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Evaluation of mitochondrial oxidative toxicity in mammalian cardiomyocytes by determining the highly reproducible and reliable increase in mitochondrial superoxides after exposure to therapeutic drugs

403 views | May 27 2022

Dohee Ahn et al. found that a screening system using MitoSOX™ had the potential to be applied as a reliable biomarker for determining mitochondrial oxidative toxicity in new drug development. [Read the Full Post]

Systemic Treatment Patterns and Outcomes in Patients With EGFR Mutated Non-small Cell Lung Cancer and Leptomeningeal Disease

217 views | May 26 2022

Cristina M Merkhofer et.al found that prior exposure to osimertinib appeared to favorably influence the natural history of LM disease. [Read the Full Post]

Imaging PARP with [ 18 F]rucaparib in pancreatic cancer models

123 views | May 26 2022

Chung Ying Chan et al. demonstrated the potential of [18F]rucaparib as a non-invasive PARP-targeting imaging agent for pancreatic cancers. [Read the Full Post]

Vasorelaxant effect of curcubisabolanin A isolated from Curcuma longa through the PI3K/Akt/eNOS signaling pathway

221 views | May 25 2022

Jin-Feng Chen et al. demonstrated that the vasorelaxant effect of curcubisabolanin A was partially endothelium-dependent. [Read the Full Post]

Long Noncoding RNA MALAT1 Promotes Laryngocarcinoma Development by Targeting miR-708-5p/BRD4 Axis to Regulate YAP1-Mediated Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition

297 views | May 25 2022

Xiaoqin Wu et al. thought that targeting MALAT1/miR-708-5p/BRD4 axis might provide a promising therapeutic strategy for laryngocarcinoma. [Read the Full Post]

Identification of biomarkers of response to preoperative talazoparib monotherapy in treatment naïve gBRCA+ breast cancers

154 views | May 24 2022

Xuan Liu et al. indicated that the deep analysis of pre-treatment tumors could identify biomarkers that were predictive of response to talazoparib and potentially other PARP inhibitors. [Read the Full Post]

Rutaecarpine Attenuates Oxidative Stress-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury and Reduces Secondary Injury via the PGK1/KEAP1/NRF2 Signaling Pathway

175 views | May 24 2022

Min Xu et al. showed that rutaecarpine might be a promising therapeutic agent for the treatment of TBI-related neuro-oxidative damage. [Read the Full Post]

Origin of M2 Mϕ and its macrophage polarization by TGF-β in a mice intervertebral injury model

212 views | May 23 2022

Ayumu Kawakubo et al. suggested that M2 Mϕ following IVD injury might originate from resident Mϕ. [Read the Full Post]

Talazoparib Dual-targeting on Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase-1 and -16 Enzymes Offers a Promising Therapeutic Strategy in Small Cell Lung Cancer Therapy: Insight from Biophysical Computations

137 views | May 23 2022

Chwayita Mgoboza et al. found that binding residues with total binding energy greater than 1.00 kcal/mol contributed considerably to the Talazoparib's binding activities on PARP-1 and PARP-16. [Read the Full Post]

Enhancing Radioiodine Incorporation Into Radio Iodine Refractory Thyroid Cancer With MAPK Inhibition (ERRITI): A Single-Center Prospective Two-Arm Study

218 views | May 22 2022

Manuel Weber et al. found that genotype-guided MAPK inhibition was safe and resulted in successful redifferentiation in about one third of patients in each arm. [Read the Full Post]

Blue Light Induces RPE Cell Necroptosis, Which Can Be Inhibited by Minocycline

143 views | May 22 2022

Weilin Song et al. provided new ideas for the pathogenesis and treatment of retinal degeneration. [Read the Full Post]

Activated AXL Protects Against Hepatic Ischemia-reperfusion Injury by Upregulating SOCS-1 Expression

54 views | May 21 2022

Zhen Wang et al. found that the liver from I/R injury by upregulating SOCS-1 and inhibiting the toll-like receptor 4/myeloid differentiation factor-88/nuclear factor kappa-B signaling axis. [Read the Full Post]

A path-based analysis of infected cell line and COVID-19 patient transcriptome reveals novel potential targets and drugs against SARS-CoV-2

57 views | May 21 2022

Piyush Agrawal et al. found that six novel anti-SARS-CoV-2 targets ADCY2, ADSL, OCRL, TIAM1, PBK, and BUB1, and potential drugs targeting these genes, such as Bemcentinib, Phthalocyanine, and Conivaptan. [Read the Full Post]

Abrocitinib: A New FDA-Approved Drug for Moderate-to-Severe Atopic Dermatitis

410 views | May 20 2022

Patrick O Perche et al. thought that abrocitinib was an efficacious oral JAK 1 inhibitor recently FDA-approved for patients ≥ 18 years old with moderate-to-severe AD who had not responded to systemic medications or when contraindicated otherwise. [Read the Full Post]

Intron retention coupled with nonsense-mediated decay is involved in cellulase biosynthesis in cellulolytic fungi

235 views | May 20 2022

Yichen Gao et al. provided better understanding on intron retention, the NMD pathway, and cellulase production mechanism in filamentous fungi. [Read the Full Post]

CSF-1R inhibitor, pexidartinib, sensitizes esophageal adenocarcinoma to PD-1 immune checkpoint blockade in a rat model

416 views | May 19 2022

Ashten N Omstead et al. showed limited toxicity with significant tumor shrinkage in pexidartinib treated animals compared to controls, single agent and in combination with a PD-1 inhibitor, AUNP-12. [Read the Full Post]

Premise and peril of Wnt signaling activation through GSK-3β inhibition

257 views | May 19 2022

Samuel M Law et al. thought that caution was required when micromolar levels of CHIR-99021 were used for the purpose of activating the canonical Wnt signaling pathway. [Read the Full Post]

The BCL2 Inhibitor Venetoclax Plus Rituximab Is Active in MYD88 Wild-Type Polyneuropathy With Anti-MAG Antibodies

206 views | May 18 2022

Chiara Briani et al. found that Class IV evidence that for a patient with relapsed anti-MAG antibody polyneuropathy, MYD88 wild-type, venetoclax plus rituximab was effective. [Read the Full Post]

Successful treatment with steroid pulse therapy for a COVID-19 case with progressive respiratory failure during treatment for pleural metastasis of breast cancer

111 views | May 18 2022

Hikari Jimbo et al. thought that a critical element in cases such as this one was that treatment decisions were made by a team of specialists, including pulmonologists. [Read the Full Post]

Targeting Apoptosis in ALL

183 views | May 17 2022

Wesley M Smith et al. showed that ALL depended on the BCL-2 family of proteins for cell survival and proliferation. [Read the Full Post]