Pentoxifylline protects against cerebral ischaemia-reperfusion injury through ferroptosis regulation via the Nrf2/SLC7A11/GPX4 signalling pathway.

Objective: To investigate whether pentoxifylline (PTX) attenuates cerebral ischaemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) in rats by inhibiting ferroptosis and to explore the underlying molecular mechanisms.

Methods: Cerebral IRI was induced in male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats using middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). The effects of PTX on cerebral ischaemia-reperfusion brain samples were detected through neurological deficit score, staining and electron microscopy; levels of ferroptosis biomarkers from brain samples were detected using kits.

Butylphthalide protects against ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats via reducing neuron ferroptosis and oxidative stress.

Local ischemia in the cerebra leads to vascular injury and necrosis. Ferroptosis is involved in the pathophysiological process of many diseases and widely exists when ischemia-reperfusion injury occurs in many organs. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of Butylphthalide (NBP) on middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) rats model-caused neuron injury.

Generation of Leydig-like cells: approaches, characterization, and challenges.

Testosterone production by Leydig cells (LCs) plays a crucial role in male reproduction. The functional degeneration of LCs can cause testosterone deficiency, ultimately resulting in primary male hypogonadism. Transplantation of exogenous LCs with the ability to produce testosterone in response to the regulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis could be a promising alternative option to treat male primary hypogonadism.

[Cooperative adsorption of 1-naphthol and 1-naphthylamine onto hyper-crosslinked polymeric adsorbents].

Cooperative simultaneous adsorptions of 1-naphthol and 1-naphthylamine from aqueous solutions on hyper-cross-linked polymeric adsorbents (NDA103 and NDA100) were investigated. The results indicate that at the higher equilibrium concentrations, the total uptake amounts of 1-naphthol and 1-naphthylamine in binary systems (1-naphthol: 1-naphthylamine = 3:1, 1:1, 1:3) are obvious larger than the pure uptake amounts in single systems, and a large excess was noted on the particle surface at saturation, which is presumably due to the cooperative effect primarily arisen from the hydrogen bonding or weak acid-base interaction between 1-naphthol and 1-naphthylamine. The adsorption isotherms for them in both single and binary systems can be well fitted by Langmuir equation.