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Open AccessThe genetic status and rescue measure for a geographically isolated population of Amur tigers
The Amur tiger is currently confronted with challenges of anthropogenic development, leading to its population becoming fragmented into two geographically isolated groups: smaller and larger ones. Small and is...
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Open AccessPreliminary study of the effect of gut microbiota on the development of prostatitis
Dysbacteriosis of intestinal tract may cause systemic inflammation, making distant anatomical locations more susceptible to illness. Recent research has demonstrated that the microbiome can affect both prostat...
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Induced mutation in ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL5 abolishes anthocyanin accumulation in the hypocotyl of pepper
The causal gene, CaHY5 of a chemical induced green-hypocotyl mutant was identified by molecular map**. CaHY5 regulates anthocyanin accumulation by directly binding to the promoter of genes in anthocyanin pathwa...
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Open AccessMolecular Profiles and Metastasis Markers in Chinese Patients with Gastric Carcinoma
The goal of this work was to investigate the molecular profiles and metastasis markers in Chinese patients with gastric carcinoma (GC). In total, we performed whole exome sequencing (WES) on 74 GC patients wit...
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Amplicon sequencing reveals different microbial communities in living poplar wetwood and sapwood
A total of 43 phyla (395 genera) of bacteria and 11 phyla (309 genera) of fungi were identified from normal sapwood (SW), wetwood (WW) and their transition zone wood (TW) in living poplar trees, with bacteria ...
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Open AccessPlac1 Is a Key Regulator of the Inflammatory Response and Immune Tolerance In Mammary Tumorigenesis
Plac1 is an X-linked trophoblast gene expressed at high levels in the placenta, but not in adult somatic tissues other than the testis. Plac1 however is re-expressed in several solid tumors and in most human c...
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Association between maternal nonresponsive feeding practice and child’s eating behavior and weight status: children aged 1 to 6 years
The purposes of this study are to investigate the prevalence of nonresponsive feeding practice (NRFP) and child’s eating behavior (CEB) and to explore the hypothetical association between child’s weight status...
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Open AccessComputation-distributed probability hypothesis density filter
Particle probability hypothesis density filtering has become a promising approach for multi-target tracking due to its capability of handling an unknown and time-varying number of targets in a nonlinear, non-G...
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Micro-object motion tracking based on the probability hypothesis density particle tracker
Tracking micro-objects in the noisy microscopy image sequences is important for the analysis of dynamic processes in biological objects. In this paper, an automated tracking framework is proposed to extract th...
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Open AccessmiR-148a is Associated with Obesity and Modulates Adipocyte Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells through Wnt Signaling
Obesity results from numerous, interacting genetic, behavioral and physiological factors. Adipogenesis is partially regulated by several adipocyte-selective microRNAs (miRNAs) and transcription factors that re...
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Differential lncRNA expression profiles in brown and white adipose tissues
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are an important class of pervasive genes involved in a variety of biological functions. It can serve as key co-activators of proteins involved in transcriptional regulation. Stu...
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FFAs and adipokine-mediated regulation of hsa-miR-143 expression in human adipocytes
Accumulating evidence suggests that microRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in regulating the pathways in adipose tissue that control processes such as adipogenesis, insulin resistance, and inflammation. MiR...
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α-Lipoic acid ameliorates mitochondrial impairment and reverses apoptosis in FABP3-overexpressing embryonic cancer cells
Fatty acid-binding protein 3 (FABP3) is a low molecular weight protein with distinct tissue distribution, which may play an important role in fatty acid transport, cell growth, cellular signaling, and gene tra...
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Modulation of hsa-miR-26b levels following adipokine stimulation
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. Hsa-miR-26b is an intronic miRNA located in the intron of CTDSP1 (carboxy-terminal domain, RNA...
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Monoclonal antibody to six transmembrane epithelial antigen of prostate-4 influences insulin sensitivity by attenuating phosphorylation of P13K (P85) and Akt: Possible mitochondrial mechanism
We examined the effects of anti-six-transmembrane epithelial antigen of the prostate-4 (STEAP4) antibodies on glucose transport in mature adipocytes and determined the mechanism of insulin resistance in obesit...
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Fuzzy C-Means Techniques for Medical Image Segmentation
Segmentation is an important step in many medical imaging applications and a variety of image segmentation techniques exist. One group of segmentation algorithms is based on clustering concepts. In this chapte...
