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    Novel T cell exhaustion gene signature to predict prognosis and immunotherapy response in thyroid carcinoma from integrated RNA-sequencing analysis

    Exhausted CD8+ T lymphocytes and tumor-associated macrophages play critical roles in determining cancer prognosis and the efficacy of immunotherapy. Our study revealed a negative correlation between exhausted CD8

    Yang Li, Zhen Wang, Fangting Lu, Yahu Miao, Qing Feng, Weixi Zhu in Scientific Reports (2024)

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    Designing lithium halide solid electrolytes

    All-solid-state lithium batteries have attracted widespread attention for next-generation energy storage, potentially providing enhanced safety and cycling stability. The performance of such batteries relies o...

    Qidi Wang, Yunan Zhou, Xuelong Wang, Hao Guo, Shui** Gong in Nature Communications (2024)

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    A CCL2+DPP4+ subset of mesenchymal stem cells expedites aberrant formation of cree** fat in humans

    Cree** fat is a typical feature of Crohn’s disease. It refers to the expansion of mesenteric adipose tissue around inflamed and fibrotic intestines and is associated with stricture formation and intestinal o...

    Fengfei Wu, Fangting Wu, Qian Zhou, ** Liu, Jieying Fei, Da Zhang in Nature Communications (2023)

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    LPIN1 promotes triglycerides synthesis and is transcriptionally regulated by PPARG in buffalo mammary epithelial cells

    Studies on 3T3-L1 cells and HepG2 hepatocytes have shown that phosphatidic acid phosphohydrolase1 (LPIN1) plays a key role in adipogenesis, acting as a co-activator of peroxisome proliferator-activated recepto...

    Fangting Zhou, **nyang Fan, Yongwang Miao in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Differential metabolic responses in breast cancer cell lines to acidosis and lactic acidosis revealed by stable isotope assisted metabolomics

    Extracellular acidosis is considered as a hallmark of most human tumors, which plays an important role in promoting tumor malignant and aggressive phenotype in tumorigenesis. Acidosis and lactic acidosis can i...

    Jiayue Gao, Zhiying Guo, Jianhua Cheng, Bo Sun, Jie Yang, Hai**g Li in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Manipulation of nuclear architecture through CRISPR-mediated chromosomal loo**

    Chromatin loo** is key to gene regulation, yet no broadly applicable methods to selectively modify chromatin loops have been described. We have engineered a method for chromatin loop reorganization using CRI...

    Stefanie L. Morgan, Natasha C. Mariano, Abel Bermudez in Nature Communications (2017)

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    LncRNA AK023948 is a positive regulator of AKT

    Despite the overwhelming number of human long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) reported so far, little is known about their physiological functions for the majority of them. The present study uses a CRISPR/Cas9-based...

    Pratirodh Koirala, Jianguo Huang, Tsui-Ting Ho, Fangting Wu in Nature Communications (2017)

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    Regulation of PCGEM1 by p54/nrb in prostate cancer

    PCGEM1 is a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) that is often upregulated in prostate cancer. However, little is known how PCGEM1 is regulated. In the present study, we show transcriptional regulation of PCGEM1 in re...

    Tsui-Ting Ho, Jianguo Huang, Nanjiang Zhou, Ziqiang Zhang in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Serum Metabolomics to Identify the Liver Disease-Specific Biomarkers for the Progression of Hepatitis to Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignancy that has region specific etiologies. Unfortunately, 85% of cases of HCC are diagnosed at an advanced stage. Reliable biomarkers for the early diagnosis of ...

    Rong Gao, Jianhua Cheng, Chunlei Fan, **aofeng Shi, Yuan Cao, Bo Sun in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    Non-additive effects of litter diversity on greenhouse gas emissions from alpine steppe soil in Northern Tibet

    While litter decomposition is a fundamental ecological process, previous studies have mainly focused on the decay of single species. In this study, we conducted a litter-mixing experiment to investigate litter...

    Youchao Chen, Jian Sun, Fangting **e, Yan Yan, **aodan Wang in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    A metabolomic study of the PPARδ agonist GW501516 for enhancing running endurance in Kunming mice

    Exercise can increase peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-δ (PPARδ) expression in skeletal muscle. PPARδ regulates muscle metabolism and reprograms muscle fibre types to enhance running endurance. This ...

    Wei Chen, Rong Gao, **nni **e, Zhibing Zheng, Hai**g Li, Song Li in Scientific Reports (2015)