Dendrimer functionalized folate-targeted gold nanoparticles for luciferase gene silencing in vitro: A proof of principle study by Mbatha Londiwe Simphiwe, Maiyo Fiona Chepkoech, Singh Moganavelli

“…Use of exogenous small interfering RNA (siRNA) has shown potential in gene silencing. …”
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Nuclear Protein 1 Expression Is Associated with PPARG in Bladder Transitional Cell Carcinoma by Chao Lu, Shenglin Gao, Li Zhang, Xiaokai Shi, Yin Chen, Shuzhang Wei, Li Zuo, Lifeng Zhang

“…We applied lentivirus-mediated small-interfering RNA to down-regulate the expression of Nuclear protein 1 in BTCC cell lines. …”
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Transgenic plants as a model for studying еpigenetic regulation of gene expression by T. V. Marenkova, E. V. Deineko

“…Loss of gene expression can occur transcriptionally or post-transcriptionally in most cases involving small interfering RNA (siRNA). In plants, the most common mechanism for inactivation of genes at the level of RNA transcription is RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM). …”
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Baricitinib represses the myocardial fibrosis via blocking JAK/STAT and TGF-β1 pathways in vivo and in vitro by Renlei Feng, Hongli Liu, Yunqing Chen

“…Besides, JAK2 was knocked down by small interfering RNA (siRNA) in TGF-β1-stimulated mouse cardiac fibroblasts. …”
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β Common Receptor Mediates Erythropoietin-Conferred Protection on OxLDL-Induced Lipid Accumulation and Inflammation in Macrophages by Tzong-Shyuan Lee, Kuo-Yun Lu, Yuan-Bin Yu, Hsueh-Te Lee, Feng-Chuan Tsai

“…Inhibition of βCR activation by neutralizing antibody or small interfering RNA (siRNA) abolished the EPO-conferred protection in oxLDL-induced lipid accumulation. …”
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Respiratory Syncytial Virus Nonstructural Protein 1 Promotes 5-Lipoxygenase via miR-19a-3p by Mei Zheng, Panpan Fan, Pu Yang, Junwen Zheng, Dongchi Zhao

“…The expression level of miR-19a-3p was significantly upregulated in the pNS1 or RSV-treated cells, which was reversed by the NS1 small interfering RNA. In addition, pNS1 also upregulated the expression of 5-LO, interleukin-5 (IL-5), and leukotriene B4 (LTB4), which was also significantly inhibited by the miR-19a-3p antagonists. …”
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FHL1 as a prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target in acute promyelocytic leukaemia by Bo Luo, Wei Li, Jingyuan Zeng, Yingyu Mao, Shuang He, Nan Hu, Qulian Guo, Xiaoli Zheng

“…Quantitative real-time PCR and Western blot were used to assess the effects of small interfering RNA transfection and lentiviral interference on the gene's knockout and overexpression, respectively. …”
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Release of siRNA from Liposomes Induced by Curcumin by Kazuyo Fujita, Yoshie Hiramatsu, Hideki Minematsu, Masaharu Somiya, Shun’ichi Kuroda, Masaharu Seno, Shuji Hinuma

“…Liposomes are a potential carrier of small interfering RNA (siRNA) for drug delivery systems (DDS). …”
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Wharton’s Jelly-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells with High Aurora Kinase A Expression Show Improved Proliferation, Migration, and Therapeutic Potential by Sun Jeong Kim, Sang Eon Park, Jang Bin Jeong, Shin Ji Oh, Alee Choi, Yun Hee Kim, Suk-joo Choi, Soo-young Oh, Gyu Ha Ryu, Hong Bae Jeon, Jong Wook Chang

“…Aurora kinase A (AURKA) and dedicator of cytokinesis 2 (DOCK2) were selected as the upregulated genes, and their effects on proliferation, migration, and colony formation of the WJ-MSCs were verified using small interfering RNA (siRNA) techniques. mRNA expression levels of both the genes were positively correlated with the proliferation capacity of WJ-MSCs. …”
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Hypoxia Promotes Glioma Stem Cell Proliferation by Enhancing the 14-3-3β Expression via the PI3K Pathway by Weidong Cao, Qiang Zhou, Hongwei Wang, Wei Rao, Gang Cheng, Peng Wang, Shengli Guo, Bin Ren, Jianning Zhang

“…Hypoxia induced by using CoCl2 application and 14-3-3β protein knockdown by specific small interfering RNA transfection were performed in GSCs both in vitro and in vivo to observe their role in glioma progression and metastasis occurrence by using western blot analysis and MTT assay. …”
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Metformin Regulating miR-34a Pathway to Inhibit Egr1 in Rat Mesangial Cells Cultured with High Glucose by Can Wu, Ningning Qin, Huiwen Ren, Min Yang, Shuang Liu, Qiuyue Wang

“…And MCs were transfected with small interfering RNA for silencing Egr1 and SIRT1. Quantitative real-time PCR was used to assay the transcription levels of Egr1 mRNA and miR-34a. …”
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Cardioprotective effects of hUCMSCs-Exosi-EGR1 MN patch in MI/RI by modulating oxidative stress and mitophagy by Chen Huang, Xun Zhang, Shi-Xiong Wu, Qing Chang, Zhi-Kun Zheng, Jing Xu

“…In an effort to address the detrimental effects of myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury (MI/RI), this study introduces a novel therapeutic strategy that involves a microneedle (MN) patch loaded with exosomes derived from human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSCs) and carrying small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting early growth response-1 (EGR1). …”
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Multi-omics analysis reveals that neutrophil extracellular traps related gene TIMP1 promotes CRC progression and influences ferroptosis by Yuzhao Jin, Luyu Liao, Qianping Chen, Bufu Tang, Jin Jiang, Ji Zhu, Minghua Bai

“…Large-sample RNA transcriptome and single-cell transcriptome analysis further confirmed that TIMP1 is a core gene in NETs. We used small interfering RNA to knockdown TIMP1, and verified the ability of TIMP1 in CRC proliferation, invasion and migration through western blot, transwell, cell scratch assay, cell clone formation and other experiments. …”
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GOLPH3 inhibits glioma cell apoptosis through the JNK signaling pathway by Shao Xie, Shao Xie, Jiahai Ding, Zhaohao Wang, Hengliang Shi, Zheng-Quan Yu

“…However, its precise role in glioma progression remains under active investigation.MethodsTo elucidate the function of GOLPH3, U87 glioma cells were transfected with GOLPH3-specific small interfering RNA (siRNA) to suppress its expression. …”
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甲基转移酶3对人脑血管平滑肌细胞基因表达及增殖和迁移功能的影响 Effects of Methyltransferase 3 on Gene Expression, Proliferation, and Migration Functions of Human Brain Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells... by 孟晨曦1，孙洪英2，张佳2，毛戬2，杨阳3，策乐木格3 (MENG Chenxi1, SUN Hongying2, ZHANG Jia2, MAO Jian2, YANG Yang3, Celemuge3 )

“…目的 探究甲基转移酶3（methyltransferase 3，METTL3）对人脑血管平滑肌细胞（human brain vascular smooth muscle cells，HBVSMC）基因表达以及增殖和迁移功能的影响。 方法 采用小干扰RNA（small interfering RNA，shRNA）干扰技术，构建METTL3基因干扰载体并通过腺病毒感染HBVSMC，依据感染情况将其分为空白组（无病毒感染）、对照组（空载病毒感染）和干扰组（METTL3-shRNA病毒感染）。…”
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Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis incidentally diagnosed by video-associated lung surgery for lung cancer: A case report by Katsuhiro Itogawa, Shintaro Sato, Hideaki Yamakawa, Keiichi Akasaka, Masako Amano, Akiko Adachi, Hidekazu Matsushima

“…Finally, treatment with vutrisiran, a small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting the TTR gene, was successfully initiated. …”
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MiR-25-3p regulates pulmonary arteriovenous malformation after Glenn procedure in patients with univentricular heart via the PHLPP2-HIF-1α axis by Junpei Kawamura, Munekazu Yamakuchi, Kentaro Ueno, Teruto Hashiguchi, Yasuhiro Okamoto

“…In addition, we investigated the tube formation, migration, and proliferation of human lung microvascular endothelial cells (HMVEC-L) transfected with miR-25-3p mimic, miR-25-3p inhibitor, or PHLPP2 small interfering RNA, and examined HIF-1α/VEGF-A signaling after hypoxic stimulation. …”
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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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Caveolin-1 Knockdown Decreases SMMC7721 Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Invasiveness by Inhibiting Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-Induced Angiogenesis by Zhi-Bo Zhang, Zheng Shi, Lan-Fang Yang, Hong-Bin Gao

“…Lentiviral vectors were used to construct caveolin-1 small interfering RNA- (siRNA-) expressing cells. Secreted VEGF levels in SMMC7721 cells were evaluated by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). …”
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E46K α-Synuclein Mutation Fails to Promote Neurite Outgrowth by Not Inducing Cdc42EP2 Expression, Unlike Wild-Type or A53T α-Synuclein in SK-N-SH Cells by Hyunja Jung, Seonghan Kim

“…Finally, to confirm the implication of neurite outgrowth, we knocked down Cdc42EP2 using small interfering RNA. Results: Unlike WT and A53T α-syn, E46K α-syn failed to promote neurite outgrowth by not inducing Cdc42EP2 and subsequent βIII-tubulin expression. …”
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