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Acta Pharm Sin B
December 2024
State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China.
Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is an ocular mitochondrial disease that involves the impairment of mitochondrial complex I, which is an important contributor to blindness among young adults across the globe. However, the disorder has no available cures, since the approved drug idebenone for LHON in Europe relies on bypassing complex I defects rather than fixing them. Herein, mRNA-loaded nanoparticle (mNP)-engineered mitochondria (mNP-Mito) were designed to replace dysfunctional mitochondria with the delivery of exogenous mitochondria, normalizing the function of complex I for treating LHON.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere are no therapies for reversing chronic organ degeneration. Non-healing degenerative wounds are thought to be irreparable, in part, by the inability of the tissue to respond to reparative stimuli. As such, treatments are typically aimed at slowing tissue degeneration or replacing cells through transplantation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArthritis Rheumatol
January 2025
Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a life-long autoimmune disease caused by the confluence of genetic and environmental variables that lead to loss of self-tolerance and persistent joint inflammation. RA occurs at the highest incidence in individuals >65 years old, implicating the aging process in disease susceptibility. Transformative approaches in molecular immunology and in functional genomics have paved the way for pathway paradigms underlying the replacement of immune homeostasis with auto-destructive immunity in affected patients, including the process of immune aging.
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January 2025
College of Chemistry and Materials, Key Laboratory of Green Catalysis of Jiangxi Education Institutes, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China. Electronic address:
As a replacement of bisphenol A, bisphenol S (BPS) is commonly used in the wrappers and food containers of daily life. Epidemiological studies demonstrate a close link between BPS exposure and vascular diseases, where the biological activities of BPS remain scarcely known. Herein, the effects of BPS on endothelial function as well as the underlying mechanism were investigated in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) and mouse arteries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Ethics
January 2025
Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
How should defenders of liberalism think about access to reproductive technologies? Mitochondrial replacement technique (MRT) enables women with pathogenic variations of mitochondrial disease to have children without the fear of transmission. This technology can also allow lesbians, or partners with female-assigned physiology (PFP), to have genetically related offspring. Cavaliere and Palacios-Gonzalez argue that lesbians should be able to access MRT on autonomy grounds.
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