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Growth Differentiation Factor 15 Elevation in the Central Nervous System Is Associated With Failure to Thrive in Alexander Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Alexander disease (AxD) is a severe neurodegenerative disorder caused by gain‐of‐function mutations in the gene for GFAP, which lead to protein aggregation and a primary astrocytopathy. Symptoms vary, but failure to thrive (FTT) and frequent emesis are common and cause significant morbidity. Here we investigate GDF15, a member of the
Tracy L. Hagemann, Michelle M. Sonsalla, Cora Luzinski, Fernando Zacahua, David A. Harris, Dudley W. Lamming, Albee Messing   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Giant reverse transcriptase-encoding transposable elements at telomeres [PDF]

, 2017
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2017. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Oxford University Press for personal use, not for redistribution.
Arkhipova, Irina R., Rodriguez, Fernando, Yushenova, Irina A.   +2 more
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Assessment of skin in patients with systemic sclerosis using high‐frequency ultrasound and shear wave elastography: A comparative study with histology, molecular and clinical parameters

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Ultrasound (US) has been proposed as a potential tool for assessing skin fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (SSc). However, a large‐scale comparison of US‐based assessment with histological markers of skin fibrosis has not been reported. We evaluated the US‐based skin assessments for their face validity (differentiation between involved SSc and ...
Ruhani Desai, Filemon Tan, Minghua Wu, Jeffery L. Browning, Samuel Theodore, Meng Zhang, Brian Skaug, Harshdeep Singh Chawla, Manmohan Singh, Salavat Aglyamov, Kirill V. Larin, Maureen Mayes, Shervin Assassi   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

One-Step Fluorescent Probe Product-Enhanced Reverse Transcriptase Assay

BioTechniques, 1998
Recently developed PCR-based reverse transcriptase (RT) assays are useful in the detection of retroviruses since they are approximately a millionfold more sensitive than conventional RT assays.
Beth A. Arnold, Robert W. Hepler, Paul M. Keller   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Natural Plant Alkaloid (Emetine) Inhibits HIV-1 Replication by Interfering with Reverse Transcriptase Activity

Molecules, 2015
Ipecac alkaloids are secondary metabolites produced in the medicinal plant Psychotria ipecacuanha. Emetine is the main alkaloid of ipecac and one of the active compounds in syrup of Ipecac with emetic property. Here we evaluated emetine’s potential as an
A. Valadão, C. Abreu, Juliana Zanatta Dias, P. Arantes, H. Verli, A. Tanuri, R. S. de Aguiar   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Mutagenetic Tree Hidden Markov Model for Longitudinal Clonal HIV Sequence Data

, 2006
RNA viruses provide prominent examples of measurably evolving populations. In HIV infection, the development of drug resistance is of particular interest, because precise predictions of the outcome of this evolutionary process are a prerequisite for the ...
Bacheler, Bacheler, Beerenwinkel, Clavel, Crandall, Desper, Drummond, Gonzales, Heydebreck, M. Drton, Michalakis, Molla, N. Beerenwinkel, Seo, Siepel   +14 more
core   +2 more sources

Characterization of porcine endogenous retrovirus expression in neonatal and adult pig pancreatic islets [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND: Pig islets represent an alternative to the current modes of treatment for patients with diabetes. However, the concerns over pathogen transmission including that of PERV limit their immediate, widespread usage in humans.
Akiyoshi, Bittmann, Claire Crossan, Clemenceau, Clemenceau, Cooper, Denner, Denner, Denner, Dieckhoff, Fishman, Gazda, Guo, Irgang, Kimsa, Korbutt, Linda Scobie, Matsumoto, Mazurek, Moon, Morozov, Mourad, Mueller, Nizar I. Mourad, Patience, Pierre Gianello, Pizzato, Schuurman, Scobie, Spizzo, Sypniewski, Tacke, Tucker, Victoria Cruikshank, Wynyard, Wynyard, Zhang   +36 more
core   +1 more source

Endocytic Programming via Porous Silicon Nanoparticles Enhances TLR4 Nanoagonist Potency for Macrophage‐Mediated Immunotherapy

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Porous silicon nanoparticles (PSiNPs) reprogram macrophage endocytosis of manganese@albumin‐based TLR4 nanoagonists, driving TRIF‐biased TLR4 signaling, eliciting robust proinflammatory responses, and potentiating macrophage‐mediated immunotherapeutic effects against NSCLC.
Xiaomei Zhang, Huiying Li, Shuodan Huang, Linxuan Zhang, Yan Gao, Ruoran Wang, Xiaoyu Wang, Hélder A. Santos, Zhenyu Yin, Bing Xia   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

LINE-1 retrotransposon activation drives age-associated inflammation via cytoplasmic cDNA-STING/type I interferon signalling: therapeutic potential of reverse transcriptase inhibition

Contemporary Oncology
Retrotransposable elements are harmful at several levels, and host surveillance systems fail to consider all these elements in severe effects. The key role of retrotransposon in aging and age-associated diseases remains unclear. We summarise whether LINE-
Arshad Mehmood, Yue Zhu Xue, Habab Merghani Yassin, Mohammad Zubair, Syed Adnan Rahmat, Aftab Ahmad   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Asymmetric conformational maturation of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase

eLife, 2015
HIV-1 reverse transcriptase utilizes a metamorphic polymerase domain that is able to adopt two alternate structures that fulfill catalytic and structural roles, thereby minimizing its coding requirements. This ambiguity introduces folding challenges that
Xunhai Zheng, Lalith Perera, Geoffrey A Mueller, Eugene F DeRose, Robert E London   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source