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Molecules
April 2024
School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
Neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) are routinely used during anesthesia to relax skeletal muscle. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are ligand-gated ion channels; NMBAs can induce muscle paralysis by preventing the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) from binding to nAChRs situated on the postsynaptic membranes. Despite widespread efforts, it is still a great challenge to find new NMBAs since the introduction of cisatracurium in 1995.
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April 2024
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine.
Two molecular phenotypes have been identified in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In the ROSE (Reevaluation of Systemic Early Neuromuscular Blockade) trial of cisatracurium in moderate to severe ARDS, we addressed three unanswered questions: ) Do the same phenotypes emerge in a more severe ARDS cohort with earlier recruitment; ) Do phenotypes respond differently to neuromuscular blockade? and ) What biological pathways most differentiate inflammatory phenotypes? We performed latent class analysis in ROSE using preenrollment clinical and protein biomarkers. In a subset of patients ( = 134), we sequenced whole-blood RNA using enrollment and Day 2 samples and performed differential gene expression and pathway analyses.
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July 2023
Department of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, No. 20 Chazhong Road, Fuzhou, 350005, Fujian, China.
Background: Primary focal hyperhidrosis (PFH) may be attributed to the up-regulation of the cholinergic receptor nicotinic alpha 1 subunit (CHRNA1) in eccrine glands. Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI1, encoded by SERPINE1) is reported to inhibit the expression of CHRNA1, while the role of PAI1 in hyperhidrosis is unknown.
Methods: Serpine1 KO mice, Serpine1-Tg mice, and wild type BALB/c mice were intraperitoneally injected with pilocarpine hydrochloride to induce PFH.
Pharmaceutics
May 2023
ULR 7365-GRITA-Groupe de Recherche sur les Formes Injectables et les Technologies Associées, University Lille, F-59000 Lille, France.
Background: Stability study of a 10 mg/mL injectable cisatracurium solution stored refrigerated in amber glass ampoules for 18 months (M18).
Methods: 4000 ampoules were aseptically compounded using European Pharmacopoeia (EP)-grade cisatracurium besylate, sterile water for injection, and benzenesulfonic acid. We developed and validated a stability-indicating HPLC-UV method for cisatracurium and laudanosine.
Int Immunopharmacol
July 2023
Institute of Molecular Immunology, School of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Electronic address:
Objective: Tuberculosis is the leading killer among the chronic single-source infectious diseases. Mycobacterium tuberculosis can induce necrotic-dominant multiple modes of cell death in macrophages, which accelerates bacterium dissemination and expands tissue injury in host lungs. Mining drugs to counteract Mycobacterium tuberculosis-induced cell death would be beneficial to tuberculosis patients.
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