IL13RA2-integrated genetically engineered mouse model allows for CAR T cells targeting pediatric high-grade gliomas.

Pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGG) and pediatric diffuse midline gliomas (pDMG) are devastating diseases without durable and curative options. Although targeted immunotherapy has shown promise, the field lacks immunocompetent animal models to study these processes in detail. To achieve this, we developed a fully immunocompetent, genetically engineered mouse model (GEMM) for pDMG and pHGG that incorporates the glioma-associated antigen, interleukin 13 receptor alpha 2 (IL13RA2).

Origin of Sex-Biased Mental Disorders: Do Males and Females Experience Different Selective Regimes?

The origins of sex-biased differences in disease and health are of growing interest to both medical researchers and health professionals. Several major factors have been identified that affect sex differences in incidence of diseases and mental disorders. These are: sex chromosomes, sex hormones and female immunity, sexual selection and antagonistic evolution, and differential susceptibility of sexes to environmental factors.

Associations Between Children's Telomere Length, Parental Intrusiveness, and the Development of Early Externalizing Behaviors.

Shorter telomeres mark cellular aging and are linked to chronic stress exposure as well as negative physical and psychological outcomes. However, it is unclear whether telomere length mediates associations between early stress exposure and later externalizing problems, or whether boys and girls differ in pathways to these concerns. We therefore examined associations between telomere length, early stress via negative caregiving, and children's externalizing symptom development over time in 409 three-year-old children and their parents.

Host-mediated gene silencing of a single effector gene from the potato pathogen Phytophthora infestans imparts partial resistance to late blight disease.

RNA interference (RNAi) has proved a powerful genetic tool for silencing genes in plants. Host-induced gene silencing of pathogen genes has provided a gene knockout strategy for a wide range of biotechnological applications. The RXLR effector Avr3a gene is largely responsible for virulence of oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

Retraction Note to: Pathogen virulence of Phytophthora infestans: from gene to functional genomics.

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1007/s12298-012-0157-z.].

Pathogen virulence of Phytophthora infestans: from gene to functional genomics.

The oomycete, Phytophthora infestans, is one of the most important plant pathogens worldwide. Much of the pathogenic success of P. infestans, the potato late blight agent, relies on its ability to generate large amounts of sporangia from mycelia, which release zoospores that encyst and form infection structures.

Platelet concentrates: past, present and future.

Platelets play a crucial role in hemostasis and wound healing, platelet growth factors are well known source of healing cytokines. Numerous techniques of autologous platelet concentrates have been developed and applied in oral and maxillofacial surgery. This review describes the evolution of the first and second generation of platelet concentrates (platelet rich plasma and platelet rich fibrin respectively) from their fore runner-fibrin sealants.

A sorghum 85kDa heat stress-modulated protein shows calmodulin-binding properties and cross-reactivity to anti-Neurospora crassa Hsp 80 antibodies.

The present study, carried out to identify stress-modulated calmodulin (CaM)-binding proteins in sorghum, resulted in the isolation of several proteins, which showed binding to CaM-Sepharose matrix. Calmodulin gel overlay assay and MALDI-ToF MS analysis revealed that an 85kDa protein (Hsp85), which interacted with calmodulin, cross-reacted with anti-N. crassa Hsp80 antibodies.