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Epigenetic Regulation of Liver Fibrosis: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications

Portal Hypertension &Cirrhosis, EarlyView.
This review synthesizes the epigenetic mechanisms—DNA methylation, histone modifications, and non‐coding RNAs—that drive hepatic stellate cell activation and the progression of liver fibrosis. It further evaluates emerging therapeutic strategies targeting these epigenetic regulators, including DNA methyltransferase and histone deacetylase inhibitors ...
Maryam Jadid Tavaf, Mahboobeh Ebrahimi Varkiani, Saeid Abroun, Pedram Asadi‐Sarabi, Shukoofeh Torabi, Elham Rismani, Mohammad Majd Hammour, Andreas K. Nüssler, Massoud Vosough   +8 more
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Evaluating Thiram‐Induced Embryotoxicity Using Integrated In Silico, In Vitro, and Transcriptomic Approaches

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Long‐term exposure to low‐dose food contact materials (FCMs) has raised concerns regarding developmental toxicity. In the present study, we prioritized FCMs with potential developmental toxicity using a weight‐of‐evidence computational model, which predicted 127 chemicals to be of high concern.
Chia‐Chi Ho, Chun‐Wei Tung, B. Linju Yen, Chen‐Yi Weng, Ju‐Hsin Hsu, Ming‐Hsien Tsai, Salim Arrokhman, Pinpin Lin   +7 more
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Short germ insects utilize both the ancestral and derived mode of Polycomb group-mediated epigenetic silencing of Hox genes

Biology Open, 2015
In insect species that undergo long germ segmentation, such as Drosophila, all segments are specified simultaneously at the early blastoderm stage. As embryogenesis progresses, the expression boundaries of Hox genes are established by repression of gap ...
Yuji Matsuoka, Tetsuya Bando, Takahito Watanabe, Yoshiyasu Ishimaru, Sumihare Noji, Aleksandar Popadić, Taro Mito   +6 more
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Hox Gene Variation Drives Morphological Specialization of Humpback Grouper Cromileptes altivelis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Cromileptes altivelis exhibits a distinctive “sunken head and humpback” morphology, formed through cranial remodeling. Genetic analyses identified unique amino acid variants in Hoxa7a and Hoxa10b, with functional tests confirming their role in enhancing osteoblast activity and driving cranial remodeling.
Xiaoying Cao, Zhaowei Zhong, Lisheng Wu, Quanyin Liu, Shaoxiong Ding   +4 more
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More of the Same Makes a Difference: Comparative Anatomy and Molecular Makeup of Tenrec and Hedgehog Intestines

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Tenrecs and hedgehogs have gastrointestinal tracts of comparable morphology, yet with marked differences in length. Among mammals, intestinal length is correlated with diet; however, these species share a common trophic niche. The length differences are accounted for by an expansion of the small intestine in the European hedgehog.
María J. Duque‐Correa, Antoine Fages, Eva Dervas, Athanasia C. Tzika, Maria J. Minguer‐Balderas, Charlotte E. T. Huyghe, Walter Salzburger, Patrick Tschopp, Marcus Clauss   +8 more
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Brain metastasis‐associated fibroblasts shape the tumour microenvironment to enhance cancer cell invasion

Brain Pathology, EarlyView.
Brain metastasis‐associated fibroblasts are active stromal components of the metastatic niche characterised by extracellular matrix remodelling and production of pro‐migratory mediators. They promote monocyte and cancer cell migration and enhance cancer cell invasion while having no growth‐promoting effect on cancer cells.
Barbora Výmolová, Lucie Pfeiferová, Tadeáš Karel Smetana, Petr Výmola, Nikola Ternerová, Michal Zubaľ, Michal Kolář, Jana Šáchová, Soňa Gyönyörová, Eva Balážiová, Magdalena Houdová Megová, Jakub Červenka, Helena Kupcová Skalníková, Michal Španko, Karel Smetana Jr., Lukáš Lacina, David Netuka, Robert Tomáš, Petr Bušek, Aleksi Šedo   +19 more
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Hox Targets and Cellular Functions

Scientifica, 2013
Hox genes are a group of genes that specify structures along the anteroposterior axis in bilaterians. Although in many cases they do so by modifying a homologous structure with a different (or no) Hox input, there are also examples of Hox genes ...
Ernesto Sánchez-Herrero
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Chd4 and ThPOK cooperate to preserve structural and electrophysiological integrity of the adult heart through Sprr1a repression

The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
Chd4/NuRD and ThPOK cooperate to maintain transcriptional repression and nuclear organization in adult cardiomyocytes. Chd4 loss reduces miR‐150‐5p, relieving repression of Sprr1a, while ThPOK loss further enhances Sprr1a activation, possibly through altered chromatin–lamina interactions.
Fadoua El Abdellaoui‐Soussi, Apolonia Novillo, Rocío Brea, Marta Ysbert, Lorena Cussó, Gonzalo Pizarro‐Sánchez, Manuel Desco, Iván Hernández, Ángel Luis Armesilla, Ignacio Pérez de Castro, Alicia R. Folgueras, Juan Miguel Redondo, Pablo Gómez‐del Arco   +12 more
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Broken colinearity of the amphioxus Hox cluster

EvoDevo, 2012
Background In most eumetazoans studied so far, Hox genes determine the identity of structures along the main body axis. They are usually linked in genomic clusters and, in the case of the vertebrate embryo, are expressed with spatial and temporal ...
Pascual-Anaya Juan, Adachi Noritaka, Álvarez Susana, Kuratani Shigeru, D’Aniello Salvatore, Garcia-Fernàndez Jordi   +5 more
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A comprehensive study on ferredoxin isoforms in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
Ferredoxins are small FeS cluster‐containing proteins that play a central role in distributing electrons within the cell. The cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 contains several ferredoxin isoforms and their biophysical properties (UV/Vis and EPR spectra, Em potential), expression patterns, and interactions with the electron donors photosystem I
Marko Boehm, Drazenka Svedruzic, Carolyn E. Lubner, Jens Appel, David W. Mulder, Effie C. Kisgeropoulos, Vanessa Hueren, Katharina Spengler, Vivek S. Bharadwaj, Zhanjun Guo, Anastasia E. Ledinina, Darja Deobald, Lorenz Adrian, Paul W. King, Kirstin Gutekunst   +14 more
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