Abstract Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) represents the serious vascular degenerative disorder, which causes high incidence and mortality. Alpha-ketoglutarate (AKG), a crucial metabolite in the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, has been reported to exert significant actions on the oxidative stress and inflammation. However, its role in AAA still remains elusive. Herein, we examined the effects of AKG on the formation of AAA. The study established an elastase-induced mouse abdominal aortic aneurysms model as well as a...

Abstract Background Most cancer disability-adjusted life year (DALY) studies worldwide have used broad, generic disability weights (DWs); however, differences exist among populations and types of cancers. Using breast cancer as example, this study aimed to estimate the population-level DALYs in females in China and the impact of screening as well as applying local DWs. Methods Using multisource data, a prevalence-based model was constructed. (1) Overall years lived with disability (YLDs) were estimated by using numbers...

Additional file 2: Clinical stage-specific disability weights and distribution of breast cancer in females in China.

Additional file 1. Detailed methods or results covered in this article.

Additional file 4. Differentially metabolic substance data.

Additional file 4. Differentially metabolic substance data.

Abstract Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is a known bacterium that produces biofilms and causes severe infection. Furthermore, P. aeruginosa biofilms are extremely difficult to eradicate, leading to the development of chronic and antibiotic-resistant infections. Our previous study showed that a cathelicidin-related antimicrobial peptide (CRAMP) inhibits the formation of P. aeruginosa biofilms and markedly reduces the biomass of preformed biofilms, while the mechanism of eradicating bacterial biofilms remains elusive. Therefore, in this study, the potential mechanism...

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-mrj-10.1177_00222437221112644 for Advance Selling in Marketing Channels by Krista J. Li and Xi Li in Journal of Marketing Research

Additional file 1: Supplement Figure 1. Association between the lipophilic index and oral cancer by stratified analysis.

Additional file 2. SAP.

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Additional file 3: Table S3. GO Gene Ontology analysis of co-expressed protein-coding genes with all candidate lncRNAs.

Additional file 4: Fig. S1. Expressed lncRNAs in two crosses.

Additional file 5: Fig. S2. Expression levels of lncRNAs and PCgenes in sunflower endosperm.

Additional file 7: Fig. S4. DNA methylation profiles of protein-coding genes (PCgenes) in sunflower endosperm from SY1.

Additional file 2: Additional Tables 1-5.

Additional file 1: Supplementary Fig. 1. (A) RT-qPCR analyses of FOXD1 mRNA in the indicated breast tumor cell lines and MCF-10A. Error bars, SEM. n = 3. (B) Western blotting analyses of FOXD1 expression in the indicated breast tumor cell lines and MCF-10A. (C)RT-qPCR analysis of FOXD1 expression in control and sh-FOXD1 cells (MDA231 and MDA468), or control and FOXD1 overexpression cells (MCF-7). Error bars, SEM. n = 3. **p < 0.01, ***p<0.001 by Student’s...

Abstract Background Early metastasis is a key factor contributing to poor breast cancer (BC) prognosis. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are regarded as the precursor cells of metastasis, which are ultimately responsible for the main cause of death in BC. However, to date molecular mechanisms underlying CTC formation in BC have been insufficiently defined. Methods RNA-seq was carried out in primary tissues from early-stage BC patients (with CTCs≥5 and CTCs = 0, respectively) and the validation...

Abstract Plant PR10/Bet v1-like proteins are involved in defense against microbial pathogens, however, whether they participate in host defense against plant-parasitic animals including nematodes remains unknown. Here, according to the phylogeny, sequence-similarity, and secondary structure analyses, we found that the rice OsBet v1 protein and its homologs constitute a new subfamily of PR10/Bet v1-like protein. Reverse transcription-quantitative PCR assay showed that OsBet v1 was highly expressed in rice roots and induced by Meloidogyne graminicola infection....

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Additional file 11. Summary statistics for the differential expression analysis. DE: differentially expressed. LS: lateral septum, MPOA: medial preoptic area, NAc: nucleus accumbens.

Additional file 12. Volcano plots for the differential expression analysis. These plots depict the log2 fold-change (x-axis) against the -log10 of the uncorrected p-value (y-axis) for each gene in each pairwise comparison in the medial preoptic area (MPOA, A), nucleus accumbens (NAc, B), and lateral septum (LS, C). Differentially expressed genes are depicted in red.

Additional file 13. Functional enrichment of genes differentially expressed in the medial preoptic area (MPOA). For each pairwise comparison, the functional enrichments in gene ontologies of the biological processes (A), cellular components (B), and molecular functions (C) categories were tested for the differentially expressed genes up- or down-regulated (UP, and DOWN, respectively). The labels of pairwise comparisons were coded in two letters: the first one represents the phenotype (M: mothers, F: fathers, P: paternal males,...