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The cell cycle consists of successive events that lead to the generation of new cells. The cell cycle is regulated by different cyclins, cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) and their inhibitors, such as p27^Kip1. At the nuclear level, p27^Kip1 has the abil...

Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a central component of focal adhesions that regulate cancer cell proliferation and migration. Here, we studied the effects of FAK inhibition in glioblastoma (GBM), a fast growing brain tumor that has a poor prognosis. T...

The cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27 (Kip1) is an important regulator of the G1/S checkpoint. It is degraded by the SCF-SKP2 complex in late G1 thereby allowing cells to progress to the S phase. Here we investigated the role of the E3 ubiquitin...

Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a recently identified chronic liver disease, which progresses to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). As the number of patients studied to date has been limited, clinically useful prognostic biom...

Aging usually comes associated with increased visceral fat accumulation, reaching even an obesity state, and favoring its associated comorbidities. One of the processes involved in aging is cellular senescence, which is highly dependent on the activi...

Objectives: Formononetin is one of the phytoestrogens that functions like a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM). In this study, we evaluated the effects of formononetin on endometriosis progression in vitro and in vivo. Materials and methods...

p27^Kip1 (p27), a well-known cell regulator, is involved in the regulation of cell death and survival. In the present study, we observed the effects of p27 against oxidative stress induced by H₂O₂ in HT22 cells and transient ischemia in gerbils. Tat (...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are crucial regulatory molecules in lipid deposition and metabolism. However, the effect of miR-200b on the regulation of proliferation and adipogenesis of ovine preadipocytes is unknown in the sheep (Ovis aries). In this study, th...

Background: Osteosarcoma (OS) is a fast-growing malignant bone tumor that occurs most often in children and teenagers. Development of pulmonary metastasis is the primary cause of treatment failure and mortality. Our previous studies demonstrated that...

Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) severely threatens tomato production worldwide. P27 is known to be involved in virion assembly, but its other roles in ToCV infection are unclear. In this study, we found that removal of p27 reduced systemic infection, w...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of acute lower respiratory tract infections in young children, elderly and immunocompromised patients worldwide. The RSV fusion (F) protein, which has 5–6 N-glycosylation sites depending on...

Context: S-phase kinase-associated protein 2 (SKP2) is an oncogene and cell cycle regulator that mediates the ubiquitination of cell cycle regulators. Curcumol, a sesquiterpene natural product, has been reported to regulate SKP2-mediated ubiquitinati...

Up to 50% of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, and the surface protein of HBV is essential for the progression of HBV-related HCC. The expression of large HBV surface antigen (LHB) is presented in HBV-asso...

Theaflavin-3,3′-digallate (TF3) is a unique polyphenol in black tea. Epidemiological studies have proved that black tea consumption decreases the incidence rate of ovarian cancer. Our former research demonstrated that TF3 inhibited human ovaria...

Background: Cleavage of the inactive precursor fusion protein (F0) of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) at two furin-recognition sites is required for membrane fusion activity, and the cleavage releases the twenty-seven amino acid peptide (p27). Howe...

MYC is a pleiotropic transcription factor that controls a number of fundamental cellular processes required for the proliferation and survival of normal and malignant cells, including the cell cycle. MYC interacts with several central cell cycle regu...

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...

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 $\left(\mathrm{\&rho}\right)$...

The first point-of-care (PoC) test (v-RetroFel^®; modified version 2021) determining the presence of FeLV p27 antigen and FeLV anti-p15E antibodies has become recently commercially available to identify different feline leukaemia virus (FeLV) infe...

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) $\mathrm{\&chi}$...

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...

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...

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 (...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...