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Novel epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) derivative as a new therapeutic strategy for reducing neuropathic pain after chronic constriction nerve injury in mice
Neuropathic pain is common in peripheral nerve injury and often fails to respond to ordinary medication. Here, we investigated whether the two novel epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) polyphenolic derivatives, compound 23 ...
A Common 56-kilobase deletion in a primate-specific segmental duplication creates a novel Butyrophilin-Like protein
Background The Butyrophilin-like (BTNL) proteins are likely to play an important role in inflammation and immune response. Like the B7 protein family, many human and murine BTNL members have been shown to control T lymphocytes ...
Hyaluronic acid-based bioink improves the differentiation and network formation of neural progenitor cells
Introduction: Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is a promising technique for the development of neuronal in vitro models because it controls the deposition of materials and cells. Finding a biomaterial that supports neural ...
Surface respiratory electromyography and dyspnea in acute heart failure patients
Introduction and objectives: Dyspnea is the most common symptom among hospitalized patients with heart failure (HF) but besides dyspnea questionnaires (which reflect the subjective patient sensation and are not fully ...
Conditional BDNF delivery from astrocytes rescues memory deficits, spine density and synaptic properties in the 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer disease
It has been well documented that neurotrophins, including brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), are severely affected in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but their administration faces a myriad of technical challenges. Here ...
Desarrollar investigación en educación médica internacional que sea útil para el contexto iberoamericano: ¿quién está por la labor?
La educación y la medicina se desarrollan en el 'mundo real'. 'Este 'mundo real' está formado por lugares de trabajo en el entorno académico y clínico en los que interaccionan individuos de diferentes profesiones y pacientes ...
Dual inhibition of MEK and PI3Kβ/δ-a potential therapeutic strategy in PTEN-wild-type docetaxel-resistant metastatic prostate cancer
Background: Docetaxel remains the standard treatment for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). However, resistance frequently emerges as a result of hyperactivation of the PI3K/AKT and the MEK/ERK pathways. ...
White Matter/Gray Matter Contrast Changes in Chronic and Diffuse Traumatic brain Injury
Signal-intensity contrast of T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging scans has been associated with tissue integrity and reported as a sign of neurodegenerative changes in diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. After severe ...
Allosteric Modulation of NMDARs Reverses Patients' Autoantibody Effects in Mice
Background and Objectives To demonstrate that an analog (SGE-301) of a brain-derived cholesterol metabolite, 24(S)- hydroxycholesterol, which is a selective positive allosteric modulator (PAM) of NMDA re- ceptors (NMDARs), ...
Proteomic changes in human sperm during sequential in vitro capacitation and acrosome reaction
The male gamete is not completely mature after ejaculation and requires further events in the female genital tract to acquire fertilizing ability, including the processes of capacitation and acrosome reaction. In order to ...
Biomarker profiling beyond amyloid and tau: cerebrospinal fluid markers, hippocampal atrophy, and memory change in cognitively unimpaired older adults
Brain changes occurring in aging can be indexed by biomarkers. We used cluster analysis to identify subgroups of cognitively unimpaired individuals (n ¼ 99, 64e93 years) with different profiles of the cerebrospinal fluid ...
Editorial. Nomenclature - Avoiding Babylonian Speech Confusion in Present Day Immunology
The complexity of the immune system at the gene, protein, cell, and organism levels continues to provide a major challenge. Genomic landscaping, single-cell analysis and mass data acquisition including genome, transcriptome, ...
Geometry-driven migration efficiency of autonomous epithelial cell clusters
The directed migration of epithelial cell collectives through coordinated movements plays a crucial role in various physiological processes and is increasingly understood at the level of large confluent monolayers. However, ...
Inflammation, amyloid, and atrophy in the aging brain: relationships with longitudinal changes in cognition
Amyloid deposition occurs in aging, even in individuals free from cognitive symptoms, and is often interpreted as preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology. YKL-40 is a marker of neuroinflammation, being increased ...
Postnatal Foxp2 regulates early psychiatric-like phenotypes and associated molecular alterations in the R6/1 transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease
Huntington's Disease (HD) is a devastating disorder characterized by a triad of motor, psychiatric and cognitive manifestations. Psychiatric and emotional symptoms appear at early stages of the disease which are consistently ...
C-Reactive Protein-Complement Factor H axis as a biomarker of activity in early and intermediate age-related macular degeneration
Purpose: To determine and compare the serum levels of complement Factor H (FH), monomeric C-Reactive Protein (mCRP) and pentameric C-Reactive protein (pCRP) in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and to ...
Age-dependent maintenance of motor control and corticostriatal innervation by death receptor 3
Death receptor 3 is a proinflammatory member of the immunomodulatory tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, which has been implicated in several inflammatory diseases such as arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease. ...
Lack of a 5.9 kDa peptide C-terminal fragment of fibrinogen α chain precedes fibrosis progression in patients with liver disease
Early detection of fibrosis progression is of major relevance for the diagnosis and management of patients with liver disease. This study was designed to find non-invasive biomarkers for fibrosis in a clinical context where ...
Quantitative analysis of the seminal plasma proteome in secondary hypogonadism
In the grey zone of testosterone levels between 8 and 12 nmol/L, the usefulness of therapy is controversial; as such, markers of tissue action of androgens may be helpful in adjusting clinical decisions. To better understand ...
Aberrant epigenome in iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons from Parkinson's disease patients
The epigenomic landscape of Parkinson's disease (PD) remains unknown. We performed a genomewide DNA methylation and a transcriptome studies in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived dopaminergic neurons (DAn) generated ...
