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Open AccessDietary Copper Intake and Risk of Parkinson’s Disease: a Cross-sectional Study
Copper is an essential trace element for the human body. The epidemiological evidence for the association of dietary intake of copper with the risk of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is limited. We conducted an evalu...
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Open AccessSalicylic acid enhances cell growth, fatty acid and astaxanthin production in heterotrophic Chromochloris zofingiensis without reactive oxygen species elevation
The induction of lipid and astaxanthin accumulation in microalgae is often achieved through abiotic stress. However, this approach usually leads to oxidative stress, which results in relatively low growth rate...
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Open AccessCTSB Nuclear Translocation Facilitates DNA Damage and Lysosomal Stress to Promote Retinoblastoma Cell Death
Retinoblastoma (RB) is a pernicious tumor originating from photoreceptor precursor cells that often endangers the lives of children. The purpose of our study was to further investigate the influence of catheps...
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Open AccessCustomizing cancer treatment at the nanoscale: a focus on anaplastic thyroid cancer therapy
Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is a rare but highly aggressive kind of thyroid cancer. Various therapeutic methods have been considered for the treatment of ATC, but its prognosis remains poor. With the adven...
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Open AccessNanosilicate-functionalized nanofibrous membrane facilitated periodontal regeneration potential by harnessing periodontal ligament cell-mediated osteogenesis and immunomodulation
Although various new biomaterials have enriched the methods for periodontal regeneration, their efficacy is still controversial, and the regeneration of damaged support tissue in the periodontium remains chall...
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Open AccessMultiscale reconstruction of bronchus and cancer cells in human lung adenocarcinoma
While previous studies primarily focused on the structure of the normal whole mouse lung, the whole bronchus and cytoarchitectural details of the mouse intact lung lobe have been discovered at single-cell reso...
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Correction to: Gpx4, Selenov, and Txnrd3 Are Three Most Testis-Abundant Selenogenes Resistant to Dietary Selenium Concentrations and Actively Expressed During Reproductive Ages in Rats
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Design and characterization of a novel lytic protein against Clostridium difficile
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, toxin-producing anaerobe that can cause nosocomial antibiotic-associated intestinal disease. Autolysin is a lytic enzyme that hydrolyzes pep...
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Open AccessMechanistic study of silica nanoparticles on the size-dependent retinal toxicity in vitro and in vivo
Silica nanoparticles (SiO2 NPs) are extensively applied in the biomedical field. The increasing medical application of SiO2 NPs has raised concerns about their safety. However, studies on SiO2 NP-induced retinal ...
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Open AccesspH-switchable nanozyme cascade catalysis: a strategy for spatial–temporal modulation of pathological wound microenvironment to rescue stalled healing in diabetic ulcer
The management of diabetic ulcer (DU) to rescue stalled wound healing remains a paramount clinical challenge due to the spatially and temporally coupled pathological wound microenvironment that features hyperg...
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Open AccessIdentification of differentially expressed proteins and clinicopathological significance of HMGB2 in cervical cancer
To investigate the complexity of proteomics in cervical cancer tissues, we used isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ)-based mass spectrometry analysis on a panel of normal cervical tissu...
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Open AccessMicroRNA-1179 suppresses the proliferation and enhances vincristine sensitivity of oral cancer cells via induction of apoptosis and modulation of MEK/ERK and PI3K/AKT signalling pathways
The role of miR-1179 in the development of cancer has been proved by different studies. However, the expression profile and role of miR-1179 is yet to be explored in human oral cancer. Consistently, this study...
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Open AccessResponse mechanism of hypocrellin colorants biosynthesis by Shiraia bambusicola to elicitor PB90
The valuable medicine Shiraia bambusicola P. Henn. and its major active substance hypocrellin exert unique curative effects on skin diseases, diabetes, and cancers. The wild S. bambusicola is endangered due to it...
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Open AccessGREACE-assisted adaptive laboratory evolution in endpoint fermentation broth enhances lysine production by Escherichia coli
Late-stage fermentation broth contains high concentrations of target chemicals. Additionally, it contains various cellular metabolites which have leaked from lysed cells, which would exert multifactorial stres...
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Open AccessNitrogen and phosphorus removal from anaerobically digested wastewater by microalgae cultured in a novel membrane photobioreactor
With the further development of anaerobic digestion, an increasing output of anaerobically digested wastewater (ADW), which typically contained high concentrations of ammonium, phosphate, and suspended solids,...
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Open AccessDevelopment of a baculovirus vector carrying a small hairpin RNA for suppression of sf-caspase-1 expression and improvement of recombinant protein production
The Baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) is a transient expression platform for recombinant protein production in insect cells. Baculovirus infection of insect cells will shutoff host translation and in...
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Open AccessImproved photobio-H2 production regulated by artificial miRNA targeting psbA in green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Sulfur-deprived cultivation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, referred as “two-stage culture” transferring the cells from regular algal medium to sulfur-deplete one, has been extensively studied to improve photobio-H
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Open AccessRole of Trichoderma reesei mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in cellulase formation
Despite being the most important cellulase producer, the cellulase-regulating carbon source signal transduction processes in Trichoderma reesei are largely unknown. Elucidating these processes is the key for unve...
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Open AccessPopulation structure and association analysis of yield and grain quality traits in hybrid rice primal parental lines
To make advances in rice molecular design breeding, it is important to understand the genetic background and phenotypes of the parental lines, to known superior allele of the breeding material. In this study, ...
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Open AccessEvolving the l-lysine high-producing strain of Escherichia coli using a newly developed high-throughput screening method
This study provided a new method which applied a selected l-lysine-inducible promoter for evolving lysine industrial strains of E. coli. According to the intracellular levels of the enhanced green fluorescent pro...