Results 51 to 60 of about 277,260 (256)

From junk to function — How weak selection in eukaryotes builds new parts and drives genomic complexity

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
How do genomes gain new functional parts? In eukaryotes, which tend to evolve under weak selection, much of the genome is junk. Palazzo and Qiu borrow the logic of Markov chains to show how non‐functional DNA becomes functional through the appearance of intermediate states, which arise due to epistasis, buffering, and biochemical messiness, allowing ...
Alexander F. Palazzo, Yi Qiu
wiley   +1 more source

Parents’ Perceptions of Their Involvement in Their Babies’ Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study in Northern Ghana

SAGE Open Nursing
Objective The study explored parental views on their involvement in caring for their children admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at a hospital in Northern Ghana.
Bernard Atinyagrika Adugbire, Millicent Aarah-Bapuah, Lilian Serwaa Antwi, Gifty Appiah, Ayishetu Haruna Kombert   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food supplementing peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) nests increases reproductive success with no change in mean parental provisioning rate

Royal Society Open Science
Parents are expected to exhibit intermediate levels of investment in parental care that reflect the trade-off between current versus future reproduction. Providing parents with supplemental food may allow for increased care to the current brood (additive
Rebekah A. McKinnon, Erik Hedlin, Kevin Hawkshaw, Kimberley J. Mathot   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

PAK1 activation drives divergent resistance mechanisms to aromatase inhibition and tamoxifen in a luminal: A breast cancer model

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Breast cancer remains a major cause of cancer death in women, frequently developing endocrine therapy resistance. This study demonstrates that upregulated p21‐activated kinase 1 (PAK1) activity drives resistance to tamoxifen and long‐term estrogen deprivation in ER+ breast cancer models.
Luisa Schwarzmüller, Janina Müller, Efstathios‐Iason Vlachavas, Lukas Beumers, Lena Fleischhacker, Sara Burmester, Angelika Wörner, Sabine Karolus, Dominic Helm, Cindy Körner, Stefan Wiemann   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The evolution of negotiation strategies diversifies parental cooperation

Communications Biology
Parental cooperation is not self-evident, as conflicts often arise over individual contributions. Evolutionary game theory suggests this conflict may be resolved through negotiation, where parents adjust their care level based on their partner’s ...
Jia Zheng, Franz J. Weissing, Davide Baldan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

In vitro and in silico modelling of ROS1‐positive non‐small cell lung cancer reveals fusion‐dependent tyrosine kinase inhibitor responses

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Drug resistance limits treatment success in a subset of lung cancers driven by ROS1 gene alterations. Using patient‐derived cells and computer simulations, we studied three key mutations and how they affect five targeted drugs. The mutations reduced drug effectiveness in different ways by altering protein structure and behavior.
Farhan Ul Haq, Marc Terrones, Felicia Rodrigues Fortes, Anne Schepers, Alessia Denis, Christophe Deben, Ken Op de Beeck, Guy Van Camp, Geert Vandeweyer   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Somatostatin receptor 4 (SSTR4) is a tumor suppressor in cutaneous and head & neck squamous cell carcinomas

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study identifies somatostatin receptor 4 (Sstr4) as a critical tumor suppressor against skin and head/neck cancers (HNSCC, cSCC, and BCC). The loss of Sstr4 removes a check on cell growth, causing hyperactivation of the MAPK‐ERK signaling pathway (↑).
Ali Taqvi, Tuan Khang Huynh, Adway Kadam, Zahra Kardan, Yue Yan, Amina Jamal Laham, Sampath Kumar Loganathan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Castration‐resistant prostate cancer cells are addicted to the high activity of cyclin‐dependent kinase 2

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We show that emergence of castration‐resistant prostate (CRPC) is associated with significant upregulation of cyclins that positively regulate cyclin‐dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) and concomitant downregulation of CDK4 cyclins. This renders CRPC cells dependent on the high activity of CDK2, and CDK2 inhibitors synergistically sensitize CRPC cells to both ...
Joyeeta Chatterjee, Alessia Marin, Shivani Yalala, Harri M. Itkonen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

p190A/ARHGAP35 and p190B/ARHGAP5 proteins in endometrial cancer: a novel cancer‐relevant paralog interplay

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study identifies ARHGAP5, in addition to the frequently mutated ARHGAP35, as significantly mutated in endometrial cancer. Mutations in both genes co‐occur and are associated with their correlated downregulation. Functional CRISPR studies show that both paralogs regulate similar pathways, including actin cytoskeleton organization.
Mathilde Pinault, Capucine Heraud, Mélissa Correia de Oliveira, Véronique Neaud, Valérie Valesco, Valérie Prouzet‐Mauleon, Béatrice Turcq, Jean‐William Dupuy, Anne‐Aurélie Raymond, Sabrina Croce, Frédéric Saltel, Valérie Lagrée, Violaine Moreau   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fish egg size: a characteristic determined by parental care

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2015
The existence of a trade-off between relative batch fecundity and egg size has been widely documented (e.g. Brown & Shine 2009). Studies on the evolution of parental care and its relationship with fish egg size were stimulated by the work of Shine (1978),
Rosana RM Mazzoni, Ricardo Iglesias-Rios
doaj   +1 more source