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Open AccessThe roles of neural stem cells in myelin regeneration and repair therapy after spinal cord injury
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a complex tissue injury that results in a wide range of physical deficits, including permanent or progressive disabilities of sensory, motor and autonomic functions. To date, limita...
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Open AccessZinc oxide nanoparticles induces cell death and consequently leading to incomplete neural tube closure through oxidative stress during embryogenesis
The implementation of Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) raises concerns regarding their potential toxic effects on human health. Although more and more researches have confirmed the toxic effects of ZnO NPs, ...
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Open AccessRetraction Note: FoxM1-mediated RFC5 expression promotes temozolomide resistance
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Open AccessDual deficiency of melatonin and dihydrotestosterone promotes stromal cell damage and mediates prostatitis via the cGAS-STING pathway in sleep-deprived mice
Prostatitis is a highly prevalent condition that seriously affects men’s physical and mental health. Although epidemiological investigations have provided evidence of a correlation between insufficient sleep a...
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Open AccessScreens in aging-relevant human ALS-motor neurons identify MAP4Ks as therapeutic targets for the disease
Effective therapeutics is much needed for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an adult-onset neurodegenerative disease mainly affecting motor neurons. By screening chemical compounds in human patient-derived ...
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Precision genetic technologies for cereal functional genomics
Identifying and characterizing genes that control important agronomic traits and finding ways to alter them are vital for crop improvement. Map-based cloning, heterologous gene expression, RNAi mediated gene s...
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Over-expression of miR-3584-5p Represses Nav1.8 Channel Aggravating Neuropathic Pain caused by Chronic Constriction Injury
Nav1.8, a tetrodotoxin-resistant voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) subtype encoded by SCN10A, which plays an important role in the production and transmission of peripheral neuropathic pain signals. Studies h...
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Open AccessB cell-derived anti-beta 2 glycoprotein I antibody mediates hyperhomocysteinemia-aggravated hypertensive glomerular lesions by triggering ferroptosis
Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is a risk factor for chronic kidney diseases (CKDs) that affects about 85% CKD patients. HHcy stimulates B cells to secrete pathological antibodies, although it is unknown whether t...
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Open AccessBMX, a specific HDAC8 inhibitor, with TMZ for advanced CRC therapy: a novel synergic effect to elicit p53-, β-catenin- and MGMT-dependent apoptotic cell death
Despite advances in treatment, patients with refractory colorectal cancer (CRC) still have poor long-term survival, so there is a need for more effective therapeutic options.
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Open AccessNatural antisense RNA Foxk1-AS promotes myogenic differentiation by inhibiting Foxk1 activity
Natural antisense RNAs are RNA molecules that are transcribed from the opposite strand of either protein-coding or non-protein coding genes and have the ability to regulate the expression of their sense gene o...
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Open AccessZBTB7A, a miR-144-3p targeted gene, accelerates bladder cancer progression via downregulating HIC1 expression
Zinc finger and BTB domain-containing 7A (ZBTB7A) is a member of the POK family of transcription factors that plays an oncogenic or tumor-suppressive role in different cancers depending on the type and genetic...
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Open AccessEfficacy and safety of low-dose interleukin-2 in combination with methotrexate in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2 trial
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an aggressive autoimmune arthritis, and current therapies remain unsatisfactory due to low remission rate and substantially adverse effects. Low-dose interleukin-2 (Ld-IL2) is pote...
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Open AccessInduction of apoptosis and autosis in cardiomyocytes by the combination of homocysteine and copper via NOX-mediated p62 expression
High levels of homocysteine (Hcy) associated with cardiovascular events are accompanied by increased copper (Cu) concentrations in the blood. Hcy has been shown to promote endothelial dysfunction, whereas the ...
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Open AccessARSD, a novel ERα downstream target gene, inhibits proliferation and migration of breast cancer cells via activating Hippo/YAP pathway
Advanced breast cancer (BC), especially basal like triple-negative BC (TNBC), is a highly malignant tumor without viable treatment option, highlighting the urgent need to seek novel therapeutic targets. Arylsu...
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Open AccessDetection of an anti-angina therapeutic module in the effective population treated by a multi-target drug Danhong injection: a randomized trial
It’s a challenge for detecting the therapeutic targets of a polypharmacological drug from variations in the responsed networks in the differentiated populations with complex diseases, as stable coronary heart ...
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Localization and characterization of Citrus centromeres by combining half-tetrad analysis and CenH3-associated sequence profiling
The physical locations of citrus centromere are revealed by combining genetic and immunological assays for the first time and nine citrus centromere-specific markers for cytogenetics are mined.
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Correction to: Reduced nNOS activity is responsible for impaired fatty acid–dependent mitochondrial oxygen consumption in atrial myocardium from hypertensive rat
The above article was published online with an error in affiliations.
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Reduced nNOS activity is responsible for impaired fatty acid–dependent mitochondrial oxygen consumption in atrial myocardium from hypertensive rat
Fatty acid (FA)–dependent mitochondrial activities of atrial myocardium in hypertension (HTN) and its regulation by nitric oxide (NO) remain unidentified. Here, we have studied palmitic acid (PA) regulation of...
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Open AccessHigh-fat diet promotes renal injury by inducing oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction
Obesity has been recognized as a major risk factor for chronic kidney disease, but the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Here, we investigated the mechanism whereby long-term high-fat diet (HFD) feeding in...
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Open AccessArgonaute proteins from human gastrointestinal bacteria catalyze DNA-guided cleavage of single- and double-stranded DNA at 37 °C