Both viral diseases and cancer account for a large proportion of serious health problems. Viral infection and cancer are biologically and medically correlated and in many ways share common cellular pathways that lead ...
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Both viral diseases and cancer account for a large proportion of serious health problems. Viral infection and cancer are biologically and medically correlated and in many ways share common cellular pathways that lead to disease development or progression. Better understanding how these signaling events are specifically activated by different pathogenic stimuli and how they activate different downstream transcriptions in response to these stimuli at high specificity and efficiency will provide a new molecular basis for the development of novel disease biomarkers and therapeutic or preventive targets against both classes of diseases. Research in our laboratory has been prompted to investigate the regulation and modes of action of these pathways, with a more intensive focus on the NF-κB signaling, in the settings of severe or oncogenic viral infection as well as cancer development. It is hoped that our research will lead to eventual clinical application of biomarkers derived from these signaling pathways.
Obesity has the far reaching consequence on cancer pathogenesis and immune reactions.In particular,adiponectin(APN)produced by adipocytes played an important role in modulating obesity related malignancies.Via its int...
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Obesity has the far reaching consequence on cancer pathogenesis and immune reactions.In particular,adiponectin(APN)produced by adipocytes played an important role in modulating obesity related malignancies.Via its interaction with corresponding receptors and their downstream signalling pathways,it regulates cells survival,apoptosis and cancer metastasis.Our review dissects the clinical evidence on how hypoadiponectinaemia associated with the increased risks of several cancers and the long-term prognosis and also addresses the controversies.APN also has its indirect effect on anti-cancer immune response which may influence the disease process.We also analyse the impact of APN on the immune system,the anti-tumour responses and the controversies surrounding this area.Targeting therapeutics on APN and its receptor axis represents a promising and novel anti-cancer treatment.Biological understanding of how APN and its interaction with its receptors may affect the immune reactivity.Careful strategizing the use of APN therapeutics in cancer treatment is important,as the APN receptor signalling on the immune cells can blunt anti-tumour response.Targeting APN or its receptors has an enormous implication for the treatment of cancers.
Huntington's disease (HD) is one of the most common dominantly-inherited neurodegenerative disorders and is caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene. HD is characterized by selective degeneration of ...
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Huntington's disease (HD) is one of the most common dominantly-inherited neurodegenerative disorders and is caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene. HD is characterized by selective degeneration of subpopulations of neurons in the brain, however the precise underlying mechanisms how a ubiquitously expressed disease protein could target specific types of neurons for degeneration remains a critical, yet unanswered question for HD and other major neurodegenerative disorders. In this review, we describe the expanding view of selective neuronal vulnerability in HD, based on recent neuropathological and neuroimaging studies. We will also summarize the systematic effort to define the cell types in which mutant Huntingtin expression is critical for pathogenesis of vulnerable neurons in the striatum and cortex. Finally, we will describe selected, emerging molecular mechanisms that are implicated in selective disease processes in HD. Together, the field has begun to appreciate the distinct molecular pathogenic roles of mutant huntingtin in different cell types that may contribute to the selective neuronal vulnerability, with dissection of such mechanisms likely to yield novel molecular targets for HD therapy.
We previously found that T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain protein 3(Tim-3)signaling contributed to intestinal homeostasis while the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.Here we demonstrate that
We previously found that T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain protein 3(Tim-3)signaling contributed to intestinal homeostasis while the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.Here we demonstrate that
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