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Ruifang Li, Sara A. Grimm, Deepak Mav, Haiwei Gu et al. • Cell Reports
(2018)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) tends to occur at older age; however, CRC incidence rates have been rising sharply among young age groups. The increasing prevalence of obesity is recognized as a major risk, yet the mechanistic underpinnings remain ...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.12.071
Ina M. Vorberg • Viruses
(2019)
Prions are infectious β-sheet-rich protein aggregates composed of misfolded prion protein (PrPSc) that do not possess coding nucleic acid. Prions replicate by recruiting and converting normal cellular PrPC into infectious isoforms. In ...
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DOI: 10.3390/v11040334
Sławomir Lewicki, Monika Leśniak, Agnieszka Sobolewska-Ruta, Aneta Lewicka et al. • Archives of Medical Science
(2020)
Introduction
Cytokines are important immune modulator factors controlling homeostasis of the body and are involved in tissue regeneration after wound healing. The encapsulation of cytokines in liposomes has many advantages potentially usefu...
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DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2020.94527
Isobel C. Mouat, Li Zhu, Alperen Aslan, Barry W. McColl et al. • Journal of Inflammation
(2024)
Abstract Background Fatigue is a common complication of stroke that has a significant impact on quality of life. The biological mechanisms that underly post-stroke fatigue are currently unclear, however, reactivation of latent viruses and t...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12950-024-00402-0
Boscarino JA, Adams RE, Urosevich TG, Hoffman SN et al. • Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine
(2022)
Joseph A Boscarino,1 Richard E Adams,2 Thomas G Urosevich,3 Stuart N Hoffman,4 H Lester Kirchner,1 Xin Chu,5 Weixing Shi,5 Joseph J Boscarino,6 Ryan J Dugan,1 Carrie A Withey,1 Charles R Figley7 1Department Population Health Sciences, Geisi...
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Julia Keller, Pascale Plaisancié, Edwin Fouché, Edwige-Marie Pralet et al. • Redox Experimental Medicine
(2025)
Objective: Colorectal cancer is a major public health issue for which dietary factors such as red and processed meat consumption seem to play a prominent role. Heme iron, which is present in important concentration in those food products, w...
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DOI: 10.1530/REM-25-0001
Kyosuke Nagura, Satoko Watanabe, Taro Watanabe, Taro Watanabe et al. • Frontiers in Pharmacology
(2026)
IntroductionOveractive bladder (OAB) drugs are widely prescribed, yet the occurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF) after treatment initiation remains poorly characterized.MethodsWe evaluated reports of AF associated with OAB medications using...
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DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1700587
Ching-Yun Wang, Shiuan-Chen Lin, Kao-Jung Chang, Han-Ping Cheong et al. • Heliyon
(2024)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) establishes an immunosuppressive microenvironment that favors leukemic proliferation. The immune-suppressive cytokines altered antigen processing, and presentation collectively assist AML cells in escaping cytot...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39731
Santiago Palacios • Drugs in Context
(2020)
The menopause-related decline in estrogen levels leads to an array of genital, sexual, and urinary symptoms collectively known as genitourinary syndrome of menopause. The constellation of symptoms associated with vulvar and vaginal atrophy ...
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DOI: 10.7573/dic.2020-3-2
Maha A. Aldubyan, Maha A. Aldubyan, Ibtesam S. Almami, Ibtesam S. Almami et al. • Frontiers in Microbiology
(2017)
Cronobacter are an important group of foodborne pathogens that has been linked to life-threatening infections in both infants and adults. The major infections associated with Cronobacter species are neonatal meningitis, necrotizing enteroco...
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DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02268
Rutger Osterthun, Katharina Sunnerhagen, Henk J. Stam, Carlotte Kiekens • Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
(2023)
Objective: As Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine physicians are experts in functional prognoses of disabling health conditions, the aim of this study was to gain insight into their involvement in end-of-life decisions in patients with neu...
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DOI: 10.2340/jrm.v55.5575
Ashley eNovais, Ashley eNovais, Ana Catarina Ferreira, Ana Catarina Ferreira et al. • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
(2013)
Neudesin (also known as neuron derived neurotrophic factor, Nenf) is a scarcely studied putative non-canonical neurotrophic factor. In order to understand its function in the brain, we performed an extensive behavioral characterization (mot...
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DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00119
Leslie M. Stone-Roy, Joel Moritz Jr., Philip Turk, John D. Williams • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
(2017)
Malfunctioning sensory systems can severely impact quality of life and repair is not always possible. One solution, called sensory substitution, is to use another sensory system to bring lost information to the brain. This approach often in...
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DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00186
Marjo J. den Broeder, Jarle Ballangby, Leonie M. Kamminga, Peter Aleström et al. • Epigenetics & Chromatin
(2020)
Abstract Background Recent studies indicate that exposure to environmental chemicals may increase susceptibility to developing metabolic diseases. This susceptibility may in part be caused by changes to the epigenetic landscape which conseq...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13072-020-0329-y
Christopher E Laumer, Andreas Hejnol, Gonzalo Giribet • eLife
(2015)
Flatworms number among the most diverse invertebrate phyla and represent the most biomedically significant branch of the major bilaterian clade Spiralia, but to date, deep evolutionary relationships within this group have been studied using...
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DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05503
Natalia Andreeva, Alexander Belyavsky • Bio-Protocol
(2017)
Coating tissue culture vessels with the components of the extracellular matrix such as fibronectin and collagens provides a more natural environment for primary cells in vitro and stimulates their proliferation. However, the effects of such...
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DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2374
Andrzej Zawal, Robert Stryjecki, Edyta Buczyńska, Paweł Buczyński et al. • PeerJ
(2018)
This paper examines the impact of disturbance factors—flooding and intermittency—on the distribution of water mites in the riparian springs situated in the valley of a small lowland river, the Krąpiel. The landscape factors and physicochemi...
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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4797
Anne Longakit, Chloe Hess, Christina Zhang, Catherine Van Raamsdonk • Bio-Protocol
(2025)
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and immunofluorescence (IF) are fundamental molecular biology techniques to assess protein expression. However, the melanin present normally in the eye in the uveal tract (choroid, iris, and ciliary body) and the ...
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DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.5510
Magdalena Sevilla-González, Maria Fernanda Garibay-Gutiérrez, Arsenio Vargas-Vázquez, Andrea Celeste Medina-García et al. • Current Developments in Nutrition
(2024)
Background: A risk haplotype in SLC16A11 characterized by alterations in fatty acid metabolism emerged as a genetic risk factor associated with increased susceptibility to type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Mexican population. Its role on treatment r...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.104444
Naoya Matsumoto, Abhigyan Satyam, Mayya Geha, Mayya Geha et al. • Frontiers in Immunology
(2017)
C3a is important in the regulation of the immune response as well as in the development of organ inflammation and injury. Furthermore, C3a contributes to liver regeneration but its role in intestinal stem cell function has not been studied....
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DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01046