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mRNA stability influences gene expression and translation in almost all living organisms, and the levels of mRNA molecules in the cell are determined by a balance between production and decay. Maintaining an accurate balance is crucial for the correc...

In vitro transcribed messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) constitutes an emerging therapeutic class with several clinical applications. This study presents a systematic comparison of different technologies—intradermal injection, microneedle inject...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory and destructive joint disease characterized by overexpression of pro-inflammatory/pro-destructive mediators, whose regulation has been the focus of our previous studies. Since the expression of thes...

mRNA-based therapeutics are presently one of the nucleic acid-based therapeutics with a high potential for extraordinary success as preventive vaccines. Current applications with mRNA therapeutics rely on lipid nanoparticle (LNP) mediated delivery of...

BRCA1 and BRCA2 spliceogenic variants are often associated with an elevated risk of breast and ovarian cancers. Analyses of BRCA1 and BRCA2 splicing patterns have traditionally used technologies that sample a population of cells but do not account fo...

ALK is related to poor survival in neuroblastoma patients. We investigated the prognostic relevance of ALK mRNA expression and the relationship with ALK immunohistochemical expression, histological subtype and ALK aberrations. Whole transcriptome seq...

In this review, the latest research concerning the structure and function of the 5′-terminal region of p53 mRNA was discussed. Special attention was focused on defined structural motifs which are present in this region, as well as their conserv...

In recent years, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have emerged as a revolutionary technology for vaccine delivery. LNPs serve as an integral component of mRNA vaccines by protecting and transporting the mRNA payload into host cells. Despite their prominenc...

The Tibetan cashmere goat is a precious breed in China and its cashmere is widely used in clothing and textiles. The genes IGF-1, FGF5, and KAP 1.4 have been shown to be crucial regulators of cashmere growth. In this study, we examined mRNA expressio...

Eggshell plays an essential role in preventing physical damage and microbial invasions. Therefore, the analysis of genetic regulatory mechanisms of eggshell quality deterioration during aging in laying hens is important for the biosecurity and econom...

The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) prognostic score is based on clinical parameters. We analyzed whole blood mRNA expression in metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (mCCRCC) patients and compared it to the MSKCC score for predic...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) can be caused by pathogenic variants in the gene bone morphogenetic protein receptor 2 (BMPR2). While BMPR2 protein expression levels are known to be reduced in the lung tissue of heritable PAH (HPAH) patients, a...

Serotonin receptor 2A (HTR2A) is an important signalling factor implicated in cognitive functions and known to be associated with schizophrenia. The biological significance of HTR2A in schizophrenia remains unclear as molecular analyses including gen...

Breast cancer (BC) poses a challenge in establishing new treatment strategies and identifying new prognostic and predictive markers due to the extensive genetic heterogeneity of BC. Very few studies have investigated the impact of mRNA expression of...

Messenger RNA (mRNA) and long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) are two main subgroups of RNAs participating in transcription regulation. With the development of next generation sequencing, increasing lncRNAs are identified. Many hidden functions of lncRNAs are...

Penile cancer (PeC) is a rare disease, and no prognostic biomarkers have been adopted in clinical practice yet. The objective of the present study was to identify differentially expressed miRNAs (DEmiRs) and genes (DEGs) as potential biomarkers for l...

Antibody–drug conjugates targeting folate receptor alpha (FRα) are a promising treatment for platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (OC) with high FRα expression. Challenges persist in accurately assessing FRα expression levels. Ou...

Background and Objectives: The knowledge that the cholinergic neurons from pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) are vulnerable to the degeneration in early stages of the Parkinson disease progression has opened new perspectives to the development of experi...

Fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) has been associated with breast cancer. We performed in silico analyses to investigate the FGFR2 mRNA expression and splice variants associated with breast cancer subtypes. Online databases, including cBioP...

Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) is a highly contagious, intestinal infectious disease caused by porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV). PEDV as an emerging and re-emerging epizootic virus of swine causes substantial economic losses to the pig industr...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disease characterized by the production of autoantibodies against a lot of nuclear components. Despite many studies on the genetic background of this disease, the pathogenesis remains unclear...

(1) In this study we determined the effect of long-term selenomethionine administration on the oxidative stress level and changes in antioxidant protein/enzyme activity; mRNA expression; and the levels of iron, zinc, and copper. (2) Experiments were...

Vestibular schwannoma (VS) are benign cranial nerve sheath tumors of the vestibulocochlear nerve. Their incidence is mostly sporadic, but they can also be associated with NF2-related schwannomatosis (NF2), a hereditary tumor syndrome. Metastasis asso...

Background/Objectives: Panax notoginseng stems and leaves (PNSLs) have shown limited adoption as a forage component in commercial livestock operations due to low utilization rates. Methods: This study was designed to add 10% and 20% PNSLs in the diet...

Immune system dysfunction is associated with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) development and progression and immune checkpoint inhibitors have demonstrated substantial survival benefits in platinum-refractory HNSCC; therefore, we examin...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder, with mutations in hundreds of genes contributing to its risk. Herein, we studied lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) from children diagnosed with autistic disorder (n = 10) and con...

Clinically, unique markers in fetal membrane cells may contribute to the search for biomarkers for preterm prelabor rupture of the fetal membranes (pPROM) in maternal blood. pPROM is associated with overwhelming inflammation and premature cellular se...

The Reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) primarily causes avian severe immunosuppression, in addition to other symptoms, which include avian dwarfing syndrome and chronic tumors in lymphoid and other tissue. To date, REV’s molecular mechanisms leading t...

Background/Objectives: A case-control study was conducted to determine the association of the −238 G>A and −308 G>A TNF-alpha (TNFA) promoter polymorphisms with mRNA and protein expression in 180 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) p...

This study investigated the diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic significance of Fc receptor-like 1 (FCRL1) and B-cell activating factor (BAFF) mRNA expression in Egyptian patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) undergoing the standard...

Two hundred and forty avian broilers were equally divided into four groups, and raised with a corn-soybean basal diet or the same diet supplemented with 300, 600, 900 mg/kg NiCl2 for 42 days. Numbers or percentages of apoptotic splenocytes by flow cy...

GBM WHO CNS Grade 4 represents a major challenge for oncology due to its aggressive behavior. Conventional imaging has restrictions in detecting tumor recurrence. This prospective study aims to identify gene-based biomarkers in whole blood instead of...

As precision medicine such as targeted therapy and immunotherapy often have limited accessibility, low response rate, and evolved resistance, it is urgent to develop simple, low-cost, and quick-turnaround personalized diagnostic technologies for drug...

High-throughput technologies generate a tremendous amount of expression data on mRNA, miRNA and protein levels. Mining and visualizing the large amount of expression data requires sophisticated computational skills. An easy to use and user-friendly w...

LPS induces inflammatory cytokines, including IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α, and causes an inflammatory response. The development of small molecules that have suppressive effect on those inflammatory cytokines is a desirable strategy for the trea...

Toll-like receptor (TLRs) are important innate immune receptors, and TLR2 and TLR4 play an important role in intestinal mucosal innate immunity. It has been found that nickel (Ni) can affect the immune system in broilers. The purpose of this study wa...

The pleomorphic adenoma gene 1 (PLAG1) gene, as the major gene responsible for growth, plays a vital role in myogenesis. Meanwhile, the relationship between copy number variation (CNV) of this gene and growth traits in goats remains unclear. The...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), discovered in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Due to the rate of spread of this virus, the World Health Organization, in March 2020, recognis...

The melanoma-associated antigen gene (MAGE) is a key target in cancer immunotherapy. Given the potential of MAGE-B genes in veterinary immunotherapy for canine mammary tumors (CMTs), this study investigated the mRNA expression of MAGE-B1, -B4, -B5, a...

The c-ErbB receptor family is a fundamental cell signaling system that regulates cell proliferation, motility, apoptosis, differentiation, and other key cellular functions. Overexpressed and mutated in some tumors, c-ErbB receptors play a pivotal rol...

The objective was to investigate the effects of feeding late gestational beef cows supplements differing in fatty acid profile on steer progeny finishing phase growth performance, carcass characteristics, and relative mRNA expression of myogenic and...

MicroRNAs (miRNA) regulate mRNA networks to coordinate cellular functions. In this study, we constructed gene co-expression networks to detect miRNA modules (clusters of miRNAs with similar expression patterns) and miRNA–mRNA pairs associated w...

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...

Despite the success of imatinib in advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) patients, 50% of the patients experience resistance within two years of treatment underscoring the need to get better insight into the mechanisms conferring imatinib re...

High molecular weight (Mw) collagen hydrolysates have been demonstrated to produce a higher synthesis of collagen type I mRNA. Mw determination is a key factor maximizing the effect of collagen hydrolysates on collagen type I synthesis by fibroblasts...

Estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PgR), Ki-67, and HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) together with HER2 in situ hybridization (ISH) are utilized to classify invasive breast cancer (IBC) into predictive molecular subtypes. As IHC evaluation...

There have been few reports on the kinetics of hemodialyzed (HD) patients’ immune responses in latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Therefore, in the present study, messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expression levels of nine immune markers were anal...

Background: Immunotherapy has been successful in treating advanced melanoma, but a large proportion of patients do not respond to the treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Preclinical and small cohort studies suggest gastrointestinal mi...

Strategic supplementation during late gestation has the potential to alter progeny performance. Mature fall-calving Simmental × Angus cows were used to evaluate the effects of late gestation supplementation of fatty acids to beef cows on cow pe...

Ryanodine receptors (RyRs) play a critical role in regulating the release of intracellular calcium, which enables them to be effectively targeted by the two novel classes of insecticides, phthalic acid diamides and anthranilic diamides. However, less...