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Veronika Heinz, Wenke Jäckel, Susann Kaltwasser, Laura Cutugno et al. • Communications Biology
(2022)
A cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction of a stressosome complex from a Gram-negative bacterium, Vibrio vulnificus, reveals variations in subunit composition and symmetry, which could serve to adjust the activation threshold in the respon...
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DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03548-w
Maral Rahimzadeh, Majid Sadeghizadeh, Farhood Najafi, Seyed Shahriar Arab et al. • Materials Research Express
(2020)
During the last few decades, extensive studies have been conducted to elucidate the anti-cancer effects of curcumin. Despite promising results indicating curcumin could impede cancer cells ability thrive and proliferation, clinical applicat...
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DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/ab770f
Yi-Lei Zhang, Ruo-Chen Wang, Ken Cheng, Brian Z. Ring et al. • Cancer Biology & Medicine
(2017)
Ras-associated protein-1 (Rap1), a small GTPase in the Ras-related protein family, is an important regulator of basic cellular functions (e.g., formation and control of cell adhesions and junctions), cellular migration, and polarization. Th...
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DOI: 10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2016.0086
Fernanda Bajanca, Nadège Gouignard, Charlotte Colle, Maddy Parsons et al. • Nature Communications
(2019)
Migrating cells encounter multiple signals such as extracellular matrix (ECM) and chemokinetic factors but how these integrate in vivo is unclear. Here, the authors report that overall control of cell-ECM adhesion by Sema3A and Sdf1 can be ...
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09548-5
Joseph Hibbeln, Steven Gregory, Yasmin Iles-Caven, Caroline M. Taylor et al. • Environment International
(2018)
There is a public perception that relatively low doses of mercury found in seafood are harmful to the fetal brain but little consistent evidence to support this. In earlier publications we have shown no adverse associations between maternal...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2018.03.024
Khushboo Singh, Roon Banerjee, Chandrakanta Potdar, Anisha Shaw et al. • Cells
(2026)
Mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) are among the most common genetic causes of Parkinson’s disease (PD), yet substantial heterogeneity exists among pathogenic variants. How mutations in distinct functional domains of LRRK2 di...
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DOI: 10.3390/cells15040342
Victoria Vitkova, Vesela Yordanova, Galya Staneva, Ognyan Petkov et al. • Membranes
(2021)
Simple carbohydrates are associated with the enhanced risk of cardiovascular disease and adverse changes in lipoproteins in the organism. Conversely, sugars are known to exert a stabilizing effect on biological membranes, and this effect is...
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DOI: 10.3390/membranes11110847
Augusto Berrocal, Nicholas C Lammers, Hernan G Garcia, Michael B Eisen • eLife
(2020)
We used live imaging to visualize the transcriptional dynamics of the Drosophila melanogaster even-skipped gene at single-cell and high-temporal resolution as its seven stripe expression pattern forms, and developed tools to characterize an...
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DOI: 10.7554/eLife.61635
Yashar Bashirzadeh, Hossein Moghimianavval, Allen P. Liu • iScience
(2022)
Summary: Cell shape changes from locomotion to cytokinesis are, to a large extent, driven by myosin-driven remodeling of cortical actin patterns. Passive crosslinkers such as α-actinin and fascin as well as actin nucleator Arp2/3 complex la...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104236
Stefania Martucciello, Marchesa Bilio, Sara Cioffi, Ilaria Aurigemma et al. • Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease
(2026)
Gene inactivation in model organisms has identified numerous genes and signaling pathways involved in mammalian cardiac outflow tract (OFT) development. Human genetics data have implicated the VEGFR3 gene in OFT development, but when and wh...
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DOI: 10.3390/jcdd13080399
Ligia Soares Lima, Jessyca Sousa de Brito, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves, Karen Salve Coutinho-Wolino et al. • Foods
(2025)
Jaboticaba (Plinia cauliflora), a Brazilian native fruit rich in bioactive compounds, exhibits potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. This pilot study evaluated the effects of jaboticaba peel supplementation on inflammatory an...
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DOI: 10.3390/foods14234030
Eleanor Feneck, Malcolm Logan • Biomolecules
(2020)
Retinoic acid (RA) was one of the first molecules in the modern era of experimental embryology to be shown capable of generating profound effects on limb development. In this review, we focus on the earliest events of limb development and s...
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DOI: 10.3390/biom10020312
Ali Aytac Seymen, Ezgi Gulten, Erol Ozgur, Bülend Ortaç et al. • Scientific Reports
(2023)
Abstract Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The development of rapid antigen tests has contributed to easing the burden on ...
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31177-8
Saul Vislei Simões da Silva, Orlando Maia Barboza, Jéssica Teles Souza, Érica Novaes Soares et al. • Molecules
(2021)
Quercetin (Q) is a bioflavonoid with biological potential; however, poor solubility in water, extensive enzymatic metabolism and a reduced bioavailability limit its biopharmacological use. The aim of this study was to perform structural mod...
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DOI: 10.3390/molecules26226923
Natsuko Kitajima, Takahisa Nakajo, Takeshi Katayoshi, Kentaro Tsuji-Naito • Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports
(2023)
Sebocytes express Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors (NLRs), which participate in the innate immune response of the skin. Although the roles of TLRs and NLR family pyrin domain-cont...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrep.2023.101561
Maria Angelova, Petko Alov, Ivanka Tsakovska, Dessislava Jereva et al. • Molecules
(2025)
Scoring functions are key elements in docking protocols as they approximate the binding affinity of a ligand (usually a small bioactive molecule) by calculating its interaction energy with a biomacromolecule (usually a protein). In this stu...
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DOI: 10.3390/molecules30132777
Muhammad Waqas, Atef AbdelKader, Muhammad Ajaz, Abdel Nasser Tawfik et al. • Universe
(2023)
We analyzed the transverse momentum spectra (pT) reported by the NA61/SHINE and NA49 experiments in inelastic proton–proton (pp) and central Lead–Lead (Pb−Pb), Argon–Scandium (Ar−Sc), and Beryllium–Beryllium (Be−Be) collisions with the Blas...
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DOI: 10.3390/universe9010044
R. Skomski, D. J. Sellmyer • AIP Advances
(2017)
It is investigated how a Berry phase is created in polycrystalline nanomagnets and how the phase translates into an emergent magnetic field and into a topological Hall-effect contribution. The analysis starts directly from the spin of the c...
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DOI: 10.1063/1.4972804
Jung Yun Kee, Kook Tae Kim, In Hak Lee, Ilwan Seo et al. • Scientific Reports
(2024)
Abstract Interfacial magnetic interactions between different elements are the origin of various spin-transport phenomena in multi-elemental magnetic systems. We investigate the coupling between the magnetic moments of the rare-earth, transi...
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60076-9
Vogliardi Andrea, Ruffato Gianluca, Bonaldo Daniele, Dal Zilio Simone et al. • Nanophotonics
(2023)
Perfect vortices, whose ring profile is independent of the topological charge, play a key role in telecommunications and particle micro-manipulation. In this work, we report the compact generation of a new kind of double-ring perfect vortic...
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DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2023-0555