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Current Issues in Molecular Biology, Volume 28, Issue 1

October 2018 - 4 articles

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Articles (4)

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
2,936 Views
22 Pages

A Review of CRISPR-Based Genome Editing: Survival, Evolution and Challenges

  • Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad,
  • Muhammad Jamil Ahmad,
  • Akhtar Rasool Asif,
  • Muhammad Adnan,
  • Muhammad Kashif Iqbal,
  • Khalid Mehmood,
  • Sayyed Aun Muhammad,
  • Ali Akbar Bhuiyan,
  • Abdelmotaleb Elokil and
  • Xiaoyong Du
  • + 3 authors

Precise nucleic acid editing technologies have facilitated the research of cellular function and the development of novel therapeutics, especially the current programmable nucleases-based editing tools, such as the prokaryotic clustered regularly int...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
1,319 Views
15 Pages

Snapshots: Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Lipid Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease

  • Tian Li,
  • Shuai Jiang,
  • Chenxi Lu,
  • Wei Hu,
  • Ting Ji,
  • Mengzhen Han,
  • Yang Yang and
  • Zhenxiao Jin

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an organelle present in most eukaryotic cells and plays a pivotal role in lipid metabolism. ER dysfunction, specifically ER stress (ERS), is a pathophysiological response involved in lipid metabolism and cardiovascul...

  • Review
  • Open Access
121 Citations
2,379 Views
18 Pages

PGC-1: The Energetic Regulator in Cardiac Metabolism

  • Wencheng Di,
  • Jianjun Lv,
  • Shuai Jiang,
  • Chenxi Lu,
  • Zhi Yang,
  • Zhiqiang Ma,
  • Wei Hu,
  • Yang Yang and
  • Biao Xu

The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) coactivator-1s (PGC-1s) can induce the expression of several downstream genes that play pivotal roles in the regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis and metabolism in the heart. Moreover, PGC-1...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
562 Views
14 Pages

Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Despite scientific and technical progress in risk prediction, diagnostics, prognostication and therapy of cardiovascular pathologies, new biomarkers and therapeutic targ...

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