Loss of adult cardiac myocyte GSK-3 leads to mitotic catastrophe resulting in fatal dilated cardiomyopathy

J Zhou, F Ahmad, S Parikh, NE Hoffman… - Circulation …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: Cardiac myocyte–specific deletion of either glycogen synthase kinase (GSK)-3α
and GSK-3β leads to cardiac protection after myocardial infarction, suggesting that deletion …

Transactivation of TrkB by Sigma-1 receptor mediates cocaine-induced changes in dendritic spine density and morphology in hippocampal and cortical neurons

M Ka, YH Kook, K Liao, S Buch, WY Kim - Cell death & disease, 2016 - nature.com
Cocaine is a highly addictive narcotic associated with dendritic spine plasticity in the
striatum. However, it remains elusive whether cocaine modifies spines in a cell type-specific …