1. Melatonin ameliorates cardiac remodelling in fructose-induced metabolic syndrome rat model by using genes encoding cardiac potassium ion channels

   • Mehmet Akif Ovali
   • Ozlem Oztopuz
   • Selma Arzu Vardar

   Original Article 04 August 2021 Pages: 5811 - 5819

   

2. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutagenesis of WRKY3 and WRKY4 function decreases salt and Me-JA stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

   • Peng Li
   • Xiwen Li
   • Min Jiang

   Original Article 05 August 2021 Pages: 5821 - 5832

   

3. Insertion of prpoD_rpoS fragment enhances expression of recombinant protein by dps auto-inducible promoter in Escherichia coli

   • Dina Mulyanti
   • Sundani Nurono Soewandhi
   • Catur Riani

   Original Article 03 August 2021 Pages: 5833 - 5845

   

4. Molecular cloning and sequence analysis of a mitogen-activated protein kinase gene in the Antarctic yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa AN5

   • Cuijuan Shi
   • Hong Zhang
   • Guangfeng Kan

   Original Article 09 August 2021 Pages: 5847 - 5855

   

5. Insulin signaling pathway assessment by enhancing antioxidant activity due to morin using in vitro rat skeletal muscle L6 myotubes cells

   • Praveen Kumar Issac
   • Rupmanjari Karan
   • Jesu Arockia Raj

   Original Article 23 July 2021 Pages: 5857 - 5872

   

6. The APOE4 allele is associated with a decreased risk of retinopathy in type 2 diabetics

   • Lucie Dlouha
   • Terezie Pelikanova
   • Jaroslav A. Hubacek

   Original Article 30 July 2021 Pages: 5873 - 5879

7. Heat stress aggravates oxidative stress, apoptosis, and endoplasmic reticulum stress in the cerebellum of male C57 mice

   • Hajar Oghbaei
   • Leila Hosseini
   • Javad Mahmoudi

   Original Article 02 August 2021 Pages: 5881 - 5887

   

8. Genetic analysis of colorectal carcinoma using high throughput single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping technique within the population of Jammu and Kashmir

   • Bhanu Sharma
   • Shabab Angurana
   • Rakesh Kumar

   Original Article 28 July 2021 Pages: 5889 - 5895

9. The karyotype, genome survey, and assembly of Mud artemisia (Artemisia selengensis)

   • Heping Wan
   • Qingying Wei
   • Changli Zeng

   Original Article 23 July 2021 Pages: 5897 - 5904

   

10. Association between rs3088440 (G > A) polymorphism at 9p21.3 locus with the occurrence and severity of coronary artery disease in an Iranian population

    • Mitra Pourgholi
    • Omid Abazari
    • Mohammadali Boroumand

    Original Article 27 July 2021 Pages: 5905 - 5912

11. The Arabidopsis expansin gene (AtEXPA18) is capable to ameliorate drought stress tolerance in transgenic tobacco plants

    • Alireza Abbasi
    • Meysam Malekpour
    • Sajjad Sobhanverdi

    Original Article 29 July 2021 Pages: 5913 - 5922

    

12. Analysis of δ-globin gene alleles in Tunisians: description of three new delta-thalassemia mutations

    • Chaima Kasmi
    • Yessine Amri
    • Amina Bibi

    Original Article 03 August 2021 Pages: 5923 - 5933

    

13. Pro-inflammatory cytokines and microRNAs in male infertility

    • Hana Attia
    • Federica Finocchi
    • Monica Mattioli Belmonte

    Original Article Open access 28 July 2021 Pages: 5935 - 5942

14. SSR marker-based genetic diversity analysis and SNP haplotyping of genes associating abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, rice growth and development and yield across 93 rice landraces

    • Smitha Kunhiraman Vasumathy
    • Manickavelu Alagu

    Original Article 28 July 2021 Pages: 5943 - 5953

    

15. An in-depth analysis reveals two new genetic variants on 22q11.2 associated with vitiligo in the Chinese Han population

    • Xianfa Tang
    • Hui Cheng
    • Fengli Xiao

    Original Article 04 August 2021 Pages: 5955 - 5964

    

16. Butylcycloheptylprodigiosin and undecylprodigiosin are potential photosensitizer candidates for photodynamic cancer therapy

    • Zahra Arshadi
    • Sayedeh Azimeh Hosseini
    • Fatemeh Elahian

    Original Article 30 July 2021 Pages: 5965 - 5975

    

17. Genomic identification of nitrogen assimilation-related genes and transcriptional characterization of their responses to nitrogen in allotetraploid rapeseed

    • Yue Wang
    • Ying-peng Hua
    • Cai-peng Yue

    Original Article 29 July 2021 Pages: 5977 - 5992

    

18. A375 melanoma cells are sensitized to cisplatin-induced toxicity by a synthetic nitro-flavone derivative 2-(4-Nitrophenyl)-4H-chromen-4-one through inhibition of PARP1

    • Anindita Mitra
    • Rita Ghosh

    Original Article 03 August 2021 Pages: 5993 - 6005

    

19. Association study of promoter polymorphisms of interferon alpha and beta receptor subunit 1 (IFNAR1) gene and therapeutic response to interferon-beta in patients with multiple sclerosis

    • Samin Hajian
    • Mehrdokht Mazdeh
    • Meysam Soleimani

    Original Article 30 July 2021 Pages: 6007 - 6013

    

20. Epididymal initial segment-specific Cre recombinase activity in Lcn8-Cre knock-in mice

    • Qian-qian Gong
    • Zhi-lin Dou
    • Xiao-yang Sun

    Original Article 30 July 2021 Pages: 6015 - 6023

    

21. Vulpinic acid as a natural compound inhibits the proliferation of metastatic prostate cancer cells by inducing apoptosis

    • Demet Cansaran-Duman
    • Gamze Guney Eskiler
    • Elif Sozen Kucukkara

    Original Article 30 July 2021 Pages: 6025 - 6034

    

22. A sex-linked SNP mutation in amhr2 is responsible for male differentiation in obscure puffer (Takifugu obscurus)

    • Wen Duan
    • Fan-Xiang Gao
    • Yan Shi

    Original Article 03 August 2021 Pages: 6035 - 6046

    

23. Complete mitochondrial genome of Dacus vijaysegarani and phylogenetic relationships with congeners and other tephritid fruit flies (Insecta: Diptera)

    • Hoi-Sen Yong
    • Kah-Ooi Chua
    • Kok-Gan Chan

    Original Article 06 August 2021 Pages: 6047 - 6056

    

24. The first report of RNA U to C or G editing in the mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5 (Nad5) transcript of wild barley

    • Ahmed M. Ramadan
    • Afnan A. Alnufaei
    • Sabah M. Hassan

    Original Article 10 August 2021 Pages: 6057 - 6064

    

25. Synthetic curcumin analog: inhibiting the invasion, angiogenesis, and metastasis in human laryngeal carcinoma cells via NF-kB pathway

    • Kumaravel Mohankumar
    • Arul Prakash Francis
    • Rukkumani Rajagopalan

    Original Article 05 August 2021 Pages: 6065 - 6074

    

26. DJ-1 activates the noncanonical NF-κB pathway via interaction with Cezanne to inhibit the apoptosis and promote the proliferation of Ishikawa cells

    • Qi-Zhou Zhu
    • Hao-Yue Liu
    • Zhong-Qing Xiao

    Original Article 10 August 2021 Pages: 6075 - 6083

    

27. Effect of valproic acid on miRNAs affecting histone deacetylase in a model of anaplastic thyroid cancer

    • Nur Selvi Gunel
    • Nihal Birden
    • Cigir Biray Avci

    Original Article 10 August 2021 Pages: 6085 - 6091

    

28. LAMTOR5 expression level is a biomarker for colorectal cancer and lncRNA LAMTOR5-AS1 predicting miRNA sponging effect

    • Najmeh Riahi Zaniani
    • Andisheh Oroujalian
    • Maryam Peymani

    Original Article 10 August 2021 Pages: 6093 - 6101

    

29. Alteration of gene expression in reactive astrocytes induced by Aβ1-42 using low dose of methamphetamine

    • Bita Soltanian
    • Marzieh Dehghan Shasaltaneh
    • Nahid Masoudian

    Original Article 10 August 2021 Pages: 6103 - 6112

    

30. Molecular detection of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157 in sheep, goats, cows and buffaloes

    • Asim Shahzad
    • Fahim Ullah
    • Abrar Hussain Mian

    Original Article 10 August 2021 Pages: 6113 - 6121

    

31. Comparative effects of high-intensity interval training and moderate-intensity continuous training on soleus muscle fibronectin type III domain-containing protein 5, myonectin and glucose transporter type 4 gene expressions: a study on the diabetic rat model

    • Saleh Rahmati-Ahmadabad
    • Fatemeh Rostamkhani
    • Hossein Shirvani

    Original Article 10 August 2021 Pages: 6123 - 6129

    

32. Cytoplasmic FMR1 interacting protein (CYFIP) family members and their function in neural development and disorders

    • Ísis Venturi Biembengut
    • Isabelle Leticia Zaboroski Silva
    • Patrícia Shigunov

    Review 29 July 2021 Pages: 6131 - 6143

    

33. The role of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in eye diseases

    • Jing-Fan Gao
    • Lu Zhang

    Review 31 July 2021 Pages: 6145 - 6150

34. LncRNA as a multifunctional regulator in cancer multi-drug resistance

    • Jiaying He
    • Shaomi Zhu
    • Linjiang Song

    Review 31 July 2021 Pages: 1 - 15

    

35. The PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway inhibitors enhance radiosensitivity in cancer cell lines

    • Alireza Mardanshahi
    • Nasrin Abbasi Gharibkandi
    • Sajjad Molavipordanjani

    Review 06 August 2021 Pages: 1 - 14

    

36. Latent tuberculosis: interaction of virulence factors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    • Sadhana Sundararajan
    • Rajiniraja Muniyan

    Review 05 August 2021 Pages: 6181 - 6196

    

37. Signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 mediated neuroprotective effect of interleukin-6 on cobalt chloride mimetic hypoxic cell death in R28 cells

    • Nanamika Thakur
    • Rajeev Kumar Pandey
    • Sanjana Mehrotra

    Short Communication 27 July 2021 Pages: 6197 - 6203

    

38. Peculiar substrate specificity of δ¹-pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase in the obligately fermentative bacterium Zymomonas mobilis

    • Giuseppe Forlani
    • Boguslaw Nocek
    • Milosz Ruszkowski

    Short Communication 30 July 2021 Pages: 6205 - 6211

    

39. Directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into epidermal stem and progenitor cells

    • Sonya Ruiz-Torres
    • Paul F. Lambert
    • Susanne I. Wells

    Methods Paper 04 August 2021 Pages: 6213 - 6222

    

40. What is life?

    • Jaime Gómez-Márquez

    Commentary Open access 27 July 2021 Pages: 6223 - 6230