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Open AccessIntraperitoneal versus intranasal administration of lipopolysaccharide in causing sepsis severity in a murine model: a preliminary comparison
Community-acquired respiratory infection is the commonest cause of sepsis presenting to emergency departments. Yet current experimental animal models simulate peritoneal sepsis with intraperitoneal (I.P.) injecti...
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Open AccessTime series single-cell transcriptional atlases reveal cell fate differentiation driven by light in Arabidopsis seedlings
Light serves as the energy source for plants as well as a signal for growth and development during their whole life cycle. Seedling de-etiolation is the most dramatic manifestation of light-regulated plant dev...
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Genetic dissection of lint percentage in short-season cotton using combined QTL map** and RNA-seq
In total, 17 QTLs for lint percentage in short-season cotton, including three stable QTLs, were detected. Twenty-eight differentially expressed genes located within the stable QTLs were identif...
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Effects of dietary supplementation with Bacillus subtilis on immune, antioxidant, and histopathological parameters of Carassius auratus gibelio juveniles exposed to acute saline-alkaline conditions
Salinity and alkalinity are important indicators of the aquatic environment, and saline-alkali stress has negative effects on aquatic organisms. Dietary supplementation with probiotics can improve the overall ...
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Open AccessTranscriptome profiling of two super hybrid rice provides insights into the genetic basis of heterosis
Heterosis is a phenomenon that hybrids show superior performance over their parents. The successful utilization of heterosis has greatly improved rice productivity, but the molecular basis of heterosis remains...
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Validation of housekee** genes as internal controls for gene expression studies on biofilm formation in Bacillus velezensis
Bacillus velezensis is an important bacterium widely applied in agriculture and industry, and biofilms play critical roles in its environmental tolerance. The appropriate choice of reference genes is essential fo...
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Biological Barriers, Processes, and Transformations at the Soil–Plant–Atmosphere Interfaces Driving the Uptake, Translocation, and Bioavailability of Inorganic Nanoparticles to Plants
The development of nanotechnologies for more sustainable agriculture is an innovative strategy proposed to increase food production while decreasing material inputs and reducing environmental impacts. Nanopart...
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Open AccessWhole genome sequencing of Enterobacter mori, an emerging pathogen of kiwifruit and the potential genetic adaptation to pathogenic lifestyle
Members of the Enterobacter genus are gram-negative bacteria, which are used as plant growth-promoting bacteria, and increasingly recovered from economic plants as emerging pathogens. A new Enterobacter mori stra...
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Evaluating the analytical validity of circulating tumor DNA sequencing assays for precision oncology
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) sequencing is being rapidly adopted in precision oncology, but the accuracy, sensitivity and reproducibility of ctDNA assays is poorly understood. Here we report the findings of a...
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Intraperitoneal injection of genistein affects the distribution and metabolism of cholesterol in female yellow catfish Tachysurus fulvidraco
Genistein is an abundant phytoestrogen in soybean. This study aimed to determine the effects of genistein on cholesterol distribution and metabolism in female yellow catfish. Three hundred fish (49.2 ± 1.4 g) ...
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Open AccessGenome-wide identification of ubiquitin proteasome subunits as superior reference genes for transcript normalization during receptacle development in strawberry cultivars
Gene transcripts that show invariant abundance during development are ideal as reference genes (RGs) for accurate gene expression analyses, such as RNA blot analysis and reverse transcription–quantitative real...
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Effect on intestinal microbiota, bioaccumulation, and oxidative stress of Carassius auratus gibelio under waterborne cadmium exposure
Cadmium (Cd) is a hazardous pollutant known to exert various toxic effects and other sublethal effects on aquatic organisms, and induce a variety of adverse effects on human health, and can be commonly found i...
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Amelioration of Cd-Induced Oxidative Stress, MT Gene Expression, and Immune Damage by Vitamin C in Grass Carp Kidney Cells
Cadmium (Cd) is the most common heavy metal and is easily detected in aquatic environments on a global scale. Vitamin C was a widely used vitamin in aquaculture. The aim of this study was to explore the potent...
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Synthesis of biotin–AMP conjugate for 5′ biotin labeling of RNA through one-step in vitro transcription
Biotin-labeled RNA has found broad applications in chemistry, biology and biomedicine. In this protocol, we describe a simple procedure for 5′ RNA biotin labeling by one-step in vitro transcription. A biotin–AMP ...
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The Genetic and Physiological Basis of Malignant Hyperthermia
A goal of research in basic biological science is to develop understanding of normal processes that will be relevant to the understanding of disease processes. This goal has been realized to a large extent for...