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J Endod
January 2025
Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Dentistry, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address:
Introduction: Quiescent stem cells exhibit unique self-renewal and engraftment abilities vital for regenerative therapies, but these diminish during ex vivo culture. This study investigates how substrate stiffness regulates the balance between dental pulp stem cell (DPSC) quiescence, activation, and senescence and explores the role of extracellular matrix stiffness in modulating DPSC fate via the nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) pathway.
Methods: Polydimethylsiloxane substrates with varying stiffness in 2D (2 kPa, 50 kPa) and 3D (50 kPa) were fabricated.
Stem Cell Rev Rep
January 2025
Department of Integrative Biology, Gene Therapy Laboratory, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, TN, 632 014, India.
Hematopoietic stem cells are a unique population of tissue-resident multipotent cells with an extensive ability to self-renew and regenerate the entire lineage of differentiated blood cells. Stem cells reside in a highly specialized microenvironment with surrounding supporting cells, forming a complex and dynamic network to preserve and maintain their function. The survival, activation, and quiescence of stem cells are largely influenced by niche-derived signals, with aging niche contributing to a decline in stem cell function.
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December 2024
Project Group Biochemistry, Leibniz Institute on Aging-Fritz Lipmann Institute, D-07745 Jena, Germany.
DNA replication represents a series of precisely regulated events performed by a complex protein machinery that guarantees accurate duplication of the genetic information. Since DNA replication is permanently faced by a variety of exogenous and endogenous stressors, DNA damage response, repair and replication must be closely coordinated to maintain genomic integrity. HROB has been identified recently as a binding partner and activator of the Mcm8/9 helicase involved in DNA interstrand crosslink (ICL) repair.
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January 2025
Department of Biophysics, Yeditepe University School of Medicine, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, 34755, Turkey.
Chronological lifespan (CLS) in budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is defined as the time nondividing cells in saturation remain viable, has been utilized as a model to study post-mitotic aging in mammalian cells. CLS is closely related to entry into and maintenance of a quiescent state. Many rearrangements that direct the quiescent state enhance the ability of cells to endure several types of stress.
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December 2024
Laboratory of Muscle Stem Cells and Gene Regulation, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
Adult stem cells maintain homeostasis and enable regeneration of most tissues. Quiescence, proliferation, and differentiation of stem cells and their progenitors are tightly regulated processes governed by dynamic transcriptional, epigenetic, and metabolic programs. Previously thought to merely reflect a cell's energy state, metabolism is now recognized for its critical regulatory functions, controlling not only energy and biomass production but also the cell's transcriptome and epigenome.
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