Escitalopram Relieves Sleep Anxiety in Patients with Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Sleep Disorder by Downregulating the Nrf2/ARE Signaling Pathway.

Objective: Nrf2/ARE signaling pathway is reported to alleviate sleep anxiety in patients with sleep disorders. This study aimed at exploring the effect of escitalopram (ESC) on sleep anxiety in patients with cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) and sleep disorder and its correlation with the Nrf2/ARE signaling pathway.

Methods: In the present study, we enrolled 80 CSVD patients (disease group) and 40 healthy patients (control group) in our hospital.

Effects of Tirofiban on Neurological Deterioration in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Evidence supports using antiplatelet therapy in patients with acute ischemic stroke. However, neurological deterioration remains common under the currently recommended antiplatelet regimen, leading to poor clinical outcomes.

Objective: To determine whether intravenous tirofiban administered within 24 hours of stroke onset prevents early neurological deterioration in patients with acute noncardioembolic stroke compared with oral aspirin.

The effect of the interaction of sleep onset latency and age on ischemic stroke severity via inflammatory chemokines.

Objective: Prolonged sleep onset latency (PSOL) and age have been linked to ischemic stroke (IS) severity and the production of chemokines and inflammation, both of which contribute to IS development. This study aimed to explore the relationship between chemokines, inflammation, and the interplay between sleep onset latency (SOL) and age in influencing stroke severity.

Methods: A cohort of 281 participants with mild to moderate IS was enrolled.

Association of Cigarette Smoking with Sleep Disturbance and Neurotransmitters in Cerebrospinal Fluid.

Background: Cigarette smoking has shown to be associated with sleep disturbance, especially prolonged sleep onset latency (SOL). Cigarette smoking stimulates the release of dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT), which might promote awakening and inhibit rapid eye movement sleep. Dopamine transporter (DAT) and serotonin transporter play a key role in the reuptake of DA and 5-HT from the synaptic cleft into presynaptic neurons.

Retraction Note: Endoplasmic reticulum stress triggers Xanthoangelol-induced protective autophagy via activation of JNK/c-Jun Axis in hepatocellular carcinoma.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Endoplasmic reticulum stress triggers Xanthoangelol-induced protective autophagy via activation of JNK/c-Jun Axis in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Background: Xanthoangelol (XAG) was reported to exhibit antitumor properties in several cancer. However, the specific anti-tumor activity of XAG in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and the relevant mechanisms are not known.

Methods: The effects of XAG on HCC cell proliferation and apoptosis were respectively examined by CCK-8 assay and Annexin V-FITC/PI apoptosis kit.

Cyclosporin A inhibits mitochondrial biogenesis in Hep G2 cells.

Dysregulation of mitochondrial biogenesis is associated with pathogenesis in many diseases, including liver diseases. Cyclosporine A (CsA), one of the most commonly used drug to treat many autoimmune diseases and to prevent allograft rejection after organ transplantation, has been reported to cause mitochondrial dysfunction. However, the cellular mechanisms underlying CsA on mitochondrial dysfunction remain at present not completely elucidated.

Differential proteomics analysis of mononuclear cells in cerebrospinal fluid of Parkinson's disease.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is one common neurodegenerative disease featured with degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra. Multiple factors participate in the pathogenesis and progression of PD. In this study, we investigated the proteomics profiles of mononuclear cells in cerebrospinal fluids from both PD patients and normal people, in order to explore the correlation between disease factors and PD.

Effect of HDAC-6 on PD cell induced by lactacystin.

Objective: To explore the effects of histone deacetylase 6(HDAC-6) on the PD cell model induced by proteasome inhibitor lactacystin.

Methods: Human neuroblastoma SK-N-SH cells were cultured. The wild type pcDNA3.