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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 2024年第2期14卷 73-81,I0006-I0009页

作者： Tiasha Dasgupta Venkatraman Manickam Department of Biomedical Sciences School of Biosciences and TechnologyVellore Institute of TechnologyVellore 632014Tamil NaduIndia

Objective:To evaluate the protective effect of benzydamine hydrochloride against ethanol-induced oxidative stress and inflammation in RAW 264.7 ***:RAW 264.7 macrophages were treated with ethanol(100 mM)and benzydamine hydrochloride(7.5μM).The imflammatory status was confirmed by measuring pro-(TNF-αand IL-6)and anti-inflammatory(IL-10)cytokines through ELISA and RT-PCR *** oxygen species generation and mitochondrial membrane potential were investigated to study the protective role of benzydamine hydrochloride against ethanol-induced oxidative *** detection was also investigated using flow cytometry and acridine orange/ethidium bromide ***:Benzydamine hydrochloride significantly decreased the secretion of TNF-αand IL-6,as well as the generation of reactive oxygen species inside the cells,thereby stabilizing the mitochondrial membrane potential and reducing DNA *** ethanol-induced cellular necrosis was also reversed by the administration of benzydamine ***:Benzydamine hydrochloride ameliorates ethanol-induced cell apoptosis and inflammation in RAW macrophages.

关键词： Alcohol Benzydamine hydrochloride Inflammation Oxidative stress Apoptosis

The dual role of striatal interneurons: circuit modulation and trophic support for the basal ganglia

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第6期19卷 1277-1283页

作者： Elliot Wegman Marlena Wosiski-Kuhn Yu Luo Department of Molecular and Cellular biosciences University of Cincinnati 2. Department of Emergency Medicine at the School of Medicine University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Graduate Program University of Cincinnati

Striatal interneurons play a key role in modulating striatal-dependent behaviors, including motor activity and reward and emotional processing. Interneurons not only provide modulation to the basal ganglia circuitry under homeostasis but are also involved in changes to plasticity and adaptation during disease conditions such as Parkinson’s or Huntington’s disease. This review aims to summarize recent findings regarding the role of striatal cholinergic and GABAergic interneurons in providing circuit modulation to the basal ganglia in both homeostatic and disease conditions. In addition to direct circuit modulation, striatal interneurons have also been shown to provide trophic support to maintain neuron populations in adulthood. We discuss this interesting and novel role of striatal interneurons, with a focus on the maintenance of adult dopaminergic neurons from interneuronderived sonic-hedgehog.

关键词： cholinergic dopamine GABAergic interneuron levodopa-induced dyskinesia parvalbumin sonic hedgehog striatum trophic factor

Fabrication and characterisation of random and aligned electrospun scaffolds to investigate hypothalamic stem/progenitor cell behaviour

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Engineered Regeneration 2024年第1期5卷 11-20页

作者： Selina Beal Iain Stewart Paul Hatton Marysia Placzek Ilida Ortega school of Clinical Dentistry and Insigneo Institute Claremont CrescentUniversity of SheffieldSheffield S102TAUK school of biosciences University of SheffieldEnglandUK National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial CollegeLondon SW36LYUK

Tanycytes are stem/progenitor cells that reside in the hypothalamus of the adult vertebrate *** can be cultured as free-floating neurospheres in vitro but tend to spontaneously differentiate over *** we asked whether morphological cues provided by engineered polymer scaffolds can modify spontaneous ***-derived neurospheres were cultured on electrospun scaffolds,prepared with either random or aligned fiber *** dispersed widely on the scaffolds,and-on aligned scaffolds-were highly organized,orientated parallel to the *** analysis showed that cells cultured on aligned scaffolds showed significantly greater expression of the neural stem/progenitor cell marker,NrCAM and reduced expres-sion of differentiated cell markers in comparison to those cultured on random *** this shows that tanycytes respond to local engineered cues,and that a morphologically constrained environment can better main-tain tanycytes as stem *** aligned scaffold culture system provides a powerful tool to better investigate this novel stem/progenitor cell population.

关键词： Scaffold Tanycytes Neural stem/progenitor cells Fiber alignment Electrospinning

A novel alternative for pyrogen detection based on a transgenic cell line

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Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 2024年第3期9卷 1221-1229页

作者： Qing He Chuan-Fei Yu Gang Wu Kai-Qin Wang Yong-Bo Ni Xiao Guo Zhi-Hao Fu Lan Wang De-Jiang Tan Hua Gao Can Wang Gang Chen Xu-Hong Chen Bo Chen Jun-Zhi Wang National Institutes for Food and Drug Control BeijingChina school of Life Science and Biopharmaceutics Shenyang Pharmaceutical UniversityShenyangChina Shanghai Institute for Food and Drug Control ShanghaiChina KeyMed biosciences Inc. ChengduChina

Pyrogen,often as a contaminant,is a key indicator affecting the safety of almost all parenteral drugs(including biologicals,chemicals,traditional Chinese medicines and medical devices).It has become a goal to completely replace the in vivo rabbit pyrogen test by using the in vitro pyrogen test based on the promoted‘reduction,replacement and refinement’principle,which has been highly considered by regulatory agencies from different *** used NF-κB,a central signalling molecule mediating inflammatory responses,as a pyrogenic marker and the monocyte line THP-1 transfected with a luciferase reporter gene regulated by NF-κB as an in vitro model to detect pyrogens by measuring the intensity of a fluorescence ***,we show that this test can quantitatively and sensitively detect endotoxin(lipopolysaccharide from different strains)and nonendotoxin(lipoteichoic acid,zymosan,peptidoglycan,lectin and glucan),has good stability in terms of NF-κB activity and cell phenotypes at 39 cell passages and can be applied to detect pyrogens in biologicals(group A&C meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine;basiliximab;rabies vaccine(Vero cells)for human use,freeze-dried;Japanese encephalitis vaccine(Vero cells),inactivated;insulin aspart injection;human albumin;recombinant human erythropoietin injection(CHO Cell)).The within-laboratory reproducibility of the test in three independent laboratories was 85%,80%and 80%and the interlaboratory reproducibility among laboratories was 83.3%,95.6%and 86.7%.The sensitivity(true positive rate)and specificity(true negative rate)of the test were 89.9%and 90.9%,*** summary,the test provides a novel alternative for pyrogen detection.

关键词： pyrogen rabbit replace

Potential Secretory Transporters and Biosynthetic Precursors of Biological Nitrification Inhibitor 1,9-Decanediol in Rice as Revealed by Transcriptome and Metabolome Analyses

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Rice science 2024年第1期31卷 87-102页

作者： DI Dongwei MA Mingkun ZHANG Xiaoyang LU Yufang Herbert J.KRONZUCKER SHI Weiming State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Institute of Soil ScienceChinese Academy of SciencesNanjing 210008China school of Food Science and Engineering Foshan UniversityFoshan 528000China school of biosciences The University of MelbourneParkvilleVIC 3010Australia University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049China

Biological nitrification inhibitors(BNIs)are released from plant roots and inhibit the nitrification activity of microorganisms in soils,reducing NO_(3)^(‒)leaching and N2O emissions,and increasing nitrogenuse efficiency(NUE).Several recent studies have focused on the identification of new BNIs,yet little is known about the genetic loci that govern their biosynthesis and *** applied a combined transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis to investigate possible biosynthetic pathways and transporters involved in the biosynthesis and release of BNI 1,9-decanediol(1,9-D),which was previously identified in rice root *** results linked four fatty acids,icosapentaenoic acid,linoleate,norlinolenic acid,and polyhydroxy-α,ω-divarboxylic acid,with 1,9-D biosynthesis and three transporter families,namely the ATP-binding cassette protein family,the multidrug and toxic compound extrusion family,and the major facilitator superfamily,with 1,9-D release from roots into the soil *** finding provided candidates for further work on the genes implicated in the biosynthesis and secretion of 1,9-D and pinpoint genetic loci for crop breeding to improve NUE by enhancing 1,9-D secretion,with the potential to reduce NO_(3)^(‒)leaching and N2O emissions from agricultural soils.

关键词： 1,9-decanediol biological nitrification inhibitor metabolomic analysis nitrogen-use efficiency transcriptomic analysis

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Females adopt sexual catalepsy to facilitate mating

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Current Zoology 2024年第2期70卷 174-181页

作者： Jihe Liu Keke Liu Yu Tang Weihua Wang Xiang Xu Jianhui Liang Yonghong Xiao Mark A.Elgar College of Life Sciences Jinggangshan UniversityJi'anJiangxi 343009China Pharmaceutical Center Tsinghua UniversityBeijing 100084China College of Life Sciences Hunan Normal UniversityChangshaHunan 410081China school of Pharmaceutical Sciences Peking UniversityBeijing 100083China school of biosciences University of MelbourneMelbourneVictoria 3010Australia school of Life Sciences and Technology Tongii UniversityShanghai 200092China

Theory predicts that males and females of dioecious species typically engage in an evolutionary sexual conflict over the frequency and choice of mating *** sexual cannibalism,a particularly dramatic illustration of this conflict,is widespread in certain animal taxa including ***,females of some funnel weaving spiders that are generally aggressive to conspecifics enter a cataleptic state after male courtship,ensuring the males can mate without risk of *** this study,we demonstrated that the physical posture and duration,metabo-lites,and central neurotransmitters of females of Aterigena aculeata in sexual catalepsy closely resemble females in thanatosis but are distinct from those in anesthesia,indicating that the courted females feign death to eliminate the risk of potentially aggressive responses and thereby allow preferred males to *** the taxonomically widespread thanatosis,which generally represents a deceptive visual signal that acts against the interest of the receivers,sexual catalepsy of females in the funnel weaving spiders may deliver a sexual-receptive signal to the courting males and thereby benefit both the signal senders and ***,sexual catalepsy in *** may not reflect a conflict butrather a confluence of interest betweenthe sexes.

关键词： female catalepsy funnel weaving spiders mate choice mating strategy sexual behavior.

Cisplatin-induced activation of TGF-βsignaling contributes to drug resistance

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Oncology Research 2024年第1期32卷 139-150页

作者： SAYAKA IMATSUJI YUKIKO UJIE HIROYUKI ODAKE MASAYA IMOTO SUSUMU ITOH ETSU TASHIRO Department of biosciences and Informatics Faculty of Science and TechnologyKeio UniversityYokohama223-8522Japan Department of Neurology Juntendo University Graduate School of MedicineTokyo113-8421Japan Laboratory of Biochemistry Showa Pharmaceutical UniversityTokyo194-8543Japan

Growing evidence suggests an association between epithelial-mesenchymal transition(EMT),a hallmark of tumor malignancy,and chemoresistance to a number of anti-cancer ***,the mechanism of EMT induction in the process of acquiring anti-cancer drug resistance remains *** address this issue,we obtained a number of cisplatin-resistant clones from LoVo cells and found that almost all of them lost cell-cell *** these clones,the epithelial marker E-cadherin was downregulated,whereas the mesenchymal marker N-cadherin was ***,the expression of EMT-related transcription factors,including Slug,was *** the other hand,the upregulation of other mesenchymal marker Vimentin was weak,suggesting that the mesenchymal-like phenotypic changes occurred in these cisplatin-resistant *** mesenchymal-like features of cisplatin-resistant clones were partially reversed to parental epithelial-like features by treatment with transforming growth factor-β(TGF-β)receptor kinase inhibitors,indicating that TGF-βsignaling is involved in cisplatin-induced the mesenchymallike phenotypic ***,cisplatin was observed to enhance the secretion of TGF-βinto the culture media without influencing TGF-βgene *** results suggest that cisplatin may induce the mesenchymal-like phenotypic changes by enhancing TGF-βsecretion,ultimately resulting in drug resistance.

关键词： Cisplatin EMT Chemo-resistance TGF-β

Integrins and their potential roles in mammalian pregnancy

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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2024年第1期15卷 1-19页

作者： Gregory A.Johnson Robert C.Burghardt Fuller W.Bazer Heewon Seo Joe W.Cain Department of Veterinary Integrative biosciences School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical SciencesTexas A&M UniversityCollege StationTX 77843‑4459USA Department of Animal Science College of Agriculture and Life SciencesTexas A&M UniversityCollege StationTX 77843‑2471USA

Integrins are a highly complex family of receptors that, when expressed on the surface of cells, can mediate reciprocal cell-to-cell and cell-to-extracellular matrix(ECM) interactions leading to assembly of integrin adhesion complexes(IACs) that initiate many signaling functions both at the membrane and deeper within the cytoplasm to coordinate processes including cell adhesion, migration, proliferation, survival, differentiation, and metabolism. All metazoan organisms possess integrins, and it is generally agreed that integrins were associated with the evolution of multicellularity, being essential for the association of cells with their neighbors and surroundings, during embryonic development and many aspects of cellular and molecular biology. Integrins have important roles in many aspects of embryonic development, normal physiology, and disease processes with a multitude of functions discovered and elucidated for integrins that directly influence many areas of biology and medicine, including mammalian pregnancy, in particular implantation of the blastocyst to the uterine wall, subsequent placentation and conceptus(embryo/fetus and associated placental membranes) development. This review provides a succinct overview of integrin structure, ligand binding, and signaling followed with a concise overview of embryonic development, implantation, and early placentation in pigs, sheep, humans, and mice as an example for rodents. A brief timeline of the initial localization of integrin subunits to the uterine luminal epithelium(LE) and conceptus trophoblast is then presented, followed by sequential summaries of integrin expression and function during gestation in pigs, sheep, humans, and rodents. As appropriate for this journal, summaries of integrin expression and function during gestation in pigs and sheep are in depth, whereas summaries for humans and rodents are brief. Because similar models to those illustrated in Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are present throughout the sc

关键词： Humans Implantation Integrins Pigs Pregnancy Rodents Sheep

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Advances in Wireless,Batteryless,Implantable Electronics for Real‑Time,Continuous Physiological Monitoring

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Nano-Micro Letters 2024年第3期16卷 254-302页

作者： Hyeonseok Kim Bruno Rigo Gabriella Wong Yoon Jae Lee Woon‑Hong Yeo IEN Center for Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA George W.Woodruff school of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA school of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA Wallace H.Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Tech and Emory University School of MedicineAtlantaGA 30332USA Parker H.Petit Institute for Bioengineering and biosciences Institute for MaterialsInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent MachinesGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGA 30332USA

This review summarizes recent progress in developing wireless,batteryless,fully implantable biomedical devices for real-time continuous physiological signal monitoring,focusing on advancing human health *** considerations,such as biological constraints,energy sourcing,and wireless communication,are discussed in achieving the desired performance of the devices and enhanced interface with human *** addition,we review the recent achievements in materials used for developing implantable systems,emphasizing their importance in achieving multi-functionalities,biocompatibility,and *** wireless,batteryless devices offer minimally invasive device insertion to the body,enabling portable health monitoring and advanced disease ***,we summarize the most recent practical applications of advanced implantable devices for human health care,highlighting their potential for immediate commercialization and clinical uses.

关键词： Implantable electronics Biomedical systems Batteryless devices Wireless electronics Physiological signal monitoring

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Nanodiamond:a promising metal-free nanoscale material in photocatalysis and electrocatalysis

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Rare Metals 2024年第8期43卷 3501-3552页

作者： Xiao-Wu Gao Zi-Wei Zhao Yang He Sai-Fei Fan Ke-Ran Jiao Si-Yu Lou Xin-Yue Han Peng-Fei Song Rong Cai Zhun Hu Zhong-Jie Jiang Yong-Jie Wang Jia-Qi Zhu Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Materials and Intelligent Photonic Systems School of ScienceHarbin Institute of Technology National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments Harbin Institute of Technology school of Advanced Technology Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of biosciences Rice University Institute of Industrial Catalysis School of Chemical Engineering and TechnologyXi'an Jiaotong University Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Surface Chemistry of Energy Materials New Energy Research Institute & Guangdong Engineering and Technology Research Center for Surface Chemistry of Energy MaterialsCollege of Environment and EnergySouth China University of Technology

Benefiting from its surface-rich functional groups,eco-friendliness,impressive electrochemical properties,excellent light absorption,structural tunability at the atomic/morphological level,and ultra-high stability under harsh conditions,nanodiamond has emerged as a promising carbon-based non-metallic material in the field of energy conversion such as electrocatalysis and ***,nanodiamond,as a new generation of green catalysts,can overcome the poisoning of catalysts by complex pollutants in advanced oxidation processes,thus effectively removing organic matter from water,which is unparalleled in reducing the cost of water purification and avoiding secondary cross-contamination of water by traditional heavy metal-based ***,we review the research and development of nanodiamonds as major electrocatalysts and photocatalysts for energy conversion and for air/water treatment for environmental *** relevant properties,trimming strategy,mechanistic understanding,and design principles of nanodiamond as a catalyst are described,as well as the challenges and prospects of this emerging field.

关键词： Carbon materials Nanodiamond Electrocatalysis Photocatalysis Energy conversion Pollutant treatment