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Allergol Immunopathol (Madr)
January 2025
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey.
Background: Familial Mediterranean Fever is a common genetic autoinflammatory disease prevalent in the Mediterranean region. The clinical course of the disease is characterized by fever and serositis attacks. While defects in the innate immune system are known to play a role in the pathogenesis of the disease, the impact of the adaptive immune system remains unclear.
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January 2025
Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 800 E. Leigh St., Suite 100, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA.
Cigarette smoking is associated with numerous differentially-methylated genomic loci in multiple human tissues. These associations are often assumed to reflect the causal effects of smoking on DNA methylation (DNAm), which may underpin some of the adverse health sequelae of smoking. However, prior causal analyses with Mendelian Randomisation (MR) have found limited support for such effects.
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January 2025
Department of Pharmacology, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, 576104, India.
SH2 (Src Homology 2) domains play a crucial role in phosphotyrosine-mediated signaling and have emerged as promising drug targets, particularly in cancer therapy. STAT3 (Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3), which contains an SH2 domain, plays a pivotal role in cancer progression and immune evasion because it facilitates the dimerization of STAT3, which is essential for their activation and subsequent nuclear translocation. SH2 domain-mediated STAT3 inhibition disrupts this binding, reduces phosphorylation of STAT3, and impairs dimerization.
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December 2024
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Background: Autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease (ADAD) is characterized by genetic mutations affecting the beta-amyloid (Aβ) pathway. However, vascular and immune factors play important roles which are not completely understood. Understanding the function of the neurovascular unit (NVU) comprised of neurons, glial cells, and vasculature, at different disease stages appears ideal to developing and evaluating therapeutics.
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December 2024
Memory and Aging Center, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Background: Growth Differentiation Factor 15 (GDF15) is a TGF-beta superfamily protein upregulated during immune-mediated stress responses. Peripheral GDF15 is linked to adverse aging across organ systems including the brain. Immune dysregulation is implicated in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) pathogenesis.
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