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  1. Abscisic acid-, stress-, and ripening-induced (ASR) genes are a class of plant specific transcription factors (TFs), which play important roles in plant development, growth and abiotic stress responses. The wheat...

    Authors: Huawei Li, Haiying Guan, Qicui Zhuo, Zongshuai Wang, Shengdong Li, Jisheng Si, Bin Zhang, Bo Feng, Ling-an Kong, Fahong Wang, Zheng Wang and Lishun Zhang
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:23
  2. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating genetic muscular disorder with no effective treatment that is caused by the loss of dystrophin. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) offer a promisin...

    Authors: Ruojie He, Huan Li, Liang Wang, Yaqin Li, Yu Zhang, Menglong Chen, Yuling Zhu and Cheng Zhang
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:22
  3. Liriodendron chinense ranges widely in subtropical China and northern Vietnam; however, it inhabits several small, isolated populations and is now an endangered species due to its limited seed production. The obj...

    Authors: Bin Li, Furong Lin, Ping Huang, Wenying Guo and Yongqi Zheng
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:21
  4. The role of interleukin family in colon cancer remained controversial. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between interleukin family and colon cancer progression through bioinformatic...

    Authors: Xiyi Wei, Yuan Zhang, Zhou Yang, Yeqin Sha, Yitong Pan, Yusheng Chen and Lei Cai
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:20
  5. Breast cancer is the most common cancer types among women. Recent researches have focused on determining the efficiency of alternative molecules and miRNAs in breast cancer treatment. The aim of this study was...

    Authors: Elif DeÄŸerli, Vildan Torun and Demet Cansaran-Duman
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:19
  6. Cisplatin resistance (DDP-resistance) remains one of the major causes of poor prognosis in females with ovarian cancer. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to participate in the regulation of cellul...

    Authors: Yun Zhang, Hao Ai, Xue Fan, Suxian Chen, Yadi Wang and Lili Liu
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:18
  7. Inflammation and apoptosis are considered to be two main factors affecting ischemic brain injury and the subsequent reperfusion damage. MiR-19a-3p has been reported to be a possible novel biomarker in ischemic...

    Authors: Zhaohui Chai, Jiangbiao Gong, Peidong Zheng and Jiesheng Zheng
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:17
  8. Current South American populations trace their origins mainly to three continental ancestries, i.e. European, Amerindian and African. Individual variation in relative proportions of each of these ancestries ma...

    Authors: Ricardo A. Verdugo, Alex Di Genova, Luisa Herrera, Mauricio Moraga, Mónica Acuña, Soledad Berríos, Elena Llop, Carlos Y. Valenzuela, M. Leonor Bustamante, Dayhana Digman, Adriana Symon, Soledad Asenjo, Pamela López, Alejandro Blanco, José Suazo, Emmanuelle Barozet…
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:15
  9. Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is the most common tumor of the biliary tract. The incidence of GBC shows a large geographic variability, being particularly frequent in Native American populations. In Chile, GBC repr...

    Authors: Patricia García, Carolina Bizama, Lorena Rosa, Jaime A. Espinoza, Helga Weber, Javier Cerda-Infante, Marianela Sánchez, Viviana P. Montecinos, Justo Lorenzo-Bermejo, Felix Boekstegers, Marcela Dávila-López, Francisca Alfaro, Claudia Leiva-Acevedo, Zasha Parra, Diego Romero, Sumie Kato…
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:13
  10. Mast cells (MCs) have been found to play a critical role during development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that characterized by dysregulation of inflammation and impaired intestinal barrier function. How...

    Authors: Musheng Li, Junhong Zhao, Meiwan Cao, Ruitao Liu, Guanhua Chen, Songyu Li, Yuanwen Xie, Jing Xie, Yang Cheng, Ling Huang, Mingmin Su, Yuxin Xu, Mingyue Zheng, Kejian Zou, Lanlan Geng, Wanfu Xu…
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:12
  11. Rice is the staple food of many people around the world. However, most rice varieties, especially widely grown indica varieties and hybrids, are sensitive to cold stress. In order to provide a basis for the utili...

    Authors: Mengliang Xu, Xiangzhen Li, Xiang Mo, Siyu Tu, Yanchun Cui and Daichang Yang
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:8
  12. Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common rheumatic diseases of which clinical symptoms includes swelling, synovitis and inflammatory pain, affect patients’ daily life. It was reported that non-coding RNAs...

    Authors: Feng Tian, Junhu Wang, Zhanhua Zhang and Jie Yang
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:9
  13. The intracellular concentration of heavy-metal cations, such as copper, nickel, and zinc is pivotal for the mycobacterial response to the hostile environment inside macrophages. To date, copper transport media...

    Authors: Andrés León-Torres, Epifania Arango, Eliana Castillo and Carlos Y. Soto
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:6
  14. LincRNAs have been revealed to be tightly associated with various tumorigeneses and cancer development, but the roles of specific lincRNA on tumor-related angiogenesis was hardly studied. Here, we aimed to inv...

    Authors: Qing Zhu, Jingchao Li, Qi Wu, Yongxia Cheng, Huizhe Zheng, Tao Zhan, Hongwei Wang, Yue Yang, Hongyan Wang, Ye Liu and Sufen Guo
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:5
  15. Pigmentation development, is a complex process regulated by many transcription factors during development. With the development of the RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), non-coding RNAs, such as miRNAs, lncRNAs, and ci...

    Authors: Zhiwei Zhu, Yueyue Ma, Yuan Li, Pengfei Li, Zhixue Cheng, Huifeng Li, Lihuan Zhang and Zhongwei Tang
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:4
  16. The pellicle, the acellular organic material deposited on the surface of tooth enamel, has been thought to be derived from saliva. In this study, protein compositions of the pellicle, gingival crevicular fluid...

    Authors: Hibiki Odanaka, Takashi Obama, Naoko Sawada, Marika Sugano, Hiroyuki Itabe and Matsuo Yamamoto
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:3
  17. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been considered for more than 20 years as a premier model organism for biological sciences, also being the main microorganism used in wide industrial applications, l...

    Authors: Eduardo I. Kessi-Pérez, Jennifer Molinet and Claudio Martínez
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:2
  18. Long non-coding RNA small molecule RNA host gene 1 (SNHG1) was previously identified to be relevant with Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathogenesis. This work aims to further elucidate the regulatory networks of SN...

    Authors: Jun Zhao, Lijiao Geng, Yong Chen and Chunfang Wu
    Citation: Biological Research 2020 53:1
  19. Recent studies have confirmed that RASAL1 has an antitumor effect in many cancers, but its functional role and the molecular mechanism underlying in colon cancer has not been investigated.

    Authors: Guangchuan Wang, Zhen Li, Xiao Li, Chunqing Zhang and Lipan Peng
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:60
  20. In varicose veins, vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) often shows phenotypic transition and abnormal proliferation and migration. Evidence suggests the FOXC2–Notch pathway may be involved in the pathogenesis...

    Authors: Chuang Zhang, Huixiang Li and Xueli Guo
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:59
  21. Our previous study showed that knockdown of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1) attenuated myocardial apoptosis in mouse acute myocardial infarction (AMI...

    Authors: Hao Hu, Jiawei Wu, Xiaofan Yu, Junling Zhou, Hua Yu and Likun Ma
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:58
  22. Gastric cancer is a common malignant tumor with high morbidity and mortality worldwide, which seriously affects human health. Gramicidin is a short peptide antibiotic which could be used for treating infection...

    Authors: Tingting Chen, Yong Wang, Yang Yang, Kaikai Yu, Xiangliao Cao, Fang Su, Huanbai Xu, Yongde Peng, Yudong Hu, Feng Qian and Zishu Wang
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:57
  23. ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase), the key enzyme in plant starch biosynthesis, is a heterotetramer composed of two identical large subunits and two identical small subunits. AGPase has plastidial and cyt...

    Authors: Jie Dong, Yongxing Zheng, Yihan Fu, Jinxi Wang, Shasha Yuan, Yonghua Wang, Qidi Zhu, Xingqi Ou, Gezi Li and Guozhang Kang
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:56
  24. Epanorin (EP) is a secondary metabolite of the Acarospora lichenic species. EP has been found in lichenic extracts with antimicrobial activity, and UV-absorption properties have been described for closely related...

    Authors: Juan Palacios-Moreno, Cecilia Rubio, Wanda Quilhot, M. Fernanda Cavieres, Eduardo de la Peña, Natalia V. Quiñones, Hugo Díaz, Flavio Carrión, Carlos F. Henríquez-Roldán and Caroline R. Weinstein-Oppenheimer
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:55
  25. Oxidative stress is the hallmark of diabetic encephalopathy, which may be caused by hyperglycaemic toxicity. We aimed to discover pharmacologic targets to restore redox homeostasis. We identified the transcrip...

    Authors: Jiangpei Zhao, Lerong Liu, Xia Li, Lingxiao Zhang, Jing Lv, Xueli Guo, Hui Chen and Tongfeng Zhao
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:53
  26. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been reported to be associated with dermis process during burn wound healing. This study aimed to investigate the role of lncRNA X-inactive specific transcript (XIST) in huma...

    Authors: Wei Cao and Youping Feng
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:52
  27. The leafcutter ant (Atta cephalotes) is associated with losses in the agricultural sector, due to its defoliating activity; for its control, biological, mechanical and chemical methods have been developed, the la...

    Authors: Fabian Felipe Fernandez Daza, Ginna Rodriguez Roman, Marino Valencia Rodriguez, Ivan Andres Gonzalez Vargas, Heiber Cardenas Heano, Marney Pascoli Cereda and Raul Alberto Cuervo Mulet
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:51
  28. Psoriasis is a common and intractable skin disease affecting the physical and mental health of patients. The accumulation of ROS is involved in the pathogenesis of psoriasis and antioxidants are believed to be...

    Authors: Wuyuntana Wang, Yuhai, Huan Wang, Chasuna and Bagenna
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:49
  29. Light exposure is a common stress factor in in vitro manipulation of embryos in the reproductive center. Many studies have shown the deleterious effects of high-intensity light exposure in different animal emb...

    Authors: Bo Lv, Chaojie Liu, Yu Chen, Lingbin Qi, Lu Wang, Yazhong Ji and Zhigang Xue
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:48
  30. Rubella or German measles is an infection caused by rubella virus (RV). Infection of children and adults is usually characterized by a mild exanthematous febrile illness. However, RV is a major cause of birth ...

    Authors: Suji George, Rajlakshmi Viswanathan and Gajanan N. Sapkal
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:47
  31. One of the most extreme environments on our planet is the Maritime Antarctic territory, due to its low-water availability, which restricts the development of plants. Sanionia uncinata Hedw. (Amblystegiaceae), the...

    Authors: Marisol Pizarro, Rodrigo A. Contreras, Hans Köhler and Gustavo E. Zúñiga
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:46
  32. Resveratrol was reported to trigger the apoptosis of fibroblast-like synoviocytes in adjuvant arthritis rats but the subcellular mechanism remains unclear. Since ER stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidat...

    Authors: Jinsen Lu, Jiazhao Yang, Yongshun Zheng, Shiyuan Fang and Xiaoyu Chen
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:45
  33. Free fatty acid receptor 1 (FFAR1) is G-protein coupled receptor predominantly expressed in pancreatic β-cells that is activated by a variety of free fatty acids (FFAs). Once activated, it promotes glucose-sti...

    Authors: Sulaiman K. Marafie, Eman M. Al-Shawaf, Jehad Abubaker and Hossein Arefanian
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:44
  34. Drought is one of the main serious problems for agriculture production which its intensity is increasing in many parts of the world, hence, improving water use efficiency is a main goal for sustainable agricul...

    Authors: Somayeh Faghih, Zabihollah Zamani, Reza Fatahi and Abdolmajid Liaghat
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:43
  35. Prognosis remains one of most crucial determinants of gastric cancer (GC) treatment, but current methods do not predict prognosis accurately. Identification of additional biomarkers is urgently required to ide...

    Authors: Wei Li, Yan Chen, Xuan Sun, Jupeng Yang, David Y. Zhang, Daguang Wang and Jian Suo
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:42
  36. Di-N-butyl-phthalate (DBP) is an endocrine disrupting substance. We investigated the adverse effect of DBP on testis of male rat and reveal its potential mechanism of MAPK signaling pathway involved this effect i...

    Authors: Hongyan Wang, Weipeng Zhou, Jing Zhang and Huan Li
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:41
  37. There are currently a number of barriers hindering the successful treatment of breast cancer, including the metastatic spread of cancer cells. In looking for new anticancer agents, we reported two novel hydraz...

    Authors: Soudeh Dehghani, Zahra Kooshafar, Ali Almasirad, Raheleh Tahmasvand, Fariborz Moayer, Ahad Muhammadnejad, Samira Shafiee and Mona Salimi
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:40
  38. Breast cancer is the second common malignant cancer among females worldwide. Accumulating studies have indicated that deregulation of miRNA expression in breast cancer will contribute to tumorigenesis and form...

    Authors: Bao Zhang, Dattatrya Shetti, Conghui Fan and Kun Wei
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:38
  39. Berberine (BBR), a compound extracted from a variety of medicinal herbs, has been shown multiple pharmacological effects against cancer cells of different origins. Cisplatin (DDP) is known as an effective chem...

    Authors: Li Liu, Jingyan Fan, Guihai Ai, Jie Liu, Ning Luo, Caixia Li and Zhongping Cheng
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:37
  40. Recent evidences indicated that some local anaesthetic agents played a role in inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells; Whether ropivacaine is able to promote apoptosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) c...

    Authors: Wenting Wang, Mingyue Zhu, Zhixin Xu, Wei Li, Xu Dong, Yi Chen, Bo Lin and Mengsen Li
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:36
  41. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the leading causes of death in the world. NSCLC diagnosed at an early stage can be highly curable with a positive prognosis, but biomarker limitations make it diffi...

    Authors: Hyunhee Do, Dain Kim, JiHoon Kang, Beomseok Son, Danbi Seo, HyeSook Youn, BuHyun Youn and Wanyeon Kim
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:35
  42. Psoralen is a coumarin-like and coumarin-related benzofuran glycoside, which is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine to treat patients with kidney and spleen-yang deficiency symptom. Psoralen has been ...

    Authors: Xiaomin Wang, Peike Peng, Zhiqiang Pan, Zhaoqin Fang, Wenli Lu and Xiaomei Liu
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:34