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Betulinic Acid Enema Alleviates Colitis by Targeting Vitamin D Receptor to Protect the Intestinal Mucosal Barrier and Modulate Mucosa‐Associated Microbiota

Phytotherapy Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon with limited effectiveness and safety of current drug therapies. Betulinic acid (BA) is a naturally occurring pentacyclic triterpenoid present in traditional Chinese medicines used clinically as retention enemas for UC, but its direct effects and mechanisms remain unclear ...
Lina Dong, Yuanxia Gao, Qian Li, Guangxin Chen, Dong Yang, Liping Zhao, Xiaojing Liu, Shumei Lin   +7 more
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A Promising Natural Red Pigment “Prodigiosin” Sensitizes Colon Cancer Cells to Ionizing Radiation, Induces Apoptosis, and Impedes MAPK/TNF-α/NLRP3 Signaling Pathway

Integrative Cancer Therapies
Colon cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths. The goal of the present study was to investigate the role of Prodigiosin (PG) in promoting programed cell death in irradiated Caco-2 colon ...
Nermeen M. ElBakary PhD, Lobna M. Anees PhD, Amal Said Shahat PhD, Noura M. Mesalam PhD   +3 more
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Phytochemicals as Multitarget Therapeutics in Pancreatic Cancer: Mechanisms, Clinical Evidence, and Translational Challenges

Phytotherapy Research, EarlyView.
Pancreatic cancer, particularly pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, is aggressive and often diagnosed late, making treatment challenging. This review highlights the potential of phytochemicals, such as curcumin and quercetin, as multitarget agents that influence key carcinogenic pathways. These compounds exhibit anticancer effects by inhibiting processes
Md. Rezaul Islam, Abdur Rauf, F. M. Shourav, Hanan A. Ogaly, Abdullah S. M. Aljohani, Waleed Al Abdulmonem, Kamala Badalova, Marcello Iriti   +7 more
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Farnesoid X receptor prevents hyperuricemia via activating ATP‐binding cassette subfamily G member 2

Rheumatology &Autoimmunity, EarlyView.
Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) activation reduces serum uric acid levels by upregulating the intestinal urate transporter ATP‐binding cassette subfamily G member 2 (ABCG2). These findings uncover a novel metabolic pathway for urate excretion and suggest that FXR agonists (e.g., obeticholic acid), represent a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment
Rui Li, Guo Tang, Ye Yu, Guang‐Liang Chen, Liangjing Lu, Juan Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Driving Drugs Deeper: Force‐Driven Microneedle Systems for Active Therapy and Their Road Towards Clinical Implementation

Small, EarlyView.
Force‐driven microneedles are presented as active therapeutic microdevices that overcome the diffusion limits of conventional patches. By integrating gas generation, magnetic actuation, cavitation, or iontophoresis, these systems drive payloads deeper into tissue, enabling faster, more controlled delivery and highlighting key design principles and ...
Majed Amini, Phoebe Li, Hamed Shahsavan, Mahla Poudineh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

immunoHuMiX: A personalizable gut‐on‐chip model for unraveling human microbiome–immune interactions

VIEW, EarlyView.
The study introduces a personalized gut model that brings together human immune cells and intestinal cells to better mimic how the body interacts with microbes. This system successfully maintained both human cells and a 17‐strain probiotic community, showing consistent immune responses across different donors.
Charlotte De Rudder, Kacy Greenhalgh, Joanna Baginska, Camille Martin‐Gallausiaux, Léa Grandmougin, Rémy Villette, Mara Lucchetti, Bérénice Hansen, Marek Ostaszewski, Viacheslav A. Petrov, Koji Atarashi, Lena Weidert, Audrey Frachet Bour, Dominik Ternes, Javier Ramiro‐Garcia, Antoine Malabirade, Takeshi Tanoue, Marc Mac Giolla Eain, Elisabeth Letellier, Matthew Barrett, Jérôme Lacombe, Frederic Zenhausern, Coralie Guérin, Markus Ollert, Carole Seguin‐Devaux, Kenya Honda, Paul Wilmes   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source

Common Food Emulsifiers Impair Epithelial Barrier Integrity and Trigger Pro‐Inflammatory Responses and IgE Production

Allergy, EarlyView.
Soy lecithin and DATEM, the two commonly used food emulsifiers introduced into many foods including peanut butter and puffed bread, in the 2000s, impair intestinal epithelial barrier integrity in human gut‐on‐a‐chip and induced pluripotent stem cell colon organoid models.
Duygu Yazici, Yuka Hayashi, Yagiz Pat, Jennifer Hotie, Mehmet Ali Balci, Sena Ardicli, Juan Felipe Lopez, Ozge Ardicli, Bingjie Zhao, Angel Maldonado, Can Zeyneloglu, Kenji Matsumoto, Manru Li, Beate Rückhert, Lihong Chang, Ismail Ogulur, Vahap Eldem, Raja Dhir, Mubeccel Akdis, Kari Nadeau, Oscar Palomares, Hideaki Morita, Cezmi A. Akdis   +22 more
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The role of iron in normal and impaired testicular function

Andrology, EarlyView.
Abstract Iron plays a critical role in testicular physiology, impacting spermatogenesis, testosterone production, and overall testicular function. Iron homeostasis is maintained through systemic and cellular regulatory mechanisms, including hepcidin‐mediated systemic iron control and the iron‐responsive element/iron regulatory protein (IRE/IRP) system ...
Aileen Harrer, Esther G. Meyron‐Holtz, Andreas Meinhardt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Targeting hexokinase 2 to induce breast cancer cell senescence

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Background and Purpose Hexokinase 2 (HK2) is a key enzyme linked to high tumour cell proliferation. Its inhibitors such as 3‐bromopyruvic acid (3‐BP) induce cancer cell death, highlighting HK2 modulation as potential anti‐cancer treatment. However, standard chemotherapies often cause the emergence of senescent cancer cells, which goes along with cell ...
Helmut Bischof, Katarina Cisarova, Sandra Burgstaller, Mia Schwerer, Markus Absenger‐Novak, Philipp J. Jost, Roland Malli, Wolfgang F. Graier, Robert Lukowski   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physiological media and oxygen levels modulate cancer hallmarks in cultured breast cancer cells

The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
MCF7 breast cancer cells were cultured in standard conditions (18% O2 and DMEM) and physiological conditions (5% O2 and Plasmax, a medium modeled after the human plasma metabolome). A combined transcriptomic and proteomic approach was used to identify gene expression signatures at the mRNA and protein levels upstream of functional enrichment analyses ...
Jacob E. Wiebe, Ricardo Alva, Fereshteh Moradi, Sarah Alderman, Ping Liang, Jeffrey A. Stuart   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source