Trifarotene alleviates skin photoaging injury by inhibition of JNK/c-Jun/MMPs by Fei Xuan, Yang Lele Zixin, Zhang Jingjing, Li Xiang, Pan Mengtian, Xu Guangchen, Zhang Cuixia, Liu Fei, Fang Weirong

“…Concentrations of malondialdehyde, tyrosinase, interleukin-6, interleukin- 12, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha in photoaged skin decreased, while SOD content in photodamaged HaCaT cells significantly increased. …”
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Replacement of Dietary Fishmeal Protein with Degossypolized Cottonseed Protein on Growth Performance, Nonspecific Immune Response, Antioxidant Capacity, and Target of Rapamycin Pat... by Sheng Chen, Yuhang Tang, Zhou Zhang, Jichang Zheng, Yuliang He, Zhen Wang, Kangsen Mai, Qinghui Ai

“…The transcription of hepatic proinflammatory cytokine genes (interleukin-6 (il-6); tumor necrosis factor-α (tnf-α); and interferon-γ (ifn-γ)) in the DCP20 and DCP40 groups was significantly upregulated compared with that in the control group (P<0.05). …”
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Capecitabine enhances sensitivity to oxaliplatin in advanced gastric cancer and the effects on patients’ FOXP1 and GGT levels by Xinyu Guo, Yi Liu

“…The 1-year survival rate of 152 patients with gastric cancer was 84.87% (129/152) and the 3-year survival rate was 63.17% (96/152). Age, tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stage, lymph node metastasis, chemotherapy regimen, FOXP1, and GGT levels were important factors in determining OS. …”
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Lysine deacetylase inhibitors have low selectivity in cells and exhibit predominantly off‐target effects by Kiara E. Bornes, Marcus A. Moody, Thomas M. Huckaba, Megan C. Benz, Emily C. McConnell, Maryam Foroozesh, Van H. Barnes, Bridgette M. Collins‐Burow, Matthew E. Burow, Terry J. Watt, Tasha B. Toro

“…Genetic inactivation of KDAC6, but not KDAC8, impaired tumor formation in a xenograft model system, in contrast to previous reports with KDAC inhibitors suggesting the reverse. …”
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Heteronemin Suppresses Lymphangiogenesis Through ARF-1 and MMP-9/VE-Cadherin/Vimentin by Hsien-Lin Chen, Yu-Chieh Su, Huang-Chi Chen, Jui-Hsin Su, Chang-Yi Wu, Shih-Wei Wang, In-Pin Lin, Chung-Yi Chen, Chien-Hsing Lee

“…Lymphatic metastasis is a biological procedure associated with the pathogenesis of several diseases, especially in tumor metastasis. Therefore, regulation of lymphangiogenesis has become a promising strategy for cancer therapy. …”
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Untangling the Web of Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases by Donato Rigante, Giuseppe Lopalco, Antonio Vitale, Orso Maria Lucherini, Francesco Caso, Caterina De Clemente, Francesco Molinaro, Mario Messina, Luisa Costa, Mariangela Atteno, Franco Laghi-Pasini, Giovanni Lapadula, Mauro Galeazzi, Florenzo Iannone, Luca Cantarini

“…The innate immune system is involved in the pathophysiology of systemic autoinflammatory diseases (SAIDs), an enlarging group of disorders caused by dysregulated production of proinflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin-1β and tumor necrosis factor-α, in which autoreactive T-lymphocytes and autoantibodies are indeed absent. …”
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Adjuvant chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiation is associated with improved survival for resected stage I‐II pancreatic cancer by Sung Jun Ma, Gregory M. Hermann, Kavitha M. Prezzano, Lucas M. Serra, Austin J. Iovoli, Anurag K. Singh

“…Patients treated with C + CRT were compared with those treated with C (cohort C) and CRT (cohort CRT). Baseline patient, tumor, and treatment characteristics were examined. …”
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Plasma and serum concentrations of VEGF-A121, but not of VEGF-A165, increase post-bevacizumab administration. by Masashi Okawa, Munekazu Yamakuchi, Aryal Bibek, Kazunori Takenouchi, Drew N Maywar, Shingo Yamada, Keiichi Inoue, Kazuhiko Higurashi, Junichi Nakazawa, Masahiro Kawahira, Tomoko Kodama, Kiyonori Tanoue, Yoko Oyama, Sadayuki Higashi, Chieko Fujisaki, Hirohito Hashinokuchi, Akito Tabaru, Hideaki Kanda, Shuji Tachioka, Yutaka Imoto, Teruto Hashiguchi, Yoshiharu Soga

“…The increase in VEGF-A121 in plasma and serum after bevacizumab administration may be due to the dissociation of the complex of tumor-derived VEGF-A121 and bevacizumab when it moves from the stroma into the blood.…”
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Gasdermin D regulates the activation of EGFR in colorectal cancer by Ying Li, Jiayao Chen, Huijun Liang, Qindan Du, Jingjie Shen, Xiaoying Wang

“…Mouse subcutaneous transplantation tumor models were constructed to assess the role of GSDMD in vivo. …”
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Overexpression of metalloproteinase PAPPA accelerates cancer progression and correlates with immune cell infiltration in gastric cancer: insights from bioinformatics and in vitro i... by Shiya Yu, Shiyao Zheng, Jinwei Qiu, Hongming Lin, Xiaojuan Yu, Huiyan Chen, Junhong Wu, Weihang Wu, Jiong Chen, Yongyuan Chen, Jianwei Chen, Hu Zhao, Yu Wang

“…Abstract Background Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common malignant tumors in the digestive system. However, the development of its targeted therapies has been slow. …”
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Valerenic acid ameliorates amphetamine-related neurotoxicity by improving hypothalamus tyrosine hydroxylase and histamine-N-methyl transferase enzymes by Khaled M.M. Koriem, Ammar H.A. Naiem

“…Results: METH decreased superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, catalase, NADPH oxidase, interleukin-10, sucrose preference test, distance traveled test, and center square entries test, ATPase activity and the enzymes tyrosine hydroxylase and histamine-N-methyl transferase but increased malondialdehyde, conjugated dienes, oxidative index, serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, γ-aminobutyric acid, tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-1β, interleukin-6, nuclear factor kappa B levels, the center square duration test, tail suspension test, and forced swimming test. in the METH-treated animals' brain in contrast to the control group. …”
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Effect of fermented Rosa roxburghii Tratt fruit juice on gut microbiota in a dextran sulfate sodium-induced colitis mouse model by Yunyang Zuo, Haoxiang Xu, Dandan Feng, Yuanyuan Shi, Jiuchang Li, Maoyang Wei, Ling Wang, Yulong Zhang, Ping Hu

“…Compared to control group, DSS induction decreased body weight of mice, indexes of Shannon, Simpson, Chao1 and Faith_pd, and increased disease activity index (DAI) and levels of interleukin 1β (IL-1β), IL-6, tumor necrosis factor α (TNF -α) and interferon-γ (IFN-γ); And this induction also led to an increase in Proteobacteria, Verrucomicrobia and Actinobacteria at phylum level, harmful bacterial species richness at genus level, and relative richness of S. sciuri, Desulfovibrio C21_c20, R. gnavus and Akkermansia muciniphila at species level, and a decrease in Firmicutes at phylum level and relative richness of B. acidifaciens in mice. …”
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Case report: Adult case of A20 haploinsufficiency suspected as neuro-Behçet disease by Harumi Shirai, Naoko Saito-Sato, Naoko Saito-Sato, Emiko Horiuchi, Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Saori Kadowaki, Hidenori Ohnishi, Takeshi Suzuki

“…The patient’s response to glucocorticoids and colchicine therapy was limited, and his symptoms improved upon initiation of tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor therapy. The variant showing a c.259C&gt;T nonsense variant in the TNFAIP3 gene has been previously reported in China and France, making this the first report in Japan, which is considered a rare instance of HA20 with CNS involvement.…”
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Electronegative LDL from Rabbits Fed with Atherogenic Diet Is Highly Proinflammatory by Po-Yuan Chang, Jou-Hsiang Pai, Yu-Sheng Lai, Shao-Chun Lu

“…Macrophages were treated with nLDL, LDL(-), and extensively oxidized LDL (ox-LDL), then the levels of interleukin- (IL-) 1β, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-) α in a culture medium were determined by ELISA, and the levels of total and phosphorylated IκB, p65, p38, JNK, and ERK in cell lysates were determined by Western blotting. …”
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Acquired sperm hypomethylation by gestational arsenic exposure is re-established in both the paternal and maternal genomes of post-epigenetic reprogramming embryos by Keiko Nohara, Takehiro Suzuki, Kazuyuki Okamura, Tomoko Kawai, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi

“…Our previous study showed that arsenic exposure of F0 pregnant mice paternally increased tumor incidence in F2 offspring. The sperm methylome of arsenic-exposed F1 males exhibited characteristic features, including enrichment of hypomethylated cytosines at the promoters of retrotransposons LINEs and LTRs. …”
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Identification of a New m6A Regulator-Related Methylation Signature for Predicting the Prognosis and Immune Microenvironment of Patients with Pancreatic Cancer by Tianle Zou, Dan Shi, Weiwei Wang, Guoyong Chen, Xianbin Zhang, Yu Tian, Peng Gong

“…Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a malignant tumor of the digestive system that has a bad prognosis. …”
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Metastatic Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Biological Continuum of Basal Cell Carcinoma? by Karaninder S. Mehta, Vikram K. Mahajan, Pushpinder S. Chauhan, Anju Lath Sharma, Vikas Sharma, C. Abhinav, Gayatri Khatri, Neel Prabha, Saurabh Sharma, Muninder Negi

“…The usual metastasis to lymph nodes, lungs, bones, or skin is from the primary tumor situated in the head and neck region in nearly 85% cases. …”
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APC orchestrates microtubule dynamics by acting as a positive regulator of KIF2A and a negative regulator of CLASPs by Yong Wang, Xinping Liu, Zheng Liu, Shasha Hua, Kai Jiang

“…Tumor suppressor protein Adenomatous polyposis coli protein (APC) is an EB-binding and microtubule (MT) plus end-tracking protein; however, how exactly APC regulates MT dynamics remains elusive. …”
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Suppression of Proinflammatory Cytokines and Mediators in LPS-Induced RAW 264.7 Macrophages by Stem Extract of Alternanthera sessilis via the Inhibition of the NF-κB Pathway by Katyakyini Muniandy, Sivapragasam Gothai, Khaleel M. H. Badran, S. Suresh Kumar, Norhaizan Mohd Esa, Palanisamy Arulselvan

“…Inflammation is a natural process of the innate immune system, accompanied with the increase in the level of proinflammatory mediators, for example, nitric oxide (NO) and prostaglandin (PGE2); cytokines such as interleukin 6 (IL-6), interleukin 1β (IL-1β), and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα); and enzymes including inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) via the activation and nuclear translocation of nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) subunit p65 due to the phosphorylation of inhibitory protein, IκBα. …”
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Ginsenoside Rg1 Regulates SIRT1 to Ameliorate Sepsis-Induced Lung Inflammation and Injury via Inhibiting Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Inflammation by Qian-Lu Wang, Lei Yang, Yue Peng, Min Gao, Ming-Shi Yang, Wei Xing, Xian-Zhong Xiao

“…In both A549 cells and mouse lung tissues, further study showed that Rg1 perfusion significantly suppressed the secretion of inflammatory cytokines including tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-) alpha and interleukin- (IL-) 6 and relieved cells from ER stress as supported by decreased expression of marker proteins via upregulating sirtuin 1 (SIRT1). …”
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