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ACS Nano
January 2025
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 2E3, Canada.
Immune complexes (ICs), formed via antibody (Ab)-antigen (Ag) binding, trigger diverse immune responses, which are critical for natural immunity and have uses for vaccines and immunotherapies. While IC-elicited immune responses depend on its structure, existing methods for IC synthesis produce heterogeneous assemblies, which limits control over their cellular interactions and pharmacokinetics. In this study, we demonstrate the use of DNA origami to create synthetic ICs with defined shape, size, and solubility by displaying Ags in prescribed spatial patterns.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer Imaging
November 2024
Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Background: Identifying DNA mismatch repair deficiency (MMRd) is important for prognosis risk stratification in patients with early-stage endometrial cancer (EC), but there is a notable absence of cost-effective and non-invasive preoperative assessment techniques. The study explored the co-reactivity pattern of glucose metabolism and blood perfusion in EC based on hybrid [F]fluorodeoxyglucose ([F]FDG) PET/dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE)-MRI to provide an imaging biomarker for identifying MMRd.
Methods: Patients with a history of postmenopausal bleeding and initially diagnosed with EC on ultrasound were recruited to perform a PET/DCE-MRI scan.
Eur J Clin Pharmacol
December 2024
Biopharmaceutics Group, Global Clinical Management, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd., Integrated Product Development Organization (IPDO), Bachupally, Medchal Malkajgiri District, Hyderabad, 500 090, Telangana, India.
Purpose: In silico modeling and simulation techniques such as physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) and physiologically based biopharmaceutics modeling (PBBM) have demonstrated various applications in drug discovery and development. Virtual bioequivalence leverages these computation tools to predict bioequivalence between reference and test formulations thereby demonstrating possibilities to reduce human studies. A pre-requisite for virtual bioequivalence is development of validated virtual population that depicts the same variability as that of observed in clinic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Pharm
December 2024
Tianjin Key Laboratory on Technologies Enabling Development of Clinical Therapeutics and Diagnostics (Theranostics), School of Pharmacy, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China. Electronic address:
In drug delivery systems, a stimuli-responsive linker that attaches a targeting carrier and a cytotoxic payload can be dissociated to release the payload on the target over the action of a stimuli, thereby it would harden the selectivity, specificity and potency of the cytotoxic agent against targeted tissues whilst sparing the drug-induced toxicity on normal cells. Oligonucleotide duplexes can unwind and be separated into single-stranded random coils under a defined temperature, and this property makes the oligonucleotide an appealing thermo-responsive linker. In this work, we studied the melting temperatures of different DNA linkers with various lengths and mismatches inserted in the double helix with either different numbers or positions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Sci Technol
August 2024
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
There have been numerous studies using effect-directed analysis (EDA) to identify key toxic substances present in source and drinking water, but none of these studies have considered the effects of metabolic activation. This study developed a comprehensive method including a pretreatment process based on an in vitro metabolic activation system, a comprehensive biological effect evaluation based on concentration-dependent transcriptome (CDT), and a chemical feature identification based on nontarget chemical analysis (NTA), to evaluate the changes in the toxic effects and differences in the chemical composition after metabolism. Models for matching metabolites and precursors as well as data-driven identification methods were further constructed to identify toxic metabolites and key toxic precursor substances in drinking water samples from the Yangtze River.
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