SOX2 Represses Hepatitis B Virus Replication by Binding to the Viral EnhII/Cp and Inhibiting the Promoter Activation

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication is controlled by four promoters (preS1, preS2, Cp, and Xp) and two enhancers (EnhI and EnhII).EnhII stimulates Cp activity to regulate the transcriptions of precore, core, polymerase, and pregenomic RNAs, and therefore, EnhII/Cp is essential for the regulation of HBV replication.This study revealed a distinct mec

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Update on the use of memantine in Alzheimer’s disease

Robert J van read more MarumGeriatric Department, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The NetherlandsAbstract: Memantine is a low to moderate affinity N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist.The effects of memantine in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have been studied in 7 randomized controlled trials in many post-hoc analyses.T

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