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Reactive Oxygen Species‐Mediated <span>TRPM2</span> Activation Facilitates Phagocytosis of Macrophages to Reverse Profibrotic Phenotype Open

Shao-ying Zhang, Fanfan Liang, Dan Wan, Chongyu Zhang, Yinggang Zhang , et al. · 2025

Background and Aims Macrophages play plastic roles during fibrogenesis and fibrosis regression. Phagocytosis is considered a trigger for shifting macrophages from a profibrotic phenotype to a restorative phenotype. However, the underlying …

Splicing to keep splicing: A feedback system for cellular homeostasis and state transition Open

Zhonghao Guo, Xurui Zhang, Yachen Li, Yule Chen, Yungang Xu · 2025

Background Alternative splicing (AS) plays a crucial role in regulating gene expression and governing proteomic diversity by generating multiple protein isoforms from a single gene. Increasing evidence has highlighted the regulation for pr…

Metadiscourse in Three Minute Thesis Presentations: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Open

Qiang Zhou, Xiaohui Yu, Xurui Zhang, Y. Liu · 2025

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, as a flourishing academic genre, contributes to assisting scholars to popularize scientific knowledge to a heterogenous audience. Regarding metadiscourse of 3MT genre, much attention has been paid to …

Splicing to orchestrate cell fate Open

Xurui Zhang, Zhonghao Guo, Yachen Li, Yungang Xu · 2024

Alternative splicing (AS) plays a critical role in gene expression by generating protein diversity from single genes. This review provides an overview of the role of AS in regulating cell fate, focusing on its involvement in processes such…

Wall effect on single bubble rising in a Hele–Shaw cell Open

Zhen Jian, Shiping Xiang, Ruixuan Li, Zhen Jiang, Lang Qin , et al. · 2024

Single air bubble rising near vertical wall in a Hele–Shaw cell was investigated experimentally. Bubbles with a large range of size from 4.46 mm to 21.68 mm were generated. A vertical wall was introduced in the cell, and the initial distan…

Development of RSA and some attack points Open

Xurui Zhang · 2023

Currently, the relatively popular public key encryption is RSA. It was officially launched in 1978 and given their initials as a name. Different encryption and decryption keys are used in the RSA public-key cryptosystem. Deriving decryptio…

CD11b+CD43hiLy6Clo splenocyte‐derived macrophages exacerbate liver fibrosis via spleen–liver axis Open

Shao-ying Zhang, Dan Wan, Mengchen Zhu, Guihu Wang, Xurui Zhang , et al. · 2022

Background and Aims: Monocyte‐derived macrophages (MoMFs), a dominant population of hepatic macrophages under inflammation, play a crucial role in liver fibrosis progression. The spleen serves as an extra monocyte reservoir in inflammatory…

Two Types of 3D Quantum Hall Effects in Multilayer WTe$_2$ Open

Xurui Zhang, Yeonghun Lee, Vivek Kakani, Kun Yang, Kyeongjae Cho , et al. · 2022

Interplay between the topological surface states and bulk states gives rise to diverse exotic transport phenomena in topological materials. The recently proposed Weyl orbit in topological semimetals in the presence of magnetic field is a r…

Symbiont-Induced Phagosome Changes Rather than Extracellular Discrimination Contribute to the Formation of Social Amoeba Farming Symbiosis Open

Yuehui Tian, Tao Peng, Zhenzhen He, Luting Wang, Xurui Zhang , et al. · 2022

Protists are single-celled, extremely diverse eukaryotic microbes. Like animals and plants, they live with bacterial symbionts and have complex relationships.

Attachment of a particle to a pendant drop: How large can we go? Open

Yumeng Feng, Weiwei Zhao, Yangyu Duan, Siqi Zhu, Xurui Zhang , et al. · 2022

Small solid particles can be attached to an air–liquid interface due to the pulling of surface tension. We investigate experimentally under which conditions a spherical solid particle can be attached under a pendant drop, varying the densi…

Mind the Style of Text! Adversarial and Backdoor Attacks Based on Text Style Transfer Open

Fanchao Qi, Yang‐Yi Chen, Xurui Zhang, Mukai Li, Zhiyuan Liu , et al. · 2021

Adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks are two common security threats that hang over deep learning. Both of them harness task-irrelevant features of data in their implementation. Text style is a feature that is naturally irrelevant to m…

Thickness dependence of magnetotransport properties of tungsten ditelluride Open

Xurui Zhang, Vivek Kakani, John M. Woods, J. Judy, Xiaoyan Shi · 2021

We investigate the electronic structure of tungsten ditelluride (WTe$_2$) flakes with different thicknesses in magneto-transport studies. The temperature-dependent resistance and magnetoresistance (MR) measurements both confirm the breakin…

Thickness Dependence of Magneto-transport Properties in Tungsten\n Ditelluride Open

Xurui Zhang, Vivek Kakani, John M. Woods, J. Judy, Xiaoyan Shi · 2021

We investigate the electronic structure of tungsten ditelluride (WTe$_2$)\nflakes with different thicknesses in magneto-transport studies. The\ntemperature-dependent resistance and magnetoresistance (MR) measurements both\nconfirm the brea…

MERMAID: Metaphor Generation with Symbolism and Discriminative Decoding Open

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xurui Zhang, Smaranda Muresan, Nanyun Peng · 2021

Generating metaphors is a challenging task as it requires a proper understanding of abstract concepts, making connections between unrelated concepts, and deviating from the literal meaning. In this paper, we aim to generate a metaphoric se…

MERMAID: Metaphor Generation with Symbolism and Discriminative Decoding Open

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xurui Zhang, Smaranda Muresan, Nanyun Peng · 2021

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xurui Zhang, Smaranda Muresan, Nanyun Peng. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 2021.

Mind the Style of Text! Adversarial and Backdoor Attacks Based on Text Style Transfer Open

Fanchao Qi, Yang‐Yi Chen, Xurui Zhang, Mukai Li, Zhiyuan Liu , et al. · 2021

Adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks are two common security threats that hang over deep learning. Both of them harness task-irrelevant features of data in their implementation. Text style is a feature that is naturally irrelevant to m…

Crossover between weak antilocalization and weak localization in few-layer : Role of electron-electron interactions Open

Xurui Zhang, John M. Woods, J. Judy, Xiaoyan Shi · 2020

We report electron transport studies in an encapsulated few-layer WTe₂ at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. The magnetoconductance reveals a temperature-induced crossover between weak antilocalization and weak localizat…

Try to Substitute: An Unsupervised Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation Method Based on HowNet Open

Bairu Hou, Fanchao Qi, Yuan Zang, Xurui Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu , et al. · 2020

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a fundamental natural language processing task. Unsupervised knowledge-based WSD only relies on a lexical knowledge base as the sense inventory and has wider practical use than supervised WSD that require…

Motion Capture Research: 3D Human Pose Recovery Based on RGB Video Sequences Open

Xin Min, Shouqian Sun, Honglie Wang, Xurui Zhang, Chao Li , et al. · 2019

Using video sequences to restore 3D human poses is of great significance in the field of motion capture. This paper proposes a novel approach to estimate 3D human action via end-to-end learning of deep convolutional neural network to calcu…

DROP IMPACT ONTO A CANTILEVER BEAM: BEHAVIOR OF THE LAMELLA AND FORCE MEASUREMENT Open

H. Chen, Xurui Zhang, Beatriz Defez, Anastasios Georgoulas, Marin Deflorin , et al. · 2019

In this work, the process of drop impact onto an elastic surface (a cantilever beam) was studied. Different from previous studies which typically focused on the behavior of the elastic surface (e.g., deformation and oscillation), the focus…

Study of thin liquid film drainage in bubble-liquid-solid systems using integrated thin liquid film force apparatus (ITLFFA) Open

Xurui Zhang · 2017

Interactions involving deformable surfaces reveal a number of distinct physicochemical characteristics that do not exist in interactions between rigid solid surfaces. The main focus of this thesis is to develop a unique fully custom-design…

Both Complexity and Location of DNA Damage Contribute to Cellular Senescence Induced by Ionizing Radiation Open

Xurui Zhang, Caiyong Ye, Fang Sun, Wen-Jun Wei, Burong Hu , et al. · 2016

Persistent DNA damage is considered as a main cause of cellular senescence induced by ionizing radiation. However, the molecular bases of the DNA damage and their contribution to cellular senescence are not completely clear. In this study,…

Exosome-mediated microRNA transfer plays a role in radiation-induced bystander effect Open

Shuai Xu, Jufang Wang, Nan Ding, Wentao Hu, Xurui Zhang , et al. · 2015

Bystander effects can be induced through cellular communication between irradiated cells and non-irradiated cells. The signals that mediate this cellular communication, such as cytokines, reactive oxygen species, nitric oxide and even micr…

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