Research Articles

Research Articles published by eLife are full-length studies that present important breakthroughs across the life sciences and biomedicine. There is no maximum length and no limits on the number of display items.

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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Serum metabolome indicators of early childhood development in the Brazilian National Survey on Child Nutrition (ENANI-2019)

    Marina Padilha, Victor Nahuel Keller ... Gilberto Kac
    A panel of serum biomarkers, including dietary and microbial-derived metabolites related to the gut-brain axis, were identified as potential for tracking children at risk of early childhood developmental delays.
    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Il-6 signaling exacerbates hallmarks of chronic tendon disease by stimulating reparative fibroblasts

    Tino Stauber, Greta Moschini ... Jess G Snedeker
    IL-6 signaling drives fibroblast activation in tendinopathy, emerging as a promising therapeutic target for these increasingly prevalent and costly tendon conditions.
    1. Cell Biology

    Artesunate, EDTA, and colistin work synergistically against MCR-negative and -positive colistin-resistant Salmonella

    Yajun Zhai, Peiyi Liu ... Gongzheng Hu
    The combination therapy of colistin, artesunate, and EDTA could serve as a promising approach to combat colistin-resistant Salmonella infections by disrupting bacterial membranes, collapsing proton motive force, and increasing reactive oxygen species levels.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Akkermansia muciniphila identified as key strain to alleviate gut barrier injury through Wnt signaling pathway

    Xin Ma, Meng Li ... Xinyan Han
    FMT alleviated the intestinal barrier damage caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection in antibiotic-induced microbiome-disordered model through increasing the relative abundance of A. muciniphila in the intestine.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The Mycobacterium ulcerans toxin mycolactone causes destructive Sec61-dependent loss of the endothelial glycocalyx and vessel basement membrane to drive skin necrosis

    Louise Tzung-Harn Hsieh, Belinda S Hall ... Rachel E Simmonds
    The secreted toxin mycolactone has severe effects on the cells lining blood vessels that will play a critical role in the development of swelling in Buruli ulcer disease.
    1. Neuroscience

    Parabrachial CGRP neurons modulate active defensive behavior under a naturalistic threat

    Gyeong Hee Pyeon, Hyewon Cho ... Yong Sang Jo
    CGRP neurons act as a general alarm system, modulating various defensive behaviors based on magnitude of threat.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Microbiota from young mice counteracts susceptibility to age-related gout through modulating butyric acid levels in aged mice

    Ning Song, Hang Gao ... Wenlong Zhang
    Gut microbiota from young mice can alleviate gout and hyperuricemia in aged mice, further revealing that the metabolic product butyrate derived from the gut microbiota exerts similar therapeutic effects.
    1. Neuroscience

    Early-life stress induces persistent astrocyte dysfunction associated with fear generalisation

    Mathias Guayasamin, Lewis R Depaauw-Holt ... Ciaran Murphy-Royal
    Amygdala astrocytes play a critical role in mediating the effects of stress during infancy on neuronal excitability, synaptic plasticity, and memory.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cortical tracking of hierarchical rhythms orchestrates the multisensory processing of biological motion

    Li Shen, Shuo Li ... Yi Jiang
    Cortical tracking of multi-scale temporal structures supports audiovisual integration of human motion via distinct modes, with superadditive integration at higher-order timescale linked to biological motion processing and autistic traits.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    A model-based factorization method for scRNA data unveils bifurcating transcriptional modules underlying cell fate determination

    Jun Ren, Ying Zhou ... Qiyuan Li
    A novel method for factorizing complex cellular trajectories into interpretable bifurcation processes enhances the understanding of cell fate determination through the identification of key biological determinants in scRNA-seq data.