COVID-19 and diabetes mellitus: how one pandemic worsens the other

WS Azar, R Njeim, AH Fares, NS Azar, ST Azar… - Reviews in Endocrine …, 2020 - Springer
In light of the most challenging public health crisis of modern history, COVID-19 mortality
continues to rise at an alarming rate. Patients with co-morbidities such as hypertension …

The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR): novel considerations as an antiviral treatment

K Maiese - Current Neurovascular Research, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Multiple viral pathogens can pose a significant health risk to individuals. As a recent
example, the β-coronavirus family virion, SARS-CoV-2, has quickly evolved as a pandemic …

Cognitive impairment and dementia: gaining insight through circadian clock gene pathways

K Maiese - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative disorders affect fifteen percent of the world's population and pose a
significant financial burden to all nations. Cognitive impairment is the seventh leading cause …

[HTML][HTML] Neurodegeneration, memory loss, and dementia: the impact of biological clocks and circadian rhythm

K Maiese - Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition), 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods and results: Novel work with biological clock genes that oversee circadian rhythm
may meet this critical need by focusing upon the pathways of the mechanistic target of …

[HTML][HTML] Nicotinamide as a foundation for treating neurodegenerative disease and metabolic disorders

K Maiese - Current neurovascular research, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Neurodegenerative disorders impact more than one billion individuals worldwide and are
intimately tied to metabolic disease that can affect another nine hundred individuals …

Therapeutic potential of exploiting autophagy cascade against coronavirus infection

S Maity, A Saha - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since its emergence in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) created a worldwide pandemic of coronavirus …

Nicotinamide: oversight of metabolic dysfunction through sirt1, mtor, and clock genes

K Maiese - Current neurovascular research, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Metabolic disorders that include diabetes mellitus present significant challenges for
maintaining the welfare of the global population. Metabolic diseases impact all systems of …

Mechanistic target of rapamycin signaling activation antagonizes autophagy to facilitate Zika virus replication

BR Sahoo, A Pattnaik, AS Annamalai, R Franco… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquito-transmitted flavivirus, is linked to microcephaly and other
neurological defects in neonates and Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults. The molecular …

Progress in the development and application of transitional technology of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

H Liu, X Liu, L Mo, C Chen, H Zhong, Z Guo… - Colloid and Interface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a molecularly specific spectroscopic
technique that has versatile applications in detection and analysis. To date, several studies …

Initial hepatitis C virus infection of adult hepatocytes triggers a temporally structured transcriptional program containing diverse pro-and antiviral elements

B Tegtmeyer, G Vieyres, D Todt, C Lauber… - Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Transcriptional profiling provides global snapshots of virus-mediated cellular
reprogramming, which can simultaneously encompass pro-and antiviral components. To …