CPT Pharmacometrics Syst Pharmacol
December 2024
Immunogenicity is the propensity of a therapeutic protein to generate an immune response to itself. While reporting of antidrug antibodies (ADAs) is increasing, model-based analysis of such data is seldom performed. Model-based characterization of factors affecting the emergence and dissipation of ADAs may inform drug development and/or improve understanding in clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRenal transplant recipients are immunocompromised and predisposed to develop hyponatremia because they are exposed to immunological, infectious, pharmacological, and oncologic disorders. A 61-year-old female renal transplant recipient was admitted with diarrhea, anorexia, and headache for about a week during the tapering of oral methylprednisolone for chronic renal allograft rejection. She also presented hyponatremia and was suspected to have secondary adrenal insufficiency based on a low plasma cortisol level of 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) is known to control aggressive behavior in mice. Here, we found that glutamatergic projections from the lateral habenula (LHb) to the DRN were activated in male mice that experienced pre-exposure to a rival male mouse ("social instigation") resulting in heightened intermale aggression. Both chemogenetic and optogenetic suppression of the LHb-DRN projection blocked heightened aggression after social instigation in male mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring brain development, neural circuits are formed through cellular differentiation, cell migration, axon guidance, and synaptogenic processes by the coordinated actions of many genes. Abnormalities in neural development, especially connectivity defects, can result in psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and autism. Recent advances in diffusion tensor imaging have enabled us to examine the brain's macroscopic nerve trajectories.
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