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Adv Sci (Weinh)
December 2024
Department of Orthopedic, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250012, China.
Low back pain (LBP) caused by nucleus pulposus degeneration and calcification leads to great economic and social burden worldwide. Unexpectedly, no previous studies have demonstrated the association and the underlying mechanism between nucleus pulposus tissue degeneration and calcification formation. Secreted Phosphoprotein 1 (SPP1) exerts crucial functions in bone matrix mineralization and calcium deposition.
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December 2024
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, 60612, USA.
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex meshwork comprising over 100 proteins. It serves as an adhesive substrate for cells and, hence, plays critical roles in health and disease. We have recently identified a novel ECM protein, SNED1, and have found that it is required for neural crest cell migration and craniofacial morphogenesis during development and in breast cancer, where it is necessary for the metastatic dissemination of tumor cells.
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December 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Cheeloo College of Medicine and Institute of Brain and Brain-Inspired Science, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, China.
Background: Interactions between mesenchymal glioblastoma stem cells (MES GSCs) and myeloid-derived macrophages (MDMs) shape the tumor-immunosuppressive microenvironment (TIME), promoting the progression of glioblastoma (GBM). N6-methyladenosine (m6A) plays important roles in the tumor progression. However, the mechanism of m6A in shaping the TIME of GBM remains elusive.
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November 2024
Laboratório de Matriz Extracelular e Biotecnologia de Venenos, Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR, Curitiba 81531-980, Brazil.
In the heart, cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesions reorganize in response to increased cardiac demand and growth to promote cardiomyocyte maturation. Vinculin, a mechanosensitive adaptor protein, links filamentous actin to cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesions and is thus positioned to regulate adhesion reorganization. However, how the two adhesion systems are coordinated in the heart, and the role of vinculin in this process is poorly understood.
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