Background: Lipid accretion is one of the major side effects of clozapine pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia that made clozapine into an interesting obesity drug model.
Method: Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) engine was used for core analysis and building the networks of weight regulation.
Results: The examination of molecules that were selected into 'clozapine neighborhood' identified them as multifunctional signals that appear to orchestrate vascular and tissue functions plausibly implicated in adiposity side effect.
Conclusions: It is hypothesized that clozapine unmasks the functional and morphological phenotype of microvascular deficit that facilitates shunting nutrients from utilization toward storage.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
---|---|
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6452163 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000127278 | DOI Listing |
J Reprod Immunol
January 2025
Department of Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang 50001, China. Electronic address:
Clinical evidence increasingly suggests that traditional treatments for dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) have limited success. In this study, blood samples from 10 DUB patients and 10 healthy controls were collected for transcriptome sequencing. Then, the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened and crossed with the DUB-related module genes to obtain the target genes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCell Commun Signal
January 2025
Department of Life Sciences, Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 155 Li-Nong Street, Section 2, Beitou, Taipei, 112, Taiwan.
Background: TGF-β1 is the most abundant cytokine in bone, in which it serves as a vital factor to interdict adipogenesis and osteogenesis of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs). However, how TGF-β1 concurrently manipulates differentiation into these two distinct lineages remains elusive.
Methods: Treatments with ligands or inhibitors followed by biochemical characterization, reporter assay, quantitative PCR and induced differentiation were applied to MSC line or primary BM-MSCs for signaling dissection.
Sci Rep
January 2025
Chulalongkorn Autism Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (Chula ACE), Department of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, 154 Soi Chula 12, Rama 1 Road, Wangmai, Pathumwan, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand.
Bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine-disrupting chemical, is increasingly linked to the pathogenesis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study investigates the effects of prenatal BPA exposure on neural stem cells (NSCs) from the hippocampi of rat offspring, a brain region critical for neurodevelopment and implicated in ASD. Pregnant rats were administered with BPA or vehicle control once daily via oral gavage from gestational day 1 until parturition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFToxicol Appl Pharmacol
January 2025
Mechanistic Toxicology Branch, Division of Translational Toxicology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States of America. Electronic address:
Modeling brain development and function is challenging due to complexity of the organ. Human pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-derived brain-like organoids provide new tools to study the human brain. Compared with traditional in vivo toxicological studies, these 3D models, together with 2D cellular assays, enhance our understanding of the mechanisms of developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) during the early stages of neurogenesis and offer numerous advantages including a rapid, cost-effective approach for understanding compound mechanisms and assessing chemical safety.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGene
January 2025
Department of Biochemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA. Electronic address:
This study examined the molecular phenotypes of adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) and vaginal fibroblasts (VFBs) and assessed whether pelvic organ prolapse (POP) affects their biological properties. We performed RNA sequencing of paired ASCs and VFBs from six patients with POP and six controls (CTRL). The transcriptomes of POP and CTRL in either ASCs or VFBs were compared (DESeq2, false discovery rate (FDR) < 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!