Immune response following traumatic spinal cord injury: Pathophysiology and therapies

RC Sterner, RM Sterner - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition that is often associated with
significant loss of function and/or permanent disability. The pathophysiology of SCI is …

Photoperiodic flowering in Arabidopsis: Multilayered regulatory mechanisms of CONSTANS and the florigen FLOWERING LOCUS T

H Takagi, AK Hempton, T Imaizumi - Plant communications, 2023 - cell.com
The timing of flowering affects the success of sexual reproduction. This developmental event
also determines crop yield, biomass, and longevity. Therefore, this mechanism has been …

Acute spinal cord injury: Pathophysiology and pharmacological intervention

Y Zhang, A Al Mamun, Y Yuan… - Molecular …, 2021 - spandidos-publications.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the most debilitating of all the traumatic conditions that
afflict individuals. For a number of years, extensive studies have been conducted to clarify …

Developments of CRBN-based PROTACs as potential therapeutic agents

C Wang, Y Zhang, Y Wu, D **ng - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Protease-targeted chimeras (PROTACs) are a new technology that is receiving much
attention in the treatment of diseases. The mechanism is to inhibit protein function by …

FK506 activates BMPR2, rescues endothelial dysfunction, and reverses pulmonary hypertension

E Spiekerkoetter, X Tian, J Cai, RK Hopper… - The Journal of clinical …, 2013 - jci.org
Dysfunctional bone morphogenetic protein receptor-2 (BMPR2) signaling is implicated in the
pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We used a transcriptional high …

Gene therapy tools for brain diseases

S Ingusci, G Verlengia, M Soukupova… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neurological disorders affecting the central nervous system (CNS) are still incompletely
understood. Many of these disorders lack a cure and are seeking more specific and effective …

The calcineurin inhibitor tacrolimus activates the renal sodium chloride cotransporter to cause hypertension

EJ Hoorn, SB Walsh, JA McCormick, A Fürstenberg… - Nature medicine, 2011 - nature.com
Calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) are immunosuppressive drugs that are used widely to prevent
rejection of transplanted organs and to treat autoimmune disease. Hypertension and renal …

Oligodendrocytes support axonal transport and maintenance via exosome secretion

C Frühbeis, WP Kuo-Elsner, C Müller, K Barth… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Neurons extend long axons that require maintenance and are susceptible to degeneration.
Long-term integrity of axons depends on intrinsic mechanisms including axonal transport …

[HTML][HTML] The FKBP51 glucocorticoid receptor co-chaperone: regulation, function, and implications in health and disease

GR Fries, NC Gassen, T Rein - International journal of molecular sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Among the chaperones and co-chaperones regulating the glucocorticoid receptor (GR),
FK506 binding protein (FKBP) 51 is the most intensely investigated across different …

Replication of human coronaviruses SARS-CoV, HCoV-NL63 and HCoV-229E is inhibited by the drug FK506

J Carbajo-Lozoya, MA Müller, S Kallies, V Thiel… - Virus research, 2012 - Elsevier
Recent research has shown that Coronavirus (CoV) replication depends on active
immunophilin pathways. Here we demonstrate that the drug FK506 (Tacrolimus) inhibited …