Publications by authors named "M Windy McNerney"

Objectives: There is conflicting evidence regarding congruence between subjective cognitive decline and objective cognitive performance for individuals with a history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). The current study investigated the congruity between subjective and objective cognition, particularly working memory, among veterans with an mTBI history, accounting for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and childhood trauma.

Methods: Participants included 35 veterans with a history of mTBI sustained during deployment.

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Alzheimer's disease is associated with a loss of plasticity and cognitive functioning. Previous research has shown that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) boosts cortical neurotrophic factors, potentially addressing this loss. The current study aimed to expand these findings by measuring brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), its downstream hippocampal signaling molecules, and behavioral effects of rTMS on the 3xTg-AD mouse line.

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  • The study finds that the YTHDF1 protein, which reads N6-methyladenosine on RNA, plays a crucial role in cancer progression and is upregulated in dendritic cells (DCs) after radiotherapy (RT).
  • High levels of YTHDF1 in DCs are linked to worse patient outcomes during RT, while removing or inhibiting YTHDF1 boosts the effectiveness of radiation therapy in cancer models.
  • The research uncovers a regulatory mechanism between YTHDF1 and the STING signaling pathway, suggesting that targeting YTHDF1 could improve cancer treatment strategies such as RT and radioimmunotherapy.
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Conventional laboratory protein detection techniques are not suitable for point-of-care (POC) use because they require expensive equipment and laborious protocols, and existing POC assays suffer from long development timescales. Here, we describe a modular cell-free biosensing platform for generalizable protein detection that we call TLISA (7 RNA polymerase-inked mmunoensing ssay), designed for extreme flexibility and equipment-free use. TLISA uses a split T7 RNA polymerase fused to affinity domains against a protein.

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Current therapies for high-grade TP53-mutated myeloid neoplasms (≥10% blasts) do not offer a meaningful survival benefit except allogeneic stem cell transplantation in the minority who achieve a complete response to first line therapy (CR1). To identify reliable pre-therapy predictors of complete response to first-line therapy (CR1) and outcomes, we assembled a cohort of 242 individuals with TP53-mutated myeloid neoplasms and ≥10% blasts with well-annotated clinical, molecular and pathology data. Key outcomes examined were CR1 & 24-month survival (OS24).

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