With the increasing demand of rare earth metals in functional materials,recovery of rare earth elements(REEs)from secondary resources has become important for the green economy transition.Molten salt electrolysis has ...With the increasing demand of rare earth metals in functional materials,recovery of rare earth elements(REEs)from secondary resources has become important for the green economy transition.Molten salt electrolysis has the advantages of low water consumption and low hazardous waste during REE recovery.This review systematically summarizes the separation and electroextraction of REEs on various reactive electrodes in different molten salts.It also highlights the relationship between the formed alloy phases and electrodeposition parameters,including applied potential,current,and ion concentration.Moreover,the feasibility of using LiF–NaF–KF electrolyte to recover REEs is evaluated through thermodynamic analysis.Problems related to REE separation/recovery the choice of electrolyte are discussed in detail to realize the low-energy and high current efficiency of practical applications.展开更多
Sm extraction from a LiCl-KCl melt was carried out by forming alloys on various electrodes,including Al,Ni,Cu,and liquid Zn,and the electrochemical behaviors of the resultant metal products were investigated using dif...Sm extraction from a LiCl-KCl melt was carried out by forming alloys on various electrodes,including Al,Ni,Cu,and liquid Zn,and the electrochemical behaviors of the resultant metal products were investigated using different electrochemical techniques.While Sm metal deposition via the conventional two-step reaction process was not noted on the inert electrode,underpotential deposition was observed on the reactive electrodes because of the latter's depolarization effect.The depolarization effects of the reactive electrodes on Sm showed the order Zn>Al>Ni>Cu.Sm-M(M=Al,Ni,Cu,Zn)alloys were deposited by galvanostatic and potentiostatic electrolysis.The products were fully characterized by X-ray diffractometry(XRD)and scanning electron microscopy(SEM)-energy dispersive spectrometry(EDS),and the stability of the obtained M-rich compounds was determined.Finally,the relationship between the electrode potential and type of Sm-M intermetallic compounds formed was assessed on the basis of the observed electrochemical properties and electrodeposits.展开更多
Due to the unique structure of perovskite materials,their capacitance can be improved by introducing oxygen vacancy.In this paper,the LaMnO3-δ material containing oxygen vacancy was synthesized by molten salt method ...Due to the unique structure of perovskite materials,their capacitance can be improved by introducing oxygen vacancy.In this paper,the LaMnO3-δ material containing oxygen vacancy was synthesized by molten salt method in KNO3-NaNO3-NaNO2 melt.The La-Mn-O crystal grows gradually in molten salt with the increase of temperature.It was confirmed that LaMnO3-δ with perovskite structure and incomplete oxygen content were synthesized by molten salt method and presented a three-dimensional shape.LaMnO3-δ stores energy by redox reaction and adsorption of OH-in electrolyte simultaneously.In comparison with the stoichiometric LaMnO3 prepared by the sol-gel method,LaMnO3-δ prepared by molten salt method proffered higher capacitance and better performance.The galvanostatic charge-discharge curve showed specific capacitance of 973.5 F/g under current density of 1 A/g in 6 M KOH.The capacitance of LaMn03-δ was 82.7%under condition of 5 A/g compared with the capacitance at the current of 1A/g,and the specific capacitances of 648.0 and 310.0 F/g were obtained after 2000 and 5000 cycles of galvanostatic charging-discharging,respectively.Molten salt synthesis method is relatively simple and suitable for industrial scale,presenting a promising prospect in the synthesis of perovskite oxide materials.展开更多
Sequence labelling(SL)tasks are currently widely studied in the field of natural language processing.Most sequence labelling methods are developed on a large amount of labelled training data via supervised learning,wh...Sequence labelling(SL)tasks are currently widely studied in the field of natural language processing.Most sequence labelling methods are developed on a large amount of labelled training data via supervised learning,which is time-consuming and expensive.As an alternative,domain adaptation is proposed to train a deep-learning model for sequence labelling in a target domain by exploiting existing labelled training data in related source domains.To this end,the authors propose a Bi-LSTM model to extract more-related knowledge from multi-source domains and learn specific context from the target domain.Further,the language modelling training is also applied to cross-domain adaptability facilitating.The proposed model is extensively evaluated with the named entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging tasks.The empirical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the cross-domain adaption.Our model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods used in both cross-domain tasks and crowd annotation tasks.展开更多
Microarray contains a large matrix of information and has been widely used by biologists and bio data scientist for monitoring combinations of genes in different organisms.The coherent patterns in all continuous colum...Microarray contains a large matrix of information and has been widely used by biologists and bio data scientist for monitoring combinations of genes in different organisms.The coherent patterns in all continuous columns are mined in gene microarray data matrices.It is investigated,in this study,the coherent patterns in all continuous columns in gene microarray data matrix by developing the time series similarity measure for the coherent patterns in all continuous columns,as well as the evaluation function for verifying the proposed algorithm and the corresponding biclusters.The continuous time changes are taken into account in the coherent patterns in all continuous columns,and co-expression patterns in time series are searched.In order to use all the common information between sequences,a similarity measure for the coherent patterns in continuous columns is defined in this paper.To validate the efficiency of the similarity measure to mine biological information at continuous time points,an evaluation function is defined to measure biclusters,and an effective algorithm is proposed to mine the biclusters.Simulation experiments are conducted to verify the biological significance of the biclusters,which include synthetic datasets and real gene microarray datasets.The performance of the algorithm is analyzed,and the results show that the algorithm is highly efficient.展开更多
Sentiment word embedding has been extensively studied and used in sentiment analysis tasks.However,most existing models have failed to differentiate high-frequency and low-frequency words.Accordingly,the sentiment inf...Sentiment word embedding has been extensively studied and used in sentiment analysis tasks.However,most existing models have failed to differentiate high-frequency and low-frequency words.Accordingly,the sentiment information of low-frequency words is insufficiently captured,thus resulting in inaccurate sentiment word embedding and degradation of overall performance of sentiment analysis.A Bayesian estimation-based sentiment word embedding(BESWE)model,which aims to precisely extract the sentiment information of low-frequency words,has been proposed.In the model,a Bayesian estimator is constructed based on the co-occurrence probabilities and sentiment proba-bilities of words,and a novel loss function is defined for sentiment word embedding learning.The experimental results based on the sentiment lexicons and Movie Review dataset show that BESWE outperforms many state-of-the-art methods,for example,C&W,CBOW,GloVe,SE-HyRank and DLJT1,in sentiment analysis tasks,which demonstrate that Bayesian estimation can effectively capture the sentiment information of low-frequency words and integrate the sentiment information into the word embedding through the loss function.In addition,replacing the embedding of low-frequency words in the state-of-the-art methods with BESWE can significantly improve the performance of those methods in sentiment analysis tasks.展开更多
Objective: To investigate the association between Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection and the occurrence of acute coronary syndromes (ACS), and its associated mechanism in ACS development. Methods: A total of 134 pat...Objective: To investigate the association between Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection and the occurrence of acute coronary syndromes (ACS), and its associated mechanism in ACS development. Methods: A total of 134 patients with confirmed ACS were selected as the ACS group, and another 102 healthy subjects were enrolled as the control group. Serum triglycerides (TG), cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1), and apolipoprotein B (ApoB) were detected using immuno-transmission turbidimetry in the ACS and control groups. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to detect MP-specific IgG antibodies in the serum. Results:The MP infection rate in the ACS group was significantly higher than that in of the healthy control group. Although there were significant differences in the expression of TC, HDL, LDL, and ApoB between the ACS and control groups, there were no significant differences between the MP IgG-positive and negative groups for any the six serum lipid indexes in the ACS patients. The level of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) expression in ACS patients was significantly higher in the MP IgG-positive group compared with the negative group. Conclusions: MP infection is associated with ACS and may be a risk factor for ACS. MP infection may not affect blood lipid levels but rather induce the development of ACS by affecting the long-term inflammatory environment.展开更多
Lkb1 deficiency confers the Kras-mutant lung cancer with strong plasticity and the potential for adeno-to-squamous transdifferentiation(AST).However,it remains largely unknown how Lkb1 deficiency dynamically regulates...Lkb1 deficiency confers the Kras-mutant lung cancer with strong plasticity and the potential for adeno-to-squamous transdifferentiation(AST).However,it remains largely unknown how Lkb1 deficiency dynamically regulates AST.Using the classical AST mouse model(Kras LSL-G12D/+;Lkb1flox/flox,KL),we here comprehensively analyze the temporal transcriptomic dynamics of lung tumors at different stages by dynamic network biomarker(DNB)and identify the tipping point at which the Wnt signaling is abruptly suppressed by the excessive accumulation of reactive oxygen species(ROS)through its downstream effector FOXO3A.Bidirectional genetic perturbation of the Wnt pathway using two different Ctnnb1 conditional knockout mouse strains confirms its essential role in the negative regulation of AST.Importantly,pharmacological activation of the Wnt pathway before but not after the tipping point inhibits squamous transdifferentiation,highlighting the irreversibility of AST after crossing the tipping point.Through comparative transcriptomic analyses of mouse and human tumors,we find that the lineage-specific transcription factors(TFs)of adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma form a“Yin-Yang”counteracting network.Interestingly,inactivation of the Wnt pathway preferentially suppresses the adenomatous lineage TF network and thus disrupts the“Yin-Yang”homeostasis to lean towards the squamous lineage,whereas ectopic expression of NKX2-1,an adenomatous lineage TF,significantly dampens such phenotypic transition accelerated by the Wnt pathway inactivation.The negative correlation between the Wnt pathway and AST is further observed in a large cohort of human lung adenosquamous carcinoma.Collectively,our study identifies the tipping point of AST and highlights an essential role of the ROS-Wnt axis in dynamically orchestrating the homeostasis between adeno-and squamous-specific TF networks at the AST tipping point.展开更多
The electrochemical behaviour of Nd(Ⅲ)ion was investigated on inert W,active Ga and Ga-AI cathodes.It is established that the reduction of Nd(Ⅲ)ion on the inert electrode is a consecutive two-step process while that...The electrochemical behaviour of Nd(Ⅲ)ion was investigated on inert W,active Ga and Ga-AI cathodes.It is established that the reduction of Nd(Ⅲ)ion on the inert electrode is a consecutive two-step process while that on the active electrodes is a one-step process.The apparent standard potential of the Nd(Ⅲ)/Nd redox couple at different temperatures was determined by open-circuit chronopotentiometry and semi-differential method,and the relationship between temperature and apparent standard potential was further discussed.The thermodynamic properties of Nd in Ga and Ga-Al electrodes such as activity coefficient and activity were evaluated via intermittent coulomb titration and temperature dependence test,and the effect of temperature on activity coefficient was verified.Finally,Nd was successfully extracted in form of alloy from molten salt by galvanostatic electrolysis,in which the current efficiency of91.7%for the electroextraction indicates that the binary liquid Ga-Al electrode has favorable performance.展开更多
High-entropy oxides(HEOs)are widely researched as potential materials for thermal barrier coatings(TBCs).However,the relatively low thermal expansion coefficient(TEC)of those materials severely restricts their practic...High-entropy oxides(HEOs)are widely researched as potential materials for thermal barrier coatings(TBCs).However,the relatively low thermal expansion coefficient(TEC)of those materials severely restricts their practical application.In order to improve the poor thermal expansion property and further reduce the thermal conductivity,high-entropy(La_(0.2)Nd_(0.2)Sm_(0.2)Eu_(0.2)Gd_(0.2))_(2)Ce_(2)O_(7) is designed and synthesized in this work.The as-prepared multicomponent material is formed in a simple disordered fluorite structure due to the high-entropy stabilization effect.Notably,it exhibits a much higher TEC of approximately 12.0×10^(−6) K^(−1) compared with those of other high-entropy oxides reported in the field of TBCs.Besides,it presents prominent thermal insulation behavior with a low intrinsic thermal conductivity of 0.92 W·m^(−1)·K^(−1) at 1400℃,which can be explained by the existence of high concentration oxygen vacancies and highly disordered arrangement of multicomponent cations in the unique high-entropy configuration.Through high-temperature in-situ X-ray diffraction(XRD)measurement,this material shows excellent phase stability up to 1400℃.Benefiting from the solid solution strengthening effect,it shows a higher hardness of 8.72 GPa than the corresponding single component compounds.The superior thermo-physical performance above enables(La_(0.2)Nd_(0.2)Sm_(0.2)Eu_(0.2)Gd_(0.2))_(2)Ce_(2)O_(7) a promising TBC material.展开更多
Small cell lung cancer(SCLC)is a phenotypically heterogeneous disease with an extremely poor prognosis,which is mainly attributed to the rapid development of resistance to chemotherapy.However,the relation between the...Small cell lung cancer(SCLC)is a phenotypically heterogeneous disease with an extremely poor prognosis,which is mainly attributed to the rapid development of resistance to chemotherapy.However,the relation between the growth phenotypes and chemo-resistance of SCLC remains largely unclear.Through comprehensive bioinformatic analyses,we found that the heterogeneity of SCLC phenotype was significantly associated with different sensitivity to chemotherapy.Adherent or semiadherent SCLC cells were enriched with activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway and were highly chemoresistant.Mechanistically,activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway promotes the phenotypic transition from suspension to adhesion growth pattern and confers SCLC cells with chemo-resistance.Such chemo-resistance could be largely overcome by combining chemotherapy with PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway inhibitors.Our findings support that the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway plays an important role in SCLC phenotype transition and chemo-resistance,which holds important clinical implications for improving SCLC treatment.展开更多
The investigate about the effect of the microstructure of Ti6Al4V alloy on its cavitation erosion and corrosion properties in marine can provide the key basis for the application.On the basis of as-received Ti6Al4V(TC...The investigate about the effect of the microstructure of Ti6Al4V alloy on its cavitation erosion and corrosion properties in marine can provide the key basis for the application.On the basis of as-received Ti6Al4V(TC4)alloy,FC-TC4 and AC-TC4 alloys were prepared by heat treatment with the cooling method of a furnace and atmospheric environment,respectively.Then the microstructure evolutions of three samples were scrutinized and the effect of microstructure on their cavitation erosion and corrosion resistance was explored.The results showed that more recrystallized grains formed as well as its content of α grains and high-angle grain boundaries increased in AC-TC4 alloy.To FC-TC4 alloy,there was obvious grain growth apart from recrystallization.Moreover,many nanotwins of Ti V and Ti Al_(3)were formed separately in FC-TC4 and AC-TC4 alloys due to the dislocation migration during heat treatment.The microstructure evolution led the hardness and elastic modulus of AC-TC4 alloy were the best,followed by FC-TC4 alloy,that of TC4 were the worst.Similarly,passivating ability of AC-TC4 alloy was the best among three samples because of its microstructure.Although cracks extended along the grain boundaries under the action of continual cavitation erosion,the passivation film formed by TiO_(2) and Al_(2)O_(3) would enhance their resistance to further corrosion and cavitation erosion in artificial seawater.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21976047,21790373,and 51774104)the Ph.D Student Research and Innovation Fund of the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.3072019GIP1011)+1 种基金University and Local Integration Development Project of Yantai,China(No.2020 XDRHXMPT36)the Sino-Russian Cooperation Fund of Harbin Engineering University(No.2021HEUCRF004).
文摘With the increasing demand of rare earth metals in functional materials,recovery of rare earth elements(REEs)from secondary resources has become important for the green economy transition.Molten salt electrolysis has the advantages of low water consumption and low hazardous waste during REE recovery.This review systematically summarizes the separation and electroextraction of REEs on various reactive electrodes in different molten salts.It also highlights the relationship between the formed alloy phases and electrodeposition parameters,including applied potential,current,and ion concentration.Moreover,the feasibility of using LiF–NaF–KF electrolyte to recover REEs is evaluated through thermodynamic analysis.Problems related to REE separation/recovery the choice of electrolyte are discussed in detail to realize the low-energy and high current efficiency of practical applications.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21976047,21790373,and 51774104)the Ph.D.Student Research and Innovation Fund of the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(No.3072019GIP1011)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(No.3072020CFT1008)。
文摘Sm extraction from a LiCl-KCl melt was carried out by forming alloys on various electrodes,including Al,Ni,Cu,and liquid Zn,and the electrochemical behaviors of the resultant metal products were investigated using different electrochemical techniques.While Sm metal deposition via the conventional two-step reaction process was not noted on the inert electrode,underpotential deposition was observed on the reactive electrodes because of the latter's depolarization effect.The depolarization effects of the reactive electrodes on Sm showed the order Zn>Al>Ni>Cu.Sm-M(M=Al,Ni,Cu,Zn)alloys were deposited by galvanostatic and potentiostatic electrolysis.The products were fully characterized by X-ray diffractometry(XRD)and scanning electron microscopy(SEM)-energy dispersive spectrometry(EDS),and the stability of the obtained M-rich compounds was determined.Finally,the relationship between the electrode potential and type of Sm-M intermetallic compounds formed was assessed on the basis of the observed electrochemical properties and electrodeposits.
基金financially supported by the China Scholarship Council,the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21976047,21790373 and 51774104)the Fundamental Research funds for the Central Universities(3072019CF1005)+1 种基金the Scientific Research and Special Foundation Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Science Foundation(LBH-Q15019,LBH-Q15020 and LBH-TZ0411)Ph.D.Student Research and Innovation Fund of the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(3072019GIP1011)。
文摘Due to the unique structure of perovskite materials,their capacitance can be improved by introducing oxygen vacancy.In this paper,the LaMnO3-δ material containing oxygen vacancy was synthesized by molten salt method in KNO3-NaNO3-NaNO2 melt.The La-Mn-O crystal grows gradually in molten salt with the increase of temperature.It was confirmed that LaMnO3-δ with perovskite structure and incomplete oxygen content were synthesized by molten salt method and presented a three-dimensional shape.LaMnO3-δ stores energy by redox reaction and adsorption of OH-in electrolyte simultaneously.In comparison with the stoichiometric LaMnO3 prepared by the sol-gel method,LaMnO3-δ prepared by molten salt method proffered higher capacitance and better performance.The galvanostatic charge-discharge curve showed specific capacitance of 973.5 F/g under current density of 1 A/g in 6 M KOH.The capacitance of LaMn03-δ was 82.7%under condition of 5 A/g compared with the capacitance at the current of 1A/g,and the specific capacitances of 648.0 and 310.0 F/g were obtained after 2000 and 5000 cycles of galvanostatic charging-discharging,respectively.Molten salt synthesis method is relatively simple and suitable for industrial scale,presenting a promising prospect in the synthesis of perovskite oxide materials.
基金National Statistical Science Research Project of China,Grant/Award Number:2016LY98Science and Technology Department of Guangdong Province in China,Grant/Award Numbers:2016A010101020,2016A010101021,2016A010101022+1 种基金Characteristic Innovation Projects of Guangdong Colleges and Universities,Grant/Award Number:2018KTSCX049Science and Technology Plan Project of Guangzhou,Grant/Award Numbers:202102080258,201903010013。
文摘Sequence labelling(SL)tasks are currently widely studied in the field of natural language processing.Most sequence labelling methods are developed on a large amount of labelled training data via supervised learning,which is time-consuming and expensive.As an alternative,domain adaptation is proposed to train a deep-learning model for sequence labelling in a target domain by exploiting existing labelled training data in related source domains.To this end,the authors propose a Bi-LSTM model to extract more-related knowledge from multi-source domains and learn specific context from the target domain.Further,the language modelling training is also applied to cross-domain adaptability facilitating.The proposed model is extensively evaluated with the named entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging tasks.The empirical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the cross-domain adaption.Our model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods used in both cross-domain tasks and crowd annotation tasks.
基金supported by China Scholarship Council,Guangdong Science and Technology Department under Grant no.2016A010101020,2016A010101021,2016A010101022Guangzhou Science and Information Bureau under Grant no 201802010033.
文摘Microarray contains a large matrix of information and has been widely used by biologists and bio data scientist for monitoring combinations of genes in different organisms.The coherent patterns in all continuous columns are mined in gene microarray data matrices.It is investigated,in this study,the coherent patterns in all continuous columns in gene microarray data matrix by developing the time series similarity measure for the coherent patterns in all continuous columns,as well as the evaluation function for verifying the proposed algorithm and the corresponding biclusters.The continuous time changes are taken into account in the coherent patterns in all continuous columns,and co-expression patterns in time series are searched.In order to use all the common information between sequences,a similarity measure for the coherent patterns in continuous columns is defined in this paper.To validate the efficiency of the similarity measure to mine biological information at continuous time points,an evaluation function is defined to measure biclusters,and an effective algorithm is proposed to mine the biclusters.Simulation experiments are conducted to verify the biological significance of the biclusters,which include synthetic datasets and real gene microarray datasets.The performance of the algorithm is analyzed,and the results show that the algorithm is highly efficient.
基金Funding information National Statistical Science Research Project of China,Grant/Award Number:2016LY98Science and Technology Department of Guangdong Province in China,Grant/Award Numbers:2016A010101020,2016A010101021,2016A010101022+2 种基金Characteristic Innovation Projects of Guangdong Colleges and Universities,Grant/Award Numbers:2018KTSCX049,2018GKTSCX069Science and Technology Plan Project of Guangzhou,Grant/Award Numbers:201802010033,201903010013Bidding Project of Laboratory of Language Engineering and Computing of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,Grant/Award Number:LEC2019ZBKT005。
文摘Sentiment word embedding has been extensively studied and used in sentiment analysis tasks.However,most existing models have failed to differentiate high-frequency and low-frequency words.Accordingly,the sentiment information of low-frequency words is insufficiently captured,thus resulting in inaccurate sentiment word embedding and degradation of overall performance of sentiment analysis.A Bayesian estimation-based sentiment word embedding(BESWE)model,which aims to precisely extract the sentiment information of low-frequency words,has been proposed.In the model,a Bayesian estimator is constructed based on the co-occurrence probabilities and sentiment proba-bilities of words,and a novel loss function is defined for sentiment word embedding learning.The experimental results based on the sentiment lexicons and Movie Review dataset show that BESWE outperforms many state-of-the-art methods,for example,C&W,CBOW,GloVe,SE-HyRank and DLJT1,in sentiment analysis tasks,which demonstrate that Bayesian estimation can effectively capture the sentiment information of low-frequency words and integrate the sentiment information into the word embedding through the loss function.In addition,replacing the embedding of low-frequency words in the state-of-the-art methods with BESWE can significantly improve the performance of those methods in sentiment analysis tasks.
基金This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31672530)the Science and Technology Project of Henan Province(162300410091).
文摘Objective: To investigate the association between Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection and the occurrence of acute coronary syndromes (ACS), and its associated mechanism in ACS development. Methods: A total of 134 patients with confirmed ACS were selected as the ACS group, and another 102 healthy subjects were enrolled as the control group. Serum triglycerides (TG), cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1), and apolipoprotein B (ApoB) were detected using immuno-transmission turbidimetry in the ACS and control groups. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to detect MP-specific IgG antibodies in the serum. Results:The MP infection rate in the ACS group was significantly higher than that in of the healthy control group. Although there were significant differences in the expression of TC, HDL, LDL, and ApoB between the ACS and control groups, there were no significant differences between the MP IgG-positive and negative groups for any the six serum lipid indexes in the ACS patients. The level of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) expression in ACS patients was significantly higher in the MP IgG-positive group compared with the negative group. Conclusions: MP infection is associated with ACS and may be a risk factor for ACS. MP infection may not affect blood lipid levels but rather induce the development of ACS by affecting the long-term inflammatory environment.
基金We thank Drs.Tyler Jacks,Ronald A.DePinho,Kwok-kin Wong,and Lijian Hui for the generous gift of various mouse strains.We also thank Ruiqi Wang,Rui Liu,Pei Chen,Chao Zheng,and Jifan Shi for helpful discussion.This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Nos.2017YFA0505500 to H.J.and L.C.,2020YFA0803300 to H.J.)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.91731314,82030083,31621003,81872312,82011540007 to H.J.,12131020,31930022,12026608 to L.C.,82273093 to Z.F.,81871875,82173340 to L.H.,81802279 to H.H.,81902326 to X.W.,81402371 to Y.J.)+7 种基金the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.XDB19020201 to H.J.,XDB38040400 to L.C.)Basic Frontier Scientific Research Program of Chinese Academy of Science(No.ZDBS-LY-SM006 to H.J.)International Cooperation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.153D31KYSB20190035 to H.J.)the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(No.21ZR1470300 to L.H.)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(No.Y919S31371 to X.W.)Special Fund for Science and Technology Innovation Strategy of Guangdong Province(Nos.2021B0909050004,2021B0909060002 to L.C.)Major Key Project of PCL(No.PCL2021A12 to L.C.)JST Moonshot R&D Project(No.JPMJMS2021 to L.C.).
文摘Lkb1 deficiency confers the Kras-mutant lung cancer with strong plasticity and the potential for adeno-to-squamous transdifferentiation(AST).However,it remains largely unknown how Lkb1 deficiency dynamically regulates AST.Using the classical AST mouse model(Kras LSL-G12D/+;Lkb1flox/flox,KL),we here comprehensively analyze the temporal transcriptomic dynamics of lung tumors at different stages by dynamic network biomarker(DNB)and identify the tipping point at which the Wnt signaling is abruptly suppressed by the excessive accumulation of reactive oxygen species(ROS)through its downstream effector FOXO3A.Bidirectional genetic perturbation of the Wnt pathway using two different Ctnnb1 conditional knockout mouse strains confirms its essential role in the negative regulation of AST.Importantly,pharmacological activation of the Wnt pathway before but not after the tipping point inhibits squamous transdifferentiation,highlighting the irreversibility of AST after crossing the tipping point.Through comparative transcriptomic analyses of mouse and human tumors,we find that the lineage-specific transcription factors(TFs)of adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma form a“Yin-Yang”counteracting network.Interestingly,inactivation of the Wnt pathway preferentially suppresses the adenomatous lineage TF network and thus disrupts the“Yin-Yang”homeostasis to lean towards the squamous lineage,whereas ectopic expression of NKX2-1,an adenomatous lineage TF,significantly dampens such phenotypic transition accelerated by the Wnt pathway inactivation.The negative correlation between the Wnt pathway and AST is further observed in a large cohort of human lung adenosquamous carcinoma.Collectively,our study identifies the tipping point of AST and highlights an essential role of the ROS-Wnt axis in dynamically orchestrating the homeostasis between adeno-and squamous-specific TF networks at the AST tipping point.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21976047,22176045,21790373)the Sino-Russian Cooperation Fund of Harbin Engineering University(2021HEUCRF004)the University and Local Integration Development Project of Yantai(2020XDRHXMPT36)。
文摘The electrochemical behaviour of Nd(Ⅲ)ion was investigated on inert W,active Ga and Ga-AI cathodes.It is established that the reduction of Nd(Ⅲ)ion on the inert electrode is a consecutive two-step process while that on the active electrodes is a one-step process.The apparent standard potential of the Nd(Ⅲ)/Nd redox couple at different temperatures was determined by open-circuit chronopotentiometry and semi-differential method,and the relationship between temperature and apparent standard potential was further discussed.The thermodynamic properties of Nd in Ga and Ga-Al electrodes such as activity coefficient and activity were evaluated via intermittent coulomb titration and temperature dependence test,and the effect of temperature on activity coefficient was verified.Finally,Nd was successfully extracted in form of alloy from molten salt by galvanostatic electrolysis,in which the current efficiency of91.7%for the electroextraction indicates that the binary liquid Ga-Al electrode has favorable performance.
基金This research was financially supported by Youth Innovation Promotion Association(No.2014378)for Chinese Academy of Sciences.The authors are grateful to the constructive comments of the reviewers.
文摘High-entropy oxides(HEOs)are widely researched as potential materials for thermal barrier coatings(TBCs).However,the relatively low thermal expansion coefficient(TEC)of those materials severely restricts their practical application.In order to improve the poor thermal expansion property and further reduce the thermal conductivity,high-entropy(La_(0.2)Nd_(0.2)Sm_(0.2)Eu_(0.2)Gd_(0.2))_(2)Ce_(2)O_(7) is designed and synthesized in this work.The as-prepared multicomponent material is formed in a simple disordered fluorite structure due to the high-entropy stabilization effect.Notably,it exhibits a much higher TEC of approximately 12.0×10^(−6) K^(−1) compared with those of other high-entropy oxides reported in the field of TBCs.Besides,it presents prominent thermal insulation behavior with a low intrinsic thermal conductivity of 0.92 W·m^(−1)·K^(−1) at 1400℃,which can be explained by the existence of high concentration oxygen vacancies and highly disordered arrangement of multicomponent cations in the unique high-entropy configuration.Through high-temperature in-situ X-ray diffraction(XRD)measurement,this material shows excellent phase stability up to 1400℃.Benefiting from the solid solution strengthening effect,it shows a higher hardness of 8.72 GPa than the corresponding single component compounds.The superior thermo-physical performance above enables(La_(0.2)Nd_(0.2)Sm_(0.2)Eu_(0.2)Gd_(0.2))_(2)Ce_(2)O_(7) a promising TBC material.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82030083 to H.J.,81871875 to L.H.)the National Basic Research Program of China(2017YFA0505501 to H.J.+8 种基金2020YFA0803300 to H.J.)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB19020201 to H.J.)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81872312 to H.J.,82011540007 to H.J.,31621003 to H.J.,81402371 to Y.J.,81802279 to H.H.,81902326 to X.W.,81602443 to X.L.)the Basic Frontier Scientific Research Program of Chinese Academy of Science(ZDBSLY-SM006 to H.J.)the International Cooperation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences(153D31KYSB20190035 to H.J.)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(Y919S31371 to X.W.)the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province,China(2019JJ50550 to X.L.)Clinical Medical Technology Innovation Guide Project of Hunan(2020SK51827 to X.L.)Project of Scientific Research Plan of Hunan Provincial Health Commission(202103100127 to X.L.)。
文摘Small cell lung cancer(SCLC)is a phenotypically heterogeneous disease with an extremely poor prognosis,which is mainly attributed to the rapid development of resistance to chemotherapy.However,the relation between the growth phenotypes and chemo-resistance of SCLC remains largely unclear.Through comprehensive bioinformatic analyses,we found that the heterogeneity of SCLC phenotype was significantly associated with different sensitivity to chemotherapy.Adherent or semiadherent SCLC cells were enriched with activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway and were highly chemoresistant.Mechanistically,activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway promotes the phenotypic transition from suspension to adhesion growth pattern and confers SCLC cells with chemo-resistance.Such chemo-resistance could be largely overcome by combining chemotherapy with PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway inhibitors.Our findings support that the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway plays an important role in SCLC phenotype transition and chemo-resistance,which holds important clinical implications for improving SCLC treatment.
基金financially supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association(No.2014378)for Chinese Academy of Sciences。
文摘The investigate about the effect of the microstructure of Ti6Al4V alloy on its cavitation erosion and corrosion properties in marine can provide the key basis for the application.On the basis of as-received Ti6Al4V(TC4)alloy,FC-TC4 and AC-TC4 alloys were prepared by heat treatment with the cooling method of a furnace and atmospheric environment,respectively.Then the microstructure evolutions of three samples were scrutinized and the effect of microstructure on their cavitation erosion and corrosion resistance was explored.The results showed that more recrystallized grains formed as well as its content of α grains and high-angle grain boundaries increased in AC-TC4 alloy.To FC-TC4 alloy,there was obvious grain growth apart from recrystallization.Moreover,many nanotwins of Ti V and Ti Al_(3)were formed separately in FC-TC4 and AC-TC4 alloys due to the dislocation migration during heat treatment.The microstructure evolution led the hardness and elastic modulus of AC-TC4 alloy were the best,followed by FC-TC4 alloy,that of TC4 were the worst.Similarly,passivating ability of AC-TC4 alloy was the best among three samples because of its microstructure.Although cracks extended along the grain boundaries under the action of continual cavitation erosion,the passivation film formed by TiO_(2) and Al_(2)O_(3) would enhance their resistance to further corrosion and cavitation erosion in artificial seawater.