Purpose Dental crowding is a result of a mismatch between tooth size and arch dimensions, which leads to malocclusion; treatment often involves premolar extraction before orthodontic alignment. Clear aligners are limited in their ability to achieve canine distal bodily movement, a common orthodontic maneuver. This study investigated the impacts of attachment design and aligner material on the efficacy of canine distal bodily m...

In mammals, mature miR-122 is 22 nucleotides long and can be involved in regulating a variety of physiological and biological pathways. In this study, the expression profile and effects of grouper Epinephelus coioides miR-122 response to Singapore grouper iridovirus (SGIV) infection were investigated. The sequences of mature microRNAs (miRNAs) from different organisms are highly conserved, and miR-122 from E. coioides exhibits...