Combined morphological and molecular approaches to the clinical diagnosis of Necator americanus infection: a case report.

Background: Hookworm infection remains of considerable importance to public health. However, because critical cases caused by hookworm infection are rarely observed in China, accurate and prompt diagnoses are difficult to achieve in clinical practice. In this study, we describe how we combined morphological and molecular approaches to achieve the clinical diagnosis of hookworm infection.

Recent progress in study of circRNAs and its role in leukemia.

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of newly identified noncoding RNA and are considered as a new feature of eukaryotic gene expression. Hundreds of thousands of endogenous circRNAs have been found in mammalian cells, which we knew little before. CircRNAs are covalently closed, circular RNA molecules that typically comprise exonic sequences and are spliced at canonical splice sites.

C/EBPβ contributes to transcriptional activation of long non-coding RNA NEAT1 during APL cell differentiation.

Emerging evidences have shown that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play critical roles in cancer development and cancer therapy. LncRNA Nuclear Enriched Abundant Transcript 1 (NEAT1) is indispensable during acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) cell differentiation induced by all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA). However, the precise mechanism of NEAT1 upregulation has not been fully understood.