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SAGE OpenScholars have long recognized that fan activism was a potential force for political participation and civic engagement. With the advancement of culture and media technology, the lines between fan activism and political activity are becoming increasingly ...
Jie Lan, Moniza Waheed, Rosmiza Bidin
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures
, 2016 Fans constitute a very special kind of audience. They have been marginalized, ridiculed and stigmatized, yet at the same time they seem to represent the vanguard of new relationships with and within the media. ‘Participatory culture’ has become the new normative standard.
Duits, L., Zwaan, K., Reijnders, S.L.
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Pop stars and idolatry: an investigation of the worship of popular music icons, and the music and cult of Prince. [PDF]
, 2010 Prince is an artist who integrates elements from the sacred into his work. He uses popular iconography to present himself as an icon of consumer culture, as a deified ‘rock god’ worshipped by his fans, and as a preacher leading his audience like a ...
Baty S. Paige +23 more
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Intein‐based modular chimeric antigen receptor platform for specific CD19/CD20 co‐targeting
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.CARtein is a modular CAR platform that uses split inteins to splice antigen‐recognition modules onto a universal signaling backbone, enabling precise, scarless assembly without re‐engineering signaling domains. Deployed here against CD19 and CD20 in B‐cell malignancies, the design supports flexible multi‐antigen targeting to boost T‐cell activation and
Pablo Gonzalez‐Garcia +9 more
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Smith on Bacon-Smith, \u27Enterprising Women: TelevisionFandom and the Creation of Popular Myth [PDF]
, 1997 In Enterprising Women scholar Camille Bacon-Smith describes the underground culture of media fandom, that is, the network of fans who create fiction, poetry, art, and other creative works based on favorite television shows and then gather to circulate ...
Smith, Anne Collins
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Gene Expression and the Physiological Role of Transforming Growth Factor-α in the Mouse Pituitary [PDF]
, 2003 Transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha), a member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) family, is produced within the mouse anterior pituitaries. However, the cell types of TGF-alpha-expressing cells and the physiological roles of TGF-a within mouse
Kakeya, Tomoshi +5 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Development of therapies targeting cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) necessitates preclinical model systems that faithfully represent CAF–tumor biology. We established an in vitro coculture system of patient‐derived pancreatic CAFs and tumor cell lines and demonstrated its recapitulation of primary CAF–tumor biology with single‐cell transcriptomics ...
Elysia Saputra +10 more
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Femininity Aspect as Reflected in Lisa See\u27s Snow Flower and the Secret Fan [PDF]
, 2018 The purpose of this study is to describe forms opression faced by Chinese women in the nineteenth century as reflected in te novel “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” written by Lisa See, then to find out the way of the Chinese women to minimize their ...
Rakhmyta, Y. A. (Yunie)
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Peroxidasin enables melanoma immune escape by inhibiting natural killer cell cytotoxicity
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Peroxidasin (PXDN) is secreted by melanoma cells and binds the NK cell receptor NKG2D, thereby suppressing NK cell activation and cytotoxicity. PXDN depletion restores NKG2D signaling and enables effective NK cell–mediated melanoma killing. These findings identify PXDN as a previously unrecognized immune evasion factor and a potential target to improve
Hsu‐Min Sung +17 more
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“Come together”: a fanvid insight on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and fandom
Series. International journal of tv serial narratives, 2015 Through the in-depth analysis of a single fanwork, Luminosity’s concept-vid Scooby Road (2005), made with images appropriated from the acclaimed TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this paper will investigate the strong and complex relationship between ...
Lucia Tralli
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