Björklund A, Barker RA (2024) The basal forebrain cholinergic system as target for cell replacement therapy in Parkinson’s disease. Brain awae026. doi: 10.1093/brain/awae026 PMID: 38279949 Objective: Review the use of cholinergic cell replacement as a potential therapeutic strategy in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and how rodent models of PD-like cognitive decline can be used by analyzing […]
Bernabe CS, Caliman IF, de Abreu ARR, Molosh AI, Truitt WA, Shekhar A, Johnson PL (2024) Identification of a novel perifornical-hypothalamic-area-projecting serotonergic system that inhibits innate panic and conditioned fear responses. Transl Psychiatry 14(1):60. doi: 10.1038/s41398-024-02769-3 PMID: 38272876 Objective: To investigate the role of serotonergic inputs from the raphe nuclei to the perifornical hypothalamic area
Janes TA, Cardani S, Saini JK, Pagliardini S (2024) Etonogestrel promotes respiratory recovery in an in vivo rat model of central chemoreflex impairment. Acta Physiol (Oxf) e14093. doi: 10.1111/apha.14093 PMID: 38258900 Objective: Examine the use of progestins and synthetic progestins in the stimulation of breathing, especially after chemoreflexive impairment. Summary: Central CO2 chemoreflex is important
Fulton S, Horn CC, Zhang C (2024) Characterizing a new tool to manipulate area postrema GLP1R+ neurons across species. Physiol Behav 114474. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2024.114474 PMID: 38272107 Objective: Characterize the ligand exenatide conjugated to saporin as a tool to ablate GLP1 receptor-expressing cells from human, mice, and shrews, a small animal model capable of emesis (vomiting).
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Donovan LJ, Bridges CM, Nippert AR, Wang M, Wu S, Forman TE, Haight ES, Huck NA, Bond SF, Jordan CE, Gardner AM, Nair RV, Tawfik VL (2024) Repopulated spinal cord microglia exhibit a unique transcriptome and contribute to pain resolution. Cell Rep 43(2):113683. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113683 PMID: 38261512 Objective: To study the role of microglia in
Zhao Q, Zong H, Zhu P, Su C, Tang W, Chen Z, Jin S (2024) Crosstalk between colorectal CSCs and immune cells in tumorigenesis, and strategies for targeting colorectal CSCs. Exp Hematol Oncol 13(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s40164-024-00474-x PMID: 38254219 Summary: Cancer immunotherapy has become a promising strategy in the treatment of colorectal cancer, and relapse after
Masmudi-Martín M, López-Aranda MF, Navarro-Lobato I, Khan ZU (2024) A role of frontal association cortex in long-term object recognition memory of objects with complex features in rats. Eur J Neurosci 59(7):1743-1752. doi: 10.1111/ejn.16243 PMID: 38238909 Objective: Provide evidence that the frontal association cortex and not the Perirhinal cortex is essential for object recognition memory (ORM)
Allred CA, Gormley C, Venugopal I, Li S, McGuire MJ, Brown KC (2023) Tumor-specific intracellular delivery: peptide-guided transport of a catalytic toxin. Commun Biol 6(1):60. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-04385-7 PMID: 36650239 Objective: The demonstration of a peptide optimized by chemical modifications for tumor specificity to deliver saporin, a catalytic toxin, specifically to cancer cells via both in
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Maiarù M, Leese C, Silva-Hucha S, Fontana-Giusti S, Tait L, Tamagnini F, Davletov B, Hunt SP (2024) Substance P-botulinum mediates long-term silencing of pain pathways that can be re-instated with a second injection of the construct in mice. J Pain 25(6):104466. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2024.01.331 PMID: 38218509 Summary: The authors discuss how Substance P-Botulinum is used to