Background: The effect of a healthy lifestyle on dementia associated with multimorbidity is not well understood. Our objective is to examine whether the adoption of a healthy lifestyle could potentially reduce the elevated risk of dementia in individuals with and without multimorbidity.
Methods: We utilized data from the UK Biobank cohort.
Exosomes are key mediators of intercellular communication and play a role in the pathogenesis and progression of cancer. Exosomes in circulating body fluids serve as molecular markers for cancer diagnosis. This study aimed to investigate the role of exosomal microRNA (miR)-1910-3p in breast cancer and determine its clinical diagnostic value.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFToll-like receptors (TLRs) play a key role in cancer metastasis. The biological role of TLR2 in invasion and metastasis in gastric carcinoma cells and gastric carcinoma is not clear; therefore, we aimed to investigate the biological role of TLR2 in invasion by SGC-7901 human gastric carcinoma cells and to determine whether TLR2 is associated with gastric carcinoma metastasis. RT-PCR, real-time PCR, flow cytometry, and western blotting showed that TLR2 activation significantly increased TLR2 expression at the mRNA and protein levels and notably promoted the transcription of genes related to angiogenesis and invasion, such as VEGF-C and MMP-9.
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