Most-Read 2024 Collection

14 May 2025
15 May 2025
2024 Most Read Collection

Discover research that's fuelling knowledge on advancing the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic conditions.

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Molecular regulation of calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR)-mediated signaling

Molecular regulation of calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR)-mediated signaling

The CaSR interactome characterizes the life cycle of CaSR and its signaling capacity. (1) Extracellular calcium activates CaSR and (2) mediates intracellular G-protein-coupled signaling, leading to ER calcium release by generating IP3 through phospholipase C (PLC) hydrolysis of PIP2. Treatment with extracellular calcium and alterations in ER calcium enrich the CaSR interactors, contributing to various processes within the ER (zoomed in). These processes include (3) cotranslational translocation, (4) quality control of the calnexin/calreticulin cycle, (5) ER exit of well-folded proteins, and (6) degradation of misfolded proteins. (7) The well-folded CaSR is trafficked to the cell membrane through agonist-driven insertion, where it can be (8) desensitized and (9) enter the cell through endocytosis. The endocytosed CaSR can either be (10) recycled back to the cell membrane or degraded in the lysosome.

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Pathways to chronic disease detection and prediction: Mapping the potential of machine learning to the pathophysiological processes while navigating ethical challenges

Pathways to chronic disease detection and prediction: Mapping the potential of machine learning to the pathophysiological processes while navigating ethical challenges

Laboratory methods and application of machine learning for disease prediction and diagnosis. Diagnosis of diseases begins with screening a population, sample collection, processing, and quantitation with molecular/analytical methods (e.g., polymerase chain reaction [PCR], liquid chromatography mass spectrophotometry [LC-MS], high-performance liquid chromatography [HPLC], sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis [SDS-PAGE]), and immunofluorescent macroscopy among others. Machine learning algorithms can discover patterns in the data generated from analytical methods and make predictions.

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Cardiovascular disease mortality and air pollution in countries with different socioeconomic status

Cardiovascular disease mortality and air pollution in countries with different socioeconomic status

Age-adjusted cardiovascular disease mortality rate attributed to air pollution (per 100,000 population) in countries with different socioeconomic status, 2019 year, both sexes.

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Unveiling blood pressure-associated genes in aortic cells through integrative analysis of GWAS and RNA modification-associated variants

Unveiling blood pressure-associated genes in aortic cells through integrative analysis of GWAS and RNA modification-associated variants

Differential expression genes in single-cell transcriptomic sequencing study. (A) Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) visualization showcasing distinct immune cell types among six cases and seven controls. (B) Volcano plot displaying differential expression genes between aortic dissection patients and controls.

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Trends in the prevalence and incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among adults aged ≥50 years in the United States, 2000–2020

Trends in the prevalence and incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among adults aged ≥50 years in the United States, 2000–2020

Trends in age-adjusted prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among adults aged ≥50 years, stratified by gender and race, the Health and Retirement Study, the United States, 2000–2020. (A) Trends in COPD prevalence by gender; (B) trends in COPD prevalence by race.

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Adaptive ultra-hypofractionated whole-pelvic radiotherapy in high-risk and very high-risk prostate cancer on 1.5-Tesla MR-Linac: Estimated delivered dose and early toxicity results

Adaptive ultra-hypofractionated whole-pelvic radiotherapy in high-risk and very high-risk prostate cancer on 1.5-Tesla MR-Linac: Estimated delivered dose and early toxicity results

The dose distributions on each magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. (A) A representative DVH plot with four plans and dose metrics on each MRI scan after re-planning in one fraction. (B–I) Representative dose distributions of the prostate and pelvic of the Adapt-To-Shape (ATS) plan on Pre-MR (B–E) and Beam-on MR scan (F–I).

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Association of cardiorenal biomarkers with mortality in metabolic syndrome patients: A prospective cohort study from NHANES

Association of cardiorenal biomarkers with mortality in metabolic syndrome patients: A prospective cohort study from NHANES

Association between cardiorenal biomarkers and all-cause mortality in MetS patients. Adjusted for age, race, gender, education, marital status, poverty income ratio, smoke status, drink status, and body mass index. The red solid line and gray area represent the estimated hazard ratio values and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals, respectively.

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Physical activity, long-term fine particulate matter exposure and type 2 diabetes incidence: A prospective cohort study

Physical activity, long-term fine particulate matter exposure and type 2 diabetes incidence: A prospective cohort study

Exposure-response relations of physical activity (PA) with type 2 diabetes were stratified by different levels of PM2.5 exposure. The HRs for type 2 diabetes associated with PA volume (A) and PA intensity (B) were estimated by restricted cubic-spline regression under low and high levels of PM2.5. Solid lines represent HRs, and the shaded areas represent 95% confidence intervals. The models were adjusted for age, sex, urbanization, geographical region, education level, smoking status, alcohol drinking, family history of type 2 diabetes, body mass index, and baseline blood glucose level.

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S-acylation of Ca2+ transport proteins in cancer

S-acylation of Ca2+ transport proteins in cancer

The implication of Ca2+ transport proteins in cancer has been previously documented in several studies recently reviewed. Transporters highlighted in red have been biochemically documented to be S-acylated.

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Family history of type 2 diabetes and the risk of type 2 diabetes among young and middle-aged adults

Family history of type 2 diabetes and the risk of type 2 diabetes among young and middle-aged adults

Young and middle-aged adult's excess type 2 diabetes risk is associated with strong family history of type 2 diabetes, especially for men.