30 articles in this issue
Qing Wang, Yan Wang and Guangju Chen
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Salunya Tancharoen, Satoshi Gando, Shrestha Binita, Tomoka Nagasato, Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Yuko Nawa, Pornpen Dararat, Mika Yamamoto, Somphong Narkpinit and Ikuro Maruyama
Alfonso Montaño, Marcos Hernández, Inmaculada Garrido, José Luís Llerena and Francisco Espinosa
Slaven Pikija, Jozef Magdic, Vladimir Trkulja, Peter Unterkreuter, Johannes Sebastian Mutzenbach, Helmut F. Novak, Friedrich Weymayr, Larissa Hauer and Johann Sellner
Gabor J. Szebeni, Csaba Vizler, Lajos I. Nagy, Klara Kitajka and Laszlo G. Puskas
Since the observation of Virchow, it has long been known that the tumor microenvironment constitutes the soil for the infiltration of inflammatory cells and for the release of inflammatory mediators. Under certain circumstances, inflammation remains unres... see more
Chih-Hao Chen, Chang-Yi Kuo, Yan-Jie Wang and Jyh-Ping Chen
Glucosamine (GlcN) fulfills many of the requirements as an ideal component in scaffolds used in cartilage tissue engineering. The incorporation of GlcN in a gelatin/hyaluronic acid (GH) cryogel scaffold could provide biological cues in maintaining the phe... see more
Xin Wen, Xinran Tang, Yingqin Li, Xianyue Ren, Qingmei He, Xiaojing Yang, Jian Zhang, Yaqin Wang, Jun Ma and Na Liu
Increasing evidence has demonstrated a significant role for long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in tumorigenesis. However, their functions in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) metastasis remain largely unknown. In this study, a model comparing high and low metast... see more
Justin A. Jones, Thomas I. Harris, Paula F. Oliveira, Brianne E. Bell, Abdulrahman Alhabib and Randolph V. Lewis
The production of recombinant spider silk proteins continues to be a key area of interest for a number of research groups. Several key obstacles exist in their production as well as in their formulation into useable products. The original reported method ... see more
Danilo De Gregorio, Stefano Comai, Luca Posa and Gabriella Gobbi
Yunlong Ma, Bin Zhu, Lei Yong, Chunyu Song, Xiao Liu, Huilei Yu, Peng Wang, Zhongjun Liu and Xiaoguang Liu
Our previous study has reported the anti-tumor effect of oleandrin on osteosarcoma (OS) cells. In the current study, we mainly explored its potential regulation on intrinsic and extrinsic apoptotic pathway in OS cells. Cells apoptosis, reactive oxygen spe... see more
Xu Qian, Xiao-Qing Xu, Ke-Ji Yu, Bao-Qing Zhu, Yi-Bin Lan, Chang-Qing Duan and Qiu-Hong Pan
Zhenzhou Wan, Ya’nan Zhang, Zhixiang He, Jia Liu, Ke Lan, Yihong Hu and Chiyu Zhang
Human coronaviruses HCoV-OC43, HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63 and HCoV-HKU1 are common respiratory viruses associated with acute respiratory infection. They have a global distribution. Rapid and accurate diagnosis of HCoV infection is important for the management a... see more
Edilene S. Soares, Leila M. Stávale, Monique C. P. Mendonça, Andressa Coope and Maria Alice da Cruz-Höfling
Artur Badyda, Anna Gayer, Piotr Oskar Czechowski, Grzegorz Majewski and Piotr Dabrowiecki
It is essential in pulmonary disease research to take into account traffic-related air pollutant exposure among urban inhabitants. In our study, 4985 people were examined for spirometric parameters in the presented research which was conducted in the year... see more
Jong-Mok Lee and Satoru Noguchi
Yali Liu, Suying Han, Xiangming Ding, Xinmin Li, Lifeng Zhang, Wanfeng Li, Haiyan Xu, Zhexin Li and Liwang Qi
Moshe Giladi, Reut Shor, Michal Lisnyansky and Daniel Khananshvili
The membrane-bound sodium–calcium exchanger (NCX) proteins shape Ca2+ homeostasis in many cell types, thus participating in a wide range of physiological and pathological processes. Determination of the crystal structure of an archaeal NCX (NCX_Mj) paved ... see more
Bangfu Zhu, Matthew Nicholls, Yu Gu, Gaofeng Zhang, Chao Zhao, Robin J. M. Franklin and Bing Song
The guided migration of neural cells is essential for repair in the central nervous system (CNS). Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) will normally migrate towards an injury site to re-sheath demyelinated axons; however the mechanisms underlying this ... see more
Muhammad Usman Amin, Muhammad Khurram, Taj Ali Khan, Hani S. Faidah, Zia Ullah Shah, Shafiq Ur Rahman, Abdul Haseeb, Muhammad Ilyas, Naseem Ullah, Sahibzada Muhammad Umar Khayam and Marcello Iriti
Ji-Wei Chang, Yan-Qing Zhou, Muhammad Tahir Ul Qamar, Ling-Ling Chen and Yu-Duan Ding
Most cellular functions involve proteins’ features based on their physical interactions with other partner proteins. Sketching a map of protein–protein interactions (PPIs) is therefore an important inception step towards understanding the basics of cell f... see more
Michael De Santis, Jiamei Lian, Xu-Feng Huang and Chao Deng
Prescription of antipsychotic drugs (APDs) to children has substantially increased in recent years. Whilst current investigations into potential long-term effects have uncovered some alterations to adult behaviours, further investigations into potential c... see more
Ningyuan Wang, Yan Huang, An Li, Hailong Jiang, Jie Wang, Jianzhong Li, Lei Qiu, Ka Li and Yiming Lu
Xueqin Li, Jun Shen, Yunyao Jiang, Ting Shen, Long You, Xiaobo Sun, Xudong Xu, Weicheng Hu, Haifeng Wu and Gongcheng Wang
Xue Zhu, Ke Wang, Kai Zhang, Ting Zhang, Yongxiang Yin and Fei Xu
Suzane C. Pigossi, Marcell C. Medeiros, Sybele Saska, Joni A. Cirelli and Raquel M. Scarel-Caminaga
Bone regeneration is a process that involves several molecular mediators, such as growth factors, which directly affect the proliferation, migration and differentiation of bone-related cells. The osteogenic growth peptide (OGP) and its C-terminal pentapep... see more
Aida Salameh, Stefan Dhein, Ingo Dähnert and Norbert Klein
Aortocoronary bypass or valve surgery usually require cardiac arrest using cardioplegic solutions. Although, in principle, in a number of cases beating heart surgery (so-called off-pump technique) is possible, aortic or valve surgery or correction of cong... see more
Rui Zhong, Rui Xin, Zongyan Chen, Nan Liang, Yang Liu, Shumei Ma and Xiaodong Liu
Deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) is a key enzyme in deoxyribonucleoside salvage and the anti-tumor activity for many nucleoside analogs. dCK is activated in response to ionizing radiation (IR)-induced DNA damage and it is phosphorylated on Serine 74 by the Atax... see more
Leifeng Xu, Panpan Yang, Suxia Yuan, Yayan Feng, Hua Xu, Yuwei Cao and Jun Ming
Yan Cui and Gang Guo
Magda Dubinska-Magiera, Malgorzata Daczewska, Anna Lewicka, Marta Migocka-Patrzalek, Joanna Niedbalska-Tarnowska and Krzysztof Jagla