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Cells, Volume 14, Issue 13

2025 July-1 - 99 articles

Cover Story: Liver fibrosis poses a major global health burden, highlighting the need for advanced in vitro liver models to study disease mechanisms and develop drug therapies. As hepatocyte-induced hepatic stellate cell (HSC) activation is one of the most important drivers of fibrosis development, the inclusion of these cell types in in vitro models is essential. While induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived hepatocytes and HSCs provide patient-specific platforms, functional maturation is limited. Herein, we present liver organoids composed of iPSC‑derived hepatocytes and HSCs and demonstrate that activation of RXRA by its ligand 9‑cis‑retinoic acid improves hepatocyte metabolism, maintains HSC quiescence, and enhances response to fibrotic stimuli, offering a refined tool for modelling human liver fibrosis and drug-induced injury. View this paper
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Articles (99)

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,913 Views
18 Pages

Expression of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 1A1 in Relapse-Associated Cells in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

  • Régis Costello,
  • Garrett M. Dancik,
  • Anaïs Dubiau,
  • Lamia Madaci and
  • Spiros Vlahopoulos

7 July 2025

In acute myeloid leukemia (AML) it is important to elucidate the biological events that lead from remission to relapse, which have a high probability of leading to an adverse disease outcome. The cancer stem cell marker aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,488 Views
24 Pages

Ultrastructural Changes of the Peri-Tumoral Collagen Fibers and Fibrils Array in Different Stages of Mammary Cancer Progression

  • Marco Franchi,
  • Valentina Masola,
  • Maurizio Onisto,
  • Leonardo Franchi,
  • Sylvia Mangani,
  • Vasiliki Zolota,
  • Zoi Piperigkou and
  • Nikos K. Karamanos

7 July 2025

Breast cancer invasion and subsequent metastasis to distant tissues occur when cancer cells lose cell–cell contact, develop a migrating phenotype, and invade the basement membrane (BM) and the extracellular matrix (ECM) to penetrate blood and l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,182 Views
23 Pages

Structural and Functional Characterization of N-Glycanase-1 Pathogenic Variants

  • Antje Banning,
  • Lukas Hoeren,
  • Isis Atallah,
  • Ralph Orczyk,
  • David Jacquier,
  • Diana Ballhausen and
  • Ritva Tikkanen

7 July 2025

NGLY1 deficiency is a congenital disorder of deglycosylation, caused by pathogenic variants of the NGLY1 gene. It manifests as global developmental delay, hypo- or alacrima, hypotonia, and a primarily hyperkinetic movement disorder. The NGLY1 enzyme...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,314 Views
12 Pages

Role of Kindlin-2-Expressing Extracellular Vesicles in the Invasiveness of Triple Negative Breast Cancer Tumor Cells

  • Neelum Aziz Yousafzai,
  • Mark F. Santos,
  • Yeaji Kim,
  • Nofar Avihen Schahaf,
  • Kim Zielke,
  • Lucia Languino,
  • Khalid Sossey-Alaoui and
  • Aurelio Lorico

7 July 2025

Metastatic breast cancer (BC) is a major cause of cancer-related deaths among women. Its progression is influenced by extracellular vesicles (EVs) released by BC cells, which modulate distant tissue environments to promote metastasis. We previously i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,558 Views
22 Pages

Dissecting the Immunological Microenvironment of Glioma Based on IDH Status: Implications for Immunotherapy

  • Miyu Kikuchi,
  • Hirokazu Takami,
  • Yukari Kobayashi,
  • Koji Nagaoka,
  • Yosuke Kitagawa,
  • Masashi Nomura,
  • Shunsaku Takayanagi,
  • Shota Tanaka,
  • Nobuhito Saito and
  • Kazuhiro Kakimi

7 July 2025

Gliomas, particularly IDH-wildtype ones, are associated with poor prognosis, yet their immunological landscape remains uncertain. We analyzed RNA sequencing data from 55 glioma patients, estimating immune infiltration with CIBERSORTx and immune cell...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,424 Views
23 Pages

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patient iPSCs—Derived Skeletal Muscle Organoids Exhibit a Developmental Delay in Myogenic Progenitor Maturation

  • Urs Kindler,
  • Lampros Mavrommatis,
  • Franziska Käppler,
  • Dalya Gebrehiwet Hiluf,
  • Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach,
  • Katrin Marcus,
  • Thomas Günther Pomorski,
  • Matthias Vorgerd,
  • Beate Brand-Saberi and
  • Holm Zaehres

7 July 2025

Background: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), which affects 1 in 3500 to 5000 newborn boys worldwide, is characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness and degeneration. The reduced muscle regeneration capacity presented by patients is associ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,240 Views
26 Pages

GIGYF2: A Multifunctional Regulator at the Crossroads of Gene Expression, mRNA Surveillance, and Human Disease

  • Chen-Shuo Zhao,
  • Shu-Han Liu,
  • Zheng-Yang Li,
  • Jia-Yue Chen and
  • Xiang-Yang Xiong

5 July 2025

GIGYF2 (Grb10-interacting GYF protein 2) functions as a versatile adaptor protein that regulates gene expression at various levels. At the transcriptional level, GIGYF2 facilitates VCP/p97-mediated extraction of ubiquitylated Rpb1 from stalled RNA po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,187 Views
16 Pages

5 July 2025

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic liver disease characterized by bile duct inflammation and fibrosis, leading to cirrhosis and liver failure. Current therapies are limited to symptom management, with no approved treatments targeting f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,524 Views
12 Pages

Kynurenic Acid Synthesis from D-Kynurenine in the Cerebellum: A Distinct Role of D-Amino Acid Oxidase

  • Verónica Pérez de la Cruz,
  • Korrapati V. Sathyasaikumar,
  • Xiao-Dan Wang,
  • Tonali Blanco Ayala,
  • Sarah Beggiato,
  • Dinora F. González Esquivel,
  • Benjamin Pineda and
  • Robert Schwarcz

5 July 2025

The enzymatic formation of kynurenic acid (KYNA), a neuromodulator metabolite of the kynurenine pathway (KP) of tryptophan metabolism, in the mammalian brain is widely attributed to kynurenine aminotransferase II (KATII). However, an alternative bios...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,567 Views
38 Pages

4 July 2025

Sceletium tortuosum (ST) induces antidepressant and anxiolytic effects, purportedly by monoamine regulation, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, and phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) inhibition. These multimodal actions have not been demonstrated...

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