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• Run for your life: can exercise be used to effectively target GLUT4 in diabetic cardiac disease?

  Authors:Peter R.T. Bowman, Godfrey L. Smith, and Gwyn W. GouldFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 202117,068 words Article 1510LThe global incidence, associated mortality rates and economic burden of diabetes are now such that it is considered one of the most pressing worldwide public health challenges. Considerable research is now devoted to...

• Analysis of ceRNA networks and identification of potential drug targets for drug-resistant leukemia cell K562/ADR.

  Authors:Zhaoping Liu, Yanyan Wang, Zhenru Xu, Shunling Yuan, Yanglin Ou, Zeyu Luo, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 20217,883 words Article 1390LBackground Drug resistance is the main obstacle in the treatment of leukemia. As a member of the competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) mechanism, underlying roles of lncRNA are rarely reported in drug-resistant leukemia...

• Measuring pathway database coverage of the phosphoproteome.

  Authors:Hannah Huckstep, Liam G. Fearnley, and Melissa J. DavisFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 202112,606 words Article 1480LProtein phosphorylation is one of the best known post-translational mechanisms playing a key role in the regulation of cellular processes. Over 100,000 distinct phosphorylation sites have been discovered through constant...

• Cuffless blood pressure estimation based on haemodynamic principles: progress towards mobile healthcare.

  Authors:Takehiro Yamakoshi, Peter Rolfe, and Ken-ichi YamakoshiFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 20217,556 words Article 1510LBackground Although cuff-sphygmomanometry is used worldwide in medical and healthcare fields, it is a fact that the use of an occlusive cuff to obtain blood pressure (BP) is troublesome and inconvenient. There have...

• Psychometric properties of the Attitudes towards Medical Communication Scale in nursing students.

  Authors:Silvia Escribano, Rocío Juliá-Sanchis, Sofía García-Sanjuán, Nereida Congost-Maestre, and María José Cabañero-MartínezFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 20215,936 words Article 1410LBackground Adequate communication skills in healthcare professionals are one of the key elements required for achieving high-quality healthcare. Thus, measurement instruments able to assess the dimensions related to...

• The paeonol target gene autophagy-related 5 has a potential therapeutic value in psoriasis treatment.

  Authors:Qian Zhang, Hongqiao Shi, Jiaan Zhang, Chenxue Jiang, and Chunxiang ZhouFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 20216,421 words Report 1190LBackground Paeonol is a potent therapy for psoriasis. This study aimed to screen out paeonol-targeted genes in psoriasis and validate the potential of using paeonol for the management of psoriasis. Methods...

• Taxonomic description and phylogenetic placement of two new species of Spalangiopelta (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae: Ceinae) from Eocene Baltic amber.

  Authors:Marina Moser, Roger A. Burks, Jonah M. Ulmer, John M. Heraty, Thomas van de Kamp, and Lars KrogmannFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 20218,606 words Article 1230LSpalangiopelta is a small genus of chalcid wasps that has received little attention despite the widespread distribution of its extant species. The fossil record of the genus is restricted to a single species from Miocene...

• Evaluation of pro-apoptotic potential of taxifolin against liver cancer.

  Authors:Sania Safdar Butt, Khushbukhat Khan, Yasmin Badshah, Mehak Rafiq, and Maria ShabbirFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 20217,684 words Article 1390LLiver cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-induced deaths worldwide. Liver cirrhosis and cancer are a consequence of the abnormal angio-architecture formation of liver and formation of new blood vessels. This...

• Biotin-streptavidin-guided two-step pretargeting approach using PLGA for molecular ultrasound imaging and chemotherapy for ovarian cancer.

  Authors:Hang Zhou, Jing Fu, Qihuan Fu, Yujie Feng, Ruixia Hong, Pan Li, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 20216,518 words Article 1340LBackground Ovarian cancer seriously threatens the lives and health of women, and early diagnosis and treatment are still challenging. Pre-targeting is a promising strategy to improve the treatment efficacy of ovarian...

• partR2: partitioning R.sup.2 in generalized linear mixed models.

  Authors:Martin A. Stoffel, Shinichi Nakagawa, and Holger SchielzethFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 20216,509 words Report 1470LThe coefficient of determination R.sup.2 quantifies the amount of variance explained by regression coefficients in a linear model. It can be seen as the fixed-effects complement to the repeatability R (intra-class...