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Toxics
November 2024
College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
The highly hazardous chemical ammonia has been proven to be absorbed by nanoparticles, thereby exerting highly toxic effects on aquatic organisms. As a ubiquitous pollutant in aquatic environments, polystyrene nanomicroplastics (PSNPs) have shown strong adsorption capacity due to their large surface area. Therefore, the potential joint effects of ammonia and PSNPs need to be clarified.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNutrients
December 2024
Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 07804, Republic of Korea.
: Sleep, a process physiologically vital for mental health, faces disruptions in various sleep disorders linked to metabolic and neurodegenerative risks. seed (Zizy) has long been recognized for its diverse pharmacological attributes, including analgesic, sedative, insomnia, and anxiety alleviation. : In this study, the sleep-prolonging effects of Zizy extract (100, 200 mg/kg), along with their characterizing compounds jujuboside A (JuA) (5, 10 mg/kg), were evaluated in a mouse model under a pentobarbital-induced sleep.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiomolecules
December 2024
Division of Biochemistry, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
Emerging evidence suggests the serine protease, urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), may play an important role in the modulation of mood and cognitive functions. Also, preliminary evidence indicates that uPA modulates BDNF activity that is known to be involved in the pathogenesis of mood disorders. However, the physiological functions of uPA in specific brain regions for mediating stress-related emotional behaviors remain to be elucidated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntioxidants (Basel)
December 2024
Department of Nutrition, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan.
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3), caused by the abnormal expansion of polyglutamine (polyQ) in the ataxin-3 protein, is one of the inherited polyQ neurodegenerative diseases that share similar genetic and molecular features. Mutant polyQ-expanded ataxin-3 protein is prone to aggregation in affected neurons and is predominantly degraded by autophagy, which is beneficial for neurodegenerative disease treatment. Not only does mutant polyQ-expanded ataxin-3 increase susceptibility to oxidative cytotoxicity, but it also hampers antioxidant potency in neuronal cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurobiol Dis
January 2025
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Dallas, TX, United States of America; The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Dallas, TX, United States of America; The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, Dallas, TX, United States of America; The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Neuroscience, Dallas, TX, United States of America. Electronic address:
Loss of function in the subunits of the GTPase-activating protein (GAP) activity toward Rags-1 (GATOR1) complex, an amino-acid sensitive negative regulator of the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1), is implicated in both genetic familial epilepsies and NDDs (Baldassari et al., 2018). Previous studies have found seizure phenotypes and increased activity resulting from conditional deletion of GATOR1 function from forebrain excitatory neurons (Yuskaitis et al.
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