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Fbxo7 is a key player in the differentiation and function of numerous blood cell types, and in neurons, oligodendrocytes and spermatocytes. In an effort to gain insight into the physiological and pathological settings where Fbxo7 is likely to play a key role, we sought to define the transcription factors which direct FBXO7 expression. Using sequence alignments across 28 species, we defined the human FBXO7 promoter and found that it contains two conserved regions enriched for multiple transcription factor binding sites. Many of these have roles in either neuronal or haematopoietic development. Using various FBXO7 promoter reporters, we found ELF4, Pax5 and c-Myb have functional binding sites that activate transcription. We find endogenous Pax5 is bound to the FBXO7 promoter in pre-B cells, and that the exogenous expression of Pax5 represses Fbxo7 transcription in early pro-B cells.Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP) has emerged as a challenge after long-term glucocorticoid administration during the clinical therapy of diverse diseases. Although some candidates for GIOP treatment have been explored, there is still a lack of reliable drugs for GIOP prevention. In this study, rat bone marrow stem cells (rBMSCs) were utilized to investigate the feasibility of applying strontium gluconate (GluSr), which displays mild activity, easy absorption and good biocompatibility, for GIOP prevention. Thirty-two SD rats were divided into 4 groups to explore the effects of GluSr on osteoporosis rescue in vivo. Our results suggested that GluSr markedly alleviated dexamethasone (DEX)-induced apoptosis of osteoblast precursor cells and rBMSCs and enhanced rBMSC osteogenesis differentiation in vitro. GluSr also effectively promoted osteoblast survival, inhibited osteoclast differentiation and restored bone formation in GIOP rat models. Microarray analysis of the femora from GIOP rats treated with GluSr revealed that the signalling pathways of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), oestrogen receptor gene (ESR) and vitamin D receptor (VDR) were involved in bone restoration by GluSr. In summary, our study proved that GluSr enhanced osteoblast differentiation and suppressed osteoclast activity both in vitro and in vivo. GluSr might function as a novel strontium reagent for GIOP prevention.Osteosarcoma, a highly aggressive malignant tumor of the bone, usually occurs in children and young adults. However, although the considerable achievement in the clinical treatment of osteosarcoma recent years, the overall survival of osteosarcoma patients has not been obviously improved. Cancer cells preferentially use glycolysis instead of oxidative phosphorylation to meet their increased energetic and biosynthetic demands, a phenomenon known as the Warburg effect. Glycolysis is a driving factor in multiple cancers and is emerging as a new cancer target treatment. In the present study, we established a model to screen for glycolysis-associated genes in osteosarcoma. This risk score of the model were correlated with clinical characteristics osteosarcoma patients. Besides, a functional assay identified that STC2 enhanced the glycolysis of osteosarcoma cells. Modulation of STC2 changes glucose consumption and lactate production as well as GLUT1 expression in osteosarcoma. Furthermore, we identified that change in the expression levels of STC2 affected the proliferation, invasion, and migration of osteosarcoma cells. Our findings showed STC2 as a new tumor-promoting factor of osteosarcoma cells through enhancing glycolysis.Ketone bodies can be increased in the blood under certain physiological conditions, but their role under such conditions remains to be clarified. In the present study, we found the increment and usage of β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) during acute stress. BHB levels increased in the blood and PFC after 30-min acute immobilization stress, and BHB dehydrogenase 1 increased in the PFC simultaneously, but not in the hippocampus. Moreover, increased levels of acetyl-CoA, pyruvate carboxylase, and glutamate dehydrogenase 1 were found in the PFC, implicating the metabolism of increased BHB in the brain. Thus, we checked the levels of glutamate, glutamine, and GABA and found increased levels of glutamate and glutamine in the stressed group compared with that in the control group in the PFC. Exogenous administration of BHB enhanced struggling behaviors under stressful conditions. Our results suggest that the metabolism of BHB from peripheral blood in the PFC may contribute to acute stress responses to escape stressful conditions.Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are important starting materials for cell therapy products (CTPs) used for transplantation. During cell culture, hiPSCs often spontaneously undergo morphological changes and lose pluripotency. Such cells are called 'deviated cells', which are deviated from the undifferentiated state of hiPSCs, lack the expression of hiPSC markers and become positive for the early differentiation marker SSEA1 (stage-specific embryonic antigen 1, Lewis X glycan). Previously, we identified fibronectin (FN) as a predominant carrier protein of SSEA1 secreted from deviated cells, but not hiPSCs. A sandwich assay using antibodies (Abs) against FN and SSEA1 was developed for non-destructive quantitative evaluation of deviated cells present in hiPSC cultures. In this study, a novel technology was developed to specifically eliminate deviated cells using an anti-FN Ab along with a near-infrared (NIR) photoabsorber, IRDye700DX N-hydroxysuccinimide ester (IR700), which has been used for cancer photoimmunotherapy. The anti-FN Ab conjugated with the IR700 dye (IR700-αFN) bound to and induced the death of deviated cells upon NIR irradiation. StemRegenin 1 order In contrast, IR700-αFN failed to stain the hiPSCs, and IR700-αFN/NIR had little or no effect on survival. Finally, IR700-αFN/NIR irradiation induced selective removal of deviated cells from a mixed culture with hiPSCs, demonstrating that the proposed method is suitable for the removal of unwanted deviated cells present in hiPSC culture for the production of CTPs.In this paper, the heartbeat parameters of small model organisms, i.e. Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) and Danio rerio (zebrafish), were quantified in-vivo in intact larvae using microfluidics and a novel MATLAB-based software. Among different developmental stages of flies and zebrafish, the larval stage is privileged due to biological maturity, optical accessibility, and the myogenic nature of the heart. Conventional methods for parametric quantification of heart activities are complex and mostly done on dissected, irreversibly immobilized, or anesthetized larvae. Microfluidics has helped with reversible immobilization without the need for anesthesia, but heart monitoring is still done manually due to challenges associated with the movement of floating organs and cardiac interruptions. In our MATLAB software applied to videos recorded in microfluidic-based whole-organism assays, we have used image segmentation to automatically detect the heart and extract the heartbeat signal based on pixel intensity variations of the most contractile region of the heart tube. The smoothness priors approach (SPA) was applied to remove the undesired low-frequency noises caused by environmental light changes or heart movement. Heart rate and arrhythmicity were automatically measured from the detrended heartbeat signal while other parameters including end-diastolic and end-systolic diameters, shortening distance, shortening time, fractional shortening, and shortening velocity were quantified for the first time in intact larvae, using M-mode images under bright field microscopy. link2 The software was able to detect more than 94% of the heartbeats and the cardiac arrests in intact Drosophila larvae. Our user-friendly software enables in-vivo quantification of D. melanogaster and D. rerio larval heart functions in microfluidic devices, with the potential to be applied to other biological models and used for automatic screening of drugs and alleles that affect their heart.Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) has been announced as a pandemic and is spreading rapidly throughout the world. Early detection of COVID-19 may protect many infected people. Unfortunately, COVID-19 can be mistakenly diagnosed as pneumonia or lung cancer, which with fast spread in the chest cells, can lead to patient death. The most commonly used diagnosis methods for these three diseases are chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT) images. In this paper, a multi-classification deep learning model for diagnosing COVID-19, pneumonia, and lung cancer from a combination of chest x-ray and CT images is proposed. This combination has been used because chest X-ray is less powerful in the early stages of the disease, while a CT scan of the chest is useful even before symptoms appear, and CT can precisely detect the abnormal features that are identified in images. In addition, using these two types of images will increase the dataset size, which will increase the classification accuracy. To the best of our knowledge, no other deep learning model choosing between these diseases is found in the literature. In the present work, the performance of four architectures are considered, namely VGG19-CNN, ResNet152V2, ResNet152V2 + Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), and ResNet152V2 + Bidirectional GRU (Bi-GRU). A comprehensive evaluation of different deep learning architectures is provided using public digital chest x-ray and CT datasets with four classes (i.e., Normal, COVID-19, Pneumonia, and Lung cancer). From the results of the experiments, it was found that the VGG19 +CNN model outperforms the three other proposed models. The VGG19+CNN model achieved 98.05% accuracy (ACC), 98.05% recall, 98.43% precision, 99.5% specificity (SPC), 99.3% negative predictive value (NPV), 98.24% F1 score, 97.7% Matthew's correlation coefficient (MCC), and 99.66% area under the curve (AUC) based on X-ray and CT images.The voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.7 can be considered as a promising target for the treatment of pain. This research presents conformational-independent and 3D field-based QSAR modeling for a series of aryl sulfonamide acting as Nav1.7 inhibitors. As descriptors used for building conformation-independent QSAR models, SMILES notation and local invariants of the molecular graph were used with the Monte Carlo optimization method as a model developer. Different statistical methods, including the index of ideality of correlation, were used to test the quality of the developed models, robustness and predictability and obtained results were good. Obtained results indicate that there is a very good correlation between 3D QSAR and conformation-independent models. Molecular fragments that account for the increase/decrease of a studied activity were defined and used for the computer-aided design of new compounds as potential analgesics. link3 The final evaluation of the developed QSAR models and designed inhibitors were carried out using molecular docking studies, bringing to light an excellent correlation with the QSAR modeling results.Research on decision support applications in healthcare, such as those related to diagnosis, prediction, treatment planning, etc., has seen strongly growing interest in recent years. This development is thanks to the increase in data availability as well as to advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning research and access to computational resources. Highly promising research examples are published daily. However, at the same time, there are some unrealistic, often overly optimistic, expectations and assumptions with regard to the development, validation and acceptance of such methods. The healthcare application field introduces requirements and potential pitfalls that are not immediately obvious from the 'general data science' viewpoint. Reliable, objective, and generalisable validation and performance assessment of developed data-analysis methods is one particular pain-point. This may lead to unmet schedules and disappointments regarding true performance in real-life with as result poor uptake (or non-uptake) at the end-user side.