Linking benzene, in utero carcinogenicity and fetal hematopoietic stem cell niches: a mechanistic review

NA Yusoff, Z Abd Hamid, SB Budin, IS Taib - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Previous research reported that prolonged benzene exposure during in utero fetal
development causes greater fetal abnormalities than in adult-stage exposure. This …

Associations between mitochondrial biomarkers, urban residential exposures and childhood asthma outcomes over 6 months

RL Miller, J Rivera, L Lichtiger, US Govindarajulu… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Determining biomarkers of responses to environmental exposures and evaluating whether
they predict respiratory outcomes may help optimize environmental and medical …

High leukocyte mitochondrial DNA copy number contributes to poor prognosis in breast cancer patients

W Zhang, S Lin, B Zeng, X Chen, L Chen, M Chen… - BMC cancer, 2023 - Springer
Background Compelling evidence has indicated a significant association between leukocyte
mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn) and prognosis of several malignancies in a …

Ozone exposure associates with sperm quality indicators: Sperm telomere length as a potential mediating factor

ZH Lu, B Sun, YX Wang, YR Wu, YJ Chen… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Evidence linking O 3 exposure and human semen quality is limited and conflicting and the
mechanism underlying the association remains unclear. Therefore, we investigated the …

The prevalence of dementia in humans could be the result of a functional adaptation

AG Holt, AM Davies - Computational Biology and Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper we propose that high copy number of the mitochondrial genome in neurons is a
functional adaptation. We simulated the proliferation of deletion mutants of the human …