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Cells, Volume 11, Issue 22

November-2 2022 - 180 articles

Cover Story: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a multifactorial disease, with inflammation being a critical factor in its pathogenesis. It has previously been postulated that the crosstalk between the retinal pigmented epithelial cells and the innate immune cells infiltrating the sub-retinal space drives AMD progression. We generated genetically engineered mouse models and a unique bioinformatics tool (ligand–receptor loop) to demonstrate that soluble factors derived from diseased RPE trigger microglial activation to the M1 phenotype. The pro-inflammatory M1 microglia in turn activate neutrophils, inducing early RPE changes and switching the para-inflammatory state to chronic inflammation; therefore, preventing microglia–neutrophil interactions may be a novel strategy for blocking the para- to chronic inflammation switch in atrophic AMD and delaying disease progression. View this paper
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Articles (180)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,397 Views
19 Pages

Preconditioned Mesenchymal Stromal Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) Counteract Inflammaging

  • Cansu Gorgun,
  • Chiara Africano,
  • Maria Chiara Ciferri,
  • Nadia Bertola,
  • Daniele Reverberi,
  • Rodolfo Quarto,
  • Silvia Ravera and
  • Roberta Tasso

21 November 2022

Inflammaging is one of the evolutionarily conserved mechanisms underlying aging and is defined as the long-term consequence of the chronic stimulation of the innate immune system. As macrophages are intimately involved in initiating and regulating th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,298 Views
18 Pages

The Influence of Interdisciplinary Work towards Advancing Knowledge on Human Liver Physiology

  • Blanca Delgado-Coello,
  • Nalu Navarro-Alvarez and
  • Jaime Mas-Oliva

21 November 2022

The knowledge accumulated throughout the years about liver regeneration has allowed a better understanding of normal liver physiology, by reconstructing the sequence of steps that this organ follows when it must rebuild itself after being injured. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,225 Views
21 Pages

Increased Lipid Peroxidation and Lowered Antioxidant Defenses Predict Methamphetamine Induced Psychosis

  • Hussein Kadhem Al-Hakeim,
  • Mazin Fadhil Altufaili,
  • Abbas F. Almulla,
  • Shatha Rouf Moustafa and
  • Michael Maes

21 November 2022

Background: a significant percentage of methamphetamine (MA) dependent patients develop psychosis. The associations between oxidative pathways and MA-induced psychosis (MIP) are not well delineated. Objective: the aim of this study is to delineate wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,577 Views
14 Pages

Trypanosoma cruzi DNA Polymerase β Is Phosphorylated In Vivo and In Vitro by Protein Kinase C (PKC) and Casein Kinase 2 (CK2)

  • Edio Maldonado,
  • Diego A. Rojas,
  • Fabiola Urbina,
  • Lucía Valenzuela-Pérez,
  • Christian Castillo and
  • Aldo Solari

21 November 2022

DNA polymerase β plays a fundamental role in the life cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi since it participates in the kinetoplast DNA repair and replication. This enzyme can be found in two forms in cell extracts of T. cruzi epimastigotes form. The H fo...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
68 Citations
9,642 Views
14 Pages

CAR-Macrophages and CAR-T Cells Synergistically Kill Tumor Cells In Vitro

  • Maoxuan Liu,
  • Junchen Liu,
  • Ziwei Liang,
  • Kun Dai,
  • Jiangyu Gan,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Yang Xu,
  • Youhai H. Chen and
  • Xiaochun Wan

21 November 2022

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-expressing macrophages (CAR-M) have a great potential to improve cancer therapy, as shown from several recent preclinical studies. However, unlike CAR-T cell therapy, which has been widely studied, the efficacy and lim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,601 Views
10 Pages

Inactivation of Autophagy in Keratinocytes Reduces Tumor Growth in Mouse Models of Epithelial Skin Cancer

  • Caterina Barresi,
  • Heidemarie Rossiter,
  • Maria Buchberger,
  • Johannes Pammer,
  • Supawadee Sukseree,
  • Maria Sibilia,
  • Erwin Tschachler and
  • Leopold Eckhart

21 November 2022

Autophagy is a ubiquitous degradation mechanism, which plays a critical role in cellular homeostasis. To test whether autophagy suppresses or supports the growth of tumors in the epidermis of the skin, we inactivated the essential autophagy gene Atg7...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
13,338 Views
25 Pages

Signaling Pathways Regulating Human Cervical Ripening in Preterm and Term Delivery

  • Maciej W. Socha,
  • Wojciech Flis,
  • Miłosz Pietrus,
  • Mateusz Wartęga and
  • Martyna Stankiewicz

21 November 2022

At the end of gestation, the cervical tissue changes profoundly. As a result of these changes, the uterine cervix becomes soft and vulnerable to dilation. The process occurring in the cervical tissue can be described as cervical ripening. The ripenin...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,031 Views
17 Pages

Involvement of DAAO Overexpression in Delayed Hippocampal Neuronal Death

  • Hao Liu,
  • Jun-Tao Zhang,
  • Chen-Ye Mou,
  • Yue Hao and
  • Wei Cui

21 November 2022

Background: D-amino acid oxidase (DAAO) is a flavoenzyme that specifically catalyzes the deamination of many neutral and basic D-amino acids. This study aims to explore the pathological increment of hippocampal DAAO and its potential relationship wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,287 Views
14 Pages

Natural Cross-Kingdom Spread of Apple Scar Skin Viroid from Apple Trees to Fungi

  • Mengyuan Tian,
  • Shuang Wei,
  • Ruiling Bian,
  • Jingxian Luo,
  • Haris Ahmed Khan,
  • Huanhuan Tai,
  • Hideki Kondo,
  • Ahmed Hadidi,
  • Ida Bagus Andika and
  • Liying Sun

20 November 2022

Viroids are the smallest known infectious agents that are thought to only infect plants. Here, we reveal that several species of plant pathogenic fungi that were isolated from apple trees infected with apple scar skin viroid (ASSVd) carried ASSVd nat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,970 Views
14 Pages

RUNX Proteins as Epigenetic Modulators in Cancer

  • Hongyang Yi,
  • Yuhao He,
  • Qionghua Zhu and
  • Liang Fang

20 November 2022

RUNX proteins are highly conserved in metazoans and perform critical functions during development. Dysregulation of RUNX proteins through various molecular mechanisms facilitates the development and progression of various cancers, where different RUN...

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