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  1. Mesangial cell fibrosis, a typical symptom of diabetic nephropathy (DN), is a major contributor to glomerulosclerosis. We previously reported that the pharmacological blockade of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) si...

    Authors: Donghee Kim, Ga-Young Nam, Eunhui Seo and Hee-Sook Jun
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:31
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  2. Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) with sustained androgen receptor (AR) signaling remains a critical clinical challenge, despite androgen depletion therapy. The Jumonji C-containing histone lysine de...

    Authors: Jai-Shin Liu, Wei-Kai Fang, Shan-Min Yang, Meng-Chen Wu, Tsan-Jan Chen, Chih-Ming Chen, Tung-Yueh Lin, Kai-Lun Liu, Chien-Ming Wu, Yun-Ching Chen, Chih-Pin Chuu, Ling-Yu Wang, Hsing-Pang Hsieh, Hsing-Jien Kung and Wen-Ching Wang
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:29
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  3. Curiosity on toxin–antitoxin modules has increased intensely over recent years as it is ubiquitously present in many bacterial genomes, including pathogens like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)....

    Authors: Sonia Jain, Arghya Bhowmick, Bohyun Jeong, Taeok Bae and Abhrajyoti Ghosh
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:28
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  4. The global pandemic of COVID-19 has caused huge causality and unquantifiable loss of social wealth. The innate immune response is the first line of defense against SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, strong inflamm...

    Authors: Yiran Wang, Mandi Wu, Yichen Li, Ho Him Yuen and Ming-Liang He
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:27
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  5. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, a member of γ-proteobacteria, is a ubiquitous environmental bacterium that is recognized as an opportunistic nosocomial pathogen. FecABCD system contributes to ferric citrate acquisi...

    Authors: Chun-Hsing Liao, Hsu-Feng Lu, Hsin-Hui Huang, Yu Chen, Li-Hua Li, Yi-Tsung Lin and Tsuey-Ching Yang
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:26
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  6. Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a relatively common and often fatal condition. A major histopathological hallmark of AAA is the severe degeneration of aortic media with loss of vascular smooth muscle cells ...

    Authors: Chung-Huang Chen, Hua-Hui Ho, Wei-Cheng Jiang, Wai-Sam Ao-Ieong, Jane Wang, Alexander N. Orekhov, Igor A. Sobenin, Matthew D. Layne and Shaw-Fang Yet
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:25
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  7. Metastasis is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer that involves in multiple steps including epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) process. Centrosome is an organelle that functions as the ma...

    Authors: Yi-Wei Wang, Shu-Chuan Chen, De-Leung Gu, Yi-Chen Yeh, Jhih-Jie Tsai, Kuo-Tai Yang, Yuh-Shan Jou, Teh-Ying Chou and Tang K. Tang
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:24
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  8. Bacteriophages (phages) may be used as an alternative to antibiotic therapy for combating infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria. In the last decades, there have been studies concerning the use of p...

    Authors: Marzanna Łusiak-Szelachowska, Ryszard Międzybrodzki, Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa, Kathryn Cater, Petar Knežević, Cyprian Winogradow, Karolina Amaro, Ewa Jończyk-Matysiak, Beata Weber-Dąbrowska, Justyna Rękas and Andrzej Górski
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:23
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  10. Sp1 is involved in the recurrence of glioblastoma (GBM) due to the acquirement of resistance to temozolomide (TMZ). Particularly, the role of Sp1 in metabolic reprogramming for drug resistance remains unknown.

    Authors: Yu-Ting Tsai, Wei-Lun Lo, Pin-Yuan Chen, Chiung-Yuan Ko, Jian-Ying Chuang, Tzu-Jen Kao, Wen-Bing Yang, Kwang-Yu Chang, Chia-Yang Hung, Ushio Kikkawa, Wen-Chang Chang and Tsung-I. Hsu
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:21
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  11. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a worldwide cancer with rising annual incidence. New medications for patients with CRC are still needed. Recently, fluorescent chemical probes have been developed for cancer imaging ...

    Authors: Pei-Hsuan Chou, Cong-Kai Luo, Niaz Wali, Wen-Yen Lin, Shang-Kok Ng, Chun-Hao Wang, Mingtao Zhao, Sheng-Wei Lin, Pei-Ming Yang, Pin-Jung Liu, Jiun-Jie Shie and Tzu-Tang Wei
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:20
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  12. A short open reading frame (sORFs) constitutes ≤ 300 bases, encoding a microprotein or sORF-encoded protein (SEP) which comprises ≤ 100 amino acids. Traditionally dismissed by genome annotation pipelines as me...

    Authors: Alyssa Zi-Xin Leong, Pey Yee Lee, M. Aiman Mohtar, Saiful Effendi Syafruddin, Yuh-Fen Pung and Teck Yew Low
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:19
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  14. Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is a genetic disorder caused by dihydrotestosterone (DHT), accompanied by the senescence of androgen-sensitive dermal papilla cells (DPCs) located in the base of hair follicles. DHT...

    Authors: Young Hyun Jung, Chang Woo Chae, Gee Euhn Choi, Him Cha Shin, Jae Ryong Lim, Han Seung Chang, Joonmo Park, Ji Hyeon Cho, Mo Ran Park, Hyun Jik Lee and Ho Jae Han
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:17
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  15. Docetaxel has been approved by USFDA as a first-line treatment for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patients. Patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy along with docetaxel result in superior ...

    Authors: Yu-Ke Fu, Bi-Juan Wang, Jen-Chih Tseng, Shih-Han Huang, Ching-Yu Lin, Ying-Yu Kuo, Tzyh-Chyuan Hour and Chih-Pin Chuu
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:16
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  17. All cells, including prokaryotes and eukaryotes, could release extracellular vesicles (EVs). EVs contain many cellular components, including RNA, and surface proteins, and are essential for maintaining normal ...

    Authors: Fusheng Zhang, Jinshuai Guo, Zhenghou Zhang, Meiqi Duan, Guang Wang, Yiping Qian, Haiying Zhao, Zhi Yang and Xiaofeng Jiang
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:14
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  18. Transcription, metabolism and DNA damage response are tightly regulated to preserve the genomic integrity, and O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) is positioned to connect the three. Prostate cancer is the most common can...

    Authors: Aishwarya Gondane, Samuel Girmay, Alma Helevä, Satu Pallasaho, Massimo Loda and Harri M. Itkonen
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:13
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  19. Obesity is nowadays considered a pandemic which prevalence’s has been steadily increasingly in western countries. It is a dynamic, complex, and multifactorial disease which propitiates the development of sever...

    Authors: José Antônio Fagundes Assumpção, Gabriel Pasquarelli-do-Nascimento, Mariana Saldanha Viegas Duarte, Martín Hernan Bonamino and Kelly Grace Magalhães
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:12
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  20. The human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) causes severe lower respiratory tract infections in infants and the elderly. An exuberant inadequate immune response is behind most of the pathology caused by the H...

    Authors: María Martín-Vicente, Salvador Resino and Isidoro Martínez
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:11
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  21. Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) is a neurotropic virus which may cause severe neural complications, especially in infants and children. The clinical manifestations include hand-foot-and-mouth disease, herpangina, bra...

    Authors: Yu-Wei Cheng, Yung-Chun Chuang, Sheng-Wen Huang, Ching-Chuan Liu and Jen-Ren Wang
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:10
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  22. K1 capsular polysaccharide (CPS)-associated Klebsiella pneumoniae is the primary cause of pyogenic liver abscesses (PLA) in Asia. Patients with PLA often have serious complications, ultimately leading to a mortal...

    Authors: I-Fan Tu, Tzu-Lung Lin, Feng-Ling Yang, I-Ming Lee, Wei-Lin Tu, Jiahn-Haur Liao, Tzu-Ping Ko, Wen-Jin Wu, Jia-Tsrong Jan, Meng-Ru Ho, Ching-Yi Chou, Andrew H.-J. Wang, Chung-Yi Wu, Jin-Town Wang, Kai-Fa Huang and Shih-Hsiung Wu
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:9
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  23. Preeclampsia (PE), a placenta-associated pregnancy complication, is the leading cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Met/Erk signaling is inhibited in the placentas of patients with early-o...

    Authors: Guanlin Li, Yongqing Wang, Guangming Cao, Yeling Ma, Yu-Xia Li, Yangyu Zhao, Xuan Shao and Yan-Ling Wang
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:8
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  24. Campylobacter spp. are zoonotic pathogens, ubiquitous and are found naturally as commensals in livestock from where they can be transmitted to humans directly or through animal products. The genomic diversity and...

    Authors: Benshak J. Audu, Strachan Norval, Lopes Bruno, Ramjee Meenakshi, Macrae Marion and Ken J. Forbes
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:7
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  25. The secreted glycoprotein leucine-rich α-2 glycoprotein 1 (LRG1) was first described as a key player in pathogenic ocular neovascularization almost a decade ago. Since then, an increasing number of publication...

    Authors: Carlotta Camilli, Alexandra E. Hoeh, Giulia De Rossi, Stephen E. Moss and John Greenwood
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:6
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  26. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most common type of cancer and has a high mortality rate worldwide. Sorafenib is the only systemic treatment demonstrating a statistically significant but modest ove...

    Authors: You-Liang Lai, Kai-Hung Wang, Hsing-Pang Hsieh and Wan-Ching Yen
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:5
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  27. SLCO4A1-AS1 was found to be upregulated in several cancer types, including colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the detailed roles of SLCO4A1-AS1 in CRC remain to be elucidated. Therefore, we investigated the fun...

    Authors: Jia Zhang, Kaisa Cui, Liuying Huang, Fan Yang, Shengbai Sun, Zehua Bian, Xue Wang, Chaoqun Li, Yuan Yin, Shengling Huang, Leyuan Zhou, Bojian Fei and Zhaohui Huang
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:4
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  28. Sp1, an important transcription factor, is involved in the progression of various cancers. Our previous studies have indicated that Sp1 levels are increased in the early stage of lung cancer progression but de...

    Authors: Ming-Jer Young, Yung-Ching Chen, Shao-An Wang, Hui-Ping Chang, Wen-Bin Yang, Chia-Chi Lee, Chia-Yu Liu, Yau-Lin Tseng, Yi-Ching Wang, H. Sunny Sun, Wen-Chang Chang and Jan-Jong Hung
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:3
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  29. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devasting neurodegenerative disorder for which no successful therapeutics are available. Valproic acid (VPA), a monocarboxylate derivative, is a known antiepileptic dru...

    Authors: Asmita Gyawali, Sana Latif, Seung-Hye Choi, Seung Jae Hyeon, Hoon Ryu and Young-Sook Kang
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:2
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  30. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an exceptional public health crisis that demands the timely creation of new therapeutics and viral detection. Owing to their high specificity and reliability...

    Authors: Yu-Chyi Hwang, Ruei-Min Lu, Shih-Chieh Su, Pao-Yin Chiang, Shih-Han Ko, Feng-Yi Ke, Kang-Hao Liang, Tzung-Yang Hsieh and Han-Chung Wu
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2022 29:1
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  31. Craving for alcohol, in other words powerful desire to drink after withdrawal, is an important contributor to the development and maintenance of alcoholism. Here, we studied the role of GDNF (glial cell line-d...

    Authors: Maryna Koskela, T. Petteri Piepponen, Maria Lindahl, Brandon K. Harvey, Jaan-Olle Andressoo, Vootele Võikar and Mikko Airavaara
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:87
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  32. With the advancement of next generation sequencing technologies (NGS), whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has been deployed to a wide range of clinical scenarios. Rapid and accurate classification of drug-resistant My...

    Authors: Ming-Chih Yu, Ching-Sheng Hung, Chun-Kai Huang, Cheng-Hui Wang, Yu-Chih Liang and Jung-Chun Lin
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:86
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  33. Parkinson’s disease (PD), or paralysis agitans, is a common neurodegenerative disease characterized by dopaminergic deprivation in the basal ganglia because of neuronal loss in the substantia nigra pars compac...

    Authors: Lan-Hsin Nancy Lee, Chen-Syuan Huang, Hsiang-Hao Chuang, Hsing-Jung Lai, Cheng-Kai Yang, Ya-Chin Yang and Chung-Chin Kuo
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:85
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  34. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging mosquito-borne human pathogen that causes chikungunya fever, which is typically accompanied by severe joint pain. In Asia, serological evidence indicated that CHIKV f...

    Authors: Sarawut Khongwichit, Jira Chansaenroj, Chintana Chirathaworn and Yong Poovorawan
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:84
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  35. Addictive drugs are habit-forming. Addiction is a learned behavior; repeated exposure to addictive drugs can stamp in learning. Dopamine-depleted or dopamine-deleted animals have only unlearned reflexes; they ...

    Authors: Roy A. Wise and Chloe J. Jordan
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:83
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  36. The virion secretion mechanism of human hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains to be investigated. In our current study, we characterized a reverse transcriptase mutant, which changed from the YMDD motif to YMHA. We ...

    Authors: Chih-Hsu Chang, Shu-Fan Chou and Chiaho Shih
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:82
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  37. RAD51-dependent homologous recombination (HR) is one of the most important pathways for repairing DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), and its regulation is crucial to maintain genome integrity. Elp1 gene encodes IKA...

    Authors: Wei-Ting Chen, Huan-Yi Tseng, Chung-Lin Jiang, Chih-Ying Lee, Peter Chi, Liuh-Yow Chen, Kai-Yin Lo, I-Ching Wang and Fu-Jung Lin
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:81
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  38. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), an RNA virus with a high mutation rate. Importantly, several currently circulating SARS-CoV-2 vari...

    Authors: Kang-Hao Liang, Pao-Yin Chiang, Shih-Han Ko, Yu-Chi Chou, Ruei-Min Lu, Hsiu-Ting Lin, Wan-Yu Chen, Yi-Ling Lin, Mi-Hua Tao, Jia-Tsrong Jan and Han-Chung Wu
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:80
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  39. Cdk5 is a proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that governs a variety of cellular processes in neurons, the dysregulation of which compromises normal brain function. The mechanisms underlying the m...

    Authors: Ping-Chieh Pao and Li-Huei Tsai
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:79
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  40. The discovery of various noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) and their biological implications is a growing area in cell biology. Increasing evidence has revealed canonical and noncanonical functions of long and small ncR...

    Authors: Ming-Che Kuo, Sam Chi-Hao Liu, Ya-Fang Hsu and Ruey-Meei Wu
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:78
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  41. CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) systems are one of the most fascinating tools of the current era in molecular biotechnology. With the ease that they provide in genome editing...

    Authors: Guzide Bender, Rezan Fahrioglu Yamaci and Bahar Taneri
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:77
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  42. Receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 2 (ROR2) is a Wnt5a receptor aberrantly expressed in cancer that was shown to either suppress or promote carcinogenesis in different tumor types. Our goal was to s...

    Authors: María Victoria Castro, Gastón Alexis Barbero, María Belén Villanueva, Luca Grumolato, Jérémie Nsengimana, Julia Newton-Bishop, Edith Illescas, María Josefina Quezada and Pablo Lopez-Bergami
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:76
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  43. A new strategy, particularly a novel combination, for immunotherapy in microsatellite stable metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) treatment needs to be formulated. Studies on the interferon-γ (IFN-γ)/ Janus kin...

    Authors: Yi-Hsin Liang, Kuo-Hsing Chen, Jia-Huei Tsai, Yung-Ming Cheng, Chang-Cheng Lee, Chiu-Hwa Kao, Kuang-Yu Chan, Yeh-Ting Chen, Wen-Ling Hsu and Kun-Huei Yeh
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:75
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  44. Toll-like receptor-2 (TLR2) promotes vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) transdifferentiation to chondrocytes and calcification in a p38 MAPK-dependent manner. Vascular 5-methoxytryptophan (5-MTP) is a newly id...

    Authors: Guan-Lin Lee, Tsai-Lien Liao, Jing-Yiing Wu, Kenneth K. Wu and Cheng-Chin Kuo
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:74
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  45. Renal erythropoietin (EPO)-producing (REP) cells produce EPO through hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) 2α-activated gene transcription. Insufficient EPO production leads to anemia in patients with chronic kidney ...

    Authors: Hong-Mou Shih, Szu-Yu Pan, Chih-Jen Wu, Yu-Hsiang Chou, Chun-Yuan Chen, Fan-Chi Chang, Yi-Ting Chen, Wen-Chih Chiang, Hsing-Chen Tsai, Yung-Ming Chen and Shuei-Liong Lin
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:73
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  46. During autophagy defense against invading microbes, certain lipid types are indispensable for generating specialized membrane-bound organelles. The lipid composition of autophagosomes remains obscure, as does ...

    Authors: Sasikala Muthusamy, Hau-Ming Jan, Ming-Yen Hsieh, Soumik Mondal, Wen-Chun Liu, Yi-An Ko, Wei-Yuan Yang, Kwok-Kong Tony Mong, Guang-Chao Chen and Chun-Hung Lin
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:72
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  48. In modern societies, with an increase in the older population, age-related neurodegenerative diseases have progressively become greater socioeconomic burdens. To date, despite the tremendous effort devoted to ...

    Authors: Ching-Pang Chang, Kuo-Chen Wu, Chien-Yu Lin and Yijuang Chern
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:70
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  49. Overexpression of FGFR1 is observed in numerous tumors and therefore this receptor constitutes an attractive molecular target for selective cancer treatment with cytotoxic conjugates. The success of cancer the...

    Authors: Marta Poźniak, Natalia Porębska, Kamil Jastrzębski, Mateusz Adam Krzyścik, Marika Kucińska, Weronika Zarzycka, Agnieszka Barbach, Małgorzata Zakrzewska, Jacek Otlewski, Marta Miączyńska and Łukasz Opaliński
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:69
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  50. NKX3.1, a prostate-specific tumor suppressor, is either genomically lost or its protein levels are severely downregulated, which are invariably associated with poor prognosis in prostate cancer (PCa). Neverthe...

    Authors: Moloud Aflaki Sooreshjani, Mohini Kamra, Amina Zoubeidi and Kavita Shah
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Science 2021 28:68
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