Cytotoxicity Potential of Endophytic Fungi Extracts from Terminalia catappa against Human Cervical Cancer Cells by Michèle Stella Majoumouo, Marius Belmondo Tincho, Rufin Marie Kouipou Toghueo, Thureyah Morris, Donavon Charles Hiss, Fabrice Fekam Boyom, Chitra Mandal

“…Endophytic fungi are potential sources of novel bioactive metabolites from a natural product drug discovery perspective. This study reports the bioactivity-directed fractionation of the secondary metabolites of the ethyl acetate extract of a fermentation culture of endophytic fungi from Terminalia catappa which were then evaluated for their cytotoxicity against human cervical cancer (HeLa) cells and human foreskin fibroblast (HFF) cells. …”
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Advancing precision medicine in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma using patient-derived organoids by Suya Shen, Bing Liu, Wenyan Guan, Ziyao Liu, Yuqing Han, Yingzhe Hu, Yiqiang Chen, Siyuan Liu, Jian He, Zhiwen Li, Weifeng Tang, Pengju Zhang, Wei Ren, Yudong Qiu, Hongping Zheng, Jingjing Li

“…The findings demonstrate that this framework offers robust predictive value in clinical settings, enhances precision therapeutics, and advances drug discovery for esophageal cancer. Graphical Abstract…”
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PretoxTM: a text mining system for extracting treatment-related findings from preclinical toxicology reports by Javier Corvi, Nicolás Díaz-Roussel, José M. Fernández, Francesco Ronzano, Emilio Centeno, Pablo Accuosto, Celine Ibrahim, Shoji Asakura, Frank Bringezu, Mirjam Fröhlicher, Annika Kreuchwig, Yoko Nogami, Jeong Rih, Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Nicolas Sajot, Joerg Wichard, Heng-Yi Michael Wu, Philip Drew, Thomas Steger-Hartmann, Alfonso Valencia, Laura I. Furlong, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez

“…Text mining technologies have the ability to automatically extract, analyse and aggregate such information, providing valuable new insights into the drug discovery and development process. In the context of the eTRANSAFE project, we present PretoxTM (Preclinical Toxicology Text Mining), the first system specifically designed to detect, extract, organise and visualise treatment-related findings from toxicology reports. …”
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Reliability of high-quantity human brain organoids for modeling microcephaly, glioma invasion and drug screening by Anand Ramani, Giovanni Pasquini, Niklas J. Gerkau, Vaibhav Jadhav, Omkar Suhas Vinchure, Nazlican Altinisik, Hannes Windoffer, Sarah Muller, Ina Rothenaigner, Sean Lin, Aruljothi Mariappan, Dhanasekaran Rathinam, Ali Mirsaidi, Olivier Goureau, Lucia Ricci-Vitiani, Quintino Giorgio D’Alessandris, Bernd Wollnik, Alysson Muotri, Limor Freifeld, Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi, Roberto Pallini, Christine R. Rose, Volker Busskamp, Elke Gabriel, Kamyar Hadian, Jay Gopalakrishnan

“…Thus, the Hi-Q approach can easily be adapted to reliably harness brain organoids’ application for personalized neurogenetic disease modeling and drug discovery.…”
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Exploring biomarkers and molecular mechanisms of Type 2 diabetes mellitus promotes colorectal cancer progression based on transcriptomics by Simin Luo, Yuhong Zhu, Zhanli Guo, Chuan Zheng, Xi Fu, Fengming You, Xueke Li

“…These mechanisms and molecular markers may provide new ideas for further studies of T2DM-promoted CRC progression and contribute to drug discovery for the treatment of co-morbidities.…”
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JUNB O‐GlcNAcylation‐Mediated Promoter Accessibility of Metabolic Genes Modulates Distinct Epithelial Lineage in Pulmonary Fibrosis by Marie‐Therese Bammert, Meshal Ansari, Leoni Haag, Zuhdi Ahmad, Victoria Schröder, Joseph Birch, Diana Santacruz, Werner Rust, Coralie Viollet, Benjamin Strobel, Alec Dick, Florian Gantner, Holger Schlüter, Fidel Ramirez, Muriel Lizé, Matthew J. Thomas, Huy Q. Le

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Interference of a phytoconstituent from Nymphaea lotus-derived ligand N-acetyl glucosamine with signaling receptors in diabetes mellitus development: A targeted computational analy... by Sunday Amos Onikanni, Tran Nhat-Phong Dao, Adewale Oluwaseun Fadaka, Halliru Zailani, Oluwafemi Shittu Bakare, Omolola Esther Amos, Ashwil Klein, Valens Munyembaraga, Morenike Grace Ajayi, Adebola Iyabode Akinjokun, Babatunji Emmanuel Oyinloye, Leandro Miranda-Alves

“…It provides innovative methods that can speed up drug discovery and lower costs thereby results to increase enthusiasm at developing instinctive antidiabetic agents as alternatives for managing diabetes. …”
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NPT100-18A rescues mitochondrial oxidative stress and neuronal degeneration in human iPSC-based Parkinson’s model by Julian E. Alecu, Veronika Sigutova, Razvan-Marius Brazdis, Sandra Lörentz, Marios Evangelos Bogiongko, Anara Nursaitova, Martin Regensburger, Laurent Roybon, Kerstin M. Galler, Wolfgang Wrasidlo, Beate Winner, Iryna Prots

“…Reciprocally, αSyn aggregates, in particular oligomers, can impair mitochondrial functions and exacerbate OS. Recent drug-discovery studies have identified a series of small molecules, including NPT100-18A, which reduce αSyn oligomerization by preventing misfolding and dimerization. …”
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Leveraging AI to automate detection and quantification of extrachromosomal DNA to decode drug responses by Kohen Goble, Aarav Mehta, Damien Guilbaud, Jacob Fessler, Jingting Chen, William Nenad, William Nenad, Christina G. Ford, Oliver Cope, Darby Cheng, William Dennis, Nithya Gurumurthy, Yue Wang, Kriti Shukla, Elizabeth Brunk, Elizabeth Brunk, Elizabeth Brunk, Elizabeth Brunk, Elizabeth Brunk

“…IntroductionTraditional drug discovery efforts primarily target rapid, reversible protein-mediated adaptations to counteract cancer cell resistance. …”
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Screening potential antileukemia ingredients from sweet potato: integration of metabolomics analysis, network pharmacology, and experimental validation by Lianling Xu, Lianling Xu, Kaixuan Zeng, Kaixuan Zeng, Zuoyue Duan, Zuoyue Duan, Jing Liu, Yan Zeng, Miao Zhang, You Yang, Qulian Guo, Yanling Jin, Wenjun Liu, Ling Guo

“…BackgroundActive dietary flavonoids are a promising resource for novel drug discovery. Sweet potato, a widely cultivated functional crop, is abundant in flavonoids. …”
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Dehydrothyrsiferol Against Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: Treatment Outcome in a Murine Model by Atteneri López-Arencibia, Carlos J. Bethencourt-Estrella, Desirée San Nicolás-Hernández, Rubén L. Rodríguez-Expósito, Angélica Domínguez-de-Barros, Lizbeth Salazar-Villatoro, Maritza Omaña-Molina, Francisco Cen-Pacheco, Ana R. Díaz-Marrero, José J. Fernández, Elizabeth Córdoba-Lanús, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, José E. Piñero

“…One of the most important steps in preclinical drug discovery is to demonstrate the in vivo efficacy of potential leishmanicidal compounds and good characteristics at the level of parasite killing prior to initiating human clinical trials. …”
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Discovery of Novel Nav1.7-Selective Inhibitors with the 1H-Indole-3-Propionamide Scaffold for Effective Pain Relief by Gaoang Wang, Hang Wu, Yingying Wang, Xiangying Liu, Shuijiao Peng, Wenxing Wang, Meijing Wu, Yifei Liu, Ercheng Wang, Zhe Wang, Lei Xu, Xiaojian Wang, Wei Yang, Haiyi Chen, Xi Zhou, Tingjun Hou

“…Here, we report a highly effective 1H-indole-3-propionamide inhibitor, WN2, identified through an integrated drug discovery strategy. Notably, the structure of WN2 is quite different from previously reported aryl sulfonamide inhibitors. …”
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Optimization of a micro-scale air–liquid-interface model of human proximal airway epithelium for moderate throughput drug screening for SARS-CoV-2 by Chandani Sen, Tammy M. Rickabaugh, Arjit Vijey Jeyachandran, Constance Yuen, Maisam Ghannam, Abdo Durra, Adam Aziz, Kristen Castillo, Gustavo Garcia, Arunima Purkayastha, Brandon Han, Felix W. Boulton, Eugene Chekler, Robert Garces, Karen C. Wolff, Laura Riva, Melanie G. Kirkpatrick, Amal Gebara-Lamb, Case W. McNamara, Ulrich A. K. Betz, Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami, Robert Damoiseaux, Brigitte N. Gomperts

“…To date, a few primary human stem cell-based models of the proximal airway have been reported for drug discovery but scaling them up to a higher throughput platform remains a significant challenge. …”
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Curcumin-enhanced NIR-II-responsive gold nanobipyramids for targeted HSP 90 inhibition by Zhenying Diao, Youcheng Liang, Yong Liu, Dou Zhang, Long Qiu, Jianbo Sun, Qiaoyou Lu, Yanlei Liu, Daxiang Cui, Ting Yin

“…The nanoplatforms were assembled from NIR-II-responsive gold nanobipyramids (GNBs) combined with curcumin (Cur) via hydrophobic-hydrophobic interactions and hydrogen bonds. On the basis of drug discovery and network pharmacology, we found that Cur has impressive anti-HSP90 capability and analyzed its therapeutic mechanism against NSCLC. …”
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Standard: Human gastric organoids by Fan Hong, Ronghui Tan, Ting Wang, Nanshan Zhong, Hongling Zhao, Rui-hua Xu, Lin Shen, Yingbin Liu, Xuebiao Yao, Dongxi Xiang, Lijian Hui, Jianping Xiong, Dong Gao, Bing Zhao, Zhifeng Miao, Jie Hao, Yong Li, Shijun Hu, Boqiang Fu, Guoqiang Hua, Lei Wang, Zhao-Lei Zeng, Chong Chen, Jianmin Wu, Changlin Wang, Chunnian Wang, Xianbao Zhan, Chen Song, Chunping Yu, Yingying Yang, Gengming Niu, Yalong Wang, Tongbiao Zhao, Ye-Guang Chen

“…Human gastric organoids, in particular, have gained significant interest for applications in disease modeling, drug discovery, and studies of tissue regeneration and homeostasis. …”
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Neuronal guidance factor Sema3A inhibits neurite ingrowth and prevents chondrocyte hypertrophy in the degeneration of knee cartilage in mice, monkeys and humans by Shishu Huang, Dashuang Gao, Zhenxia Li, Hongchen He, Xi Yu, Xuanhe You, Diwei Wu, Ze Du, Jiancheng Zeng, Xiaojun Shi, Qinshen Hu, Yong Nie, Zhong Zhang, Zeyu Luo, Duan Wang, Zhihe Zhao, Lingli Li, Guanglin Wang, Liping Wang, Zongke Zhou, Di Chen, Fan Yang

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Neurotoxicity of aluminium chloride and okadaic acid in zebrafish: Unravelling Alzheimer's disease model via learning and memory function evaluation by S.Z. Raduan, Q.U. Ahmed, M.R.A. Rusmili, A.S.M. Sabere, M.S. Haris, M.F. Shaikh, W.A.W. Sulaiman, M.H. Mahmood

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Collagen deposition in lung parenchyma driven by depletion of interstitial Lyve-1+ macrophages prevents cigarette smoke-induced emphysema and loss of airway function by Yinebeb Mezgebu Dagnachew, Yinebeb Mezgebu Dagnachew, Yinebeb Mezgebu Dagnachew, Hwee Ying Lim, Hwee Ying Lim, Liao Wupeng, Liao Wupeng, Sheau Yng Lim, Sheau Yng Lim, Sheng Jie Natalie Lim, Sheng Jie Natalie Lim, Chung Hwee Thiam, Chung Hwee Thiam, Shu Wen Tan, Shu Wen Tan, Joan Lau Joo Eng, Joan Lau Joo Eng, Dan Mei, Syaza Hazwany Mohammad Azhar, Wei Siong Ong, Qi Hui Caris Tan, Wai-Shiu Fred Wong, Wai-Shiu Fred Wong, Wai-Shiu Fred Wong, Veronique Angeli, Veronique Angeli

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CaMKII-dependent non-canonical RIG-I pathway promotes influenza virus propagation in the acute-phase of infection by Shinichiro Hama, Miho Watanabe-Takahashi, Hiroki Nishimura, Jumpei Omi, Masakazu Tamada, Takashi Saitoh, Katsumi Maenaka, Yuta Okuda, Aoi Ikegami, Asami Kitagawa, Koudai Furuta, Kana Izumi, Eiko Shimizu, Takashi Nishizono, Makoto Fujiwara, Tomohiro Miyasaka, Shigeo Takamori, Hiroshi Takayanagi, Keizo Nishikawa, Toshihiko Kobayashi, Noriko Toyama-Sorimachi, Makoto Yamashita, Toshiya Senda, Takatsugu Hirokawa, Haruhiko Bito, Kiyotaka Nishikawa

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DCAF13-mediated K63-linked ubiquitination of RNA polymerase I promotes uncontrolled proliferation in Breast Cancer by Zhi-Zhi Yang, Bing Yang, Haiyan Yan, Xingyu Ma, Bin Tian, Bingqi Zheng, Yong-Xian Chen, Yi-Ming Dong, Jinsi Deng, Ziling Zhan, Yanmei Shi, Jing Yuan Zhang, Daning Lu, Jie-Hua He, Yin Zhang, KaiShun Hu, Shuang Zhu, Keda Zhou, Yu-Chan Zhang, Yiqing Zheng, Dong Yin, Jian-You Liao

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