Regulatory Role of the RUNX2 Transcription Factor in Lung Cancer Apoptosis by Camila Bernal, Andrea Otalora, Alejandra Cañas, Alfonso Barreto, Karol Prieto, Martin Montecino, Adriana Rojas

“…RUNX2 is the transcription factor responsible for osteogenic differentiation in mammals. Current studies have confirmed that RUNX2 is closely related to the proliferation, invasion, and bone metastasis of multiple cancer types, such as osteosarcoma, breast cancer (BC), prostate cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, and lung cancer. …”
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Role of badger setts in life of other carnivores by Natalia V. Sidorchuk, Michail V. Maslov, Vyacheslav V. Rozhnov

“…We used camera traps for the registration of visits of carnivore mammals to the badger setts. Overall, 11 species were recorded. …”
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Alternative splicing expands the antiviral IFITM repertoire in Chinese rufous horseshoe bats. by Nelly S C Mak, Jingyan Liu, Dan Zhang, Jordan Taylor, Xiaomeng Li, Kazi Rahman, Feiyu Chen, Siddhartha A K Datta, Kin Kui Lai, Zhengli Shi, Nigel Temperton, Aaron T Irving, Alex A Compton, Richard D Sloan

“…Further bioinformatic analysis of IFITM repertoires in 206 mammals reveals that alternative splicing is a recurring strategy for IFITM diversification, albeit less widely adopted than gene duplication. …”
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Fat-tail allele-specific expression genes may affect fat deposition in tail of sheep. by Hossein Mansourizadeh, Mohammad Reza Bakhtiarizadeh, Luciana Correia de Almeida Regitano, Jennifer Jessica Bruscadin

“…ASE is a common phenomenon in mammals and refers to allelic imbalanced expression modified by cis-regulatory genetic variants that can be observed at heterozygous loci. …”
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Evolutionarily Developed Alternatively Spliced Exons Containing Translation Initiation Sites by Jun-ichi Takeda, Takaaki Okamoto, Akio Masuda

“…Furthermore, evolutionary analysis revealed that 5UC-ASEs have already appeared in cartilaginous fishes, have increased in amphibians, and are concentrated in the genes involved in transcription in mammals. Taken together, our analysis identified a unique set of alternative exons, 5UC-ASEs, that have evolutionarily acquired a repression mechanism for gene expression through association with MATR3.…”
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Integrating paleoparasitological, paleogenetic, and archaeological data to understand the paleoecological scenario of pre-Columbian archaeological site Gruta do Gentio II, Brazil by Ludmila Gurjão, Lorrayne Brito, Ondemar Dias, Jandira Neto, Alena Mayo Iñiguez

“…The origin of coprolites was genetically defined as five species of mammals, humans, felines as Panthera onca and Leopardus pardalis, and marsupials as Didelphis albiventris and Philander opossum. …”
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Non-invasive physical plasma improves conventional wound management of cut and bite wounds in wild European hedgehogs by Jürgen Eichler, Björn Rulik, Alexander Abazid, Matthias B. Stope

“…Based on the biomedical effects known to date, it can be assumed that NIPP can also be used for wound treatment in non-human mammals. In this prospective, non-randomized monocentric clinical trial, 43 European hedgehogs with cut and bite wounds were treated with conventional wound management (CWM: 21 patients) and compared with 22 patients with CWM plus NIPP treatment (CWM + NIPP). …”
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Species distribution modelling using MaxEnt: overview and prospects by Yuliia Novoseltseva

“…Examples of modeling for various groups, including mammals of the Ukrainian fauna, were considered. …”
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Multispanning membrane protein SIDT2 increases knockdown activity of gapmer antisense oligonucleotides by Kohshi Kusumoto, Kiyomi Sasaki, Yasunori Uchida, Ayaka Utsumi, Tokuyuki Yoshida, Satoshi Obika, Takao Inoue, Keiichiro Okuhira

“…In the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, the multi-pass transmembrane protein, SID-1, is involved in the cellular uptake of double-stranded RNAs. In mammals, SIDT1 and SIDT2 (SID-1 transmembrane family, members 1 and 2, respectively) are homologs of SID-1, yet their functional differences are not fully understood. …”
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Fucose as a nutrient ligand for Dikarya and a building block of early diverging lineages by Małgorzata Orłowska, Drishtee Barua, Sebastian Piłsyk, Anna Muszewska

“…Abstract Fucose is a deoxyhexose sugar present and studied in mammals. The process of fucosylation has been the primary focus in studies relating to fucose in animals due to the presence of fucose in Lewis antigens. …”
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Why the brown ghost chirps at night by Livio Oboti, Federico Pedraja, Marie Ritter, Marlena Lohse, Lennart Klette, Rüdiger Krahe

“…Since the pioneering work by Moeller, Szabo, and Bullock, weakly electric fish have served as a valuable model for investigating spatial and social cognitive abilities in a vertebrate taxon usually less accessible than mammals or other terrestrial vertebrates. These fish, through their electric organ, generate low-intensity electric fields to navigate and interact with conspecifics, even in complete darkness. …”
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Dehydration-Induced Anorexia Reduces Astrocyte Density in the Rat Corpus Callosum by Daniel Reyes-Haro, Francisco Emmanuel Labrada-Moncada, Ricardo Miledi, Ataúlfo Martínez-Torres

“…The corpus callosum (CC) is the largest white matter tract in mammals, and more than 99% of the cell somata correspond to glial cells in rodents. …”
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Microplastic accumulation in snake-eyed lizard (Ophisops elegans Menetries, 1832) after long-term monitoring: habitats matter, not years by Cantekin Dursun, Kamil Candan, Kaan Karaoğlu, Çetin Ilgaz, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Elif Yıldırım Caynak, Serkan Gül

“…As these particles infiltrate various habitats, they are ingested by a wide range of organisms, from plankton to large marine mammals. The ingestion of MPs disrupts the food web, causing physical and chemical harm to animals at multiple trophic levels. …”
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The Eurasian Magpie Preys on the Nests of Vinous‐throated Parrotbills in Invasive Smooth Cordgrass by Yanhong Chen, Youle Xu, Junjie Wang, Taiyu Chen, Bin Liu, Pan Chen, Changhu Lu

“…In contrast, in native habitats, the primary predators were mammals and snakes, accounting for 83% of predation events, with no nests being predated by magpies. …”
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Dietary Conjugated Linoleic Acid Supplementation Leads to Downregulation of PPAR Transcription in Broiler Chickens and Reduction of Adipocyte Cellularity by Suriya Kumari Ramiah, Goh Yong Meng, Tan Sheau Wei, Yeap Swee Keong, Mahdi Ebrahimi

“…Conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) act as an important ligand for nuclear receptors in adipogenesis and fat deposition in mammals and avian species. This study aimed to determine whether similar effects are plausible on avian abdominal fat adipocyte size, as well as abdominal adipogenic transcriptional level. …”
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Genomic Variability among Field Isolates and Laboratory-Adapted Strains of Leptospira borgpetersenii Serovar Hardjo by Alejandro Llanes, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Pablo Riesgo-Ferreiro, Sreekumari Rajeev

“…Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo colonizes cattle kidneys and may occasionally infect humans and other mammals. Strains belonging to two clonal subtypes (types A and B) with marked differences in their pathogenicity in the hamster experimental model have been described for this serovar. …”
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Testing how environmental variables affect the survival of freshwater turtle nests and hatchlings using artificial nests and dummy hatchlings by J. Lanszki, T. G. Molnár, T. Erős, G. Ónodi, Z. Lanszki, J. J. Purger

“…The role of carnivores, especially the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in the predation of nests was more significant, while predation by corvids (Corvidae) and wild boar (Sus scrofa) increased for the hatchlings. Predation by mammals increased with the limited availability of dry terrestrial surfaces suitable for laying eggs and with distance to water. …”
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Female reproductive ageing persists despite high infanticide risk in chacma baboons and geladas by Jacob A. Feder, India A. Schneider-Crease, Jacinta C. Beehner, Thore J. Bergman, Robert M. Seyfarth, Joan B. Silk, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Amy Lu

“…Across mammals, fertility and offspring survival are often lowest at the beginning and end of females’ reproductive careers. …”
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Collagen V Is a Potential Substrate for Clostridial Collagenase G in Pancreatic Islet Isolation by Hiroki Shima, Akiko Inagaki, Takehiro Imura, Youhei Yamagata, Kimiko Watanabe, Kazuhiko Igarashi, Masafumi Goto, Kazutaka Murayama

“…The enzymatic activity of collagenase G appears to be more important for pancreatic islet isolation in large mammals such as pigs and humans.…”
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An Assay System for Plate-based Detection of Endogenous Peptide:N-glycanase/NGLY1 Activity Using A Fluorescence-based Probe by Hiroto Hirayama, Tadashi Suzuki

“…Cytosolic peptide: N-glycanase (PNGase/NGLY1 in mammals), an amidase classified under EC:3.5.1.52, is a highly conserved enzyme across eukaryotes that catalyzes the removal of N-glycans from glycoproteins, converting N-glycosylated asparagine residues into aspartic acid. …”
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