A Focal Adhesion Filament Cross-correlation Kit for fast, automated segmentation and correlation of focal adhesions and actin stress fibers in cells

Focal adhesions (FAs) and associated actin stress fibers (SFs) form a complex mechanical system that mediates bidirectional interactions between cells…

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Comparison of four enzymatic library preparation kits for sequencing Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli for surveillance and outbreak detection

Four enzymatic DNA library preparation kits were compared for sequencing Shiga toxin-producing E. coli. All kits produced high-quality sequence data…

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ZNRD1-AS1 knockdown alleviates malignant phenotype of retinoblastoma through miR-128-3p/BMI1 axis

Background: ZNRD1-AS1 plays an important role in liver cancer, endometrial cancer and other diseases. However, the relationship between ZNRD1-AS1 and retinoblastoma…

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RNF43/ZNRF3 loss predisposes to hepatocellular-carcinoma by impairing liver regeneration and altering the liver lipid metabolic ground-state

RNF43/ZNRF3 negatively regulates WNT signaling. Both genes are mutated in several types of cancers, however, their contribution to liver disease…

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An eQTL variant of ZXDC is associated with IFN-γ production following Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen-specific stimulation.

There is a large inter-individual variability in the response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. In previous linkage analyses, we identified a…

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Establishing the Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS): Operationalizing Community-based Research in a Large National Quantitative Study.

Community-based research has gained increasing recognition in health research over the last two decades. Such participatory research approaches are lauded…

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