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NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes
January 2025
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Chronic infections represent a significant global health and economic challenge. Biofilms, which are bacterial communities encased in an extracellular polysaccharide matrix, contribute to approximately 80% of these infections. In particular, pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are frequently co-isolated from the sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis and are commonly found in chronic wound infections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVaccines (Basel)
December 2024
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
Background: A goal of mucosal human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) vaccines is to generate mucosal plasma cells producing polymeric IgA (pIgA)-neutralizing antibodies at sites of viral entry. However, vaccine immunogens capable of eliciting IgA neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) that recognize tier 2 viral isolates have not yet been identified.
Methods: To determine if stabilized native-like HIV-1 envelope (Env) trimers could generate IgA nAbs, we purified total IgA and IgG from the banked sera of six rhesus macaques that had been found in a previous study to develop serum nAbs after subcutaneous immunization with BG505.
Pathogens
December 2024
College of Veterinary Medicine (BK21 FOUR Program), Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34131, Republic of Korea.
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria from companion animals poses significant public health risks. Prudent antibiotic use, particularly through pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics modeling, is crucial for minimizing resistance. We investigated the pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of amoxicillin (AMX) against .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Adv Res
January 2025
Center of Stomatology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030 People's Republic of China; School of Stomatology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030 People's Republic of China; Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Oral and Maxillofacial Development and Regeneration, Wuhan 430022 People's Republic of China. Electronic address:
Introduction: Establishing an optimized regenerative microenvironment for pulp-dentin complex engineering has become increasingly critical. Recently, exosomes have emerged as favorable biomimetic nanotherapeutic tools to simulate the developmental microenvironment and facilitate tissue regeneration.
Objectives: This study aimed to elucidate the multifaceted roles of exosomes from human dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) that initiated odontogenic differentiation while sustaining mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) characteristics in odontogenesis, angiogenesis, and neurogenesis during pulp-dentin complex regeneration.
Bull Exp Biol Med
January 2025
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Putian University, Putian, China.
The mechanism of Hespintor (a protein of serpin family) inhibitory action on the growth of inoculated hepatocellular carcinoma was studied in a model of human hepatoma in nude mice by using on long-noncoding RNA (lncRNA) sequencing. Two days after tumor transplantation, Hespintor or normal saline was injected into the caudal vein at a dose of 15 μg/kg (2 times a week over 4 weeks). The tumors were isolated in 4 weeks after subcutaneous injection of human hepatoma MHCC97-H cells.
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