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Single cell sequencing reveals endothelial plasticity with transient mesenchymal activation after myocardial infarction

Endothelial cells play a critical role in the adaptation of tissues to injury. Tissue ischemia induced by infarction leads to profound changes in endothelial cell functions and can …

lukas-s.-tombor
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CpG content-dependent associations between transcription factors and histone modifications

Understanding the factors that underlie the epigenetic regulation of genes is crucial to understand the gene regulatory machinery as a whole. Several experimental and computational …

jonas-fischer
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Prediction of single-cell gene expression for transcription factor analysis

BACKGROUND: Single-cell RNA sequencing is a powerful technology to discover new cell types and study biological processes in complex biological samples. A current challenge is to …

fatemeh-behjati-ardakani
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Deletion of NoxO1 limits atherosclerosis development in female mice

OBJECTIVE: Oxidative stress is a risk factor for atherosclerosis. NADPH oxidases of the Nox family produce ROS but their contribution to atherosclerosis development is less clear. …

giulia-k.-buchmann
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EpiRegio: analysis and retrieval of regulatory elements linked to genes

A current challenge in genomics is to interpret non-coding regions and their role in transcriptional regulation of possibly distant target genes. Genome-wide association studies …

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Nina Baumgarten
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Altered glucocorticoid metabolism represents a feature of macroph-aging

The aging process is characterized by a chronic, low-grade inflammatory state, termed \"inflammaging.\" It has been suggested that macrophage activation plays a key role in the …

jenny-vanessa-valbuena-perez
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The endocannabinoid anandamide has an anti-inflammatory effect on CCL2 expression in vascular smooth muscle cells

Endocannabinoids are important lipid-signaling mediators. Both protective and deleterious effects of endocannabinoids in the cardiovascular system have been reported but the …

beatrice-pfluger-muller
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SRSF7 maintains its homeostasis through the expression of Split-ORFs and nuclear body assembly

SRSF7 is an essential RNA-binding protein whose misexpression promotes cancer. Here, we describe how SRSF7 maintains its protein homeostasis in murine P19 cells using an intricate …

vanessa-konigs
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Improved linking of motifs to their TFs using domain information

MOTIVATION: A central aim of molecular biology is to identify mechanisms of transcriptional regulation. Transcription factors (TFs), which are DNA-binding proteins, are highly …

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Nina Baumgarten
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