Nanomaterial delivery systems for mRNA vaccines

MD Buschmann, MJ Carrasco, S Alishetty, M Paige… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The recent success of mRNA vaccines in SARS-CoV-2 clinical trials is in part due to the
development of lipid nanoparticle delivery systems that not only efficiently express the …

[HTML][HTML] Dosing extracellular vesicles

D Gupta, AM Zickler, S El Andaloussi - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are natural nanoparticles containing biologically active
molecules. They are important mediators of intercellular communication and can be …

FDA-approved disulfiram inhibits pyroptosis by blocking gasdermin D pore formation

JJ Hu, X Liu, S Xia, Z Zhang, Y Zhang, J Zhao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cytosolic sensing of pathogens and damage by myeloid and barrier epithelial cells
assembles large complexes called inflammasomes, which activate inflammatory caspases …

Comparative therapeutic efficacy of remdesivir and combination lopinavir, ritonavir, and interferon beta against MERS-CoV

TP Sheahan, AC Sims, SR Leist, A Schäfer… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is the causative agent of a
severe respiratory disease associated with more than 2468 human infections and over 851 …

[HTML][HTML] Psychedelics and neuroplasticity: a systematic review unraveling the biological underpinnings of psychedelics

CMH De Vos, NL Mason, KPC Kuypers - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Clinical studies suggest the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, including ayahuasca,
DMT, psilocybin, and LSD, in stress-related disorders. These substances induce cognitive …

Mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity to the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine

C Li, A Lee, L Grigoryan, PS Arunachalam… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the success of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine, the immunological mechanisms that
underlie its efficacy are poorly understood. Here we analyzed the innate and adaptive …

The pharmacology and clinical efficacy of antiseizure medications: from bromide salts to cenobamate and beyond

W Löscher, P Klein - CNS drugs, 2021 - Springer
Epilepsy is one of the most common and disabling chronic neurological disorders.
Antiseizure medications (ASMs), previously referred to as anticonvulsant or antiepileptic …

Delivery of CAR-T cells in a transient injectable stimulatory hydrogel niche improves treatment of solid tumors

AK Grosskopf, L Labanieh, DD Klysz, GA Roth, P Xu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) has proven to be highly effective in treating blood cancers, but
traditional approaches to ACT are poorly effective in treating solid tumors observed …

In vitro-transcribed antigen receptor mRNA nanocarriers for transient expression in circulating T cells in vivo

NN Parayath, SB Stephan, AL Koehne… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Engineering chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) or T cell receptors (TCR) helps create
disease-specific T cells for targeted therapy, but the cost and rigor associated with …

Pharmacological and behavioral divergence of ketamine enantiomers: implications for abuse liability

J Bonaventura, S Lam, M Carlton, MA Boehm… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Ketamine, a racemic mixture of (S)-ketamine and (R)-ketamine enantiomers, has been used
as an anesthetic, analgesic and more recently, as an antidepressant. However, ketamine …