Yun-Fei L, Zhang J, Wang XQ, Peng JJ, Ling BF, Liu FT, Yang F, Dong G, Yu YQ (2022) Noradrenergic innervations of the medial prefrontal cortex mediate empathy for pain in rats via the α1 and β receptors. Behav Brain Res 10:113828. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2022.113828 Objective: To study the roles of the locus coeruleus (LC) to […]
Pereira PM, Papy-Garcia D, Barritault D, Chiappini F, Jackisch R, Schimchowitsch S, Cassel JC (2022) Protective Effects of a synthetic glycosaminoglycan mimetic (OTR4132) in a rat immunotoxic lesion model of septohippocampal cholinergic degeneration. Glycoconj J 39(1):107-130. doi: 10.1007/s10719-022-10047-x PMID: 35254602 Objective: Assess the effects of OTR4132, a synthetic heparan-mimetic biopolymer that is designed to have
Liu G, Chen Y, Wang Y, Deng X, Xiao Q, Zhang L, Xu H, Han X, Lei A, He J, Li X, Cao Y, Zhou P, He C, Wu P, Jiang W, Tan M, Chen C, Yang Q, Lu L, Deng K, Yao Z, Zhou J (2022) Angiotensin II enhances group 2 innate lymphoid cell
McDonough KE (2022) Maintenance mechanism of nociplastic pain in males. University of Texas Medical Branch Thesis. Objective: The objective of this dissertation is to elucidate the sex-specific mechanisms underlying the transition to and maintenance of a nociplastic pain state using animal models. Summary: This PhD dissertation investigates the mechanisms underlying the transition from acute to
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Aparicio Prieto MV, Rodríguez Gallego MV, Valdivia Palacín A, Franco Iriarte Y, Hervás Barbara G, Echevarría Orella E, Casis Saenz L (2022) Local renin angiotensin system and sperm DNA fragmentation. Asian J Androl 24(2):139-146. doi: 10.4103/aja202150 PMID: 34494558 Objective: The renin angiotensin system (RAS) appears to influence male fertility at multiple levels. The relationship between
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Ancheta LR, Shramm PA, Bouajram R, Higgins D, Lappi DA (2022) Saporin as a commercial reagent: its uses and unexpected impacts in the biological sciences-tools from the plant kingdom. Toxins (Basel) 14(3):184. doi: 10.3390/toxins14030184 PMID: 35324681 Summary: Saporin is a ribosome-inactivating protein that can cause inhibition of protein synthesis and causes cell death when delivered
Xu L, Füredi N, Lutter C, Geenen B, Pétervári E, Balaskó M, Dénes Á, Kovács KJ, Gaszner B, Kozicz T (2022) Leptin coordinates efferent sympathetic outflow to the white adipose tissue through the midbrain centrally-projecting Edinger-Westphal nucleus in male rats. Neuropharmacology 205:108898. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108898 Objective: To show that leptin bound to neurons of the Edinger-Westphal
Mitdank H, Tröger M, Sonntag A, Shirazi NA, Woith E, Fuchs H, Kobelt D, Walther W, Weng A (2022) Suicide nanoplasmids coding for ribosome-inactivating proteins. Eur J Pharm Sci 170:106107. doi: 10.1016/j.ejps.2021.106107 Objective: To investigate the anti-proliferative activity of suicide-nanoplasmids. Summary: In an in vivo neuroblastoma tumor model, treated mice showed a reduced tumor growth.
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Serapiglia V, Stephens CA, Joshi R, Aydin E, Oria M, Marotta M, Peiro JL, Varisco BM (2022) Fetal tracheal occlusion increases lung basal cells via increased yap signaling. Front Pediatr 9:780166. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.780166 PMID: 35280447 Objective: To test if lung epithelial cell populations alter after tracheal occlusion (TO) with transcriptomic signatures implicating basal cells. Summary:
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Cleverdon REG, Whitley KC, Marko DM, Hamstra SI, Braun JL, Roy BD, MacPherson REK, Fajardo VA (2021) Sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ handling in young DBA/2J vs C57BL/10 mdx models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. bioRxiv 2021.10.25.465805. doi: 10.1101/2021.10.25.465805 Objective: To investigate whether sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) function would differ in muscles from young D2 and C57 mdx