Search Results - Dan FENG
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The role of macrophages in renal fibrosis and therapeutic prospects
Published 2025-07-01Get full textMonocytes/macrophages are the key regulators of tissue repair, regeneration, and fibrosis. Monocyte-derived macrophages, which are characterized by high heterogeneity and plasticity, are recruited, activated, and polarized throughout the process of renal fibrosis in response to the local microenviro...
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Role of flavonoids in plant interactions with the environment and against human pathogens — A review
Published 2019-01-01Get full textFlavonoids are widely-distributed polyphenolic secondary metabolites with diverse biological activities in plants and benefit human health as protective dietary agents. They participate in plants' responses to harsh environmental conditions and effectively regulate the cell differentiation and...
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Isolation and identification of a decabromodiphenyl ether degrading bacterium BD-24 and its degradation characteristics
Published 2010-09-01Get full textA bacterial strain BD-24, which was able to use decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209) as the sole carbon and energy source, was isolated from activated sludge in an oil refinery at Hangzhou, China by selective enrichment method. Based on morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics, phyl...
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Quantifying muskmelon fruit attributes with A-TEP-based model and machine vision measurement
Published 2018-06-01Get full textIn this study, we established a dynamic morphological model using the accumulated thermal effectiveness and photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) (A-TEP), aiming to explore the relationship between muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) fruit attributes and environmental factors. Muskmelon surface color was de...
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Metabolic Response of Pakchoi Leaves to Amino Acid Nitrogen
Published 2014-04-01Get full textDifferent nitrogen (N) forms may cause changes in the metabolic profiles of plants. However, few studies have been conducted on the effects of amino acid-N on plant metabolic profiles. The main objective of this study was to identify primary metabolites associated with amino acid-N (Gly, Gln and Ala...
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Assembly and Analysis of the Mitochondrial Genome of <i>Hippophae rhamnoides</i> subsp. <i>sinensis</i>, an Important Ecological and Economic Forest Tree Species in China
Published 2025-07-01Get full text<i>Hippophae rhamnoides</i> subsp. <i>sinensis</i> is extensively found in China, where the annual precipitation ranges from 400 to 800 mm. It is the most dominant species in natural sea buckthorn forests and the primary cultivar for artificial ecological plantations. Additio...
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DNA-PKcs participates in the repair of renal tubular epithelial cell injury
Published 2025-12-01Get full textIschemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury is a major cause of acute kidney injury (AKI) and plays a central role in mediating cell damage and ultimately acute tubular necrosis. Renal proximal tubular epithelial cells (PTECs) possess intrinsic repair mechanisms, yet the molecular pathways underpinning their...
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Effects of RNAi Silencing of SSIII Gene on Phosphorus Content and Characteristics of Starch in Potato Tubers
Published 2012-12-01Get full textThe sense and antisense fragments of the soluble starch synthase (SSIII) gene and the intron fragment of somatic embryogenesis receptor-like kinase (SERK1) gene were cloned from potato using PCR techniques. The RNAi plant expression vectors pBI-SSIII-RNAi and pBIC-SSIII-RNAi were constructed which c...
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Biosynthesis of artemisinic acid in engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its attractiveness to the mirid bug Apolygus lucorum
Published 2022-10-01Get full textArtemisia annua is an important preferred host of the mirid bug Apolygus lucorum in autumn. Volatiles emitted from A. annua attract A. lucorum. Volatile artemisinic acid of A. annua is a precursor of artemisinin that has been widely investigated in the Chinese herbal medicine field. However, little...
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Comparative Analysis of Gene Expression in Two Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.) Under Salt Stress
Published 2014-10-01Get full textSalinity is one of the most important abiotic stresses that adversely affects crop growth and productivity. A subtractive suppression hybridization (SSH) library were constructed from the roots of salt-sensitive Yulu cultivar melon seedlings under salt stress; 557 high-quality expressed sequence tag...
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Growth and physiological responses of four kiwifruit genotypes to salt stress and resistance evaluation
Published 2019-01-01Get full textIn this study, four genotypes (Acva-1, Acva-2, Acva-3 and ZM-2) of Actinidia germplasm resources were grown in different NaCI concentrations (0, 0.4, 0.8 and 1.2 g L–1). The growth, physiological and biochemical indicators were measured, and a graded scale was developed as the salt damage index (SDI...
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Two farnesyl pyrophosphate synthases, GhFPS1–2, in Gossypium hirsutum are involved in the biosynthesis of farnesol to attract parasitoid wasps
Published 2020-09-01Get full textSesquiterpenoids play an import role in the direct or indirect defense of plants. Farnesyl pyrophosphate synthases (FPSs) catalyze the biosynthesis of farnesyl pyrophosphate, which is a key precursor of farnesol and (E)-β-farnesene. In the current study, two FPS genes in Gossypium hirsutum, GhFPS1 a...
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Genome-scale mRNA and miRNA transcriptomic insights into the regulatory mechanism of cucumber corolla opening
Published 2022-01-01Get full text‘Corollas and spines’ is an important trait for fresh market cucumber. In a unique cucumber line, ‘6457’, the super ovary is much larger and corolla opening is delayed by 4–5 days, thus the resulting fruit has a flower that remains on the tip, which has a high commodity value. In this study, to bett...
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High-Performance Semi-Polar InGaN/GaN Green Micro Light-Emitting Diodes
Published 2020-01-01Get full textSemi-polar micro-LEDs have gain increasing interests due to the advantages of polarization control and quantum efficiency improvement. In this work, a novel semi-polar (20–21)-plane micro-LEDs array has been designed and manufactured. In comparison with c-plane micro-LEDs, semi...
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