Diacetylpolyamines (DAPs) are novel, promising tumor related markers, but the mechanism sustaining their good sensitivity and specificity is not known. This investigation was conducted on the production mechanism of DAPs, using (C57BL/6NxDBA/2N)F(1) mice and the P388D(1) (lymphoid) tumor system. Spleen adherent cells from mice injected with thioglycollate produced N(1),N(12)-diacetylspermine (DAM) in co-culture with P388D(1) cells. Macrophages among peritoneal exuded cells also produced DAM actively, while granulocytes, another innate immune cell, did not. The participation of macrophages in vivo was confirmed by depletion experiments using dichloromethylene diphosphonate liposomes. The supply of exogenous spermine and a deficiency of glucose, which tend to occur with tumorigenesis, resulted in an explosion of the production of DAM by macrophages. The number of macrophages required for the elevation of DAM for a diagnosis in humans was estimated at less than 4.2 x 10(8). The mechanism and productivity studied in this work support the superiority of DAM as a tumor related marker. Diacetylation may relate to the depression of macrophage function by spermine.
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January 2025
Center for Treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Health Service Research and Innovation Unit, Oslo, Norway.
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Nat Commun
January 2025
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Myelin loss induces neural dysfunction and contributes to the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, injury conditions, and aging. Because remyelination is often incomplete, better understanding endogenous remyelination and developing remyelination therapies that restore neural function are clinical imperatives. Here, we use in vivo two-photon microscopy and electrophysiology to study the dynamics of endogenous and therapeutic-induced cortical remyelination and functional recovery after cuprizone-mediated demyelination in mice.
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FLUIDIAN, 95450, Commeny, France.
Even though the COVID-19 pandemic now belongs to the long history of infectious diseases that have struck humanity, pathogenic biological agents continue to pose a recurring threat in private places, but also and mainly in places where the public congregates. In our recent research published in this journal in 2022 and 2023, we considered the illustrative example of a commuter train coach in which a symptomatic or asymptomatic passenger, assumed to be infected with a respiratory disease, sits among other travellers. The passenger emits liquid particles containing, for example, COVID-19 virions or any other pathogen.
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January 2025
Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (BNU), Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Center for Neuroimaging, Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China. Electronic address:
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Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
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