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  1. Primary cilia are sensory organelles that extend from the cellular membrane and are found in a wide range of cell types. Cilia possess a plethora of vital components that enable the detection and transmission ...

    Authors: Xiaonan Liu, Anna Pacwa, Giorgia Bresciani, Marta Swierczynska, Mariola Dorecka and Adrian Smedowski
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:109
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  2. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors of the digestive system, and the exact mechanism of HCC is still unclear. Transcription factor 7 like 2 (TCF7L2) plays a pivotal role i...

    Authors: Linsong Tang, Shengjun Xu, Rongli Wei, Guanghan Fan, Junbin Zhou, Xuyong Wei and Xiao Xu
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:108
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  3. Aging is associated with an increased risk of myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI). With an increasing prevalence of cardiovascular diseases such as coronary arteriosclerosis in older people, there has...

    Authors: Ji Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhao and Nianqiao Gong
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:107
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  4. Investigating immune cell infiltration in the brain post-ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury is crucial for understanding and managing the resultant inflammatory responses. This study aims to unravel the role of...

    Authors: Xiaocheng Li, Ming Qiao, Yan Zhou, Yan Peng, Gang Wen, Chenchen Xie and Yamei Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:106
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  5. Radiotherapy is a widely used cancer treatment that utilizes powerful radiation to destroy cancer cells and shrink tumors. While radiation can be beneficial, it can also harm the healthy tissues surrounding th...

    Authors: Lina Lu, Fengxiao Li, Yuanyuan Gao, Shuhe Kang, Jia Li and Jinwang Guo
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:105
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  6. Cholestatic liver diseases (CLD) are characterized by impaired normal bile flow, culminating in excessive accumulation of toxic bile acids. The majority of patients with CLD ultimately progress to liver cirrho...

    Authors: Dayan sun, Chuanping Xie, Yong Zhao, Junmin Liao, Shuangshuang Li, Yanan Zhang, Dingding Wang, Kaiyun Hua, Yichao Gu, Jingbin Du, Guoxian Huang and Jinshi Huang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:104
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  7. Myeloid-derived growth factor (MYDGF) is a novel secreted protein with potent antiapoptotic and tissue-repairing properties that is present in nearly 140 human tissues and cell lines, with the highest abundanc...

    Authors: Peng Chen, Xiaohui Huang, Weiwen Li, Weixing Wen, Yue Cao, Jiahuan Li, Yuli Huang and Yunzhao Hu
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:103
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  8. Acute monocytic leukemia-M5 (AML-M5) remains a challenging disease due to its high morbidity and poor prognosis. In addition to the evidence mentioned earlier, several studies have shown that programmed cell d...

    Authors: Xiaoqian Tan, Yinling He, Panpan Yu, Yunong Deng, Zhongcheng Xie, Jiami Guo, Qin Hou, Pin Li, Xiaoyan Lin, Siyu Ouyang, Wentao Ma, Yushu Xie, Zilong Guo, Dandan Chen, Zhixia Zhang, Yunyu Zhu…
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:102
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  9. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a highly heterogenous neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects upper and lower motor neurons, affecting additional cell types and brain regions. Underlying molec...

    Authors: Korina Karagianni, Dimitra Dafou, Konstantinos Xanthopoulos, Theodoros Sklaviadis and Eirini Kanata
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:101
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  10. Diabetes mellitus (DM)-induced testicular damage is associated with sexual dysfunction and male infertility in DM patients. However, the pathogenesis of DM-induced testicular damage remains largely undefined.

    Authors: Yuehai Xiao, Zongjian Liang, Jun Qiao, Zhiqiang Zhu, Bei Liu and Yuan Tian
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:100
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  11. Enhanced glycolysis is a crucial metabolic event that drives the development of liver fibrosis, but the molecular mechanisms have not been fully understood. Lactate is the endproduct of glycolysis, which has r...

    Authors: Ying Zhi, Kerui Fan, Shuang Liu, Kai Hu, Xinyan Zan, Ling Lin, Yongqiang Yang, Xianqiong Gong, Kun Chen, Li Tang, Longjiang Li, Jiayi Huang, Shujun Zhang and Li Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:99
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  12. L-theanine is a unique non-protein amino acid in tea that is widely used as a safe food additive. We investigated the cardioprotective effects and mechanisms of L-theanine in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion in...

    Authors: Qi Li, Jiaqi Ding, Boyu Xia, Kun Liu, Koulong Zheng, Jingjing Wu, Chao Huang, Xiaomei Yuan and Qingsheng You
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:98
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  13. Ubiquitin-specific protease 38 (USP38), belonging to the USP family, is recognized for its role in controlling protein degradation and diverse biological processes. Ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) following hear...

    Authors: Yucheng Pan, Zheng Xiao, Hongjie Yang, Bin Kong, Hong Meng, Wei Shuai and He Huang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:97
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  14. Lupus nephritis (LN) is a severe and common manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that is frequently identified with a poor prognosis. Macrophages play an important role in its pathogenesis. Diff...

    Authors: Limei Zhao, Shuqin Tang, Fahui Chen, Xiya Ren, Xiutao Han and Xiaoshuang Zhou
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:96
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  15. Ketone β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) has been reported to prevent tumor cell proliferation and improve drug resistance. However, the effectiveness of BHB in oxaliplatin (Oxa)-resistant colorectal cancer (CRC) and th...

    Authors: Meng Deng, Peijie Yan, Hui Gong, Guiqiu Li and Jianjie Wang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:95
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  16. Despite recent advances in tumor diagnosis and treatment technologies, the number of cancer cases and deaths worldwide continues to increase yearly, creating an urgent need to find new methods to prevent or tr...

    Authors: Pengtao Liu, Bo Zhang, Yuanqiang Li and Qipeng Yuan
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:94
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  17. The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of human bronchial epithelial cells (HBECs) is essential for airway remodeling during asthma. Wnt5a has been implicated in various lung diseases, while its role in t...

    Authors: Yu-Biao Liu, Xiao-Hua Tan, Hui-Hui Yang, Jin-Tong Yang, Chen-Yu Zhang, Ling Jin, Nan-Shi-Yu Yang, Cha-Xiang Guan, Yong Zhou, Shao-Kun Liu and Jian-Bing Xiong
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:93
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  18. COVID-19 is a new infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2). Since the outbreak in December 2019, it has caused an unprecedented world pandemic, leading to a...

    Authors: Hong-Hua Shao and Rui-Xing Yin
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:92
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  19. Glioma is the most common malignant tumor of the central nervous system, with EZH2 playing a crucial regulatory role. This study further explores the abnormal expression of EZH2 and its mechanisms in regulatin...

    Authors: Hongwei Zhang, Zixuan Wang, Xiaolong Qiao, Nan Peng, Jiaxing Wu, Yinan Chen and Chuandong Cheng
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:91
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  20. Aortic dissection (AD) is a macrovascular disease which is pathologically characterized by aortic media degeneration.This experiment aims to explore how iron deficiency (ID) affects the function of vascular sm...

    Authors: Yuanyang Chen, Xu Li, Zhiwei Wang, Shun Yuan, Xiaoyan Shen, Xiaoping Xie, Kai Xing and Qingyi Zhu
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:90
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  21. Myocardial infarction (MI) leads to enhanced activity of cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) and abnormal deposition of extracellular matrix proteins, resulting in cardiac fibrosis. Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase 5...

    Authors: Shujun Yang, Liying Pei, Zijie Huang, Yinsheng Zhong, Jun Li, Yinghui Hong, Huibao Long, Xuxiang Chen, Changqing Zhou, Guanghui Zheng, Chaotao Zeng, Haidong Wu and Tong Wang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:89
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  22. Macrophages play a crucial role in the development of cardiac fibrosis (CF). Although our previous studies have shown that glycogen metabolism plays an important role in macrophage inflammatory phenotype, the ...

    Authors: Shiqi Chen, Kan Wang, Zhengfeng Fan, Tingwen Zhou, Rui Li, Bingxia Zhang, Jie Chen, Jiangyang Chi, Keke Wei, Jincheng Liu, Zongtao Liu, Jingwei Ma, Nianguo Dong and Junwei Liu
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:88
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  23. Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is a common musculoskeletal degenerative disease, which often leads to low back pain and even disability, resulting in loss of labor ability and decreased quality of life...

    Authors: Fengguang Yang, Yanni Duan, Yanhu Li, Daxue Zhu, Zhaoheng Wang, Zhangbin Luo, Yizhi Zhang, Guangzhi Zhang, Xuegang He and Xuewen Kang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:87
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  24. Despite the advances of therapies, multiple myeloma (MM) remains an incurable hematological cancer that most patients experience relapse. Tumor angiogenesis is strongly correlated with cancer relapse. Human le...

    Authors: Chi Wang, Nai-Wen Su, Kate Hsu, Chen-Wei Kao, Ming-Chih Chang, Yi-Fang Chang, Ken-Hong Lim, Yi-Hao Chiang, Yu-Cheng Chang, Meng-Ta Sung, Hsueh-Hsia Wu and Caleb G. Chen
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:86
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  25. Immunotherapies effectively treat human malignancies, but the low response and resistance are major obstacles. Neoantigen is an emerging target for tumor immunotherapy that can enhance anti-tumor immunity and ...

    Authors: Yaoqi Sun, Bing Xiong, Xueqian Shuai, Jiale Li, Chunyan Wang, Jing Guo, Zhongping Cheng and Shupeng Liu
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:85
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  26. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a common vascular surgical disease caused by the coagulation of blood in the deep veins, and predominantly occur in the lower limbs. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are multi-...

    Authors: Zhang Xiujin, Guo Lili, Fan Jing, Ye Wenhai, Liu Sikai and Shi Wan-yin
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:84
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  27. The terminal stage of ischemic heart disease develops into heart failure (HF), which is characterized by hypoxia and metabolic disturbances in cardiomyocytes. The hypoxic failing heart triggers hypoxia-inducib...

    Authors: Longfei Xu, Miaomiao Yang, Aili Wei, Zilin Wei, Yingkai Qin, Kun Wang, Bin Li, Kang Chen, Chen Liu, Chao Li and Tianhui Wang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:83
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  28. Programmed cell death is an important mechanism for the development of hepatic ischemia and reperfusion (IR) injury, and multiple novel forms of programmed cell death are involved in the pathological process o...

    Authors: Hang Zhao and Huizi Mao
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:82
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  29. Studies have highlighted a possible crosstalk between the pathogeneses of COVID-19 and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); however, the interactive mechanisms remain unclear. We aimed to elucidate the impact o...

    Authors: Zekai Nian, Yicheng Mao, Zexia Xu, Ming Deng, Yixi Xu, Hanlu Xu, Ruoyao Chen, Yiliu Xu, Nan Huang, Feiyang Mao, Chenyu Xu, Yulin Wang, Mengyuan Niu, Aqiong Chen, Xiangyang Xue, Huidi Zhang…
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:81
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  30. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic metabolic disease that commonly results from a high-calorie diet and sedentary lifestyle, leading to insulin resistance and glucose homeostasis perturbation. Physic...

    Authors: Elias Abi Akar, Laure Weill, Mirella El Khoury, Cédric Caradeuc, Gildas Bertho, Suzan Boutary, Cynthia Bezier, Zoé Clerc, Delphine Sapaly, Sabrina Bendris, Flore Cheguillaume, Nicolas Giraud, Assaad A. Eid, Frédéric Charbonnier and Olivier Biondi
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:80
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  31. Increased level of serum cholic acid (CA) is often accompanied with decreased CYP2E1 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. However, the roles of CA and CYP2E1 in hepatocarcinogenesis have not ...

    Authors: Zhiwei Hao, Xuemin Liu, Huanhuan He, Zhixuan Wei, Xiji Shu, Jianzhi Wang, Binlian Sun, Hongyan Zhou, Jiucheng Wang, Ying Niu, Zhiyong Hu, Shaobo Hu, Yuchen Liu and Zhengqi Fu
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:79
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  32. Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a life-threatening renal disease and needs urgent therapies. Wogonin is renoprotective in DN. This study aimed to explore the mechanism of how wogonin regulated high glucose (HG)-i...

    Authors: Yufeng Liu, Mengbi Zhang, Lu Zeng, Yanhong Lai, Songzhao Wu and Xiaoyan Su
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:78
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  33. Ischemic stroke presents a significant threat to human health due to its high disability rate and mortality. Currently, the clinical treatment drug, rt-PA, has a narrow therapeutic window and carries a high ri...

    Authors: Zhiyong Zhou, Weili Li, Lu Ni, Tianlun Wang, Yan Huang, Yuanqi Yu, Mingxin Hu, Yinling Liu, Jin’e Wang, Xiaofei Huang and Yanyan Wang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:77
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  34. Advanced glycation end product-modified low-density lipoprotein (AGE-LDL) is related to inflammation and the development of atherosclerosis. Additionally, it has been demonstrated that receptor for advanced gl...

    Authors: Xi Yang, Jingxin Zeng, Kaiji Xie, Shuwen Su, Yuyang Guo, Hao Zhang, Jun Chen, Zhuang Ma, Zezhou Xiao, Peng Zhu, Shaoyi Zheng, Dingli Xu and Qingchun Zeng
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:76
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  36. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease characterized by cartilage destruction and inflammation. CC chemokine receptor 1 (CCR1), a member of the chemokine family and its receptor family, plays a ro...

    Authors: Hanqing Xu, Sheng Chen, Cheng Meng, Yi He, Xiao-jian Huang and Hong-bo You
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:74
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  37. Human malignant pleural mesothelioma (hMPM) is an aggressive, rare disease with a poor prognosis. Histologically, MPM is categorized into epithelioid, biphasic, and sarcomatoid subtypes, with the epithelioid s...

    Authors: James Mei-Lin Chan, Yuan-Ching Chang, Hua-Chen Chan, Hsiu-Chuan Chan, Wei-Chin Chang, Liu-Fang Wang, Tung-Hu Tsai, Yu-Jen Chen and Wen-Chien Huang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:73
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  38. 8-Oxoguanine DNA glycosylase (OGG1), a well-known DNA repair enzyme, has been demonstrated to promote lung fibrosis, while the specific regulatory mechanism of OGG1 during pulmonary fibrosis remains unclarified.

    Authors: Wenjuan Wu, Hongxia Jia, Song Chen, Xinran Ma, Shuai Zhou, Lingxiao Qiu, Xinhui Wu, Ping Li, Heying Chu and Guojun Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:72
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  39. Diabetes mellitus, a chronic metabolic disease, often leads to numerous chronic complications, significantly contributing to global morbidity and mortality rates. High glucose levels trigger epigenetic modific...

    Authors: Tongyue Yang, Feng Qi, Feng Guo, Mingwei Shao, Yi Song, Gaofei Ren, Zhao Linlin, Guijun Qin and Yanyan Zhao
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:71
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  40. The development of pulmonary fibrosis involves a cascade of events, in which inflammation mediated by immune cells plays a pivotal role. Chemotherapeutic drugs have been shown to have dual effects on fibrosis,...

    Authors: Ting Zhou, Lan lin, Yawen Zhan, Ziyao Zhang, Ying Jiang, Mi Wu, Dan Xue, Limin Chen, Xiufang Weng and Zhenghui Huang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:70
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  41. The Enoyl-CoA hydratase/isomerase family plays a crucial role in the metabolism of tumors, being crucial for maintaining the energy balance and biosynthetic needs of cancer cells. However, the enzymes within t...

    Authors: Jiancheng He, Jianfeng Yi, Li Ji, Lingchen Dai, Yu Chen and Wanjiang Xue
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:69
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  42. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterized by alveolar edema that can progress to septal fibrosis. Mechanical ventilation can augment lung injury, termed ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI)....

    Authors: Charissa E. van den Brom, Caitlin Bozic, Chantal A. Polet, Annabel Bongers, Anita M. Tuip-de Boer, Roselique Ibelings, Joris J. T. H. Roelofs and Nicole P. Juffermans
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:68
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  45. Catalpol (CAT) has various pharmacological activities and plays a protective role in cerebral ischemia. It has been reported that CAT played a protective role in cerebral ischemia by upregulaing NRF1 expressio...

    Authors: Kan Liu, Xinyan Yao, Jun Gao, Jinxi Wang and Jing Qi
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:65
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  46. Insulin like growth factor II mRNA binding protein 3 (IGF2BP3) has been implicated in numerous inflammatory and cancerous conditions. However, its precise molecular mechanisms in endometriosis (EMs) remains un...

    Authors: Honglin Wang, Yingying Cao, Yanling Gou, Hao Wang, Zongwen Liang, Qiong Wu, Jiahuan Tan, Jinming Liu, Zhi Li, Jing Cui, Huiyan Zhang and Zongfeng Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:64
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  47. Diabetic wounds are one of the long-term complications of diabetes, with a disordered microenvironment, diabetic wounds can easily develop into chronic non-healing wounds, which can impose a significant burden...

    Authors: Mengqian Liu, Xuerong Wei, Zijun Zheng, Erlian Xie, Qiuyi Yu, Yanbin Gao, Jun Ma and Lei Yang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:63
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  49. Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous and aggressive disease characterized by a high risk of mortality and poor prognosis. It has been reported that Laminin γ2 (LAMC2) is highly expressed in ...

    Authors: Ding Wang, Kailibinuer Keyoumu, Rongji Yu, Doudou Wen, Hao Jiang, Xinchun Liu, Xiaotang Di and Shubing Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:61
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  50. Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) begins with premature activation of enzymes, promoted by the immune system, triggering a potential systemic inflammatory response that leads to organ failure with increased mort...

    Authors: Hongli Yang, Ruofan Cao, Feifei Zhou, Ben Wang, Qianqian Xu, Rui Li, ChunHua Zhang and Hongwei Xu
    Citation: Molecular Medicine 2024 30:60
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