[HTML][HTML] Biological responses to physicochemical properties of biomaterial surface

M Rahmati, EA Silva, JE Reseland… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomedical scientists use chemistry-driven processes found in nature as an inspiration to
design biomaterials as promising diagnostic tools, therapeutic solutions, or tissue …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular infiltration in traumatic brain injury

A Alam, EP Thelin, T Tajsic, DZ Khan, A Khellaf… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Traumatic brain injury leads to cellular damage which in turn results in the rapid release of
damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) that prompt resident cells to release …

Fiery cell death: pyroptosis in the central nervous system

BA McKenzie, VM Dixit, C Power - Trends in neurosciences, 2020 - cell.com
Pyroptosis ('fiery death') is an inflammatory type of regulated cell death (RCD), which occurs
downstream of inflammasome activation. Pyroptosis is mediated directly by the recently …

[HTML][HTML] The role of microglia and the Nlrp3 inflammasome in Alzheimer's disease

KL Hanslik, TK Ulland - Frontiers in neurology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of late-onset dementia. AD affects the
health of millions of people in the United States and worldwide. Currently, there are no …

[HTML][HTML] HDAC3 inhibition ameliorates ischemia/reperfusion-induced brain injury by regulating the microglial cGAS-STING pathway

Y Liao, J Cheng, X Kong, S Li, X Li, M Zhang… - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: It is known that neuroinflammation plays a critical and detrimental role in the
development of cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R), but the regulation of the cyclic GMP …

Inhibition of double‐strand DNA‐sensing cGAS ameliorates brain injury after ischemic stroke

Q Li, Y Cao, C Dang, B Han, R Han, H Ma… - EMBO molecular …, 2020 - embopress.org
Cytosolic double‐stranded DNA (dsDNA) is a danger signal that is tightly monitored and
sensed by nucleic acid‐sensing pattern recognition receptors. We study the inflammatory …

Microglia monitor and protect neuronal function through specialized somatic purinergic junctions

C Cserép, B Pósfai, N Lénárt, R Fekete, ZI László… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Microglia are the main immune cells in the brain and have roles in brain homeostasis and
neurological diseases. Mechanisms underlying microglia–neuron communication remain …

Long non-coding RNA MEG3 promotes cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury through increasing pyroptosis by targeting miR-485/AIM2 axis

J Liang, Q Wang, JQ Li, T Guo, D Yu - Experimental neurology, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective Inflammasome contributes to ischemic brain injury by inducing pyroptosis and
inflammation. The aim of this study is to unravel the mechanism of long non-coding RNA …

AIM2 inflammasome surveillance of DNA damage shapes neurodevelopment

CR Lammert, EL Frost, CE Bellinger, AC Bolte… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Neurodevelopment is characterized by rapid rates of neural cell proliferation and
differentiation followed by massive cell death in which more than half of all recently …

Potential therapeutic targets for intracerebral hemorrhage-associated inflammation: an update

H Ren, R Han, X Chen, X Liu, J Wan… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a subtype of stroke with high mortality and disability but
no specific or effective treatment. In the last two decades, much has been learned about the …