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Total mercury exposure in early pregnancy has no adverse association with scholastic ability of the offspring particularly if the mother eats fish

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2018.03.024

Dielectric Properties of Phosphatidylcholine Membranes and the Effect of Sugars

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/membranes11110847

<i>Vegfr3</i> and <i>Tbx1</i> Interact in Cardiac Morphogenesis

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/jcdd13080399

Pairwise Performance Comparison of Docking Scoring Functions: Computational Approach Using InterCriteria Analysis

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/molecules30132777

FAM83A as a Potential Biological Marker Is Regulated by miR-206 to Promote Cervical Cancer Progression Through PI3K/AKT/mTOR Pathway

Li Rong, Haiyu Li, Zhaodong Li, Jing Ouyang et al. • Frontiers in Medicine (2020)

Background and Objective: Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are effective treatment options for cervical cancer (CC), but their efficacy is limited by short survival rate of about 5 years particularly for advance stage CC. Bioinformatics analys...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2020.608441

Comparative Analysis of Tools and Approaches for Source Tracking Listeria monocytogenes in a Food Facility Using Whole-Genome Sequence Data

Balamurugan Jagadeesan, Leen Baert, Martin Wiedmann, Renato H. Orsi • Frontiers in Microbiology (2019)

As WGS is increasingly used by food industry to characterize pathogen isolates, users are challenged by the variety of analysis approaches available, ranging from methods that require extensive bioinformatics expertise to commercial softwar...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00947

An integrated analysis of multiple datasets reveals novel gene signatures in human granulosa cells

Xhulio Dhori, Silvia Gioiosa, Stefania Gonfloni • Scientific Data (2024)

Abstract Granulosa cells (GCs) play crucial roles in oocyte maturation. Through gap junctions and extracellular vesicles, they mediate the exchange of molecules such as microRNAs and messenger RNAs. Different ovarian cell types exhibit uniq...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03715-0

Identification of functional pathways for regenerative bioactivity of selected renal cells

Wei Sha, Timothy Bertram, Deepak Jain, Cory Brouwer et al. • Stem Cell Research & Therapy (2022)

Abstract Background Selected renal cells (SRC) are in Phase II clinical trials as a kidney-sourced, autologous, tubular epithelial cell-enriched cell-based therapy for chronic kidney disease (CKD). In preclinical studies with rodent models ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13287-022-02713-6

Proteomic analysis of synergetic neuroprotective effect of adenosine, thiamine, niacin and cyanocobalamin in pathophysiology of diabetic polyneuropathy

O. A. Gromova, I. Yu. Torshin, A. G. Moiseenok • Фармакоэкономика (2025)

Background. Neurotransmitter adenosine and B-group vitamins have neuroprotective, remyelinizing and anti-neuroinflammatory properties. Despite the studies of these molecules for decades, the molecular mechanisms of their synergistic effect ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.17749/2070-4909/farmakoekonomika.2024.285

Effects of Luteolin on Human Breast Cancer Using Gene Expression Array: Inferring Novel Genes

Shih-Ho Wang, Chin-Hu Wu, Chin-Chuan Tsai, Tai-Yu Chen et al. • Current Issues in Molecular Biology (2022)

Taraxacum officinale (dandelion) is often used in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of cancer; however, the downstream regulatory genes and signaling pathways mediating its effects on breast cancer remain unclear. The present s...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/cimb44050142

Correcting palindromes in long reads after whole-genome amplification

Sven Warris, Elio Schijlen, Henri van de Geest, Rahulsimham Vegesna et al. • BMC Genomics (2018)

Abstract Background Next-generation sequencing requires sufficient DNA to be available. If limited, whole-genome amplification is applied to generate additional amounts of DNA. Such amplification often results in many chimeric DNA fragments...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-5164-1

RNA-seq analysis of gene expression profiles in isolated stria vascularis from wild-type and Alport mice reveals key pathways underling Alport strial pathogenesis.

Brianna Dufek, Daniel T Meehan, Duane Delimont, Kevin Wilhelm et al. • PLoS ONE (2020)

Previous work demonstrates that the hearing loss in Alport mice is caused by defects in the stria vascularis. As the animals age, progressive thickening of strial capillary basement membranes (SCBMs) occurs associated with elevated levels o...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237907

CD56-Negative Extranodal Natural Killer/T-Cell Lymphoma: A Retrospective Study in 443 Patients Treated by Chemotherapy With or Without Asparaginase

Jing Yang, Pengfei Li, Pengfei Li, Pengfei Li et al. • Frontiers in Immunology (2022)

ObjectiveExtranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma (NKTCL) is an aggressive EBV-related lymphoma, originating from NK cells or T cells. Previous study demonstrated that CD56 negative NKTCL should be recognized as a distinct subtype. In this...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.829366

Multi-Cohort Transcriptomics Combined with Mendelian Randomization Identifies PPARGC1A, NAAA and GIPC2 as NLRP3 Inflammasome-Related Key Genes in Ulcerative Colitis

Cheng J, Huang Y • Journal of Inflammation Research (2026)

Jian Cheng, Yangfeng Huang Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespond...

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Atorvastatin suppresses high-risk colorectal adenomas via reprogramming of lipid metabolism and Inhibition of stemness

Wentong Chen, Mengxiao Ge, Shuangyi Sun, Hanxiao Zhang et al. • Scientific Reports (2025)

Abstract As critical precursors to colorectal cancer (CRC), high-risk colorectal adenomas (HR-CRAs) lack effective chemopreventive strategies beyond endoscopic resection. We previously established a standardized protocol for culturing patie...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-32406-y

Constraining PERMANOVA and LDM to within-set comparisons by projection improves the efficiency of analyses of matched sets of microbiome data

Zhengyi Zhu, Glen A. Satten, Caroline Mitchell, Yi-Juan Hu • Microbiome (2021)

Abstract Background Matched-set data arise frequently in microbiome studies. For example, we may collect pre- and post-treatment samples from a set of individuals, or use important confounding variables to match data from case participants ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40168-021-01034-9

Sequential Portal Vein Embolization and Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation for Future Liver Remnant Growth: A Minimally Invasive Alternative to ALPPS Stage-1 in Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Qiang Wang, Qiang Wang, Yujun Ji, Torkel B. Brismar et al. • Frontiers in Surgery (2021)

Background: To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of sequential portal vein embolization (PVE) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) (PVE+RFA) as a minimally invasive variant for associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for stage...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fsurg.2021.741352

Sex-based estimation of biological variation in plasma-free amino acid concentrations among healthy adults

Müjgan Ercan, Emiş Deniz Akbulut, Ayşen Caniklioğlu, Esra Fırat Oğuz et al. • Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Advances in the Clinical Lab (2025)

Introduction: Free amino acid (FAA) analysis plays a crucial role in diagnosing and monitoring inborn errors of metabolism, assessing nutritional status, and identifying metabolic imbalances associated with various diseases. This study aime...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.jmsacl.2025.04.010