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[Molecular Medicine Reports] The authors investigated whether serum exosomes played a pro‑inflammatory role in bronchial epithelial cells and explored the underlying molecular mechanisms.

[Scientific Reports] Researchers reported transcriptomic changes, including decreased expression of many ribosomal genes, in airway epithelial cells in response to e-cig exposure.

[Molecular Oncology] Co-detection and comprehensive phenotypic and karyotypic molecular characterization of aneuploid circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor endothelial cells were conducted on non-small cell lung cancer patients receiving bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.

[Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Archives of Pharmacology] Scientists investigated the effect of diclofenac, a selective COX-2 inhibitor, on cell adhesion molecules and apoptosis in human colon adenocarcinoma cells. Levels of homing cell adhesion molecule, intercellular adhesion molecule-1, vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, and epithelial cell adhesion molecule were evaluated in cancer cells overexpressing or not expressing COX-2.

[Environmental Toxicology] Faciogenital dysplasia 5 (FGD5) was knocked down in gastric cancer cell lines through two independent siRNAs against FGD5 and it was identified that FGD5 knockdown suppressed the cancer stem cell (CSC)—like traits of gastric cancer cells through analyzing the expression of CSC markers, ALDH1 activity and spheroid-formation ability.

[Science Advances] Scientists found that mRNA and protein expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, the cell entry receptor for the novel SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19, increases with advancing age in distal lung epithelial cells.