Publications by authors named "A V Kononenko"

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  • * Researchers studied a protein called Galectin 3 (Gal3) to see how it affects USC and found that high levels of Gal3 mean worse outcomes for patients.
  • * Experiments showed that blocking Gal3 can slow down the growth of USC cells and might help treat patients better.
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Overweight and obesity are a worldwide common problem and are diagnosed with a body mass index (BMI) value in the range of 25.0-29.9 kg/m2 and ≥30.

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Super-selective multivalent ligand-receptor interactions display a signature step-like onset in binding when meeting a characteristic density of target receptors. Materials engineered for super-selective binding generally display a high number of flexible ligands to enhance the systems' avidity. In many biological processes, however, ligands are present in moderate copy numbers and arranged in spatio-temporal patterns.

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Immunotherapy for ovarian cancer is an area of intense investigation since the majority of women with relapsed disease develop resistance to conventional cytotoxic therapy. The paucity of safe and validated target antigens has limited the development of clinically relevant antibody-based immunotherapeutics for this disease. Although MUC16 expression is almost universal in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancers, engagement of the shed circulating MUC16 antigen (CA-125) presents a theoretical risk of systemic activation and toxicity.

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Expansions of simple trinucleotide repeats, such as (CGG), (CAG) or (GAA), are responsible for more than 40 hereditary disorders in humans including fragile X syndrome, Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy, and Friedreich's ataxia. While the mechanisms of repeat expansions were intensively studied for over two decades, the final picture has yet to emerge. It was important, therefore, to develop a mammalian experimental system for studying repeat instability, which would recapitulate repeat instability observed in human pedigrees.

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