Methylation-based smoking signatures in blood and tissue samples for the prediction of self-reported smoking status and mortality in patients with colorectal cancer by Tanwei Yuan, Katrin E. Tagscherer, Wilfried Roth, Melanie Bewerunge-Hudler, Alexander Brobeil, Matthias Kloor, Hendrik Bläker, Hermann Brenner, Michael Hoffmeister

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Emerging Target Discovery Strategies Drive the Decoding of Therapeutic Power of Natural Products and Further Drug Development: A Case Study of Celastrol by Yanbei Tu, Guiyu Dai, Yanyan Chen, Lihua Tan, Hanqing Liu, Meiwan Chen

“…Efforts in CEL target identification not only aid in unraveling the scientific underpinnings of its multiple pharmacological effects but also offer crucial insights for further drug development of CEL‐based drugs.…”
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Cognitive Impairments Induced by Concussive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Mouse Are Ameliorated by Treatment with Phenserine via Multiple Non-Cholinergic and Cholinergic Mechanism... by David Tweedie, Koji Fukui, Yazhou Li, Qian-Sheng Yu, Shani Barak, Ian A Tamargo, Vardit Rubovitch, Harold W Holloway, Elin Lehrmann, William H Wood, Yongqing Zhang, Kevin G Becker, Evelyn Perez, Henriette Van Praag, Yu Luo, Barry J Hoffer, Robert E Becker, Chaim G Pick, Nigel H Greig

“…Molecular pathways associated with lipid peroxidation were found to be regulated by mTBI, and treatment of mTBI animals with phenserine effectively reversed injury-induced regulations in the 'Blalock Alzheimer's Disease Up' pathway. …”
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CDK5 Regulates Paclitaxel Sensitivity in Ovarian Cancer Cells by Modulating AKT Activation, p21Cip1- and p27Kip1-Mediated G1 Cell Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis. by Shu Zhang, Zhen Lu, Weiqun Mao, Ahmed A Ahmed, Hailing Yang, Jinhua Zhou, Nicholas Jennings, Cristian Rodriguez-Aguayo, Gabriel Lopez-Berestein, Roberto Miranda, Wei Qiao, Veera Baladandayuthapani, Zongfang Li, Anil K Sood, Jinsong Liu, Xiao-Feng Le, Robert C Bast

“…CDK5 protein was measured by immunohistochemical staining of an ovarian cancer tissue microarray to correlate CDK5 expression with overall patient survival. …”
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Tazarotene-Induced Gene 3 (TIG3) Induces Apoptosis in Melanoma Cells Through the Modulation of Inhibitors of Apoptosis Proteins by Chun-Hua Wang, Lu-Kai Wang, Fu-Ming Tsai

“…<b>Methods:</b> The expression of TIG3 in melanoma tissues was analyzed using a cDNA microarray. Cell viability and cell death were measured using the WST-1 and LDH assay kits, respectively. …”
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Blue light acts as a double-edged sword in regulating sexual development of Hypocrea jecorina (Trichoderma reesei). by Chia-Ling Chen, Hsiao-Che Kuo, Shu-Yu Tung, Paul Wei-Che Hsu, Chih-Li Wang, Christian Seibel, Monika Schmoll, Ruey-Shyang Chen, Ting-Fang Wang

“…Moreover, BLR1 and BLR2 mediate both positive and negative light-dependent regulation on sexual development, whereas ENV1 is required for dampening the light-dependent inhibitory effect in response to changes in illumination. Comparative genome-wide microarray analysis demonstrated an overview of light-dependent gene expression versus sexual potency in CBS999.97 (MAT1-2) haploid cells. …”
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Estimating the force of infection of four dengue serotypes from serological studies in two regions of Vietnam. by Huynh Thi Phuong, Nguyen Ha Thao Vy, Nguyen Thi Le Thanh, Maxine Tan, Erwin de Bruin, Marion Koopmans, Maciej F Boni, Hannah E Clapham

“…Seroprevalence studies have been used to great effect for understanding patterns of dengue transmission. …”
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Low Concentration of S100A8/9 Promotes Angiogenesis-Related Activity of Vascular Endothelial Cells: Bridges among Inflammation, Angiogenesis, and Tumorigenesis? by Changyou Li, Siyuan Li, Changkai Jia, Lingling Yang, Zicheng Song, Yiqiang Wang

“…This study checked whether low concentrations of S100A8 or S100A9 has any effect on the behaviour of vascular endothelial cells. …”
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Cytosolic phospholipase A(2)α and eicosanoids regulate expression of genes in macrophages involved in host defense and inflammation. by Saritha Suram, Lori J Silveira, Spencer Mahaffey, Gordon D Brown, Joseph V Bonventre, David L Williams, Neil A R Gow, Donna L Bratton, Robert C Murphy, Christina C Leslie

“…For global insight, differential gene expression in C. albicans-stimulated cPLA2α(+/+) and cPLA2α(-/-) macrophages (3 h) was compared by microarray. cPLA2α(+/+) macrophages expressed 86 genes at lower levels and 181 genes at higher levels than cPLA2α(-/-) macrophages (≥2-fold, p<0.05). …”
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Interleukin-27-induced HIV-resistant dendritic cells suppress reveres transcription following virus entry in an SPTBN1, autophagy, and YB-1 independent manner. by Tomozumi Imamichi, Qian Chen, Bharatwaj Sowrirajan, Jun Yang, Sylvain Laverdure, Mayra Marquez, Anthony R Mele, Catherine Watkins, Joseph W Adelsberger, Jeanette Higgins, Hongyan Sui

“…An HIV proviral DNA copy number assay displayed that 27DC suppressed reverse transcriptase (RT) reaction without influencing the virus entry. A DNA microarray analysis was performed to identify the differentially expressed genes between 27DC and iDC. …”
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Impact of Drp1 Loss on Organelle Interaction, Metabolism, and Inflammation in Mouse Liver by Lixiang Wang, Seiji Nomura, Nao Hasuzawa, Sadaki Yokota, Ayako Nagayama, Kenji Ashida, Junjiro Rikitake, Yoshinori Moriyama, Masatoshi Nomura, Ken Yamamoto

“…Through mass spectrometry and microarray analysis, we identified changes in lipid profiles and perturbed expression of lipid metabolism genes in the livers of <i>Drp1</i>LiKO mice. …”
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RNase 7 and Th cytokines synergistically increase the secretion of interleukin-6 from keratinocytes by Shruti Chopra, Janine Siegl, Verena Kopfnagel, Sylvia Dreyer, Franziska Rademacher, Juliane Lokau, Christoph Garbers, Jürgen Harder, Thomas Werfel, Katinka Döhner

“…Here, we performed mRNA microarray analysis to study the influence of R7 on gene expression in human keratinocytes. …”
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SPARC Promotes Aerobic Glycolysis and 5‐Fluorouracil Resistance in Colorectal Cancer Through the STAT3/HK2 Axis by Jingrong Xiang, Huan Zhang, Kanger Shen, Jie Feng, Kexi Yang, Tongguo Shi, Qinhua Xi

“…Methods Firstly, Secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC) expression and prognosis in CRC clinical samples were investigated using tissue microarray (TMAs) and GEPIA databases. Subsequently in vitro, SPARC knockdown or overexpression was used to explore the role of SPARC in 5‐fluorouracil (5‐FU) resistance in CRC cell lines. …”
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Thymidine Kinase 1 Expression Correlates with Tumor Aggressiveness and Metastatic Potential in OSCC by Chia-Jung Lee, Pei-Wen Peng, Chia-Yu Wu, Tsung-Ming Chang, Ju-Fang Liu, Kuan-Chou Lin

“…<b>Methods:</b> To identify key molecular drivers in OSCC, we performed an integrative bioinformatics analysis of five OSCC-related microarray datasets from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). …”
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Long-Term Aerobic Exercise Enhances Hepatoprotection in MAFLD by Modulating Exosomal miR-324 via ROCK1 by Yang Zhang, Qiangman Wei, Xue Geng, Guoliang Fang

“…Co-culture experiments evaluated the effects of exercise-derived exosomes on IR signaling pathways. miRNA microarray analysis identified miR-324, which was quantified in high-fat diet (HFD) mice with and without exercise and compared between athletes and sedentary controls. …”
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Regulation of p53 and Rb links the alternative NF-κB pathway to EZH2 expression and cell senescence. by Alessio Iannetti, Adeline C Ledoux, Susan J Tudhope, Hélène Sellier, Bo Zhao, Sophia Mowla, Adam Moore, Holger Hummerich, Benjamin E Gewurz, Simon J Cockell, Parmjit S Jat, Elaine Willmore, Neil D Perkins

“…Moreover, our ChIP analysis demonstrates that EZH2 is also a direct NF-κB target gene. Microarray analysis revealed that in fibroblasts, EZH2 antagonizes a subset of p53 target genes previously associated with the senescent cell phenotype, including DEK and RacGAP1. …”
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mRNA-lncRNA gene expression signature in HPV-associated neoplasia and cervical cancer by E. D. Kulaeva, E. S. Muzlaeva, E. V. Mashkina

“…Validation on an independent microarray dataset showed that the differential expression patterns of the CDKN2A and SLC27A6 genes were conserved in the respective gene expression comparisons between groups.…”
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Experimental study on the role and biomarker potential of CX3CR1 in osteoarthritis by Junpu Huang, Xifan Zheng, Jinzhi Meng, Hongtao Wang, Lingyun Chen, Jun Yao

“…This study aimed to identify OA-associated genes and elucidate the molecular pathways implicated, with the goal of discovering reliable diagnostic biomarkers.Methods The microarray dataset was retrieved from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and analyzed using R software to identify the signature gene, CX3CR1. …”
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Integrated Genome-Wide Analysis of Gene Expression and DNA Copy Number Variations Highlights Stem Cell-Related Pathways in Small Cell Esophageal Carcinoma by Di Liu, Xinyan Xu, Junmiao Wen, Liyi Xie, Junhua Zhang, Yuxin Shen, Guoliang Jiang, Jiayan Chen, Min Fan

“…In order to elucidate the effect of CNV on mRNA expression, we integrated the genome-wide copy number data and gene expression in 3 paired samples. …”
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Myogenic IGFBP5 levels in rhabdomyosarcoma are nourished by mesenchymal stromal cells and regulate growth arrest and apoptosis by Yue Zhang, Karim Katkhada, Liu Zhen Meng, Binbin Zhao, Shanlin Tong, Wiem Chaabane, Aditi Kallai, Nicholas P. Tobin, Arne Östman, Alessandro Mega, Monika Ehnman

“…High resolution microarray-based Clariom D gene expression analysis identified insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 (IGFBP5) as the top upregulated gene in RMS cells exposed to naïve stromal cells, and effects on growth arrest, caspase 3/7 activation, and myogenic cell identity were demonstrated in functional assays. …”
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