LDBlockShow: a fast and convenient tool for visualizing linkage disequilibrium and haplotype blocks based on variant call format files

SS Dong, WM He, JJ Ji, C Zhang, Y Guo… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The triangular correlation heatmap aiming to visualize the linkage disequilibrium (LD)
pattern and haplotype block structure of SNPs is ubiquitous component of population-based …

Thymosin α1 therapy in critically ill patients with COVID-19: A multicenter retrospective cohort study

M Wu, J Ji, L Zhong, Z Shao, Q Xie, Z Liu… - International …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background COVID-19 characterized by refractory hypoxemia increases patient mortality
because of immunosuppression effects. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of …

Lactate accelerates calcification in VSMCs through suppression of BNIP3-mediated mitophagy

Y Zhu, JJ Ji, R Yang, XQ Han, XJ Sun, WQ Ma, NF Liu - Cellular signalling, 2019 - Elsevier
Arterial media calcification is one of the major complications of diabetes mellitus, which is
related to oxidative stress and apoptosis. Mitophagy is a special regulation of mitochondrial …

[HTML][HTML] Kallistatin/Serpina3c inhibits cardiac fibrosis after myocardial infarction by regulating glycolysis via Nr4a1 activation

J Ji, L Qian, Y Zhu, Y Jiang, J Guo, Y Wu, Z Yang… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Fibrotic remodeling is an essential aspect of heart failure. Human kallistatin (KS,
mouse Serpina3c homologs) inhibits fibrosis after myocardial infarction (MI) but the specific …

Periostin promotes arterial calcification through PPARγ-related glucose metabolism reprogramming

Y Zhu, JJ Ji, XD Wang, XJ Sun, M Li… - American Journal …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Extracellular matrix (ECM) exerts a series of biological functions and contributes to almost
30% of the osteogenic process. Periostin is a secreted protein that can alter ECM remodeling …

Synthesis and SAR of acyclic HCV NS3 protease inhibitors with novel P4-benzoxaborole moieties

…, LL Wright, GK Smith, RL Jarvest, JJ Ji… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2011 - Elsevier
We have synthesized and evaluated a new series of acyclic P4-benzoxaborole-based HCV
NS3 protease inhibitors. Structure–activity relationships were investigated, leading to the …

Delivery of Mir-196c-3p with NIR-II light-triggered gel attenuates cardiomyocyte ferroptosis in cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury

J Ji, S Chen, Z Yang, R Zhang, L Qian, Y Jiang… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Ferroptosis plays an important role in ischemia-reperfusion (I/R)-induced cardiac injury and
there are many defects in current targeted delivery of miRNAs for the treatment of ferroptosis. …

[HTML][HTML] Discovering myeloid cell heterogeneity in the lung by means of next generation sequencing

J Ji, J Fan - Military Medical Research, 2019 - Springer
The lung plays a vital role in maintaining homeostasis, as it is responsible for the exchange
of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Pulmonary homeostasis is maintained by a network of tissue-…

Discovery of novel urea-based hepatitis C protease inhibitors with high potency against protease-inhibitor-resistant mutants

…, LL Wright, GK Smith, RL Jarvest, JJ Ji… - Journal of medicinal …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The macrocyclic urea 2, a byproduct in the synthesis of benzoxaborole 1, was identified to
be a novel and potent HCV protease inhibitor. We further explored this motif by synthesizing …

Calpain‐2 protects against heat stress‐induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis and heart dysfunction by blocking p38 mitogen‐activated protein kinase activation

Z Liu, J Ji, D Zheng, L Su, T Peng - Journal of Cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… Zhi-feng Liu and Jing-jing Ji contributed equally to this work. … Zhi-feng Liu and Jing-jing Ji
contributed equally to this work.… Zhi-feng Liu and Jing-jing Ji contributed equally to this work. …