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Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Panpan Chen, Rong Wang, Fangbin Liu, Shengnan Li, Yanqiu Gu, Lei Wang, Yongfang Yuan
Summary: Schizandrin C from Schisandra chinensis has been found to ameliorate liver fibrosis by regulating lipid metabolism and inflammation through nuclear factor kappa-B and p38/ERK MAPK signaling pathways, making it a potential drug for liver fibrosis.
FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Fan Lu, Han Gong, Houkang Lei, Juan Li
Summary: In this study, it was discovered that downregulation of cathepsin C can improve the function of HUVEC and enhance its protective effect against H/R injury by repressing the p38 MAPK/NF-kappa B pathway.
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Mengyao Wang, Feng Zhang, Jie Zhou, Ke Gong, Shasha Chen, Xinran Zhu, Mengxue Zhang, Yajun Duan, Chenzhong Liao, Jihong Han, Zequn Yin
Summary: Licorice is a versatile herbal medicine and food, and glabridin (Gla) extracted from licorice root has various health benefits. The research discovered the positive effect of Gla in treating alcoholic liver disease (ALD) in mice and liver cells. Gla alleviated liver injury caused by ethanol, reduced inflammation and oxidative stress, and restored antioxidant enzyme activity. Gla also regulated specific molecular pathways involved in ALD. Overall, Gla shows promise as a potential health product or drug for ALD.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Hina Ahsan, Shaukat Iqbal Malik, Fawad Ali Shah, Hamed A. El-Serehy, Amin Ullah, Zafar Abbas Shah
Summary: This study investigates the expression profiling of NF-kappa B p65 (RelA) and TNF alpha, as well as the effectiveness of Celecoxib in combination with Temozolomide in reducing the growth of human GBM cell line SF-767. The results demonstrate that Celecoxib reduces cell viability, cell proliferation, and the expression of NF-kappa B p65 (RelA) and TNF alpha in a dose-dependent manner. These findings suggest that Celecoxib therapy could mitigate the invasive characteristics of GBM cells by inhibiting the inflammatory cascade mediated by NF-kappa B.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Cell Biology
Yoshinori Aoki, Hongmei Dai, Fumika Furuta, Tomohisa Akamatsu, Takuya Oshima, Naoto Takahashi, Yu-ichi Goto, Akira Oka, Masayuki Itoh
Summary: Microglial cells have an important role in the brain's immune system. LOX-1 expression was confirmed in microglial cells in the neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy model brain. LOX-1 activates cytokines and chemokines through intracellular pathways. This study investigated the role and molecular mechanism of LOX-1 gene transcription in microglial cells under hypoxic and ischemic conditions.
CELL COMMUNICATION AND SIGNALING
(2023)
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Immunology
Xiaolin Wang, Zhou Guo, Jiamin Lin, Kai Sun, Genchun Wang, Liangcai Hou, Jingting Xu, Jiachao Guo, Xiong Zhang, Fengjing Guo, Youxiu Wei
Summary: The aim of this study was to investigate the inhibitory effect of indirubin on arthritis and its cellular-level processes. The results showed that indirubin can reduce chondrocyte inflammation and improve cartilage degradation. It also inhibited the abnormal activation of NF-Kappa B and MAPK signaling pathways. These findings suggest the potential of indirubin as an anti-arthritis drug.
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
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Medicine, Research & Experimental
Jing Xiang, Zhen Yang, Qiang Zhou
Summary: This study found that lidocaine has therapeutic effects on allergic rhinitis by inhibiting inflammatory response and regulating the expression levels of immune factors. The NF-kappa B and p38 MAPK signaling pathways play a key role in the lidocaine-mediated relief of allergic rhinitis.
EXPERIMENTAL AND THERAPEUTIC MEDICINE
(2022)
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Fisheries
Guili Yu, Hong Yu, Qiankun Yang, Jinxin Wang, Hui Fan, Gang Liu, Lei Wang, Babatunde Kazeem Bello, Panpan Zhao, Honggang Zhang, Jingquan Dong
Summary: The study found that V. harveyi infection induced inflammatory responses in murine PMs, where TLR2 activated p38 MAPK and NF-kappa B signaling pathways, but was inhibited by the PI3K/AKT pathway.
DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY
(2022)
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Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Zuoxing Wu, Chen Li, Yu Chen, Qian Liu, Na Li, Xuemei He, Weibin Li, Rong Shen, Li Li, Chenming Wei, Siyuan Shao, Fangsheng Fu, Jiaxin Ding, Xiaochen Sun, Dairong Wang, Guixin Yuan, Yiji Su, Jinmin Zhao, Jiake Xu, Ren Xu, Xin Xu, Feng Xu
Summary: Bone homeostasis relies on the balance between osteoblasts and osteoclasts. Excessive activation of osteoclasts leads to bone resorption diseases. Chrysin (CHR) has inhibitory effects on osteoclasts and may serve as a potential therapeutic agent for osteolytic diseases.
FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
(2022)
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Biology
Hany H. Arab, Ahmed M. Ashour, Abdulmalik M. Alqarni, El-Shaimaa A. Arafa, Ahmed M. Kabel
Summary: The immunosuppressant cyclosporine A can cause renal damage, while camel milk, as a natural substance, has the potential to alleviate cyclosporine-induced renal injury. Camel milk can lower levels of nephrotoxicity markers, inhibit renal inflammation, and enhance renal antioxidant capacity.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Zheng Zhao, Christoph Heier, Huimin Pang, Yu Wang, Feifei Huang, Pingan Chang
Summary: Phospholipase PNPLA7 suppresses M1 polarization of LPS-challenged macrophages by modulating SIRT1/NF-κ B and p38 MAPK-dependent pathways.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
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Plant Sciences
Hai-Qiao Wang, Zhong Wan, Qiqiang Zhang, Tong Su, Dan Yu, Fei Wang, Chao Zhang, Wei Li, Dongliang Xu, Hai Zhang
Summary: This study identified schisandrin B as the most effective component for attenuating liver fibrosis and proved that CB2 is a potential target for anti-liver fibrosis. The findings showed that schisandrin B improves CCl4-induced liver fibrosis by suppressing the NF-kappa B and p38 MAPK pathways.
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Immunology
Yue Xiong, Xiaochuan Cui, Yanjun Zhou, Gaoshang Chai, Xiufeng Jiang, Guizhi Ge, Yue Wang, Hongxu Sun, Huilian Che, Yunjuan Nie, Peng Zhao
Summary: DHL treatment effectively alleviated BLM-induced pulmonary fibrosis and inflammation by reducing pro-fibrotic mediators, inhibiting inflammatory cell infiltration, and downregulating IL-33 expression. The mechanism involved the JNK/p38 MAPK-mediated NF-kappa B signaling pathway to suppress macrophage activation and decrease IL-13 and TGF-beta levels.
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Jing Tang, Chenjuan Yao, Yingqi Liu, Jiaming Yuan, Li Wu, Kazuo Hosoi, Shali Yu, Chunyan Huang, Haiyan Wei, Gang Chen
Summary: In this study, it was elucidated that BCL-2, as a pro-apoptotic factor, plays a role in As2O3-induced apoptosis in BEAS-2B cells through NF-kappa B and p38 MAPK signaling pathways. The upregulation, nuclear localization, and phosphorylation of BCL-2 during apoptosis were found to be crucial factors in As2O3-induced cell death.
ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Meenakshi Chawla, Tapas Mukherjee, Alvina Deka, Budhaditya Chatterjee, Uday Aditya Sarkar, Amit K. Singh, Saurabh Kedia, Josephine Lum, Manprit Kaur Dhillon, Balaji Banoth, Subhra K. Biswas, Vineet Ahuja, Soumen Basak
Summary: Research suggests that in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the noncanonical NF-kappa B signaling pathway is frequently involved and plays a critical role, activating the proinflammatory gene response driven by RelA and aggravating intestinal inflammation.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Rose K. McGahan, Ellin F. Gafford, Bryan A. Whitson, Thomas J. Papadimos, Ravi S. Tripathi
JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE
(2020)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Hirofumi Nohara, Ryunosuke Nakashima, Shunsuke Kamei, Haruka Fujikawa, Keiko Ueno-Shuto, Taisei Kawakami, Yuka Eto, Mary Ann Suico, Jian-Dong Li, Hirofumi Kai, Tsuyoshi Shuto
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
(2020)
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Cell Biology
Wenwen Cheng, Ian Gonzalez, Warren Pan, Anthony H. Tsang, Jessica Adams, Ermelinda Ndoka, Desiree Gordian, Basma Khoury, Karen Roelofs, Simon S. Evers, Andrew MacKinnon, Shuangcheng Wu, Henriette Frikke-Schmidt, Jonathan N. Flak, James L. Trevaskis, Christopher J. Rhodes, So-ichiro Fukada, Randy J. Seeley, Darleen A. Sandoval, David P. Olson, Clemence Blouet, Martin G. Myers
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Otorhinolaryngology
Diego Preciado, Jian-Dong Li, Kensei Komatsu, Arwa Kurabi, Gustavo Nino, Stephanie Val, Shyan Vijayasekaran, Oren Ziv, Ann Hermansson
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
(2020)
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Otorhinolaryngology
Mark R. Alderson, Tim Murphy, Stephen Pelton, Laura A. Novotny, Laura L. Hammitt, Arwa Kurabi, Jian-Dong Li, Ruth B. Thornton, Lea-Ann S. Kirkham
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
(2020)
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Immunology
Kensei Komatsu, Dae-Hwan Nam, Ji-Yun Lee, Go Yoneda, Chen Yan, Jian-Dong Li
JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
(2020)
Review
Ophthalmology
Warren W. Pan, Feng Lin, Patrice E. Fort
Summary: The prevalence of diabetes and its complications, including diabetic retinopathy, is increasing, with DR being the most common cause of vision loss in working-age adults in the US. Recent technological advances have highlighted the central role of the immune system in the pathology of DR, suggesting potential new targets for treatment.
PROGRESS IN RETINAL AND EYE RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Biology
Warren W. Pan, Thomas J. Wubben, Cagri G. Besirli
Summary: Photoreceptor death is central to vision loss in various retinal diseases. Disruption of nutrient availability and cell metabolism may underlie photoreceptor death. In this review, Pan et al. focus on the recent advances in the understanding of photoreceptor metabolism and suggest novel targets for neuroprotective strategies that prevent blindness.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2021)
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
Ian E. Gonzalez, Julliana Ramirez-Matias, Chunxia Lu, Warren Pan, Allen Zhu, Martin G. Myers, David P. Olson
Summary: The paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH) contains neurons that play crucial roles in modulating feeding and energy expenditure. Among them, calcitonin receptor-expressing PVH neurons (CalcR(PVH)) are important for body weight regulation. Activation of CalcR(PVH) neurons suppresses feeding without significantly increasing energy expenditure, while silencing them may contribute to obesity due to loss of PVH melanocortin-4 receptor signaling.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kohei Omachi, Shota Kaseda, Tsubasa Yokota, Misato Kamura, Keisuke Teramoto, Jun Kuwazuru, Haruka Kojima, Hirofumi Nohara, Kosuke Koyama, Sumio Ohtsuki, Shogo Misumi, Toru Takeo, Naomi Nakagata, Jian-Dong Li, Tsuyoshi Shuto, Mary Ann Suico, Jeffrey H. Miner, Hirofumi Kai
Summary: Metformin is commonly used for treating type 2 diabetes, and recent studies have suggested its potential in ameliorating tumor progression, inflammatory diseases, and fibrosis. This study found that metformin not only improved non-diabetic glomerular diseases and chronic kidney disease phenotypes, but also influenced metabolic and inflammatory pathways in the transcriptome analysis.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Warren W. Pan, Thomas W. Gardner, Jennifer L. Harder
Summary: DRD remains a common cause of vision loss in working-age adults, with limited progress on new therapies due to the complexity of the human eye. Utilizing systems biology approaches that have been successful in DKD research may help clarify the molecular basis and progression of DRD.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Kaitlin H. Wade, Brian Y. H. Lam, Audrey Melvin, Warren Pan, Laura J. Corbin, David A. Hughes, Kara Rainbow, Jian-Hua Chen, Katie Duckett, Xiaoming Liu, Jacek Mokrosinski, Alexander Morseburg, Sam Neaves, Alice Williamson, Chen Zhang, I. Sadaf Farooqi, Giles S. H. Yeo, Nicholas J. Timpson, Stephen O'Rahilly
Summary: Mutations in the MC4R gene are associated with obesity, with the frequency of LoF mutations being higher than previously estimated. Carriers of such mutations may enter adulthood with a significant burden of excess adiposity.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Wenwen Cheng, Ermelinda Ndoka, Jessica N. Maung, Warren Pan, Alan C. Rupp, Christopher J. Rhodes, David P. Olson, Martin G. Myers
Summary: The study shows that Prlh-expressing NTS neurons can suppress the effects of high-fat diets on body weight in mice, and activation of Prlh(NTs) neurons and overexpression of Prlh in these cells can abolish hyperphagia driven by AgRP neurons, improving obesity in mice deficient in melanocortin signaling or leptin. This suggests that enhancing Prlh-mediated neurotransmission from the NTS can attenuate hypothalamically-driven hyperphagia and obesity, overriding orexigenic signals in the long-term energy balance.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
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Immunology
Shingo Matsuyuma, Kensei Komatsu, Byung-Cheol Lee, Yukihiro Tasaki, Masanori Miyata, Haidong Xu, Tsuyoshi Shuto, Hirofumi Kai, Jian-Dong Li
Summary: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of otitis media and life-threatening pneumonia. Overproduction of mucin, the major component of mucus, plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of both conditions. This study reveals a novel mechanism by which pneumolysin from S. pneumoniae activates AMP-activated protein kinase a1 (AMPKa1), leading to upregulation of mucin MUC5AC. The study also demonstrates the negative cross-talk between TLR2/4-independent activation of AMPKa1 and TLR2/4-dependent activation of JNK in regulating the host mucosal innate immune response to S. pneumoniae infection.
JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Oncology
Ayumi Kanemaru, Satoru Shinriki, Mimi Kai, Kanae Tsurekawa, Kazuya Ozeki, Shota Uchino, Naoki Suenaga, Kou Yonemaru, Shunsuke Miyake, Takeshi Masuda, Ryusho Kariya, Seiji Okada, Hisashi Takeshita, Yuki Seki, Hiromu Yano, Yoshihiro Komohara, Ryoji Yoshida, Hideki Nakayama, Jian-Dong Li, Hideyuki Saito, Hirofumi Jono
Summary: EGFR-targeted molecular therapies, such as EGFR-TKIs, have potential as novel therapeutic agents for CYLD-negative oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients with poor prognosis, according to this study.
CANCER CELL INTERNATIONAL
(2022)