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Open AccessInhibition of glycogen synthase kinase 3β promotes autophagy to protect mice from acute liver failure mediated by peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α
Our previous studies have demonstrated that inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β) activity protects mice from acute liver failure (ALF), whereas its protective and regulatory mechanism remains elusive...
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Open AccessSodium–hydrogen exchanger NHA1 and NHA2 control sperm motility and male fertility
Our previous work identified NHA1, a testis-specific sodium–hydrogen exchanger, is specifically localized on the principal piece of mouse sperm flagellum. Our subsequent study suggested that the number of newb...
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Open AccessPINK1 and Parkin cooperatively protect neurons against constitutively active TRP channel-induced retinal degeneration in Drosophila
Calcium has an important role in regulating numerous cellular activities. However, extremely high levels of intracellular calcium can lead to neurotoxicity, a process commonly associated with degenerative dise...
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Open AccessLong intergenic non-coding RNA APOC1P1-3 inhibits apoptosis by decreasing α-tubulin acetylation in breast cancer
Increasing evidence indicates that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) act as important regulatory factors in tumor progression. However, their roles in breast cancer remain largely unknown. In present studies, we ...
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Open AccessDoes murine spermatogenesis require WNT signalling? A lesson from Gpr177 conditional knockout mouse models
Wingless-related MMTV integration site (WNT) proteins and several other components of the WNT signalling pathway are expressed in the murine testes. However, mice mutant for WNT signalling effector β-catenin usin...
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Open AccessNotch-Hes-1 axis controls TLR7-mediated autophagic death of macrophage via induction of P62 in mice with lupus
The increased death of macrophages has been considered as a pathogenic factor for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and dysfunction of autophagy may contribute to improper cell death. However, the effect of ...
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Open AccessCirculating histones are major mediators of systemic inflammation and cellular injury in patients with acute liver failure
Acute liver failure (ALF) is a life-threatening systemic disorder. Here we investigated the impact of circulating histones, recently identified inflammatory mediators, on systemic inflammation and liver injury...
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Open AccessRelB/NF-κB links cell cycle transition and apoptosis to endometrioid adenocarcinoma tumorigenesis
Dysfunction of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) signaling has been causally associated with numerous human malignancies. Although the NF-κB family of genes has been implicated in endometrial carcinogenesis, information ...
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Open AccessDirect regulation of FOXK1 by C-jun promotes proliferation, invasion and metastasis in gastric cancer cells
Forkhead box (FOX) K1 is a member of the FOX transcription factor superfamily. High FOXK1 expression is associated with several cancers. However, whether FOXK1 expression contributes to gastric cancer (GC) dev...
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Open AccessThe control of male fertility by spermatid-specific factors: searching for contraceptive targets from spermatozoon’s head to tail
Male infertility due to abnormal spermatozoa has been reported in both animals and humans, but its pathogenic causes, including genetic abnormalities, remain largely unknown. On the other hand, contraceptive o...
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Open AccessCombined nifuroxazide and SAT05f therapy reduces graft-versus-host disease after experimental allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGvHD) is the major barrier to the broader use of allogenetic hematopoietic stem cells. However, currently these are no highly specific and efficient drugs. Monotherapy is not suf...
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Open AccessPhosphorylated STAT5 regulates p53 expression via BRCA1/BARD1-NPM1 and MDM2
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5) and nucleophosmin (NPM1) are critical regulators of multiple biological and pathological processes. Although a reciprocal regulatory relationship was ...
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Open AccessKnockdown of long non-coding RNA HOTAIR increases miR-454-3p by targeting Stat3 and Atg12 to inhibit chondrosarcoma growth
Current practices for the therapy of chondrosarcoma, including wide-margin surgical resection and chemotherapy, are less than satisfactory. Recently, emerging evidence has demonstrated that long non-coding RNA...
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Open AccessUpregulation of miR-665 promotes apoptosis and colitis in inflammatory bowel disease by repressing the endoplasmic reticulum stress components XBP1 and ORMDL3
MicroRNAs are critical post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression and key mediators of pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This study is aimed to study the role of miR-665 in the progr...
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Open AccessAmino-acid transporters in T-cell activation and differentiation
T-cell-mediated immune responses aim to protect mammals against cancers and infections, and are also involved in the pathogenesis of various inflammatory or autoimmune diseases. Cellular uptake and the utiliza...
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Open AccessSimvastatin and Atorvastatin inhibit DNA replication licensing factor MCM7 and effectively suppress RB-deficient tumors growth
Loss or dysfunction of tumor suppressor retinoblastoma (RB) is a common feature in various tumors, and contributes to cancer cell stemness and drug resistance to cancer therapy. However, the strategy to suppre...
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Open AccessCisplatin-enriching cancer stem cells confer multidrug resistance in non-small cell lung cancer via enhancing TRIB1/HDAC activity
Chemotherapeutic agents are generally used as a frontline therapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, resistance to chemotherapy arises rapidly in NSCLC, and the reasons for chemotherapy resistanc...
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Open AccessErratum: Amino-acid transporters in T-cell activation and differentiation
Correction to: Cell Death and Disease (2017) 8, e2655; doi:10.1038/cddis.2016.222; published online 2 March 2017. It has been noticed since publication of this article that the full names of the authors were o...
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Open AccessMicroRNA-18a-5p functions as an oncogene by directly targeting IRF2 in lung cancer
Lung cancer is the major form of cancer resulting in cancer-related mortality around the world. MicroRNAs are endogenous small non-coding single-stranded RNAs, which can engage in the regulation of gene expres...
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Open AccessP7C3 inhibits GSK3β activation to protect dopaminergic neurons against neurotoxin-induced cell death in vitro and in vivo
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease. Although its pathogenesis remains unclear, mitochondrial dysfunction plays a vital role in the pathology of PD. P7C3, an aminopr...