Amyloidogenic immunoglobulin light chains disturb contractile function and calcium transients in a human cardiac spheroid model of light chain (AL) amyloidosis by Mélanie Bézard, Jean-Sébastien Vartanian-Grimaldi, Julien Henri, Denisa Calin, Amira Zaroui, Mounira Kharoubi, Thibaud Damy, Onnik Agbulut, Ekaterini Kordeli

“…To mimic the disease in a reconstituted system, soluble amyloidogenic LCs purified from urine of AL-CA patients were added to a mixture of induced pluripotent stem cell-issued human cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CM) and human primary cardiac fibroblasts, which resulted in formation of spheroids within 7 days. …”
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NPRL2 gene therapy induces effective antitumor immunity in KRAS/STK11 mutant anti-PD1 resistant metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a humanized mouse model by Ismail M Meraz, Mourad Majidi, Renduo Song, Feng Meng, Lihui Gao, Qi Wang, Jing Wang, Elizabeth J Shpall, Jack A Roth

“…Humanized-mice were generated by transplanting fresh human cord blood-derived CD34 stem cells into sub-lethally irradiated NSG mice. Lung-metastases were developed from KRAS/STK11mt/aPD1R A549 cells and treated with NPRL2 w/wo pembrolizumab. …”
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Mapping naturally presented T cell antigens in medulloblastoma based on integrative multi-omics by Julia Velz, Lena K. Freudenmann, Gioele Medici, Marissa Dubbelaar, Malte Mohme, David R. Ghasemi, Jonas Scheid, Daniel J. Kowalewski, Angelica B. Patterson, Anna M. Zeitlberger, Katrin Lamszus, Manfred Westphal, Matthias Eyrich, Martina Messing-Jünger, Andreas Röhrig, Harald Reinhard, Kévin Beccaria, Rogeiro B. Craveiro, Beat M. Frey, Martin Sill, Sven Nahnsen, Marie Gauder, Konstantina Kapolou, Manuela Silginer, Tobias Weiss, Hans-Georg Wirsching, Patrick Roth, Michael Grotzer, Niklaus Krayenbühl, Oliver Bozinov, Luca Regli, Hans-Georg Rammensee, Elisabeth J. Rushing, Felix Sahm, Juliane S. Walz, Michael Weller, Marian C. Neidert

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Effective gene therapy for metachromatic leukodystrophy achieved with minimal lentiviral genomic integrations by Lucas Tricoli, Sunetra Sase, Julia L. Hacker, Vi Pham, Maxwell Chappell, Laura Breda, Stephanie N. Hurwitz, Naoto Tanaka, Carlo Castruccio Castracani, Amaliris Guerra, Zhongqi Hou, Lars Schlotawa, Karthikeyan Radhakrishnan, Matthew Hogenauer, Aoife Roche, John Everett, Frederic Bushman, Peter Kurre, Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, Laura A. Adang, Adeline L. Vanderver, Stefano Rivella

“…Combined autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantion (HSCT) with lentiviral (LV)-based gene therapy has great potential to treat MLD. …”
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Long-term real-world evidence of CPX-351 of high-risk patients with AML identified high rate of negative MRD and prolonged OS by Thomas Cluzeau, Fabio Guolo, Edmond Chiche, Paola Minetto, Ramy Rahme, Sarah Bertoli, Luana Fianchi, Jean-Baptiste Micol, Michele Gottardi, Pierre Peterlin, Sara Galimberti, Xavier Thomas, Giuliana Rizzuto, Olivier Legrand, Michela Rondoni, Emmanuel Raffoux, Giambattista Bertani, Alexis Caulier, Michelina D’Argenio, Caroline Bonmati, Atto Billio, Caroline Lejeune, Barbara Scappini, Arnaud Pigneux, Patrizia Zappasodi, Christan Recher, Francesco Grimaldi, Lionel Ades, Roberto M. Lemoli

“…We also observed a trend toward a better median OS in patients who underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with MRD <10–3 (not reached vs 26.0 months; P = .06). …”
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The sarcoma ring trial: a case-based analysis of inter-center agreement across 21 German-speaking sarcoma centers by Siyer Roohani, Jolina Handtke, Kamal Hummedah, Markus Albertsmeier, Dimosthenis Andreou, Leonidas Apostolidis, Marinela Augustin, Sebastian Bauer, Moritz Billner, Florian Bösch, Christoph K. W. Deinzer, Niklas Deventer, Anna Duprée, Franziska Eckert, Lars Engel, Katja Fechner, Hagen Fritzsche, Verena Gaidzik, Saeed Ghani, Robert Grützmann, Wiebke K. Guder, Rainer Hamacher, Judith S. Hecker, Anne Hendricks, Axel Hillmann, Philipp Houben, Georg Hübner, Philipp Ivanyi, Christina Jentsch, Maren Jordan, Peter Kappl, Moritz Kaths, Torsten Kessler, Johanna Kirchberg, Carolin Knebel, Robert Krempien, Burkhard Lehner, Ulrich Lenze, Lars H. Lindner, Alisa Martina Lörsch, Nadia Maguire, Sophie Müller, Pompiliu Piso, Vlatko Potkrajcic, Peter Reichardt, Stephan Richter, Simone Schewe, Lars M. Schiffmann, Felicitas Scholten, Jana Käthe Striefler, Matthias Schwarzbach, Katharina Seidensaal, Sabine Semrau, Joanna Szkandera, Christoph J. Szuszies, Beate Timmermann, Armin Tuscherer, Armin Wiegering, Moritz T. Winkelmann, David Kaul, Jens Jakob

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Cell autonomous TLR4 signaling modulates TGF-β induced activation of human cardiac fibroblasts by Gayathri Vijayakumar, Anisha Latha, Aiswaria P. Anil, Yogini Surve, Aiswarya R, Bipin G. Nair, Indulekha CL. Pillai

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The placenta as a cradle, but not source, of blood? by Julie Y Chen, Kyle M Loh

“…An important question is whether the placenta is a source of, or merely a niche for, blood-forming hematopoietic stem cells. A recent PLOS Biology study suggests that the placenta does not directly give rise to hematopoietic stem cells.…”
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Health benefits of algae and marine-derived bioactive metabolites for modulating ulcerative colitis symptoms by Najmeh Oliyaei, Saghar Zekri, Aida Iraji, Alireza Oliyaei, Romina Tanideh, Nadiar M. Mussin, Amin Tamadon, Nader Tanideh

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Densely vascularized thick 3D tissue shows enhanced protein secretion constructed with intermittent positive pressure by Misako Katsuura, Jun Homma, Yuhei Higashi, Hidekazu Sekine, Tatsuya Shimizu

“…The present study investigated the effects of air-compressing intermittent positive pressure (IPP) on co-cultured mesenchymal stem cells and vascular endothelial cells and evaluated the potential of IPP-cultured cell sheets for transplantation therapy. …”
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Significance of immune factors in Crohn's disease development by D. S. Stavtsev, T. A. Astrelina, O. V. Knyazev, T. V. Pukhlikova

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Suppressing recurrence in Sonic Hedgehog subgroup medulloblastoma using the OLIG2 inhibitor CT-179 by Yuchen Li, Chaemin Lim, Taylor Dismuke, Daniel S. Malawsky, Sho Oasa, Zara C. Bruce, Carolin Offenhäuser, Ulrich Baumgartner, Rochelle C. J. D’Souza, Stacey L. Edwards, Juliet D. French, Lucy S. H. Ock, Sneha Nair, Haran Sivakumaran, Lachlan Harris, Andrey P. Tikunov, Duhyeong Hwang, Coral Del Mar Alicea Pauneto, Mellissa Maybury, Timothy Hassall, Brandon Wainwright, Santosh Kesari, Gregory Stein, Michael Piper, Terrance G. Johns, Marina Sokolsky-Papkov, Lars Terenius, Vladana Vukojević, Leon F. McSwain, Timothy R. Gershon, Bryan W. Day

“…Abstract OLIG2-expressing tumor stem cells have been shown to drive recurrence in Sonic Hedgehog (SHH)-subgroup medulloblastoma (MB) and patients urgently need specific therapies to target this tumor cell population. …”
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Epigenetics of cancer drug resistance by Sayandeep Mukherjee, Ronit Dey, Subhabrata Guha, Nabendu Murmu, Gaurav Das

“…The major factors contributing to metastasis of cancer cells are epithelial–mesenchymal transition and cancer stem cells. There are multiple evidences which suggest that malfunction of epigenetic regulation in functioning of a gene is directly related to the development of cancer. …”
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Gastrointestinal myofibroblasts: role in regulation of physiological activity and reparation of gastro-intestinal tract by E. F. Barinov, O. N. Sulayeva

“…Morphology, markers, origin and stimulators of development of myofibroblasts, their involvement in formation of microniche for epithelial stem cells, kinetics of tegmental epithelium, angiogenesis, control of vascular permeability is discussed. …”
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Morphological aspects of cell-based reconstruction of rectal mucosa at surgical treatment of familial adenomatosis coli by Ye. A. Kogan, D. V. Vyshegorodtsev, N. M. Faizullina, T. A. Demura, A. M. Kuzminov, Yu. A. Shelygin, G. T. Sukhikh

“…At reparation cells with signs of stem cells take part.Conclusions. Original method can be applied for treatment of FAC as it delays polyps and rectal cancer development for many years.…”
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FoxA1 knockdown promotes BMSC osteogenesis in part by activating the ERK1/2 signaling pathway and preventing ovariectomy-induced bone loss by Lijun Li, Renjin Lin, Yang Xu, Lingdi Li, Zhijun Pan, Jian Huang

“…Using a mouse model in which the ovaries were surgically removed, researchers reported that suppressing the FOXA1 gene in bone marrow stem cells (BMSCs) prevented the loss of bone density caused by ovariectomy. …”
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Cancer stem-like cells stay in a plastic state ready for tumor evolution by Jiali Xu, Houde Zhang, Zhihao Nie, Wenyou He, Yichao Zhao, Zhenhui Huang, Lin Jia, Zhiye Du, Baotong Zhang, Siyuan Xia

“…Generally, CSCs come from the malignant transformation of somatic stem cells or the de-differentiation of other cancer cells. …”
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The regulatory role of placental extracellular vesicle on trophoblast and endothelial cell functions by Kunfeng Bai, Kunfeng Bai, Xintong Li, Yanjie Guo, Ye Shang, Leqian Lin, Philip C. N. Chiu, Philip C. N. Chiu, Cheuk-Lun Lee

“…This study aims to isolate placental EVs (pEVs) from placental explant to examine their regulatory roles on EVT and endothelial cell functions. pEVs were successfully isolated from ex vivo cultured placental explant, which were capable to be internalized by EVTs and endothelial cells. pEVs stimulated the differentiation of trophoblast stem cells (TSCs) and enhanced the migration and invasion abilities of EVTs via CD147 receptor. …”
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A synthetic chronogenetic gene circuit for programmed circadian drug delivery by Lara Pferdehirt, Anna R. Damato, Kristin L. Lenz, Maria F. Gonzalez-Aponte, Daniel Palmer, Qing-Jun Meng, Erik D. Herzog, Farshid Guilak

“…Gene circuits were transduced into induced pluripotent stem cells that were tissue-engineered into cartilage constructs. …”
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A mathematical model of mechanotransduction by Bradley J. Roth

“…Potential applications are discussed, such as predicting growth and remodeling in the diseased heart, analyzing stretch-induced arrhythmias, modeling shear forces in a vessel caused by blood flow, examining the role of mechanical forces in engineered sheets of tissue, studying differentiation in colonies of stem cells, and characterizing the response to localized forces applied to nanoparticles.…”
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