Hypoxia, an inevitable feature of locally advanced solid tumors, has been known as an adverse prognostic factor, a driver of an aggressive phenotype, and an unfavorable factor in therapies. Myo-inositol trispyrophosphate (ITPP) is a hemoglobin modifier …

Cerebral blood flow (CBF) acutely reduces in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Clinic studies have reported that severe CBF impairment can predict HIE outcomes in neonates. Herein, the present study uses a non-invasive 3D ultrasound imaging …

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Diminish Renal Neoplasms in a Tuberous Sclerosis Model via induction of Apoptosis. Running Title: Inhibiting Mesenchymal Tumors is Therapeutic for LAM and …

Obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease are linked to an unhealthy diet. Sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum calcium (Ca2+) ATPase 2a (SERCA2a) controls cardiac function by transporting Ca2+ in cardiomyocytes. SERCA2a is altered by diet and acetylation, …

Pneumonia causes short- and long-term cognitive dysfunction in a high proportion of patients, although the mechanism(s) responsible for this effect are unknown. Here, we tested the hypothesis that pneumonia-elicited cytotoxic amyloid and tau variants: (1) …

In recent decades, treatments for myocardial infarction (MI), such as stem and progenitor cell therapy, have attracted considerable scientific and clinical attention but failed to improve patient outcomes. These efforts indicate that more rigorous …

Neuroinflammation is one of the major processes that trigger neuropathological amyloid- β (Aβ) deposition and contribute to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression. Naked mole rats, which are the longest living rodents and exhibit negligible senescence, have …

Heart failure is a leading cause of fatality in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients. Previously, we discovered that cardiac and skeletal-muscle-enriched CIP proteins play important roles in cardiac function. Here, we report that CIP, a striated …

The porcine pancreatic elastase (PPE) model is a common preclinical model of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). Some notable characteristics of this model include the low aortic rupture rate, non-progressive disease course, and infra-renal AAA formation. …

Aims Cardiac immune-related adverse events (irAEs) from immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) targeting programmed death 1 (PD1) are of growing concern. Once cardiac irAEs become clinically manifest, fatality rates are high. Cardio-oncology aims to prevent …