Xia L, Luo L, Liu J, Liu L, Han H, Xia R, Guo L, Xie J, Tang L (2024) A glycoprotein-based surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy–lateral flow assay method for abrin and ricin detection. Toxins (Basel) 16(7):312. doi: 10.3390/toxins16070312 PMID: 39057952 Objective: To generate stable and high-affinity nanotags, via an efficient freezing method, to serve as the […]
Kolster M, Sonntag A, Weise C, Correa J, Fuchs H, Walther W, Fernandez-Megia E, Weng A (2024) Broadening the scope of sapofection: Cationic peptide-saponin conjugates improve gene delivery in vitro and in vivo. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 16(28):36095-36105. doi: 10.1021/acsami.4c05846 PMID: 38970470 Objective: Using Saponin to enhance delivery of gene therapies to cancer cells Summary:
Branco F, Cunha J, Mendes M, Vitorino C, Sousa JJ (2024) Peptide-hitchhiking for the development of nanosystems in glioblastoma. ACS Nano 18(26):16359-16394. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c01790 PMID: 38861272 Objective: To review single and multiligand strategies to deliver therapeutic treatment to Glioblastoma (GBM). Summary: The exploration of multitargeting ligands has shown great promise in GBM treatment, particularly when
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Ciuro M, Sangiorgio M, Cacciato V, Cantone G, Fichera C, Salvatorelli L, Magro G, Leanza G, Vecchio M, Valle MS, Gulino R (2024) Mitigating the functional deficit after neurotoxic motoneuronal loss by an inhibitor of mitochondrial fission. Int J Mol Sci 25(13):7059. doi: 10.3390/ijms25137059 PMID: 39000168 Objective: To use the Cholera Toxin B-Saporin (CTB-SAP) mouse
Kumawat C, Takahashi T, Date I, Tomita Y, Tanaka M, Arataki S, Komatsubara T, Flores AOP, Yu D, Jain M (2024) State-of-the-art and new treatment approaches for spinal cord tumors. Cancers (Basel) 16(13):2360. doi: 10.3390/cancers16132360 PMID: 39001422 Objective: To discuss innovative approaches in treating spinal cord tumors. Summary: Gene therapy holds the potential to modify
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Kang Y, Toyoda H, Saito M (2024) Search for unknown neural link between the masticatory and cognitive brain systems to clarify the involvement of its impairment in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Front Cell Neurosci 18:1425645. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2024.1425645 PMID: 38994328 Summary: It remains unclear how masticatory dysfunction can induce brain degeneration similar to Alzheimer’s Disease
Garaudé S (2024) Engineering an antibody-discernible and functional CD45 variant on hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells via base editing. Univ Basel Thesis. Objective: To develop a system for a cell surface marker present on all hematopoietic cell to deplete malignant cells. Authors screened CD45’s extracellular domain regions with base editors and generated multiple CD45 protein
Kiyokawa Y, Ootaki M, Kambe Y, Tanaka KD, Kimura G, Tanikawa T, Takeuchi Y (2024) Approach/avoidance behavior to novel objects is correlated with the serotonergic and dopaminergic systems in the brown rat (rattus norvegicus). Neuroscience 549:110-120. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2024.05.003 PMID: 38723837 Objective: To compare the dopaminergic, serotonergic, and noradrenergic systems immunohistochemically among rats. Summary: The serotonergic
Smakosz A, Matkowski A, Nawrot-Hadzik I (2024) Phytochemistry and biological activities of agrostemma genus-a review. Plants (Basel) 13(12):1673. doi: 10.3390/plants13121673 PMID: 38931105 Objective: In this review, papers focused on the chemical composition and bioactivity of the two accepted species of the Agrostemma genus were examined. Summary: A vast amount of data exists about the cytotoxicity
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Jin H, Li M, Jeong E, Castro-Martinez F, Zuker CS (2024) A body–brain circuit that regulates body inflammatory responses. Nature 630(8017):695-703. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07469-y PMID: 38692285 Objective: To show that a peripheral immune insult strongly activates the body–brain axis to regulate immune responses. Summary: Using Anti-DBH-SAP, the authors demonstrate that pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines communicate with
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