Population-associated molecular variation in breast tissue may contribute to differences in tissue biology and disease susceptibility. Still, the extent to which such variation is shaped by underlying tissue state remains unclear. We performed a pilo...
Diacylglycerol acyltransferase-2 (DGAT2) plays a key role in the synthesis of animal triglycerides (TGs). This study investigated the relative expression of the DGAT2 gene in tissues, variation in the gene, and its association with carcass and meat q...
Plants have the salient biological property of totipotency, i.e., the capacity to regenerate a whole plant from virtually any kind of fully differentiated somatic cells after a process of dedifferentiation. This property has been well-documented by s...
Starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus) is extensively farmed in Korea, and the importance of aquaculture technology in the economic and industrial sectors continues to grow. However, pigmentation anomalies, such as skin discoloration during farming,...
Sweet Flag (Acorus calamus L.) leaf and rhizome tissues were analyzed for biochemical compositions notably of carbohydrates and lipids. The glycolipid content measured in rhizome tissue was 62.3 mg%/FW almost double the glycolipid content (28.8 mg%/F...
In vitro tissue culture plant regeneration is a complicated process that requires stressful conditions affecting the cell functioning at multiple levels, including signaling pathways, transcriptome functioning, the interaction between cellular organe...
Alstonia scholaris is a well-known source of alkaloids and widely recognized for therapeutic purposes to treat the ailments in human and livestock. However, the composition and production of alkaloids vary due to tissue specific metabolism and season...
Growth variation is one of the most economically important traits in oyster aquaculture, yet the transcriptional programs associated with divergent growth performance remain incompletely understood. In this study, three growth cohorts of the Pacific...
In subjects with functionally bicuspid aortic valves (BAVs) with fusion between the coronary leaflets, there is a natural variation of the commissural angle. What is not fully understood is how this variation influences the hemodynamics and tissue bi...
Mercury concentration in the muscular tissue of farmed southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyii (SBT) is known to vary. Data suggests that mercury concentration is negatively correlated with the lipid concentration of tissues. Those areas that accumul...
Recently, a population of “immature” neurons generated prenatally, retaining immaturity for long periods and finally integrating in adult circuits has been described in the cerebral cortex. Moreover, comparative studies revealed differenc...
Plant tissue culture has been recognized as an essential technology in plant science research. This process is widely used to regenerate and conserve phenotypically and genetically identical plant resources. The advancements in tissue culture methods...
Evaluation of how genetic mutations or variability can directly affect phenotypic outcomes, the development of disease, or determination of a tailored treatment protocol is fundamental to advancing personalized medicine. To understand how a genotype...
Kinetic stem cell (KSC) counting is a recently introduced first technology for quantifying tissue stem cells in vertebrate organ and tissue cell preparations. Previously, effective quantification of the fraction or dosage of tissue stem cells had bee...
Oxidative stress is a common phenomenon and is linked to a wide range of diseases and pathological processes including aging. Tissue-specific variation in redox signaling and cellular responses to oxidative stress may be associated with vulnerability...
Oryza sativa indica (cv. IR64) and Oryza sativa japonica (cv. TNG67) vary in their regeneration efficiency. Such variation may occur in response to cultural environments that induce somaclonal variation. Somaclonal variations may arise from epigeneti...
Introduction: Women wear exterior breast support for most of the day. A female’s breast tissue and skin affect the comfort of the ADLs, exercise, health, and work environments. Understanding the breast tissue’s normal anatomy and mechanic...
Plant regeneration is essential for survival upon wounding and is, hence, considered to be a strong natural selective trait. The capacity of plant tissues to regenerate in vitro, however, varies substantially between and within species and depends on...
Shellfish allergy affects ~2.5% of the global population and is a type I immune response resulting from exposure to crustacean and/or molluscan proteins. The Australian Redclaw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) is a freshwater species endemic to and...
A novel method of investigating the temperature dependent variation of aspects of the complex refractive index n* in samples in the THz range using continuous, non-polarised, synchrotron radiation is presented. The method relies on the use of ATR app...
Thyroid hormones play a crucial role in regulating normal development, growth, and metabolic function. However, the controversy surrounding seasonal changes in free triiodothyronine (FT3) levels remains unresolved. Therefore, the aim of this study wa...
DNA methylation is a central epigenetic regulator of genome stability, developmental plasticity, and stress adaptation in plant tissue culture systems. During dedifferentiation, callus formation, organogenesis, somatic embryogenesis, transformation,...
Strictosidine synthases (STRs) are catalytic enzymes involved in terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis, whereas STR-like (STRL) genes in cereal crops remain poorly understood. Previous studies of the maize STR-like (STRL) gene family have mainly pro...
In bony fish, the gill filaments are essential for gas exchanges, but also are vulnerable to infection by water-borne microorganisms. Omnipresent across fish, gill-associated lymphoid tissues (GIALT) regulate interactions with local microbiota and ha...
An efficient regeneration protocol was applied to regenerate shoots on salt stress-tolerant calli lines of aubergine (Solanum melongena). These NaCl-tolerant cell lines were obtained by two different methods. On the one hand, the developed callus tis...
Background: Tight junctions are major components of apical junction complexes and are crucial for the maintenance of cell polarity, healthy tissue architecture, adhesion, and permeability. These junctions include the claudin family of transmembrane p...
Increased CT-derived fat tissue radiodensity has been indicated as a poor prognostic factor in oncological settings, although the reasons are not clear. One hypothesis is that increased radiodensity may reflect the loss of fat droplets within adipocy...
Berberis darwinii, known for its bioactive alkaloids like berberine and palmatine, has gained attention for its medicinal properties. However, comprehensive studies on the specific bioactive molecules of Michay are lacking, as previous research has p...
For Lentinula edodes, its characteristic flavor is the key determinant for consumer preferences. However, the tissue-specific volatile flavor variations of the fruiting body have been overlooked. Here, we comprehensively investigated the volatile fla...
We analyzed variations in three tree properties: tissue density, carbon fraction, and carbon density within bole tissues of nine Californian conifer species. Model performance for all three tree properties was significantly improved with the addition...
Normal breast tissue undergoes great variations during a woman’s life as a consequence of the different hormonal stimulation. The purpose of the present study was to examine the hormonal receptor expression variations according to age, menstrual cycl...
Gene expression plays a key role in health and disease. Estimating the genetic components underlying gene expression can thus help understand disease etiology. Polygenic models termed “transcriptome imputation” are used to estimate the ge...
Quantifying the natural inter-individual variation in DNA methylation patterns is important for identifying its contribution to phenotypic variation, but also for understanding how the environment affects variability, and for incorporation into stati...
Background and Objectives: Profound knowledge on the load-dependent behavior of human soft tissues is required for the development of suitable replacements as well as for realistic computer simulations. Regarding the former, e.g., the anisotropy of a...
This work represents the first comprehensive report on quantitative metabolomic composition of tissues of pike-perch (Sander lucioperca) and Siberian roach (Rutilus rutilus lacustris). The total of 68 most abundant metabolites are identified and quan...
This study analysed circadian variation changes in blood pressure (BP), the pain pressure threshold (PPT) and the elasticity of tissue in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) after a whole-body photobiomodulation (PBM) treatment. This was a tripled-blinde...
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a safe, effective, and general approach for treating various neurological disorders. However, in the case of FES usage for implantable applications, charge balancing is a significant challenge due to variati...
Meat tenderness is a critical quality trait that varies even among carcasses of similar USDA quality grades. In this comparative study of beef cattle and sheep, we investigated how gene expression profiles in muscle and adipose tissues are associated...
Intraspecific macromolecule variation in stemwood, knotwood, and branchwood was studied using analytical pyrolysis with the intention of introducing a rapid working method to assess the variance in lignin content using analytical pyrolysis and highli...
The radiomic analysis of the tissue surrounding colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) enhances the prediction accuracy of pathology data and survival. We explored the variation of the textural features in the peritumoural tissue as the distance from CRL...
Robust protocols for the regeneration of somatic embryos in vitro are essential for the efficient use of the most modern biotechnologies. Unfortunately, in perennial trees such as Citrus, plants regenerated from juvenile tissues usually exhibit stron...
The in vitro culture technique can be used for micropropagation of medicinal plants as well as for creating genotypes with an improved profile of phytochemical compounds. For this purpose, somaclonal variability may be used for the induction of genet...
Starch content is one of the major quality criteria targeted by potato breeding programs. Traditional potato breeding is a laborious duty due to the tetraploid nature and immense heterozygosity of potato genomes. In addition, screening for functional...
Cine-MRI for adhesion detection is a promising novel modality that can help the large group of patients developing pain after abdominal surgery. Few studies into its diagnostic accuracy are available, and none address observer variability. This retro...
Salix myrtilloides L. is a relict species, threatened with extinction in many European countries. To prevent the loss of the species, tissue culture was established to produce plant material for reintroduction in natural habitats. Micropropagation wa...
Variations of phenolics, antioxidant activity, and mineral contents in peel and pulp of five apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) cultivars from Pakistan, namely Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Kashmiri Amri, Kala Kulu and Sky Spur were appraised. The mea...
The gene encoding the high glycine/tyrosine keratin-associated protein 20-2 (KAP20-2) gene has been described in humans, but has not been identified in any livestock species. A search for similar sequences in the caprine genome using the human KAP20-...
Common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) is an important germplasm resource harboring valuable genes. Our previous analysis identified a core collection of wild rice primarily originating from the common wild rice of Guangdong Province. However, the...
Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly threatened by microplastics (MPs), yet field evidence linking MP burden with physiological responses in freshwater bivalves remains limited. This study investigated the associations between individual MP burden...
The instability of in vitro cultures may cause genetic and epigenetic changes in crops called somaclonal variations. Sometimes, these changes produce beneficial effects; for example, they can be used in breeding programs to generate new cultivars wit...
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