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Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis

Three-dimensional skull of BMT 1955.G35.1, Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis.

January 8, 2019

Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis

Representing one of the first times that medical imaging and three-dimensional reconstruction methods have been applied to a large skull of a marine reptile, researchers describe the partial skeleton of a large ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Warwickshire, England. The unusual three-dimensional preservation of the specimen permitted computed tomography (CT) scanning of individual braincase elements as well as the entire reassembled skull.

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January 3, 2019

Steroidal glycoalkaloids from Solanum nigrum target cytoskeletal proteins: an in silico analysis

541 downloads

1,237 views

Rumana Ahmad

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6012 PubMed 30627484

January 8, 2019

The effect of cycling hypoxia on MCF-7 cancer stem cells and the impact of their microenvironment on angiogenesis using human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) as a model

3 citations

400 downloads

1,153 views

Fuad M. Alhawarat, Hana M. Hammad, Majd S. Hijjawi, Ahmad S. Sharab, Duaa A. Abuarqoub, Mohammad A. Al Shhab, Malek A. Zihlif

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5990 PubMed 30729067

January 24, 2019

Transcriptome profiling reveals the role of ZBTB38 knock-down in human neuroblastoma

358 downloads

983 views

Jie Chen, Chaofeng Xing, Li Yan, Yabing Wang, Haosen Wang, Zongmeng Zhang, Daolun Yu, Jie Li, Honglin Li, Jun Li, Yafei Cai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6352 PubMed 30697495

January 9, 2019

Efficient generation of human primordial germ cell-like cells from pluripotent stem cells in a methylcellulose-based 3D system at large scale

2 citations

335 downloads

1,308 views

Xiaoman Wang, Tingting Liao, Cong Wan, Xiaoyu Yang, Jiexiang Zhao, Rui Fu, Zhaokai Yao, Yaping Huang, Yujia Shi, Gang Chang, Yi Zheng, Fang Luo, Zhaoting Liu, Yu Wang, Xinliang Mao, Xiao-Yang Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6143 PubMed 30643676

January 7, 2019

Inhibition of MEK1/2 and GSK3 (2i system) affects blastocyst quality and early differentiation of porcine parthenotes

321 downloads

852 views

Jeongwoo Kwon, Ying-Hua Li, Yu-Jin Jo, YoungJin Oh, Suk Namgoong, Nam-Hyung Kim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5840 PubMed 30643672

January 30, 2019

Extraordinary centromeres: differences in the meiotic chromosomes of two rock lizards species Darevskia portschinskii and Darevskia raddei

1 citation

280 downloads

1,091 views

Victor Spangenberg, Marine Arakelyan, Eduard Galoyan, Mark Pankin, Ruzanna Petrosyan, Ilona Stepanyan, Tatiana Grishaeva, Felix Danielyan, Oxana Kolomiets

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6360 PubMed 30723630

January 25, 2019

Prognostic values of GMPS, PR, CD40, and p21 in ovarian cancer

221 downloads

917 views

Ping Wang, Zengli Zhang, Yujie Ma, Jun Lu, Hu Zhao, Shuiliang Wang, Jianming Tan, Bingyan Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6301 PubMed 30701134

January 4, 2019

Secreted Frizzled-related protein 4 inhibits the regeneration of hair follicles

2 citations

219 downloads

883 views