Tandem Repeat Diversity in Two Closely Related Hamster Species—The Chinese Hamster (Cricetulus griseus) and Striped Hamster (Cricetulus barabensis) [PDF]
Biomedicines, 2022 The Chinese hamster (Cricetulus griseus) and striped hamster (Cricetulus barabensis) are very closely related species with similar karyotypes. The karyotypes differ from each other by one Robertsonian rearrangement and X-chromosome morphology.
Nadezhda G. Ivanova +4 more
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A comprehensive proteome and phosphoproteome atlas across nine organs of the Chinese hamster [PDF]
Animal Models and Experimental MedicineBackground The Chinese hamster (Cricetulus griseus) is not only an important model organism but also the source of Chinese hamster ovary cells, which play an indispensable role in biomedical and biopharmaceutical research.
Luyao Zhang +15 more
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 There is still an obvious lack of information on Sokolov's Dwarf Hamster (Cricetulus sokolovi) which belongs to subfamily Cricetinae because the species is only rarely found in Gobi desert.
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Genomic-transcriptomic analysis identifies the Syrian hamster as a superior animal model for human diseases [PDF]
BMC GenomicsBackground The Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) has shown promise as a human diseases model, recapitulating features of different human diseases including COVID-19.
Chuchu Wang +30 more
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Neoplasms in domestic hamsters in Southern Brazil: epidemiological and pathological aspects of 40 cases1 [PDF]
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2021 : Although neoplasms are commonly reported in domestic hamsters, retrospective studies approaching spontaneous tumors with data regarding epidemiological findings are scarce.
Maria F. Wentz +7 more
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Resurrecting essential amino acid biosynthesis in mammalian cells
eLife, 2022 Major genomic deletions in independent eukaryotic lineages have led to repeated ancestral loss of biosynthesis pathways for nine of the twenty canonical amino acids.
Julie Trolle +13 more
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Structural insight into guanylyl cyclase receptor hijacking of the kinase–Hsp90 regulatory mechanism
eLife, 2023 Membrane receptor guanylyl cyclases play a role in many important facets of human physiology, from regulating blood pressure to intestinal fluid secretion.
Nathanael A Caveney +2 more
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Biology, 2022 Assessments of sperm performance are valuable tools for the analysis of sperm fertilizing potential and to understand determinants of male fertility. Hamster species constitute important animal models because they produce sperm cells in high quantities ...
Maximiliano Tourmente +2 more
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Central Asian Rodents as Model Animals for Leishmania major and Leishmania donovani Research
Microorganisms, 2020 The clinical manifestation of leishmaniases depends on parasite species, host genetic background, and immune response. Manifestations of human leishmaniases are highly variable, ranging from self-healing skin lesions to fatal visceral disease.
Barbora Vojtkova +9 more
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Mitigating biomass composition uncertainties in flux balance analysis using ensemble representations
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2023 The biomass equation is a critical component in genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs): it is used as the de facto objective function in flux balance analysis (FBA).
Yoon-Mi Choi +6 more
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