The miR-28-5p-CAMTA2 axis regulates colon cancer progression via Wnt/β-catenin signaling.

Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer with high morbidity and mortality. Calmodulin-binding transcription activator 2 (CAMTA2) belongs to the calmodulin-binding transcription activator protein family. The functional role of CAMTA2 in colon cancer development remains unclear.

Gap analysis and implications for seasonal management on a local scale.

Background: Identifying biodiversity hotspots on a local scale, using multiple data sources, and ecological niche modeling, has the potential to contribute to more effective nature reserve management.

Methods: In this study, we used infrared-triggered camera trapping, field surveys, and interviews to create a dataset on the distribution of species (mammals and birds) in Hebei Wulingshan Nature Reserve (Hebei Province, China).

Results: We identified 101 species (14 orders, 38 families), 64 of which (2,142 effective records) were selected for environmental niche modeling.

[Quantitative assessment of urban ecosystem services flow based on entropy theory: A case study of Beijing, China].

Quantitative evaluation of ecosystem service is a primary premise for rational resources exploitation and sustainable development. Examining ecosystem services flow provides a scientific method to quantity ecosystem services. We built an assessment indicator system based on land cover/land use under the framework of four types of ecosystem services.

[Ecological effects of utilizing non-timber forest products].

Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) include all plant materials other than timber, such as seeds, flowers, fruits, leaves, roots, bark, latex, resins, and other non-wood plant parts. The significant role of NTFPs in improving local people's lives and forest biodiversity conservation has been widely accepted. However, many studies in past decades indicated that NTFPs utilization had various ecological effects on different levels, from plant individual and population to community and forest ecosystem, depending not only on the plant parts extracted and their biological or ecological attributes, but also on the harvest forms.

Knockdown of interleukin-2 by shRNA-mediated RNA interference prolongs liver allograft survival.

Interleukin-2 (IL-2) plays a central role in T-cell activation, expansion, and homeostasis. The failure of IL-2 biosynthesis may play a critical role in tolerance induction. We tested the effect of IL-2 blockade by short hairpin RNA (shRNA) on regulating acute rejection in rat liver transplantation.