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Open AccessEvaluation of body shape as a human body composition assessment in isolated conditions and remote environments
Individuals in isolated and extreme environments can experience debilitating side-effects including significant decreases in fat-free mass (FFM) from disuse and inadequate nutrition. The objective of this stud...
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Open AccessPICK1 inhibits the malignancy of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and serves as a novel prognostic marker
Although many important advances have been made in the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in recent years, local recurrence and distant metastasis remain the main factors affecting NPC prognosis. Biom...
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Open AccessFBXL8 inhibits post-myocardial infarction cardiac fibrosis by targeting Snail1 for ubiquitin-proteasome degradation
Abnormal cardiac fibrosis is the main pathological change of post-myocardial infarction (MI) heart failure. Although the E3 ubiquitin ligase FBXL8 is a key regulator in the cell cycle, cell proliferation, and ...
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Open AccessHMGA1 drives chemoresistance in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by suppressing ferroptosis
Chemotherapy is a primary treatment for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs is an important hurdle to effective treatment. Understanding the mechanisms underlying ch...
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Open AccessFasting regulates mitochondrial function through lncRNA PRKCQ-AS1-mediated IGF2BPs in papillary thyroid carcinoma
Recurring evidence suggests that fasting has extensive antitumor effects in various cancers, including papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). However, the underlying mechanism of this relationship with PTC is unkn...
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Open AccessMitoguardin 1 and 2 promote granulosa cell proliferation by activating AKT and regulating the Hippo-YAP1 signaling pathway
Mitochondria have been identified to be involved in oxidative phosphorylation, lipid metabolism, cell death, and cell proliferation. Previous studies have demonstrated that mitoguardin (Miga), a mitochondrial ...
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Open AccessUSP1 promotes cholangiocarcinoma progression by deubiquitinating PARP1 to prevent its proteasomal degradation
Despite its involvement in various cancers, the function of the deubiquitinase USP1 (ubiquitin-specific protease 1) is unexplored in cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). In this study, we provide evidence that USP1 promo...
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Open AccessNPM promotes hepatotoxin-induced fibrosis by inhibiting ROS-induced apoptosis of hepatic stellate cells and upregulating lncMIAT-induced TGF-β2
Liver fibrosis is caused by a variety of chronic liver injuries and has caused significant morbidity and mortality in the world with increasing tendency. Elucidation of the molecular mechanism of liver fibrosi...
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Open AccessDeficiency of BAP1 inhibits neuroblastoma tumorigenesis through destabilization of MYCN
The transcription factor MYCN is frequently amplified and overexpressed in a variety of cancers including high-risk neuroblastoma (NB) and promotes tumor cell proliferation, survival, and migration. Therefore,...
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Open AccessMultidirectional characterization of cellular composition and spatial architecture in human multiple primary lung cancers
Multiple primary lung cancers (MPLCs) pose diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in clinic. Here, we orchestrated the cellular and spatial architecture of MPLCs by combining single-cell RNA-sequencing and spat...
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Open Accessm5C-dependent cross-regulation between nuclear reader ALYREF and writer NSUN2 promotes urothelial bladder cancer malignancy through facilitating RABL6/TK1 mRNAs splicing and stabilization
The significance of 5-methylcytosine (m5C) methylation in human malignancies has become an increasing focus of investigation. Here, we show that m5C regulators including writers, readers and erasers, are predomin...
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Open AccessMigration deficits of the neural crest caused by CXADR triplication in a human Down syndrome stem cell model
Down syndrome (DS) is the most common chromosomal abnormality in live-born infants and is caused by trisomy of chromosome 21. Most individuals with DS display craniofacial dysmorphology, including reduced size...
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Open AccessMEX3A promotes nasopharyngeal carcinoma progression via the miR-3163/SCIN axis by regulating NF-κB signaling pathway
Mex-3 RNA Binding Family Member A (MEX3A) is an RNA-binding protein that plays complex and diverse roles in the development of various malignancies. However, its role and mechanism in nasopharyngeal carcinoma ...
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Open AccessAnti-apoptotic HAX-1 suppresses cell apoptosis by promoting c-Abl kinase-involved ROS clearance
The anti-apoptotic protein HAX-1 has been proposed to modulate mitochondrial membrane potential, calcium signaling and actin remodeling. HAX-1 mutation or deficiency results in severe congenital neutropenia (SCN)...
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Open AccessStathmin 1 is a biomarker for diagnosis of microvascular invasion to predict prognosis of early hepatocellular carcinoma
Microvascular invasion (MVI) is presently evaluated as a high-risk factor to be directly relative to postoperative prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Up to now, diagnosis of MVI mainly depends on the...
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Open AccessFasting promotes acute hypoxic adaptation by suppressing mTOR-mediated pathways
Rapid adaptation to a hypoxic environment is an unanswered question that we are committed to exploring. At present, there is no suitable strategy to achieve rapid hypoxic adaptation. Here, we demonstrate that ...
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Open AccessUpregulation of lncRNA NONRATG019935.2 suppresses the p53-mediated apoptosis of renal tubular epithelial cells in septic acute kidney injury
Although increasing evidence has confirmed that the apoptosis of renal tubular epithelial cells (RTECs) is a crucial contributor to the onset and development of septic acute kidney injury (AKI), the pathologic...
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Open AccessTNF-α-induced protein 8-like 2 negatively regulates the immune function of dendritic cells by suppressing autophagy via the TAK1/JNK pathway in septic mice
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α-induced protein 8-like 2 (TIPE2) is a newly discovered negative immunoregulatory protein that is involved in various cellular immune responses to infections. However, the underlyi...
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Open AccessCorrection: RIF1 promotes tumor growth and cancer stem cell-like traits in NSCLC by protein phosphatase 1-mediated activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling
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Open AccessSOX10 ablation severely impairs the generation of postmigratory neural crest from human pluripotent stem cells
Animal studies have indicated that SOX10 is one of the key transcription factors regulating the proliferation, migration and differentiation of multipotent neural crest (NC), and mutation of SOX10 in humans may l...