Adenylate cyclase 3 (ADCY3) is a transmembrane protein predominantly expressed in the primary cilia of neurons. It plays a vital role in converting ATP to cAMP, a secondary messenger that regulates various downstream signaling pathways such as carboh...
Primary cilia are hair-like structures found on nearly all mammalian cell types, including cells in the developing and adult brain. A diverse set of receptors and signaling proteins localize within cilia to regulate many physiological and development...
cAMP-PKA signaling plays a pivotal role in melanin synthesis and melanosome transport by responding to the binding of the α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) to melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R). Adenylate cyclases (ADCYs) are the enzym...
The adenylate cyclase 3 (ADCY3) gene is involved in the regulation of several metabolic processes including the development and function of adipose tissue. The effects of the ADCY3 rs10182181 genetic variant on changes in body composition depending o...
Lung cancer has the highest fatality rate among malignant tumors in the world. Finding new biomarkers of drug resistance is of great importance in the prognosis of lung cancer patients. We found that the polymorphisms of Adenylate Cyclase 1 (ADCY1) a...
Genome-wide association studies have identified adenylyl cyclase type 5 (ADCY5) as candidate gene for diabetes-related quantitative traits and an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. Mice with a whole-body deletion of Adcy5 (Adcy5–/–) do not develop ob...
The effect of cervical cancer immunotherapy is limited. Combination therapy will be a new direction for cervical cancer. Thus, it is essential to discover a novel and available predictive biomarker to stratify patients who may benefit from immunother...
Adenylate cyclase 5 (Adcy5) generates cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) downstream of G protein-coupled receptor signaling, yet its role in vertebrate pigmentation remains incompletely understood. Here, we generated a CRISPR/Cas9-mediated adcy5 k...
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory respiratory condition, characterized by variable airflow limitation, leading to clinical symptoms such as dyspnea and chest tightness. These symptoms result from an underlying inflammatory process. The β2 agonist...
ADCY9, a crucial member of the adenylate cyclase family, exerts neuroprotective and analgesic effects in the nervous system by modulating the activity of the cAMP/AMPK signaling pathway. However, the role of the ADCY9 gene in neural regeneration rema...
Follicle development in dairy goats is lower after induced estrus during the non-breeding season, reducing conception rates and challenging year-round milk supply. This study investigated follicle development during the breeding and non-breeding seas...
Epidemiological studies have reported that the Mexican population is highly susceptible to dyslipidemia. The MARC1, ADCY5, and BCO1 genes have recently been involved in lipidic abnormalities. This study aimed to analyze the association of single nucl...
Adenylate cyclases (ADCYs) catalyze the conversion of ATP to cAMP, an important co-factor in energy homeostasis. Giving ADCYs role in obesity, diabetes and inflammation, we questioned whether calcium-stimulated ADCY isoforms may be variably detectabl...
Obesity and overweight are common conditions in dogs, but individual susceptibility varies with numerous risk factors, including diet, age, sterilization, and gender. In addition to environmental and biological factors, genetic and epigenetic risk fa...
The aims of this study are to determine the chemical composition of Lavandula angustifolia Mill. and Coriandrum sativum L. essential oils, to evaluate their cytotoxic effects in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells, to investigate whether an alteration...
The aims of this work were to study the chemical composition of the essential oil from the leaves of Pereskia aculeata and to evaluate some biological activities of three leaf extracts. The phenolic content, antioxidant activity, and in vitro antimic...
Mounting evidence confirms the compartmentalized structure of evolutionarily conserved 3′–5′-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) signaling, which allows for simultaneous participation in a wide variety of physiological functions and ensures specifi...
Laurus nobilis is native to the southern Mediterranean region and cultivated mainly in Europe and the USA as an ornamental and medicinal plant. The chemical composition of the essential oil (EO) from leaves of L. nobilis, collected in Southern Italy,...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the genetic effects of ADCY9 on ritodrine responses in patients with preterm labor. Five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the ADYC9 gene in 163 patients in preterm labor were genotyped: rs879619,...
In contrast to all transmembrane adenylyl cyclases except ADCY9, the cytosolic soluble adenylyl cyclase (ADCY10) is insensitive to forskolin stimulation and is uniquely modulated by calcium and bicarbonate ions. In the present paper, we focus on ADCY...
The oncogenic Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) expresses 44 mature microRNAs and two non-coding EBER RNAs of 167 (EBER1) and 172 (EBER2) nt length. MiRNA profiling of NK/T cell lines and primary cells and Northern blotting of EBV-infected cell lines and prim...
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is carbohydrate intolerance that occurs during pregnancy. This disease may lead to various maternal and neonatal complications; therefore, early diagnosis is very important. Because of the similarity in pathogenesi...
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a complex disorder that has a significant impact on the aging population. While both genetic and environmental risk factors have been implicated in AAA formation, the precise genetic markers involved and the factors...
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Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most frequent form of kidney cancer. Metastatic stages of ccRCC reduce the five-year survival rate to 15%. In this report, we analyze the ccRCC-induced remodeling of the five KEGG-constructed excretory f...
Cognitive dysfunction and mood changes are prevalent and especially taxing issues for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) and its cognate receptor Fn14 have been shown t...
We profiled the gene expressions in the hypothalamic paraventricular nuclei of 12 male and 12 female pups from a standard rat model of infantile spasms to determine the sex dichotomy of the neurotransmission genomic fabrics. Infantile spasms were tri...
The dicentric chromosome (DC) assay accurately quantifies exposure to radiation; however, manual and semi-automated assignment of DCs has limited its use for a potential large-scale radiation incident. The Automated Dicentric Chromosome Identifier an...
The composition of the extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a pivotal role in tumour initiation, metastasis and therapy resistance. Until now, the ECM composition of salivary gland carcinomas (SGC) has not been studied. We quantitatively analysed the mRN...
Heat shock proteins play roles in assisting other proteins to fold correctly and in preventing the aggregation and accumulation of proteins in misfolded conformations. However, the process of aging significantly degrades this ability to maintain prot...
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a prevalent aortic disease that causes high mortality due to asymptomatic gradual expansion and sudden rupture. The underlying molecular mechanisms and effective pharmaceutical therapy for preventing AAA progression...
Background/Objectives: Cells derived from direct chemical reprogramming into osteoblasts represent a promising source for bone regeneration, but the efficiency needs improvement. Here, we systematically evaluated whether the natural compound psoralen...
Cannabis vaping, particularly involving cannabidiol (CBD) and delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), rapidly delivers highly concentrated cannabinoids to the brain, potentially affecting the hippocampus. This study examined differential expression of lo...
This experiment investigated the effects of dietary Artemisia ordosica Krasch. (AOK) supplementation on the n3-polyunsaturated fatty acid (n3-PUFA) profile of subcutaneous adipose tissue (SADT) in Arbas cashmere goats and explored the underlying tran...
Cadmium (Cd) contamination in plants and soil poses significant risks to livestock, particularly sheep. Cd exposure often leads to severe gastrointestinal diseases in sheep that are difficult to treat. Milk-derived exosomes, particularly those from s...
Ganoderma lucidum has long been recognized for its medicinal properties, particularly due to its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and pro-apoptotic components such as polysaccharides and triterpenoids. This study aimed to evaluate the cytotoxic and mo...
Salivary gland carcinomas (SGC) are a heterogeneous group of tumors. The prognosis varies strongly according to its type, and even the distinction between benign and malign tumor is challenging. Adenoid cystic carcinoma (AdCy) is one subgroup of SGCs...
There is no report on preimplantation phase endometrial transcriptomics in natural conception cycles of primates. In the present study, the whole-genome expression array of endometrium on Days 2, 4, and 6 post-ovulation (pov) in proven natural concep...
Several precedents support an association between single nucleotide genetic polymorphisms (SNPs), the obese phenotype, and eating behavior in the infant-juvenile population. This study aims to study this aspect in depth, analyzing the eating behavior...
The greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) is an emerging marine fish that is increasingly favored in aquaculture. Currently, there are few studies on the development and regulation of greater amberjack ovaries. In this study, the ovary transcriptome p...
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a rare disorder and one of the most abundant causes of intellectual disabilities in females. Single mutations in the gene coding for methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) are responsible for the disorder. MeCP2 regulates gene ex...
Mammalian hibernation requires extensive metabolic remodeling, but traditional transcriptomic approaches cannot distinguish between mRNA synthesis and degradation, leaving the evolutionary barriers governing its transcriptional control unclear. To ad...
The number of drug overdose deaths involving opioids continues to rise in the United States. Many patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) that seek treatment still experience relapse. Perseverant opioid seeking behaviors represent a major challenge t...
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC), the most common skin cancer, is primarily driven by Hedgehog (Hh) and TP53 pathway alterations. Although additional pathways were implicated, the mutational landscape in Asian populations, particularly Koreans, remains und...
Citrus medica cv. ‘liscia’ and C. medica cv. ‘rugosa’ are two taxa of citron, belonging to the biodiversity of South Italy, in particular of Amalfi Coast, in the Campania region. The chemical composition of the essential oils (EOs) from fruit peels o...
Theobromine (TBR) is a methylxanthine known for its bronchodilatory and stimulatory effects. This research evaluated the vitality, capacitation patterns, oxidative characteristics, microbial profile and expression of capacitation-associated proteins...
In order to investigate the mechanism of glucagon regulation of gluconeogenesis, primary hepatocytes of the Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) were incubated with synthesized glucagon, and methods based on inhibitors and gene overexpression w...
Background: Numerous studies have identified that circular RNAs (circRNAs) can serve as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) to regulate tumor progression. However, there are still a large number of circRNAs to be deciphered. Objective: The purpose of...
The giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, is a prawn that has economic significance throughout the world. It exhibits sex-related growth dimorphism, whereby the males grow significantly more rapidly than the females. Therefore, a study o...
Wanbei pig (WBP) is one of the indigenous pig resources in China and has many germplasm characteristics. However, research on its genome is lacking. To assess the genomic variation, population structure, and selection signatures, we resequenced 18 WB...
Background: Paroxysmal dyskinesias (PDs) are rare, episodic movement disorders characterized by sudden and involuntary hyperkinetic motor events. In paediatric populations, their diagnosis is often complicated by clinical overlap with epilepsy and ot...
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