One of the mechanisms for development autoimmune diseases is changes in epigenetic regulation, root causes which have not yet been established. At same time, data on role transposons as sources long noncoding ribonucleic acids (RNA) and microRNAs involved immune pathology accumulated. In evolution, transposable elements become basis emergence V(D)J recombination regulation HLA genes. Pathologic...

Breast cancer is a leading cause of related death among women worldwide and it complex disease characterized by its heterogeneity. The heterogenous characteristic the breast responsible for aggressiveness treatment resistance. stem cells (BCSCs) are population with increased propensity proliferation, differentiation, migration, invasion mammosphere formation resistance to treatment. They have a...

Objective(s): MicroRNAs (miRs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs which are associated with tumor growth and progression. In the present study, we assessed the expression of selected miRs in malignant, benign, and adjacent normal breast tissues. Materials and Methods: The expression of miR-1297, miR-3191-5P, miR-4435, and miR-4465 were...

The incidence of acute lung injury (ALI) is influenced by nature of the underlying clinical condition. The frequency with which ALI is likely to be encountered by those practicing outside the intensive care unit (ICU) setting is largely unknown. Data from the paper under discussion indicates that ALI is seen relatively frequently in general wards and can be managed there until death or recovery...

The rate of alveolar fluid clearance (AFC) is associated with mortality in clinical acute lung injury (ALI). Patients with ALI often develop circulatory shock, but how shock affects the rate of AFC is unknown. To determine the effect of circulatory shock on the rate of AFC in patients with ALI, the rate of net AFC was measured in 116 patients with ALI by serial sampling of pulmonary edema fluid...

This paper presents a method for speaker-independent automatic phonetic alignment that is distinguished from standard HMM-based “forced alignment” in three respects: (1) specific acoustic-phonetic features are used, in addition to PLP features, by the phonetic classifier; (2) the units of classification consist of distinctive phonetic features instead of phonemes; and (3) observation probabilit...

Objective(s): MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are considered as powerful, post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression in hepatocellular carcinoma cells (HCC). However, the function of miR-92a is still unclear in HCC. Materials and Methods: Expression of miR-92a in human HCC cell lines was evaluated using qRT-PCR. MTT assay and transwell assay were used to examine the function of miR-92a in HepG2 and ...

A microRNA (miRNA) is a small noncoding RNA molecule (containing about 22 nucleotides) found in plants, animals and some viruses that functions in RNA silencing and posttranscrip-tional regulation of gene expression. The miRNA induces gene silencing by binding to the 3'-untranslated regions (3'-UTRs) of target mRNAs. This interaction prevents protein production by inhibition of protein translat...

objective: mir-302-367 is a cluster of polycistronic micrornas that are exclusively expressed in embryonic stem (es) cells. the mir-302-367 promoter is functional during embryonic development but is turned off in later stages. motivated by the cancer stem cell hypothesis, we explored the potential expression of mir-302 in brain tumor cell lines. materials and methods: in the present experimenta...