A5073706265- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Elasticity and Material Modeling
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant and animal studies
- Insect Resistance and Genetics
- Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography
- Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
- Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
- Reproductive System and Pregnancy
- Peripheral Artery Disease Management
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Aortic aneurysm repair treatments
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Advances in Cucurbitaceae Research
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- MRI in cancer diagnosis
Ansys (France)
2019-2025
Pudong New Area People's Hospital
2025
University of Neuchâtel
2019-2024
Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences
2024
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2024
Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences
2021-2024
Sun Yat-sen University
2016-2023
Zhejiang University
2013-2023
State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology
2013-2023
Ansys (United States)
2017-2023
The brown planthopper (BPH) Nilaparvata lugens is one of the most destructive insect pests on rice (Oryza sativa) in Asia. After landing plants, BPH rapidly accesses plant phloem and sucks sap through unknown mechanisms. We discovered a salivary endo-β-1,4-glucanase (NlEG1) that has endoglucanase activity with maximal at pH 6 37°C secreted into plants by BPH. NlEG1 highly expressed glands midgut. Silencing decreases capacity to reach reduces its food intake, mass, survival, fecundity plants....
Abstract The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) (Hemiptera: Delphacidae), a major pest of rice in Asia, is able to successfully puncture sieve tubes with its piercing stylet and then ingest phloem sap. How BPH manages continuously feed on remains unclear. Here, we cloned the gene NlSEF1 , which highly expressed salivary glands BPH. protein has EF-hand Ca 2+ -binding activity can be secreted into plants when feed. Infestation by nymphs whose was knocked down elicited higher...
Background and context: Surgical procedures are evolving toward less invasive more tailored approaches to consider the specific pathology, morphology, life habits of a patient. However, these new surgical methods require thorough preoperative planning an advanced understanding biomechanical behaviors. In this sense, patient-specific modeling is developing in form digital twins help personalized clinical decision-making. Purpose: This study presents finite element model approach, focusing on...
Summary Vitellogenins (Vgs) are critical for the development and fecundity of insects. As such, these essential proteins can be used by plants to reliably sense presence We addressed this with a combination molecular chemical analyses, genetic transformation, bioactivity tests, insect performance assays. The small N‐terminal subunit Vgs planthopper Nilaparvata lugens (NlVgN) was found trigger strong defense responses in rice when it enters during feeding or oviposition insect. defenses...
Background The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stål), a destructive rice pest in Asia, can quickly overcome resistance by evolving new virulent populations. Herbivore saliva plays an important role plant–herbivore interactions, including plant defense and herbivore virulence. However, thus far little is known about BPH at the molecular level, especially its virulence BPH–rice interaction. Methodology/Principal Findings Using cDNA amplification combination with Illumina...
Nitrogen is an essential element for all life on earth. metabolism, including excretion, growth, development, and survival of plants animals alike. Several nitrogen metabolic processes have been described, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are unclear. Here, we reveal a unique process metabolism in whitefly Bemisia tabaci , global pest. We show that it has acquired two bacterial uricolytic enzyme genes, B. urea carboxylase ( BtUCA ) allophanate hydrolase BtAtzF ), through horizontal...
Summary Herbivore‐induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) are known to be perceived by neighboring plants, resulting in induction or priming of chemical defenses. There is little information on the defense responses that triggered these plant–plant interactions, and phenomenon has rarely been studied rice. Using molecular analyses combination with insect behavioral performance experiments, we how emitted rice plants infested striped stemborer (SSB) Chilo suppressalis affect defenses against this...
Intake of ω-3 PUFAs have been demonstrated to positive effects on pregnancy outcome, whose receptor, GPR120, regulates several cellular functions including differentiation, metabolism and immune reaction. However, whether GPR120 is involved in decidualization remains unknown.Decidua tissue from women with normal spontaneous abortion were collected determine the expression profile GPR120. Abortion mouse models artificially induced deciduoma mice established evaluate effect outcome vivo...
Abstract Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are essential nutrients for all living organisms. PUFA synthesis is mediated by Δ12 desaturases in plants and microorganisms, whereas animals usually obtain PUFAs through their diet. The whitefly Bemisia tabaci an extremely polyphagous agricultural pest that feeds on phloem sap of many do not always provide them with sufficient PUFAs. Here, a plant‐derived desaturase gene family BtFAD2 characterized B. it shows the BtFAD2‐9 enables to synthesize...
A 47-year-old woman with a two-month history of right inguinal lymphadenopathy visited Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Hospital for biopsy. Histopathological and immunohistochemical analyses revealed metastasis high-grade serous carcinoma, likely gynecological origin. PET-CT scan identified tumor in the left adnexa, no other organ involvement. The patient underwent primary cytoreduction, including laparoscopy, hysterosalpingo-oophorectomy, omentectomy, resection deep lymph nodes at...
PEF pretreatment significantly reduced the IgG/IgE-binding ability of β-Lg by modification linear epitopes and destruction conformational epitopes.
Abstract BACKGROUND Calcium (Ca 2+ )‐binding proteins in the saliva of herbivorous insects function as effectors to attenuate host plant defenses and thus improve insect feeding performance. Silencing these genes via transgenic plant‐mediated RNAi is a promising pest control strategy. However, their sequences functions small brown planthopper Laodelphax striatellus (SBPH) remain be investigated. RESULTS We identified putative EF‐hand Ca ‐binding protein (LsECP1) SBPH watery saliva. LsECP1...
Plants recognize and respond to feeding by herbivorous insects upregulating their local systemic defenses. While defense induction aboveground herbivores has been well studied, far less is known about responses against attacks belowground herbivores. Here, we investigated compared the of maize transcriptome mechanical damage infestation two well-adapted herbivores: soil-dwelling western corn rootworm
Summary Caterpillar feeding immediately triggers the release of volatile compounds stored in leaves cotton plants. Additionally, after 1 d herbivory, other newly synthesised volatiles. We investigated whether these volatiles affect chemical defences neighbouring plants and such temporal shifts emissions matter for signalling between Undamaged receiver were exposed to from infested with Spodoptera caterpillars. For plants, we measured changes defence‐related traits as emissions, secondary...
Background The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stål), one of the most serious rice insect pests in Asia, can quickly overcome resistance by evolving new virulent populations. fat body plays essential roles life cycles insects and plant-insect interactions. However, whether differences transcriptomes exist between populations with different virulence levels transcriptomic are related to remain largely unknown. Methodology/Principal Findings In this study, we performed...
The expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFLT-1) in the serum patients with pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) syndrome its effects on foetus was explored. A total 105 cases PIH pregnant women admitted to First People's Hospital Changzhou from March 2015 February 2018 were divided into 3 groups according severity patient's condition. Group (n=35) complicating pregnancy, group B (n=46) mild preeclampsia C (n=24) severe preeclampsia....
Abstract Plant domestication often alters plant traits, including chemical and physical defenses against herbivores. In squash, leads to reduced levels of cucurbitacins leaf trichomes, influencing interactions with insects. However, the impact on inducible in squash remains poorly understood. Here, we investigated defensive traits wild domesticated ( Cucurbita argyrosperma ), compared their responses belowground aboveground infestation by root-feeding larvae leaf-chewing adults banded...
The purpose of this work is to present a patient-specific (PS) modeling approach for simulating percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) endovascular treatment and assessing the balloon sizing influence on short-term outcomes in peripheral arteries, i.e. without stent implantation. Two 3D PS stenosed femoral artery models, one with dominant calcified atherosclerosis while other lipidic plaque, were generated from pre-operative computed tomography angiography images. Elastoplastic...
We launched this prospective phase II single-arm trial on the combination of moderately hypo-fractionated radiotherapy and S-1, to explore safety efficacy new potent regimen in inoperable locally advanced esophageal squamous carcinoma (LA-ESCC) patients.Patients with unresectable stage II-IVB LA-ESCC (UICC 2002, IVB only metastatic celiac or supraclavicular lymph nodes) were included. Moderately hypofractionated (60Gy 24 fractions) concurrent S-1 was delivered. Meanwhile, gastrostomy tube...
Desaturases are essentially required for unsaturated fatty acid (UFA) biosynthesis. We identified 10 genes encoding putative desaturases in the transcriptome database of brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens. These include eight First Desaturase family genes, one cytochrome b5 fused desaturase gene (Nlug-Cytb5r) and Sphingolipid (Nlug-ifc). Transcript level profiling revealed significant variation expression patterns these across tissues developmental stages, which occur a...