MENGQIU CHENG^1,2, WEI CAO², GUODONG CAO¹, XIN XU^1,2,*, BO CHEN^1,*

BIOCELL, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 97-109, 2022, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2021.015608

Abstract Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common cancer worldwide. Although emerging evidence indicates that autophagy-related long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) plays an important role in the progression of GC, the prognosis of GC based on autophagy is still deficient. The Cancer Genome of Atlas stomach adenocarcinoma (TCGA-STAD) dataset was downloaded and separated into a training set and a testing set randomly. Then, 24 autophagy-related lncRNAs were found strongly associated with the survival of the TCGA-STAD dataset. 11 lncRNAs were selected to build the risk score model through the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression. Every patient got… More >

Elda A. Flores-Contreras¹, Everardo González-González^2,3, Ana I. Zarazúa-Niño¹, Elsa N. Garza-Treviño¹, Natalia Martínez-Acuña¹, Viviana C. Zomosa-Signoret⁴, Román Vidaltamayo⁴, Gerardo E. Muñoz-Maldonado⁵, Raquel Garza-Guajardo⁶, Manuel de J. García-Solís⁷, Alejandro Abarca-Blanco³, Ana M. G. Rivas-Estilla¹, Carlos Córdova-Fletes^1,*

Oncologie, Vol.23, No.3, pp. 373-392, 2021, DOI:10.32604/oncologie.2021.017786

Abstract Breast cancer (BC) is one of the leading causes of death in women worldwide. A major challenge in BC is chemoresistance, which is often modulated by epigenetic regulators such as long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). Because these regulator lncRNAs may play diverse roles, determining their specific pathways and/or functions is crucial to identify possible biomarkers and/or therapeutic targets for BC. In this study, we used gene expression microarrays in order to identify lncRNAs related to the BC biology. We found, among six differentially expressed (DE) lncRNAs, that the expression of lnc-ERP44-3:6 was consistently down-regulated in all breast tumor tissues compared to… More >

JINGPENG ZHOU^1,2,#, XIAOGUANG JI^3,#, YUHAO WANG^1,2, XIAOLONG WANG^1,2, YONGJIANG MAO^1,2,*, ZHANGPING YANG^1,2,*

BIOCELL, Vol.45, No.4, pp. 1033-1044, 2021, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2021.015586

Abstract Cow mastitis is the most common disease that affects the dairy farming industry and causes serious harm to dairy cows and humans, and Staphylococcus (S.) aureus is one of the main pathogens that cause mastitis in dairy cows. In this study, a mastitis model was established through the infection of bovine mammary epithelial cells (BMECs) with S. aureus (bacterial concentration of 1 × 10⁹/mL), and these cells and a blank group (untreated) were analyzed by flow cytometry (10000 cells, 200 cells collected per second), hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining and immunohistochemistry. In addition, the lncRNAs (long non-coding RNAs) in the… More >

YONGLI ZHANG^1,#, YIZHAN CAO^2,#, BO ZHU³, YANNI JIANG³, PENGCHONG LIANG^3,*

BIOCELL, Vol.45, No.1, pp. 41-48, 2021, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2021.010454

Abstract Glycosylation of mucins mediated by N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferases (GALNTs) is closely related to respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In addition, long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) participate in physiological and pathological processes through various epigenetic mechanisms. In this study, we found that a novel LncRNA named NKILA combined with multiple mucins and GALNTs potentially by several bioinformatics methods, and we used quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) to detect the expressions of NKILA, MUC5AC, MUC5B, and GALNT2 mRNA in 50 cases of asthma samples and 19 cases of normal samples, whose results showed that the expression of NKILA was significantly… More >

Norah Saleh Alghamdi^1,*, Mohammad Ayoub Khan²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2509-2524, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014180

Abstract Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and Internet of Things (IoT) have gained more popularity in recent years as an underlying infrastructure for connected devices and sensors in smart cities. The data generated from these sensors are used by smart cities to strengthen their infrastructure, utilities, and public services. WSNs are suitable for long periods of data acquisition in smart cities. To make the networks of smart cities more reliable for sensitive information, the blockchain mechanism has been proposed. The key issues and challenges of WSNs in smart cities is efficiently scheduling the resources; leading to extending the network lifetime of sensors.… More >

Nan Geng¹, Wenxia Hu¹, Zhikun Liu², Jingwei Su², Wenyu Sun³, Shaonan Xie⁴, Cuimin Ding^1,*

Oncologie, Vol.22, No.4, pp. 245-254, 2020, DOI:10.32604/oncologie.2020.014125

Abstract Objective: This study was set out to inquire into the expression and clinical significance of lncRNA activated by transforming growth factor β (LncRNA-ATB) and in cancer tissues of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: LncRNA-ATB in cancer tissues and adjacent tissues of 89 NSCLC patients was detected by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), and its clinical diagnostic value in NSCLC was determined by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. Based on the median expression of LncRNAATB in NSCLC tissues, 89 patients were allocated into high- and low-expression groups. The 3-year survival rate was calculated using Kaplan-Meier method and… More >

Yuqin Xie¹, Shuang Deng¹, Qian Deng², Jiudong Xu^*

Oncologie, Vol.22, No.3, pp. 179-188, 2020, DOI:10.32604/Oncologie.2020.012544

Abstract This study aimed to explore LncRNA TUG1 targeted miR-222-3p in the proliferation and invasion of breast cancer (BC) cells. Seventy-six BC patients admitted to our hospital and 62 health check-ups at the same time were selected as the research objects. Among them, the former was seen as the observation group (OG), and the latter was considered as the control group (CG). The clinical significance of LncRNA TUG1 and miR-222-3p in BC was detected. Human BC cell MCF7 and normal human breast epithelial cell MCF-10A were purchased. After cells were transfected with LncRNA TUG1 and miR-222-3p, their proliferation, invasion, and apoptosis… More >

Tong MA^{1, §}, Fafen WANG^{2, §}, Xiaohui WANG¹

BIOCELL, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 191-198, 2019, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2019.06989

Abstract Cervical cancer (CC), has been identified as one of the most frequent malignant tumors all over the world, with high mortality in females. A growing number of investigations have confirmed that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a crucial role in the progression of multiple cancers. Nonetheless, the biological function and regulatory mechanism of LINC01772 in CC haven’t been explored so far. In this study, LINC01772 expression was found to be upregulated in tissues and cells of CC. Knocking down LINC01772 suppressed CC cell proliferation, migration and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process. Through molecular mechanism assays, LINC01772 was verified to be bound… More >