Qian C, Xin Y, Qi C, Wang H, Dong BC, Zack DJ, Blackshaw S, Hattar S, Zhou FQ, Qian J (2024) Intercellular communication atlas reveals Oprm1 as a neuroprotective factor for retinal ganglion cells. Nat Commun 15(1):2206. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46428-z PMID: 38467611 Objective: To explore how intercellular communication contributes to retinal ganglion cell (RGC) survival following […]
Hua C, Qiu L (2024) Polymersomes for therapeutic protein and peptide delivery: Towards better loading properties. Int J Nanomedicine 19:2317-2340. doi: 10.2147/IJN.S444910 PMID: 38476284 Objective: To highlight the potential of polymersomes as the next-generation therapeutic proteins and peptides carrier and to introduce novel approaches and recent progress to achieve satisfactory encapsulation capability of polymersomes for
Luna-Munguia H, Gasca-Martinez D, Garay-Cortes A, Coutiño D, Regalado M, de Los Rios E, Villaseñor P, Hidalgo-Flores F, Flores-Guapo K, Benito BY, Concha L (2024) Selective medial septum lesions in healthy rats induce longitudinal changes in microstructure of limbic regions, behavioral alterations, and increased susceptibility to status epilepticus. Mol Neurobiol 61(10):1-21. doi: 10.1007/s12035-024-04069-9 PMID: 38443731
Kitawi R, Ledger S, Kelleher AD, Ahlenstiel CL (2024) Advances in HIV gene therapy. Int J Mol Sci 25(5):2771. doi: 10.3390/ijms25052771 PMID: 38474018 Objective: This review highlights the various stages of ex vivo gene therapy, current research developments that have increased the efficiency and safety of this process, and a comprehensive summary of Human Immunodeficiency
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Berselli E, Coccolini C, Tosi G, Gokce EH, Oliveira MBPP, Fathi F, Krambeck K, Suoto EB (2024) Therapeutic peptides and proteins: Stabilization challenges and biomedical applications by means of nanodelivery systems. Int J Pept Res Ther 30:15. doi: 10.1007/s10989-024-10592-z Objective: To discuss the stability problems of proteins and peptides that have driven the scientific community
Hernández-Barranco A, Santos V, Mazariegos MS, Caleiras E, Nogués L, Mourcin F, Léonard S, Oblet C, Genebrier S, Rossille D, Benguría A, Sanz A, Vázquez E, Dopazo A, Efeyan A, Ortega-Molina A, Cogne M, Tarte K, Peinado H (2024) NGFR regulates stromal cell activation in germinal centers. Cell Rep 43(2):113705. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113705 PMID: 38307025 Objective:
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Chan A (2024) Engineering small protein based inhibitors and biodegraders for cytosolic delivery and targeting of the undruggable proteome. Univ Pennsylvania Thesis. Objective: Studying the delivery of saporin across the cell membrane encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles. Summary: Protein payloads, like saporin and others, are given negatively charged regions which create binding sites for cationic lipids
Polito L (2024) Women’s special issue series: Biomedicines. Biomedicines 12(3):471. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines12030471 PMID: 38540085 Summary: Saporin is a single-chain ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) with low toxicity in cells and animals. When the protein is linked to a carrier that facilitates cellular uptake, the protein can become highly and selectively toxic to the cellular target of the
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Díaz-Jara E, Pereyra K, Vicencio S, Olesen MA, Schwarz KG, Toledo C, Díaz HS, Quintanilla RA, Del Rio R (2024) Superoxide dismutase 2 deficiency is associated with enhanced central chemoreception in mice: Implications for breathing regulation. Redix Biol 69:102992. doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2023.102992 PMID: 38142585 Objective: To determine the impact of partial deletion of SOD2 expression on
Loftén A, Cadeddu D, Danielsson K, Stomberg R, Adermark L, Söderpalm B, Ericson M (2024) Reduced alcohol consumption following ablation of cholinergic interneurons in the nucleus accumbens of wistar rats. Addict Biol 30(2):e70022. doi: 10.1111/adb.70022 PMID: 39936333 Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the functional role of accumbal Cholinergic interneurons (CIN) in