circSLC6A6 Sponges miR-497-5p to Promote Endometrial Cancer Progression via the PI4KB/Hedgehog Axis by Juan Hu, Xing Peng, Weina Du, Yichuan Huang, Chun Zhang, Xian Zhang

“…Accumulating studies indicate that circular RNAs (circRNAs) regulate the development of cancers by acting as miRNA sponges. However, the role of circRNAs in endometrial cancer (EC) is rarely reported. …”
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High-Intensity Interval Training Improves Physical Function, Prevents Muscle Loss, and Modulates Macrophage-Mediated Inflammation in Skeletal Muscle of Cerebral Ischemic Mice by Lu Luo, Meixi Liu, Hongyu Xie, Yunhui Fan, Jingjun Zhang, Li Liu, Yun Li, Qiqi Zhang, Junfa Wu, Congyu Jiang, Yi Wu

“…Furthermore, HIIT was superior to MOD in terms of reducing lipid accumulation, levels of IL-1β and IL-6 in paretic gastrocnemius, and improving peripheral blood CD4+/CD8+ T cell ratio, level of IL-10. Additionally, RNA-seq analysis revealed that the differentially expressed genes among HIIT, MOD, and MCAO groups were highly associated with signaling pathways involved in inflammatory response, more specifically the I-kappaB kinase/NF-kappaB signaling. …”
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Higher gut Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria population in early pregnancy is associated with lower risk of gestational diabetes in the second trimester by Seyedeh Neda Mousavi, Navid Momeni, Hossein Chiti, Howra Mahmoodnasab, Mohammad Ahmadi, Siamak Heidarzadeh

“…The dominant phylum population was determined based on 16SrRNA gene expression. Results Mothers with lower Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria population in the first trimester were more susceptible to GDM in the screening time (p < 0.001 and p < 0.001). …”
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Effect of afzelin on inflammation and lipogenesis in particulate matter-stimulated C. acnes-treated SZ95 sebocytes by Ji Yeon Hong, Yong Hee Choi, Yoon Jin Roh, Mi-Kyung Lee, Christos C. Zouboulis, Kui Young Park

“…Intracellular lipid droplet formation was investigated using Nile Red O staining.ResultsPM treatment upregulated the mRNA and protein expression levels of inflammatory cytokine and lipogenic genes in C. acnes-treated SZ95 sebocytes. …”
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Changes in Gastric Smooth Muscle Cell Contraction during Pregnancy: Effect of Estrogen by Othman A. Al-Shboul, Hanan J. Al-Rshoud, Ahmed N. Al-Dwairi, Mohammad A. Alqudah, Mahmoud A. Alfaqih, Ayman G. Mustafa, Mohammad Jaafar

“…Single GSMC from early-pregnant and late-pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats were used. Protein and mRNA expression levels of ERs were measured via specifically designed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), respectively. …”
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Comprehensive study of Tilapia skin collagen peptide on ileal injury and intestinal flora in rats induced by high altitude hypoxia by Jingyi Wang, Hao Wang, Chunxia Li, Xiaojuan Zhang, Jin Liu, Yanzhou Hu, Ping Qian

“…The results showed that CP could reduce the Disease active index (DAI), increase the mRNA expression level of tight junction protein, and reduce the content of D-lactic acid (D-LA) and Diamine oxidase (DAO) in the serum of rats, and thus alleviate the mechanical injury of intestinal mucosa induced by hypoxia. …”
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Berberine Protects against Palmitate-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction: Involvements of Upregulation of AMPK and eNOS and Downregulation of NOX4 by Ming Zhang, Chun-Mei Wang, Jing Li, Zhao-Jie Meng, Sheng-Nan Wei, Ji Li, Richard Bucala, Yu-Lin Li, Li Chen

“…Nitric oxide (NO) level and production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) were determined in supernatants or in the cultured HUVECs. The mRNA level of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) was measured by RT-PCR, and the protein levels of eNOS, p-eNOS, Akt, p-Akt, AMPK, p-AMPK, and NADPH oxidase (NOX4) were analyzed. …”
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Targeted Polymer–Peptide Conjugates for E-Selectin Blockade in Renal Injury by Nenad Milošević, Marie Rütter, Yvonne Ventura, Valeria Feinshtein, Ayelet David

“…Results: We found that the mRNA levels of E-selectin were up-regulated in the kidney following acute and chronic tissue injury. …”
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Genes involved in DMSO-mediated yield increase of entomopathogenic nematodes by Xingxin Liu, Zhongchen Rao, Richou Han, Linhong Jin, Li Cao

“…This study identified differentially expressed genes and associated enriched pathways by analyzing the transcriptomic response of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora H06 in the liquid medium containing 0.01% DMSO, and validated the function of the selected genes using RNA interference (RNAi). 11 upregulated and 295 downregulated genes were detected in the hermaphrodites of H. bacteriophora H06 at 3 days beforee egg formation, following DMSO treatment. …”
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TRIM26 exacerbates pathological cardiac hypertrophy by activating TAK1 by Xiaochuang Xia, Huajing Shan, Zhaoxia Jin, Tengfei Ma, Yemao Liu, Jianqing Zhang, Han Tian, Bizhen Dong, Chengsheng Xu, Shaoze Chen

“…In PE-treated NRCMs, Trim26 overexpression promoted cardiomyocyte enlargement and inflammation, while Trim26 knockdown had the opposite effects. RNA sequencing and molecular biology methodologies were performed to identify targets conducive to TRIM26 function. …”
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Utilizing AI for the Identification and Validation of Novel Therapeutic Targets and Repurposed Drugs for Endometriosis by Bonnie Hei Man Liu, Yuezhen Lin, Xi Long, Sze Wan Hung, Anna Gaponova, Feng Ren, Alex Zhavoronkov, Frank W. Pun, Chi Chiu Wang

“…GBP2, HCK, and ITGB2 are upregulated in human endometriotic specimens. siRNA‐mediated knockdown of GBP2 and HCK significantly reduced cell viability and proliferation while stimulating apoptosis in endometrial stromal cells. …”
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Long-read sequencing revealed complex biallelic pentanucleotide repeat expansions in RFC1-related Parkinson’s disease by Peng Liu, Fan Zhang, Xinhui Chen, Xiaosheng Zheng, Miao Chen, Zhiru Lin, Shuqi Chen, Lebo Wang, Xinchen Wang, Nan Jin, Chenxin Ying, Fei Xie, Bo Wang, Sheng Wu, Zhidong Cen, Wei Luo

“…Long-read sequencing revealed a novel repeat configuration of (AGGGG)exp(AAGGG)14 and a possible somatic variant of (AAGGG)exp(AATGG)exp(AAGGG)exp in the (AAGGG)exp alleles in two RFC1-related PD patients. RNA foci were detected in the (AGGGG)exp-expressed HEK293T cell line as well as (AAGGG)exp and (ACAGG)exp, supporting (AGGGG)exp as a novel pathogenic repeat motif. …”
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Transcriptome and DNA methylation analysis of the goat pineal gland during puberty by Bochao Zhang, Genbao Zhu, Jianling Wu, Huihui Xie, Jiankun Cui, Wei Qian, Qing Yi, Fuqiang Pan, Fugui Fang, Yinghui Ling, Yunhai Zhang, Yunsheng Li, Ya Liu

“…To screen pineal gland candidate genes related to the onset of goat puberty and regulated by genome methylation, we collected pineal glands from prepubertal and pubertal female goats, then, determined the DNA methylation profile by whole genome bisulfite sequencing and the transcriptome by RNA sequencing on Illumina HiSeqTM2500. We analyzed differentially expressed genes between the Pre group and Pub group using the DESeq2 software (version 1.20.0), and applied the Benjamini and Hochberg method for adjusting P-values. …”
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Blockade of Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway Aggravated Silica-Induced Lung Inflammation through Tregs Regulation on Th Immune Responses by Wujing Dai, Fangwei Liu, Chao Li, Yiping Lu, Xiaowei Lu, Sitong Du, Ying Chen, Dong Weng, Jie Chen

“…To investigate the role of Wnt/β-catenin pathway, we used lentivirus expressing β-catenin shRNA to block the Wnt/β-catenin pathway by intratracheal instillation to the mice model of silicosis. …”
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Targeting Cytokine-Mediated Inflammation in Brain Disorders: Developing New Treatment Strategies by Rahul Mallick, Sanjay Basak, Premanjali Chowdhury, Prasenjit Bhowmik, Ranjit K. Das, Antara Banerjee, Sujay Paul, Surajit Pathak, Asim K. Duttaroy

“…Novel approaches, including cytokine-specific inhibitors, antibody-based therapeutics, gene- and RNA-based interventions, and sophisticated drug delivery systems like nanoparticles, show promise with respect to lowering neuroinflammation with greater specificity and safety. …”
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Melanoma bone metastasis-induced osteocyte ferroptosis via the HIF1α-HMOX1 axis by Yewei Jia, Rui Li, Yixuan Li, Katerina Kachler, Xianyi Meng, Andreas Gießl, Yi Qin, Fulin Zhang, Ning Liu, Darja Andreev, Georg Schett, Aline Bozec

“…Both in vivo models and in vitro assays were combined with untargeted RNA sequencing approaches to explore the pathways governing melanoma-induced osteocyte death. …”
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Identification of Survival Risk and Immune-Related Characteristics of Kidney Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma by Xiaobin Wu, Yonghui Liang, Xian Chen, Xiangyang Long, Wujun Xu, Li Liu, Binhui Wang, Xiong Zou

“…A series of information such as RNA sequence, clinical data, and tumor mutation burden (TMB) of KIRC patients were downloaded through The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). …”
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Antibiotic exposure enriches streptococci carrying resistance genes in periodontitis plaque biofilms by Qian Zhang, Min Zhen, Xiaochen Wang, FengXiang Zhao, Yang Dong, Xiaoya Wang, Shengtao Gao, Jinfeng Wang, Wenyu Shi, Yifei Zhang

“…Materials and Methods In this study, subgingival plaques were collected from 10 periodontitis patients and 11 periodontally healthy volunteers, and their microbiota response to selective pressure of four antibiotics (amoxicillin, metronidazole, clindamycin, and tetracycline) were evaluated through 16S rRNA gene amplicon and metagenomic sequencing analysis. …”
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Imbalance of oral microbiome homeostasis: the relationship between microbiota and the occurrence of dental caries by Rui Liu, Yingshuang Liu, Jialong Yi, Yanke Fang, Qiang Guo, Lei Cheng, Jinzhi He, Mingyun Li

“…This study is designed to elucidate the relationship between oral microbiome dysregulation and the initiation of dental caries. Results 16 S rRNA gene sequencing of saliva and dental plaque from the Specific Pathogen Free Control group and the Specific Pathogen Free sucrose diet group revealed that a sucrose diet significantly influenced the composition of the oral microbiome. …”
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高原低氧环境抑制小鼠脾脏组织碳代谢的分子机制 by 陈晓晨, 胡英, 许玉珍, 龙启福, 马茹雪, 永胜

“…结果转录组测序发现，低氧暴露下有4 213个基因出现显著性差异表达，其中1 947个基因表达上调，2 266个基因表达下调；差异表达蛋白分析发现166个蛋白表达上调，39个蛋白表达下调；非靶向代谢组学结果表明，高原低氧条件下存在133个差异代谢物，95个上调，38个下调；通过KEGG富集分析表明，差异表达基因、差异蛋白以及差异代谢物共同富集到碳代谢通路，因此，对碳代谢通路中的关键基因和蛋白进行验证，发现碳代谢通路中<italic>PGAM2</italic>、<italic>ENO3</italic>、<italic>PRPS2</italic>、<italic>PGLS</italic>、<italic>RPE</italic>、<italic>IDH3A</italic>、<italic>SUCLA2</italic>、<italic>MDH2</italic>的mRNA和蛋白表达量显著下调。结论高原低氧环境通过抑制机体碳代谢通路，减弱了糖酵解、三羧酸循环、磷酸戊糖途径，致使机体发生氧化应激、能量代谢失衡等。…”
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