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Toxicology
December 2024
Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Waehringerstrasse 38, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Mycotoxin occurrence in food worldwide is estimated to increase due to climate change. Moreover, studies on how these food contaminants interfere with medications and especially anticancer therapies are rare. With the rise of anticancer immunotherapies, particularly mycotoxins with immunomodulatory activity, such as alternariol (AOH) or deoxynivalenol (DON), are of great concern.
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December 2024
Department of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 188 Shizi Street, Suzhou 215006, Jiangsu, China. Electronic address:
Introduction: Inflammatory diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease, lead to systemic immune microenvironment disturbances, contributing to bone loss, yet the mechanisms by which specific receptors regulate this process in inflammatory bone loss remain poorly understood. As a G-protein-coupled receptor, the Apelin receptor plays a crucial role in the regulation of inflammation and immune microenvironment. However, the precise mechanisms governing its role in inflammatory bone loss remain incompletely understood.
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December 2024
Rheumatology Unit, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePre-J), University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a relevant cytokine in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pathogenesis, potentially activating Janus kinases (JAK)-1, -2, and tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2), and thus, three signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT)-1, -3 or - 5 pathways. This pilot study aims to explore differences in phosphorylated (p)STAT3 levels among patients with RA, those not classified as RA (nRA), and healthy donors (HD), providing some clues on the relative contribution of each JAK protein to the downstream of the IL-6-induced STAT3 pathway. Clinical data and blood samples from 80 subjects (41 RA, 14 nRA, and 25 HD) were collected.
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December 2024
Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, No. 58 Zhongshan Road 2, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510080, China.
Background: Previous research on the lower gastrointestinal tract has proved that microbial dysbiosis can lead to intestinal barrier dysfunction and enhanced visceral sensitivity, thus triggering bowel symptoms. Whether esophageal microbial dysbiosis also contributes to the development of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) symptoms, which are known to be associated with impaired esophageal barrier integrity, remains to be explored.
Methods: Patients with GER symptoms (gastroesophageal reflux disease [GERD] and functional esophageal disorders [FED]), duodenal ulcer patients and healthy controls were prospectively included for esophageal microbial analysis.
Front Immunol
December 2024
Department of Oral Microbiology and Immunology, and Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Lipoteichoic acid (LTA) and peptidoglycan (PGN) are considered as key virulence factors of , which is a representative sepsis-causing Gram-positive pathogen. However, cooperative effect of LTA and PGN on nitric oxide (NO) production is still unclear despite the pivotal roles of NO in initiation and progression of sepsis. We here evaluated the cooperative effects of LTA (SaLTA) and muramyl dipeptide (MDP), the minimal structure of PGN, on NO production in both a mouse macrophage-like cell line, RAW 264.
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