Investigation of Scutellaria Barbata’s immunological mechanism against thyroid cancer using network pharmacology and experimental validation by Gen Ouyang, Yuangui Zhu, Zhehao Ouyang

“…Protein results indicated that quercetin downregulated SPP1 mRNA and protein expression. This study combines database predictions with experimental validation to reveal the potential mechanisms of SBH against TC, providing effective strategies for the immunotherapy of TC.…”
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Antiaging and Antioxidant Bioactivities of Asteraceae Plant Fractions on the Cellular Functions of the Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe by Rika Indri Astuti, Muhammad Eka Prastya, Irmanida Batubara, Eka Budiarti, Aulia Ilmiyawati

“…Interestingly, S. nodiflora water fractions significantly upregulated the mRNA transcripts of the Pap1-mediated core environmental stress response, namely, ctt1 gene in S. pombe. …”
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Sulforaphane enhances Nrf2-mediated antioxidant responses of skeletal muscle induced by exhaustive exercise in HIIT mice by Yangwenjie Wang, Yang Xiang, Ruiqi Wang, Xiangning Li, Jianxiong Wang, Siwang Yu, Ying Zhang

“…Importantly, SFN treatment improved antioxidative capacity of skeletal muscle in response to the acute exhaustive exercise by increasing mRNA and nucleoprotein expression of Nrf2 and these genes involved in antioxidant generation and decreasing blood creatine kinase (CK) and 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (4-HNE)-modified protein levels in the HIIT mice.…”
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The Role of Yersinia enterocolitica O:3 Lipopolysaccharide in Collagen-Induced Arthritis by Katarzyna Kasperkiewicz, Anna S. Świerzko, Marta Przybyła, Janusz Szemraj, Jarosław Barski, Mikael Skurnik, Andrzej Kałużyński, Maciej Cedzyński

“…On the other hand, it seemed to be more hepatotoxic when compared with the other tested endotoxins, while the enlargement of inguinal lymph nodes and drop in hepatic MBL-C expression (at the mRNA level) were independent of LPS chemotype. Our data did not suggest no greater impact Y. enterocolitica O:3 on the development or severity of arthropathy related to anticollagen antibody-induced arthritis in mice, although its interaction with MBL-C and subsequent complement activation may contribute to some adverse effects.…”
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Survivin is Highly Expressed and Promotes Cell Survival in Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma by Nadia Zaffaroni, Aurora Costa, Marzia Pennati, Cinzia De Marco, Emanuela Affini, Maria Madeo, Roberta Erdas, Antonello Cabras, Shigeki Kusamura, Dario Baratti, Marcello Deraco, Maria Grazia Daidone

“…MPM cells were transfected with a small-interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting survivin mRNA and analyzed for survivin expression, growth rate, and ability to undergo spontaneous and drug (cisplatin, doxorubicin)-induced apoptosis. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of T-Cell Immune Response to BTV Infection in Sheep Vaccinated with Pentavalent BTV Vaccine When Compared to Un-Vaccinated Animals by Molalegne Bitew, Chintu Ravishankar, Soumendu Chakravarti, Gaurav Kumar Sharma, Sukdeb Nandi

“…Significant (P<0.05) up-regulation of mRNA transcripts of IFN-α, IL-2, IL-6, IL-12, IFN-γ and TNF-α in PBMCs of vaccinated animals as compared to control (un-vaccinated) animals at certain time points was observed. …”
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Distinct Redox Signalling following Macrophage Activation Influences Profibrotic Activity by Caitlin V. Lewis, Antony Vinh, Henry Diep, Chrishan S. Samuel, Grant R. Drummond, Barbara K. Kemp-Harper

“…Human primary and THP-1 macrophages were treated with IFN-γ+LPS or IL-4-activating stimuli, and mRNA expression of established M1 (CXCL11, CCR7, IL-1β) and M2 (MRC-1, CCL18, CCL22) markers was used to confirm activation. …”
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HMGB1 Acts in Synergy with Lipopolysaccharide in Activating Rheumatoid Synovial Fibroblasts via p38 MAPK and NF-κB Signaling Pathways by Zheng-Wen He, Yang-Hua Qin, Zhi-Wei Wang, Yan Chen, Qian Shen, Sheng-Ming Dai

“…HMGB1 alone failed to induce IL-6, MMP-3, and MMP-13 production in cultured SF but greatly enhanced LPS-induced expression of IL-6, MMP-3, and MMP-13 at both mRNA and protein levels. HMGB1-LPS synergistically upregulated TLR4 and receptor for advanced glycation endproducts (RAGE) expression on the surface of SF. …”
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Cell-Specific Regulation of Inflammatory Cytokines and Acute-Phase Proteins by the Glucocorticoid Receptor by Rebecca Winkler, Hong Lu

“…Primary human hepatocytes (PHH) were treated with combinations of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and dexamethasone (DEX) for 24 h, following which chemokine mRNA and protein expression were analyzed using qPCR and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay assays. …”
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Hypoxia inducible factor-dependent upregulation of Agrp in glomus type I cells of the carotid body by Luis Leon-Mercado, Ivan Menendez-Montes, Jonathan Tao, Bandy Chen, David P. Olson, C. Mackaaij, C.G.J. Cleypool, Laurent Gautron

“…In this study, utilizing histological and molecular biology techniques, we have identified a significant expression of Agrp mRNA and AgRP peptide production in glomus type I cells within the mouse carotid body (CB). …”
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Actively protective combinatorial analysis: A scalable novel method for detecting variants that contribute to reduced disease prevalence in high-risk individuals by J Sardell, S Das, K Taylor, C Stubberfield, A Malinowski, M Strivens, S Gardner

“…These protective signatures can potentially be used to identify novel drug targets, pharmacogenomic and/or therapeutic mRNA opportunities and to better stratify patients by overall disease risk and mechanistic subtype.We describe the method and illustrate how it offers increased power for detecting disease-associated genetic variants relative to traditional methods. …”
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Gamma-Tocotrienol Stimulates the Proliferation, Differentiation, and Mineralization in Osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 Cells by Weili Xu, Pan He, Shenghua He, Pengju Cui, Yaqing Mi, Yang Yang, Yang Li, Shaobo Zhou

“…Our results showed that γ-tocotrienol (2–8 μmol/L) significantly improved the cell proliferation (p<0.05), but it did not affect cell cycle progression. γ-Tocotrienol significantly increased alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity (p<0.05), secretion levels of osteocalcin (OC) and osteonectin (ON), and mRNA levels of collagen type I (Col I) of MC3T3-E1 cells. …”
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Central Administration of Galanin Receptor 1 Agonist Boosted Insulin Sensitivity in Adipose Cells of Diabetic Rats by Zhenwen Zhang, Penghua Fang, Biao He, Lili Guo, Johan Runesson, Ülo Langel, Mingyi Shi, Yan Zhu, Ping Bo

“…The results showed that central injection of M617 significantly increased plasma adiponectin contents, glucose infusion rates in hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp tests, GLUT4 mRNA expression levels, GLUT4 contents in plasma membranes, and total cell membranes of the adipose cells but reduced the plasma C-reactive protein concentration in nondiabetic and diabetic rats. …”
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The Protective Effects of 18β-Glycyrrhetinic Acid on Imiquimod-Induced Psoriasis in Mice via Suppression of mTOR/STAT3 Signaling by Haiming Chen, Huazhen Liu, Bin Tang, Yuchao Chen, Ling Han, Jingjie Yu, Yuhong Yan, Chuanjian Lu

“…GA also suppressed the mRNA levels of IL-6, TNF-α, IL-17, IL-23, and IL-1β in the skin and increased the proportion of CD4+ Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) in both lymph nodes and spleens. …”
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TNRC6C Functions as a Tumor Suppressor and Is Frequently Downregulated in Papillary Thyroid Cancer by Zhenqin Cai, Tianyu Zhai, Dilidaer Muhanhali, Yan Ling

“…In this study, we aimed to confirm the effect of TNRC6C on PTC and investigate the underlying molecular mechanism. The difference of mRNA level of TNRC6C between PTC tissue and noncancerous thyroid tissue and the association of expression level of TNRC6C with clinicopathological features of PTC were analyzed using TCGA data. …”
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Multi-omics analysis in inclusion body myositis identifies mir-16 responsible for HLA overexpression by Daphne Wijnbergen, Mridul Johari, Ozan Ozisik, Peter A.C. ‘t Hoen, Friederike Ehrhart, Anaïs Baudot, Chris T. Evelo, Bjarne Udd, Marco Roos, Eleni Mina

“…These subnetworks are related to antigen processing and presentation, chemokine-mediated signaling, immune response-signal transduction, rRNA processing, and mRNA splicing. An interesting finding is that the antigen processing and presentation subnetwork links the underexpressed miR-16-5p to overexpressed HLA genes by negative expression correlation. …”
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Long noncoding RNA GDIL acts as a scaffold for CHAC1 and XRN2 to promote platinum resistance of colorectal cancer through inhibition of glutathione degradation by Xuan Deng, Lu Chang, Lingyu Tang, Haoqin Jiang, Xiao Xu, Xinju Zhang, Jian Chen, Liu Dong, Qianqian Xu, Ruoshui Cao, Jianbin Xiang, Ming Guan

“…Mechanistically, GDIL binds and re-localizes the nuclear protein XRN2 to the cytoplasm, where GDIL further serve as a scaffold for XRN2 to identify and degrade CHAC1 mRNA. Suppression of GDIL with selective antisense oligonucleotide, restored drug sensitivity in platinum resistant cell lines and delayed drug resistance in cell line- and patient-derived xenografts. …”
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Cardiac Migration of Endogenous Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Patients with Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy by Caroline Schmidt-Lucke, Felicitas Escher, Sophie Van Linthout, Uwe Kühl, Kapka Miteva, Jochen Ringe, Thomas Zobel, Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Carsten Tschöpe

“…The presence of MSC in EMB, cardiac inflammation, and SDF-1α mRNA expression were detected via immunohistochemistry and real-time PCR. …”
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Niacin Inhibits Vascular Inflammation via Downregulating Nuclear Transcription Factor-κB Signaling Pathway by Yanhong Si, Ying Zhang, Jilong Zhao, Shoudong Guo, Lei Zhai, Shutong Yao, Hui Sang, Nana Yang, Guohua Song, Jue Gu, Shucun Qin

“…In addition, niacin significantly lessened lipid deposition in arterial wall, increased HDL-C and apoA levels and decreased TG and non-HDL-C levels in plasma, and upregulated the mRNA amount of cholesterol 7α-hydroxylase A1 in liver of guinea pigs. …”
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Theasinensin A attenuated diabetic development by restoring glucose homeostasis, improving hepatic steatosis and modulating gut microbiota in high-fat-diet/streptozotocin-induced d... by Weiqi Xu, Yujie Huang, Wangting Zhou, Yujia Peng, Xuhui Kan, Wei Dong, Guijie Chen, Xiaoxiong Zeng, Zhonghua Liu

“…As result, TSA improved polydipsia, polyphagia and impaired glucose tolerance of diabetic mice, declined the fasting blood glucose and hepatic triglyceride level, and enhanced the expression at mRNA level of insulin receptor substrate, phosphoinositide 3-kinase, protein kinase B and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R) in the diabetic liver. …”
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