Fasting reduces glucose levels and protects mice against chemotoxicity, yet drugs that promote hyperglycemia are widely used in cancer treatment. Here, we show that dexamethasone (Dexa) and rapamycin (Rapa), commonly administered to cancer patients, …

Objective . To explore the potential cardioprotective mechanism of Shenfu injection (SFI) against heart failure (HF) by attenuating myocardial fibrosis and cardiac remodeling. Methods and Results . Four weeks after myocardial infarction (MI), adult male …

Mitochondrial calcium (mCa(2+)) has a central role in both metabolic regulation and cell death signalling, however its role in homeostatic function and disease is controversial. Slc8b1 encodes the mitochondrial Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger (NCLX), which is …

Heart failure (HF) secondary to myocardial infarction (MI) is linked to kidney complications that comprise cellular, structural, functional, and survival indicators. However, the HF research is focused on left ventricle (LV) pathology. Here, we determined …

Cerebral intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH) is the most common cause of severe neurologic impairment following preterm birth in human infants. Ideally, an animal model for cerebral IVH should allow for reliable noninvasive evaluation of haemorrhagic …

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) provides real time non-invasive and contrast agent free monitoring of some endogenous compounds concentrations that provides improved insights into tissue vascularization and oxygenation which are particularly important during …

The purpose is to evaluate the feasibility of imaging mouse brain with high resolution ultrasound (HiRes US), and generation of mouse brain tumor (glioma) model under HiRes US guided implantation of glioma cells. Normal mouse brain was imaged with 30 MHz …

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) can be temporarily and locally opened by focused ultrasound (FUS) in the presence of circulating microbubbles (MBs). Currently, contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) is used to monitor contrast agent leakage …

Purpose This study introduces a real-time contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging method with recently developed laser-activated nanodroplets (LANDs), a new class of phase-change nanometer-scale contrast agents that provides perceptible, sustained …

In this study, we report a strategy for integrating hyaluronic acid (HA), polyaniline (PANI), WS2 nanodots (WS2), and chlorin e6 (Ce6) into a single nanoplatform (HA-WS2@PANI/Ce6) for fluorescence, photoacoustic, and computed tomography multi-modality …