High Glucose Induces Endothelial COX2 and iNOS Expression via Inhibition of Monomethyltransferase SETD8 Expression by Jie Qi, Qichao Wu, Qian Cheng, Xiangyuan Chen, Minmin Zhu, Changhong Miao

“…Our previous study indicated that SET domain-containing protein 8 (SETD8) downregulation is involved in high glucose-mediated endothelial inflammation in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Here, we report that SETD8 plays a major role in hyperglycaemia-induced COX2 and iNOS expression. …”
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PET Study of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor 1 Expression in Response to Vascular Inflammation in a Rat Model of Carotid Injury by Hui Liu PhD, MD, Hongjun Jin PhD, Xuyi Yue PhD, Junbin Han PhD, Pamela Baum SRS, Dana R. Abendschein PhD, Zhude Tu PhD

“…Concordantly, high S1PR1expression was observed in infiltrated inflammatory cells in the injured artery. Our studies demonstrate [ 11 C]TZ3321 microPET is able to detect the acute upregulation of S1PR1 expression in inflamed carotid artery. …”
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Protective Role of Glutathione and Nitric Oxide Production in the Pathogenesis of Pterygium by Fidelina Parra, Alexander Kormanovski, Gustavo Guevara-Balcazar, María del Carmen Castillo-Hernández, Antonio Franco-Vadillo, Mireille Toledo-Blas, Rosa Adriana Jarillo-Luna, Eleazar Lara-Padilla

“…These are important factors for homeostasis in the redox state of cells. The aim of this study was to determine the levels of these and related parameters in pterygium tissue. …”
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Peripheral Classic and Intermediate Monocyte Subsets as Immune Biomarkers of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity by Amaylia Oehadian, Mohammad Ghozali, Sutiadi Kusuma, Lusi Mersiana, Nadia Gita Ghassani, Fransisca Fransisca, Yitzchak Millenard Sigilipu, Andini Kartikasari, Laniyati Hamijoyo

“…Background: Monocytes are evolutionarily preserved innate immune cells that play essential roles in immune response regulation. …”
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Prognostic Value of N1/N2 Neutrophils Heterogeneity and Tertiary Lymphoid Structure in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients by Yanfei Lang, Weiwei Fu, Wei Xu, Chao Ma, Xiuyun Tian, Chunyi Hao, Shigang Ding

“…Further analysis of the correlation between neutrophils and TLSs revealed that most neutrophils infiltrated outside of the TLS in the peritumoral tissues of patients with HCC, and the proportions of SFL‐TLSs and N1 cells in the peritumoral tissue were negatively correlated and positively correlated with survival. …”
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Decreased Spp1 Expression in Acute Myocardial Infarction after Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury by Ling Li, Jungang Huang, Zongkai Zhao, Zhuzhi Wen, Kang Li, Tianjiao Ma, Lisui Zhang, Junmeng Zheng, Shi Liang

“…The qRT-PCR result showed that the Spp1 expression was significantly downregulated in ischemia-reperfusion cells after PCI compared with normal samples and so as the western blotting. …”
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Functional Genetic Variant in ATG5 Gene Promoter in Acute Myocardial Infarction by Yexin Zhang, Xiaohui He, Jiarui Li, Wentao Yang, Yinghua Cui, Shuchao Pang, Haihua Wang, Bo Yan

“…In cultured HEK-293 and H9c2 cells, the deletion variant significantly decreased the transcriptional activity of the ATG5 gene promoter (P<0.01). …”
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High Virulence and Antifungal Resistance in Clinical Strains of Candida albicans by Eric Monroy-Pérez, Gloria Luz Paniagua-Contreras, Pamela Rodríguez-Purata, Felipe Vaca-Paniagua, Marco Vázquez-Villaseñor, Clara Díaz-Velásquez, Alina Uribe-García, Sergio Vaca

“…To study the expression of virulence and azole resistance genes in 39 clinical strains of C. albicans, we used a model of infection of human vaginal epithelial cells with C. albicans strains isolated from Mexican women with vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC). …”
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6‐Nitrodopamine potentiates catecholamine‐induced contractions of human isolated vas deferens by Antonio Tiago Lima, Sami Jabbour, José Britto‐Júnior, Demétrio Martinho Ramos deCarvalho, Adriano Fregonesi, Fernanda V. Mariano, Valéria Barbosa deSouza, Andre Almeida Schenka, Edson Antunes, Gilberto De Nucci

“…Tyrosine hydroxylase was detected in epithelial cells of human vas deferens samples by both IC and FISH. …”
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Morphological, Physiological, and Molecular Responses to Heat Stress in Brassicaceae by Iram Batool, Ahsan Ayyaz, Tongjun Qin, Xiaofen Wu, Weiqi Chen, Fakhir Hannan, Zafar Ullah Zafar, Muhammad Shahbaz Naeem, Muhammad Ahsan Farooq, Weijun Zhou

“…Various components of cells perceive elevated temperatures. Different signaling pathways in plants distinguish between the two types of temperature increases, mild warm temperatures and extremely hot temperatures. …”
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Characterization of the Phosphotransferase from <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> 1101 That Is Responsible for the Biotransformation of Zearalenone by Yuzhuo Wu, Qiuyu Zhou, Junqiang Hu, Yunfan Shan, Jinyue Liu, Gang Wang, Yin-Won Lee, Jianrong Shi, Jianhong Xu

“…The experiments conducted on MCF-7 cells demonstrated that ZEA-P exhibited a lower level of estrogenic toxicity than ZEA. …”
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Research Note: Reduction of Salmonella load in Brazilian commercial chicken farms using INSPEKTOR®: a bacteriophage-based product by Michael Pino, Karen Mujica, Paola Mora-Uribe, Héctor Garcias-Papayani, Braulio Paillavil, Camilo Avendaño, Diego Flores-Crisosto, Rodrigo Norambuena, Victoria Rojas-Martínez, Matías Aguilera, Nicolás Cifuentes Muñoz, Pablo Cifuentes, Hans Pieringer, Soledad Ulloa

“…Bacteriophages, which act as specific parasites of bacterial cells, can contribute to food safety. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the INSPEKTOR® phage cocktail for controlling Salmonella on 17 commercial broiler farms on a total of 4 experimental groups (1 control cycle and 3 consecutive treatment cycles) using 3 doses of the cocktail for each cycle. …”
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ROS-regulated SUR1-TRPM4 drives persistent activation of NLRP3 inflammasome in microglia after whole-brain radiation by Yuan Chang, Yihua He, Di Wang, Kunxue Zhang, Yuzhen Zhang, Zhentong Li, Shuxin Zeng, Sheng Xiao, Suyue Pan, Kaibin Huang

“…Utilizing the mouse model of RIBI and irradiated BV2 cells, we further demonstrated that irradiation caused mitochondrial damage to microglia, leading to violent release of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which enhanced the transcription of SUR1, TRPM4, and NLRP3 inflammasome-related molecules. …”
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Disturbances of Modulating Molecules (FOXP3, CTLA-4/CD28/B7, and CD40/CD40L) mRNA Expressions in the Orbital Tissue from Patients with Severe Graves’ Ophthalmopathy by Przemyslaw Pawlowski, Natalia Wawrusiewicz-Kurylonek, Anja Eckstein, Joanna Reszec, Wlodzimierz Luczynski, Kristian Johnson, Adam Kretowski, Alina Bakunowicz-Lazarczyk, Maria Gorska, Jacek Szamatowicz, Lech Chyczewski, Janusz Mysliwiec

“…The enhanced FOXP3 mRNA expression in GO samples may suggest the dysfunction of FOXP3 cells in the severe GO. The diminished mRNA expression of CTLA-4 in severe GO may indicate inadequate T regulatory function. …”
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A new peptide inhibitor of C1QBP exhibits potent anti‐tumour activity against triple negative breast cancer by impairing mitochondrial function and suppressing homologous recombina... by Xingxing Li, Yue Wu, Min Zhang, Fengliang Wang, Hong Yin, Yanrong Zhang, Shuli Zhao, Jiehua Ma, Mingming Lv, Cheng Lu

“…We observed an aberrant phenomenon wherein the hypoxia signalling pathway in tumour cells exhibited significant activation under normoxic conditions following PDBAG1 treatment. …”
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Classic and Novel Sex Hormone Binding Globulin Effects on the Cardiovascular System in Men by Carla Basualto-Alarcón, Paola Llanos, Gerardo García-Rivas, Mayarling Francisca Troncoso, Daniel Lagos, Genaro Barrientos, Manuel Estrada

“…In men, 70% of circulating testosterone binds with high affinity to plasma sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), which determines its bioavailability in their target cells. In recent years, a growing body of evidence has shown that circulating SHBG not only is a passive carrier for steroid hormones but also actively regulates testosterone signaling through putative plasma membrane receptors and by local expression of androgen-binding proteins apparently to reach local elevated testosterone concentrations in specific androgen target tissues. …”
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Diverse Profiles of Toll-Like Receptors 2, 4, 7, and 9 mRNA in Peripheral Blood and Biopsy Specimens of Patients with Celiac Disease by Haniye Ghasiyari, Mohammad Rostami-Nejad, Davar Amani, Kamran Rostami, Mohamad Amin Pourhoseingholi, Hamid Asadzadeh-Aghdaei, Mohammad Reza Zali

“…Altered Toll-like receptors (TLR) expression and activation may be partially responsible for the inflammation and subsequently crypt hyperplasia, but the main driver for inflammation is gliadin-reactive T-cells. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the TLRs 2, 4, 7, and 9 gene expressions in both peripheral blood and intestinal mucosa of patients with celiac disease compared to healthy control (HC). …”
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Insight into the role of antioxidant in microbial lignin degradation: Ascorbic acid as a fortifier of lignin-degrading enzymes by Aipeng Li, Weimin Wang, Shuqi Guo, Changzhi Li, Xinying Wang, Qiang Fei

“…Antioxidants are crucial for maintaining redox homeostasis in living cells, which can impact the efficiency of enzymes. …”
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Electroacupuncture Involved in Motor Cortex and Hypoglossal Neural Control to Improve Voluntary Swallowing of Poststroke Dysphagia Mice by Shuai Cui, Shuqi Yao, Chunxiao Wu, Lulu Yao, Peidong Huang, Yongjun Chen, Chunzhi Tang, Nenggui Xu

“…Four main conclusions can be drawn from our study: (i) EA may enhance the local field potential in noninfarction area of M1, activate the swallowing-related neurons (pyramidal cells), and increase the motor conduction of noninfarction area in voluntary swallowing; (ii) EA may improve the blood flow in both M1 on the healthy side and deglutition muscles and relieve PSD symptoms; (iii) EA could increase the motor conduction velocity (MCV) in hypoglossal nerve, enhance the EMG of mylohyoid muscle, alleviate the paralysis of swallowing muscles, release the substance P, and restore the ability to drink water; and (iv) EA can boost the functional compensation of M1 in the noninfarction side, strengthen the excitatory of hypoglossal nerve, and be involved in the voluntary swallowing neural control to improve PSD. …”
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Toll-Like Receptor-1 and Receptor-2 and Beta-Defensin in Postcholecystectomy Bile Duct Injury by Alejandra Guillermina Miranda-Díaz, José Manuel Hermosillo-Sandoval, Martha Arisbeth Villanueva-Pérez, Luis Miguel Román-Pintos, Trinidad García-Iglesias, Adolfo Daniel Rodríguez-Carrizalez, Ernesto Germán Cardona-Muñoz

“…Postcholecystectomy bile duct injuries (BDI) produce hepatic cholestasis and cause infection of the biliary tract. The biliary cells participate in secreting cytokines and in expression of immune response receptors. …”
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