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    Novel urine cell-free DNA methylation markers for hepatocellular carcinoma

    An optimized hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)-targeted methylation next generation sequencing assay was developed to discover HCC-associated methylation markers directly from urine for HCC screening. Urine cell-...

    Selena Y. Lin, Wei **a, Amy K. Kim, Dion Chen, Shelby Schleyer in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Thioacetamide-induced liver damage and thrombocytopenia is associated with induction of antiplatelet autoantibody in mice

    Thrombocytopenia is usually associated with liver injury, elevated plasma aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase levels, and high antiplatelet immunoglobulin (Ig) titers, although the mechanis...

    You-Yen Lin, Chi-Tan Hu, Der-Shan Sun, Te-Sheng Lien, Hsin-Hou Chang in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    Author Correction: Snail collaborates with EGR-1 and SP-1 to directly activate transcription of MMP 9 and ZEB1

    A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper.

    Wen-Sheng Wu, Ren-In You, Chuan-Chu Cheng, Ming-Che Lee, Teng-Yi Lin in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    Development and Evaluation of Novel Statistical Methods in Urine Biomarker-Based Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening

    Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the fastest growing cancers in the US and has a low survival rate, partly due to difficulties in early detection. Because of HCC’s high heterogeneity, it has been suggested t...

    Jeremy Wang, Surbhi Jain, Dion Chen, Wei Song, Chi-Tan Hu in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    Snail collaborates with EGR-1 and SP-1 to directly activate transcription of MMP 9 and ZEB1

    The Snail transcription factor plays as a master regulator of epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT), one of the steps of tumor metastasis. Snail enhances expressions of a lot of mesenchymal genes including t...

    Wen-Sheng Wu, Ren-In You, Chuan-Chu Cheng, Ming-Che Lee, Teng-Yi Lin in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Comprehensive DNA methylation analysis of hepatitis B virus genome in infected liver tissues

    Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a hepatotropic virus causing hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The methylation status of the HBV DNA in its different forms can potentially provide insight int...

    Surbhi Jain, Ting-Tsung Chang, Sitong Chen, Batbold Boldbaatar in Scientific Reports (2015)