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Open AccessEvaluation of oral care using MA-T gel for high-risk patients: a pilot study
Oral care with gel is a common method for preventing aspiration in high-risk patients. An oral care gel is used to clean and moisturize the oral cavity. However, the effects of gel care on the oral bacteria re...
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Open AccessErratum to: miR-487b, miR-3963 and miR-6412 delay myogenic differentiation in mouse myoblast-derived C2C12 cells
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Open AccessmiR-487b, miR-3963 and miR-6412 delay myogenic differentiation in mouse myoblast-derived C2C12 cells
Skeletal muscle differentiation is a multistep, complex pathway in which several important signaling molecules are involved. Recently, microRNAs (miRNAs), endogenous non-coding small RNAs that regulate mRNAs, ...
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Open AccessCanonical Wnt signaling is involved in switching from cell proliferation to myogenic differentiation of mouse myoblast cells
Wnt/β-catenin signaling is involved in various aspects of skeletal muscle development and regeneration. In addition, Wnt3a and β-catenin are required for muscle-specific gene transcription in embryonic carcino...
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Ribosomal ITS Sequences Allow Resolution of Freshwater Sponge Phylogeny with Alignments Guided by Secondary Structure Prediction
Freshwater sponges include six extant families which belong to the suborder Spongillina (Porifera). The taxonomy of freshwater sponges is problematic and their phylogeny and evolution are not well understood. ...
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Open AccessNuclear localization of beta-catenin involved in precancerous change in oral leukoplakia
Oral leukoplakia is a precancerous change developed in the oral mucosa, and the mechanism that oral leukoplakia becomes malignant through atypical epithelium is not known. Here we compared the β-catenin expres...
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Immunosuppressant FK506 Induces Neurite Outgrowth in PC12 Mutant Cells with Impaired NGF-Promoted Neuritogenesis via a Novel MAP Kinase Signaling Pathway
We obtained a drug-hypersensitive PC12 mutant cell (PC12m3), in which neurite outgrowth was strongly stimulated by various drugs such as FK506, calcimycin and cAMP, under the condition of NGF treatment. The fr...
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Paraquat-induced gene expression in rat lung tissues using a differential display reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction
Increased formation of reactive oxygen species is a cause of paraquat (PQ)-induced injury and also provides a link between the signaling pathways and transcriptional events that regulate the expression of a l...
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Expression of the fibroblast growth factor receptor 1–4 genes in glomeruli in anti-Thy1.1 mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis
Basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF2) is generally known to induce proliferation of cultured mesangial cells and is expressed in proliferative mesangial cells in anti-Thy1.1 mesangial proliferative glomerulone...
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Retinoic acid induces polarizing activity but is unlikely to be a morphogen in the chick limb bud
RETINOIC acid is a putative morphogen in limb formation in the chick and other vertebrates1-5. In chick limb formation, it is thought that retinoic acid is released from the zone of polarizing activity (ZPA) and ...
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Cloning and complete nucleotide sequence of the Escherichia coli glutamine permease operon (glnHPQ)
The glutamine permease operon encoding the high-affinity transport system of glutamine in Escherichia coli could be cloned in one of the mini F plasmids, but not in pBR322 or pACYC184, by selection for restoratio...
