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Acupuncture Alleviates Chronic Ischemic White Matter Injury in SHR Rats via JNK-NMDAR Circuit
To study the protective mechanism of acupuncture at “Jiangya Recipe” on chronic ischemic white matter injury in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and the regulation of Jun N-terminal kinase-N-methyl-D-aspa...
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Serotonin Transporter (SLC6A4) and FK506-Binding Protein 5 (FKBP5) Genotype and Methylation Relationships with Response to Meditation in Veterans with PTSD
Meditation-based interventions are novel and effective non-pharmacologic treatments for veterans with PTSD. We examined relationships between treatment response, early life trauma exposure, DNA polymorphisms, ...
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Teriflunomide Promotes Blood–Brain Barrier Integrity by Upregulating Claudin-1 via the Wnt/β-catenin Signaling Pathway in Multiple Sclerosis
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) and tight junction (TJ) proteins maintain the homeostasis of the central nervous system (CNS). The dysfunction of BBB allows peripheral T cells infiltration into CNS and contribut...
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Ganglioside-focused Glycan Array Reveals Abnormal Anti-GD1b Auto-antibody in Plasma of Preclinical Huntington’s Disease
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a progressive and devastating neurodegenerative disease marked by inheritable CAG nucleotide expansion. For offspring of HD patients carrying abnormal CAG expansion, biomarkers tha...
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S-Ketamine Exerts Antidepressant Effects by Regulating Rac1 GTPase Mediated Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus of Stressed Rats
Clinical studies have found that ketamine has a rapid and lasting antidepressant effect, especially in the case of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). The molecular mechanisms, however, remain uncle...
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The Role of AMPARs Composition and Trafficking in Synaptic Plasticity and Diseases
AMPA receptors are tetrameric ionic glutamate receptors, which mediate 90% fast excitatory synaptic transmission induced by excitatory glutamate in the mammalian central nervous system through the activation o...
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Interleukin-13 Affects the Recovery Processes in a Mouse Model of Hemorrhagic Stroke with Bilateral Tibial Fracture
As one form of stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a fatal cerebrovascular disease, which has high morbidity and mortality and lacks effective medical treatment. Increased infiltration of inflammatory cy...
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Correction to: Involvement of Midbrain Dopamine Neuron Activity in Negative Reinforcement Learning in Mice
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Involvement of Midbrain Dopamine Neuron Activity in Negative Reinforcement Learning in Mice
The activity of the midbrain dopamine system reflects the valence of environmental events and modulates various brain structures to modify an organism’s behavior. A series of recent studies reported that the d...
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Rac1 and Akt Exhibit Distinct Roles in Mediating Aβ-Induced Memory Damage and Learning Impairment
Accumulated beta-amyloid (Aβ) in the brain is the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Despite Aβ accumulation is known to trigger cellular dysfunctions and learning and memory damage, the detailed molecular ...
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An Immune-Related lncRNA Signature to Predict Survival In Glioma Patients
Glioma is the most common and fatal primary brain tumor in human. Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), which are characterized by regulation of gene expression and chromatin recombination play an important role in gl...
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SIRT1 Mediates H2S-Ameliorated Diabetes-Associated Cognitive Dysfunction in Rats: Possible Involvement of Inhibiting Hippocampal Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Synaptic Dysfunction
Diabetes-associated cognitive dysfunction (DACD) characterized by hippocampal injury increases the risk of major cerebrovascular events and death. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and synaptic dysfunction pla...
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Channels that Cooperate with TRPV4 in the Brain
Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) is a nonselective Ca2+-permeable cation channel that is a member of the TRP channel family. It is clear that TRPV4 channels are broadly expressed in the brain. As ...
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Identification of Glioma Cancer Stem Cell Characteristics Based on Weighted Gene Prognosis Module Co-Expression Network Analysis of Transcriptome Data Stemness Indices
Glioma is the most common primary brain tumor in humans and the most deadly. Stem cells, which are characterized by therapeutic resistance and self-renewal, play a critical role in glioma, and therefore the id...
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MicroRNA-107 Ameliorates Damage in a Cell Model of Alzheimer’s Disease by Mediating the FGF7/FGFR2/PI3K/Akt Pathway
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most prevalent representation of dementia, is a neurodegenerative disease resulting from the degenerative disturbance of the central nervous system. Previous studies have indicate...
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MicroRNA-26b/PTEN Signaling Pathway Mediates Glycine-Induced Neuroprotection in SAH Injury
Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a form of stroke associated with high mortality and morbidity. Despite advances in treatment for SAH, the prognosis remains poor. We have previously demonstrated that glycine, ...
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An Adult Drosophila Glioma Model for Studying Pathometabolic Pathways of Gliomagenesis
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most prevalent brain tumor in adults, has extremely poor prognosis. Frequent genetic alterations that activate epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and phosphatidylinosito...
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TGF-β1 Restores Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity and Memory in Alzheimer Model via the PI3K/Akt/Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disturbances. Dysfunction of synaptic plasticity and decline in cognitive functions are the most prominent features of AD, but the mechanisms of pa...
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Curcumin Inhibits Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 Expression in TNF-α induced Astrocytes Through AMPK Pathway
Curcumin, a phenolic pigment, plays an inhibitory role in astrocytes activation, a key step for neuropathic pain (NP). The present study aimed to investigate the mechanism behind the therapeutic effect of Curc...
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Late sodium current associated cardiac electrophysiological and mechanical dysfunction
Late sodium current (INaL) is a small sustained inward current observed during the cardiac action potential plateau phase following decay of the early peak INa. The endogenous INaL is relatively small in normal h...