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Navβ2 Intracellular Fragments Contribute to Aβ1-42-Induced Cognitive Impairment and Synaptic Deficit Through Transcriptional Suppression of BDNF
A pathological hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the region-specific accumulation of the amyloid-beta protein (Aβ), which triggers aberrant neuronal excitability, synaptic impairment, and progressive cog...
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Hemorrhagic Shock and Resuscitation Causes Excessive Dopaminergic Signaling in the mPFC and Cognitive Dysfunction
Peri-operative hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation (HSR), a severe traumatic stress, is closely associated with post-operative anxiety, depression, and cognitive dysfunction, subsequently causing a serious bur...
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Open AccessCorrection: Gut microbiota-derived propionate mediates the neuroprotective effect of osteocalcin in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease
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HDAC inhibitors as a potential therapy for chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain
Cancer, a chronic disease characterized by uncontrolled cell development, kills millions of people globally. The WHO reported over 10 million cancer deaths in 2020. Anticancer medications destroy healthy and m...
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PHLDA1 contributes to hypoxic ischemic brain injury in neonatal rats via inhibiting FUNDC1-mediated mitophagy
Hypoxia-ischemia (HI) is one of the main causes of neonatal brain injury. Mitophagy has been implicated in the degradation of damaged mitochondria and cell survival following neonatal brain HI injury. Pleckstr...
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Macrophage-specific FGFR1 deletion alleviates high-fat-diet-induced liver inflammation by inhibiting the MAPKs/TNF pathways
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common metabolic disease that is substantially associated with obesity-induced chronic inflammation. Macrophage activation and macrophage-medicated inflammation p...
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Exosomes derived from induced cardiopulmonary progenitor cells alleviate acute lung injury in mice
Cardiopulmonary progenitor cells (CPPs) constitute a minor subpopulation of cells that are commonly associated with heart and lung morphogenesis during embryonic development but completely subside after birth....
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Inflammatory cell death PANoptosis is induced by the anti-cancer curaxin CBL0137 via eliciting the assembly of ZBP1-associated PANoptosome
PANoptosis, a new form of regulated cell death, concomitantly manifests hallmarks for pyroptosis, apoptosis, and necroptosis. It has been usually observed in macrophages, a class of widely distributed innate i...
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Open AccessComplex effects of testosterone level on ectoparasite load in a ground squirrel: an experimental test for the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis
The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis suggests that males with a higher testosterone level should be better at develo** male secondary traits, but at a cost of suppressed immune performance. As a result, ...
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Open AccessCorrection: Seasonality of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children hospitalized with acute lower respiratory tract infections in Hunan, China, 2013–2022
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Open AccessSeasonality of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children hospitalized with acute lower respiratory tract infections in Hunan, China, 2013–2022
In China, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections traditionally occur during the spring and winter seasons. However, a shift in the seasonal trend was noted in 2020–2022, during the coronavirus disease 20...
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Anti-Necroptotic Effects of Itaconate and its Derivatives
Itaconate is an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid that is derived from the decarboxylation of the Krebs cycle intermediate cis-aconitate and has been shown to exhibit anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial/viral pro...
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Open AccessAge-, season- and gender-specific reference intervals of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 for healthy children (0 ~ 18 years old) in Nanning area of China
Establishing specific reference intervals (RIs) of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 [25(OH)D] for children is essential for improving the accuracy of diagnosis and prognosis monitoring of diseases such as rickets an...
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FTase inhibitors and cancer: prospects for use in targeted therapies
Farnesyltransferase (FTase) is a key enzyme that catalyzes the farnesylation of Ras protein. It is used to bind RAS protein to plasma membrane to complete signal transduction. Ras has been shown to be closely ...
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Triptolide induces PANoptosis in macrophages and causes organ injury in mice
Macrophages represent the first lines of innate defense against pathogenic infections and are poised to undergo multiple forms of regulated cell death (RCD) upon infections or toxic stimuli, leading to multipl...
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Open AccessBacterial quorum sensing orchestrates longitudinal interactions to shape microbiota assembly
The mechanism of microbiota assembly is one of the main problems in microbiome research, which is also the primary theoretical basis for precise manipulation of microbial communities. Bacterial quorum sensing ...
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Orientin regulates the proliferation and migration of hepatocellular carcinoma cells
Orientin is a flavone isolated from medicinal plants used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that suppresses the growth of cancer cells in vitro. The effects of orientin in hepatoma carcinoma cells remain u...
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Oxytocin Receptor in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells Does Not Engage in Autism-Related Behaviors
The classical motor center cerebellum is one of the most consistent structures of abnormality in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and neuropeptide oxytocin is increasingly explored as a potential pharmacothera...
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Theaflavin mitigates acute gouty peritonitis and septic organ injury in mice by suppressing NLRP3 inflammasome assembly
Activation of NLR family pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome plays important role in defending against infections, but its aberrant activation is causally linked to many inflammatory diseases, thus ...
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Wuzi Yanzong Pill relieves MPTP-induced motor dysfunction and neuron loss by inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated neuroinflammation
Parkinson disease (PD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disease, which is associated with the loss of dopaminergic neurons (DA neurons) in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc), and neuroinflammation ma...