Publications by authors named "Jia-Wun Luo"

Cancer immunotherapy uses the immune system to achieve therapeutic effects; however, its effect is still limited. Therefore, in addition to immune checkpoint-based treatment, the development of other strategies that can inhibit cancer cells from resisting immune cytotoxicity is important. There are currently few studies on the mechanism of tumors using cytoskeletal proteins reorganization to participate in immune escape.

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  • Cancer cell detachment is crucial for tumor metastasis, and this study explores how cytoskeleton proteins influence this process.
  • Blocking TGF-β1 using antibodies and treating with latrunculin B, an actin inhibitor, promoted cell detachment by disrupting actin fibers and focal adhesion protein dynamics.
  • The findings suggest that TGF-β1, vimentin, and focal adhesion proteins work together to regulate the balance between tumor anchoring and detachment, highlighting potential targets for cancer treatment.
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Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is associated with malignant tumors. In a previous study, we found that KLHL23 is a tumor suppressor gene that inhibits EMT and cancer dissemination. However, the correlation between its expression and cancer progression in urothelial carcinoma (UC) remains unknown.

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More than 1,500 fish species are hermaphroditic, but no hermaphroditic lineage appears to be evolutionarily ancient in fishes. Thus, whether more than one sex at a time was present during the evolutionary shift from gonochorism to hermaphroditism in fishes is an intriguing question. Ectopic oocytes were created in the ovotestes of protandrous black porgy via the withdrawal of estradiol (E2) administration.

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In most vertebrates, hermaphroditism results in infertility. However, hermaphroditism occurs in 6% of teleosts, which primarily undergo protogyny. Here, to elucidate the transient stage from gonochorism to hermaphroditism, juvenile black porgies as a model animal were fed a diet containing estradiol (E2) for 3 mo, followed by withdrawal of E2 treatment.

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