Liver Danger Signal Triggers TREM2+ Macrophage-Mediated MS4A7-Dependent Inflammasome Activation Driving Steatohepatitis Background and Research Motivation In recent years, with the increasing incidence of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), its pathological mechanisms have garnered significant attention. MASH, formerly known as...
Simultaneously Recording Up to a Million Neurons’ Cortical Dynamics Reveals Unbounded Scaling of Neuronal Quantity and Dimensionality Summary This scientific report titled “Simultaneously Recording Up to a Million Neurons’ Cortical Dynamics Reveals Unbounded Scaling of Neuronal Quantity and Dimensionality,” published in the journal Neuron (Volume 1...
Astrocytes Secrete Neurocan to Control Inhibitory Synapse Formation and Function In recent years, the role of neuron-glial cell interactions in synapse formation and maintenance of synaptic function has become a hot topic in neuroscience research. This paper, published by Dolores Irala et al. from Duke University Medical Center in the May 2024 issu...
Interactive Mechanisms Between Cancer Cells and Macrophages Facilitate Pancreatic Cancer Cachexia Background Pancreatic cancer is currently the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States and is expected to become the second leading cause of cancer death within the next decade. Unfortunately, more than 80% of pancreatic cancer ...
Intrinsic Epigenetic Dysregulation in Tumor Cells Shapes Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Heterogeneity to Metabolically Support Pancreatic Cancer Authors Ningning Niu, Qingshen Xu, Wang Zheng, …, Kurong Jiang, Fengshi Yu, Xue Xu Jing published an article titled “Intrinsic Epigenetic Dysregulation in Tumor Cells Shapes Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts He...
Identification of Therapeutic Potential of Hypoxic Macrophages in Glioblastoma Academic Background Glioblastoma (GBM) and isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutant gliomas are the most common malignant brain tumors in adults. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are the major immune cell infiltrates in these tumors. These cells interact directly with ma...