The primary purpose of the present study was to compare the microbial profiles of the tongue dorsa of healthy subjects and subjects with halitosis by using culture-independent molecular methods.
Deoxyschizandrin, a major lignan of Schisandra berries, has been demonstrated to have various biological activities such as antioxidant, hepatoprotective, and antidiabetic effects.
To examine the regulatory crosstalk between the transcription factors Nrf2 and AP-1 in prostate cancer (PCa) by dietary cancer chemopreventive compounds (−)epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) from green tea and sulforaphane (SFN) from…
Mouse proline-rich RNA-binding protein (mPrrp) is a mouse ortholog of Xenopus Prrp, which binds to a vegetal localization element (VLE) in the 3′-untranslated region (3′-UTR) of Vg1 mRNA and is expected to be involved in the transport and…
Members of the uncultivated bacterial division TM7 have been detected in the human mouth, but little information is available regarding their prevalence and diversity at this site.
Larry A Cogburn is Professor Emeritus of Function Genomics and Molecular Endocrinology at the Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware.
We established and characterized a humanized mouse model of HTLV-1c infection and identified that HTLV-1c disease appears slightly more aggressive than the prevalent HTLV-1 subtype-A (HTLV-1a), which may underpin increased risk for…
HE4, also known as WFDC2, is a useful biomarker for ovarian cancer when either used alone or in combination with CA125. HE4 is also overexpressed in endometrial cancer (EC), but its function in cancer cells is not clear.