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This paper demonstrates the performance of autonomous rovers utilizing NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) in multi-room scenarios and explores their potential applications in wildfire management and search and rescue missions. Simulations...

This paper reviews the near-equilibrium ammonothermal (NEAT) growth of bulk gallium nitride (GaN) crystals and reports the evaluation of 2″ GaN substrates and 100 mmbulk GaN crystal grown in our pilot production reactor. Recent progress in oxyg...

The long noncoding RNA NEAT1 is known to be heavily dysregulated in many cancers. A single exon gene produces two isoforms, NEAT1_1 and NEAT1_2, through alternative 3′-end processing. As the longer isoform, NEAT1_2 is an essential scaffold for...

Dapsone is an effective antibacterial drug used to treat a variety of conditions. However, the aqueous solubility of this drug is limited, as is its permeability. This study expands the available solubility data pool for dapsone by measuring its solu...

Coumarin is a naturally occurring lactone-type benzopyrone with various applications in the pharmaceutical, food, perfume, and cosmetics industries. This hydrophobic compound is poorly soluble in water but dissolves well in protic organic solvents su...

As one of the best-studied long noncoding RNAs, nuclear paraspeckle assembly transcript 1 (NEAT1) plays a pivotal role in the progression of cancers. NEAT1, especially its isoform NEAT1-1, facilitates the growth and metastasis of various cancers, exc...

Non-coding RNA were previously thought to be biologically useless molecules arising from simple transcriptional noise. These are now known to be an integral part of cellular biology and pathology. The wide range of RNA molecules have a diverse range...

CD44, a cancer stem cell (CSC) marker, is required for maintaining CSC properties in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Nuclear enriched abundant transcript 1 (NEAT1), a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), is an oncogenic driver in HCC. In the present study, w...

A long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), nuclear enriched abundant transcript 1 (NEAT1) variant 1 (NEAT1v1), is involved in the maintenance of cancer stem cells (CSCs) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). CSCs are suggested to play important roles in therapeutic...

A long noncoding RNA, nuclear paraspeckle assembly transcript 1 (NEAT1) variant 1 (NEAT1v1), confers radioresistance to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells by inducing autophagy via γ-aminobutyric acid A receptor-associated protein (GABARAP)....

Nuclear paraspeckle assembly transcript 1 (NEAT1) is a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) reported to be frequently deregulated in various types of cancers and neurodegenerative processes. NEAT1 is an indispensable structural component of paraspeckles (PSs...

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in a variety of biological and cellular processes as well as in physiologic and pathophysiologic events. This review summarizes recent literature about the role of the lncRNA nuclear enriched abundant trans...

The biological role and therapeutic potential of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are still open questions. Herein, we investigated the significance of the lncRNA NEAT1 in CLL. We examined NEAT1 expression in 310 n...

Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality in men worldwide, mainly due to unsatisfactory diagnostic methods used at present, which lead to overdiagnosis, unnecessary biopsies and treatment, or mis...

The nuclear paraspeckle assembly transcript 1 (NEAT1) locus encodes two long non-coding (lnc)RNA isoforms that are upregulated in many tumours and dynamically expressed in response to stress. NEAT1 transcripts form ribonucleoprotein complexes with nu...

This study investigated the effects of a long noncoding RNA, nuclear paraspeckle assembly transcript 1 (NEAT1) variant 1 (NEAT1v1) on drug resistance in liver cancer cell lines. NEAT1 knockdown activated mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signal...

(1) Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a crippling condition characterized by chondrocyte dedifferentiation, cartilage degradation, and subsequent cartilage defects. Unfortunately, there is a lack of effective medicines to facilitate the repair of ca...

Long non-coding (lnc) RNAs serve a multitude of functions in cells. NEAT1 RNA is a highly abundant 4 kb lncRNA in nuclei, and coincides with paraspeckles, nuclear domains that control sequestration of paraspeckle proteins. We examined NEAT1 RNA level...

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is an aggressive malignancy with poor patient outcomes. The long non-coding RNA NEAT1 (lncRNA NEAT1) has emerged as a critical driver of HNSCC pathogenesis. This review synthesizes current knowledge on ln...

Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune enteropathy arising in genetically predisposed subjects exposed to gluten, which activates both innate and adaptive immunity. Although the pathogenesis is common to all patients, the clinical spectrum is quite var...

Mesangial cells (MCs), substantial cells for architecture and function of the glomerular tuft, take a key role in progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD). Despite long standing researches and the need for novel therapies, the underlying regulato...

Glioblastoma (GBM), as the most common primary brain tumor, usually results in an extremely poor prognosis, in which glioma stem cells (GSCs) and their immunosuppressive microenvironment prominently intervene in the resistance to radiotherapy and che...

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a key process contributing to cervical cancer (CC) metastasis, and microRNAs (miRNAs) modulate the expression of genes implicated in EMT. However, the accurate role of miR-361 in CC-associated EMT and the me...

A new, eco-friendly process utilising the green solvent propylene carbonate (PC) has been developed to perform N-alkylation of N-, O- and/or S-containing heterocyclic compounds. PC in these reactions served as both the reagent and solvent. Importantl...

More research is required to understand how melatonin protects neurons. The study aimed to find out if and how long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) contributes to melatonin’s ability to defend the hippocampus from H₂O₂-induced oxidative injury. LncRNAs...

HIV-1 infection in microglia induces HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND). Recent evidence suggests that microglia can be infected with HIV-1 in the active, persistent, or latent replication stages. The molecular mechanisms governing these s...

Jatropha biodiesel was produced from neat jatropha oil using both esterification and transesterification processes. The free fatty acid value content of neat jatropha oil was reduced to approximately 2% from 12% through esterification. Aluminium oxid...

Background: The majority of head and neck cancers (HNCs) occur in the larynx. In clinical practice, adverse effects are frequently observed in laryngeal cancer (LC) patients undergoing radiotherapy (RT). Therefore, investigating markers that can pred...

Long non-coding RNAs play an important role in tumor growth, angiogenesis, and metastasis in several types of cancer. However, the clinical significance of using lncRNAs as biomarkers for breast cancer diagnosis and prognosis is still poorly investig...

Background: Extracellular matrix (ECM)-derived mechanical stimuli regulate many cellular processes and phenotypes through mechanotransduction signaling pathways. Substrate stiffness changes cell phenotypes and promotes angiogenesis, epithelial to mes...

Environmental awareness of the ecological problems caused by this climate crisis and its impact on global health has been growing globally. Nurses are health care agents that usually hurt the environment and contribute to the unsustainability of the...

Locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) presents a clinical challenge due to lack of reliable molecular biomarkers for early diagnosis, prognosis, and prediction of response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT). Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have e...

This study investigates the antibacterial activity of neat chitosan powder and flakes against three different bacterial species, Escherichia coli, Listeria innocua and Staphylococcus aureus, which are frequent causes of food spoilage. The effect of c...

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive and prevalent form of a human brain tumor in adults. Several data have demonstrated the implication of microRNAs (miRNAs) in tumorigenicity of GBM stem-like cells (GSCs). The regulatory functions of miRNAs in...

Cellular senescence is characterized by proliferation and migration exhaustion, senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), and oxidative stress. Senescent vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) contribute to cardiovascular diseases and atheroscl...

The aim of this research was to define the effect of oxidative aging on the chemical and rheological properties of neat and styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) polymer-modified bitumen. The experimental research had two objectives: firstly, the short and...

Breast cancer, the most prevalent cancer type among women worldwide, remains incurable once metastatic. Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) and microRNA (miRNA) play important roles in breast cancer by regulating specific genes or proteins. In this study, we...

The healthcare sector significantly impacts environmental sustainability, with nurses contributing to waste and energy use while also being positioned to lead change through sustainable practices. However, only one validated tool, the Nurses’ E...

Friction and wear of sliding surfaces are responsible for important energy losses and negative environmental effects. The use of environmentally friendly and cost-effective protic ionic liquids as neat lubricants and lubricant additives has the poten...

The use of amine-based carbamates with their dual function, acting as amine curing agents and CO₂ blowing agents after their decomposition without by-products, are promising for ecofriendly epoxy foams as high-performance materials. However, controll...

Molecular dynamics simulations of free-standing thin films of neat melts of polyethylene (PE) chains up to C₁₅₀H₃₀₂ and their binary mixtures with n-C₁₃H₂₈ are performed employing a united atom model. We estimate the surface tension values of PE melt...

A growing number of personal informatics (PI) systems have been designed to break the habit of prolonged sitting and to encourage physical activity during workdays and leisure hours. Few studies, however, have investigated the nature of local movemen...

A series of four novel halogen-free borate-based protic ionic liquids were synthesized with identical organoborate anions but dissimilar ammonium cations, to allow systematic discussion of the effects of cation alkyl chain group length on their physi...

Paraspeckles are nuclear condensates formed by NEAT1_2 lncRNA and different RNA-binding proteins. In general, these membraneless organelles function in the regulation of gene expression and translation and in miRNA processing, and in doing this, they...

A micromechanical model is developed to study the creep phenomena with neat and carbon-fiber-reinforced PEEK (Polyetheretherketon) and epoxy. The model considers that the continuous elastic circular fibers form a regular array inside the matrix mater...

In this work, fully polysaccharide based membranes were presented as self-standing, solid polyelectrolytes for application in anion exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFCs). For this purpose, cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) were modified successfully with...

Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 regulatory subunit 1 (CDK5R1) gene encodes for p35, the main activator of Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5). The active p35/CDK5 complex is involved in numerous aspects of brain development and function, and its deregulation...

Liquid-assisted grinding was employed to generate a cocrystal of adefovir dipivoxil (AD) and glutaric acid (GLU), which had not been successfully obtained through solution crystallization. The cocrystal formation was confirmed with powder X-ray diff...

The thermodynamic properties of phenacetin in solid state and in saturated conditions in neat and binary solvents were characterized based on differential scanning calorimetry and spectroscopic solubility measurements. The temperature-related heat ca...

This study investigates three carbide-derived carbon (CDC) materials (TiC, NbC, and Mo₂C) characterized by uni-, bi-, and tri-modal pore sizes, respectively, for energy storage in both neat and acetonitrile-diluted 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(tri...