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[Acta Pharmacologica Sinica] Scientists investigated whether fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) was involved in the therapeutic effect of sulforaphane against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

[Science Translational Medicine] Lung autopsy samples from 18 patients with fatal COVID-19, with symptom onset-to-death times ranging from 3 to 47 days, and antemortem plasma samples from 6 of these cases were evaluated using deep sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 RNA, multiplex plasma protein measurements, and pulmonary gene expression and imaging analyses.

[Molecular Biology Reports] The authors elucidated the modulation patterns between apoptosis and autophagy following dual inhibition by Akt inhibitor erufosine and Bcl-2 inhibitor ABT-737 in castration-resistant prostate cancer cell lines, PC-3 (Bax+) and DU-145 (Bax−).

[Molecular Medicine Reports] The authors investigated the molecular mech­­anisms of long non‑coding RNA small nucleolar RNA host gene 16 in the proliferation and metastasis of prostate cancer cells.

[Pediatric Pulmonology] Human bronchial epithelial cells BEAS-2B were stimulated with transforming growth factor-β1 at a concentration of 10 ng/mL, and CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) overexpression plasmid and CTCF small interfering RNA were transfected into the cells.

[Breast Cancer Research] Researchers showed that fluid forces on the order of 1 Pa promoted epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and adhesion of breast cancer cells to an endothelial monolayer and identified biomarkers were distinctly expressed in patient populations.