Abstract Background MicroRNA (miR)-210 plays a protective role in many cardiometabolic diseases, and its levels are reduced whole blood, erythrocytes, plasma type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Our recent study demonstrated that miR-210 is downregulated carotid artery plaques from patients with T2DM compared to non-diabetic patients. However, the functional of endothelial dysfunction not fully und...

MicroRNA (miRNA, miR)-155 is the most promising pro-inflammatory miRNA molecule. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) are the most well-known foreign antigens, initiating immune responses against infection and the development of atherosclerosis (AS), respectively. To explore whether miR-155 is involved in regulating LPS- and oxLDL-initiated inflammations, we inv...

We introduce aligned hierarchies, a low-dimensional representation for music-based data streams, such as recordings of songs or digitized representations of scores. The aligned hierarchies encode all hierarchical decompositions of repeated elements from a high-dimensional and noisy music-based data stream into one object. These aligned hierarchies can be embedded into a classification space wit...

Systems for the archival of musical documents digitally and development of digital music libraries are currently being researched and developed extensively. However, adapting these systems for the archival and retrieval of Malaysian music materials might not be as straightforward due to the distinct differences in musical structure and modes of non-Western music. This paper covers the motivatio...

BACKGROUND Divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT1) is a widely expressed metal-iron transporter gene encoding four variant mRNA transcripts, differing for alternative promoter at 5' (DMT1 1A and 1B) and alternative splicing at 3' UTR, differing by a specific sequence either containing or lacking an iron regulatory element (+IRE and -IRE, respectively). DMT1-IRE might be the major DMT1 isoform expre...

The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology seeks to address growing concerns about reproducibility in scientific research by conducting replications of selected experiments from a number of high-profile papers in the field of cancer biology. The papers, which were published between 2010 and 2012, were selected on the basis of citations and Altimetric scores (Errington et al., 2014). This Regis...

MicroRNAs regulate diverse cellular processes and play an integral role in cancer pathogenesis. Genomic variation within miRNA target sites may therefore be important sources for genetic differences in cancer risk. To investigate this possibility, we mapped HapMap single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) to putative miRNA recognition sites within genes dysregulated in estrogen receptor-stratified ...

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first identified in Wuhan, China. Initially, although the number of COVID-19-infected individuals very low, infected cases increased as virus spread worldwide. Skin manifestation is one symptoms observed COVID-19 patients. Objectives: This study investigated critical genes and molecular pathways involved skin manifestations patients through a ...