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Apoptosis in Cancer Cells Is Induced by Alternative Splicing of hnRNPA2/B1 Through Splicing of Bcl-x, a Mechanism that Can Be Stimulated by an Extract of the South African Medicinal Plant, Cotyledon orbiculata (2020)
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Makhafola, T. J., Mbele, M., Yacqub-Usman, K., Hendren, A., Haigh, D. B., Blackley, Z., …Dlamini, Z. (2020). Apoptosis in Cancer Cells Is Induced by Alternative Splicing of hnRNPA2/B1 Through Splicing of Bcl-x, a Mechanism that Can Be Stimulated by an Extract of the South African Medicinal Plant, Cotyledon orbiculata. Frontiers in Oncology, 10, Article 547392. https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.547392

Alternative splicing is deregulated in cancer and alternatively spliced products can be linked to cancer hallmarks. Targeting alternative splicing could offer novel effective cancer treatments. We investigated the effects of the crude extract of a So... Read More about Apoptosis in Cancer Cells Is Induced by Alternative Splicing of hnRNPA2/B1 Through Splicing of Bcl-x, a Mechanism that Can Be Stimulated by an Extract of the South African Medicinal Plant, Cotyledon orbiculata.

Effect of Combining EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors and Cytotoxic Agents on Cholangiocarcinoma Cells (2020)
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Boonsri, B., Yacqub-Usman, K., Thintharua, P., Myint, K. Z., Sae-Lao, T., Collier, P., …Wongprasert, K. (2020). Effect of Combining EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors and Cytotoxic Agents on Cholangiocarcinoma Cells. Cancer Research and Treatment, 53(2), 457-470. https://doi.org/10.4143/crt.2020.585

Purpose The potential of members of the epidermal growth factor receptor (ErbB) family as drug targets in cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) has not been extensively addressed. Although phase III clinical trials showed no survival benefits of erlotinib in pati... Read More about Effect of Combining EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors and Cytotoxic Agents on Cholangiocarcinoma Cells.

Non?invasive measurement of retinal permeability in a diabetic rat model (2020)
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Whatmore, J. L., Allen, C. L., Malhi, N. K., Whatmore, J. D., Bates, D. O., & Arkill, K. P. (2020). Non?invasive measurement of retinal permeability in a diabetic rat model. Microcirculation, 27(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/micc.12623

Objective: The gold standard for measuring blood-retinal barrier permeability is the Evans blue assay. However, this technique has limitations in vivo, including non-specific tissue binding and toxicity. This study describes a non-toxic, high through... Read More about Non?invasive measurement of retinal permeability in a diabetic rat model.

Phenotypic and functional translation of IL33 genetics in asthma (2020)
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Ketelaar, M. E., Portelli, M. A., Dijk, F. N., Shrine, N., Faiz, A., Vermeulen, C. J., …Nawijn, M. C. (2021). Phenotypic and functional translation of IL33 genetics in asthma. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 147(1), 144-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2020.04.051

© 2020 Background: Asthma is a complex disease with multiple phenotypes that may differ in disease pathobiology and treatment response. IL33 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been reproducibly associated with asthma. IL33 levels are elevate... Read More about Phenotypic and functional translation of IL33 genetics in asthma.

Blocking endothelial apoptosis revascularises the retina in a model of ischemic retinopathy (2020)
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Grant, Z. L., Whitehead, L., Wong, V. H. Y., He, Z., Yan, R. Y., Miles, A. R., …Coultas, L. (2020). Blocking endothelial apoptosis revascularises the retina in a model of ischemic retinopathy. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 130(8), 4235-4251. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci127668

Aberrant, neovascular retinal blood vessel growth is a vision-threatening complication in ischemic retinal diseases. It is driven by retinal hypoxia frequently caused by capillary nonperfusion and endothelial cell (EC) loss. We investigated the role... Read More about Blocking endothelial apoptosis revascularises the retina in a model of ischemic retinopathy.

Local microvascular leakage promotes trafficking of activated neutrophils to remote organs (2020)
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Owen-Woods, C., Joulia, R., Barkaway, A., Rolas, L., Ma, B., Nottebaum, A. F., …Nourshargh, S. (2020). Local microvascular leakage promotes trafficking of activated neutrophils to remote organs. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 130(5), 2301-2318. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI133661

Copyright: © 2020, Owen-Woods et al. This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Increased microvascular permeability to plasma proteins and neutrophil emigration are hallmar... Read More about Local microvascular leakage promotes trafficking of activated neutrophils to remote organs.