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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,713 Views
15 Pages

CWH43 Is a Novel Tumor Suppressor Gene with Negative Regulation of TTK in Colorectal Cancer

  • Cheng-Chin Lee,
  • Kuei-Yen Tsai,
  • Ai-Wei Lee,
  • Po-Li Wei,
  • Chien-Yu Huang,
  • Uyanga Batzorig and
  • Yu-Jia Chang

17 October 2023

Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks among the most prevalent forms of cancer globally, and its late-stage survival outcomes are less than optimal. A more nuanced understanding of the underlying mechanisms behind CRC’s development is crucial for enhan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,175 Views
14 Pages

Monopolar Spindle 1 Kinase (MPS1/TTK) mRNA Expression is Associated with Earlier Development of Clinical Symptoms, Tumor Aggressiveness and Survival of Glioma Patients

  • Almuth F. Kessler,
  • Jonas Feldheim,
  • Dominik Schmitt,
  • Julia J. Feldheim,
  • Camelia M. Monoranu,
  • Ralf-Ingo Ernestus,
  • Mario Löhr and
  • Carsten Hagemann

Inhibition of the protein kinase MPS1, a mitotic spindle-checkpoint regulator, reinforces the effects of multiple therapies against glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) in experimental settings. We analyzed MPS1 mRNA-expression in gliomas WHO grade II, III...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,686 Views
20 Pages

In-Silico Evaluation of Genetic Alterations in Ovarian Carcinoma and Therapeutic Efficacy of NSC777201, as a Novel Multi-Target Agent for TTK, NEK2, and CDK1

  • Harshita Nivrutti Khedkar,
  • Yu-Chi Wang,
  • Vijesh Kumar Yadav,
  • Prateeti Srivastava,
  • Bashir Lawal,
  • Ntlotlang Mokgautsi,
  • Maryam Rachmawati Sumitra,
  • Alexander T. H. Wu and
  • Hsu-Shan Huang

Ovarian cancer is often detected at the advanced stages at the time of initial diagnosis. Early-stage diagnosis is difficult due to its asymptomatic nature, where less than 30% of 5-year survival has been noticed. The underlying molecular events asso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,865 Views
32 Pages

2 July 2025

PAN-gastrointestinal cancers (PAN-GI cancers), including the oral, esophageal, gastric, hepatocellular, pancreatic=, and colorectal cancers, are the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Despite recent advances in identifying the molecular mecha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,988 Views
14 Pages

Tetragonia tetragonioides (Pall.) Kuntze Regulates Androgen Production in a Letrozole-Induced Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Model

  • Bo-Jeong Pyun,
  • Hyun Yang,
  • Eunjin Sohn,
  • Song Yi Yu,
  • Dongoh Lee,
  • Dong Ho Jung,
  • Byoung Seob Ko and
  • Hye Won Lee

Tetragonia tetragonioides (Pall.) Kuntze (TTK) is a medicinal plant traditionally used to treat various diseases such as diabetic, inflammatory, and female-related disorders. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrinological disorder in w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,967 Views
15 Pages

Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) Kuntze Restores Blood Perfusion from Hind-Limb Ischemic Mice

  • Hyun Yang,
  • Dong Ho Jung,
  • Hye Won Lee,
  • Dongoh Lee and
  • Byoung Seob Ko

30 November 2020

Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) Kuntze (TTK) is grown for the edible leaves, and can be used as food. And which commonly called Beonhaengcho in Republic of Korea. TTK is found along the seaside of the Jeju-Island and it has long been consumed as a f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,109 Views
15 Pages

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease. Herbal medicine may provide efficacious treatments for its prevention and/or cure. This study investigated whether a 70% ethanol extract of Tetragonia tetragonioides Kuntze (T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,956 Views
21 Pages

Upregulation of Thr/Tyr kinase Increases the Cancer Progression by Neurotensin and Dihydropyrimidinase-Like 3 in Lung Cancer

  • Ying-Ming Tsai,
  • Kuan-Li Wu,
  • Yung-Yun Chang,
  • Jen-Yu Hung,
  • Wei-An Chang,
  • Chao-Yuan Chang,
  • Shu-Fang Jian,
  • Pei-Hsun Tsai,
  • Yung-Chi Huang and
  • Ya-Ling Hsu
  • + 1 author

28 February 2020

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death globally, thus elucidation of its molecular pathology is highly highlighted. Aberrant alterations of the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) are implicated in the development of cancer du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,304 Views
22 Pages

Software Aging Effects on Kubernetes in Container Orchestration Systems for Digital Twin Cloud Infrastructures of Urban Air Mobility

  • Jackson Costa,
  • Rubens Matos,
  • Jean Araujo,
  • Jueying Li,
  • Eunmi Choi,
  • Tuan Anh Nguyen,
  • Jae-Woo Lee and
  • Dugki Min

3 January 2023

It is necessary to develop a vehicle digital twin (DT) for urban air mobility (UAM) that uses an accurate, physics-based emulator to model the statics and dynamics of a vehicle. This is because the use of digital twins in the operation and control of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
951 Views
10 Pages

The brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens, a major rice pest, threatens global food security through rapid reproduction. This study investigates the role of the tramtrack (ttk) gene in male reproductive development and spermatogenesis using RNA interf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,477 Views
16 Pages

T Cell-Mediated Tumor Killing-Related Classification of the Immune Microenvironment and Prognosis Prediction of Lung Adenocarcinoma

  • Peng Ding,
  • Lichao Liu,
  • Yawen Bin,
  • Yu Huang,
  • Lingjuan Chen,
  • Lu Wen,
  • Ruiguang Zhang,
  • Fan Tong and
  • Xiaorong Dong

5 December 2022

Background: Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are a promising therapeutic strategy for lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), individual subgroups that might benefit from them are yet to be identified. As T cell-mediated tumor killing (TTK) is an unde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,820 Views
18 Pages

Thermal Model Approach to the YASA Machine for In-Wheel Traction Applications

  • Guangchen Wang,
  • Yingjie Wang,
  • Yuan Gao,
  • Wei Hua,
  • Qinan Ni and
  • Hengliang Zhang

27 July 2022

The axial-flux permanent magnet (AFPM) machines with yokeless and segmented armature (YASA) topology are suitable for in-wheel traction systems due to the high power density and efficiency. To guarantee the reliable operation of the YASA machines, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,957 Views
19 Pages

Inhibition of Ganglioside Synthesis Suppressed Liver Cancer Cell Proliferation through Targeting Kinetochore Metaphase Signaling

  • Ting Su,
  • Xian-Yang Qin,
  • Naoshi Dohmae,
  • Feifei Wei,
  • Yutaka Furutani,
  • Soichi Kojima and
  • Wenkui Yu

15 March 2021

The incidence and mortality of liver cancer, mostly hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), have increased during the last two decades, partly due to persistent inflammation in the lipid-rich microenvironment associated with lifestyle diseases, such as obesi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
414 Views
24 Pages

Overcoming Therapeutic Resistance in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Targeting the Undrugged Kinome

  • Chang Hoon Lee,
  • Tuan Minh Nguyen,
  • Yongook Lee,
  • Seoung Gyu Choi,
  • Phuong Ngan Nguyen,
  • Jung Ho Park and
  • Mi Kyung Park

31 December 2025

Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) remains the most aggressive breast cancer subtype, characterized by profound heterogeneity and a lack of effective targeted therapies. Although cytotoxic chemotherapy is the standard of care, the rapid emergence o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,797 Views
14 Pages

22 April 2021

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a relatively chemo-resistant tumor. Several multi-kinase inhibitors have been approved for treating advanced HCC. However, most HCC patients are highly refractory to these drugs. Therefore, the development of more ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,975 Views
14 Pages

19 July 2024

As an important research tool, cell lines play a vital role in life science research, medical research, and drug development. During the culture of the Scophthalmus maximus head kidney (TK) cell line, we found a phenomenon of cell vacuolization cause...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,234 Views
27 Pages

6 July 2023

Atmospheric water generation (AWG) is a technological innovation that facilitates the extraction of water from the atmosphere using various techniques. In response to mounting concerns regarding water scarcity in multiple regions globally, AWG has em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,125 Views
19 Pages

Digestive system cancer and COVID-19 significantly affect the digestive system, but the mechanism of interaction between COVID-19 and the digestive system cancers has not been fully elucidated. We downloaded the gene expression of COVID-19 and seven...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,049 Views
13 Pages

JNK Inhibition Overcomes Resistance of Metastatic Tetraploid Cancer Cells to Irradiation-Induced Apoptosis

  • Mohamed Jemaà,
  • Nouha Setti Boubaker,
  • Nesrine Kerkeni and
  • Stephan M. Huber

30 January 2025

Tetraploidy is a condition in which the entire set of chromosomes doubles, most often due to errors during cell division. Tetraploidy can lead to genomic instability and significant consequences, in particular metastasis and treatment failure in tumo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,111 Views
14 Pages

Investigation of Transcriptome Patterns in Endometrial Cancers from Obese and Lean Women

  • Konii Takenaka,
  • Ashton Curry-Hyde,
  • Ellen M. Olzomer,
  • Rhonda Farrell,
  • Frances L. Byrne and
  • Michael Janitz

29 September 2022

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological malignancy in developed countries. One of the largest risk factors for endometrial cancer is obesity. The aim of this study was to determine whether there are differences in the transcriptome of en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,674 Views
20 Pages

11 November 2020

Accumulating evidence indicates that the reliable gene signature may serve as an independent prognosis factor for lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) diagnosis. Here, we sought to identify a risk score signature for survival prediction of LUAD patients. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,909 Views
21 Pages

Bi-Functional Alginate Oligosaccharide–Polymyxin Conjugates for Improved Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections

  • Joana Stokniene,
  • Lydia C. Powell,
  • Olav A. Aarstad,
  • Finn L. Aachmann,
  • Philip D. Rye,
  • Katja E. Hill,
  • David W. Thomas and
  • Elaine L. Ferguson

The recent emergence of resistance to colistin, an antibiotic of last resort with dose-limiting toxicity, has highlighted the need for alternative approaches to combat infection. This study aimed to generate and characterise alginate oligosaccharide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,974 Views
21 Pages

14 October 2021

Our understanding of metastatic prostate cancer (mPrCa) has dramatically advanced during the genomics era. Nonetheless, many aspects of the disease may still be uncovered through reanalysis of public datasets. We integrated the expression datasets fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,294 Views
27 Pages

7 April 2021

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most common cancer and the third most common cause of cancer-related death, with tumour associated liver endothelial cells being thought to be major drivers in HCC progression. This study aims to compare th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,421 Views
19 Pages

Mono-polar spindle 1 (Mps1/TTK) represents a protein kinase reported to be vital for cell division processes and is generally regarded as an attractive target for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, breast carcinoma, and colon cancer. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
8,915 Views
30 Pages

mRNAsi Index: Machine Learning in Mining Lung Adenocarcinoma Stem Cell Biomarkers

  • Yitong Zhang,
  • Joseph Ta-Chien Tseng,
  • I-Chia Lien,
  • Fenglan Li,
  • Wei Wu and
  • Hui Li

27 February 2020

Cancer stem cells (CSCs), characterized by self-renewal and unlimited proliferation, lead to therapeutic resistance in lung cancer. In this study, we aimed to investigate the expressions of stem cell-related genes in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). The s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
670 Views
13 Pages

TIM-3 Promotes Proliferation of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Blasts

  • Zong-Yan Shi,
  • Kai Sun,
  • Zhao-Yu Li,
  • Dai-Hong Xie and
  • Ya-Zhen Qin

20 November 2025

Background: The immunocheckpoint TIM-3 is also expressed on acute myeloid leukemia (AML) blasts. Its prognostic significance requires clarification through subgroup analysis, while its functional roles and underlying mechanisms remain to be further i...