Publications by authors named "Meng-Dan Zhang"
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- Fungal diseases pose a significant threat to agricultural production, prompting the need for new antifungal agents.
- Researchers isolated 14 new brominated aromatic butenolides and six known analogues from a soft coral-derived endophytic fungus, demonstrating their antifungal potency against various plant pathogens.
- The most promising compound showed significant effects by disrupting nutrient signaling in target fungi, suggesting its potential as a novel agricultural antifungal drug, especially effective against diseases affecting papayas.
Background: Tooth development, as one of the major mineralized tissues in the body, require fine-tuning of mineralization micro-environment. The interaction between dental epithelium and mesenchyme plays a decisive role in this process. With epithelium-mesenchyme dissociation study, we found interesting expression pattern of insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 (IGFBP3) in response to disruption of dental epithelium-mesenchyme interaction.
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