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Engineering biomimetic nanosystem targeting multiple tumor radioresistance hallmarks for enhanced radiotherapy
Tumor cells establish a robust self-defense system characterized by hypoxia, antioxidant overexpression, DNA damage repair, and so forth to resist radiotherapy. Targeting one of these features is insufficient ...
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MYH7 in cardiomyopathy and skeletal muscle myopathy
Myosin heavy chain gene 7 (MYH7), a sarcomeric gene encoding the myosin heavy chain (myosin-7), has attracted considerable interest as a result of its fundamental functions in cardiac and skeletal muscle contract...
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Study of Fe-S Cluster Proteins in Methanococcus maripaludis , a Model Archaeal Organism
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are among the oldest and most versatile cofactors present in all domains of life. Many bacterial and eukaryotic Fe-S proteins have been well-characterized, whereas the archaeal ones...
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Open AccessEvaluation of duplicated reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR analysis in genome unknown hexaploid oat (Avena sativa L.)
Oat (Avena sativa L.), a hexaploid crop with unknown genome, has valuable nutritional, medicinal and pharmaceutical uses. However, no suitable RGs (reference genes) for qPCR (quantitative real-time PCR) has been ...
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Interleukin-25 in sputum as a marker of airway inflammation in children asthma
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Open AccessA quick and efficient hydroponic potato infection method for evaluating potato resistance and Ralstonia solanacearum virulence
Potato, the third most important crop worldwide, plays a critical role in human food security. Brown rot, one of the most destructive potato diseases caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, results in huge economic los...
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Genome-wide analysis reveals the evolution and structural features of WRINKLED1 in plants
WRINKLED1 (WRI1), an AP2/ERE transcription factor, is one of the most important regulators of oil accumulation. It has been extensively studied in angiosperms, but its evolution and overview features in plants...
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A novel de novo mutation of ACTG1 in two sporadic non-syndromic hearing loss cases
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Effects of pH and ionic strength on elemental sulphur oxidation in soil
Elemental S oxidation in soil is a microbially mediated process and is hypothesised to be influenced by changes to soil chemical properties such as acidity and ionic strength, which may arise from co-granulati...
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Abundance and diversity of sulphur-oxidising bacteria and their role in oxidising elemental sulphur in crop** soils
There is an increasing interest in elemental S as a S fertiliser source, but to be available to plants, elemental S has to be oxidised to sulphate. Elemental S oxidation is known to be affected by soil propert...
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Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer Between Archaea and Bacteria
Archaea and bacteria living in syntrophic consortia take advantage of the metabolic abilities of their syntrophic partners to overcome energetic barriers and break down compounds that they cannot digest by the...
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Open AccessReproductive management through integration of PGD and MPS-based noninvasive prenatal screening/diagnosis for a family with GJB2-associated hearing impairment
A couple with a proband child of GJB2 (encoding the gap junction protein connexin 26)-associated hearing impairment and a previous pregnancy miscarriage sought for a reproductive solution to bear a healthy child....
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Open AccessPleiotropic effects of fenofibrate therapy on rats with hypertriglycemia
Cardio-protective effect of fibrate therapy is controversial and current research is to evaluate the effect of fenofibrate therapy on rats with hypertriglycemia.
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Bioaugmentation accelerates the shift of bacterial community structure against shock load: a case study of coking wastewater treatment by zeolite-sequencing batch reactor
Bioaugmentation with degrading bacteria is an effective method to improve the treatment of refractory industrial wastewater; nevertheless there were controversial opinions about the fate of inoculated bacteria...
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Open AccessIntrogression of Swertia mussotii gene into Bupleurum scorzonerifoliumvia somatic hybridization
The wild herb Swertia mussotii is a source of the anti-hepatitis compounds swertiamarin, mangiferin and gentiopicroside. Its over-exploitation has raised the priority of producing these compounds heterologously. ...
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Bioaugmentation treatment for coking wastewater containing pyridine and quinoline in a sequencing batch reactor
Two pyridine-degrading bacteria and two quinoline-degrading bacteria were introduced for bioaugmentation to treat the coking wastewater. Sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) were used for a comparative study on th...
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Quinoline biodegradation and its nitrogen transformation pathway by a Pseudomonas sp. strain
A Pseudomonas sp. strain, which can utilize quinoline as its sole carbon, nitrogen and energy source, was isolated from activated sludge in a coking wastewater treatment plant. Quinoline can be degraded via the 8...
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Aerobic degradation of pyridine by a new bacterial strain, Shinella zoogloeoides BC026
A new bacterial strain, Shinella zoogloeoides BC026, which utilizes pyridine as its sole carbon, nitrogen and energy source, was isolated from the activated sludge of a coking wastewater treatment plant. The BC02...
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Simultaneous biodegradation of pyridine and quinoline by two mixed bacterial strains
Experiments were conducted to provide data on the effectiveness of bioaugmentation in the removal of pyridine and quinoline from different wastewaters. A pyridine-degrading bacterial strain (Paracoccus sp. BW001)...
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Microbial degradation and metabolic pathway of pyridine by a Paracoccus sp. strain BW001
A bacterial strain using pyridine as sole carbon, nitrogen and energy source was isolated from the activated sludge of a coking wastewater treatment plant. By means of morphologic observation, physiological ch...