2026 July-1 - 454 articles
Ectopic olfactory receptors (ORs) are G protein-coupled chemosensors expressed outside the olfactory epithelium, where they may couple local chemical inputs to cell-specific signaling. The oral cavity is continuously exposed to food-derived compounds...
High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) shows limited benefit from immune checkpoint blockade, partly because stromal barriers impair antitumor immunity. We developed a cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF)-associated mitochondrial metabolic and mat...
Glioblastoma (GBM) remains a highly lethal malignancy characterized by profound treatment resistance and metabolic plasticity. While photodynamic therapy (PDT) and the mitochondrial complex I inhibitor carboxyamidotriazole orotate (CTO) have individu...
A unifying theory of both human consciousness and memory is presented that is based on neuronal microtubules (MTs) being central to both, and different populations of pyramidal cells in neocortex and hippocampus being responsible for consciousness or...
This study aimed to measure mRNA and miRNA expression profile in corneal impression cytology (IC) samples from patients with congenital aniridia (CA) and healthy controls, and to elucidate the key genes and signaling pathways involved in aniridia-ass...
NK cells co-expressing NKG2C and inhibitory KIRs represent promising effector candidates when directed against HLA-E+ tumors. These cells may propagate in vitro upon HCMV peptide (LFL) presentation within HLA-E by interacting cells due to KIR+NKG2C+...
The identification of microRNAs (miRNAs) has resulted in significant advancements in research, particularly regarding their utilization as diagnostic and therapeutic targets. This has generated enthusiasm for exploring the potential of non-coding RNA...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent psychiatric disorder in which epigenetic mechanisms, particularly DNA methylation (DNAm), may contribute to disease vulnerability and treatment response. Epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) have in...
The Activity-Dependent Neuroprotective Protein (ADNP) is an important regulator of early brain development, especially during cortical neurogenesis and neurite formation. De novo point mutations or haploinsufficiency of the ADNP gene result in ADNP s...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) remains a leading cause of disability; however, monoaminergic models do not fully explain delayed treatment onset, incomplete remission, or rapid responses to glutamatergic interventions. In this study, we proposed a s...
Adaptive and adverse brain states are often assumed to lie on a shared molecular continuum, but this assumption has rarely been evaluated against explicit transcriptomic alternatives. This study aimed to compare two representations of cross-context b...
Bladder cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the United States, causing approximately 17,000 deaths annually. Due to its vast genetic and molecular heterogeneity, presentation, prognosis, and therapeutic response vary greatly between individuals...
Exposure to high altitudes for hours or days is defined as acute hypobaric hypoxia (AHH) condition, which rapidly engages adjustments such as signaling pathways involving inflammation, immune modulation and oxidative stress, whose dysregulation has b...
Prostate cancer (PCa) exhibits marked biological heterogeneity, complicating accurate identification of aggressive disease at initial diagnosis. This study investigated whether circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) methylation markers enhance detection and...
Modern biotechnology has rapidly developed, and biotechnological drugs have become the center of global drug research and development as an important aspect of clinical treatment. These drugs have unique advantages, such as strong species specificity...
More than 20 years after the discovery of lunasin, a clear shift in lunasin research is observable—from an initial focus on its direct in vitro anticancer effects toward strategies aimed at improving its bioavailability and repositioning it as...
MicroRNA (miRNA) dysregulation is a crucial pathogenic factor that extensively participates in the occurrence and progression of various human diseases, especially cancers. Identifying unknown miRNA–disease connections is essential for understa...
Circulating tumor DNA fraction (ctFraction) has emerged as an important biomarker for assessing tumor burden and monitoring treatment response in patients with cancer. In this study, we compared ctFraction estimates generated by ichorCNA, Fragle low-...
Although salivary glands are highly vascularized, the microvascular endothelial barrier has only recently emerged as a pivotal determinant of glandular homeostasis and disease. This review synthesizes current understanding of the salivary gland endot...
Increasing evidence highlights a tight interplay between lipid metabolism and mitochondrial homeostasis in neurons, with disruptions in either pathway amplifying cellular vulnerability. PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1), a familial Parkinson’s dise...
Over time, our understanding of the central nervous system (CNS) as an immunologically privileged site where immune-cell infiltration takes place has changed; research has transformed the dominant view, showing that the CNS is an immunologically spec...
Neutrophils are essential for antimicrobial defense through reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) release, and neutrophil extracellular trap formation. Lipoic acid, a redox-active antioxidant, modulates a...
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Quantum Dots (QDs) are nanoparticles that are highly desirable for biomedical applications such as drug delivery, cellular tracking, and imaging due to their fluorescent and tunable optical properties. However, the biochemical mechanism of their inte...
Endometriosis is a disease associated with pain symptoms and reduced fertility, characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus. SETD3 is an actin-specific histidine N-methyltransferase that regulates actin stability and flexib...
Neuropeptide Y [NPY; encoded by the NPY gene] is a widely expressed 36-amino-acid neuropeptide that regulates neuronal function, vascular regulation, and immune regulation; its role in glioblastoma [GBM] remains incompletely characterized. We perform...
Mitochondrial dysfunction and impairment of high-energy phosphate transfer are increasingly recognised as shared pathogenic features across neurological disorders. Because neurons require large amounts of ATP to sustain synaptic transmission, ion gra...
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) represent a vast and largely underexplored landscape of therapeutic targets, yet their structural features—including large, flat, and dynamic interfaces—have historically limited their druggabilit...
Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is a major freshwater aquaculture species in China, but its growth is limited under intensive high-density farming. This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of plasma exosomes associated with distinct g...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent environmental contaminants increasingly associated with cardiovascular disease. Identifying early manifestations of vascular aging before the onset of overt disease is essential for improving...
The importation of hepatitis B virus (HBV) variants through migration challenges elimination efforts in low-endemicity countries. This study evaluated the seroprevalence, occult hepatitis B infection (OBI), and molecular signatures of HBV among 537 i...
Methylation of histone H3 at lysine 4 (H3K4me) is a key epigenetic mark in plants, governing transcriptional regulation, development, and stress adaptation. While the enzymes that deposit and remove this mark are well studied, how H3K4me signals are...
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, and its outcome is shaped not only by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) itself, but also by the host’s metabolic state. This review synthesises current understand...
Vitamin D is believed to exert an immunomodulatory effect in the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) and may influence the intensity of inflammatory processes. Therefore, this study aimed to assess serum vitamin D levels...
Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is now the leading cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) globally. HCC surveillance is currently restricted to patients with cirrhosis, leaving those without cirrhosis, who present with m...
Congenital toxoplasmosis, caused by the obligatory intracellular apicomplexan protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, can lead to severe complications during pregnancy, including fetal malformations and spontaneous abortion. In the present study, the anti-T. go...
This paper introduces an approach for inferring the gene regulatory networks in vortioxetine-induced glioblastoma cells to investigate vortioxetine’s systemic effects. The approach uses an ordinary differential equation (ODE)-based inverse prob...
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Diabetes mellitus comprises a group of heterogeneous metabolic disorders characterized by persistent hyperglycemia, progressive β-cell dysfunction, and multi-organ complications. Although type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and type 2 diabetes melli...
Neuroinvasive free-living amoebae (FLA), particularly Naegleria fowleri and Acanthamoeba spp., are responsible for rare but devastating infections of the central nervous system (CNS). Approximately 480 cases of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PA...
Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) is a non-endothelial mode of tumor vascularization in which aggressive cancer cells form vessel-like networks that support microcirculation, metastasis, and resistance to anti-angiogenic therapies. VM is particularly promine...
Stress granules (SGs) are stress-induced ribonucleoprotein condensates assembled around untranslated mRNAs and RNA-binding proteins. G3BP1 is a central regulator of SG formation, yet the molecular events that initiate G3BP1-mediated condensation rema...
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease framework proposes that environmental exposures during critical periods of development can shape physiological systems and influence the risk of chronic diseases later in life, including diabetes and me...
Myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Identification of robust and translatable molecular markers remains challenging due to inter-dataset and inter-species variability. In this study, we performed a cross-species inte...
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation in which excessive cell death and the release of damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) such as high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) amplify mucosal injury. Altho...
Proteoglycans (PGs) and their glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chains play key roles in corneal epithelial physiology and host–microbe interactions. Although bacterial exposure has been shown to alter PG and GAG biosynthesis, the contribution of specifi...
With the introduction of Navarixin in clinical trials, the role of squaric acid derivatives as bioisosteres gained popularity. Because of their distinctive electronic properties and hydrogen-bonding capacity, these compounds hold considerable promise...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a heterogeneous primary liver malignancy characterized by limited treatment options and low overall survival rates. Recent studies have explored the role of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1), tumor-associated macroph...
Although estrogen has been identified to play crucial roles in the development of melasma, the exact mechanism of estrogen’s effect on pigmentation is incompletely elucidated. Recent studies have highlighted the pivotal role of immune cells in...
Th17 cells play an important role in adaptive immunity and inflammation; however, the mechanisms regulating their migration into inflammatory tissues are not fully understood. In this study, we found that ex vivo human effector/memory but not central...
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