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Open AccessGenetic fusion of CCL11 to antigens enhances antigenicity in nucleic acid vaccines and eradicates tumor mass through optimizing T-cell response
Nucleic acid vaccines have shown promising potency and efficacy for cancer treatment with robust and specific T-cell responses. Improving the immunogenicity of delivered antigens helps to extend therapeutic ef...
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NDRG1 facilitates self-renewal of liver cancer stem cells by preventing EpCAM ubiquitination
Portal vein tumour thrombus (PVTT) is the main pathway of HCC intrahepatic metastasis and is responsible for the poor prognosis of patients with HCC. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying PVTT vascular ...
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Open AccessNeutralization sensitivity, fusogenicity, and infectivity of Omicron subvariants
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants has raised questions regarding resistance to immunity by natural infection or immunization. We examined the sensitivity of Delta and Omicron subvariants (BA.1, B...
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Open AccessCirculating cell-free DNA-based methylation patterns for breast cancer diagnosis
Mammography is used to detect breast cancer (BC), but its sensitivity is limited, especially for dense breasts. Circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) methylation tests is expected to compensate for the deficiency ...
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Open AccessRetraction Note to: Circ-DENND4C up-regulates TCF4 expression to modulate hepatocellular carcinoma cell proliferation and apoptosis via activating Wnt/β-catenin signal pathway
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Open AccessRETRACTED ARTICLE: Circ-DENND4C up-regulates TCF4 expression to modulate hepatocellular carcinoma cell proliferation and apoptosis via activating Wnt/β-catenin signal pathway
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignant tumor in China. Advanced treatment like transcatheter hepatic arterial chemoembolization (TACE) has prolonged the lives of man...
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Open AccessDemonstrating Analytical Similarity of Trastuzumab Biosimilar HLX02 to Herceptin® with a Panel of Sensitive and Orthogonal Methods Including a Novel FcγRIIIa Affinity Chromatography Technology
A biosimilar needs to demonstrate its similarity to the originator reference product (RP) in terms of structural and functional properties as well as nonclinical and clinical outcomes.
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Open AccessmiR-624-5p promoted tumorigenesis and metastasis by suppressing hippo signaling through targeting PTPRB in osteosarcoma cells
Accumulating evidence indicates that aberrant microRNA (miRNA) expression contributes to osteosarcoma progression. This study aimed to elucidate the association between miR-624-5p expression and osteosarcoma (...
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Open AccessHigh glucose microenvironment accelerates tumor growth via SREBP1-autophagy axis in pancreatic cancer
Diabetes is recognized to be a risk factor of pancreatic cancer, but the mechanism has not been fully elucidated. Sterol regulatory element binding protein 1 (SREBP1) is an important transcription factor invol...
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Open AccessAutophagy inhibition potentiates the anti-angiogenic property of multikinase inhibitor anlotinib through JAK2/STAT3/VEGFA signaling in non-small cell lung cancer cells
The efficacy and safety of multikinase inhibitor anlotinib have been confirmed in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, the direct functional mechanisms of tumor lethality medi...
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Author Correction: Fecal microbiota transplantation for refractory immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated colitis
In the version of this article originally published, an author was missing from the author list. Alexander J. Lazar should have been included between Jorge M. Blando and James P. Allison. The author has been a...
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Fecal microbiota transplantation for refractory immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated colitis
We report the first case series of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI)-associated colitis successfully treated with fecal microbiota transplantation, with reconstitution of the gut microbiome and a relative inc...
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Open AccessInhibiting YAP expression suppresses pancreatic cancer progression by disrupting tumor-stromal interactions
Hippo/YAP pathway is known to be important for development, growth and organogenesis, and dysregulation of this pathway leads to tumor progression. We and others find that YAP is up-regulated in pancreatic duc...
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Linear ubiquitin chain induces apoptosis and inhibits tumor growth
Ubiquitination of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) plays an important role in DNA damage response. Ectopic expression of PCNA fused at either terminus with ubiquitin (Ub) lacking two C-terminal glycin...
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Open AccessLipoxin A4 reverses mesenchymal phenotypes to attenuate invasion and metastasis via the inhibition of autocrine TGF-β1 signaling in pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is a lethal disease in part because of its potential for aggressive invasion and metastasis. Lipoxin A4 (LXA4) is one of the metabolites that is derived from arachidonic acid and that is cata...
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Open AccessAddition of T2-guided optical tomography improves noncontrast breast magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis
While dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE MRI) is recognized as the most sensitive examination for breast cancer detection, it has a substantial false positive rate and gadolinium (Gd) co...
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Open AccessMetformin suppresses cancer initiation and progression in genetic mouse models of pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide with an overall five-year survival rate less than 7%. Accumulating evidence has revealed the cancer ...
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The overexpression of miR-30a affects cell proliferation of chondrosarcoma via targeting Runx2
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are emerging as important epigenetic modulators of multiple target genes, leading to abnormal cellular signaling involving cellular proliferation in cancers. Aberrant miRNA expression has be...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: MicroRNA-92a promotes growth, metastasis, and chemoresistance in non-small cell lung cancer cells by targeting PTEN
MicroRNA-92a (miR-92a) has been reported to play important roles in tumorigenesis of human various cancers. However, the roles and underlying molecular mechanism of miR-92a in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC...
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Common clonal origin of central and resident memory T cells following skin immunization
Following skin immunization a common naïve T cell precursor gives rise to resident and central memory T cells, which mediate rapid and delayed skin immune responses, respectively.