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However, autophagy induces demyelination by activating microglia and T cells. In conclusion, specific autophagic activators of oligodendrocytes, and astrocytes, and specific autophagic inhibitors of dendritic cells (DCs), microglia and T cells induce protective effects against the pathogenesis of MS.
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Journal: MAGED2 Depletion Promotes Stress-Induced Autophagy by Impairing the cAMP/PKA Pathway. (Pubmed Central) - Sep 13, 2023 Various other cellular stressors (brefeldin A, tunicamycin, 2-deoxy-D-glucose, and camptothecin) were analyzed, which all induced autophagy in the absence of MAGED2...In contrast to other MAGE proteins, MAGED2 has an inhibitory role on autophagy only under stress conditions. Hence, a prominent role of MAGED2 in the regulation of autophagy under stress conditions is evident, which may also contribute to impaired fetal renal salt reabsorption by promoting autophagy of salt-transporters in patients with MAGED2 mutation.
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Journal: Pseudolaric Acid A: A Promising Antifungal Agent Against Prevalent Non-albicans Candida Species. (Pubmed Central) - Sep 13, 2023 This investigation aimed to explore the efficacy of Pseudolaric acid A (PAA, a diterpenoid derived from Pseudolarix kaempferi) and its synergistic effect with fluconazole (FLC) against NAC species, including C. tropicalis, C. parapsilosis complex, and C. glabrata...Ultrastructural alterations of C. tropicalis were more pronounced under the combination of PAA and FLC, including separation of the cell membrane from the cell wall, increased number of vacuoles, and degradation of organelles. These observations indicated that PAA and its combination with FLC could be a promising therapeutic candidate for treating infections caused by NAC species.
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Journal: Quercetin ameliorates non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) via the promotion of AMPK-mediated hepatic mitophagy. (Pubmed Central) - Sep 12, 2023 Our study reveals that METTL3-mediated m A modification of circPRKAR1B promotes Crohn's colitis by aggravating NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated pyroptosis via autophagy impairment in colonic epithelial cells. This study demonstrates that quercetin prevents NAFLD through AMPK-mediated mitophagy and suggests that promoting mitophagy via an upregulation of AMPK may be a promising therapeutic strategy against NAFLD.
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Furthermore, we established an organoid culture model of mandible ex vivo and found that TF significantly promoted condylar growth. Taken together, our study unraveled a novel function of TF in condylar growth that TF protected chondrocytes from hypoxia-induced apoptosis and promoted chondrogenic differentiation through inducing autophagy via ULK1-ATG16L1 axis, which demonstrated that TF could be a novel growth factor of condylar growth and shed new light on developing treatment strategy of SMH patients.
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Daily oral administration of edelfosine in murine prostate restricted AKT kinase transgenic mice, expressing active AKT in a prostate-specific manner, and in a DU145 xenograft mouse model resulted in significant tumor regression and apoptosis in tumor cells. Taken together, these results show a significant in vitro and in vivo antitumor activity of edelfosine against prostate cancer, and highlight the endoplasmic reticulum as a novel and promising therapeutic target in prostate cancer.
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Journal: Iron-inhibited autophagy via transcription factor ZFP27 in Parkinson's disease. (Pubmed Central) - Sep 7, 2023 Meanwhile, PD mice treated with deferoxamine exhibited less iron content, relieved the dyskinesia and had a significant increase in dopamine neurons and a significant decrease in ?-synuclein...These data suggest that iron deposition inhibits IGF2 and ZFP27 to reduce LC3-induced autophagy, and ultimately decrease dopamine neurons, accelerating PD progression. Our findings provide a novel insight that ZFP27-mediated iron-related autophagy and IGF2 may activate the downstream kinase gene to trigger autophagy in the PD model.
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Journal, Synthetic lethality: Synthetic lethality in human bladder cancer cells by curcumin via concurrent Aurora A inhibition and autophagy induction. (Pubmed Central) - Sep 7, 2023 Unlike other major cancer types, human bladder urothelial carcinoma tissue co-expressed higher AURKA and lower MAP1LC3B than normal tissue, and reduced Aurora A and induction of autophagy have been clinically associated with a better prognosis in patients with early but not advanced stage bladder cancer. Therefore, our results suggest that treatment strategies can utilize the synthetic lethal pair to concurrently suppress oncogenic Aurora A and induce autophagy by co-administrating curcumin with anti-cancer drugs for early stage bladder cancer with high expression of Aurora A.
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Journal: Tizoxanide as a novel theraputic candidate for osteoarthritis. (Pubmed Central) - Sep 7, 2023 In vivo, intra-articular injection of Tiz could significantly alleviate the progression of cartilage damage in rat OA model. Briefly, our study demonstrated the therapeutic potential of Tiz in OA, suggesting that Tiz administration might serve as a promising strategy in OA therapy.
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Thus, in this review, we summarize the latest advance in the knowledge of the complicated relationships between lncRNAs and autophagy in cancer. Also, the in-depth dissection of the lncRNAs-autophagy-cancers axis involved in this review would shed new light on discovery of more potential cancer biomarkers and therapeutic targets in the future.
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Journal: METTL14 inhibits malignant progression of oral squamous cell carcinoma by targeting the autophagy-related gene RB1CC1 in an m6A-IGF2BP2-dependent manner. (Pubmed Central) - Sep 7, 2023 Mechanistically, we confirmed that METTL14 posttranscriptionally enhanced RB1CC1 expression in an m6A-IGF2BP2-dependent manner, thereby affecting autophagy and progression in OSCC, through methylated RNA immunoprecipitation qRT-PCR (meRIP-qPCR), RNA stability assays, mutagenesis assays and dual-luciferase reporter. Collectively, our findings demonstrated that METTL14 serves as an OSCC suppressor by regulating the autophagy-related gene RB1CC1 through m6A modification, which may provide a new insight for the diagnosis and therapy of OSCC.
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When ame-miR-980-3p expression was inhibited, the intestinal villi of NE bees became significantly shorter and sparse, and the lipid signal in the peritrophic matrix of Pb almost disappeared, indicating that the adult midgut was underdeveloped and the lipid absorption ability was weakened. Taken together, ame-miR-980-3p targeted Atg2B to participate in the regulation of midgut autophagy in the pupae, and the abnormal expression of ame-miR-980-3p would interfere with cell proliferation and death in the process of midgut remodelling, hinder the formation of adult midgut and eventually lead to adult midgut dysplasia and affect the lipid absorption function of the midgut in Apis mellifera.
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Autophagy of MSCs regulates burn wound fibroblast proliferation and migration by affecting TGF-?1 and prostaglandin E2 production adjacent to MSCs transplanted on the burn wound. The results of this study provide a potential strategy for promoting MSCs treatment of burns.
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Autophagic flux and LC3B puncta assays found that eupenifeldin displayed weak autophagic induction in OVCAR3. Inhibition of autophagy by cotreatment with bafilomycin reduced the toxicity of eupenifeldin, supporting the idea that induction of autophagy contributes to the cytotoxic mechanism of eupenifeldin.
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