regeneration of various tissues,particularly in the genitourinary tract,because they originate from the urinary tract system.Importantly,USCs can be obtained via a non-invasive,simple,and low-cost approach and induced with high efficiency to differentiate into three dermal cell lineages.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81771566),the Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission,China(No.KJQN201900444)the Highlevel Medical Reserved Personnel Training Project of Chongqing,China(No.[2018]230)the Chongqing Science and Technology Commission,China(No.cstc2018jcyjAX0193)。
文摘Cryptorchidism-caused adult infertility is a common component of idiopathic reasons for male infertility.Retinoic acid(RA)has a vital effect on the spermatogenesis process.Here,we found that the expression of c-Kit,Stra8,and Sycp3 could be up-regulated via the activation of retinoic acid receptorα(RARα)after RA supplementation in neonatal cryptorchid infertile rats.We also demonstrated that the protein expression of PI3K,p-Akt/pan-Akt,and p-mTOR/mTOR was higher in cryptorchid than in normal testes,and could be suppressed with RA in vivo.After RA treatment in infertile cryptorchid testis in vivo,the levels of the autophagy proteins LC3 and Beclin1 increased and those of P62 decreased.Biotin tracer indicated that the permeability of blood-testis barrier(BTB)in cryptorchid rats decreased after RA administration.Additionally,after blocking the RARαwith AR7(an RARαantagonist)in testicle culture in vitro,we observed that compared with normal testes,the PI3K-Akt-mTOR signaling pathway and the autophagy pathway was increased and decreased,respectively,which were coincident with cryptorchisd testes in vivo.Additionally,the appropriate concentrations of RA treatment could depress the PI3K-Akt-mTOR signaling pathway and improve the autophagy pathway.The results confirmed that RA can rehabilitate BTB function and drive key protein levels in spermatogonial differentiation through depressing the PI3K-Akt-mTOR signaling pathway via RARα.
基金The present study was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.81771566)Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Program for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars,Chongqing(Grant No.cx2017015)Research and Innovation Project of Chongqing Graduate Students(Grant No.CYS17165).
文摘This study aims to determine key genes and pathways that could play important roles in the spermatogenic process of patients with cryptorchidism.The gene expression profile data of GSE25518 was obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus(GEO)database.Microarray data were analyzed using BRB-Array Tools to identify differentially expressed genes(DEGs)between high azoospermia risk(HAZR)patients and controls.In addition,other analytical methods were deployed,including hierarchical clustering analysis,class comparison between patients with HAZR and the normal control group,gene ontology(GO),Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes(KEGG)pathway enrichment analysis,and the construction of a proteineprotein interaction(PPI)network.In total,1015 upregulated genes and 1650 downregulated genes were identified.GO and KEGG analysis revealed enrichment in terms of changes in the endoplasmic reticulum cellular component and the endoplasmic reticulum protein synthetic process in the HAZR group.Furthermore,the arachidonic acid pathway and mTOR pathway were also identified as important pathways,while RICTOR and GPX8 were indentified as key genes involved in the spermatogenic process of patients with cryptorchidism.In present study,we found that changes in the synthesis of endoplasmic reticulum proteins,arachidonic acid and the mTOR pathway are important in the incidence and spermatogenic process of cryptorchidism.GPX8 and RICTOR were also identified as key genes associated with cryptorchidism.Collectively,these data may provide novel clues with which to explore the precise etiology and mechanism underlying cryptorchidism and cryptorchidism-induced human infertility.