Publications by authors named "Ming-Xia Ding"
Species identification of unknown biological samples is crucial for forensic applications, especially in cases of explosion, disaster accidents, and body mutilation after murdering, as well as poaching, illegal trade in endangered animals, and meat food fraud. In this study, we identified 60 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in fresh skeletal muscle tissues of seven different animal species (cattle, sheep, pigs, rabbits, rats, chickens and carp) and a human dead body by headspace-gas-chromatography ion-mobility spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS), and compared their differences by retention time, drift time and molecular weight. The results showed that these VOCs formed different gallery plot fingerprints in the skeletal muscle tissues of the human dead body and seven animal species.
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- The study investigates how Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) affects neurological injury in a rat model of middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) by focusing on the regulation of CRMP2 phosphorylation.
- Researchers used various methods, including modified neurological severity scores (mNSS) and protein expression analysis, to evaluate the impact of TLR4 activation and inhibition on neurological recovery.
- Findings indicate that TLR4 promotes CRMP2 phosphorylation through ROCK-II activation, suggesting that targeting TLR4 could help minimize brain damage after a stroke.
Objective: No treatment is recommended for routine maintenance tocolysis after an arrested preterm birth. Our present study aimed to evaluate the effect of progesterone and nifedipine as maintenance tocolysis therapy after an arrested preterm birth.
Materials And Methods: For relevant studies, we systematically searched the literature in databases of PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in the Cochrane Library.
The complete mitochondrial genome of white-tufted-ear marmoset, Callithrix jacchus (Primates: Callitrichinae).
Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal
May 2016
The white-tufted-ear marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is a New World primate that inhabits the coastal rainforests of eastern Brazil. In the present work, we report the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of white-tufted-ear marmoset for the first time. The total length of this mitogenome is 16,499 bp long, containing 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, and 1 non-coding region (D-loop region).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To investigate the effect of glycopeptide-preferring polypeptide GalNAc transferase 1 (ppGalNAc T1) targeted RNA interference (RNAi) on the growth and migration of human bladder carcinoma EJ cells in vitro and in vivo.
Methods: DNA microarray assays were performed to determine ppGalNAc Ts(ppGalNAc T1-9) expression in human bladder cancer and normal bladder tissues. We transfected the EJ bladder cancer cell line with well-designed ppGalNAc T1 siRNA.
Apoptin induces apoptosis in human bladder cancer EJ and BIU-87 cells.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev
August 2012
Objective: To investigate whether apoptin is a apoptosis-inducing protein with a potential for bladder cancer therapy.
Methods: We constructed a PCDNA3/Apoptin eukaryotic expression vector, and transfected this vector into bladder cancer cell lines BIU-87 and EJ, then observed the results by RT-PCR, transmission electron microscopy, MTT assay and the flow cytometry (TUNEL method).
Results: PCDNA3/Apoptin successfully induced a high level apoptosis in both bladder cancer cell lines, compared with the controls (p<0.