The Role of Academic Emotions, Perception of the University Atmosphere and learning Behaviors in Predicting the Academic Enthusiasm of Farhangian University of East Azerbaijan by Ali Eghbali, Hossein Vahedi, Akbar Ebrahimi, Sorayya Eghlimi

“…s (2005) academic excitement, Raf et al.'s (1997) educational environment, and McDermott et al.'…”
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Promising horizons in achondroplasia along with the development of new drugs by Keiichi Ozono, Takuo Kubota, Toshimi Michigami

“…The downstream signal transduction of FGFR3 consists of STAT1 and RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK pathways. The mutant FGFR3 found in ACH is continuously phosphorylated and activates downstream signals, resulting in abnormal proliferation and differentiation of chondrocytes in the growth plate and cranial base synchondrosis. …”
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The Strategy of Lexical Specialization Explicitation in Quran Translation: A Study on Majāz Mursal by Mahmud Yunus by Nasimah Abdullah, Saifulah Samsudin

“…The data comprises verses 36 from Surah Yusuf, verse 31 from Surah al-A’rāf, verse 2 from Surah Yunus, verse 50 from Surah Maryam, verse 84 from Surah al-Syu’arā’, verse 40 from Surah Tāhā, verse 13 from Surah al-Qaṣaṣ, verse 7 from Surah Nuh, and verse 6 from Surah al-Māidah. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Next Generation Sequencing Panel using Circulating Tumor DNA in Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Mariana M. Sebastião, Rodrigo S. Ho, João Paulo V. de Carvalho, Micha Nussbaum

“…The aim of the study was to carry out a systematic review and a meta-analysis in order to determine the accuracy of NGS of ctDNA to detect six oncogenic driver alterations: epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR); anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK); ROS proto-oncogene 1, receptor tyrosine kinase (ROS-1); serine/threonine-protein kinase B-RAF (BRAF); RET proto-oncogene (RET); and MET proto-oncogene, receptor tyrosine kinase (MET) exon 14 in patients with aNSCLC. …”
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Mining label-free consistency regularization for noisy facial expression recognition by Yumei Tan, Haiying Xia, Shuxiang Song

“…Extensive experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of MCR on three popular in-the-wild facial expression datasets, including RAF-DB, FERPlus, and AffectNet. Moreover, MCR demonstrates superior generalization capability on other datasets with noisy labels, such as CIFAR100 and Tiny-ImageNet.…”
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LCANet: a model for analysis of students real-time sentiment by integrating attention mechanism and joint loss function by Pengyun Hu, Xianpiao Tang, Liu Yang, Chuijian Kong, Daoxun Xia

“…The experimental results show that our LCANet model has good recognition rates on both the public emotion datasets FERPlus, RAF-DB and AffectNet, with accuracies of 91.43%, 90.03% and 64.43%, respectively, with good robustness and generalizability. …”
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Loss of BRCA1 Spontaneously Induces the Tumorigenesis in Lacrimal Gland by Sun Eui Kim, Hye Jung Baek, Eun Jung Park, Sung Chul Lim, Sang Soo Kim

“…Further analysis revealed that tumorigenesis was accompanied by the accumulation of cyclin D1 and decreased expression of the cellular oncogenes, c-Myc, c-Jun, and c-Raf. Tumors also exhibited rearrangement of cytoskeletal proteins, including β-catenin, keratin 5, and vimentin, depending on tumor progression. …”
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Current molecular understanding of central nervous system schwannomas by Takahiro Tsuchiya, Satoru Miyawaki, Yu Teranishi, Kenta Ohara, Yudai Hirano, Shotaro Ogawa, Seiei Torazawa, Yu Sakai, Hiroki Hongo, Hideaki Ono, Nobuhito Saito

“…Merlin, the protein encoded by NF2, is integral to several signaling pathways, including Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK, PI3K/Akt/mTORC1, Wnt/β-catenin, and the Hippo pathway. …”
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Análise de crescimento de espécies daninhas do gênero Euphorbia by Débora Teresa Ferreira, Ivanildo Claudino da Silva, Vicente Mota da Silva, Laurício Endres, Renan Cantalice de Souza, Vilma Marques Ferreira

“…Com valores médios de matéria seca da parte aérea (MSPA), MST e AF foram calculadas as taxas de crescimento absoluto (TCA) e relativo (TCR), a razão de área foliar (RAF) e a razão massa foliar (RMF). Os dados foram submetidos à análise de variância e à regressão não-linear. …”
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Treatment of a mutant KRAS lung cancer cell line with polyisoprenylated cysteinyl amide inhibitors activates the MAPK pathway, inhibits cell migration and induces apoptosis. by Matthew D Gregory, Kweku Ofosu-Asante, Jassy Mary S Lazarte, Pablo E Puente, Nada Tawfeeq, Nadine Belony, Yong Huang, Ite A Offringa, Nazarius S Lamango

“…After 48 h exposure to 5 μM of the PCAIs, NSL-YHJ-2-46, the MAPK proteins BRAF, MEK1/2, ERK1/2, and p90RSK were activated through phosphorylation by 90, 190, 150 and 120%, respectively. However, CRAF/RAF1 phosphorylation decreased by 40%, suggesting significant changes in the KRAS/MAPK signaling patterns. …”
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Letecká báze na Českomoravské vysočině by Pavel Petr

“…The project entailed the construction of airports in Pardubice, Chrudim, Hlinsko, Humpolec, Polička, Banín, and in Bystřice nad Pernštejnem, each of which was supposed to accommodate one Czechoslovak Air Force squadron (which roughly equalled an RAF wing in size). The land needed for the construction was either bought or rented. …”
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Pharmacokinetic Evaluation of [C]CEP-32496 in Nude Mice Bearing BRAF Mutation-Induced Melanomas by Cuiping Jiang MMSc, Lin Xie MD, PhD, Yiding Zhang BSc, Masayuki Fujinaga PhD, Wakana Mori MSc, Yusuke Kurihara PhD, Tomoteru Yamasaki PhD, Feng Wang MD, PhD, Ming-Rong Zhang MD, PhD

“…CEP-32496, also known as RXDX-105 or Agerafenib, is a new orally active inhibitor for the mutated v-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 (BRAF V600E ), which has attracted considerable attention in clinical trials for the treatment of human cancers. …”
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Dihydrotanshinone I enhanced BRAF mutant melanoma treatment efficacy by inhibiting the STAT3/SOX2 signaling pathway by Xing Luo, Yi Duan, Jinwei He, CongGai Huang, Jun Liu, Yifan Liu, Mengdei Xu, Qiong Dai, Zhihui Yang

“…BackgroundThe Food and Drug Administration has approved the Serine/threonine-protein kinase B-raf (BRAF) inhibitor and Mitogen-activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (MEK) inhibitor combo as the first-line treatment for individuals with metastatic melanoma, although the majority of these patients exhibit primary or secondary drug resistance in the clinic. …”
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Shengxue Busui Decoction activates the PI3K/Akt and VEGF pathways, enhancing vascular function and inhibiting osteocyte apoptosis to combat steroid-induced femoral head necrosis by Manting Liu, Jiexiang Ye, Runtian Wu, Dongqiang Luo, Tao Huang, Dandan Dai, Kexin Wang, Yanping Du, Junwen Ou

“…ALP and Alizarin Red staining evaluated osteoblast differentiation and mineralization.ResultsNetwork pharmacology identified curcumin, berberine, and diosgenin as key active components of SBD, with the PI3K/Akt and VEGFR pathways as critical targets, and RAF1, FOXO3, and BRAF as hub genes. In vivo, SBD intervention significantly reduced bone structural damage and apoptosis, decreasing the rate of empty bone lacunae. …”
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Integrated serum metabolomics and network pharmacology reveal molecular mechanism of Qixue Huazheng formula on peritoneal fibrosis by Xiaohui Meng, Xiaohui Meng, Li Sheng, Yongqing You, Yongqing You, Huibo Dai, Manshu Yu, Funing Wang, Funing Wang, Ziren Zhou, Ziren Zhou, Yun Shan, Meixiao Sheng

“…Metabolite-target network and molecular docking analyses revealed that QXHZF can bind to estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) and rapidly accelerated fibrosarcoma 1 (RAF1) through its components. WB demonstrated that QXHZF treatment reversed activation of the above-mentioned signaling pathways, thereby inhibiting PD fluid-induced PF.ConclusionQXHZF can significantly ameliorate PD-induced PF and may regulate estrogen signaling, the Ras pathway, and apoptosis in this context.…”
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Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Micronutrients and Their Deficiency Effect on the Root Morphology and Architecture in Citrus Rootstock by Gaofeng Zhou, Yiping Fu, Mei Yang, Yanhong Li, Jing Zhang

“…To clarify the spatial distribution characteristics of essential nutrients in citrus roots and the influence mechanism of micronutrient deficiency on citrus root morphology and architecture, especially the effects on lateral root (LR) growth and development, two commonly used citrus rootstocks, trifoliate orange (<i>Poncirus trifoliata</i> L. Raf., Ptr) and red tangerine (<i>Citrus reticulata</i> Blanco, Cre), were employed here. …”
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Size effect-based improved antioxidant activity of selenium nanoparticles regulating Anti-PI3K-mTOR and Ras-MEK pathways for treating spinal cord injury to avoid hormone shock-indu... by Peixin Liu, Xiaodong Liu, Zihao Wu, Kui Shen, Zhaofeng Li, Xiaowei Li, Qifeng Wu, Leung Chan, Zhong Zhang, Yutong Wu, Liwen Liu, Tianfeng Chen, Yi Qin

“…Ultimately, LNT-UsSeNPs directly regulated the PI3K-AKT-mTOR and Ras-Raf-MEK-ERK signaling pathways by regulating selenoproteins to achieve non-immunosuppressive anti-inflammatory therapy. …”
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Screening and identification of host signaling pathways for alleviating influenza-induced production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, IP-10, IL-8, and MCP-1, using a U937 cell-based... by Si Chen, Si Chen, Yang Yu, Yue Su, Xiaoqin Lian, Lefang Jiang, Zhuogang Li, Mingxin Zhang, Yarou Gao, Haonan Zhang, Xingjian Zhu, Jiaxin Ke, Xulin Chen

“…Validation experiments further established that Janus kinase/signal transducers and activators of transcription (JAK/STAT) pathways, along with p38 MAPK and Raf–MEK–ERK pathways, are the principal regulators of pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in monocytes and macrophages. …”
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Development and characterization of orthotopic patient-derived xenograft models of peritoneal metastatic mucinous appendiceal adenocarcinoma by I. Ito, V.K. Pattalachinti, A.M.G. Yousef, S. Chowdhury, M.M. Fanaeian, E. Haque, B.B. Gunes, M. Yousef, E.R. Salle, M.A. Zeineddine, S. Ji, R. Li, W. Wang, B.A. Helmink, M.W. Taggart, M.G. White, K.F. Fournier, N.W. Fowlkes, J.P. Shen

“…Results: Higher tumor grade, peritoneal implantation, and RAS/RAF mutation were associated with successful tumor engraftment. …”
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Evaluation of circulating tumor DNA as a prognostic and predictive biomarker in BRAF V600E mutated colorectal cancer—results from the FIRE‐4.5 study by Susanne Klein‐Scory, Alexander Baraniskin, Wolff Schmiegel, Thomas Mika, Roland Schroers, Swantje Held, Kathrin Heinrich, David Tougeron, Dominik P. Modest, Ingo Schwaner, Jan Eucker, Rudolf Pihusch, Martina Stauch, Florian Kaiser, Christoph Kahl, Meinolf Karthaus, Christian Müller, Christof Burkart, Sebastian Stintzing, Volker Heinemann

“…The randomized FIRE‐4.5 (AIO KRK0116) trial compared first‐line therapy with FOLFOXIRI (folinic acid, fluorouracil, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan) plus either cetuximab or bevacizumab in B‐Raf proto‐oncogene, serine/threonine kinase (BRAF) V600E‐mutant metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients. …”
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