Lai MC

UNLABELLED: Antipsychotic medications can cause serious metabolic adverse effects, including type 2 diabetes, with females disproportionally more affected than males. Recently, brain insulin resistance (IR) has been posited as a potential d…

BACKGROUND: Hypoxia suppresses global protein production, yet certain essential proteins are translated through alternative pathways to survive under hypoxic stress. Translation via the internal ribosome entry site (IRES) is a means to prod…

Human fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF9) is a potent mitogen involved in many physiological processes. Although FGF9 messenger RNA (mRNA) is ubiquitously expressed in embryos, FGF9 protein expression is generally low and restricted to a few …