Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) is often associated with congenital heart defects, most commonly septal, valvular, and great vessel defects. However, there have been no known studies on whether PAE affects the resulting fibroblast population after …

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) has a highly immunosuppressive microenvironment, which is contributed by the complex interaction between cancer cells and a heterogeneous population of stromal cells. Therefore, facile and trackable models are needed …

Unless there is a genetic defect/mutation/deletion in a gene, the causation of a given disease is chronic dysregulation of gut metabolism. Most of the time, if not always, starts within the gut; that is what we eat. Recent research shows that the …

It is recognized that stress can induce cardiac dysfunction, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. The present study aimed to test the hypothesis that chronic negative stress leads to alterations in DNA methylation of certain cardiac …

Background and Objectives: The eyelids are susceptible to a number of skin cancers, which are challenging to excise radically without sacrificing excessive healthy tissue. Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is an emerging non-invasive biomedical imaging modality …

Aims: Renal interstitial fibrosis and glomerulosclerosis are the characteristic presentation of diabetic nephropathy progression. Twist-1 overexpression contributes to renal fibrosis. Previous studies have demonstrated that pioglitazone (PIO), a PPAR-γ …

This work presents the synthesis and characterization of a dicyanamide-bridged coordination polymer [Co(L)2(dca)]n (1) by using the bidentate NO donor Schiff base ligand (2-methoxy-6-((methylimino)methyl)phenol. Furthermore, the nanoparticles of complex 1 …

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a lethal cancer resistant to immunotherapy. We create a PDAmouse model and show that neoantigen expres- sion is required for intratumoral T cell accumulation and response to immune checkpoint blockade. By …

The intermediate filament (IF) cytoskeleton has been proposed to regulate morphogenic processes by integrating the cell fate signaling machinery with mechanical cues. Signaling between endothelial cells (ECs) and vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) …

In vivo long-term evaluation of degradable implants offers valuable information for the further design and optimization of biomaterials. In this study, we prepared one type of bilayer graft, which had an internal layer of oriented elastic degradable …