Many alternative splice events result in subtle mRNA changes, and most of them occur at short-distance tandem donor and acceptor sites. The splicing mechanism of such tandem sites likely involves the stochastic selection of either splice site. While tandem splice events are frequent, it is unknown how many are functionally important. Here, we use phylogenetic conservation to address this questi...

the present study aimed to evaluate the protective effect of crocin on gastric mucosal lesions caused by ischemia-reperfusion (i/r) injury in rats.forty male rats were randomly divided into sham, control (i/r injury) and three crocin-pretreated groups. to induce i/r lesions, the celiac artery was clamped for 30 min and then the clamp was removed to allow reperfusion for 3 h. pretreated-rats rec...

background: leptin and adiponectin are the two key metabolic hormones secreted from adipocytes to control food intake and energy expenditure. the action of both hormones in regulation of gonadotropin releasing hormone (gnrh) secretion from the hypothalamus is mediated through kisspeptins. kisspeptins are products of kiss-1 gene. leptin and adiponectin are modulators of kiss-1 expression in the ...

elevated expression of the drug efflux transporter abcg2 seems to correlate with multidrug resistance of cancer cells. specific cox-2 inhibitor celecoxib has been shown to enhance the sensitivity of cancer cells to anticancer drugs. to clarify whether abcg2 inhibition is involved in the sensitizing effect of celecoxib, we investigated whether the expression of abcg2 in breast cancer cell lines ...

Abstract Vaccines utilizing encapsulated mRNA within lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have demonstrated unprecedented efficacy in clinical studies of mRNA-1273 and BNT162b2, two prominent vaccines developed against the S protein SARS-CoV-2. Despite several Phase III trials offering deep intuition about vaccine efficacy, musculo-immune basis for elicitation a strong germinal center response from mRNA/...

Background: IL-17 is a major cytokine player in T cell mediated leukocyte associated inflammation. IL-17 is also recognized to participate in the pathophysiology of asthma. Objective: To determine the role of IL-17 in predicting severe asthma. Methods: We obtained serum samples from asthmatic children under the age of 5-year in three different groups of mild (n=33), moderate (n=28) and severe (...

objective(s): this study was performed to investigate the effects of mucosal acidification on mrna expression and protein synthesis of cystathionine gamma lyase (cse), cystathionine beta synthase (cbs), and mucosal release of h2s in gastric mucosa in rats. materials and methods:thirty-two rats were randomly assigned into 4 groups (8 in each), including: the control group, hcl (10 mm) treated gr...

conclusions our experimental and in silico findings may provide new insight in the complex molecular pathways of drug resistance and also could assist design an efficient therapeutic strategy for aspergillosis treatment. results four out of five isolates revealed cyp51a and mdr1 mrna overexpression. interestingly, the isolate, which was negative for cyp51a and mdr1 mrna expression showed a high...