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Kv3.1 Interaction with UBR5 Is Required for Chronic Inflammatory Pain
Chronic inflammatory pain caused by neuronal hyperactivity is a common and refractory disease. Kv3.1, a member of the Kv3 family of voltage-dependent K+ channels, is a major determinant of the ability of neurons ...
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Screening Plasma Proteins for the Putative Drug Targets for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is one of the most common work-related musculoskeletal disorders. The present study sought to identify putative causal proteins for CTS. We conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomi...
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Inhibition of ferroptosis by icariin treatment attenuates excessive ethanol consumption-induced atrial remodeling and susceptibility to atrial fibrillation, role of SIRT1
Ferroptosis contributes to the pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation (AF), although the mechanisms are still largely uncovered. The current study was designed to explore the pharmacological effects of icariin ag...
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Open AccessLoss of Mst1/2 activity promotes non-mitotic hair cell generation in the neonatal organ of Corti
Mammalian sensory hair cells (HCs) have limited capacity for regeneration, which leads to permanent hearing loss after HC death. Here, we used in vitro RNA-sequencing to show that the Hippo signaling pathway i...
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Open AccessFoxO3 restricts liver regeneration by suppressing the proliferation of hepatocytes
Upon injury, the liver is capable of substantial regeneration from the original tissue until an appropriate functional size. The underlying mechanisms controlling the liver regeneration processes are not well ...
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Open AccessFosl1 is vital to heart regeneration upon apex resection in adult Xenopus tropicalis
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the world due to losing regenerative capacity in the adult heart. Frogs possess remarkable capacities to regenerate multiple organs, including spinal cor...
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Open AccessGlioma exosomal microRNA-148a-3p promotes tumor angiogenesis through activating the EGFR/MAPK signaling pathway via inhibiting ERRFI1
Glioma is the most frequent and lethal primary brain malignancy. Amounting evidence has highlighted the importance of exosomal microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) in this malignancy. This study aimed to investigate the...
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Open AccessIdentification of NEO1 as a prognostic biomarker and its effects on the progression of colorectal cancer
Due to the high morbidity and poor clinical outcomes, early predictive and prognostic biomarker identification is desiderated in colorectal cancer (CRC). As a homologue of the Deleted in Colorectal Cancer (DCC...
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Association Between Tumor Necrosis Factor-α and Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: a Meta-Analysis
Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is a cell signaling protein involved in systemic inflammation, and is also an important cytokine in the acute phase reaction. Several studies suggested a possible association be...
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Up-Regulation of microRNA-183 Promotes Cell Proliferation and Invasion in Glioma By Directly Targeting NEFL
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and lethal type of primary malignant brain tumor. In recent years, increasing reports suggest that discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) might provide a novel therape...
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Common Polymorphisms Within QPCT Gene Are Associated with the Susceptibility of Schizophrenia in a Han Chinese Population
A recent genome-wide association study conducted in Caucasians has identified glutaminyl-peptide cyclotransferase (QPCT) gene as a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia, as its common single nucleotide polymorphi...
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Education and Risk of Dementia: Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies
Educational level has been regarded as one of the most widely accepted risk factors in the epidemiological studies for dementia, despite with discordant qualitative results. However, the dose-response relation...
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Angiotensin-(1-7) is Reduced and Inversely Correlates with Tau Hyperphosphorylation in Animal Models of Alzheimer’s Disease
As a recently identified bioactive peptide of brain renin-angiotensin system (RAS), angiotensin-(1-7) [Ang-(1-7)] along with its metabolic enzyme angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) 2 and its receptor Mas form...
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ABCA7 in Alzheimer’s Disease
ATP-binding cassette A7 (ABCA7) gene has recently been identified as a strong genetic locus associated with late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD) through genome-wide association studies (GWASs). ABCA7 is a member...
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Open AccessDepleting NFAT1 expression inhibits the ability of invasion and migration of human lung cancer cells
Nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NFAT) is a general name applied to a family of transcription factors shown to be important in immune response. One or more members of the NFAT family are expressed in most ...
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4-Hydroxybenzyl Alcohol Ameliorates Cerebral Injury in Rats by Antioxidant Action
4-hydroxybenzyl alcohol (4-HBA), one of the phenolic constituents found in many herbal medicinal plants, exhibits beneficial effects in neurological disorders. In the present study, we evaluated 4-HBA’s role i...
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Acetylcholine prevents angiotensin II-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis in H9c2 cells
Apoptosis of cardiomyocytes plays an important role in the development of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Numerous studies have shown that generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by the renin-angiot...
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Effects of Mutant Huntingtin on mGluR5-Mediated Dual Signaling Pathways: Implications for Therapeutic Interventions
Glutamate excitotoxicity is thought to play an important role in Huntington’s disease (HD), which is caused by a polyglutamine expansion in the HD protein huntingtin (htt). Overactivation of group I metabotrop...
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Adenovirus-mediated PDCD5 gene transfer sensitizes K562 cells to apoptosis induced by idarubicin in vitro and in vivo
PDCD5 (programmed cell death 5) accelerates apoptosis of certain tumor cells and is expressed at low levels in marrow-nucleated cells of AML and CML patients. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of ...