The clinical-stage drug BTZ-043 accumulates in murine tuberculosis lesions and efficiently acts against Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Andreas Römpp, Axel Treu, Julia Kokesch-Himmelreich, Franziska Marwitz, Julia Dreisbach, Nadine Aboutara, Doris Hillemann, Moritz Garrelts, Paul J. Converse, Sandeep Tyagi, Sina Gerbach, Luzia Gyr, Ann-Kathrin Lemm, Johanna Volz, Alexandra Hölscher, Leon Gröschel, Eva-Maria Stemp, Norbert Heinrich, Florian Kloss, Eric L. Nuermberger, Dominik Schwudke, Michael Hoelscher, Christoph Hölscher, Kerstin Walter

“…Here, we report on lesional BTZ-043 concentrations severalfold above the minimal-inhibitory-concentration and the substantial local efficacy of BTZ-043 in interleukin-13-overexpressing mice, which mimic human TB pathology of granuloma necrosis. …”
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Chemokine associations with blood cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barrier permeability and delirium by Paul Denver, Lucas Tortorelli, Karen Hov, Jens Petter Berg, Lasse M. Giil, Arshed Nazmi, Ana Lopez-Rodriguez, Daire Healy, Carol Murray, Robyn Barry, Leiv Otto Watne, Colm Cunningham

“…Modelling acute systemic inflammation, we used bacterial LPS (250 μg/kg) or sterile laparotomy surgery in mice to demonstrate de novo synthesis of chemokines at the choroid plexus (CP) and microvasculature. …”
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SUMO-Specific Peptidase 5 Promotes Oesophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Growth through the NF-κB-SLC1A3 Axis by Chaoxiang Du, Yunfan Hu, Xinyu Yang, Zhe Zhang, Jianmin Gu, Tao Zhang, Renfeng Wang, Shaoyuan Zhang, Lijie Tan, Guiping Yu

“…Stable SENP5-knockdown (KD) cell lines and conditional knockout (cKO) mice were established to verify the biological function of SENP5. …”
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Characteristic of the active substance of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae preparation having radioprotective properties by G. S. Ritter, V. P. Nikolin, N. A. Popova, A. S. Proskurina, P. E. Kisaretova, O. S. Taranov, T. D. Dubatolova, E. V. Dolgova, E. A. Potter, S. S. Kirikovich, Y. R. Efremov, S. I. Bayborodin, M. V. Romanenko, M. I. Meschaninova, A. G. Venyaminova, N. A. Kolchanov, S. S. Bogachev

“…Survival on the 40th day after irradiation was 78 % for the group of mice treated with the RNA preparation and 67 % for those treated with B-190. …”
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Long non-coding RNA Malat1 modulates CXCR4 expression to regulate the interaction between induced neural stem cells and microglia following closed head injury by Qin Dong, Pengyu Chen, Wenqiao Qiu, Zhijun Yang, Yanteng Li, Yuhui Zhou, Lili Guo, Dan Zou, Ruxiang Xu, Mou Gao

“…Furthermore, Malat1 inhibition blocked the immunoregulatory effects of iNSC grafts on microglial activation as well as neuroinflammation in the injured cortices of CHI mice. Interestingly, NF-κB activation in iNSCs augmented the immunoregulatory effects of iNSCs on microglial activation by activating the axis of Malat1/miR-139-5p/Cxcr4. …”
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Signatures of H3K4me3 modification predict cancer immunotherapy response and identify a new immune checkpoint-SLAMF9 by Tao Fan, Chu Xiao, Ziqin Deng, Shuofeng Li, He Tian, Yujia Zheng, Bo Zheng, Chunxiang Li, Jie He

“…Importantly, this risk-score system showed satisfactory predictive performance for the ICB therapy responses of patients suffering from several cancer types, and we identified that SLAMF9 was one of the immunosuppressive phenotype and immunotherapy resistance-determined genes of H3K4me3-RS. The mice melanoma model showed Slamf9 knockdown remarkably restrained cancer progression and enhanced the efficacy of anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-L1 therapies by elevating CD8 + T cell infiltration. …”
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Chemical Synthesis, Efficacy, and Safety of Antimalarial Hybrid Drug Comprising of Sarcosine and Aniline Pharmacophores as Scaffolds by Jean Baptiste Niyibizi, Peter G. Kirira, Francis T. Kimani, Fiona Oyatsi, Joseph K. Ng’ang’a

“…Sarcosine-aniline hybrid was efficacious and safe to mice. Therefore, covalent bitherapy should be used in drug development for drug resistance mitigation.…”
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Developmental dysfunction in a preclinical model of Kcnq2 developmental and epileptic encephalopathy by Miaomiao Mao, Nikola Jancovski, Yafit Kushner, Lucas Teasdale, Phan Truong, Kun Zhou, Samuel Reid, Linghan Jia, Ye Htet Aung, Melody Li, Christopher A. Reid, Sean Byars, Ingrid Scheffer, Steven Petrou, Snezana Maljevic

“…The heterozygous knock-in mice showed a reduced survival rate and increased susceptibility to induced seizures. …”
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Phase-dependent iron depletion differentially regulates the niche of intestinal stem cells in experimental colitis via ERK/STAT3 signaling pathway by Shubin Wang, Xiangjun Liu, Lu Xu, Jinyi Lang, Dengqun Liu, Dengqun Liu

“…In this study, we aimed to explore whether and how iron depletion would affect the occurrence and outcome of experimental colitis.MethodsIron depletion was realized by deferoxamine (DFO) at either the early stage or late stage of dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) induced experimental colitis in mice. The gross images of colons, general health, histology, barrier integrity, and qRT-PCR were performed. …”
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Ionizing radiation-induced disruption of Rela-Bclaf1-spliceosome regulatory axis in primary spermatocytes causing spermatogenesis dysfunction by Hongjian Zhou, Zhipeng Xu, Chun Jiang, Qiuyue Wu, Chuanyue Zhang, Zhenyu Liu, Xiaoxue Zhang, Weiwei Li, Yujia Pang, Jing Zhang, Wenju Pan, Min Chen, Xinyi Xia

“…Methods We employed Bulk RNA-seq and single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) on Balb/c mice testes models following IR exposure to assess cellular and transcriptional alterations. …”
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Isoxazole-based molecules restore NK cell immune surveillance in hepatocarcinogenesis by targeting TM4SF5 and SLAMF7 linkage by Ji Eon Kim, Hyun Su Kim, Wonsik Kim, Eun Hae Lee, Soyeon Kim, Taewoo Kim, Eun-Ae Shin, Kyung-hee Pyo, Haesong Lee, Seo Hee Jin, Jae-Ho Lee, Soo-Min Byeon, Dong Joo Kim, Jinwook Jeong, Jeongwon Lee, Minjae Ohn, Hyojung Lee, Su Jong Yu, Dongyun Shin, Semi Kim, Jun Yeob Yoo, Seung-Chul Lee, Young-Ger Suh, Jung Weon Lee

“…In mouse xenograft models, TSI treatment abrogated HCC development by increasing the abundance and dispersion of Slamf7-positive cells in liver tissues, recapitulating the phenotype of Tm4sf5-knockout mice and indicating TSI-mediated restoration of NK cell surveillance. …”
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Akkermansia muciniphila identified as key strain to alleviate gut barrier injury through Wnt signaling pathway by Xin Ma, Meng Li, Yuanyuan Zhang, Tingting Xu, Xinchen Zhou, Mengqi Qian, Zhiren Yang, Xinyan Han

“…We further investigated the alleviatory effects of these two strains on ETEC infection in the AIMD mice model, which revealed that A. muciniphila and B. fragilis relieved ETEC-induced intestinal inflammation by maintaining the proportion of Treg/Th17 cells and epithelial damage by moderately activating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, while the effect of A. muciniphila was better than B. fragilis. …”
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Clinicopathological Significance of FOXO4 Expression and Correlation with Prx1 in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Yunping Lu, Yajun Shen, Lingyu Li, Min Zhang, Min Wang, Lihua Ge, Jing Yang, Xiaofei Tang

“…FOXO4 protein expression was observed via immunohistochemistry (IHC) and the binding of Prx1 to FOXO4 measured by Duolink analysis in a 4-nitro-quinoline-1-oxide- (4NQO-) induced tongue carcinogenesis model in Prx1+/+ and Prx1+/− mice. Results. By the analysis of Bioinformation Databases, there was a significant interaction of FOXO4 down expression to clinical tumor stages and pathological grades in the patients with HNSCC. …”
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CCL5 Induces a Sarcopenic-like Phenotype via the CCR5 Receptor by Francisco Aguirre, Franco Tacchi, Mayalen Valero-Breton, Josué Orozco-Aguilar, Sabrina Conejeros-Lillo, Josefa Bonicioli, Renata Iturriaga-Jofré, Daniel Cabrera, Jorge A. Soto, Mauricio Castro-Sepúlveda, Marianny Portal-Rodríguez, Álvaro A. Elorza, Andrea Matamoros, Felipe Simon, Claudio Cabello-Verrugio

“…Electroporation in the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle of mice was used to overexpress CCL5. The TA muscles were analyzed by measuring the fiber diameter, the content of sarcomeric proteins, and the gene expression of E3-ligases. …”
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Acquired vulnerability against EGF receptor inhibition in gastric cancer promoted by class I histone deacetylase inhibitor entinostat by Tamara Zenz, Robert Jenke, Denys Oliinyk, Sandra Noske, René Thieme, Tim Kahl, Ines Gockel, Florian Meier-Rosar, Achim Aigner, Thomas RH Büch

“…This was confirmed in a panel of different cell lines in vitro, in tumor tissue-slice cultures ex vivo and in cell line- or patient-derived tumor xenografts in mice. Since previous studies in other tumor entities showed a downregulation of EGFR by HDACi, our findings thus indicate essential differences in the adaptive response of gastric carcinoma cells. …”
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Single-nucleus transcriptomes reveal the underlying mechanisms of dynamic whitening in thermogenic adipose tissue in goats by Manman Li, Nange Ma, Shujie Luo, Yuyi Lu, Xixi Yan, Yang Li, Xinmei Li, Zhuohui Li, Zhipei Wu, Zhenyu Wei, Wei Wang, Huimei Fan, Yu Jiang, Yan Xiong, Yu Wang

“…Compared to the classic brown adipocytes in mice, goat thermogenic adipocytes were more closely related in gene expression patterns to human beige adipocytes, which was also confirmed by adipocyte type- and lineage-specific marker expression analysis. …”
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Rapid depletion of “catch-and-release” anti-ASGR1 antibody in vivo by Siva Charan Devanaboyina, Peng Li, Edward L. LaGory, Carrie Poon-Andersen, Kevin D. Cook, Marcus Soto, Zhe Wang, Khue Dang, Craig Uyeda, Ryan B. Case, Veena A. Thomas, Ronya Primack, Manuel Ponce, Mei Di, Brian Ouyang, Joelle Kaner, Sheung Kwan Lam, Mina Mostafavi

“…Serum exposures of the generated anti-ASGR1 antibodies were analyzed in transgenic mice expressing human FcRn. Contrary to published reports of increased serum exposure of pH/Ca2+-dependent antibodies, the pH/Ca2+-dependent anti-ASGR1 antibody had rapid serum clearance in comparison to a conventional anti-ASGR1 antibody. …”
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Comparative Effects of Glenzocimab and Eptifibatide on Bleeding Severity in 2 Mouse Models of Intracranial Hemorrhage by Sébastien Dupont, Héloïse Lebas, Sabrina Mavouna, Eloïse Pascal, Astride Perrot, Adrien Cogo, Marie‐Charlotte Bourrienne, Carine Farkh, Mialitiana Solo Nomenjanahary, Véronique Ollivier, Fatima Zemali, Bernhard Nieswandt, Stéphane Loyau, Martine Jandrot‐Perrus, Eric Camerer, Jean‐Philippe Desilles, Mikael Mazighi, Yacine Boulaftali, Benoît Ho‐Tin‐Noé

“…Methods and Results The severity of ICH was assessed in mice humanized for glycoprotein VI treated or not with glenzocimab or eptifibatide at effective dose, in a model of primary ICH caused by unilateral striatal injection of collagenase type VII, and in a model of hyperglycemia‐induced hemorrhagic transformation of cerebral ischemia–reperfusion injury. …”
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The ameliorative effects of melatonin against BDE-47-induced hippocampal neuronal ferroptosis and cognitive dysfunction through Nrf2-Chaperone-mediated autophagy of ACSL4 degradati... by Quan Yuan, Mingwei Wang, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Ruofei Wang, Dechao Wang, Zichun Sang, Pu Zhao, Xiaoli Liu, Xiaoying Zhu, Gaofeng Liang, Hua Fan, Dongmei Wang

“…Our results found that melatonin administration effectively inhibited BDE-47-induced ferroptosis in mice hippocampi and murine hippocampal neuronal HT-22 cells. …”
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CD4 T cell depletion increases memory differentiation of endogenous and CAR T cells and enhances the efficacy of Super2 and IL-33-armored CAR T cells against solid tumors by Chrystal Paulos, Mary Jo Turk, Megen C Wittling, Yina H Huang, Asmaa O Mohamed, David Tyler Boone, Shannon L Ferry, Melanie C Peck, Alicia M Santos, Haille E Soderholm

“…We characterized CAR and endogenous tumor-specific memory T cell precursors, establishment of circulating (TCIRC) and resident (TRM) memory T cell subsets, and ability to protect against secondary tumors.Results TRP1-specific or NKG2D CAR T cells had no effect on primary tumor growth in immunocompetent mice unless they were combined with S233 armoring or CD4 depletion. …”
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