Protective Effects of NaHS/miR-133a-3p on Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Cardiomyocytes Injury by Yi-Mei Jin, Ai-Rong Huang, Mei-qian Yu, Wan-Ding Ye, Xiao-guang Hu, Hua-min Wang, Zhi-wei Xu, Dong-shi Liang

“…The adenosine triphosphate (ATP) kit was used to detect ATP content; real-time quantitative polynucleotide chain reaction (qPCR) was used to measure the levels of mammalian targets of rapamycin (mTOR), AMP-dependent protein kinase (AMPK), and miR-133a-3p, and Western blot (WB) was used to detect protein levels of mTOR, AMPK, myosin-like Bcl2 interacting protein (Beclin-1), microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3I/II), and P62 (sequestosome-1, sqstm-1/P62). …”
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Comparative effect of atorvastatin and risperidone on modulation of TLR4/NF-κB/NOX-2 in a rat model of valproic acid-induced autism by Eman A. E. Farrag, Mona H. Askar, Zienab Abdallah, Safinaz M. Mahmoud, Eman A. Abdulhai, Eman Abdelrazik, Eman Mohamad El Nashar, Faten Mohammed Alasiri, Asma Nasser Saeed Alqahtani, Mamdouh Eldesoqui, Ali M. Eldib, Alshimaa Magdy

“…Biochemical analysis of TLR4, NF-κB, NOX-2, and ROS using ELISA, RT-PCR, WB, histological examination with hematoxylin and eosin and immunohistochemical study of CAS-3 were performed. …”
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TLR7: A Key Prognostic Biomarker and Immunotherapeutic Target in Lung Adenocarcinoma by Feiming Hu, Chenchen Hu, Yuanli He, Yuanjie Sun, Chenying Han, Xiyang Zhang, Lingying Yu, Daimei Shi, Yubo Sun, Junqi Zhang, Dongbo Jiang, Shuya Yang, Kun Yang

“…Validation of TLR7 expression was conducted using GEO data, qPCR, WB, and IHC. A prognostic model was developed using a nomogram, incorporating TLR7 expression. …”
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Interleukin 10 Plays an Important Role in Neonatal Rats with Hypoxic-Ischemia Associated with B-Cell Lymphoma 2 and Endoplasmic Reticulum Protein 29 by Xue Bai, Liu-Lin Xiong, Chang-Le Fang, Hao-Li Zhou, Lu-Lu Xue, Yue Hu, Qing-Jie Xia, Jia Liu, Jun-Yan Zhang, Ting-Hua Wang, Si-Jin Yang

“…The expression of IL-10 in the cortex, hippocampus, and lung tissues was measured with immunohistochemistry, real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), and western blot (WB). Immunofluorescence double staining was performed to observe the localization of IL-10 in neurons and astrocytes. …”
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ITGA4 as a potential prognostic and immunotherapeutic biomarker in human cancer and its clinical significance in gastric cancer: an integrated analysis and validation by Jiaxing Zhang, Jiaxing Zhang, Gang Wang, Jie Liu, Futian Tang, Song Wang, Yumin Li, Yumin Li

“…However, its role across different cancer types is not well understood.MethodsUtilizing multi-omics data, we comprehensively evaluated ITGA4’s expression, clinical relevance, diagnostic and prognostic value, functions, mutations, and methylation status, along with its impact on immunity, mismatch repair (MMR), heterogeneity, stemness, immunotherapy responsiveness, and drug resistance in pan-cancer, with partial validation in gastric cancer (GC) using transcriptomic analysis, single-cell data, western blot (WB), wound-healing assay, flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry (IHC). …”
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Emission Factors of PAHs Components and Bioreactivity in PM2.5 from Biomass Burning by Xinye Zhu, Kin-Fai Ho, Tzu-Ting Yang, Vincent Laiman, Jian Sun, Zhenxing Shen, Hsiao-Chi Chuang

“…Emission factors were measured from biomass samples included maize straw (MS), wheat straw (WS), wood branches (WBs), MS briquettes (MSBs), MSB charcoal (MSC), WS briquettes (WSBs), WSB charcoal (WSC), WB briquettes (WBBs), and WBB charcoal (WBC). A549 cells were exposed to biomass PM2.5 at 0 and 50 µg mL–1 for 24 h, and the expression of Yes-associated protein (YAP), phosphorylated (p)-YAP, transcription coactivator with a PDZ-binding motif (TAZ), p-TAZ, E-cadherin, and high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) proteins were assessed by Western blotting. …”
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Danggui-Shaoyao-San Can Ameliorate Alzheimer’s Disease by Inhibiting Hippocampal Neuron Apoptosis: Findings from Serum Pharmacology by Zhang KX, Zhang JW, Jiang YH, Wang YR, Liu ZL, Ding PL, Wang XY, Cui WQ, Xu XQ, Wang YH

“…Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa), quantitative polymerase chain reaction (q-PCR), Morris water maze,Western blot (WB), Immunohistochemical and Immunofluorescence were used to study the effect of DSS on AD. …”
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Examine the impact of green-synthesized nanomaterials on the germination rates and seedling characteristics of African Marigold (Tagetes erecta L. var. Pusa Narangi Ganda and Pusa... by Kunal Adhikary, Tapas Mondal, Jayoti Majumder, Tapas Kumar Chowdhuri, Subhra Mukherjee, Karishma Maherukh

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Dihydrotanshinone I enhanced BRAF mutant melanoma treatment efficacy by inhibiting the STAT3/SOX2 signaling pathway by Xing Luo, Yi Duan, Jinwei He, CongGai Huang, Jun Liu, Yifan Liu, Mengdei Xu, Qiong Dai, Zhihui Yang

“…In this study, we investigated the effect of dihydrotanshinone I on the MAPK pathway inhibitor resistance of BRAF mutant malignant melanoma.MethodAfter treating A375, A375R, and A2058 cells with DHT or a combination of DHT and BRAF/MEK inhibitors, WB and Real-Time RT-qPCR were used to confirm the activation of the MAPK and STAT3/SOX2 pathways. …”
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miRNA-541-5p regulates myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury by targeting ferroptosis by ZhiYu Zhao, BoXia Li, DianWei Cheng, YuFang Leng

“…Subsequently, by constructing H9C2 cell lines with miRNA-541-5p overexpression and miRNA-541-5p expression inhibition, miRNA-541-5p expression was inversely correlated with the survival of H9C2 cells after hypoxia-reoxygenation injury. miRNA-541-5p up-regulation led to a decrease in SOD and GSH, an increase in ferritin and MDA, and an accumulation of ROS. wb and qRT-PCT demonstrated that high miRNA-541-5p expression up-regulated the expression of protein/mRNA expression of ACSL-4, HO-1, ferritin, and TFR-1, but down-regulated protein/mRNA expression of GPX-4. …”
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FNDC5/irisin mitigates the cardiotoxic impacts of cancer chemotherapeutics by modulating ROS-dependent and -independent mechanisms by Manish Kumar, Abhishek Singh Sengar, Anushree Lye, Pranesh Kumar, Sukhes Mukherjee, Dinesh Kumar, Priyadip Das, Suvro Chatterjee, Adele Stewart, Biswanath Maity

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Effect of miR-144-3p-Targeted Regulation of PTEN on Proliferation, Apoptosis, and Osteogenic Differentiation of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells under Stretch by Shiyong Ling, Xi Luo, Bo Lv, Hua Wang, Mengzhi Xie, Kai Huang, Jingchuan Sun

“…The cell proliferation was detected by Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) colorimetric assay; the expression levels of cyclin, cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK), BCL2-associated X (BAX), B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2), and other cell cycle and apoptosis related proteins were detected by western blot (WB); and the osteogenic differentiation ability of MSC cells was detected by ALP staining and alizarin red staining. …”
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Aloe Emodin Reduces Cardiac Inflammation Induced by a High-Fat Diet through the TLR4 Signaling Pathway by Yingfu Chen, Burong Feng, Ye Yuan, Juan Hu, Wei Zhao, Huiwei Jiang, Wen Li, Ziyi Fan, Zhimin Du

“…Inflammatory markers were detected by qRT-PCR, WB, and immunofluorescence. Results. We demonstrated that the expression levels of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α were increased in the HFD group compared to the normal diet (ND) group, whereas AE treatment significantly reduced their levels in the myocardium. …”
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D-mannose alleviates chronic periodontitis in rats by regulating the functions of neutrophils by Xue Li, Xueting Chen, Qingyu Zhu, Pengye Zhang, Shunxue Nan, Lei Lv, Shengcai Qi

“…After D-mannose treatment, the expression levels of IL-17 (p<0.01) and TET2 (p<0.01) were suppressed by IF, and the expression levels of IL-1β (p<0.05), IL-17 (p<0.05) and TET2 (p<0.01) were downregulated by WB. The results of qPCR showed that D-mannose reduced the expression levels of IL-1β (p<0.05), IL-6 (p<0.01), IL-17 (p<0.01), TNF-α (p<0.01), G-CSF (p<0.01), GM-CSF (p<0.01), TET2 (p<0.01), HK1 (p<0.01), HK2 (p<0.01), and PFKFB3 (p<0.01). …”
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SUMO-Specific Peptidase 5 Promotes Oesophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Growth through the NF-κB-SLC1A3 Axis by Chaoxiang Du, Yunfan Hu, Xinyu Yang, Zhe Zhang, Jianmin Gu, Tao Zhang, Renfeng Wang, Shaoyuan Zhang, Lijie Tan, Guiping Yu

“…The correlation of SENP5 with signalling pathway components was validated via real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR), western blotting (WB), and immunoprecipitation. …”
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Anti-PL-7/PL-12 antisynthetase syndrome associated with interstitial lung disease following SARS-COV-2 infection and vaccination: A case study review by Laura García-Bravo, Ángela Villegas, Bárbara López Uceda, Anaís Mariscal, Cristina Vadillo, M Asunción Nieto Barbero, Juan Luis Rodríguez-Hermosa, Beatriz Mediero Valeros, José Carlos Plaza-Hernández, Miguel Fernández-Arquero, María Guzmán-Fulgencio, Gloria Candelas-Rodríguez, Silvia Sánchez-Ramón, Juliana Ochoa-Grullón

“…Anti-ARS autoantibodies were identified using three complementary methods: immunoblotting, western blotting (WB) and the method considered the gold standard, immunoprecipitation (IP), which ensures accurate interpretation of results. …”
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Ionizing radiation-induced disruption of Rela-Bclaf1-spliceosome regulatory axis in primary spermatocytes causing spermatogenesis dysfunction by Hongjian Zhou, Zhipeng Xu, Chun Jiang, Qiuyue Wu, Chuanyue Zhang, Zhenyu Liu, Xiaoxue Zhang, Weiwei Li, Yujia Pang, Jing Zhang, Wenju Pan, Min Chen, Xinyi Xia

“…Histological examination, sperm concentration and motility analysis, Western blotting (WB), and reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) were used to evaluate testicular injury. …”
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Emodin protects against severe acute pancreatitis-associated acute lung injury by activating Nrf2/HO-1/GPX4 signal and inhibiting ferroptosis in vivo and in vitro by Gang Shen, Haiyun Wen, Huijuan Li, Xuetao Zhang, Bowen Lan, Xuanchi Dong, Peng Ge, Yalan Luo, Hailong Chen

“…Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Western blot (WB), and immunofluorescence were used to find the expressions of related mRNAs and proteins in the lung tissue or A549 cells. …”
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A novel α-conotoxin [D1G, ΔQ14] LvIC decreased mouse locomotor activity by Wen Wang, Wen Wang, Meiting Wang, Huanbai Wang, Weifeng Xu, Conggang Wang, Jie Pei, Xiaodan Li, Dongting Zhangsun, Dongting Zhangsun

“…Subsequently, Western blot (WB) and quantitative reverse transcription PCR (RT-qPCR) techniques were utilized to detect specific molecular changes induced by [D1G, ΔQ14] LvIC.ResultsThe injection of [D1G, ΔQ14] LvIC led to a decrease in locomotor activity in mice. …”
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<i>Pleurotus ostreatus</i>: Nutritional Enhancement and Antioxidant Activity Improvement Through Cultivation on Spent Mushroom Substrate and Roots of Leafy Vegetables by Eirini-Maria Melanouri, Ilias Diamantis, Marianna Dedousi, Eleni Dalaka, Paraskevi Antonopoulou, Seraphim Papanikolaou, Ioannis Politis, Georgios Theodorou, Panagiota Diamantopoulou

“…The highest intra-cellular polysaccharide (IPS) value (50.93%, <i>w</i>/<i>w</i>) was observed in the substrate containing SMS 90%, while combining SMS with RLV resulted in higher IPS values compared to mixtures that also included wheat bran (WB) and soybean flour (SF). Furthermore, the use of RLV reduced the fat content compared to the control substrate, except in the case of the SMS 50%–RLV 40% substrate, where the highest fat content was observed in the produced mushrooms (4.68% <i>w</i>/<i>w</i>). …”
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