The connections between cancer stem cells (CSCs) and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is critical in cancer initiation, progression, metastasis, and therapy resistance, making it a focal point in cancer theragnosis. This review provides a panorama of associations and regulation pathways between CSCs and EMT, highlighting their significance in cancer. The molecular mechanisms underlined EMT are thoroughly explored, including the involvement of key transcription factors and signaling pathways.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Fringe is a glycosyltransferase involved in tumor occurrence and metastasis. However, a comprehensive analysis of the Fringe family members lunatic fringe (LFNG), manic fringe (MFNG), radical fringe (RFNG) in human cancers is lacking.
Methods: In this study, we performed a pan-cancer analysis of Fringe family members in 33 cancer types with transcriptomic, genomic, methylation data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project.
Int J Biol Macromol
December 2023
Pickering emulsions was successfully fabricated using ball-milled agar particles with sizes and sulfate content around 7 μm and 0.62 %, respectively. These particles were obtained through a simple media-milling process using agar powders initially sized at 120 μm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAgar benzoate (AB) with different degrees of substitution (DS) was synthesized by the esterification of agar and benzoic anhydride in aqueous solution. The DS could be regulated by adjusting composition ratio, pH, and temperature. Its chemical structure was determined by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR).
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December 2022
A novel agar-based Pickering emulsion stabilizer was developed through the hydrophobic modification and microgelation of agar. After hexanoylation, the three-phase contact angle of hexanoylated agar (HAG) particles was adjusted from approximately 60° to 96° closing to neutral wettability. After microgelation, the particle size of the modified agar microgel was approximately 2 μm and Zeta potential reached -23.
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