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Open AccessThe application of phenylboronic acid pinacol ester functionalized ROS-responsive multifunctional nanoparticles in the treatment of Periodontitis
Periodontitis is an inflammatory disease induced by the complex interactions between the host immune system and the microbiota of dental plaque. Oxidative stress and the inflammatory microenvironment resulting...
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Open AccessMacrophage membrane-camouflaged pH-sensitive nanoparticles for targeted therapy of oral squamous cell carcinoma
Oral cancer is the most common malignant tumor of the head and neck, and 90% of cases are oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Chemotherapy is an important component of comprehensive treatment for OSCC. Howeve...
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Open AccessmiRNAs derived from cobra venom exosomes contribute to the cobra envenomation
Currently, there is an increasing amount of evidence indicating that exosomes and the miRNAs they contain are crucial players in various biological processes. However, the role of exosomes and miRNAs in snake ...
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Open AccessBiomimetic nanoparticles to enhance the reverse cholesterol transport for selectively inhibiting development into foam cell in atherosclerosis
A disorder of cholesterol homeostasis is one of the main initiating factors in the progression of atherosclerosis (AS). Metabolism and removal of excess cholesterol facilitates the prevention of foam cell form...
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Open AccessPreparation of a Klebsiella pneumoniae conjugate nanovaccine using glycol-engineered Escherichia coli
Engineered strains of Escherichia coli have been used to produce bioconjugate vaccines using Protein Glycan Coupling Technology (PGCT). Nanovaccines have also entered the vaccine development arena with advances i...
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Open AccessCooked pork-derived exosome nanovesicles mediate metabolic disorder—microRNA could be the culprit
In this study, exosomes from cooked meat were extracted by ultra-high-speed centrifugation. Approximately 80% of exosome vesicles were within 20–200 nm. In addition, the surface biomarkers of isolated exosomes...
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Synthesis and antibacterial activity of indole 3-substituted-[1,2,4]triazole derivatives
In this work, a series of novel indole 3-substituted-[1,2,4]triazole derivatives was designed and synthesized, and their structures were characterized by 1H, 13C NMR, high-resolution mass spectrometry, and single...
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Open AccessSmall extracellular vesicles derived from dermal fibroblasts promote fibroblast activity and skin development through carrying miR-218 and ITGBL1
Skin thickness is closely related to the appearance of human skin, such as sagging and wrinkling, which primarily depends on the level of collagen I synthesized by dermal fibroblasts (DFs). Small extracellular...
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Open AccessA novel targeted co-delivery nanosystem for enhanced ovarian cancer treatment via multidrug resistance reversion and mTOR-mediated signaling pathway
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is the main challenge of successful chemotherapy for ovarian cancer patients, with 50% to 75% of ovarian cancer patients eventually relapsed due to it. One of the effective strategie...
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Open AccessHepatic small extracellular vesicles promote microvascular endothelial hyperpermeability during NAFLD via novel-miRNA-7
A recent study has reported that patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are more susceptible to coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), which may predict major adverse cardiac events. However...
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Open AccessManipulating the position of DNA expression cassettes using location tags fused to dCas9 (Cas9-Lag) to improve metabolic pathway efficiency
Deactivated Cas9 (dCas9) led to significant improvement of CRISPR/Cas9-based techniques because it can be fused with a variety of functional groups to form diverse molecular devices, which can manipulate or mo...
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Multi-stage glucose/pachymaran co-feeding enhanced endo-β-1,3-glucanase production by Trichoderma harzianum via simultaneous increases in cell concentration and inductive effect
Endo-β-1,3-glucanase is used to hydrolyze curdlan in a wide range of oligosaccharides production processes. Using pachymaran as the sole carbon source resulted in an endo-β-1,3-glucanase activity of 86.1 U/mL ...
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Open AccessSoft - sensing modeling based on ABC - MLSSVM inversion for marine low - temperature alkaline protease MP fermentation process
Aiming at the characteristics of nonlinear, multi-parameter, strong coupling and difficulty in direct on-line measurement of key biological parameters of marine low-temperature protease fermentation process, a...
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Expression profile of long non-coding RNAs during the differentiation of human umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stem cells into cardiomyocyte-like cells
We aimed to investigate the differentially expressed long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) during the differentiation of human umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSCs) into cardiomyocyte-like cells ind...
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Production of rhamnolipids by semi-solid-state fermentation with Pseudomonas aeruginosa RG18 for heavy metal desorption
Foaming problem and cost of substrate limit the commercial application of rhamnolipids, a potential biosurfactant produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We explored the production of rhamnolipids by a semi-solid-sta...
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Inhibitor of p53–p21 pathway induces the differentiation of human umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stem cells into cardiomyogenic cells
P53 is shown recently to play an important role in the proliferation and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells. In this study, human umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSCs) were isolated an...
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Establishment of Caenorhabditis elegans SID-1-Dependent DNA Delivery System in Cultured Silkworm Cells
The systemic RNA interference defective-1 (SID-1) can transport double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) into cytosol across the cytoplasmic membrane. We report here that ectopic expression of Caenorhabditis elegans SID-1 all...
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Effect of metabolic structures and energy requirements on curdlan production byAlcaligenes faecalis
A comprehensive metabolic network was proposed forAlcaligenes faecalis and employed in a stoichiometrically based flux balance model for curdlan production optimization. The maximal yield of curdlan was evaluated...
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Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel splice variant of the LIM domain family gene, PINCH 2, in human testis
By hybridizing human adult testis cDNA microarrays with human adult and embryo testis cDNA probes, we identified a novel human testis gene, PINCH 2. PINCH 2 expression was 3.4-fold higher in adult than in feta...