The impact of interactions between heavy metals and smoking exposures on the formation of oral microbial communities by Qiwen Zheng, Yonghua Zhang, Jia Li, Shuwei Pei, Jiangyun Liu, Lu Feng, Li Zhang, Xingrong Liu, Bin Luo, Ye Ruan, Weigang Hu, Jingping Niu, Tian Tian

“…By comparing the oral bacterial communities and functional pathways between the four groups, we found significant differences in bacterial communities and functional pathways between the groups. …”
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Modelling soil prokaryotic traits across environments with the trait sequence database ampliconTraits and the R package MicEnvMod by Jonathan Donhauser, Anna Doménech-Pascual, Xingguo Han, Karen Jordaan, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Aline Frossard, Anna M. Romaní, Anders Priemé

“…Overall, our approach enables robust inference of ecologically interpretable traits combined with environmental modelling allowing to harness traits as bioindicators of soil ecosystem functioning.…”
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The role of hypoxia-senescence co-related molecular subtypes and prognostic characteristics in hepatocellular carcinoma by Fuqing Chen, Yifan Cai, Xiangmei Chen, Changzhou Chen, Qinliang Fang, Jianming Liu, Yibin Zhang, Jianyin Zhou

“…The expression pattern and functional characteristics of MLH1 gene in HCC were verified. …”
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Dysfunction of PDE4DIP contributes to LVNC development by regulating cell polarity, skeleton, and energy metabolism via Rho-ROCK pathway by Wuxia Gu, Hongyan Li, Wenjing Yuan, Xiaoqiong Fu, Rui Wang, Xiaohui Xu, Xuemei Liao, LingJuan Liu, Bo Pan, Jie Tian, Haixin Yuan, Yi Huang, Tiewei Lu

“…Overexpression and knockdown of PDE4DIP were constructed in H9C2 cells and neonatal Sprague–Dawley rat primary cardiomyocytes, respectively. …”
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Screening, Genome Sequencing and Tolerance Mechanism Analysis of Bile Acid-resistant Pediococcus pentosaceus 32M07 by Qingping HONG, Ziqing DI, Daqing SUN, Xinrui DU, Hongfei LI, Yuxi YAO, Xianglin GE

“…The 16S rRNA gene and the core genome phylogenetic tree results were consistent, confirming that strain 32M07 was taxonomically classified as Pediococcus pentosaceus. Based on functional annotations and metabolic relationships of bile acid metabolism and transport-related genes in databases including COG, GO, and KEGG, a bile acid metabolic model for Pediococcus pentosaceus 32M07 was constructed. …”
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Comparative transcriptomes reveal insights into different host responses associated with Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat by Hao Wang, Xiaoying Yang, Tingting Li, Zuchun Li, Jianing Zhao, Zi Wang, Zhenyu Wang, Tingdong Li, Chunhuan Chen, Jixin Zhao, Changyou Wang, Xinlun Liu, Pingchuan Deng, Wanquan Ji

“…These results will provide new insights into further dissecting of the functional genes and lncRNAs involved in wheat FHB resistance.…”
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GG-NER’s role in androgen receptor signaling inhibitor response for advanced prostate cancer by Chuanfan Zhong, Jiaxing Wang, Hangyang Peng, Jianming Lu, Zining Long, Zhuoyuan Lin, Guo Chen, Chao Cai, Shilong Cheng, Zhongjie Chen, Le Zhang, Weibo Zhong, Rujun Mo, Xiangming Mao

“…Additionally, we mapped tumor mutations to delineate the mutational landscapes across different risk groups and explored functional pathways through GO, KEGG, and GSEA analyses. …”
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Aquaponics model can provide better productivity: Microorganisms affect the growth and health of tilapia by Dingyue Fan, Huimin Xu, Shunlong Meng, Limin Fan, Chao Song, Liping Qiu, Dandan Li, Longxiang Fang, Zhuping Liu, Xuwen Bing

“…The relationships between fish immunological and digestive functions, water quality, and bacterial populations were not well understood. …”
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Bioinformatics and Network Pharmacology Identify the Therapeutic Role of Guominkang in Allergic Asthma by Inhibiting PI3K/Akt Signaling by Zhang H, Zhang H, Wang L, Zhang Y, Hu L, Liu J, Zhou Y, Wang J

“…The aim of this study was to explored the mechanism of action through which GMK combats AA.Methods: Potential target genes for the compounds were identified from the database and subjected to functional enrichment analysis. Subsequently, a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was constructed in order to screen the core target and confirmed by molecular docking. …”
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Transcriptome-wide analysis reveals potential roles of CFD and ANGPTL4 in fibroblasts regulating B cell lineage for extracellular matrix-driven clustering and novel avenues for imm... by Hongwei Wang, Yu-nan Zhu, Sifan Zhang, Kexin Liu, Rong Huang, Zhigao Li, Lan Mei, Yingpu Li

“…However, the compositional patterns of ECM in breast cancer and their underlying biological functions remain elusive. Methods Transcriptome and genome data of breast cancer patients from TCGA database was downloaded. …”
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Characterization of lactylation modification subtypes and the promoting role of CCL20 in hepatocellular carcinoma progression by Li-Hong Wu, Liu Yang, Xiang-Xu Wang, Shuang Bai, Xi Yan, Jing Wei, Jun Wang, Fei Tian

“…A lactylation modification-related prognostic model was subsequently constructed using LASSO-Cox and multivariate Cox regression analyses. …”
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The Aporia of Reality/Imagination: Uncertainty in Selected Iranian Monodramas and Surrealist Dramas by Mohammad Bagher Ghahramani, Rahmat Amini, Sahar Meshginghalam

“…This research explores how the aporia of reality and imagination functions as a rhetorical tool that renders drama as self-deconstructive. …”
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Identification and evaluation of biomarkers for diagnosis of chronic hepatitis B using RNA-seq by Hong Hong, Xintong Han, Qiuxiang Hu, Huafeng Song, Bing Han

“…A machine learning model was constructed to diagnose CHB by combining three identified biomarkers. …”
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Investigating Digital Storytelling as a Tool of Improving/ Developing Information Literacy Skills by Maryam Khodabin, Mohammad Zerehsaz, Somaye Sadat Akhshik, Ghasem Azadi Ahmadabadi

“…Digital storytelling emphasizes the group process and people's experience in sharing stories, visual and verbal functions that are necessary for understanding language and thinking from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience. …”
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Time-Course Renal and Pulmonary Injury Analysis and Bioinformatics Screening of Core Pathogenic Genes and Immune Cell Infiltration Patterns in a Sepsis by Apizi A, Li J, Kamilijiang P, Yang CB, Wang ZK, Chai RF, Yu ZX

“…A sepsis risk model constructed using five key genes—CD8A, ITGAM, CXCL8, CCL5, and LCK—demonstrated high predictive accuracy. …”
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The interlinked trajectories of interpersonal attachment and maladaptive behaviors among Chinese adolescents—a latent growth modeling approach by He Xiao, Pei Chen, Huiyi Xiao, Peizhi Zhong, Jiajie He, Yangang Nie

“…Specifically, latent growth curve modeling was conducted to estimate the trajectories of the seven key constructs, with Wald tests assessing differences in growth factors across constructs. …”
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Microbial diversity in active and abandoned desert kangaroo rat burrows and from proximal surface sand by Duygu Aydin, Janice M. Parks, Sera Tirkes, Clint E. Collins, Idil Deniz Akin, Maren L. Friesen, Douglas R. Call, Haluk Beyenal

“…ABSTRACT Desert kangaroo rats (Dipodomys deserti) construct burrows that can create micro-niches favorable to increased microbial activity. …”
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Exploring the causal relationship between hemoglobin and pancreatic cancer and its potential mechanisms through bioinformatics and Mendelian randomization by Shuai Wang, Shanshan Huang, Xiaohui Ren, Hengheng Zhang, Yuan Tian, Ziqi Luo, Hongbin Wang

“…Transcriptomic datasets from TCGA and GEO were then integrated to identify differentially expressed genes, followed by functional enrichment analysis. LASSO regression was subsequently applied to select characteristic genes and construct a prognostic model, which was then subjected to validation. …”
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Sufficient conditions for convergence of positive solutions to linearized two-dimensional sediment transport problem by Alexander I. Sukhinov, Valentina V. Sidoryakina, Andrey A. Sukhinov

“…The linear difference schemes are constructed and studied; model and some practically important tasks are solved. …”
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PLIN2 promotes colorectal cancer progression through CD36-mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transition by Fan Yang, Ying Li, Xue Shang, Yun Zhu, Wenting Hou, Yi Liu, Qing Hua, Zhirong Sun

“…The prognostic model was constructed by univariate survival analysis and LASSO regression analysis. …”
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