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Bacteriophages, or phages, are the most abundant biological entities on Earth. They possess molecular nanodevices to package and store their genome, as well as to introduce it into the cytoplasm of their bacterial prey. Successful phage infection com...

The members of the p53 family comprise p53, p63, and p73, and full-length isoforms of the p53 family have a tumor suppressor function. However, p53, but not p63 or p73, has a high mutation rate in cancers causing it to lose its tumor suppressor funct...

Feline oral squamous cell carcinoma (FOSCC) is a highly aggressive head and neck cancer in cats, but the molecular pathogenesis of this cancer is still uncertain. In this study, p16, p53, and pRb proteins were detected and quantified by immunohistoch...

A graph G is said to be perfect if $\omega \left(H\right)=\chi \left(H\right)$ for every induced subgraph H of G, where $\omega \left(H\right)$ and $\chi \left(H\right)$ denote the clique number and the chromatic number of H. We say that a graph G admits a perfect division if its vertex set can be p...

In recent years, $(p,q)$-special polynomials, such as $\left(p,q\right)$-Euler, $\left(p,q\right)$-Genocchi, $\left(p,q\right)$-Bernoulli, and $\left(p,q\right)$-Frobenius-Euler, have been studied and investigated by many mathematicians, as well physicists. It is important that any polynomial have explicit form...

Glioblastoma (GBM), the most common primary brain tumor, is a complex and extremely aggressive disease. Despite recent advances in molecular biology, there is a lack of biomarkers, which would improve GBM’s diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy. He...

After the observation of the strong near-threshold enhancement of proton-antiproton mass spectrum in $J/\psi \to \gamma p$...

Rising awareness and emergence of smart technologies have inspired new thinking in energy system management. Whilst integration of distributed energy resources in micro-grids (MGs) has become the technique of choice for consumers to generate their en...

The TP53 gene is a critical tumor suppressor and key determinant of cell fate which regulates numerous cellular functions including DNA repair, cell cycle arrest, cellular senescence, apoptosis, autophagy and metabolism. In the last 15 years, the p53...

Given a positive integer n, a finite group G is called quasi-core-n if $⟨x⟩/{⟨x⟩}_G$ has order at most n for any element x in G, where ${⟨x⟩}_G$ is the normal core of $⟨x⟩$ in G....

Applications running over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have exploded since the late 1990s. Research is needed into many aspects of P2P. These include architecture, application functionality, and the categories of digital works that are shared using P2...

p53-dependent signaling and the integrated stress response (ISR) are major stress response programs that coordinate cellular metabolism and cell fate decisions. While p53 activation often promotes cell cycle arrest and cell death, the ISR can support...

The p53 tumor suppressor protein is crucial for cell growth control and the maintenance of genomic stability. Later discovered, p63 and p73 share structural and functional similarity with p53. To understand the p53 pathways more profoundly, all famil...

In this paper, we introduce the $\left(\rho ,q\right)$ -analog of the p-adic factorial function. By utilizing some properties of $\left(\rho ,q\right)$ -numbers, we obtain several new and interesting identities and formulas. We then construct the p-adic $\left(\mathrm{\&rho}\right)$...

Let G be a graph. We denote the chromatic (clique) number of G by $\chi \left(G\right)\left(\omega \right(G\left)\right)$. In this paper, we prove that (i) $\chi \left(G\right)\le 2\omega \left(G\right)$ if G is ($P_3\cup P_2$, kite)-free, (ii) $\chi \left(G\right)\le {\omega }^2\left(G\right)$ if G is ($P_3\cup P_2$, hammer)-free, (iii) $\mathrm{\&chi}$...

Lactococcus lactis and Lactococcus cremoris are broadly utilized as starter cultures for fermented dairy products and are inherently impacted by bacteriophage (phage) attacks in the industrial environment. Consequently, the generation of bacteriophag...

The classical tests for combining p-values use suitable statistics $T(P_1,\dots ,P_n)$, which are based on the assumption that the observed p-values are genuine, i.e., under null hypotheses, are observations from independent and identically distributed...

Wind turbines (WTs) are exposed to a dynamic/cyclic load environment, and are subjected to 1P/3P loads under operational conditions. Recent studies introduced the Sommerfeld Effect to explain the dynamic response amplification induced by 1P/3P loads....

Background: This study aimed to investigate the role of ROS/MAPK signaling pathways and the effects of baicalin in LPS-induced inflammatory responses in mice and porcine intestinal epithelial cells (IPEC-J2). Methods: In vivo, 18 male C57BL/6J mice w...

In this review we focus on the major isoforms of the tumor-suppressor protein p53, dysfunction of which often leads to cancer. Mutations of the TP53 gene, particularly in the DNA binding domain, have been regarded as the main cause for p53 inactivati...

This study aimed to investigate the expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) -146b-3p, -221-5p, -222-3p, and -21a-3p and the methylation pattern of the thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor (TSHR) gene in blood plasma samples from papillary thyroid cancer (PT...

Microglia cells represent the immune system of the central nervous system. They become activated by ATP released from damaged and inflamed tissue via purinergic receptors. Ionotropic purinergic P2X4 and P2X7 receptors have been shown to be involved i...

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare yet aggressive breast cancer variant, associated with a poor prognosis. The major challenge for IBC is misdiagnosis due to the lack of molecular biomarkers. We profiled dysregulated expression of microRNAs (...

In this article, the $(p,q)$-analogs of the $\alpha$-th fractional Fourier transform are provided, along with a discussion of their characteristics in specific classes of $(p,q)$-generalized functions. Two spaces of infinitely $(p,q)$-differentiable functio...

Early hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) diagnosis is challenging. Moreover, for patients with alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)-negative HCC, this challenge is augmented. MicroRNAs (miRs) profiles may serve as potential HCC molecular markers. We aimed to assess p...

This paper summarizes the results of investigations into heterogeneous P23/P91 welds after long-term creep exposure at temperatures of 500, 550 and 600 °C. Two variants of welds were studied: In Weld A, the filler material corresponded to P91 ste...

S100P, a small calcium-binding protein, associates with the p53 protein with micromolar affinity. It has been hypothesized that the oncogenic function of S100P may involve binding-induced inactivation of p53. We used ¹H-¹⁵N HSQC experiments and molec...

Transactivation of p21 (cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1A, CDKN1A) is closely related to the recruitment of transcription cofactors at the p53 responsive elements (p53REs) in its promoter region. Human chromatin remodeling enzyme INO80 can be recr...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are widely used to exchange content over the Internet. Knowledge of pedophile activity in such networks remains limited, despite having important social consequences. Moreover, though there are different P2P systems in use,...

Background: Cardiovascular diseases remain important causes of morbidity and potential premature mortality in children. Although clinical imaging and electrophysiologic testing have advanced, early, minimally invasive biomarkers that can both detect...

Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p16 (CDKN2A) primarily functions as a negative regulator of the retinoblastoma protein (pRb) pathway to prevent pRb phosphorylation, thus playing a critical role in cell cycle arrest. In canine lymphoma cells, methyl...

The regularity of the n-P-V-rings and n-P-V’-rings is systematically investigated in this paper. Employing the notions of quasi-ideals, weakly left (or right) ideals, and generalized weak ideals, we focus on investigating the strong $\pi$-regula...

Multidrug resistance (MDR) is regarded as one of the bottlenecks of successful clinical treatment for numerous chemotherapeutic agents. Multiple key regulators are alleged to be responsible for MDR and making the treatment regimens ineffective. In th...

T-2 mycotoxins are known to induce toxic effects in animals. The kidneys are particularly vulnerable to oxidative stress induced by toxins, resulting in cellular damage, apoptosis, and disruptions to cell cycle regulation. Cyclin-dependent kinase inh...

Moyamoya angiopathy (MA) is a rare cerebrovascular disorder characterised by the progressive occlusion of the internal carotid artery. Its aetiology is uncertain, but a genetic background seems likely, given the high MA familial rate. To investigate...

In this paper, we study asymptotic semicircular laws induced both by arbitrarily fixed $C^{*}$ -probability spaces, and p-adic number fields ${\left\{{\mathbb{Q}}_p\right\}}_{p\in \mathcal{P}}$ , as p→ ∞ in the set $\mathcal{P}$ of all primes.

The rapid development of online lending in the past decade, while providing convenience and efficiency, also generates large hidden credit risk for the financial system. Will removing financial intermediaries really provide more efficiency to the len...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have been popular among users for more than a decade. They consume a lot of network bandwidth, due to the fact that network administrators face several issues such as congestion, security, managing resources, etc. Henc...

Background: The current treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is focused on decreasing gastric acid secretion. However, there is still a group of patients that do not respond to conventional therapy. Proteinase-activated receptors and p...

We establish a theory whose structure is based on a fixed variable and an algebraic inequality and which improves the well-known least squares theory. The mentioned fixed variable plays a basic role in creating such a theory. In this direction, some...

The P2X7 receptor for extracellular ATP is a well-established mediator of tumoral development and progression both in solid cancers and hematological malignancies. The human P2X7 gene is highly polymorphic, and several splice variants of the receptor...

Background and Objectives: Prediction of response to therapy remains a continuing challenge in treating breast cancer, especially for identifying molecular tissue markers that best characterize resistant tumours. Microribonucleic acids (miRNA), known...

We study photoluminescence of InP/InAsP/InP nanostructures monolithically integrated to a Si(100) substrate. The InP/InAsP/InP nanostructures were grown in pre-formed pits in the silicon substrate using an original approach based on selective area gr...

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) present similarities with Peer to Peer (P2P) systems in terms of decentralization, equality and autonomy. This results in the rise of new collaborative and spontaneous P2P applications over MANETs such as P2P auctions....

We propose a model of a quantum $\mathsf{N}$-dimensional system (quNit) based on a quadratic extension of the non-Archimedean field of p-adic numbers. As in the standard complex setting, states and observables of a p-adic quantum system are implemented by suita...

Current Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy market models raise serious concerns regarding the confidentiality and integrity of energy consumption, trading and billing data. While Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) systems (e.g., blockchain) have been propose...

Endometrial cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women in Europe. Its carcinogenesis is a complex process and requires further research. In our study, we focus on finding new and easy-to-diagnose markers for detecting endometrial cancer. For th...

It is known that E2F2 (E2F transcription factor 2) plays an important role as controller in the cell cycle. This study aimed to analyse the expression of the E2F2 gene and E2F2 protein and demonstrate E2F2 target microRNAs (miRNAs) candidates (miR-12...

Thermodynamic modeling of the Si–P and Si–Fe–P systems was performed using the CALculation of PHAse Diagram (CALPHAD) method based on critical evaluation of available experimental data in the literature. The liquid and solid solutio...

Cytochrome P450 reductase (CYPOR) provides electrons to all human microsomal cytochrome P450s (cyt P450s). The length and sequence of the “140s” FMN binding loop of CYPOR has been shown to be a key determinant of its redox potential and activity with...